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   110th Congress 1st                                 Committee
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                     COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY
                     U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES



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                           RULES AND APPENDIX

                                for the

                     COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY

                               during the

                       ONE HUNDRED TENTH CONGRESS

                             FIRST SESSION

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                         Adopted February 2007


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                     COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY

               BENNIE G. THOMPSON, Mississippi, Chairman

LORETTA SANCHEZ, California, Vice    PETER T. KING, New York
Chair                                LAMAR SMITH, Texas
EDWARD J. MARKEY, Massachusetts      CHRISTOPHER SHAYS, Connecticut
NORMAN D. DICKS, Washington          MARK E. SOUDER, Indiana
JANE HARMAN, California              TOM DAVIS, Virginia
PETER A. DeFAZIO, Oregon             DANIEL E. LUNGREN, California
NITA M. LOWEY, New York              MIKE ROGERS, Alabama
ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON,               BOBBY JINDAL, Louisiana
  District of Columbia               DAVID G. REICHERT, Washington
ZOE LOFGREN, California              MICHAEL T. McCAUL, Texas
SHEILA JACKSON-LEE, Texas            CHARLES W. DENT, Pennsylvania
DONNA M. CHRISTENSEN,                GINNY BROWN-WAITE, Florida
  U.S. Virgin Islands                GUS M. BILIRAKIS, Florida
BOB ETHERIDGE, North Carolina        DAVID DAVIS, Tennessee
JAMES R. LANGEVIN, Rhode Island      PAUL C. BROUN, Georgia
HENRY CUELLAR, Texas
CHRISTOPHER P. CARNEY, Pennsylvania
YVETTE D. CLARKE, New York
AL GREEN, Texas
ED PERLMUTTER, Colorado

       Jessica Herrera-Flanigan, Staff Director & General Counsel
                     Rosaline Cohen, Chief Counsel
                     Michael Twinchek, Chief Clerk
                Robert O'Connor, Minority Staff Director

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                            C O N T E N T S



Rules of the Committee
    Rule I--General Provisions...................................     1
    Rule II--Time of Meetings....................................     1
    Rule III--Notice and Publication.............................     2
    Rule IV--Open Meetings and Hearings; Broadcasting............     2
    Rule V--Procedures for Meeting and Hearings..................     3
    Rule VI--Witnesses...........................................     4
    Rule VII--Quorum.............................................     5
    Rule VIII--Decorum...........................................     5
    Rule IX--Subcommittees.......................................     5
    Rule X--Referrals to Subcommittees...........................     6
    Rule XI--Subpoenas...........................................     7
    Rule XII--Committee Staff....................................     8
    Rule XIII--Member and Staff Travel...........................     8
    Rule XIV--Classified and Other Confidential Information......     9
    Rule XV--Committee Records...................................    10
    Rule XVI--Changes to Committee Rules.........................    12

Appendix
    Comittee on Homeland Security and Access Control Policy......    13
    Applicable Provisions of House Rules.........................    21
    Legislative History to accompany changes to Rule X, 109th 
      Congress...................................................    76
    Memorandum of Understanding..................................    80

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                            COMMITTEE RULES

                        Adopted January 23, 2007

RULE I. GENERAL PROVISIONS.
        (A) Applicability of the Rules of the U.S. House of 
        Representatives.-- The Rules of the U.S. House of 
        Representatives (the ``House'') are the rules of the 
        Committee on Homeland Security (the ``Committee'') and 
        its subcommittees insofar as applicable.

        (B) Applicability to Subcommittees.--Except where the 
        terms ``Full Committee'' and ``subcommittee'' are 
        specifically mentioned, the following rules shall apply 
        to the Committee's subcommittees and their respective 
        Chairmen and Ranking Minority Members to the same 
        extent as they apply to the Full Committee and its 
        Chairman and Ranking Minority Member.

        (C) Appointments by the Chairman.--The Chairman shall 
        designate a Member of the Majority party to serve as 
        Vice Chairman of the Full Committee. The Vice Chairman 
        of the Full Committee shall preside at any meeting or 
        hearing of the Full Committee during the temporary 
        absence of the Chairman. In the absence of both the 
        Chairman and Vice Chairman, the Chairman's designee 
        shall preside.

        (D) Recommendation of Conferees.--Whenever the Speaker 
        of the House is to appoint a conference committee on a 
        matter within the jurisdiction of the Full Committee, 
        the Chairman shall recommend to the Speaker of the 
        House conferees from the Full Committee. In making 
        recommendations of Minority Members as conferees, the 
        Chairman shall do so with the concurrence of the 
        Ranking Minority Member of the Committee.

        (E) Motions To Disagree.--The Chairman is directed to 
        offer a motion under clause 1 of Rule XXII of the Rules 
        of the House whenever the Chairman considers it 
        appropriate.

        (F) Committee Website.--The Chairman shall maintain an 
        official Committee web site for the purposes of 
        furthering the Committee's legislative and oversight 
        responsibilities, including communicating information 
        about the Committee's activities to Committee Members, 
        other Members and the public at large. The Ranking 
        Minority Member may maintain a similar website for the 
        same purposes.

RULE II.--TIME OF MEETINGS.
        (A) Regular Meeting Date.--The regular meeting date and 
        time for the transaction of business of the Full 
        Committee shall be on the first Wednesday that the 
        House is in Session each month, unless otherwise 
        directed by the Chairman.

        (B) Additional Meetings.--At the discretion of the 
        Chairman, additional meetings of the Committee may be 
        scheduled for the consideration of any bill or other 
        matters pending before the Committee or to conduct 
        other Committee business. The Committee shall meet for 
        such purposes pursuant to the call of the Chairman.

        (C) Consideration.--Except in the case of a special 
        meeting held under clause 2(c)(2) of House Rule XI, the 
        determination of the business to be considered at each 
        meeting of the Committee shall be made by the Chairman.

RULE III.--NOTICE AND PUBLICATION.

        (A) Notice.--
                (1) Hearings.--The date, time, place and 
                subject matter of any hearing of the Committee 
                shall, except as provided in the Committee 
                rules, be announced by notice at least one week 
                in advance of the commencement of such hearing. 
                The names of all witnesses scheduled to appear 
                at such hearing shall be provided to Members no 
                later than 48 hours prior to the commencement 
                of such hearing. These notice requirements may 
                be waived by the Chairman with the concurrence 
                of the Ranking Minority Member.
                (2) Meetings. -- The date, time, place and 
                subject matter of any meeting, other than a 
                hearing or a regularly scheduled meeting, shall 
                be announced at least 36 hours in advance of a 
                meeting to take place on a day the House is in 
                session, and 72 hours in advance of a meeting 
                to take place on a day the House is not in 
                session, except in the case of a special 
                meeting called under clause 2(c)(2) of House 
                Rule XI. These notice requirements may be 
                waived by the Chairman with the concurrence of 
                the Ranking Minority Member.
                        (a) Copies of any measure to be 
                        considered for approval by the 
                        Committee at any meeting, including any 
                        mark, print or amendment in the nature 
                        of a substitute shall be provided to 
                        the Members at least 24 hours in 
                        advance.
                        (b) The requirement in subsection (a) 
                        may be waived or abridged by the 
                        Chairman, with advance notice to the 
                        Ranking Minority Member.
                (3) Publication. -- The meeting or hearing 
                announcement shall be promptly published in the 
                Daily Digest portion of the Congressional 
                Record. To the greatest extent practicable, 
                meeting announcements shall be entered into the 
                Committee scheduling service of the House 
                Information Resources.

RULE IV.--OPEN MEETINGS AND HEARINGS; BROADCASTING.
        (A) Open Meetings. -- All meetings and hearings of the 
        Committee shall be open to the public including to 
        radio, television and still photography coverage, 
        except as provided by Rule XI of the Rules of the House 
        or when the Committee, in open session and with a 
        Majority present, determines by recorded vote that all 
        or part of the remainder of that hearing on that day 
        shall be closed to the public because disclosure of 
        testimony, evidence, or other matters to be considered 
        would endanger the national security, compromise 
        sensitive law enforcement information, tend to defame, 
        degrade or incriminate a witness, or violate any law or 
        rule of the House of Representatives.

        (B) Broadcasting. -- Whenever any hearing or meeting 
        conducted by the Committee is open to the public, the 
        Committee shall permit that hearing or meeting to be 
        covered by television broadcast, internet broadcast, 
        print media, and still photography, or by any of such 
        methods of coverage, in accordance with the provisions 
        of clause 4 of Rule XI of the Rules of the House. 
        Operation and use of any Committee operated broadcast 
        system shall be fair and nonpartisan and in accordance 
        with clause 4(b) of Rule XI and all other applicable 
        rules of the Committee and the House. Priority shall be 
        given by the Committee to members of the Press 
        Galleries.

        (C) Transcripts.--A transcript shall be made of the 
        testimony of each witness appearing before the 
        Committee during a Committee hearing. All transcripts 
        of meetings or hearings that are open to the public 
        shall be made available.

RULE V.--PROCEDURES FOR MEETINGS AND HEARINGS.
        (A) Opening Statements.--At any meeting of the 
        Committee, the Chairman and Ranking Minority Member 
        shall be entitled to present oral opening statements of 
        five minutes each. Other Members may submit written 
        opening statements for the record. The Chairman 
        presiding over the meeting may permit additional 
        opening statements by other Members of the Full 
        Committee or of that subcommittee, with the concurrence 
        of the Ranking Minority Member.

        (B) The Five-Minute Rule.--The time any one Member may 
        address the Committee on any bill, motion, or other 
        matter under consideration by the Committee shall not 
        exceed five minutes, and then only when the Member has 
        been recognized by the Chairman, except that this time 
        limit may be extended when permitted by unanimous 
        consent.

        (C) Postponement of Vote.--The Chairman may postpone 
        further proceedings when a record vote is ordered on 
        the question of approving any measure or matter or 
        adopting an amendment. The Chairman may resume 
        proceedings on a postponed vote at any time, provided 
        that all reasonable steps have been taken to notify 
        Members of the resumption of such proceedings. When 
        proceedings resume on a postponed question, 
        notwithstanding any intervening order for the previous 
        question, an underlying proposition shall remain 
        subject to further debate or amendment to the same 
        extent as when the question was postponed.

        (D) Contempt Procedures.--No recommendation that a 
        person be cited for contempt of Congress shall be 
        forwarded to the House unless and until the Full 
        Committee has, upon notice to all its Members, met and 
        considered the alleged contempt. The person to be cited 
        for contempt shall be afforded, upon notice of at least 
        72 hours, an opportunity to state why he or she should 
        not be held in contempt prior to a vote of the Full 
        Committee, with a quorum being present, on the question 
        whether to forward such recommendation to the House. 
        Such statement shall be, in the discretion of the 
        Chairman, either in writing or in person before the 
        Full Committee.

RULE VI.--WITNESSES.
        (A) Questioning of Witnesses.--
                (1) Questioning of witnesses by Members will be 
                conducted under the five-minute rule unless the 
                Committee adopts a motion permitted by House 
                Rule XI (2)(j)(2).

                (2) In questioning witnesses under the 5-minute 
                rule, the Chairman and the Ranking Minority 
                Member shall first be recognized. In a 
                subcommittee meeting or hearing, the Chairman 
                and Ranking Minority Member of the Full 
                Committee are then recognized. All other 
                Members that arrive before the commencement of 
                the meeting or hearing will be recognized in 
                the order of seniority on the Committee, 
                alternating between Majority and Minority 
                Members. Committee Members arriving after the 
                commencement of the hearing shall be recognized 
                in order of appearance, alternating between 
                Majority and Minority Members, after all 
                Members present at the beginning of the hearing 
                have been recognized. Each Member shall be 
                recognized at least once before any Member is 
                given a second opportunity to question a 
                witness.

                (3) The Chairman, in consultation with the 
                Ranking Minority Member, or the Committee by 
                motion may permit an extension of the period of 
                questioning of a witness beyond five minutes 
                but the time allotted must be equally 
                apportioned to the Majority party and the 
                Minority and may not exceed one hour in the 
                aggregate.

                (4) The Chairman, in consultation with the 
                Ranking Minority Member, or the Committee by 
                motion may permit Committee staff of the 
                Majority and Minority to question a witness for 
                a specified, total period that is equal for 
                each side and not longer than 30 minutes for 
                each side.

