I 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6072 
To establish a Commission to examine the long-term global challenges facing 
the United States and develop legislative and administrative proposals 
to improve interagency cooperation. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 15, 2008 
Mr. FORBES introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the 
Committee on Rules, 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 
A BILL 
To establish a Commission to examine the long-term global 
challenges facing the United States and develop legisla-
tive and administrative proposals to improve interagency 
cooperation. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Interagency Coopera-
tion Commission Act’’. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
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(1) FEDERAL DEPARTMENT.—The term ‘‘Fed-
eral department’’ means any department, agency, or 
office that the President designates from time to 
time as a cabinet-level department and the Office of 
the Director of National Intelligence. 
(2) INTERAGENCY
COOPERATION.—The term 
‘‘interagency cooperation’’ means the coordination, 
oversight, and implementation of policy and oper-
ations between individual Federal departments. 
SEC. 3. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE COMMISSION. 
There is established a commission to be known as the 
‘‘Interagency Cooperation Commission’’ (hereinafter re-
ferred to in this Act as the ‘‘Commission’’). 
SEC. 4. DUTIES OF THE COMMISSION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Commission shall examine 
the long-term global challenges facing the United States 
and develop legislative and administrative proposals to im-
prove interagency cooperation. 
(b) ISSUES TO BE ADDRESSED.—In developing such 
proposals, the Commission shall— 
(1) address the role and impact in facilitating 
or impeding interagency cooperation of— 
(A) tasking and resource authority within 
interagency organizations or programs, includ-
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ing personnel and acquisition decisions and the 
accountability for such decisions; 
(B) the annual Federal budget process and 
execution of budgetary authority, including the 
specific process for interagency organizations or 
programs; 
(C) strategic planning, vision, values, 
goals, policies, and procedures within each Fed-
eral department; 
(D) human resources policies and proce-
dures, including recruitment, training, exer-
cises, education, assignments, and career and 
leadership development; 
(E) interoperability of equipment, and in 
particular, communications and information 
technology assets; 
(F) Federal acquisition processes and reg-
ulations; and 
(G) congressional oversight and budgeting 
for interagency government organizations or 
programs; and 
(2) examine the interdepartmental cooperation 
within the Department of Defense, including the 
common organizational structures, reference mate-
rials, and budget processes, and examine the value 
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