House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Christopher Cox, R-CA, said recently he’d offer a bill by summer's end that would revise the law that created the Homeland Security Department.

Cox wrote about a month ago to chairmen and ranking Democrats of every House committee asking for suggestions to amend the act, and he has received some answers. Explaining his concerns, Cox said, "It is the largest reorganization of the federal government in my lifetime, and it was done very quickly."

Cox said he might try to clarify the roles of federal departments related to homeland security, especially the Defense Department, the National Journal’s Technology Daily reports.

Cox also said the interagency Terrorist Threat Integration Center created by the Bush administration and housed at the CIA is not a substitute for the Homeland Security's statutory requirement to build its own analytical capability.