        (B) Minority Witnesses.--Whenever a hearing is 
        conducted by the Committee upon any measure or matter, 
        the Minority party Members on the Committee shall be 
        entitled, upon request to the Chairman by a Majority of 
        those Minority Members before the completion of such 
        hearing, to call witnesses selected by the Minority to 
        testify with respect to that measure or matter during 
        at least one day of hearing thereon.

        (C) Oath or Affirmation.--The Chairman of the Committee 
        or any Member designated by the Chairman, may 
        administer an oath to any witness.

        (D) Statements by Witnesses.--
                (1) Consistent with the notice given, witnesses 
                shall submit a prepared or written statement 
                for the record of the proceedings (including, 
                where practicable, an electronic copy) with the 
                Clerk of the Committee no less than 48 hours in 
                advance of the witness's appearance before the 
                Committee. Unless the 48 hour requirement is 
                waived or otherwise modified by the Chairman 
                after consultation with the Ranking Minority 
                Member, the failure to comply with this 
                requirement may result in the exclusion of the 
                written testimony from the hearing record and/
                or the barring of an oral presentation of the 
                testimony.

                (2) To the greatest extent practicable, the 
                written testimony of each witness appearing in 
                a non-governmental capacity shall include a 
                curriculum vitae and a disclosure of the amount 
                and source (by agency and program) of any 
                Federal grant (or subgrant thereof) or contract 
                (or subcontract thereof) received during the 
                current fiscal year or either of the two 
                preceding fiscal years by the witness or by an 
                entity represented by the witness to the extent 
                that such information is relevant to the 
                subject matter of, and the witness' 
                representational capacity at, the hearing.

RULE VII.--QUORUM.
        Quorum Requirements.--Two Members shall constitute a 
        quorum for purposes of taking testimony and receiving 
        evidence. One-third of the Members of the Committee 
        shall constitute a quorum for conducting business, 
        except for (1) reporting a measure or recommendation; 
        (2) closing Committee meetings to the public, pursuant 
        to Committee Rule IV; (3) authorizing the issuance of 
        subpoenas; and (4) any other action for which an actual 
        majority quorum is required by any rule of the House of 
        Representatives or by law. The Chairman shall make 
        reasonable efforts, including consultation with the 
        Ranking Minority Member when scheduling meetings and 
        hearings, to ensure that a quorum for any purpose will 
        include at least one minority Member of the Committee.

RULE VIII.--DECORUM.
        (A) Breaches of Decorum.--The Chairman may punish 
        breaches of order and decorum, by censure and exclusion 
        from the hearing; and the Committee may cite the 
        offender to the House for contempt.

        (B) Access to Dais.--Access to the dais before, during 
        and after a hearing, markup or other meeting of the 
        Committee shall be limited to Members and staff of the 
        Committee. Subject to availability of space on the 
        dais, a Member may have a personal staff present on the 
        dais during periods when the Member is seated on the 
        dais at the hearing.

        (C) Wireless Communications Use Prohibited.-- During a 
        hearing, mark-up, or other meeting of the Committee, 
        ringing or audible sounds or conversational use of 
        cellular telephones or other electronic devices is 
        prohibited in the Committee room.

RULE IX.--SUBCOMMITTEES.
        (A) Generally.--The Full Committee shall be organized 
        into the following six standing subcommittees:
                (1) Subcommittee on Border, Maritime and Global 
                Counterterrorism;
                (2) Subcommittee on Emergency Communications, 
                Preparedness, and Response;
                (3) Subcommittee on Transportation Security and 
                Infrastructure Protection;
                (4) Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information 
                Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment;
                (5) Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, 
                Cybersecurity, and Science and Technology; and
                (6) Subcommittee on Management, Investigations, 
                and Oversight.

        (B) Selection and Ratio of Subcommittee Members.--The 
        Chairman and Ranking Member of the Full Committee shall 
        select their respective Members of each subcommittee. 
        The ratio of Majority to Minority Members shall be 
        comparable to the ratio of Majority to Minority Members 
        on the Full Committee, except that each subcommittee 
        shall have at least two more Majority Members than 
        Minority Members.

        (C) Ex Officio Members.--The Chairman and Ranking 
        Minority Member of the Full Committee shall be ex 
        officio members of each subcommittee but are not 
        authorized to vote on matters that arise before each 
        subcommittee. The Chairman and Ranking Minority Member 
        of the Full Committee shall not be counted to satisfy 
        the quorum requirement for any purpose other than 
        taking testimony unless they are regular members of 
        that subcommittee.

        (D) Powers and Duties of Subcommittees.--Except as 
        otherwise directed by the Chairman of the Full 
        Committee, each subcommittee is authorized to meet, 
        hold hearings, receive testimony, mark up legislation, 
        and report to the Full Committee on all matters within 
        its purview. Subcommittee Chairmen shall set hearing 
        and meeting dates only with the approval of the 
        Chairman of the Full Committee. To the greatest extent 
        practicable, no more than one meeting and hearing 
        should be scheduled for a given time.

        (E) Special Voting Provision.--If a tie vote occurs in 
        a subcommittee on the question of reporting any measure 
        to the Full Committee, the measure shall be placed on 
        the agenda for Full Committee consideration as if it 
        had been ordered reported by the subcommittee without 
        recommendation.

        (F) Task Forces or Select Subcommittees.--The Chairman, 
        with the concurrence of the Ranking Minority Member, 
        may create task forces of limited duration to carry out 
        specifically enumerated duties and functions within the 
        jurisdiction of the Committee subject to any 
        limitations provided for in the House Rules or other 
        Caucus or Conference Rules. Any task force created 
        under this rule shall be subject to all applicable 
        Committee and House rules and other laws in the conduct 
        of its duties and functions.

RULE X.--REFERRALS TO SUBCOMMITTEES.

        Referral of Bills and Other Matters by Chairman.--
        Except for bills and other matters retained by the 
        Chairman for Full Committee consideration, each bill or 
        other matters referred to the Full Committee shall be 
        referred by the Chairman to one or more subcommittees. 
        In referring any measure or matter to a subcommittee, 
        the Chair may specify a date by which the subcommittee 
        shall report thereon to the Full Committee. Bills or 
        other matters referred to subcommittees may be 
        reassigned or discharged by the Chairman.

RULE XI.--SUBPOENAS.
        (A) Authorization.--Pursuant to clause 2(m) of Rule XI 
        of the House, a subpoena may be authorized and issued 
        under the seal of the House and attested by the Clerk 
        of the House, and may be served by any person 
        designated by the Full Committee for the furtherance of 
        an investigation with authorization by--

                (1) a majority of the Full Committee, a quorum 
                being present; or

                (2) the Chairman of the Full Committee, after 
                consultation with the Ranking Minority Member 
                of the Full Committee, during any period for 
                which the House has adjourned for a period in 
                excess of 3 days when, in the opinion of the 
                Chairman of the Full Committee, authorization 
                and issuance of the subpoena is necessary to 
                obtain the material or testimony set forth in 
                the subpoena. The Chairman of the Full 
                Committee shall notify Members of the Committee 
                of the authorization and issuance of a subpoena 
                under this rule as soon as practicable, but in 
                no event later than one week after service of 
                such subpoena.
        (B) Disclosure.--Provisions may be included in a 
        subpoena with the concurrence of the Chairman and the 
        Ranking Minority Member of the Full Committee, or by 
        the Committee, to prevent the disclosure of the Full 
        Committee's demands for information when deemed 
        necessary for the security of information or the 
        progress of an investigation, including but not limited 
        to prohibiting the revelation by witnesses and their 
        counsel of Full Committee's inquiries.

        (C) Subpoena duces tecum.--A subpoena duces tecum may 
        be issued whose return to the Committee Clerk shall 
        occur at a time and place other than that of a 
        regularly scheduled meeting.

        (D) Affidavits and Depositions.--The Chairman of the 
        Full Committee, in consultation with the Ranking 
        Minority Member of the Full Committee, or the Committee 
        may authorize the taking of an affidavit or deposition 
        with respect to any person who is subpoenaed under 
        these rules but who is unable to appear in person to 
        testify as a witness at any hearing or meeting. Notices 
        for the taking of depositions shall specify the date, 
        time and place of examination. Depositions shall be 
        taken under oath administered by a Member or a person 
        otherwise authorized by law to administer oaths. Prior 
        consultation with the Ranking Minority Member of the 
        Full Committee shall include written notice three 
        business days before any deposition is scheduled to 
        provide an opportunity for Minority staff to be present 
        during the questioning.

RULE XII.--COMMITTEE STAFF.

        (A) Generally.--Committee staff members are subject to 
        the provisions of clause 9 of House Rule X and must be 
        eligible to be considered for routine access to 
        classified information.
        (B) Staff Assignments.--For purposes of these rules, 
        Committee staff means the employees of the Committee, 
        detailees, fellows or any other person engaged by 
        contract or otherwise to perform services for, or at 
        the request of, the Committee. All such persons shall 
        be either Majority, Minority, or shared staff. The 
        Chairman shall appoint, determine remuneration of, 
        supervise and may remove Majority staff. The Ranking 
        Minority Member shall appoint, determine remuneration 
        of, supervise and may remove Minority staff. In 
        consultation with the Ranking Minority Member, the 
        Chairman may appoint, determine remuneration of, 
        supervise and may remove shared staff that is assigned 
        to service of the Committee. The Chairman shall certify 
        Committee staff appointments, including appointments by 
        the Ranking Minority Member, as required.
        (C) Divulgence of Information.--Prior to the public 
        acknowledgement by the Chairman or the Committee of a 
        decision to initiate an investigation of a particular 
        person, entity, or subject, no member of the Committee 
        staff shall knowingly divulge to any person any 
        information, including non-classified information, 
        which comes into his or her possession by virtue of his 
        or her status as a member of the Committee staff, if 
        the member of the Committee staff has a reasonable 
        expectation that such information may alert the subject 
        of a Committee investigation to the existence, nature, 
        or substance of such investigation, unless authorized 
        to do so by the Chairman or the Committee.

RULE XIII.--MEMBER AND STAFF TRAVEL
        (A) Approval of Travel.--Consistent with the primary 
        expense resolution and such additional expense 
        resolutions as may have been approved, travel to be 
        reimbursed from funds set aside for the Committee for 
        any Member or any Committee staff shall be paid only 
        upon the prior authorization of the Chairman. Travel 
        may be authorized by the Chairman for any Member and 
        any Committee staff only in connection with official 
        Committee business, such as the attendance of hearings 
        conducted by the Committee and meetings, conferences, 
        site visits, and investigations that involve activities 
        or subject matter under the general jurisdiction of the 
        Full Committee.
                (1) Proposed Travel by Majority Party Members 
                and Staff.--
                In the case of proposed travel by Majority 
                party Members or Committee staff, before such 
                authorization is given, there shall be 
                submitted to the Chairman in writing the 
                following: (a) the purpose of the travel; (b) 
                the dates during which the travel is to be made 
                and the date or dates of the event for which 
                the travel is being made; (c) the location of 
                the event for which the travel is to be made; 
                and (d) the names of Members and staff seeking 
                authorization. On the basis of that 
                information, the Chairman shall determine 
                whether the proposed travel is for official 
                Committee business, concerns subject matter 
                within the jurisdiction of the Full Committee, 
                and is not excessively costly in view of the 
                Committee business proposed to be conducted.

                (2) Proposed Travel by Minority Party Members 
                and Staff.--
                In the case of proposed travel by Minority 
                party Members or Committee staff, the Ranking 
                Minority Member shall provide to the Chairman a 
                written representation setting forth the 
                information specified in items (a), (b), (c), 
                and (d) of subparagraph (1) and his or her 
                determination that such travel complies with 
                the other requirements of subparagraph (1).

        (B) Foreign Travel.--All Committee Member and staff 
        requests for Committee-funded foreign travel must be 
        submitted to the Chairman, through the Chief Financial 
        Officer of the Committee, not less than seven business 
        days prior to the start of the travel. Within 60 days 
        of the conclusion of any such foreign travel authorized 
        under this rule, there shall be submitted to the 
        Chairman a written report summarizing the information 
        gained as a result of the travel in question, or other 
        Committee objectives served by such travel.

RULE XIV.--CLASSIFIED AND OTHER CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION.

