[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 90 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. CON. RES. 90

  To amend the Rules of the House of Representatives and the Standing 
 Rules of the Senate to abolish the requirement that appropriations be 
  authorized by law, and to eliminate unnecessary duplication in the 
 functions of the standing committees of the House and Senate, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 29, 1993

Mr. Rohrabacher (for himself, Mr. Brown of California, Mr. McCurdy, and 
 Mr. McKeon) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was 
                   referred to the Committee on Rules

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
  To amend the Rules of the House of Representatives and the Standing 
 Rules of the Senate to abolish the requirement that appropriations be 
  authorized by law, and to eliminate unnecessary duplication in the 
 functions of the standing committees of the House and Senate, and for 
                            other purposes.

    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring),

     TITLE I--JURISDICTIONS OF STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE HOUSE OF 
                            REPRESENTATIVES

SECTION 101. ESTABLISHMENT AND JURISDICTION OF STANDING COMMITTEES.

    Clause 1 of rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives is 
amended to read as follows:

                                ``Rule X

        ``establishment and jurisdiction of standing committees

    ``1. There shall be in the House the following standing committees, 
each of which shall have the jurisdiction and related functions 
assigned to it by this clause and clauses 2, 3, and 4; and all bills, 
resolutions, and other matters relating to subjects within the 
jurisdiction of any standing committee as listed in this clause shall 
(in accordance and subject to clause 5) be referred to such committees, 
as follows:
    ``(a)(1) Committee on Agriculture:
            ``(A) Agricultural economics and research.
            ``(B) Agricultural extension services and experiment 
        stations.
            ``(C) Agricultural production, marketing, and stabilization 
        of prices.
            ``(D) Agriculture and agricultural commodities.
            ``(E) Animal industry and diseases.
            ``(F) Crop insurance and soil conservation.
            ``(G) Farm credit and farm security.
            ``(H) Food from fresh waters.
            ``(I) Food stamp programs.
            ``(J) Forestry, and forest reserves and wilderness areas 
        other than those created from the public domain.
            ``(K) Home economics.
            ``(L) Human nutrition.
            ``(M) Inspection of livestock, meat, and agricultural 
        products.
            ``(N) Pests and pesticides.
            ``(O) Plant industry, soils, and agricultural engineering.
            ``(P) Rural development, rural electrification, and 
        watersheds.
            ``(Q) School nutrition programs.
    ``(2) Such committee shall also study and review, on a 
comprehensive basis, matters relating to food, nutrition, and hunger, 
both in the United States and in foreign countries, and rural affairs, 
and report thereon from time to time.
    ``(b)(1) Committee on Armed Services:
            ``(A) Aeronautical and space activities peculiar to or 
        primarily associated with the development of weapons systems or 
        military operations.
            ``(B) Common defense.
            ``(C) Department of Defense, the Department of the Army, 
        the Department of the Navy, and the Department of the Air 
        Force, generally.
            ``(D) Maintenance and operation of the Panama Canal, 
        including administration, sanitation, and government of the 
        Canal Zone.
            ``(E) Military research and development.
            ``(F) National security aspects of nuclear energy.
            ``(G) Naval petroleum reserves, except those in Alaska.
            ``(H) Pay, promotion, retirement, and other benefits and 
        privileges of members of the Armed Forces, including overseas 
        education of civilian and military dependents.
            ``(I) Selective service system.
            ``(J) Strategic and critical materials necessary for the 
        common defense.
    ``(2) Such committee shall also study and review, on a 
comprehensive basis, matters relating to the common defense policy of 
the United States, and report thereon from time to time.
    ``(c)(1) Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs:
            ``(A) Banks, banking, and financial institutions.
            ``(B) Control of prices of commodities, rents, and 
        services.
