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                                 RULES
                                 OF THE
                              COMMITTEE ON
                      ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS


                          UNITED STATES SENATE





                   and standing rules of the senate 
                relative to the activities of committees

                                     
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               COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS

               one hundred ninth congress, first session

                  JAMES M. INHOFE, Oklahoma, Chairman

JOHN W. WARNER, Virginia             JAMES M. JEFFORDS, Vermont
CHRISTOPHER S. BOND, Missouri        MAX BAUCUS, Montana
GEORGE V. VOINOVICH, Ohio            JOSEPH I. LIEBERMAN, Connecticut
LINCOLN CHAFEE, Rhode Island         BARBARA BOXER, California
LISA MURKOWSKI, Alaska               THOMAS R. CARPER, Delaware
JOHN THUNE, South Dakota             HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, New York
JIM DEMINT, South Carolina           FRANK LAUTENBERG, New Jersey
JOHNNY ISAKSON, Georgia              BARACK OBAMA, Illinois
DAVID VITTER, Louisiana

                Andrew Wheeler, Majority Staff Director

                 Ken Connolly, Minority Staff Director

  

                                  (ii)
               COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS

                              Jurisdiction

                 Rule XXV, Standing Rules of the Senate

    1. The following standing committees shall be appointed at 
the commencement of each Congress, and shall continue and have 
the power to act until their successors are appointed, with 
leave to report by bill or otherwise on matters within their 
respective jurisdictions:

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    (h)(1) Committee on Environment and Public Works, to which 
committee shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages, 
petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the 
following subjects:
     1. Air pollution.
     2. Construction and maintenance of highways.
     3. Environmental aspects of Outer Continental Shelf lands.
     4. Environmental effects of toxic substances, other than 
pesticides.
     5. Environmental policy.
     6. Environmental research and development.
     7. Fisheries and wildlife.
     8. Flood control and improvements of rivers and harbors, 
including environmental aspects of deepwater ports.
     9. Noise pollution.
    10. Nonmilitary environmental regulation and control of 
nuclear energy.
    11. Ocean dumping.
    12. Public buildings and improved grounds of the United 
States generally, including Federal buildings in the District 
of Columbia.
    13. Public works, bridges, and dams.
    14. Regional economic development.
    15. Solid waste disposal and recycling.
    16. Water pollution.
    17. 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.

                           RULES OF PROCEDURE


                 Rule 1. Committee Meetings in General

    (a) Regular Meeting Days: For purposes of complying with 
paragraph 3 of Senate Rule XXVI, the regular meeting day of the 
committee is the first and third Thursday of each month at 
10:00 a.m. If there is no business before the committee, the 
regular meeting shall be omitted.
    (b) Additional Meetings: The chair may call additional 
meetings, after consulting with the ranking minority member. 
Subcommittee chairs may call meetings, with the concurrence of 
the chair, after consulting with the ranking minority members 
of the subcommittee and the committee.
    (c) Presiding Officer:
          (1) The chair shall preside at all meetings of the 
        committee. If the chair is not present, the ranking 
        majority member shall preside.
          (2) Subcommittee chairs shall preside at all meetings 
        of their subcommittees. If the subcommittee chair is 
        not present, the ranking majority member of the 
        subcommittee shall preside.
          (3) Notwithstanding the rule prescribed by paragraphs 
        (1) and (2), any member of the committee may preside at 
        a hearing.
    (d) Open Meetings: Meetings of the committee and 
subcommittees, including hearings and business meetings, are 
open to the public. A portion of a meeting may be closed to the 
public if the committee determines by roll call vote of a 
majority of the members present that the matters to be 
discussed or the testimony to be taken--
          (1) will disclose matters necessary to be kept secret 
        in the interests of national defense or the 
        confidential conduct of the foreign relations of the 
        United States;
          (2) relate solely to matters of committee staff 
        personnel or internal staff management or procedure; or
          (3) constitute any other grounds for closure under 
        paragraph 5(b) of Senate Rule XXVI.
    (e) Broadcasting:
          (1) Public meetings of the committee or a 
        subcommittee may be televised, broadcast, or recorded 
        by a member of the Senate press gallery or an employee 
        of the Senate.
          (2) Any member of the Senate Press Gallery or 
        employee of the Senate wishing to televise, broadcast, 
        or record a committee meeting must notify the staff 
        director or the staff director's designee by 5:00 p.m. 
        the day before the meeting.
          (3) During public meetings, any person using a 
        camera, microphone, or other electronic equipment may 
        not position or use the equipment in a way that 
        interferes with the seating, vision, or hearing of 
        committee members or staff on the dais, or with the 
        orderly process of the meeting.