        (A) Security Precautions.--Committee staff offices, 
        including Majority and Minority offices, shall operate 
        under strict security precautions administered by the 
        Security Officer of the Committee. A security officer 
        shall be on duty at all times during normal office 
        hours. Classified documents and sensitive but 
        unclassified (SBU) documents (including but not limited 
        to those marked with dissemination restrictions such as 
        Sensitive Security Information (SSI), Law Enforcement 
        Sensitive (LES), For Official Use Only (FOUO), or 
        Critical Infrastructure Information (CII)) may be 
        examined only in an appropriately secure manner. Such 
        documents may be removed from the Committee's offices 
        in furtherance of official Committee business. 
        Appropriate security procedures shall govern the 
        handing of such documents removed from the Committee's 
        offices.

        (B) Temporary Custody of Executive Branch Material.--
        Executive branch documents or other materials 
        containing classified information in any form that were 
        not made part of the record of a Committee hearing, did 
        not originate in the Committee or the House, and are 
        not otherwise records of the Committee shall, while in 
        the custody of the Committee, be segregated and 
        maintained by the Committee in the same manner as 
        Committee records that are classified. Such documents 
        and other materials shall be returned to the Executive 
        branch agency from which they were obtained at the 
        earliest practicable time.

        (C) Access by Committee Staff.--Access to classified 
        information supplied to the Committee shall be limited 
        to Committee staff members with appropriate security 
        clearance and a need-to-know, as determined by the 
        Chairman and Ranking Minority Member and under their 
        direction of the Majority and Minority Staff Directors.

        (D) Maintaining Confidentiality.--No Member of the 
        Committee or Committee staff shall disclose, in whole 
        or in part or by way of summary, to any person who is 
        not a Member of the Committee or an authorized member 
        of Committee staff for any purpose or in connection 
        with any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, any 
        testimony given before the Committee in executive 
        session. Classified information and sensitive but 
        unclassified (SBU) information (including but not 
        limited to documents marked with dissemination 
        restrictions such as Sensitive Security Information 
        (SSI), Law Enforcement Sensitive (LES), For Official 
        Use Only (FOUO), or Critical Infrastructure Information 
        (CII)) shall be handled in accordance with all 
        applicable provisions of law and consistent with the 
        provisions of these rules.

        (E) Oath.--Before a Member or Committee staff member 
        may have access to classified information, the 
        following oath (or affirmation) shall be executed:
                I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will not 
                disclose any classified information received in 
                the course of my service on the Committee on 
                Homeland Security, except as authorized by the 
                Committee or the House of Representatives
                or in accordance with the Rules of such 
                Committee or the Rules of the House.
Copies of the executed oath (or affirmation) shall be retained 
by the Clerk as part of the records of the Committee.

        (F) Disciplinary Action.--The Chairman shall 
        immediately consider disciplinary action in the event 
        any Committee Member or member of the Committee staff 
        fails to conform to the provisions of these rules 
        governing the disclosure of classified or unclassified 
        information. Such disciplinary action may include, but 
        shall not be limited to, immediate dismissal from the 
        Committee staff, criminal referral to the Justice 
        Department, and notification of the Speaker of the 
        House. With respect to Minority party staff, the 
        Chairman shall consider such disciplinary action in 
        consultation with the Ranking Minority Member.

RULE XV.--COMMITTEE RECORDS

        (A) Committee Records.--Committee Records shall 
        constitute all data, charts and files in possession of 
        the Committee and shall be maintained in accordance 
        with House Rule XI, clause 2(e).

        (B) Legislative Calendar.--The Clerk of the Committee 
        shall maintain a printed calendar for the information 
        of each Committee Member showing any procedural or 
        legislative measures considered or scheduled to be 
        considered by the Committee, and the status of such 
        measures and such other matters as the Committee 
        determines shall be included. The calendar shall be 
        revised from time to time to show pertinent changes. A 
        copy of such revisions shall be made available to each 
        Member of the Committee upon request.

        (C) Members Right To Access.--Members of the Committee 
        and of the House shall have access to all official 
        Committee Records. Access to Committee files shall be 
        limited to examination within the Committee offices at 
        reasonable times. Access to Committee Records that 
        contain classified information shall be provided in a 
        manner consistent with these rules.

        (D) Removal of Committee Records.--Files and records of 
        the Committee are not to be removed from the Committee 
        offices. No Committee files or records that are not 
        made publicly available shall be photocopied by any 
        Member.

        (E) Executive Session Records.--Evidence or testimony 
        received by the Committee in executive session shall 
        not be released or made available to the public unless 
        agreed to by the Committee. Members may examine the 
        Committee's executive session records, but may not make 
        copies of, or take personal notes from, such records.

        (F) Public Inspection.--The Committee shall keep a 
        complete record of all Committee action including 
        recorded votes. Information so available for public 
        inspection shall include a description of each 
        amendment, motion, order or other proposition and the 
        name of each Member voting for and each Member voting 
        against each such amendment, motion, order, or 
        proposition, as well as the names of those Members 
        present but not voting. Such record shall be made 
        available to the public at reasonable times within the 
        Committee offices.

        (G) Separate and Distinct.--All Committee records and 
        files must be kept separate and distinct from the 
        office records of the Members serving as Chairman and 
        Ranking Minority Member. Records and files of Members' 
        personal offices shall not be considered records or 
        files of the Committee.

        (H) Disposition of Committee Records.--At the 
        conclusion of each Congress, non-current records of the 
        Committee shall be delivered to the Archivist of the 
        United States in accordance with Rule VII of the Rules 
        of the House.

        (I) Archived Records.--The records of the Committee at 
        the National Archives and Records Administration shall 
        be made available for public use in accordance with 
        Rule VII of the Rules of the House. The Chairman shall 
        notify the Ranking Minority Member of any decision, 
        pursuant to clause 3(b)(3) or clause 4(b) of the Rule, 
        to withhold a record otherwise available, and the 
        matter shall be presented to the Committee for a 
        determination on the written request of any member of 
        the Committee. The Chairman shall consult with the 
        Ranking Minority Member on any communication from the 
        Archivist of the United States or the Clerk of the 
        House concerning the disposition of noncurrent records 
        pursuant to clause 3(b) of the Rule.
RULE XVI.--CHANGES TO COMMITTEE RULES

    These rules may be modified, amended, or repealed by the 
Full Committee provided that a notice in writing of the 
proposed change has been given to each Member at least 48 hours 
prior to the meeting at which action thereon is to be taken.


                            A P P E N D I X

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                     COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY

                   SECURITY AND ACCESS CONTROL POLICY

                             March 5, 2007

    In accordance with Executive Order 12958 (Classified 
National Security Information) and Rule XIV of the Committee on 
Homeland Security (``Committee''), the following Security and 
Access Control Policy is established. It shall apply to Members 
of Congress, as well as all Majority and Minority professional 
staff members, interagency detailees, and fellows (collectively 
``Committee personnel''). It is effective from the time of this 
writing through the end of the 110th Congress.
Section 1. Committee Security Officer

        Subsection A. The Committee shall designate a 
        professional staff member, interagency detailee, or 
        fellow to serve as the Committee's full-time Security 
        Officer. The Security Officer shall serve as the 
        principle security liaison for the Committee with the 
        National Intelligence Council, the Office of the 
        Director of National Intelligence, and the 16 members 
        of the Intelligence Community.

        Subsection B. The Committee Security Officer is the 
        principle liaison with the Capitol Police, and 
        coordinates security requests for classified hearings 
        and briefings, as well as meetings and travel for the 
        Members. In addition, the Security Officer shall serve 
        as the point of contact regarding threats to Committee 
        Members or witnesses, as appropriate, while Committee 
        business is occurring.

        Subsection C. The Security Officer provides properly 
        justified requests for security clearances to the 
        Sergeant at Arms, and tracks the completion of security 
        clearances for staff. The Security Officer serves as 
        the point-of-contact for the Sergeant of Arms on all 
        security and clearance matters for the Committee.

        Subsection D. The Security Officer is responsible for 
        receiving, inventorying, distributing, tracking, and 
        destroying the Committee's classified holdings, in 
        accordance with Department of Defense (DoD) and Central 
        Intelligence Agency (CIA) procedures. Responsibilities 
        also include SCIF access controls, clearance processing 
        for meetings on and outside Capitol Hill, and clearance 
        request processing and tracking.

        Subsection E. The Security Officer is responsible for 
        the enforcement of this Security and Access Control 
        Policy. The Security Officer is responsible for 
        conducting investigations into the mishandling of 
        classified or sensitive materials, violations of the 
        Security and Access Control Policy, or any other breach 
        of security in cooperation with the Sergeant at Arms or 
        other relevant authorities. In this capacity, the 
        Security Officer shall report to the Chairman and the 
        Ranking Member, as appropriate, any violations of the 
        policy, as well as Committee and House Rules relating 
        to the protection of classified information.

        Subsection F. The Security Officer shall arrange for 
        all staff with clearances to receive a yearly mandatory 
        training session on the proper use, storage, handling, 
        and destruction of classified and sensitive materials.

        Subsection G. The Security Officer shall carry out his/
        her duties in a fair and non-partisan manner, providing 
        the same consideration and right of access to 
        classified Committee holdings to Members and Committee 
        personnel from both the majority and minority parties.

Section 2. Appropriate Committee Space; Access to SCIF

        Subsection A. (1) Currently, the Sensitive 
        Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) located in 
        H2-176A Ford House Office Building is the only 
        Committee office area officially designated as secure 
        for the purpose of processing, storing, discussing, 
        transmitting, reproducing or disposing of classified 
        information for the normal course of day-to-day 
        Committee business.
                (2) Any such processing, storing, discussing, 
                transmitting, reproducing or disposing of 
                classified information in the common areas of 
                Committee offices or otherwise outside a SCIF 
                or properly secured area is prohibited, except 
                that 1) classified information may, as deemed 
                appropriate, be displayed, disseminated, and 
                discussed in a Committee hearing room during 
                closed session pursuant to House Rule XI and 
                Committee Rule IV, following a security sweep 
                of the premises, and 2) certain classified 
                materials may, as appropriate, be reviewed and 
                discussed in an appropriately secured area or 
                on a secure phone that has been approved by the 
                Security Officer. Under no circumstances, 
                however, should personnel or Members discuss 
                classified information over unsecured 
                telephones, in public conveyances or places, or 
                in any other manner that permits interception 
                by unauthorized persons.
                (3) This policy applies to documents, material, 
                and information provided to the Committee by 
                congressional or executive branch entities or 
                generated by the Committee in the course of its 
                activities that bear a classification of 
                Confidential, Secret or Top Secret, including 
                all codeword and special access classified 
                information.
                (4) Electronic communication devices (including 
                but not limited to BlackBerries, cellular 
                phones, PDAs and/or pagers) cannot be taken 
                into the SCIF. Committee personnel will make 
                arrangements for the proper safekeeping of such 
                devices outside the meeting room.

        Subsection B. The Security Officer will arrange for the 
        House Identification cards of the Majority and Minority 
        Staff Directors, the Chief Clerk, and the Intelligence, 
        Information Sharing and Terrorism Risk Assessment 
        Subcommittee Majority and Minority Directors to unlock 
        and access the SCIF during working hours. Access to the 
        SCIF will include the ability to access and use the 
        equipment, technology, and resources (e.g. designated 
        safe(s), STE, and classified computer(s)) located in 
        the SCIF. Any additional Committee staff SCIF ID access 
        requests must be approved by the Majority Staff 
        Director or Minority Staff Director. These individuals 
        will also be provided individual access to the 
        Committee's classified computer system for the creation 
        and storage of classified Committee documents.

        Subsection C. The Security Officer shall be provided as 
        much advance notice as possible of any classified 
        briefings scheduled to occur in the SCIF. The Security 
        Officer shall be given a list, at least twenty-four 
        hours in advance, of all Members and Committee staff, 
        detailees, and fellows attending a briefing in the 
        SCIF.

Sections 3. Persons Eligible to Access Classified Committee 
Holdings

        Subsection A. Access to classified Committee holdings 
        are limited to Members of Congress and Committee 
        personnel with appropriate security clearances and a 
        need-to-know, as determined by the Chairman and Ranking 
        Minority Member and under the direction of the Majority 
        and Minority Staff Directors. Before a Member or 
        Committee personnel may have access to classified 
        information, they must sign the Oath for Access to 
        Classified Information in accordance with Committee 
        Rule XIV(E) and Clause 13 of House Rule XXIII.

