Sec. 13. Congressional oversight
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The Secretary of Homeland Security shall permit a covered person to enter, for the purpose of conducting oversight, any facility operated by or for the Department used to detain or otherwise house aliens for any period of time, and may not make any temporary modification at any such facility that in any way alters what is observed by a visiting covered person, compared to what would be observed in the absence of such modification. A covered person described in subsection (b)(1) may not be required to provide prior notice of the intent to enter a facility described in subsection
(a)for the purpose of conducting oversight. Except as provided in paragraph (2), the Secretary of Homeland Security may require a covered person described in subsection (b)(2) to provide notice to a facility described in subsection
(a)at least 24 hours in advance of entry into such facility. The notice described in paragraph
(1)shall not be required for a covered person described in subsection (b)(2) who is accompanying a covered person described in subsection (b)(1). In this section, the term covered person means— a Member of Congress; and an employee of the House of Representatives or the Senate designated by such a Member for the purpose of this section.