                            Rule 2. Quorums

    (a) Business Meetings: At committee business meetings, and 
for the purpose of approving the issuance of a subpoena or 
approving a committee resolution, six members, at least two of 
whom are members of the minority party, constitute a quorum, 
except as provided in subsection (d).
    (b) Subcommittee Meetings: At subcommittee business 
meetings, a majority of the subcommittee members, at least one 
of whom is a member of the minority party, constitutes a quorum 
for conducting business.
    (c) Continuing Quorum: Once a quorum as prescribed in 
subsections (a) and (b) has been established, the committee or 
subcommittee may continue to conduct business.
    (d) Reporting: No measure or matter may be reported to the 
Senate by the committee unless a majority of committee members 
cast votes in person.
    (e) Hearings: One member constitutes a quorum for 
conducting a hearing.

                            Rule 3. Hearings

    (a) Announcements: Before the committee or a subcommittee 
holds a hearing, the chair of the committee or subcommittee 
shall make a public announcement and provide notice to members 
of the date, place, time, and subject matter of the hearing. 
The announcement and notice shall be issued at least one week 
in advance of the hearing, unless the chair of the committee or 
subcommittee, with the concurrence of the ranking minority 
member of the committee or subcommittee, determines that there 
is good cause to provide a shorter period, in which event the 
announcement and notice shall be issued at least twenty-four 
hours in advance of the hearing.
    (b) Statements of Witnesses:
          (1) A witness who is scheduled to testify at a 
        hearing of the committee or a subcommittee shall file 
        100 copies of the written testimony at least 48 hours 
        before the hearing. If a witness fails to comply with 
        this requirement, the presiding officer may preclude 
        the witness' testimony. This rule may be waived for 
        field hearings, except for witnesses from the Federal 
        Government.
          (2) Any witness planning to use at a hearing any 
        exhibit such as a chart, graph, diagram, photo, map, 
        slide, or model must submit one identical copy of the 
        exhibit (or representation of the exhibit in the case 
        of a model) and 100 copies reduced to letter or legal 
        paper size at least 48 hours before the hearing. Any 
        exhibit described above that is not provided to the 
        committee at least 48 hours prior to the hearing cannot 
        be used for purpose of presenting testimony to the 
        committee and will not be included in the hearing 
        record.
          (3) The presiding officer at a hearing may have a 
        witness confine the oral presentation to a summary of 
        the written testimony.
          (4) Notwithstanding a request that a document be 
        embargoed, any document that is to be discussed at a 
        hearing, including, but not limited to, those produced 
        by the General Accounting Office, Congressional Budget 
        Office, Congressional Research Service, a Federal 
        agency, an Inspector General, or a nongovernmental 
        entity, shall be provided to all members of the 
        committee at least 72 hours before the hearing.

       Rule 4. Business Meetings: Notice and Filing Requirements

    (a) Notice: The chair of the committee or the subcommittee 
shall provide notice, the agenda of business to be discussed, 
and the text of agenda items to members of the committee or 
subcommittee at least 72 hours before a business meeting. If 
the 72 hours falls over a weekend, all materials will be 
provided by close of business on Friday.
    (b) Amendments: First-degree amendments must be filed with 
the chair of the committee or the subcommittee at least 24 
hours before a business meeting. After the filing deadline, the 
chair shall promptly distribute all filed amendments to the 
members of the committee or subcommittee.
    (c) Modifications: The chair of the committee or the 
subcommittee may modify the notice and filing requirements to 
meet special circumstances, with the concurrence of the ranking 
member of the committee or subcommittee.