        Subsection B. Non-Committee Members having a need to 
        know, as determined by the Chairman and Ranking Member, 
        may access Committee holdings only if they have 
        complied with Clause 13 of House Rule XXIII. The 
        Chairman, in consultation with the Ranking Member, may 
        place additional restrictions on non-Committee Member 
        access to the Committee's classified committee holdings 
        as appropriate and necessary.

Section 4. Requests for Classified Materials to Be Delivered to 
the Committee

        SubSection A. The Security Officer shall be responsible 
        for processing and logging all requests to other 
        agencies or branches of the U.S. Government for 
        classified material to be delivered to the Committee. 
        Only the Security Officer is authorized to officially 
        process requests for classified material to be 
        delivered to the Committee.

        Subsection B. Only the Security Officer and the Clerk 
        of the Committee shall be authorized to accept 
        classified holdings delivered to the Committee. In the 
        event a staff member inadvertently receives or opens an 
        envelope containing classified material, the individual 
        will not open the inner, marked envelope but shall 
        immediately report the receipt of the envelope to the 
        Committee Security Officer and await instructions.

        Subsection C. When Committee personnel request written, 
        classified material from an agency in the normal course 
        of Committee business, that person shall notify the 
        Security Officer immediately of the request, so that a 
        formal written request can be sent on behalf of the 
        Committee. If the material requested is of an urgent 
        nature, the staffer shall notify of the Security 
        Officer of that fact. The delivery, acceptance, and 
        access to the requested material shall not be delayed 
        pending the written request. For all materials that are 
        deemed urgent, the Security Officer shall provide 
        notice to the requesting staffer and the appropriate 
        Staff Director upon receipt of the materials. 
        Notification for all other materials delivered to the 
        Committee shall be handled in accordance with Section 
        6, Subsection E.

Section 5. Requests for Review of Classified Holdings in the 
SCIF.

        Subsection A. All efforts to accommodate requests for 
        review of classified Committee holdings in the SCIF 
        will be made during work hours (9am-6pm). If after-
        hours access is necessary, the relevant staff member 
        shall notify the Security Officer and appropriate Staff 
        Director in a timely manner to arrange for authorized 
        personnel to be present, in accordance with Section 8 
        below. If the Security Officer is not available to 
        accommodate a request, whether during business or 
        after-hours, Section 7 below shall govern.

        Subsection B. Committee Members directly seeking to 
        review classified Committee holdings should contact the 
        Majority Staff Director or Minority Staff Director and 
        identify the specific Committee holdings requested for 
        review. Committee Member requests shall be treated as a 
        priority and all reasonable requests shall be 
        accommodated, as allowed by law, executive order, and 
        rules and policies of the House and the Committee.

        Subsection C. Non-Committee Members directly seeking to 
        review classified Committee holdings should contact the 
        Majority Staff Director or Minority Staff Director and 
        identify the specific Committee holdings requested for 
        review. Such requests shall be accommodated, so long as 
        they do not interfere with requests from Committee 
        Members and the non-Committee Members need to know is 
        determined by the Chairman and Ranking Member. In order 
        to access a specific holding, non-Committee Members 
        must sign a Member Access Information Sheet identifying 
        the material and the time of arrival and departure of 
        Members requesting access to classified information. 
        The Security Officer, or a designated appropriately 
        cleared Committee staff member will be present while a 
        non-Committee Member reviews classified information. 
        The Security Officer will maintain the signed Member 
        Access Information Sheet.

        Subsection D. (1) All Committee staff members will 
        inform the Security Officer in a timely fashion and 
        provide a brief explanation of his/her ``need-to-know'' 
        when requesting specific Committee holdings.
                        (2) If a Committee staff member is 
                        searching for holdings on a specific 
                        subject area, the Security Officer will 
                        be responsible for promptly informing 
                        that personnel of all the relevant 
                        holdings in the Committee's possession.
                        (3) General requests to browse the 
                        classified inventory holdings from 
                        Committee personnel will not be 
                        granted, though the Majority and 
                        Minority Staff Directors may designate 
                        a specific individual on each of their 
                        staffs to periodically review the 
                        inventory list in furtherance of 
                        Committee business.

        Subsection E. The Security Officer will keep all 
        requests for access to specific classified material 
        confidential and not share any requests with any other 
        Committee Members or personnel, except where it is 
        necessary for the Security Officer to consult with 
        relevant Staff Directors to resolve any concerns with 
        the request

Section 6. Review of Classified Committee Holdings.

        Subsection A. (1). It is expected that the storage, 
        production, reproduction, discussion, or review of 
        classified committee holdings will occur in the 
        Committee's SCIF. Any such storage, production, 
        reproduction, discussion, or review of classified 
        information in the common areas of Committee offices or 
        otherwise outside a SCIF or properly secured area is 
        prohibited, except that 1) classified information may, 
        as deemed appropriate, be displayed, disseminated, and 
        discussed in a Committee hearing room during closed 
        session pursuant to House Rule XI and Committee Rule 
        IV, following a security sweep of the premises, and 2) 
        certain classified materials may, as appropriate, be 
        reviewed and discussed in an appropriately secured area 
        or on a secure phone that has been approved by the 
        Security Officer. Under no circumstances, however, 
        should personnel or Members discuss classified 
        information over unsecured telephones, in public 
        conveyances or places, or in any other manner that 
        permits interception by unauthorized persons.
                        (2) In any event, no classified 
                        Committee document will be removed from 
                        the SCIF without the prior approval of 
                        the Security Officer, in consultation 
                        with the appropriate Staff Director(s). 
                        Proper handling procedures must be 
                        demonstrated and chain of custody 
                        established prior to releasing such 
                        documents. It is understood that if 
                        classified committee holdings are 
                        approved for removal from the SCIF, the 
                        rooms where the classified material is 
                        reviewed or discussed shall be secured 
                        to the extent practicable to 
                        accommodate the classification level of 
                        the most sensitive material being 
                        handled.
                        (3) This policy applies to documents, 
                        material, and information provided to 
                        the Committee by congressional or 
                        executive branch entities that bear a 
                        classification of Confidential, Secret 
                        or Top Secret, including all codeword 
                        and special access classified 
                        information.

        Subsection B. If documents are improperly removed from 
        the SCIF, the Majority Staff Director shall be 
        notified. If the matter involves the removal of 
        documents by a minority staff member, the Minority 
        Staff Director shall also be consulted.

        Subsection C. No reproduction or recordings may be made 
        of any portion of the classified information reviewed 
        by Members or Committee staff. Any notes containing 
        classified information must be maintained within the 
        SCIF.

        Subsection D. Classified documents newly created within 
        the SCIF or during closed session pursuant to Rule XI 
        and Committee Rule IV shall be marked according to the 
        highest level of classification contained in the 
        documents or testimony from which they originated. They 
        are also Committee holdings and must be treated as such 
        in accordance with Committee rules. The Majority and 
        Minority Staff Directors will be the only personnel to 
        classify such documents; their respective approval is 
        required.

        Subsection E. A once weekly unclassified notice of 
        newly arrived documents shall be sent to the Majority 
        and Minority Staff Directors. As appropriate, the 
        Security Officer shall also notify the relevant Staff 
        Director(s) if any documents were requested by specific 
        Committee personnel. In addition, the Majority and 
        Minority Staff Directors shall assign an individual 
        from each of their respective offices to review the 
        Committee's inventory every December with the Security 
        Officer.

Section 7. Use of the STE in the SCIF
        Any requests for accessing the STE shall be made to the 
        Security Officer in a timely fashion. All efforts to 
        accommodate requests will be made during work hours 
        (9am-6pm). If after-hours access is necessary, the 
        relevant staff member shall notify the Security Officer 
        and appropriate Staff Director in a timely manner to 
        arrange for authorized personnel to be present.

Section 8. Procedures for When the Security Officer is 
Unavailable/Out of the Office

        Subsection A. If a staff member has contacted the 
        Security Officer and the Officer is out of the office 
        or unavailable to provide access to the specific 
        holdings in a reasonable timeframe, then the requesting 
        staff member may inform the Majority or Minority Staff 
        Director of his or her ``need to know'' and the 
        respective Staff Director may approve access to the 
        specific holdings.

        Subsection B. If approved, the staff member shall be 
        accompanied by the Clerk of the Committee or other 
        designated staff member, who shall provide access to 
        the SCIF and the classified holding in question. Only 
        the specified classified holding may be reviewed.

        Subsection C. The accompanying staff member shall be 
        required to complete a Committee Personnel Access 
        Sheet, identifying the material and the time of arrival 
        and departure of the reviewing staff member and 
        attesting that the Committee's security and access 
        control policy was adhered to during the access and 
        review of the holding. Such sheet shall be left with 
        the Clerk's Office immediately after the accompanying 
        staff member leaves the SCIF.

        Subsection D. In addition, if the staff member approved 
        for access is a minority staff member, the Minority 
        Staff Director shall notify the Majority Staff Director 
        that access has been approved and the staff member 
        should be allowed in the Majority offices to enter the 
        SCIF. If the request is for an after-hours review, the 
        Majority Staff Director will provide reasonable 
        accommodation and a majority staff member to escort the 
        staff member(s) in and out of the majority offices to 
        enter the SCIF.

Section 9. Procedures for Classified Hearings and Briefings

        Subsection A. Classified hearings and briefings shall 
        be limited to Committee Members and Committee staff 
        members with appropriate security clearance and a need-
        to-know, as determined by the Chairman and Ranking 
        Minority Member and under the direction of the Majority 
        and Minority Staff Directors. If appropriate and 
        necessary, the Chairman and Ranking Minority Member may 
        agree to make exceptions on a case-by-case basis to 
        allow attendance by appropriately cleared non-Committee 
        staff and Members with a need-to-know. All such 
        individuals allowed this exception must be in 
        compliance with all Committee and House rules regarding 
        access to information.

        SubSection B. Requests by Committee personnel to attend 
        classified hearings or briefings held in secure areas 
        of other committees will also be governed by the 
        security procedures of the relevant committee. Requests 
        for access to such meetings will be made no later than 
        close of business the day before the event.

        Subsection C. If Committee personnel organize a 
        classified briefing, meeting, or hearing for a space 
        outside of the Committee's offices, he/she shall notify 
        the Security Officer as soon as possible. The Security 
        Officer shall be responsible for assuring that 
        clearances are passed and arrangements are made for 
        such classified briefing or hearing.

        Subsection D. No classified material provided at a 
        hearing, briefing or meeting may be removed from the 
        meeting room, except as provided in Subsection D of 
        this Section.

        Subsection E. Any classified notes made by a Member or 
        staff during a classified hearing, briefing, or meeting 
        must be provided to Security Officer for secure storage 
        or proper disposal. If such classified hearing, 
        briefing, or meeting occurs in a secure setting outside 
        the Committee's offices, notes and materials may be 
        transported in an appropriate secure fashion to the 
        Committee offices for secure storage or proper disposal 
        by the Security Officer. For each such hearing, 
        briefing, and meeting, the Majority and Minority Staff 
        Directors shall each designate an appropriately cleared 
        staff member to handle the transportation of such 
        materials to the Security Officer.
Section 10. Committee Staff Clearances--Eligibility and 
Processing

        Subsection A. It is expected that all Committee 
        personnel shall apply for a security clearance, the 
        type of which shall be determined by the Majority and 
        Minority Staff Directors, respectively. Exceptions may 
        be determined necessary or appropriate by the Majority 
        and Minority Staff Director.

        Subsection B. The Security Officer, upon being notified 
        by the Majority or Minority Staff Director that a 
        Committee staff member is in need of a clearance, shall 
        promptly facilitate the application and processing of 
        that staff member's clearance. The Security Officer 
        shall keep the staffer informed throughout the 
        clearance process, and, if problems arise, inform the 
        appropriate Staff Director.

        Subsection C. On a monthly basis, the Security Officer 
        shall notify the Majority and Minority Staff Director 
        of the status of the security clearance reviews for 
        their respective Committee personnel.

Section 11. Violations of the Policy
    The Chairman shall immediately consider disciplinary action 
in the event any Committee Member or member of the Committee 
staff fails to conform to this policy. Such disciplinary action 
may include, but shall not be limited to, immediate dismissal 
from the Committee staff, criminal referral to the Justice 
Department, and notification of the Speaker of the House. With 
respect to a Minority staffer, the Chairman shall consider such 
disciplinary action in consultation with the Ranking Minority 
Member.