            ``(C) Deposit insurance.
            ``(D) Economic stabilization and defense production.
            ``(E) Export and foreign trade promotion.
            ``(F) Export controls.
            ``(G) Federal monetary policy, including Federal Reserve 
        System.
            ``(H) Financial aid to commerce and industry.
            ``(I) Issuance and redemption of notes.
            ``(J) Money and credit, including currency and coinage.
            ``(K) Nursing home construction.
            ``(L) Public and private housing (including veterans' 
        housing).
            ``(M) Renegotiation of Government contracts.
            ``(N) Urban development and urban mass transit.
    ``(2) Such committee shall also study and review, on a 
comprehensive basis, matters relating to international economic policy 
as it affects United States monetary affairs, credit, and financial 
institutions; economic growth, urban affairs, and credit, and report 
thereon from time to time.
    ``(d)(1) Committee on the Budget, consisting of the following 
Members:
            ``(A) Members who are members of other standing committees, 
        including five Members who are members of the Committee on Ways 
        and Means;
            ``(B) one Member from the leadership of the majority party; 
        and
            ``(C) one Member from the leadership of the minority party.
No Member other than the representative from the leadership of the 
majority party and the representative from the leadership of the 
minority party, shall serve as a member of the Committee on the Budget 
during more than three Congresses in any period of five successive 
Congresses (disregarding for this purpose any service performed as a 
member of such committee for less than a full session in any Congress), 
except that an incumbent chairman having served on the committee for 
three Congresses and having served as chairman of the committee for not 
more than one Congress shall be eligible for reelection to the 
committee as chairman for one additional Congress. A minority Member 
having served on the committee for three Congresses and having served 
as the ranking minority Member in the last such Congress shall be 
eligible for reelection to the committee as ranking minority Member for 
one additional Congress. All selections of Members to serve on the 
committee shall be made without regard to seniority.
    ``(2) All joint resolutions continuing appropriations.
    ``(3) All concurrent resolutions on the budget (as defined in 
section 3 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974) and other matters 
required to be referred to the committee under titles III and IV of 
that Act.
    ``(4) The committee shall have the duty--
            ``(A) to report the matters required to be reported by it 
        under titles III and IV of the Congressional Budget Act of 
        1974;
            ``(B) to make continuing studies of the effect on budget 
        outlays of relevant existing and proposed legislation and to 
        report the results of such studies to the House on a recurring 
        basis;
            ``(C) to request and evaluate continuing studies of tax 
        expenditures, to devise methods of coordinating tax 
        expenditures, policies, and programs with direct budget 
        outlays, and to report the results of such studies to the House 
        on a recurring basis; and
            ``(D) to review, on a continuing basis, the conduct by the 
        Congressional Budget Office of its functions and duties.
    ``(e)(1) Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation:
            ``(A) Coast Guard.
            ``(B) Coastal zone management.
            ``(C) Communications.
            ``(D) Highway safety.
            ``(E) Inland waterways, except construction.
            ``(F) Interstate commerce.
            ``(G) Marine and ocean navigation, safety, and 
        transportation, including navigational aspects of deepwater 
        ports.
            ``(H) Marine fisheries.
            ``(I) Merchant marine and navigation.
            ``(J) Nonmilitary aeronautical and space sciences.
            ``(K) Oceans, weather, and atmospheric activities.
            ``(L) Panama Canal and interoceanic canals generally, 
        except as provided in subparagraph (c).
            ``(M) Regulation of consumer products and services, 
        including testing related to toxic substances, other than 
        pesticides, and except for credit, financial services, and 
        housing.
            ``(N) Regulation of interstate common carriers, including 
        railroads, buses, trucks, vessels, pipelines, and civil 
        aviation.
            ``(O) Science, engineering, and technology research and 