                   Rule 5. Business Meetings: Voting

    (a) Proxy Voting:
          (1) Proxy voting is allowed on all measures, 
        amendments, resolutions, or other matters before the 
        committee or a subcommittee.
          (2) A member who is unable to attend a business 
        meeting may submit a proxy vote on any matter, in 
        writing, orally, or through personal instructions.
          (3) A proxy given in writing is valid until revoked. 
        A proxy given orally or by personal instructions is 
        valid only on the day given.
    (b) Subsequent Voting: Members who were not present at a 
business meeting and were unable to cast their votes by proxy 
may record their votes later, so long as they do so that same 
business day and their vote does not change the outcome.
    (c) Public Announcement:
          (1) Whenever the committee conducts a rollcall vote, 
        the chair shall announce the results of the vote, 
        including a tabulation of the votes cast in favor and 
        the votes cast against the proposition by each member 
        of the committee.
          (2) Whenever the committee reports any measure or 
        matter by rollcall vote, the report shall include a 
        tabulation of the votes cast in favor of and the votes 
        cast in opposition to the measure or matter by each 
        member of the committee.

                         Rule 6. Subcommittees

    (a) Regularly Established Subcommittees: The committee has 
four subcommittees: Transportation and Infrastructure; Clean 
Air, Climate Change, and Nuclear Safety; Fisheries, Wildlife, 
and Water; and Superfund and Waste Management.
    (b) Membership: The committee chair, after consulting with 
the ranking minority member, shall select members of the 
subcommittees.

          Rule 7. Statutory Responsibilities and Other Matters

    (a) Environmental Impact Statements: No project or 
legislation proposed by any executive branch agency may be 
approved or otherwise acted upon unless the committee has 
received a final environmental impact statement relative to it, 
in accordance with section 102(2)(C) of the National 
Environmental Policy Act, and the written comments of the 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, in 
accordance with section 309 of the Clean Air Act. This rule is 
not intended to broaden, narrow, or otherwise modify the class 
of projects or legislative proposals for which environmental 
impact statements are required under section 102(2)(C).
    (b) Project Approvals:
          (1) Whenever the committee authorizes a project under 
        Public Law 89-298, the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1965; 
        Public Law 83-566, the Watershed Protection and Flood 
        Prevention Act; or Public Law 86-249, the Public 
        Buildings Act of 1959, as amended; the chairman shall 
        submit for printing in the Congressional Record, and 
        the committee shall publish periodically as a committee 
        print, a report that describes the project and the 
        reasons for its approval, together with any dissenting 
        or individual views.
          (2) Proponents of a committee resolution shall submit 
        appropriate evidence in favor of the resolution.
    (c) Building Prospectuses:
          (1) When the General Services Administration submits 
        a prospectus, pursuant to section 7(a) of the Public 
        Buildings Act of 1959, as amended, for construction 
        (including construction of buildings for lease by the 
        government), alteration and repair, or acquisition, the 
        committee shall act with respect to the prospectus 
        during the same session in which the prospectus is 
        submitted.
          A prospectus rejected by majority vote of the 
        committee or not reported to the Senate during the 
        session in which it was submitted shall be returned to 
        the General Services Administration and must then be 
        resubmitted in order to be considered by the committee 
        during the next session of the Congress.
          (2) A report of a building project survey submitted 
        by the General Services Administration to the committee 
        under section 11(b) of the Public Buildings Act of 
        1959, as amended, may not be considered by the 
        committee as being a prospectus subject to approval by 
        committee resolution in accordance with section 7(a) of 
        that Act. A project described in the report may be 
        considered for committee action only if it is submitted 
        as a prospectus in accordance with section 7(a) and is 
        subject to the provisions of paragraph (1) of this 
        rule.
    (d) Naming Public Facilities: The committee may not name a 
building, structure or facility for any living person, except 
former Presidents or former Vice Presidents of the United 
States, former Members of Congress over 70 years of age, or 
former Justices of the United States Supreme Court over 70 
years of age.

                       Rule 8. Amending the Rules

    The rules may be added to, modified, amended, or suspended 
by vote of a majority of committee members at a business 
meeting if a quorum is present.


