Kit Bond

Biography
Christopher S. "Kit" Bond is a sixth generation Missourian, born in St. Louis in 1939. He grew up in Mexico, MO, where he still resides and tends to several groves of trees he planted by hand.

Intelligence
The Senate Intelligence Committee conducts oversight of and authorizes budget for the U.S. intelligence community, which includes the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, National Reconnaissance Office and a variety of other offices responsible for national intelligence production and analysis. In the wake of the 9-11-01 terrorist attacks, the U.S. intelligence community is undergoing an unprecedented review of its organization and ability to detect and prevent subsequent attacks against the U.S. and its interests. Bond is Vice Chairman of this committee.

Environment and Public Works
These agencies include the Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service, the Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration and the Coast Guard, the Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service, the Environmental Protection Agency, the GSA's Public Buildings Service, the Council on Environmental Quality, the civil works program of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Appalachian Regional Commission, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Mississippi River Commission, and the nonperforming functions of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.