        development and policy.
            ``(P) Sports.
            ``(Q) Standards and measurement.
            ``(R) Transportation.
            ``(S) Transportation and commerce aspects of Outer 
        Continental Shelf lands.
    ``(2) Such committee shall also study and review, on a 
comprehensive basis, all matters relating to science and technology, 
oceans policy, transportation, communications, and consumer affairs, 
and report thereon from time to time.
    ``(f)(1) Committee on Education and Labor:
            ``(A) Measures relating to education, labor, health, and 
        public welfare.
            ``(B) Aging.
            ``(C) Agricultural colleges.
            ``(D) Arts and humanities.
            ``(E) Biomedical research and development.
            ``(F) Child labor.
            ``(G) Convict labor and the entry of goods made by convicts 
        into interstate commerce.
            ``(H) Domestic activities of the American National Red 
        Cross.
            ``(I) Equal employment opportunity.
            ``(J) Gallaudet College, Howard University, and Saint 
        Elizabeths Hospital.
            ``(K) Handicapped individuals.
            ``(L) Labor standards and labor statistics.
            ``(M) Mediation and arbitration of labor disputes.
            ``(N) Occupational safety and health, including the welfare 
        of miners.
            ``(O) Private pension plans.
            ``(P) Public health.
            ``(Q) Railway labor and retirement.
            ``(R) Regulation of foreign laborers.
            ``(S) Student loans.
            ``(T) Wages and hours of labor.
    ``(2) Such committee shall also study and review, on a 
comprehensive basis, matters relating to health, education and 
training, and public welfare, and report thereon from time to time.
    ``(g)(1) Committee on Energy and Natural Resources:
            ``(A) Coal production, distribution, and utilization.
            ``(B) Energy policy.
            ``(C) Energy regulation and conservation.
            ``(D) Energy related aspects of deepwater ports.
            ``(E) Energy research and development.
            ``(F) Extraction of minerals from oceans and Outer 
        Continental Shelf lands.
            ``(G) Hydroelectric power, irrigation, and reclamation.
            ``(H) Mining education and research.
            ``(I) Mining, mineral lands, mining claims, and mineral 
        conservation.
            ``(J) National parks, recreation areas, wilderness areas, 
        wild and scenic rivers, historical sites, military parks and 
        battlefields, and on the public domain, preservation of 
        prehistoric ruins and objects of interest.
            ``(K) Naval petroleum reserves in Alaska.
            ``(L) Nonmilitary development of nuclear energy.
            ``(M) Oil and gas production and distribution.
            ``(N) Public lands and forests, including farming and 
        grazing thereon, and mineral extraction therefrom.
            ``(O) Solar energy systems.
            ``(P) Territorial possessions of the United States, 
        including trusteeships.
    ``(2) Such committee shall also study and review, on a 
comprehensive basis, matters relating to energy and resources 
development, and report thereon from time to time.
    ``(h)(1) Committee on Environment and Public Works:
            ``(A) Air pollution.
            ``(B) Construction and maintenance of highways.
            ``(C) Environmental aspects of Outer Continental Shelf 
        lands.
            ``(D) Environmental effects of toxic substances, other than 
        pesticides.
            ``(E) Environmental policy.
            ``(F) Environmental research and development.
            ``(G) Fisheries and wildlife.
            ``(H) Flood control and improvements of rivers and harbors, 
        including environmental aspects of deepwater ports.
            ``(I) Noise pollution.
            ``(J) Nonmilitary environmental regulation and control of 
        nuclear energy.
            ``(K) Ocean dumping.
            ``(L) Public buildings and improved grounds of the United 
        States generally, including Federal buildings in the District 
        of Columbia.
            ``(M) Public works, bridges, and dams.
            ``(N) Regional economic development.
            ``(O) Solid waste disposal and recycling.
            ``(P) Water pollution.
            ``(Q) Water resources.
    ``(2) Such committee shall also study and review, on a 
comprehensive basis, matters relating to environmental protection and 
resource utilization and conservation, and report thereon from time to 
time.
    ``(i)(1) Committee on Foreign Affairs:
            ``(A) Acquisition of land and buildings for embassies and 
