House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson Bennie Gordon ThompsonHouse panel pans ICE detention medical care, oversight Senate to hold nomination hearing for Wolf next week Hillicon Valley: FBI chief says Russia is trying to interfere in election to undermine Biden | Treasury Dept. sanctions Iranian government-backed hackers MORE (D-Miss.) on Wednesday introduced a bill that would require federal agencies to annually produce an unclassified report on incidents of domestic terrorism.

Under the legislation, the FBI, Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS), would be required to produce a joint report of data on domestic terrorist incidents and numbers relating to domestic terrorism investigations, indictments, prosecutions and convictions, among other information.

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The Government Accountability Office would also audit the annual report.

A DHS university-based research center to study domestic terrorism and create a database to study U.S. domestic terrorism would also be established.

The bill, dubbed the Domestic Terrorism Documentation and Analysis of Threats in America Act, or the Domestic Terrorism DATA Act, has been endorsed by groups including the Anti-Defamation League, the Arab American Institute, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and the Southern Poverty Law Center, according to a statement from Thompson's office.

"Domestic terrorism, fueled largely by a surge in white supremacist extremism, presents a growing threat to the security of our homeland," Thompson said in the statement. "In 2018, the lives of 50 Americans were taken as a result of domestic extremist-related killings — all connected to right-wing extremism, and mostly tied to white supremacism."

“There’s an urgent need for robust, centralized, and transparent Federal data to inform counterterrorism policymaking – and Americans deserve to know exactly how their government is allocating resources to understanding and confronting the scourge of domestic terrorism," he added. "At this critical time, Congress needs to lead on the issue of domestic terrorism and direct Federal agencies to prioritize efforts to counter these homeland security threats.”