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                  APPLICABLE PROVISIONS OF HOUSE RULES

                                 RULES

                                for the

                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                       ONE HUNDRED TENTH CONGRESS

                    (May 24, 2007)

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                             RULE VII

                          Records of the House

Archiving
        1.  (a) At the end of each Congress, the chairman of 
        each committee shall transfer to the Clerk any 
        noncurrent records of such committee, including the 
        subcommittees thereof.
                (b) At the end of each Congress, each officer 
                of the House elected under rule II shall 
                transfer to the Clerk any noncurrent records 
                made or acquired in the course of the duties of 
                such officer.
        2. The Clerk shall deliver the records transferred 
        under clause 1, together with any other noncurrent 
        records of the House, to the Archivist of the United 
        States for preservation at the National Archives and 
        Records Administration. Records so delivered are the 
        permanent property of the House and remain subject to 
        this rule and any order of the House.

Public availability
        3.  (a) The Clerk shall authorize the Archivist to make 
        records delivered under clause 2 available for public 
        use, subject to clause 4(b) and any order of the House.
                (b)(1) A record shall immediately be made 
                available if it was previously made available 
                for public use by the House or a committee or a 
                subcommittee.
                        (2) An investigative record that 
                        contains personal data relating to a 
                        specific living person (the disclosure 
                        of which would be an unwarranted 
                        invasion of personal privacy), an 
                        administrative record relating to 
                        personnel, or a record relating to a 
                        hearing that was closed under clause 
                        2(g)(2) of rule XI shall be made 
                        available if it has been in existence 
                        for 50 years.
                        (3) A record for which a time, 
                        schedule, or condition for availability 
                        is specified by order of the House 
                        shall be made available in accordance 
                        with that order. Except as otherwise 
                        provided by order of the House, a 
                        record of a committee for which a time, 
                        schedule, or condition for availability 
                        is specified by order of the committee 
                        (entered during the Congress in which 
                        the record is made or acquired by the 
                        committee) shall be made available in 
                        accordance with the order of the 
                        committee.
                        (4) A record (other than a record 
                        referred to in subparagraph (1), (2), 
                        or (3) shall be made available if it 
                        has been in existence for 30 years.
        4.  (a) A record may not be made available for public 
        use under clause 3 if the Clerk determines that such 
        availability would be detrimental to the public 
        interest or inconsistent with the rights and privileges 
        of the House. The Clerk shall notify in writing the 
        chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee 
        on House Administration of any such determination.
                (b) A determination of the Clerk under 
                paragraph (a) is subject to later orders of the 
                House and, in the case of a record of a 
                committee, later orders of the committee.
        5.  (a) This rule does not supersede rule VIII or 
        clause 11 of rule X and does not authorize the public 
        disclosure of any record if such disclosure is 
        prohibited by law or executive order of the President.
                (b) The Committee on House Administration may 
                prescribe guidelines and regulations governing 
                the applicability and implementation of this 
                rule.
                (c) A committee may withdraw from the National 
                Archives and Records Administration any record 
                of the committee delivered to the Archivist 
                under this rule. Such a withdrawal shall be on 
                a temporary basis and for official use of the 
                committee.

Definition of record
        6.  In this rule the term ``record'' means any 
        official, permanent record of the House (other than a 
        record of an individual Member, Delegate, or Resident 
        Commissioner), including--
                (a) with respect to a committee, an official, 
                permanent record of the committee (including 
                any record of a legislative, oversight, or 
                other activity of such committee or a 
                subcommittee thereof); and
                (b) with respect to an officer of the House 
                elected under rule II, an official, permanent 
                record made or acquired in the course of the 
                duties of such officer.

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Withdrawal of papers
        7. A memorial or other paper presented to the House may 
        not be withdrawn from its files without its leave. If 
        withdrawn certified copies thereof shall be left in the 
        office of the Clerk. When an act passes for the 
        settlement of a claim, the Clerk may transmit to the 
        officer charged with the settlement thereof the papers 
        on file in his office relating to such claim. The Clerk 
        may lend temporarily to an officer or bureau of the 
        executive departments any papers on file in his office 
        relating to any matter pending before such officer or 
        bureau, taking proper receipt therefore.

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                                 RULE X

                       Organization of Committees

Committees and their legislative jurisdictions
        1. There shall be in the House the following standing 
        committees, each of which shall have the jurisdiction 
        and related functions assigned by this clause and 
        clauses 2, 3, and 4. All bills, resolutions, and other 
        matters relating to subjects within the jurisdiction of 
        the standing committees listed in this clause shall be 
        referred to those committees, in accordance with clause 
        2 of rule XII, as follows:

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                (i) Committee on Homeland Security.
                        (1) Overall homeland security policy.
                        (2) Organization and administration of 
                        the Department of Homeland Security.
                        (3) Functions of the Department of 
                        Homeland Security relating to the 
                        following:
                                (A) Border and port security 
                                (except immigration policy and 
                                non-border enforcement).
                                (B) Customs (except customs 
                                revenue).
                                (C) Integration, analysis, and 
                                dissemination of homeland 
                                security information.
                                (D) Domestic preparedness for 
                                and collective response to 
                                terrorism.
                                (E) Research and development.
                                (F) Transportation security.

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General oversight responsibilities
        2. (a) The various standing committees shall have 
        general oversight responsibilities as provided in 
        paragraph (b) in order to assist the House in--
                        (1) its analysis, appraisal, and 
                        evaluation of--
                                (A) the application, 
                                administration, execution, and 
                                effectiveness of Federal laws; 
                                and
                                (B) conditions and 
                                circumstances that may indicate 
                                the necessity or desirability 
                                of enacting new or additional 
                                legislation; and
                        (2) its formulation, consideration, and 
                        enactment of changes in Federal laws, 
                        and of such additional legislation as 
                        may be necessary or appropriate.
                (b)(1) In order to determine whether laws and 
                programs addressing subjects within the 
                jurisdiction of a committee are being 
                implemented and carried out in accordance with 
                the intent of Congress and whether they should 
                be continued, curtailed, or eliminated, each 
                standing committee (other than the Committee on 
                Appropriations) shall review and study on a 
                continuing basis--
                                (A) the application, 
                                administration, execution, and 
                                effectiveness of laws and 
                                programs addressing subjects 
                                within its jurisdiction;
                                (B) the organization and 
                                operation of Federal agencies 
                                and entities having 
                                responsibilities for the 
                                administration and execution of 
                                laws and programs addressing 
                                subjects within its 
                                jurisdiction;
                                (C) any conditions or 
                                circumstances that may indicate 
                                the necessity or desirability 
                                of enacting new or additional 
                                legislation addressing subjects 
                                within its jurisdiction 
                                (whether or not a bill or 
                                resolution has been introduced 
                                with respect thereto); and
                                (D) future research and 
                                forecasting on subjects within 
                                its jurisdiction.
                        (2) Each committee to which 
                        subparagraph (1) applies having more 
                        than 20 members shall establish an 
                        oversight subcommittee, or require its 
                        subcommittees to conduct oversight in 
                        their respective jurisdictions, to 
                        assist in carrying out its 
                        responsibilities under this clause. The 
                        establishment of an oversight 
                        subcommittee does not limit the 
                        responsibility of a subcommittee with 
                        legislative jurisdiction in carrying 
                        out its oversight responsibilities.
                (c) Each standing committee shall review and 
                study on a continuing basis the impact or 
                probable impact of tax policies affecting 
                subjects within its jurisdiction as described 
                in clauses 1 and 3.
                (d)(1) Not later than February 15 of the first 
                session of a Congress, each standing committee 
                shall, in a meeting that is open to the public 
                and with a quorum present, adopt its oversight 
                plan for that Congress. Such plan shall be 
                submitted simultaneously to the Committee on 
                Oversight and Government Reform and to the 
                Committee on House Administration. In 
                developing its plan each committee shall, to 
                the maximum extent feasible--
                                (A) consult with other 
                                committees that have 
                                jurisdiction over the same or 
                                related laws, programs, or 
                                agencies within its 
                                jurisdiction with the objective 
                                of ensuring maximum 
                                coordination and cooperation 
                                among committees when 
                                conducting reviews of such 
                                laws, programs, or agencies and 
                                include in its plan an 
                                explanation of steps that have 
                                been or will be taken to ensure 
                                such coordination and 
                                cooperation;
                                (B) review specific problems 
                                with Federal rules, 
                                regulations, statutes, and 
                                court decisions that are 
                                ambiguous, arbitrary, or 
                                nonsensical, or that impose 
                                severe financial burdens on 
                                individuals;
                                (C) give priority consideration 
                                to including in its plan the 
                                review of those laws, programs, 
                                or agencies operating under 
                                permanent budget authority or 
                                permanent statutory authority;
                                (D) have a view toward ensuring 
                                that all significant laws, 
                                programs, or agencies within 
                                its jurisdiction are subject to 
                                review every 10 years; and
                                (E) have a view toward insuring 
                                against duplication of Federal 
                                programs.
                        (2) Not later than March 31 in the 
                        first session of a Congress, after 
                        consultation with the Speaker, the 
                        Majority Leader, and the Minority 
                        Leader, the Committee on Oversight and 
                        Government Reform shall report to the 
                        House the oversight plans submitted by 
                        committees together with any 
                        recommendations that it, or the House 
                        leadership group described above, may 
                        make to ensure the most effective 
                        coordination of oversight plans and 
                        otherwise to achieve the objectives of 
                        this clause.
                (e) The Speaker, with the approval of the 
                House, may appoint special ad hoc oversight 
                committees for the purpose of reviewing 
                specific matters within the jurisdiction of two 
                or more standing committees.

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Special oversight functions
        3. (g) The Committee on Homeland Security shall review 
        and study on a continuing basis all Government 
        activities relating to homeland security, including the 
        interaction of all departments and agencies with the 
        Department of Homeland Security.

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Additional functions of committees
        4. (e)(1) Each standing committee shall, in its 
        consideration of all public bills and public joint 
        resolutions within its jurisdiction, ensure that 
        appropriations for continuing programs and activities 
        of the Federal Government and the government of the 
        District of Columbia will be made annually to the 
        maximum extent feasible and consistent with the nature, 
        requirement, and objective of the programs and 
        activities involved. In this subparagraph programs and 
        activities of the Federal Government and the government 
        of the District of Columbia includes programs and 
        activities of any department, agency, establishment, 
        wholly owned Government corporation, or instrumentality 
        of the Federal Government or of the government of the 
        District of Columbia.
                        (2) Each standing committee shall 
                        review from time to time each 
                        continuing program within its 
                        jurisdiction for which appropriations 
                        are not made annually to ascertain 
                        whether the program should be modified 
                        to provide for annual appropriations.

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Budget Act responsibilities
        4. (f)(1) Each standing committee shall submit to the 
        Committee on the Budget not later than six weeks after 
        the President submits his budget, or at such time as 
        the Committee on the Budget may request--
                                (A) its views and estimates 
                                with respect to all matters to 
                                be set forth in the concurrent 
                                resolution on the budget for 
                                the ensuing fiscal year that 
                                are within its jurisdiction or 
                                functions; and
                                (B) an estimate of the total 
                                amounts of new budget 
                                authority, and budget outlays 
                                resulting therefrom, to be 
                                provided or authorized in all 
                                bills and resolutions within 
                                its jurisdiction that it 
                                intends to be effective during 
                                that fiscal year.
                        (2) The views and estimates submitted 
                        by the Committee on Ways and Means 
                        under subparagraph (1) shall include a 
                        specific recommendation, made after 
                        holding public hearings, as to the 
                        appropriate level of the public debt 
                        that should be set forth in the 
                        concurrent resolution on the budget.