        legations in foreign countries.
            ``(B) Boundaries of the United States.
            ``(C) Diplomatic service.
            ``(D) Foreign economic, military, technical, and 
        humanitarian assistance.
            ``(E) Foreign loans.
            ``(F) International activities of the American National Red 
        Cross and the International Committee of the Red Cross.
            ``(G) International aspects of nuclear energy, including 
        nuclear transfer policy.
            ``(H) International conferences and congresses.
            ``(I) International law as it relates to foreign policy.
            ``(J) International Monetary Fund and other international 
        organizations established primarily for international monetary 
        purposes (except that, at the request of the Committee on 
        Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, any proposed legislation 
        relating to such subjects reported by the Committee on Foreign 
        Affairs shall be referred to the Committee on Banking, Finance 
        and Urban Affairs).
            ``(K) Intervention abroad and declarations of war.
            ``(L) Measures to foster commercial intercourse with 
        foreign nations and to safeguard American business interests 
        abroad.
            ``(M) National security and international aspects of 
        trusteeships of the United States.
            ``(N) Oceans and international environmental and scientific 
        affairs as they relate to foreign policy.
            ``(O) Protection of United States citizens abroad and 
        expatriation.
            ``(P) Relations of the United States with foreign nations 
        generally.
            ``(Q) Treaties and executive agreements, except reciprocal 
        trade agreements.
            ``(R) United Nations and its affiliated organizations.
            ``(S) World Bank group, the regional development banks, and 
        other international organizations established primarily for 
        development assistance purposes.
    ``(2) Such committee shall also study and review, on a 
comprehensive basis, matters relating to the national security policy, 
foreign policy, and international economic policy as it relates to 
foreign policy of the United States, and matters relating to food, 
hunger, and nutrition in foreign countries, and report thereon from 
time to time.
    ``(j)(1) Committee on Governmental Affairs:
            ``(A) Archives of the United States.
            ``(B) Budget and accounting measures, except as provided in 
        the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
            ``(C) Census and collection of statistics, including 
        economic and social statistics.
            ``(D) Congressional organization, except for any part of 
        the matter that amends the rules or orders of the House.
            ``(E) Federal Civil Service.
            ``(F) Government information.
            ``(G) Intergovernmental relations.
            ``(H) Municipal affairs of the District of Columbia.
            ``(I) Organization and management of United States nuclear 
        export policy.
            ``(J) Organization and reorganization of the executive 
        branch of the Government.
            ``(K) Postal Service.
            ``(L) Status of officers and employees of the United 
        States, including their classification, compensation, and 
        benefits.
    ``(2) Such committee shall have the duty of--
            ``(A) receiving and examining reports of the Comptroller 
        General of the United States and of submitting such 
        recommendations to the House as it deems necessary or desirable 
        in connection with the subject matter of such reports;
            ``(B) studying the efficiency, economy, and effectiveness 
        of all agencies and departments of the Government;
            ``(C) evaluating the effects of laws enacted to reorganize 
        the legislative and executive branches of the Government; and
            ``(D) studying the intergovernmental relationships between 
        the United States and the States and municipalities, and 
        between the United States and international organizations of 
        which the United States is a member.
    ``(k) Committee on House Administration:
            ``(1) Appropriations from the contingent fund.
            ``(2) Auditing and settling of all accounts which may be 
        charged to the contingent fund.
            ``(3) Employment of persons by the House, including clerks 
        for Members and committees, and reporters of debates.
            ``(4) Matters relating to the Library of Congress and the 
