# Rick Crawford **Rick Crawford** (b. 1966) is a Republican U.S. Representative from Arkansas (AR-01, since 2011) and chair of the [[House Intelligence Committee]] (since January 2025), installed after [[Speaker Johnson]] declined to reappoint Mike Turner — a change widely read as aligning HPSCI more closely with Trump-administration preferences. ## Why he matters for the KB The HPSCI chair controls the House side of intelligence oversight — surveillance reauthorizations, politicized-intelligence fights, and the committee's posture toward the administration's use of the IC.