Election and membership of standing committees
        5. (a)(1) The standing committees specified in clause 1 
        shall be elected by the House within seven calendar 
        days after the commencement of each Congress, from 
        nominations submitted by the respective party caucus or 
        conference. A resolution proposing to change the 
        composition of a standing committee shall be privileged 
        if offered by direction of the party caucus or 
        conference concerned.
                (b)(1) Membership on a standing committee 
                during the course of a Congress shall be 
                contingent on continuing membership in the 
                party caucus or conference that nominated the 
                Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner 
                concerned for election to such committee. 
                Should a Member, Delegate, or Resident 
                Commissioner cease to be a member of a 
                particular party caucus or conference, that 
                Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner 
                shall automatically cease to be a member of 
                each standing committee to which he was elected 
                on the basis of nomination by that caucus or 
                conference. The chairman of the relevant party 
                caucus or conference shall notify the Speaker 
                whenever a Member, Delegate, or Resident 
                Commissioner ceases to be a member of that 
                caucus or conference. The Speaker shall notify 
                the chairman of each affected committee that 
                the election of such Member, Delegate, or 
                Resident Commissioner to the committee is 
                automatically vacated under this subparagraph.
                        (2) (A) Except as specified in 
                        subdivision (B), a Member, Delegate, or 
                        Resident Commissioner may not serve 
                        simultaneously as a member of more than 
                        two standing committees or more than 
                        four subcommittees of the standing 
                        committees.
                                (B) (i) Ex officio service by a 
                                chairman or ranking minority 
                                member of a committee on each 
                                of its subcommittees under a 
                                committee rule does not count 
                                against the limitation on 
                                subcommittee service.
                                        (ii) Service on an 
                                        investigative 
                                        subcommittee of the 
                                        Committee on Standards 
                                        of Official Conduct 
                                        under paragraph (a)(4) 
                                        does not count against 
                                        the limitation on 
                                        subcommittee service.
                                        (iii) Any other 
                                        exception to the 
                                        limitations in 
                                        subdivision (A) may be 
                                        approved by the House 
                                        on the recommendation 
                                        of the relevant party 
                                        caucus or conference.
                                (C) In this subparagraph the 
                                term ``subcommittee'' includes 
                                a panel (other than a special 
                                oversight panel of the 
                                Committee on Armed Services), 
                                task force, special 
                                subcommittee, or other subunit 
                                of a standing committee that is 
                                established for a cumulative 
                                period longer than six months 
                                in a Congress.
                (c)(1) One of the members of each standing 
                committee shall be elected by the House, on the 
                nomination of the majority party caucus or 
                conference, as chairman thereof. In the 
                temporary absence of the chairman, the member 
                next in rank (and so on, as often as the case 
                shall happen) shall act as chairman. Rank shall 
                be determined by the order members are named in 
                resolutions electing them to the committee. In 
                the case of a permanent vacancy in the elected 
                chairmanship of a committee, the House shall 
                elect another chairman.
                        (2) Except in the case of the Committee 
                        on Rules, a member of a standing 
                        committee may not serve as chairman of 
                        the same standing committee, or of the 
                        same subcommittee of a standing 
                        committee, during more than three 
                        consecutive Congresses (disregarding 
                        for this purpose any service for less 
                        than a full session in a Congress).
                (d)(1) Except as permitted by subparagraph (2), 
                a committee may have not more than five 
                subcommittees.
                        (2) A committee that maintains a 
                        subcommittee on oversight may have not 
                        more than six subcommittees. The 
                        Committee on Appropriations may have 
                        not more than 13 subcommittees. The 
                        Committee on Oversight and Government 
                        Reform may have not more than seven 
                        subcommittees.
                (e) The House shall fill a vacancy on a 
                standing committee by election on the 
                nomination of the respective party caucus or 
                conference.

Expense resolutions
        6. (a) Whenever a committee, commission, or other 
        entity (other than the Committee on Appropriations) is 
        granted authorization for the payment of its expenses 
        (including staff salaries) for a Congress, such 
        authorization initially shall be procured by one 
        primary expense resolution reported by the Committee on 
        House Administration. A primary expense resolution may 
        include a reserve fund for unanticipated expenses of 
        committees. An amount from such a reserve fund may be 
        allocated to a committee only by the approval of the 
        Committee on House Administration. A primary expense 
        resolution reported to the House may not be considered 
        in the House unless a printed report thereon was 
        available on the previous calendar day. For the 
        information of the House, such report shall--
                        (1) state the total amount of the funds 
                        to be provided to the committee, 
                        commission, or other entity under the 
                        primary expense resolution for all 
                        anticipated activities and programs of 
                        the committee, commission, or other 
                        entity; and
                        (2) to the extent practicable, contain 
                        such general statements regarding the 
                        estimated foreseeable expendi tures for 
                        the respective anticipated activities 
                        and programs of the committee, 
                        commission, or other entity as may be 
                        appropriate to provide the House with 
                        basic estimates of the expenditures 
                        contemplated by the primary expense 
                        resolution.
                (b) After the date of adoption by the House of 
                a primary expense resolution for a committee, 
                commission, or other entity for a Congress, 
                authorization for the payment of additional 
                expenses (including staff salaries) in that 
                Congress may be procured by one or more 
                supplemental expense resolutions reported by 
                the Committee on House Administration, as 
                necessary. A supplemental expense resolution 
                reported to the House may not be considered in 
                the House unless a printed report thereon was 
                available on the previous calendar day. For the 
                information of the House, such report shall--
                        (1) state the total amount of 
                        additional funds to be provided to the 
                        committee, commission, or other entity 
                        under the supplemental expense 
                        resolution and the purposes for which 
                        those additional funds are available; 
                        and
                        (2) state the reasons for the failure 
                        to procure the additional funds for the 
                        committee, commission, or other entity 
                        by means of the primary expense 
                        resolution.
                (c) The preceding provisions of this clause do 
                not apply to--
                        (1) a resolution providing for the 
                        payment from committee salary and 
                        expense accounts of the House of sums 
                        necessary to pay compensation for staff 
                        services performed for, or to pay other 
                        expenses of, a committee, commission, 
                        or other entity at any time after the 
                        beginning of an odd numbered year and 
                        before the date of adoption by the 
                        House of the primary expense resolution 
                        described in paragraph (a) for that 
                        year; or
                        (2) a resolution providing each of the 
                        standing committees in a Congress 
                        additional office equipment, airmail 
                        and special-delivery postage stamps, 
                        supplies, staff personnel, or any other 
                        specific item for the operation of the 
                        standing committees, and containing an 
                        authorization for the payment from 
                        committee salary and expense accounts 
                        of the House of the expenses of any of 
                        the foregoing items provided by that 
                        resolution, subject to and until 
                        enactment of the provisions of the 
                        resolution as permanent law.
                (d) From the funds made available for the 
                appointment of committee staff by a primary or 
                additional expense resolution, the chairman of 
                each committee shall ensure that sufficient 
                staff is made available to each subcommittee to 
                carry out its responsibilities under the rules 
                of the committee and that the minority party is 
                treated fairly in the appointment of such 
                staff.
                (e) Funds authorized for a committee under this 
                clause and clauses 7 and 8 are for expenses 
                incurred in the activities of the committee.

Interim funding
        7. (a) For the period beginning at noon on January 3 
        and ending at midnight on March 31 in each odd-numbered 
        year, such sums as may be necessary shall be paid out 
        of the committee salary and expense accounts of the 
        House for continuance of necessary investigations and 
        studies by--
                        (1) each standing and select committee 
                        established by these rules; and
                        (2) except as specified in paragraph 
                        (b), each select committee established 
                        by resolution.
                (b) In the case of the first session of a 
                Congress, amounts shall be made available for a 
                select committee established by resolution in 
                the preceding Congress only if--
                        (1) a resolution proposing to 
                        reestablish such select committee is 
                        introduced in the present Congress; and
                        (2) the House has not adopted a 
                        resolution of the preceding Congress 
                        providing for termination of funding 
                        for investigations and studies by such 
                        select committee.
                (c) Each committee described in paragraph (a) 
                shall be entitled for each month during the 
                period specified in paragraph (a) to 9 percent 
                (or such lesser percentage as may be determined 
                by the Committee on House Administration) of 
                the total annualized amount made available 
                under expense resolutions for such committee in 
                the preceding session of Congress.
                (d) Payments under this clause shall be made on 
                vouchers authorized by the committee involved, 
                signed by the chairman of the committee, except 
                as provided in paragraph (e), and approved by 
                the Committee on House Administration.
                (e) Notwithstanding any provision of law, rule 
                of the House, or other authority, from noon on 
                January 3 of the first session of a Congress 
                until the election by the House of the 
                committee concerned in that Congress, payments 
                under this clause shall be made on vouchers 
                signed by--
                        (1) the member of the committee who 
                        served as chairman of the committee at 
                        the expiration of the preceding 
                        Congress; or
                        (2) if the chairman is not a Member, 
                        Delegate, or Resident Commissioner in 
                        the present Congress, then the ranking 
                        member of the committee as it was 
                        constituted at the expiration of the 
                        preceding Congress who is a member of 
                        the majority party in the present 
                        Congress.
                (f)(1) The authority of a committee to incur 
                expenses under this clause shall expire upon 
                adoption by the House of a primary expense 
                resolution for the committee.
                        (2) Amounts made available under this 
                        clause shall be expended in accordance 
                        with regulations prescribed by the 
                        Committee on House Administration.
                        (3) This clause shall be effective only 
                        insofar as it is not inconsistent with 
                        a resolution reported by the Committee 
                        on House Administration and adopted by 
                        the House after the adoption of these 
                        rules.
Travel
        8. (a) Local currencies owned by the United States 
        shall be made available to the committee and its 
        employees engaged in carrying out their official duties 
        outside the United States or its territories or 
        possessions. Appropriated funds, including those 
        authorized under this clause and clauses 6 and 8, may 
        not be expended for the purpose of defraying expenses 
        of members of a committee or its employees in a country 
        where local currencies are available for this purpose.
                (b) The following conditions shall apply with 
                respect to travel outside the United States or 
                its territories or possessions:
                        (1) A member or employee of a committee 
                        may not receive or expend local 
                        currencies for subsistence in a country 
                        for a day at a rate in excess of the 
                        maximum per diem set forth in 
                        applicable Federal law.
                        (2) A member or employee shall be 
                        reimbursed for his expenses for a day 
                        at the lesser of--
                                (A) the per diem set forth in 
                                applicable Federal law; or
                                (B) the actual, unreimbursed 
                                expenses (other than for 
                                transportation) he incurred 
                                during that day.
                        (3) Each member or employee of a 
                        committee shall make to the chairman of 
                        the committee an itemized report 
                        showing the dates each country was 
                        visited, the amount of per diem 
                        furnished, the cost of transportation 
                        furnished, and funds expended for any 
                        other official purpose and shall 
                        summarize in these categories the total 
                        foreign currencies or appropriated 
                        funds expended. Each report shall be 
                        filed with the chairman of the 
                        committee not later than 60 days 
                        following the completion of travel for 
                        use in complying with reporting 
                        requirements in applicable Federal law 
                        and shall be open for public 
                        inspection.
                (c)(1) In carrying out the activities of a 
                committee outside the United States in a 
                country where local currencies are unavailable, 
                a member or employee of a committee may not 
                receive reimbursement for expenses (other than 
                for transportation) in excess of the maximum 
                per diem set forth in applicable Federal law.
                        (2) A member or employee shall be 
                        reimbursed for his expenses for a day, 
                        at the lesser of--
                                (A) the per diem set forth in 
                                applicable Federal law; or
                                (B) the actual unreimbursed 
                                expenses (other than for 
                                transportation) he incurred 
                                during that day.
                        (3) A member or employee of a committee 
                        may not receive reimbursement for the 
                        cost of any transportation in 
                        connection with travel outside the 
                        United States unless the member or 
                        employee actually paid for the 
                        transportation.
                (d) The restrictions respecting travel outside 
                the United States set forth in paragraph (c) 
                also shall apply to travel outside the United 
                States by a Member, Delegate, Resident 
                Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House 
                authorized under any standing rule.