        House Library; statuary and pictures; acceptance or purchase of 
        works of art for the Capitol; the Botanic Gardens; management 
        of the Library of Congress, purchase of books and manuscripts; 
        erection of monuments to the memory of individuals; except for 
        construction or reconstruction, maintenance, and care of the 
        buildings and grounds.
            ``(5) Matters relating to the Smithsonian Institution and 
        the incorporation of similar institutions, except for 
        construction or reconstruction, maintenance, and care of the 
        buildings and grounds.
            ``(6) Expenditure of contingent fund of the House.
            ``(7) Matters relating to printing and correction of the 
        Congressional Record.
            ``(8) Measures relating to accounts of the House generally.
            ``(9) Measures relating to assignment of office space for 
        Members and committees.
            ``(10) Measures relating to the disposition of useless 
        executive papers.
            ``(11) Measures relating to the election of the President, 
        Vice President, or Members of Congress; corrupt practices; 
        contested elections; credentials and qualifications; and 
        Federal elections generally.
            ``(12) Measures relating to services to the House, 
        including the House Restaurant, parking facilities and 
        administration of the House Office Buildings and of the House 
        wing of the Capitol.
            ``(13) Measures relating to the travel of Members of the 
        House.
            ``(14) Measures relating to the raising, reporting and use 
        of campaign contributions for candidates for office of 
        Representative in the House of Representatives and of Resident 
        Commissioner to the United States from Puerto Rico.
            ``(15) Measures relating to the compensation, retirement 
        and other benefits of the Members, officers, and employees of 
        the Congress.
In addition to its legislative jurisdiction under the preceding 
provisions of this paragraph (and its general oversight function under 
clause 2(b)(1)), the committee shall have the function of performing 
the duties which are provided for in clause 4(d).
    ``(l)(1) Committee on Intelligence, including at least one Member 
from--
            ``(A) the Committee on Armed Services;
            ``(B) the Committee on Foreign Affairs; and
            ``(C) the Committee on the Judiciary.
    ``(2) The majority leader of the House and the minority leader of 
the House shall be ex officio members of the committee, but shall have 
no vote in the committee and shall not be counted for purposes of 
determining a quorum.
    ``(3) No Member may serve on the committee for more than six years 
of continuous service. To the greatest extent practicable, at least 
four of the Members of the House appointed to the committee at the 
beginning of each Congress shall be Members of the House who did not 
serve on such committee during the preceding Congress.
    ``(4) There shall be referred to the committee measures and other 
matters relating to the following:
            ``(A) The Central Intelligence Agency and the Director of 
        Central Intelligence.
            ``(B) The Defense Intelligence Agency.
            ``(C) The National Security Agency.
            ``(D) The intelligence and intelligence-related activities 
        of other agencies and subdivisions of the Department of 
        Defense.
            ``(E) The intelligence and intelligence-related activities 
        of the Department of State.
            ``(F) The intelligence and intelligence-related activities 
        of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, including all 
        activities of the Intelligence Division.
            ``(G) Any department, agency, or subdivision which is the 
        successor to any agency named in subparagraph (A), (B), or (C); 
        and the activities of any department, agency, or subdivision 
        which is the successor to any department, agency, bureau, or 
        subdivision named in subparagraph (D), (E), or (F), to the 
        extent that the activities of such successor department, 
        agency, or subdivision are activities described in subdivision 
        (D), (E), or (F).
            ``(H) The organization or reorganization of any department 
        or agency of the Government to the extent that the organization 
        or reorganization relates to a function or activity involving 
        intelligence or intelligence-related activities.
    ``(m) Committee on the Judiciary:
            ``(1) Apportionment of Representatives.
            ``(2) Bankruptcy, mutiny, espionage, and counterfeiting.