                      STANDING RULES OF THE SENATE

                               Rule XVII


 REFERENCE TO COMMITTEES; MOTIONS TO DISCHARGE; REPORTS OF COMMITTEES; 
                         AND HEARINGS AVAILABLE

    1. Except as provided in paragraph 3, in any case in which 
a controversy arises as to the jurisdiction of any committee 
with respect to any proposed legislation, the question of 
jurisdiction shall be decided by the presiding officer, without 
debate, in favor of the committee which has jurisdiction over 
the subject matter which predominates in such proposed 
legislation; but such decision shall be subject to an appeal.
    2. A motion simply to refer shall not be open to amendment, 
except to add instructions.
    3. (a) Upon motion by both the majority leader or his 
designee and the minority leader or his designee, proposed 
legislation may be referred to two or more committees jointly 
or sequentially. Notice of such motion and the proposed 
legislation to which it relates shall be printed in the 
Congressional Record. The motion shall be privileged, but it 
shall not be in order until the Congressional Record in which 
the notice is printed has been available to Senators for at 
least twenty-four hours. No amendment to any such motion shall 
be in order except amendments to any instructions contained 
therein. Debate on any such motion, and all amendments thereto 
and debatable motions and appeals in connection therewith, 
shall be limited to not more than two hours, the time to be 
equally divided between, and controlled by, the majority leader 
and the minority leader or their designees.
    (b) Proposed legislation which is referred to two or more 
committees jointly may be reported only by such committees 
jointly and only one report may accompany any proposed 
legislation so jointly reported.
    (c) A motion to refer any proposed legislation to two or 
more committees sequentially shall specify the order of 
referral.
    (d) Any motion under this paragraph may specify the portion 
or portions of proposed legislation to be considered by the 
committees, or any of them, to which such proposed legislation 
is referred, and such committees or committee shall be limited, 
in the consideration of such proposed legislation, to the 
portion or portions so specified.
    (e) Any motion under this subparagraph may contain 
instructions with respect to the time allowed for consideration 
by the committees, or any of them, to which proposed 
legislation is referred and the discharge of such committees, 
or any of them, from further consideration of such proposed 
legislation.
    4. (a) All reports of committees and motions to discharge a 
committee from the consideration of a subject, and all subjects 
from which a committee shall be discharged, shall lie over one 
day for consideration, unless by unanimous consent the Senate 
shall otherwise direct.
    (b) Whenever any committee (except the Committee on 
Appropriations) has reported any measure, by action taken in 
conformity with the requirements of paragraph 7 of rule XXVI, 
no point of order shall lie with respect to that measure on the 
ground that hearings upon that measure by the committee were 
not conducted in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 4 
of rule XXVI.
    5. Any measure or matter reported by any standing committee 
shall not be considered in the Senate unless the report of that 
committee upon that measure or matter has been available to 
Members for at least two calendar days (excluding Sundays and 
legal holidays) prior to the consideration of that measure or 
matter. If hearings have been held on any such measure or 
matter so reported, the committee reporting the measure or 
matter shall make every reasonable effort to have such hearings 
printed and available for distribution to the Members of the 
Senate prior to the consideration of such measure or matter in 
the Senate. This paragraph
          (1) may be waived by joint agreement of the Majority 
        Leader and the Minority Leader of the Senate; and
          (2) shall not apply to
                    (A) any measure for the declaration of war, 
                or the declaration of a national emergency, by 
                the Congress, and
                    (B) any executive decision, determination, 
                or action which would become, or continue to 
                be, effective unless disapproved or otherwise 
                invalidated by one or both Houses of Congress.

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                               Rule XXVI


