What are Adam Schiff's current committee assignments in the 118th Congress?
Executive summary
Adam B. Schiff served in the U.S. House of Representatives during the 118th Congress and was assigned to a slate of House committees that included the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence along with Judiciary, Ways and Means and several others; the official committee referrals for his bill H.R.5048 list those assignments (Oversight and Accountability; Judiciary; House Administration; Budget; Transportation and Infrastructure; Rules; Foreign Affairs; Ways and Means; Intelligence) [1]. Ballotpedia’s profile of Schiff confirms his long service on the House Intelligence Committee and provides context for his committee roles in the period covering the 118th Congress [2].
1. Committee roster during the 118th Congress — the definitive list
The most direct contemporaneous record shows Representative Schiff’s House committee roster in the 118th Congress as: Oversight and Accountability; Judiciary; House Administration; Budget; Transportation and Infrastructure; Rules; Foreign Affairs; Ways and Means; and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, with those committees cited as referrals for H.R.5048 in the Congress.gov record [1]. Congress.gov’s member page and bill-referral entries are the primary public congressional source cited in the reporting for these specific committee links [1].
2. Why that mix matters — jurisdictional leverage and political profile
That combination placed Schiff on both policy and oversight wheels of power: Intelligence gives oversight of national security and surveillance matters, Judiciary covers legal and constitutional issues, Ways and Means touches taxes and social programs, and Oversight and Accountability is a broad investigative vehicle—together providing institutional levers for oversight, investigations, legislative drafting, and high‑profile hearings [1] [2]. Ballotpedia’s treatment of Schiff underscores his established identity tied to Intelligence work through multiple Congresses, explaining why Intelligence appears among his prominent assignments [2].
3. How the sources line up and where they diverge
Congress.gov’s committee referrals for bills (which list the committees to which a bill is referred) are the clearest single-source confirmation of the set of House committees on which Schiff operated in the 118th Congress [1]. Ballotpedia’s biographical material corroborates his long-standing Intelligence role and his committee history without enumerating the full 118th roster in the same bill-referral format [2]. Other sources in the provided pool (including the Clerk and GovTrack snapshots) reflect member profiles and historical committee service but in some cases focus on later developments (for example, reporting that Schiff was sworn into the U.S. Senate in December 2024 in other records) rather than the 118th Congress House assignments specifically [3] [4].
4. Caveats, timing and the limits of the reporting
The deliverable here is constrained to the provided reporting: Congress.gov’s bill referral entries give a contemporaneous list of the House committees linked to Schiff’s legislative activity in the 118th Congress [1], and Ballotpedia supplies background on his Intelligence role [2]. The reporting set also includes later profiles that document Schiff’s transition to the Senate in late 2024 and subsequent Senate committee announcements [3] [5], but those items pertain to the period after most of the 118th Congress and do not negate the House committee assignments documented for Schiff during the 118th [1]. If the question seeks committee assignments after December 2024 or in a subsequent Congress, those require a different, explicitly labeled query because the provided sources mix House‑period records with post‑December 2024 Senate materials [3] [5].