This is the most-asked question about the Gang of Eight, and it has a moving answer. Because the statute names offices rather than people, the roster is only ever correct as of a date. Here is the locked record — and, more useful, how to check it yourself whenever you need to.
The record: 119th Congress
RECORD LOCKED · 119TH CONGRESS
Speaker of the House
Mike Johnson
Holds a Gang of Eight seat as Speaker of the House.
House Minority Leader
Hakeem Jeffries
Holds a Gang of Eight seat as House Minority Leader.
Senate Majority Leader
John Thune
Holds a Gang of Eight seat as Senate Majority Leader.
Senate Minority Leader
Chuck Schumer
Holds a Gang of Eight seat as Senate Minority Leader.
Chairman, House Intelligence Committee
Rick Crawford
Holds a Gang of Eight seat as chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Ranking Member, House Intelligence Committee
Jim Himes
Holds a Gang of Eight seat as ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Chairman, Senate Intelligence Committee
Tom Cotton
Holds a Gang of Eight seat as chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Vice Chairman, Senate Intelligence Committee
Mark Warner
Holds a Gang of Eight seat as vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Record covers the 119th Congress (January 3, 2025 – January 3, 2027). Last verified August 27, 2026. This record will be archived rather than overwritten when the next Congress convenes.
The five-minute verification
You do not need this site, or any site, to answer the question. The eight offices are public and the officeholders are published by the institutions themselves. If a roster anywhere is stale, this procedure beats it.
- Find the Speaker and the House minority leader. Both are published by the House. The Speaker is elected by the full chamber at the start of each Congress and any time the office becomes vacant; the minority leader is chosen by the minority caucus.
- Find the Senate majority and minority leaders. Each party's conference elects its leader. Which one is "majority" follows party control of the chamber.
- Find the House Intelligence chairman and ranking member. The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence lists its leadership on its own site. Note that HPSCI membership is designated by the Speaker and the minority leader rather than through the usual committee assignment process.
- Find the Senate Intelligence chairman and vice chairman. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence uses the title vice chairman for what other committees call the ranking member. The vice chairman is always from the minority party — a feature specific to this committee.
Those eight people are the Gang of Eight. There is no ninth list to consult, no appointment to look up, and no confirmation record. The offices are the answer.
The one title that trips people up
On the Senate Intelligence Committee, the minority's lead member is the vice chairman, not the ranking member. It sounds like a deputy to the chairman. It is not — it is the opposition's counterpart, and it is the seat named in the statute.
Why a stale roster is worse than no roster
Search results for this question are full of pages that were accurate when written and are silently wrong now. Nothing on the page says when it was true, so a reader has no way to tell.
Every roster on this site therefore carries two things: the Congress it applies to and the date it was verified. When the 120th Congress convenes on January 3, 2027, the record below will not be edited into a new claim about the present. It will be archived as what it is — an accurate record of the 119th Congress — and a new locked record will be published beside it.
What the answer will look like after the next election
Six of the eight seats are directly exposed to a change in party control: both chambers' leadership pairs and both intelligence committee gavels. A flip in one chamber moves three seats in that chamber; a flip in both moves six.
What will not change is the arithmetic. Four from each party, four from each chamber, four leaders and four committee heads — in every configuration, under any majority.
Common questions
Who is in the Gang of Eight?
During the 119th Congress (January 3, 2025 – January 3, 2027), the eight seats are held by Speaker Mike Johnson, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Intelligence Chairman Rick Crawford, House Intelligence Ranking Member Jim Himes, Senate Intelligence Chairman Tom Cotton, and Senate Intelligence Vice Chairman Mark Warner.
How do I find out who is in the Gang of Eight right now?
Identify who currently holds the eight offices. Check the Speaker and minority leader of the House and the majority and minority leaders of the Senate through official chamber sources, then check the chairman and ranking member of each intelligence committee through the committees' own websites. Those eight people are the Gang of Eight.
Does the Gang of Eight roster change often?
It changes whenever any of the eight offices changes hands — most predictably at the start of a new Congress in January of odd-numbered years, but also through mid-session leadership contests, resignations, and committee reassignments.