To require the Director of the National Security Agency and the Inspector General of the National Security Agency to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and for other purposes.

Amends the National Security Agency Act of 1959 and the Inspector General Act of 1978 to require the Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Inspector General of NSA to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3436 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3436

    To require the Director of the National Security Agency and the 
 Inspector General of the National Security Agency to be appointed by 
 the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 30, 2013

   Mr. Sanford (for himself, Mr. Broun of Georgia, Mr. Mulvaney, Mr. 
 Grayson, Mr. Bentivolio, Mr. Rice of South Carolina, Ms. Norton, Mr. 
 Massie, Mr. Amash, Mr. Gowdy, Mr. Sensenbrenner, Mr. Duncan of South 
 Carolina, and Mr. Wilson of South Carolina) introduced the following 
   bill; which was referred to the Select Committee on Intelligence 
 (Permanent Select), and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and 
 Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
    To require the Director of the National Security Agency and the 
 Inspector General of the National Security Agency to be appointed by 
 the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and 
                          for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY.

    (a) Establishment.--The National Security Agency Act of 1959 (50 
U.S.C. 3601 et seq.) is amended--
            (1) by striking section 3;
            (2) by redesignating section 2 as section 3; and
            (3) by inserting before section 3 (as so redesignated) the 
        following new section:
    ``Sec. 2.  There is a Director of the National Security Agency, who 
shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent 
of the Senate, who shall serve as the head of the National Security 
Agency.''.
    (b) Transition Rule.--An individual serving as Director of the 
National Security Agency on the date of the enactment of this Act may 
continue so serving until the President makes an appointment under 
section 2 of the National Security Agency Act of 1959, as amended by 
subsection (a) of this section.

SEC. 2. INSPECTOR GENERAL OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY.

    (a) Establishment.--The Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. 
App.) is amended--
            (1) in section 8G(a)(2), by striking ``the National 
        Security Agency,''; and
            (2) in section 12--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``the National 
                Security Agency,'' after ``the Federal Emergency 
                Management Agency,''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (2), by inserting ``the National 
                Security Agency,'' after ``the National Aeronautics and 
                Space Administration,''.
    (b) Transition Rule.--An individual serving as Inspector General of 
the National Security Agency on the date of the enactment of this Act 
pursuant to an appointment made under section 8G of the Inspector 
General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.)--
            (1) may continue so serving until the President makes an 
        appointment under section 3(a) of such Act with respect to the 
        National Security Agency consistent with the amendments made by 
        subsection (a); and
            (2) shall, while serving under paragraph (1), remain 
        subject to the provisions of section 8G of such Act that, 
        immediately before the date of the enactment of this Act, 
        applied with respect to the Inspector General of the National 
        Security Agency and suffer no reduction in pay.
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