                          COMMITTEE PROCEDURE

    1. Each standing committee, including any subcommittee of 
any such committee, is authorized to hold such hearings, to sit 
and act at such times and places during the sessions, recesses, 
and adjourned periods of the Senate, to require by subpoena or 
otherwise the attendance of such witnesses and the production 
of such correspondence, books, papers, and documents, to take 
such testimony and to make such expenditures out of the 
contingent fund of the Senate as may be authorized by 
resolutions of the Senate. Each such committee may make 
investigations into any matter within its jurisdiction, may 
report such hearings as may be had by it, and may employ 
stenographic assistance at a cost not exceeding the amount 
prescribed by the Committee on Rules and Administration. The 
expenses of the committee shall be paid from the contingent 
fund of the Senate upon vouchers approved by the chairman.
    2. Each committee shall adopt rules (not inconsistent with 
the Rules of the Senate) governing the procedure of such 
committee. The rules of each committee shall be published in 
the Congressional Record not later than March 1 of the first 
year of each Congress, except that if any such committee is 
established on or after February 1 of a year, the rules of that 
committee during the year of establishment shall be published 
in the Congressional Record not later than sixty days after 
such establishment. Any amendment to the rules of a committee 
shall not take effect until the amendment is published in the 
Congressional Record.
    3. Each standing committee (except the Committee on 
Appropriations) shall fix regular weekly, biweekly, or monthly 
meeting days for the transaction of business before the 
committee and additional meetings may be called by the chairman 
as he may deem necessary. If at least three members of any such 
committee desire that a special meeting of the committee be 
called by the chairman, those members may file in the offices 
of the committee their written request to the chairman for that 
special meeting. Immediately upon the filing of the request, 
the clerk of the committee shall notify the chairman of the 
filing of the request. If, within three calendar days after the 
filing of the request, the chairman does not call the requested 
special meeting, to be held within seven calendar days after 
the filing of the request, a majority of the members of the 
committee may file in the offices of the committee their 
written notice that a special meeting of the committee will be 
held, specifying the date and hour of that special meeting. The 
committee shall meet on that date and hour. Immediately upon 
the filing of the notice, the clerk of the committee shall 
notify all members of the committee that such special meeting 
will be held and inform them of its date and hour. If the 
chairman of any such committee is not present at any regular, 
additional, or special meeting of the committee, the ranking 
member of the majority party on the committee who is present 
shall preside at that meeting.
    4. (a) Each committee (except the Committee on 
Appropriations and the Committee on the Budget) shall make 
public announcement of the date, place, and subject matter of 
any hearing to be conducted by the committee on any measure or 
matter at least one week before the commencement of that 
hearing unless the committee determines that there is good 
cause to begin such hearing at an earlier date.
    (b) Each committee (except the Committee on Appropriations) 
shall require each witness who is to appear before the 
committee in any hearing to file with the clerk of the 
committee, at least one day before the date of the appearance 
of that witness, a written statement of his proposed testimony 
unless the committee chairman and the ranking minority member 
determine that there is good cause for noncompliance. If so 
requested by any committee, the staff of the committee shall 
prepare for the use of the members of the committee before each 
day of hearing before the committee a digest of the statements 
which have been so filed by witnesses who are to appear before 
the committee on that day.
    (c) After the conclusion of each day of hearing, if so 
requested by any committee, the staff shall prepare for the use 
of the members of the committee a summary of the testimony 
given before the committee on that day. After approval by the 
chairman and the ranking minority member of the committee, each 
such summary may be printed as a part of the committee hearings 
if such hearings are ordered by the committee to be printed.
    (d) Whenever any hearing is conducted by a committee 
(except the Committee on Appropriations) upon any measure or 
matter, the minority on the committee shall be entitled, upon 
request made by a majority of the minority members to the 
chairman before the completion of such hearing, to call 
witnesses selected by the minority to testify with respect to 
the measure or matter during at least one day of hearing 
thereon.
    5. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of the rules, 
when the Senate is in session, no committee of the Senate or 
any subcommittee thereof may meet, without special leave, after 
the conclusion of the first two hours after the meeting of the 
Senate commenced and in no case after two o'clock postmeridian 
unless consent therefor has been obtained from the majority 
leader and the minority leader (or in the event of the absence 
of either of such leaders, from his designee). The prohibition 
contained in the preceding sentence shall not apply to the 
Committee on Appropriations or the Committee on the Budget. The 
majority leader or his designee shall announce to the Senate 
whenever consent has been given under this subparagraph and 
shall state the time and place of such meeting. The right to 
make such announcement of consent shall have the same priority 
as the filing of a cloture motion.
    (b) Each meeting of a committee, or any subcommittee 