Committee staffs
        9. (a)(1) Subject to subparagraph (2) and paragraph 
        (f), each standing committee may appoint, by majority 
        vote, not more than 30 professional staff members to be 
        compensated from the funds provided for the appointment 
        of committee staff by primary and additional expense 
        resolutions. Each professional staff member appointed 
        under this subparagraph shall be assigned to the 
        chairman and the ranking minority member of the 
        committee, as the committee considers advisable.
                        (2) Subject to paragraph (f) whenever a 
                        majority of the minority party members 
                        of a standing committee (other than the 
                        Committee on Standards of Official 
                        Conduct or the Permanent Select 
                        Committee on Intelligence) so request, 
                        not more than 10 persons (or one-third 
                        of the total professional committee 
                        staff appointed under this clause, 
                        whichever is fewer) may be selected, by 
                        majority vote of the minority party 
                        members, for appointment by the 
                        committee as professional staff members 
                        under subparagraph (1). The committee 
                        shall appoint persons so selected whose 
                        character and qualifications are 
                        acceptable to a majority of the 
                        committee. If the committee determines 
                        that the character and qualifications 
                        of a person so selected are 
                        unacceptable, a majority of the 
                        minority party members may select 
                        another person for appointment by the 
                        committee to the professional staff 
                        until such appointment is made. Each 
                        professional staff member appointed 
                        under this subparagraph shall be 
                        assigned to such committee business as 
                        the minority party members of the 
                        committee consider advisable.
                (b)(1) The professional staff members of each 
                standing committee--
                                (A) may not engage in any work 
                                other than committee business 
                                during congressional working 
                                hours; and
                                (B) may not be assigned a duty 
                                other than one pertaining to 
                                committee business.
                        (2)(A) Subparagraph (1) does not apply 
                        to staff designated by a committee as 
                        ``associate'' or ``shared'' staff who 
                        are not paid exclusively by the 
                        committee, provided that the chairman 
                        certifies that the compensation paid by 
                        the committee for any such staff is 
                        commensurate with the work performed 
                        for the committee in accordance with 
                        clause 8 of rule XXIII.
                                (B) The use of any 
                                ``associate'' or ``shared'' 
                                staff by a committee other than 
                                the Committee on Appropriations 
                                shall be subject to the review 
                                of, and to any terms, 
                                conditions, or limitations 
                                established by, the Committee 
                                on House Administration in 
                                connection with the reporting 
                                of any primary or additional 
                                expense resolution.
                (c) Each employee on the professional or 
                investigative staff of a standing committee 
                shall be entitled to pay at a single gross per 
                annum rate, to be fixed by the chairman and 
                that does not exceed the maximum rate of pay as 
                in effect from time to time under applicable 
                provisions of law.
                (d) Subject to appropriations hereby 
                authorized, the Committee on Appropriations may 
                appoint by majority vote such staff as it 
                determines to be necessary (in addition to the 
                clerk of the committee and assistants for the 
                minority). The staff appointed under this 
                paragraph, other than minority assistants, 
                shall possess such qualifications as the 
                committee may prescribe.
                (e) A committee may not appoint to its staff an 
                expert or other personnel detailed or assigned 
                from a department or agency of the Government 
                except with the written permission of the 
                Committee on House Administration.
                (f) If a request for the appointment of a 
                minority professional staff member under 
                paragraph (a) is made when no vacancy exists 
                for such an appointment, the committee 
                nevertheless may appoint under paragraph (a) a 
                person selected by the minority and acceptable 
                to the committee. A person so appointed shall 
                serve as an additional member of the 
                professional staff of the committee until such 
                a vacancy occurs (other than a vacancy in the 
                position of head of the professional staff, by 
                whatever title designated), at which time that 
                person is considered as appointed to that 
                vacancy. Such a person shall be paid from the 
                applicable accounts of the House described in 
                clause 1(j)(1) of rule X. If such a vacancy 
                occurs on the professional staff when seven or 
                more persons have been so appointed who are 
                eligible to fill that vacancy, a majority of 
                the minority party members shall designate 
                which of those persons shall fill the vacancy.
                (g) Each staff member appointed pursuant to a 
                request by minority party members under 
                paragraph (a), and each staff member appointed 
                to assist minority members of a committee 
                pursuant to an expense resolution described in 
                clause 6(a), shall be accorded equitable 
                treatment with respect to the fixing of the 
                rate of pay, the assignment of work facilities, 
                and the accessibility of committee records.
                (h) Paragraph (a) may not be construed to 
                authorize the appointment of additional 
                professional staff members of a committee 
                pursuant to a request under paragraph (a) by 
                the minority party members of that committee if 
                10 or more professional staff members provided 
                for in paragraph (a)(1) who are satisfactory to 
                a majority of the minority party members are 
                otherwise assigned to assist the minority party 
                members.
                (i) Notwithstanding paragraph (a)(2), a 
                committee may employ nonpartisan staff, in lieu 
                of or in addition to committee staff designated 
                exclusively for the majority or minority party, 
                by an affirmative vote of a majority of the 
                members of the majority party and of a majority 
                of the members of the minority party.

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                                RULE XI

            Procedures of Committees and Unfinished Business

In general
        1.  (a) (1) (A) The Rules of the House are the rules of 
        its committees and subcommittees so far as applicable.
                                (B) Each subcommittee is a part 
                                of its committee and is subject 
                                to the authority and direction 
                                of that committee and to its 
                                rules, so far as applicable.
                        (2) (A) In a committee or subcommittee
                                        (i) a motion to recess 
                                        from day to day, or to 
                                        recess subject to the 
                                        call of the Chair 
                                        (within 24 hours), 
                                        shall be privileged: 
                                        and
                                        (ii) a motion to 
                                        dispense with the first 
                                        reading (in full) of a 
                                        bill or resolution, if 
                                        printed copies are 
                                        available.
                                (B) A motion accorded privilege 
                                under this usbparagraph shall 
                                be decided without debate.
                (b) (1) Each committee may conduct at any time 
                such investigations and studies as it considers 
                necessary or appropriate in the exercise of its 
                responsibilities under rule X. Subject to the 
                adoption of expense resolutions as required by 
                clause 6 of rule X, each committee may incur 
                expenses, including travel expenses, in 
                connection with such investigations and 
                studies.
                        (2) A proposed investigative or 
                        oversight report shall be considered as 
                        read in committee if it has been 
                        available to the members for at least 
                        24 hours (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, 
                        or legal holidays except when the House 
                        is in session on such a day).
                        (3) A report of an investigation or 
                        study conducted jointly by more than 
                        one committee may be filed jointly, 
                        provided that each of the committees 
                        complies independently with all 
                        requirements for approval and filing of 
                        the report.
                        (4) After an adjournment sine die of 
                        the last regular session of a Congress, 
                        an investigative or oversight report 
                        may be filed with the Clerk at any 
                        time, provided that a member who gives 
                        timely notice of intention to file 
                        supplemental, minority, or additional 
                        views shall be entitled to not less 
                        than seven calendar days in which to 
                        submit such views for inclusion in the 
                        report.
                (c) Each committee may have printed and bound 
                such testimony and other data as may be 
                presented at hearings held by the committee or 
                its subcommittees. All costs of stenographic 
                services and transcripts in connection with a 
                meeting or hearing of a committee shall be paid 
                from the applicable accounts of the House 
                described in clause 1(j)(1) of rule X.
                (d) (1) Each committee shall submit to the 
                House not later than January 2 of each odd-
                numbered year a report on the activities of 
                that committee under this rule and rule X 
                during the Congress ending at noon on January 3 
                of such year.
                        (2) Such report shall include separate 
                        sections summarizing the legislative 
                        and oversight activities of that 
                        committee during that Congress.
                        (3) The oversight section of such 
                        report shall include a summary of the 
                        oversight plans submitted by the 
                        committee under clause 2(d) of rule X, 
                        a summary of the actions taken and 
                        recommendations made with respect to 
                        each such plan, a summary of any 
                        additional oversight activities 
                        undertaken by that committee, and any 
                        recommendations made or actions taken 
                        thereon.
                        (4) After an adjournment sine die of 
                        the last regular session of a Congress, 
                        the chairman of a committee may file an 
                        activities report under subparagraph 
                        (1) with the Clerk at any time and 
                        without approval of the committee, 
                        provided that
                                (A) a copy of the report has 
                                been available to each member 
                                of the committee for at least 
                                seven calendar days; and
                                (B) the report includes any 
                                supplemental, minority, or 
                                additional views submitted by a 
                                member of the committee.
Adoption of written rules
        2. (a)(1) Each standing committee shall adopt written 
        rules governing its procedure. Such rules--
                                (A) shall be adopted in a 
                                meeting that is open to the 
                                public unless the committee, in 
                                open session and with a quorum 
                                present, determines by record 
                                vote that all or part of the 
                                meeting on that day shall be 
                                closed to the public;
                                (B) may not be inconsistent 
                                with the Rules of the House or 
                                with those provisions of law 
                                having the force and effect of 
                                Rules of the House; and
                                (C) shall in any event 
                                incorporate all of the 
                                succeeding provisions of this 
                                clause to the extent 
                                applicable.
                        (2) Each committee shall submit its 
                        rules for publication in the 
                        Congressional Record not later than 30 
                        days after the committee is elected in 
                        each odd-numbered year.
                        (3) A committee may adopt a rule 
                        providing that the chairman be directed 
                        to offer a motion under clause 1 of 
                        rule XXII whenever the chairman 
                        considers it appropriate.

Regular meeting days
                (b) Each standing committee shall establish 
                regular meeting days for the conduct of its 
                business, which shall be not less frequent than 
                monthly. Each such committee shall meet for the 
                consideration of a bill or resolution pending 
                before the committee or the transaction of 
                other committee business on all regular meeting 
                days fixed by the committee unless otherwise 
                provided by written rule adopted by the 
                committee.
Additional and special meetings
                (c)(1) The chairman of each standing committee 
                may call and convene, as he considers 
                necessary, additional and special meetings of 
                the committee for the consideration of a bill 
                or resolution pending before the committee or 
                for the conduct of other committee business, 
                subject to such rules as the committee may 
                adopt. The committee shall meet for such 
                purpose under that call of the chairman.
                        (2) Three or more members of a standing 
                        committee may file in the offices of 
                        the committee a written request that 
                        the chairman call a special meeting of 
                        the committee. Such request shall 
                        specify the measure or matter to be 
                        considered. Immediately upon the filing 
                        of the request, the clerk of the 
                        committee shall notify the chairman of 
                        the filing of the request. If the 
                        chairman does not call the requested 
                        special meeting within three calendar 
                        days after the filing of the request 
                        (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. The written notice shall 
                        specify the date and hour of the 
                        special meeting and the measure or 
                        matter to be considered. 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 and the measure or matter 
                        to be considered. Only the measure or 
                        matter specified in that notice may be 
                        considered at that special meeting.
Temporary absence of chairman
                (d) A member of the majority party on each 
                standing committee or subcommittee thereof 
                shall be designated by the chairman of the full 
                committee as the vice chairman of the committee 
                or subcommittee, as the case may be, and shall 
                preside during the absence of the chairman from 
                any meeting. If the chairman and vice chairman 
                of a committee or subcommittee are not present 
                at any meeting of the committee or 
                subcommittee, the ranking majority member who 
                is present shall preside at that meeting.
Committee records
                (e)(1)(A) Each committee shall keep a complete 
                record of all committee action which shall 
                include--
                                        (i) in the case of a 
                                        meeting or hearing 
                                        transcript, a 
                                        substantially verbatim 
                                        account of remarks 
                                        actually made during 
                                        the proceedings, 
                                        subject only to 
                                        technical, grammatical, 
                                        and typographical 
                                        corrections authorized 
                                        by the person making 
                                        the remarks involved; 
                                        and
                                        (ii) a record of the 
                                        votes on any question 
                                        on which a record vote 
                                        is demanded.
                                (B)(i) Except as provided in 
                                subdivision (B)(ii) and subject 
                                to paragraph (k)(7), the result 
                                of each such record vote shall 
                                be made available by the 
                                committee for inspection by the 
                                public at reasonable times in 
                                its offices. Information so 
                                available for public inspection 
                                shall include a description of 
                                the amendment, motion, order, 
                                or other proposition, the name 
                                of each member voting for and 
                                each member voting against such 
                                amendment, motion, order, or 
                                proposition, and the names of 
                                those members of the committee 
                                present but not voting.
                                        (ii) The result of any 
                                        record vote taken in 
                                        executive session in 
                                        the Committee on 
                                        Standards of Official 
                                        Conduct may not be made 
                                        available for 
                                        inspection by the 
                                        public without an 
                                        affirmative vote of a 
                                        majority of the members 
                                        of the committee.
                        (2)(A) Except as provided in 
                        subdivision (B), all committee 
                        hearings, records, data, charts, and 
                        files shall be kept separate and 
                        distinct from the congressional office 
                        records of the member serving as its 
                        chairman. Such records shall be the 
                        property of the House, and each Member, 
                        Delegate, and the Resident Commissioner 
                        shall have access thereto.
                                (B) A Member, Delegate, or 
                                Resident Commissioner, other 
                                than members of the Committee 
                                on Standards of Official 
                                Conduct, may not have access to 
                                the records of that committee 
                                respecting the conduct of a 
                                Member, Delegate, Resident 
                                Commissioner, officer, or 
                                employee of the House without 
                                the specific prior permission 
                                of that committee.
                        (3) Each committee shall include in its 
                        rules standards for availability of 
                        records of the committee delivered to 
                        the Archivist of the United States 
                        under rule VII. Such standards shall 
                        specify procedures for orders of the 
                        committee under clause 3(b)(3) and 
                        clause 4(b) of rule VII, including a 
                        requirement that nonavailability of a 
                        record for a period longer than the 
                        period otherwise applicable under that 
                        rule shall be approved by vote of the 
                        committee.
                        (4) Each committee shall make its 
                        publications available in electronic 
                        form to the maximum extent feasible.
Resolutions of inquiry
7. A report on a resolution of inquiry addressed to the head of 
an executive department may be filed from the floor as 
privileged. If such a resolution is not reported to the House 
within 14 legislative days after its introduction, a motion to 
discharge a committee from its consideration shall be 
privileged.

