Senate Liaison Division

The primary missions of Senate Liaison Division are to:

• Serve as the primary point of contact with Members of the U.S. Senate, their staff, and all relevant committees;
• Assist Senators and staff in understanding policies, actions, operations, and requirements of the Army;
• Provide prompt, coordinated, consistent, and factual replies to telephonic inquiries from Senators and staff;
• Report congressional trends and problems and advise OCLL and the ARSTAF regarding the status of congressional relations and developments affecting the Army;
• Arrange and escort Senator and staff on congressional trips;
• Coordinate special events and ceremonies for the SA and CSA involving the U.S. Senate’ congressional participation in conjunction with Army Protocol and other OCLL divisions;
• Notify Members of Congress about inpatients and outpatients at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC) ;
• Arrange, host, and oversee Army functions and events in the Senate.

Programs Division

Mission: Facilitate the partnership between the Army and Congress in order to ensure support for the Army's needs.

Essential Tasks:

• Principal liaison to the House and Senate Armed Services (and Intelligence) Committees, Members, professional staff, and personal staff
• In concert with SAFM-BUL, facilitate the Army achieve the necessary authorities and funding to support Army needs (NDAA = PGMS; Appropriations Bills = BUL)
• Provide liaison to Congress (less appropriators) on Army programs, plans and policies
• Subject matter experts on the Congressional aspects of Army programs,plans, and policies, and liaison support to the Army Secretariat, Army Staff, Army Commands, and Direct Reporting Units

Congressional Operations Division

Develops and supports the Army's Congressional strategy and provides Congressional operations and administrative support to OCLL; provides direct legislative assistance to Army Senior Leaders; develops and executes a collaborative Army Congressional engagement strategy and provides strategic communications support in order to facilitate and integrate efforts to build a strong partnership with Congress and ensure support for the Army's resource needs.

Current Operations Branch: Produces plans, orders, and instructions to execute the CLL’s intent. Publishes daily updates and maintains the current operations matrix to provide relevant and timely information on Congressional engagements, hearings, travel and emerging issues to improve effectiveness of the organization.

Strategic Communications (STRATCOM) Branch: Formulates strategic communications strategy and products to facilitate interactions with Members of Congress and Congressional staff. Coordinates with the Army staff to ensure the Army speaks with one voice when communicating with Congress. Prepares speeches and outreach materials for the CLL.

Plans and Strategy Branch: Develops and executes strategic plans including Congressional engagement strategies and assists in the preparation of Army General Officers and senior Noncommissioned Officers for Congressional hearings and engagements.

Army Senior Leader Branch: Provides special legislative assistants to the Secretary of the Army, the Chief of Staff, Army, the Under Secretary, Army, the Vice Chief of Staff, Army, and the Sergeant Major of the Army. Assist Army senior leaders with all interactions with Congress to include hearings, meetings, office calls, phone calls, and written correspondence.

Investigations & Legislative

Investigations and Legislative Division. Coordinates, monitors, and reports on congressional investigative actions that are of interest to, or involve, the Army. Represents the Army’s interests in congressional investigations, ensuring the committees receive accurate and complete information. Supervises the execution of the Army legislative program. Coordinates and monitors legislative proposals initiated by Army organizations and monitors legislative developments of interest to the Army. Acts as Army lead legislative liaison for programs and policies relating to environment, military justice, and MWR, financial management and acquisition policy matters. Provides advice and training for witnesses called to appear before Congress, and assists Army witnesses in preparing written statements and obtaining final clearance of the statements from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the White House. Manages the Senate confirmation process for General Officer and senior Army civilians and monitors the confirmation process for all Army officers. The Congressional Response Team is responsible for documenting, tracking, and monitoring the status of all major or sensitive Congressional requests incoming to the Department of the Army and the Army’s responses to those requests. The CRT directs the collection, review, records management and accountability, coordination, and release of written and oral responses requested by Congress.

Investigations & Legislative Resources

Congressional Inquiry Division

The Congressional Inquiry Division prepares, coordinates and provides accurate, clear and timely replies to Members and Committees of Congress and their staffs in response to Inquiries and Requests for Information. The Division also notifies Members of Congress of all operational casualties and contract awards valued over $6.5 million. The Division is organized into two branches, the Correspondence Branch and the Special Actions Branch. The Correspondence Branch is comprised of two teams who respond to written and telephonic inquiries from Member of Congress pertaining to constituent concerns that involve Army-related matters. The Special Actions Branch handles Executive Correspondence addressed to Senior Leaders of the Department of the Army and notifies Members of Congress of all operational casualties and contract awards valued over $6.5 million.

Support Operations Division

The Support Operations Division coordinates Congressional travel for Army organizations and provides training, human resources, budget, logistics, information technology, and management services to each of the OCLL divisions.