thereof, including meetings to conduct hearings, shall be open 
to the public, except that a meeting or series of meetings by a 
committee or a subcommittee thereof on the same subject for a 
period of no more than fourteen calendar days may be closed to 
the public on a motion made and seconded to go into closed 
session to discuss only whether the matters enumerated in 
clauses (1) through (6) would require the meeting to be closed, 
followed immediately by a record vote in open session by a 
majority of the members of the committee or subcommittee when 
it is determined that the matters to be discussed or the 
testimony to be taken at such meeting or meetings--
          (1) will disclose matters necessary to be kept secret 
        in the interests of national defense or the 
        confidential conduct of the foreign relations of the 
        United States;
          (2) will relate solely to matters of committee staff 
        personnel or internal staff management or procedure;
          (3) will tend to charge an individual with crime or 
        misconduct, to disgrace or injure the professional 
        standing of an individual, or otherwise to expose an 
        individual to public contempt or obloquy, or will 
        represent a clearly unwarranted invasion of the privacy 
        of an individual;
          (4) will disclose the identity of any informer or law 
        enforcement agent or will disclose any information 
        relating to the investigation or prosecution of a 
        criminal offense that is required to be kept secret in 
        the interests of effective law enforcement;
          (5) will disclose information relating to the trade 
        secrets of financial or commercial information 
        pertaining specifically to a given person if--
                  (A) an Act of Congress requires the 
                information to be kept confidential by 
                Government officers and employees; or
                  (B) the information has been obtained by the 
                Government on a confidential basis, other than 
                through an application by such person for a 
                specific Government financial or other benefit, 
                and is required to be kept secret in order to 
                prevent undue injury to the competitive 
                position of such person; or
                  (6) may divulge matters required to be kept 
                confidential under other provisions of law or 
                Government regulations.
    (c) Whenever any hearing conducted by any such committee or 
subcommittee is open to the public, that hearing may be 
broadcast by radio or television, or both, under such rules as 
the committee or subcommittee may adopt.
    (d) Whenever disorder arises during a committee meeting 
that is open to the public, or any demonstration of approval or 
disapproval is indulged in by any person in attendance at any 
such meeting, it shall be the duty of the Chair to enforce 
order on his own initiative and without any point of order 
being made by a Senator. When the Chair finds it necessary to 
maintain order, he shall have the power to clear the room, and 
the committee may act in closed session for so long as there is 
doubt of the assurance of order.
    (e) Each committee shall prepare and keep a complete 
transcript or electronic recording adequate to fully record the 
proceeding of each meeting or conference whether or not such 
meeting or any part thereof is closed under this paragraph, 
unless a majority of its members vote to forgo such a record.
    6. Morning meetings of committees and subcommittees thereof 
shall be scheduled for one or both of the periods prescribed in 
this paragraph. The first period shall end at eleven o'clock 
antemeridian. The second period shall begin at eleven o'clock 
antemeridian and end at two o'clock postmeridian.
    7. (a)(1) Except as provided in this paragraph, each 
committee, and each subcommittee thereof is authorized to fix 
the number of its members (but not less than one-third of its 
entire membership) who shall constitute a quorum thereof for 
the transaction of such business as may be considered by said 
committee, except that no measure or matter or recommendation 
shall be reported from any committee unless a majority of the 
committee were physically present.
    (2) Each such committee, or subcommittee, is authorized to 
fix a lesser number than one-third of its entire membership who 
shall constitute a quorum thereof for the purpose of taking 
sworn testimony.
    (3) The vote of any committee to report a measure or matter 
shall require the concurrence of a majority of the members of 
the committee who are present. No vote of any member of any 
committee to report a measure or matter may be cast by proxy if 
rules adopted by such committee forbid the casting of votes for 
that purpose by proxy; however, proxies may not be voted when 
the absent committee member has not been informed of the matter 
on which he is being recorded and has not affirmatively 
requested that he be so recorded. Action by any committee in 
reporting any measure or matter in accordance with the 
requirements of this subparagraph shall constitute the 
ratification by the committee of all action theretofore taken 
by the committee with respect to that measure or matter, 
including votes taken upon the measure or matter or any 
amendment thereto, and no point of order shall lie with respect 
to that measure or matter on the ground that such previous 
action with respect thereto by such committee was not taken in 
compliance with such requirements.
    (b) Each committee (except the Committee on Appropriations) 
shall keep a complete record of all committee action. Such 
record shall include a record of the votes on any question on 
which a record vote is demanded. The results of rollcall votes 
taken in any meeting of any committee upon any measure, or any 
amendment thereto, shall be announced in the committee report 
on that measure unless previously announced by the committee, 
