SEC. 3. PURPOSES OF THE 9/11 REVIEW COMMISSION. 
The 9/11 Review Commission shall conduct a com-
prehensive review of the implementation of the rec-
ommendations proposed in the report issued by the Na-
tional Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United 
States (commonly known as the ‘‘9/11 Commission’’), as 
established pursuant to section 601 of the Intelligence Au-
thorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003 (Public Law 107– 
306). The review of the 9/11 Review Commission shall— 
(1) assess the progress and challenges in car-
rying out the recommendations of the 9/11 Commis-
sion, including any relevant legislation, Executive 
order, regulation, plan, policy, practice, or procedure 
implemented since the attacks of September 11, 
2001; 
(2) analyze the trends of domestic terror at-
tacks since the attacks of September 11, 2001, in-
cluding the growing influence of domestic radicaliza-
tion and its causes, and recommendations on how 
Federal, State, and local agencies can deter and 
mitigate such radicalization; 
(3) investigate whether there exists evidence 
that was not considered by the 9/11 Commission of 
any conduct, relationships, or other factors which 
served in any manner to contribute to, facilitate, 
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support, or assist the hijackers who carried out the 
terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001; and 
(4) provide additional recommendations with re-
gard to protecting United States homeland security, 
ensuring interagency intelligence sharing, and other 
matters relating to counterterrorism policy. 
SEC. 4. COMPOSITION OF THE 9/11 REVIEW COMMISSION. 
The 9/11 Review Commission shall be composed of 
a chairman, to be appointed by the Speaker of the House 
of Representatives, and a vice chairman, to be appointed 
by the Majority Leader of the Senate. 
SEC. 5. AUTHORITY OF 9/11 REVIEW COMMISSION. 
(a) HEARINGS AND EVIDENCE.—The 9/11 Review 
Commission, or any panel acting on the authority of the 
9/11 Review Commission, may— 
(1) hold hearings, take testimony, receive evi-
dence, and administer oaths; and 
(2) subject to subsection (b)(1), require, by sub-
poena or otherwise, the attendance and testimony of 
such witnesses and the production of such books, 
records, correspondence, memoranda, electronic com-
munications, papers, and documents, as the 9/11 
Review Commission or such designated panel may 
determine advisable. 
(b) SUBPOENA AUTHORITY.— 
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(1) ISSUANCE.—Upon the agreement of the 
chairman and the vice chairman, the chairman may 
issue a subpoena to compel the production of docu-
ments or sworn testimony. 
(2) PROCESS.—Subpoenas issued pursuant to 
this subsection shall be signed by the chairman or 
any person designated by the chairman, and may be 
served by any person designated by the chairman. 
(3) ENFORCEMENT.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—In the event that any 
person fails to obey a subpoena issued pursuant 
to paragraph (1), the United States district 
court for the judicial district in which the sub-
poenaed person resides, is served, or may be 
found, or where the subpoena is returnable, 
may issue an order requiring such person to ap-
pear at any designated place to testify or to 
produce documentary or other evidence. Any 
person failing to obey the order of the court 
may be held in contempt of the court. 
(B) ADDITIONAL ENFORCEMENT.—In the 
case of any failure of any witness to comply 
with any subpoena or to testify when sum-
moned under authority of this section, the 
chairman may certify a statement of fact con-
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stituting such failure to the appropriate United 
States attorney, who may bring the matter be-
fore the grand jury for its action, under the 
same statutory authority and procedures as if 
the United States attorney had received a cer-
tification under sections 102 through 104 of the 
Revised Statutes of the United States (2 U.S.C. 
192–194). 
(c) INFORMATION FROM FEDERAL AGENCIES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The 9/11 Review Commis-
sion is authorized to secure directly from any execu-
tive department, bureau, agency, board, commission, 
office, independent establishment, or instrumentality 
of the Government, information, suggestions, esti-
mates, and statistics for the purposes of this Act. 
Each such department, bureau, agency, board, com-
mission, office, independent establishment, or instru-
mentality shall, to the extent authorized by law, fur-
nish such information, suggestions, estimates, and 
statistics directly to the 9/11 Review Commission, 
upon request made by the chairman or the vice 
chairman. 
(2) RECEIPT, HANDLING, STORAGE, AND DIS-
SEMINATION.—Information shall only be received, 
handled, stored, and disseminated by the 9/11 Re-
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view Commission, including its staff, in accordance 
with all applicable statutes, regulations, and Execu-
tive orders. 
(d) ADVISORY PANELS.—The chairman may estab-
lish advisory panels composed of individuals, including 
such experts as the chairman determines appropriate, who 
may undertake investigations, evaluate evidence, make 
findings, and provide recommendations to the 9/11 Review 
Commission. 
(e) CONTRACTING.—The 9/11 Review Commission 
may, to such extent and in such amounts as are provided 
in by appropriations, enter into contracts to enable the 
Commission to discharge its duties under this title. 
(f) ASSISTANCE FROM FEDERAL AGENCIES.— 
(1) GENERAL
SERVICES
ADMINISTRATION.— 
The Administrator of General Services shall provide 
to the 9/11 Review Commission, on a reimbursable 
basis, administrative support and other services for 
the performance of the 9/11 Review Commission’s 
functions. 
(2) OTHER DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES.—In 
addition to the assistance prescribed in paragraph 
(1), the heads of Federal departments and agencies 
may provide to the 9/11 Review Commission such 
services, funds, facilities, staff, and other support 
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