            ``(3) Civil liberties.
            ``(4) Constitutional amendments.
            ``(5) Federal courts and judges.
            ``(6) Government information.
            ``(7) Holidays and celebrations.
            ``(8) Immigration and naturalization.
            ``(9) Interstate compacts generally.
            ``(10) Judicial proceedings, civil and criminal, generally.
            ``(11) Local courts in the territories and possessions.
            ``(12) Measures relating to claims against the United 
        States.
            ``(13) National penitentiaries.
            ``(14) Patent Office.
            ``(15) Patents, copyrights, and trademarks.
            ``(16) Protection of trade and commerce against unlawful 
        restraints and monopolies.
            ``(17) Revision and codification of the statutes of the 
        United States.
            ``(18) State and territorial boundary lines.
    ``(n) Committee on Rules:
            ``(1) The rules and joint rules (other than rules or joint 
        rules relating to the Code of Official Conduct), and order of 
        business of the House.
            ``(2) Recesses and final adjournments of Congress.
    The Committee on Rules is authorized to sit and act whether or not 
the House is in session.
    ``(o) Committee on Small Business:
            ``(1) Matters relating to the Small Business 
        Administration.
            ``(2) Any proposed legislation reported by such committee 
        which relates to matters other than the functions of the Small 
        Business Administration shall, at the request of the chairman 
        of any standing committee having jurisdiction over the subject 
        matter extraneous to the functions of the Small Business 
        Administration, be considered and reported by such standing 
        committee prior to its consideration by the House; and likewise 
        measures reported by other committees directly relating to the 
        Small Business Administration shall, at the request of the 
        chairman of the Committee on Small Business, be referred to the 
        Committee on Small Business for its consideration of any 
        portions of the measure dealing with the Small Business 
        Administration, and be reported by this committee prior to its 
        consideration by the House.
            ``(3) Such committee shall also study and survey by means 
        of research and investigation all problems of American small 
        business enterprises, and report thereon from time to time.
    ``(p) Committee on Standards of Official Conduct:
            ``(1) Measures relating to the Code of Official Conduct.
            ``In addition to its legislative jurisdiction under the 
        preceding provision of this paragraph (and its general 
        oversight function under clause 2(b)(1)), the committee shall 
        have the functions with respect to recommendations, studies, 
        investigations, and reports which are provided for in clause 
        4(e), and the functions designated in titles I and V of the 
        Ethics in Government Act of 1978 and sections 7342, 7351, and 
        7353 of title 5, United States Code.
    ``(q) Committee on Veterans' Affairs:
            ``(1) Compensation of veterans.
            ``(2) Life insurance issued by the Government on account of 
        service in the Armed Forces.
            ``(3) National cemeteries.
            ``(4) Pensions of all wars of the United States, general 
        and special.
            ``(5) Readjustment of servicemen to civil life.
            ``(6) Soldiers' and sailors' civil relief.
            ``(7) Veterans' hospitals, medical care and treatment of 
        veterans.
            ``(8) Veterans' measures generally.
            ``(9) Vocational rehabilitation and education of veterans.
    ``(r) Committee on Ways and Means:
            ``(1) Bonded debt of the United States, except as provided 
        in the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
            ``(2) Customs, collection districts, and ports of entry and 
        delivery.
            ``(3) Deposit of public moneys.
            ``(4) General revenue sharing.
            ``(5) Health programs under the Social Security Act and 
        health programs financed by a specific tax or trust fund.
            ``(6) National social security.
            ``(7) Reciprocal trade agreements.
            ``(8) Revenue measures generally, except as provided in the 
        Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
            ``(9) Revenue measures relating to the insular possessions.
            ``(10) Tariffs and import quotas, and matters related 
        thereto.
            ``(11) Transportation of dutiable goods.''.