and such announcement shall include a tabulation of the votes 
cast in favor of and the votes cast in opposition to each such 
measure and amendment by each member of the committee who was 
present at that meeting.
    (c) Whenever any committee by rollcall vote reports any 
measure or matter, the report of the committee upon such 
measure or matter shall include a tabulation of the votes cast 
by each member of the committee in favor of and in opposition 
to such measure or matter. Nothing contained in this 
subparagraph shall abrogate the power of any committee to adopt 
rules--
          (1) providing for proxy voting on all matters other 
        than the reporting of a measure or matter, or
          (2) providing in accordance with subparagraph (a) for 
        a lesser number as a quorum for any action other than 
        the reporting of a measure or matter.
    8. (a) In order to assist the Senate in--
          (1) its analysis, appraisal, and evaluation of the 
        application, administration, and execution of the laws 
        enacted by the Congress, and
          (2) its formulation, consideration, and enactment of 
        such modifications of or changes in those laws, and of 
        such additional legislation, as may be necessary or 
        appropriate,
each standing committee (except the Committees on 
Appropriations and the Budget), shall review and study, on a 
continuing basis the application, administration, and execution 
of those laws, or parts of laws, the subject matter of which is 
within the legislative jurisdiction of that committee. Such 
committees may carry out the required analysis, appraisal, and 
evaluation themselves, or by contract, or may require a 
Government agency to do so and furnish a report thereon to the 
Senate. Such committees may rely on such techniques as pilot 
testing, analysis of costs in comparison with benefits, or 
provision for evaluation after a defined period of time.
    (b) In each odd-numbered year, each such committee shall 
submit, not later than March 31, to the Senate, a report on the 
activities of that committee under this paragraph during the 
Congress ending at noon on January 3 of such year.
    9. (a) Except as provided in subparagraph (b), each 
committee shall report one authorization resolution each year 
authorizing the committee to make expenditures out of the 
contingent fund of the Senate to defray its expenses, including 
the compensation of members of its staff and agency 
contributions related to such compensation, during the period 
beginning on March 1 of such year and ending on the last day of 
February of the following year. Such annual authorization 
resolution shall be reported not later than January 31 of each 
year, except that, whenever the designation of members of 
standing committees of the Senate occurs during the first 
session of a Congress at a date later than January 20, such 
resolution may be reported at any time within thirty days after 
the date on which the designation of such members is completed. 
After the annual authorization resolution of a committee for a 
year has been agreed to, such committee may procure 
authorization to make additional expenditures out of the 
contingent fund of the Senate during that year only by 
reporting a supplemental authorization resolution. Each 
supplemental authorization resolution reported by a committee 
shall amend the annual authorization resolution of such 
committee for that year and shall be accompanied by a report 
specifying with particularity the purpose for which such 
authorization is sought and the reason why such authorization 
could not have been sought at the time of the submission by 
such committee of its annual authorization resolution for that 
year.
    (b) In lieu of the procedure provided in subparagraph (a), 
the Committee on Rules and Administration may
          (1) direct each committee to report an authorization 
        resolution for a two-year budget period beginning on 
        March 1 of the first session of a Congress; and
          (2) report one authorization resolution containing 
        more than one committee authorization resolution for a 
        one-year or two-year budget period.
    10. (a) All committee hearings, records, data, charts, and 
files shall be kept separate and distinct from the 
congressional office records of the Member serving as chairman 
of the committee; and such records shall be the property of the 
Senate and all members of the committee and the Senate shall 
have access to such records. Each committee is authorized to 
have printed and bound such testimony and other data presented 
at hearings held by the committee.
    (b) It shall be the duty of the chairman of each committee 
to report or cause to be reported promptly to the Senate any 
measure approved by his committee and to take or cause to be 
taken necessary steps to bring the matter to a vote. In any 
event, the report of any committee upon a measure which has 
been approved by the committee shall be filed within seven 
calendar days (exclusive of days on which the Senate is not in 
session) after the day on which there has been filed with the 
clerk of the committee a written and signed request of a 
majority of the committee for the reporting of that measure. 
Upon the filing of any such request, the clerk of the committee 
shall transmit immediately to the chairman of the committee 
notice of the filing of that request. This subparagraph does 
not apply to the Committee on Appropriations.
    (c) If at the time of approval of a measure or matter by 
any committee (except for the Committee on Appropriations), any 
member of the committee gives notice of intention to file 
supplemental, minority, or additional views, that member shall 
be entitled to not less than three calendar days in which to 
file such views, in writing, with the clerk of the committee. 
All such views so filed by one or more members of the committee 
shall be included within, and shall be a part of, the report 
filed by the committee with respect to that measure or matter. 
