WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) are reintroducing the bipartisan Providing Real Oversight and Transparency to Effectively Counter Threats (PROTECT) Act to ensure all future United States Secret Service (USSS) Directors are Senate confirmed and subject to a single, 10-year term.
“The Secret Service Director is responsible for a critical agency where life and death are at stake. This agency and its leadership require serious congressional oversight to ensure they’re held to a very high standard, so that the failure we saw in Butler last year is never repeated,” Grassley said. “Our bipartisan PROTECT Act is a crucial step towards providing the American people the transparency and accountability they deserve from the Secret Service.”
“The men and women of the Secret Service have an incredible responsibility, and we must support them and their work. Our bipartisan PROTECT Act will make the Secret Service Director a Senate-confirmed position with a ten-year term, ensuring the same level of oversight as other federal law enforcement agencies while protecting against politicization,” Cortez Masto said.
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Background:
On July 13, 2025, an assailant opened fire on President Donald Trump at a campaign rally. Despite the presence of USSS, Trump was injured, one rally attendee lost his life and two others suffered serious injuries.
The Senate confirms the heads of many federal law enforcement agencies, such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the U.S. Marshals Service, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms (ATF), U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs & Border Protection (CBP).