SEC. 102. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS TO THE RULES OF THE HOUSE OF 
              REPRESENTATIVES.

    (a) Rule X.--(1) Clause 2 of rule X of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives is amended--
            (A) in paragraph (b)(1), by striking ``the Committee on 
        Appropriations and'';
            (B) in paragraph (b)(2), by striking ``Government 
        Operations'' and by inserting ``Governmental Affairs''; and
            (C) by repealing paragraph (3).
    (2) Clause 3 of rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives 
is amended--
            (A) in paragraph (e), by inserting ``Energy and'' before 
        ``Natural Resources'';
            (B) in paragraph (f), by striking ``Science, Space, and 
        Technology'' and inserting ``Commerce, Science, and 
        Transportation''; and
            (C) in paragraph (h), by striking ``Commerce'' and 
        inserting ``Natural Resources''.
    (3) Clause 4 of rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives 
is amended--
            (A) in paragraph (a), by striking ``Appropriations'' each 
        place it appears and inserting ``the Budget''; and
            (B) in paragraph (c), by striking ``Government Operations'' 
        each place it appears and inserting ``Governmental Affairs''.
    (b) Rule XI.--(1) Clause 1 of rule XI of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives is amended--
            (A) in paragraph (g)(2), by striking ``the Committee on 
        Appropriations, the Committee on Armed Services, and the 
        Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence'' and inserting 
        ``the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
        Intelligence'';
            (B) in paragraph (h)(2), by striking ``the Committee on 
        Appropriations,'' and by striking the comma after ``Budget''; 
        and
            (C) in paragraph (l)(1)(B), by striking the following: 
        ``does not apply to the reporting of a regular appropriation 
        bill by the Committee on Appropriations prior to compliance 
        with subdivision (C) and''.
    (2) Clause 4(a) of rule XI of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives is amended by striking ``The Committee on 
Appropriations'' and all that follows through the first semicolon and 
by inserting after ``1974'' the following: ``and on joint resolutions 
continuing appropriations for a fiscal year if reported after September 
15 preceding the beginning of such fiscal year''.
    (3) Clause 5 of rule XI of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives is amended--
            (A) in paragraph (a), by striking ``the Committee on 
        Appropriations and''; and
            (B) in paragraph (d)(4), by striking ``, except for the 
        Committee on Appropriations,''.
    (4) Clause 6 of rule XI of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives is amended--
            (A) in paragraph (a)(2), by striking ``Permanent Select'';
            (B) in paragraph (a)(5), by striking ``to the Committee on 
        Appropriations and'';
            (C) in paragraph (b)(2), by striking ``Permanent Select'';
            (D) in paragraph (b)(4), by striking ``to the Committee on 
        Appropriations and''; and
            (E) in paragraph (d), by striking ``hereby authorized the 
        Committee on Appropriations and''.
    (c) Rule XIII.--(1) Clause 1 of rule XIII of the Rules of the House 
of Representatives is amended by striking ``general appropriation 
bills,''.
    (2) Clause 7 of rule XIII of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives is amended--
            (A) in paragraph (A)(1) by striking ``fiscal year in which 
        it is reported'' and inserting ``first fiscal year to which it 
        applies''; and
            (B) in paragraph (d), by striking ``the Committee on 
        Appropriations,''.
    (d) Rule XX.--Rule XX of the Rules of the House of Representatives 
is amended by striking ``1.'' and by repealing clause 2.
    (e) Rule XXI.--Rule XXI of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives is amended--
            (1) by repealing clauses 2, 3, and 6;
            (2) by redesignating clauses 4, 5, and 7 as clauses 2, 3, 
        and 4, respectively;
            (3) by repealing paragraph (a) of clause 3 (as 
        redesignated) and by striking ``(b)'' in that clause; and
            (4) by striking ``general appropriation bill'' and 
        inserting ``bill containing appropriations'' in clause 4 (as 
        redesignated).
    (f) Rule XXVIII.--Clause 1(b) of rule XXVIII of the Rules of the 
House of Representatives is amended by striking ``(1)'' and by 
repealing subparagraph (2).
    (g) Rule XLVIII.--Rule XLVIII of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives is repealed.

      TITLE II--JURISDICTIONS OF STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE SENATE

SEC. 201. ELIMINATION OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS.

    Paragraph 1(b) of rule XXV of the Standing Rules of the Senate is 
repealed.

SEC. 202. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS TO THE STANDING RULES OF THE SENATE.

    [LANGUAGE TO BE SUPPLIED.]

                       TITLE III--EFFECTIVE DATE

SEC. 301. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by this resolution shall take effect 
immediately before noon January 3, 1995.

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HCON 90 IH----2
HCON 90 IH----3