The report of the committee upon that measure or matter shall 
be printed in a single volume which--
          (1) shall include all supplemental, minority, or 
        additional views which have been submitted by the time 
        of the filing of the report, and
          (2) shall bear upon its cover a recital that 
        supplemental, minority, or additional views are 
        included as part of the report.
    This subparagraph does not preclude--
          (A) the immediate filing and printing of a committee 
        report unless timely request for the opportunity to 
        file supplemental, minority, or additional views has 
        been made as provided by this subparagraph; or
          (B) the filing by any such committee of any 
        supplemental report upon any measure or matter which 
        may be required for the correction of any technical 
        error in a previous report made by that committee upon 
        that measure or matter.
    11. (a) The report accompanying each bill or joint 
resolution of a public character reported by any committee 
(except the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on 
the Budget) shall contain--
          (1) an estimate, made by such committee, of the costs 
        which would be incurred in carrying out such bill or 
        joint resolution in the fiscal year in which it is 
        reported and in each of the five fiscal years following 
        such fiscal year (or for the authorized duration of any 
        program authorized by such bill or joint resolution, if 
        less than five years), except that, in the case of 
        measures affecting the revenues, such reports shall 
        require only an estimate of the gain or loss in 
        revenues for a one year period; and
          (2) a comparison of the estimate of costs described 
        in subparagraph (1) made by such committee with any 
        estimate of costs made by any Federal agency; or
          (3) in lieu of such estimate or comparison, or both, 
        a statement of the reasons why compliance by the 
        committee with the requirements of subparagraph (1) or 
        (2), or both, is impracticable.
    (b) Each such report (except those by the Committee on 
Appropriations) shall also contain--
          (1) an evaluation, made by such committee, of the 
        regulatory impact which would be incurred in carrying 
        out the bill or joint resolution. The evaluation shall 
        include (A) an estimate of the numbers of individuals 
        and businesses who would be regulated and a 
        determination of the groups and classes of such 
        individuals and businesses, (B) a determination of the 
        economic impact of such regulation on the individuals, 
        consumers, and businesses affected, (C) a determination 
        of the impact on the personal privacy of the 
        individuals affected, and (D) a determination of the 
        amount of additional paperwork that will result from 
        the regulations to be promulgated pursuant to the bill 
        or joint resolution, which determination may include, 
        but need not be limited to, estimates of the amount of 
        time and financial costs required of affected parties, 
        showing whether the effects of the bill or joint 
        resolution could be substantial, as well as reasonable 
        estimates of the recordkeeping requirements that may be 
        associated with the bill or joint resolution; or
          (2) in lieu of such evaluation, a statement of the 
        reasons why compliance by the committee with the 
        requirements of clause (1) is impracticable.
    (c) It shall not be in order for the Senate to consider any 
such bill or joint resolution if the report of the committee on 
such bill or joint resolution does not comply with the 
provisions of subparagraphs (a) and (b) on the objection of any 
Senator.
    12. Whenever a committee reports a bill or a joint 
resolution repealing or amending any statute or part thereof it 
shall make a report thereon and shall include in such report or 
in an accompanying document (to be prepared by the staff of 
such committee) (a) the text of the statute or part thereof 
which is proposed to be repealed; and (b) a comparative print 
of that part of the bill or joint resolution making the 
amendment and of the statute or part thereof proposed to be 
amended, showing by stricken through type and italics, parallel 
columns, or other appropriate typographical devices the 
omissions and insertions which would be made by the bill or 
joint resolution if enacted in the form recommended by the 
committee. This paragraph shall not apply to any such report in 
which it is stated that, in the opinion of the committee, it is 
necessary to dispense with the requirements of this subsection 
to expedite the business of the Senate.
    13. (a) Each committee (except the Committee on 
Appropriations) which has legislative jurisdiction shall, in 
its consideration of all bills and joint resolutions of a 
public character within its jurisdiction, endeavor to insure 
that--
          (1) all continuing programs of the Federal Government 
        and of the government of the District of Columbia, 
        within the jurisdiction of such committee or joint 
        committee, are designed; and
          (2) all continuing activities of Federal agencies, 
        within the jurisdiction of such committee or joint 
        committee, are carried on;
so that, to the extent consistent with the nature, 
requirements, and objectives of those programs and activities, 
appropriations therefor will be made annually.
    (b) Each committee (except the Committee on Appropriations) 
shall with respect to any continuing program within its 
jurisdiction for which appropriations are not made annually, 
review such program, from time to time, in order to ascertain 
whether such program could be modified so that appropriations 
therefor would be made annually.

                                 
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