Editing Walter Mondale (section)

===Committees===
Mondale rotated on and off numerous committees, including the [[United States Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences|Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee]]; the [[United States Senate Committee on Finance|Finance Committee]]; the [[United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions|Labor and Public Welfare Committee]]; the [[United States Senate Committee on the Budget|Budget Committee]]; and the [[United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs|Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee]]. He also served as chairman of the Select Committee on Equal Education Opportunity and the [[United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence|Intelligence Committee]]'s Domestic Task Force. He additionally served as chairman of the Labor and Public Welfare Committee's subcommittee on Children and Youth and the Senate subcommittee on social security financing.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=The Nation: The Straightest Arrow |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,914370,00.html |date=July 26, 1976 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |url-access=subscription |access-date=November 4, 2011 |archive-date=January 25, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120125232301/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,914370,00.html |url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 1975, Mondale served on the Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, chaired by Idaho Senator [[Frank Church]], that investigated alleged abuses by the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] and the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]].<ref name="UK Hosts Historical Reunion of Members of Church Committee">{{cite journal |date=September 14, 2006 |title=UK Hosts Historical Reunion of Members of Church Committee |journal=University of Kentucky News |url=http://news.uky.edu/news/display_article.php?category=1&artid=1568 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080320020134/http://news.uky.edu/news/display_article.php?category=1&artid=1568 |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 20, 2008}}</ref> Documents declassified in 2017 show that the [[National Security Agency]] had created a file on Mondale as part of its monitoring of prominent U.S. citizens whose names appeared in [[Signals intelligence]].<ref>{{cite news |title=National Security Agency Tracking of U.S. Citizens – "Questionable Practices" from 1960s & 1970s |url=https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/cybervault-intelligence-nuclear-vault/2017-09-25/national-security-agency-tracking-us |access-date=January 3, 2020 |website=National Security Archive |date=September 25, 2017 |archive-date=January 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200103044145/https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/cybervault-intelligence-nuclear-vault/2017-09-25/national-security-agency-tracking-us |url-status=live}}</ref>