[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 103 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 103

  To amend rule XXIV of the Standing Rules of the Senate to limit the 
       length of service of Senators on congressional committees.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

               April 29 (legislative day, April 19), 1993

Mr. Grassley submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
               the Committee on Rules and Administration

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  To amend rule XXIV of the Standing Rules of the Senate to limit the 
       length of service of Senators on congressional committees.

    Resolved,

SECTION 1. LIMITATION ON LENGTH OF SERVICE ON CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES.

    Rule XXIV of the Standing Rules of the Senate is amended by adding 
at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``5. (a) For the purposes of this paragraph, the term `committee' 
includes a standing committee, select committee, and any other 
committee of the Senate and a joint committee of the Senate and the 
House of Representatives.
    ``(b) A Senator who has completed service as a member of a 
committee for 4 consecutive full Congresses may not be appointed to 
serve as a member of that committee until the beginning of the third 
Congress following the completion of the Senator's fourth term of 
service as a member of the committee.
    ``(c) To the extent possible, at least one-half of the Members of 
the majority party and one-half of the Members of the minority party 
that are appointed to serve on a committee during a Congress shall be 
Senators who served on that committee during the preceding Congress.
    ``(d) It shall not be in order to consider a resolution or take any 
other action that appoints Senators to serve on a committee in 
violation of this rule or any other rule of the Senate.''.

SEC. 2. PHASING IN.

    (a) Service Prior to the 104th Congress.--Service by a Senator as a 
member, chairman, or vice chairman of a committee of the Senate or of a 
joint committee of the Senate and the House of Representatives prior to 
the beginning of the 104th Congress shall not be counted for the 
purposes of paragraph 5 of rule XXIV of the Standing Rules of the 
Senate, as added by section 1.
    (b) Establishment of Regular Rotation of Membership.--(1) To the 
extent practicable, no more than three-fourths of the Senators 
appointed to a committee for the 105th Congress shall be Senators who 
served on that committee for the 104th Congress.
    (2) To the extent practicable, no more than three-fourths of the 
Senators appointed to a committee for the 106th Congress shall be 
Senators who served on that committee for the 104th or 105th Congress.
    (3) To the extent practicable, no more than three-fourths of the 
Senators appointed to a committee for the 107th Congress shall be 
Senators who served on that committee for the 104th, 105th, or 106th 
Congress.
    (4) To the extent practicable, no more than three-fourths of the 
Senators appointed to a committee for the 108th Congress shall be 
Senators who served on that committee for the 104th, 105th, 106th, or 
107th Congress.

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