Prohibition against proxy voting
                (f) A vote by a member of a committee or 
                subcommittee with respect to any measure or 
                matter may not be cast by proxy.
Open meetings and hearings
                (g)(1) Each meeting for the transaction of 
                business, including the markup of legislation, 
                by a standing committee or subcommittee thereof 
                (other than the Committee on Standards of 
                Official Conduct or its subcommittees) shall be 
                open to the public, including to radio, 
                television, and still photography coverage, 
                except when the committee or subcommittee, in 
                open session and with a majority present, 
                determines by record vote that all or part of 
                the remainder of the meeting on that day shall 
                be in executive session because disclosure of 
                matters to be considered would endanger 
                national security, would compromise sensitive 
                law enforcement information, would tend to 
                defame, degrade, or incriminate any person, or 
                otherwise would violate a law or rule of the 
                House. Persons, other than members of the 
                committee and such noncommittee Members, 
                Delegates, Resident Commissioner, congressional 
                staff, or departmental representatives as the 
                committee may authorize, may not be present at 
                a business or markup session that is held in 
                executive session. This subparagraph does not 
                apply to open committee hearings, which are 
                governed by clause 4(a)(1) of rule X or by 
                subparagraph (2).
                        (2)(A) Each hearing conducted by a 
                        committee or subcommittee (other than 
                        the Committee on Standards of Official 
                        Conduct or its subcommittees) shall be 
                        open to the public, including to radio, 
                        television, and still photography 
                        coverage, except when the committee or 
                        subcommittee, in open session and with 
                        a majority present, determines by 
                        record vote that all or part of the 
                        remainder of that hearing on that day 
                        shall be closed to the public because 
                        disclosure of testimony, evidence, or 
                        other matters to be considered would 
                        endanger national security, would 
                        compromise sensitive law enforcement 
                        information, or would violate a law or 
                        rule of the House.
                                (B) Notwithstanding the 
                                requirements of subdivision 
                                (A), in the presence of the 
                                number of members required 
                                under the rules of the 
                                committee for the purpose of 
                                taking testimony, a majority of 
                                those present may--
                                        (i) agree to close the 
                                        hearing for the sole 
                                        purpose of discussing 
                                        whether testimony or 
                                        evidence to be received 
                                        would endanger national 
                                        security, would 
                                        compromise sensitive 
                                        law enforcement 
                                        information, or would 
                                        violate clause 2(k)(5); 
                                        or
                                        (ii) agree to close the 
                                        hearing as provided in 
                                        clause 2(k)(5).
                                (C) A Member, Delegate, or 
                                Resident Commissioner may not 
                                be excluded from 
                                nonparticipatory attendance at 
                                a hearing of a committee or 
                                subcommittee (other than the 
                                Committee on Standards of 
                                Official Conduct or its 
                                subcommittees) unless the House 
                                by majority vote authorizes a 
                                particular committee or 
                                subcommittee, for purposes of a 
                                particular series of hearings 
                                on a particular article of 
                                legislation or on a particular 
                                subject of investigation, to 
                                close its hearings to Members, 
                                Delegates, and the Resident 
                                Commissioner by the same 
                                procedures specified in this 
                                subparagraph for closing 
                                hearings to the public.
                                (D) The committee or 
                                subcommittee may vote by the 
                                same procedure described in 
                                this subparagraph to close one 
                                subsequent day of hearing, 
                                except that the Committee on 
                                Appropriations, the Committee 
                                on Armed Services, and the 
                                Permanent Select Committee on 
                                Intelligence, and the 
                                subcommittees thereof, may vote 
                                by the same procedure to close 
                                up to five additional, 
                                consecutive days of hearings.
                        (3) The chairman of each committee 
                        (other than the Committee on Rules) 
                        shall make public announcement of the 
                        date, place, and subject matter of a 
                        committee hearing at least one week 
                        before the commencement of the hearing. 
                        If the chairman of the committee, with 
                        the concurrence of the ranking minority 
                        member, determines that there is good 
                        cause to begin a hearing sooner, or if 
                        the committee so determines by majority 
                        vote in the presence of the number of 
                        members required under the rules of the 
                        committee for the transaction of 
                        business, the chairman shall make the 
                        announcement at the earliest possible 
                        date. An announcement made under this 
                        subparagraph shall be published 
                        promptly in the Daily Digest and made 
                        available in electronic form.
                        (4) Each committee shall, to the 
                        greatest extent practicable, require 
                        witnesses who appear before it to 
                        submit in advance written statements of 
                        proposed testimony and to limit their 
                        initial presentations to the committee 
                        to brief summaries thereof. In the case 
                        of a witness appearing in a 
                        nongovernmental capacity, a written 
                        statement of proposed testimony shall 
                        include a curriculum vitae and a 
                        disclosure of the amount and source (by 
                        agency and program) of each Federal 
                        grant (or subgrant thereof) or contract 
                        (or subcontract thereof) received 
                        during the current fiscal year or 
                        either of the two previous fiscal years 
                        by the witness or by an entity 
                        represented by the witness.
                        (5)(A) Except as provided in 
                        subdivision (B), a point of order does 
                        not lie with respect to a measure 
                        reported by a committee on the ground 
                        that hearings on such measure were not 
                        conducted in accordance with this 
                        clause.
                                (B) A point of order on the 
                                ground described in subdivision 
                                (A) may be made by a member of 
                                the committee that reported the 
                                measure if such point of order 
                                was timely made and improperly 
                                disposed of in the committee.
                        (6) This paragraph does not apply to 
                        hearings of the Committee on 
                        Appropriations under clause 4(a)(1) of 
                        rule X.
Quorum requirements
                (h)(1) A measure or recommendation may not be 
                reported by a committee unless a majority of 
                the committee is actually present.
                        (2) Each committee may fix the number 
                        of its members to constitute a quorum 
                        for taking testimony and receiving 
                        evidence, which may not be less than 
                        two.
                        (3) Each committee (other than the 
                        Committee on Appropriations, the 
                        Committee on the Budget, and the 
                        Committee on Ways and Means) may fix 
                        the number of its members to constitute 
                        a quorum for taking any action other 
                        than one for which the presence of a 
                        majority of the committee is otherwise 
                        required, which may not be less than 
                        one-third of the members.
                        (4)(A) Each committee may adopt a rule 
                        authorizing the chairman of a committee 
                        or subcommittee--
                                        (i) to postpone further 
                                        proceedings when a 
                                        record vote is ordered 
                                        on the question of 
                                        approving a measure or 
                                        matter or on adopting 
                                        an amendment; and
                                        (ii) to resume 
                                        proceedings on a 
                                        postponed question at 
                                        any time after 
                                        reasonable notice.
                                (B) A rule adopted pursuant to 
                                this subparagraph shall provide 
                                that when proceedings resume on 
                                a postponed question, 
                                notwithstanding any intervening 
                                order for the previous 
                                question, an underlying 
                                proposition shall remain 
                                subject to further debate or 
                                amendment to the same extent as 
                                when the question was 
                                postponed.

Limitation on committee sittings
                (i) A committee may not sit during a joint 
                session of the House and Senate or during a 
                recess when a joint meeting of the House and 
                Senate is in progress.

Calling and questioning of witnesses
                (j)(1) Whenever a hearing is conducted by a 
                committee on a measure or matter, the minority 
                members of the committee shall be entitled, 
                upon request to the chairman by a majority of 
                them before the completion of the hearing, to 
                call witnesses selected by the minority to 
                testify with respect to that measure or matter 
                during at least one day of hearing thereon.
                        (2)(A) Subject to subdivisions (B) and 
                        (C), each committee shall apply the 
                        five-minute rule during the questioning 
                        of witnesses in a hearing until such 
                        time as each member of the committee 
                        who so desires has had an opportunity 
                        to question each witness.
                        (B) A committee may adopt a rule or 
                        motion permitting a specified number of 
                        its members to question a witness for 
                        longer than five minutes. The time for 
                        extended questioning of a witness under 
                        this subdivision shall be equal for the 
                        majority party and the minority party 
                        and may not exceed one hour in the 
                        aggregate.
                        (C) A committee may adopt a rule or 
                        motion permitting committee staff for 
                        its majority and minority party members 
                        to question a witness for equal 
                        specified periods. The time for 
                        extended questioning of a witness under 
                        this subdivision shall be equal for the 
                        majority party and the minority party 
                        and may not exceed one hour in the 
                        aggregate.

Hearing procedures
                (k)(1) The chairman at a hearing shall announce 
                in an opening statement the subject of the 
                hearing.
                        (2) A copy of the committee rules and 
                        of this clause shall be made available 
                        to each witness on request.
                        (3) Witnesses at hearings may be 
                        accompanied by their own counsel for 
                        the purpose of advising them concerning 
                        their constitutional rights.
                        (4) The chairman may punish breaches of 
                        order and decorum, and of professional 
                        ethics on the part of counsel, by 
                        censure and exclusion from the 
                        hearings; and the committee may cite 
                        the offender to the House for contempt.
                        (5) Whenever it is asserted by a member 
                        of the committee that the evidence or 
                        testimony at a hearing may tend to 
                        defame, degrade, or incriminate any 
                        person, or it is asserted by a witness 
                        that the evidence or testimony that the 
                        witness would give at a hearing may 
                        tend to defame, degrade, or incriminate 
                        the witness--
                                (A) notwithstanding paragraph 
                                (g)(2), such testimony or 
                                evidence shall be presented in 
                                executive session if, in the 
                                presence of the number of 
                                members required under the 
                                rules of the committee for the 
                                purpose of taking testimony, 
                                the committee determines by 
                                vote of a majority of those 
                                present that such evidence or 
                                testimony may tend to defame, 
                                degrade, or incriminate any 
                                person; and
                                (B) the committee shall proceed 
                                to receive such testimony in 
                                open session only if the 
                                committee, a majority being 
                                present, determines that such 
                                evidence or testimony will not 
                                tend to defame, degrade, or 
                                incriminate any person. In 
                                either case the committee shall 
                                afford such person an 
                                opportunity voluntarily to 
                                appear as a witness, and 
                                receive and dispose of requests 
                                from such person to subpoena 
                                additional witnesses.
                        (6) Except as provided in subparagraph 
                        (5), the chairman shall receive and the 
                        committee shall dispose of requests to 
                        subpoena additional witnesses.
                        (7) Evidence or testimony taken in 
                        executive session, and proceedings 
                        conducted in executive session, may be 
                        released or used in public sessions 
                        only when authorized by the committee, 
                        a majority being present.
                        (8) In the discretion of the committee, 
                        witnesses may submit brief and 
                        pertinent sworn statements in writing 
                        for inclusion in the record. The 
                        committee is the sole judge of the 
                        pertinence of testimony and evidence 
                        adduced at its hearing.
                        (9) A witness may obtain a transcript 
                        copy of his testimony given at a public 
                        session or, if given at an executive 
                        session, when authorized by the 
                        committee.

Supplemental, minority, or additional views
                (l) If at the time of approval of a measure or 
                matter by a committee (other than the Committee 
                on Rules) a member of the committee gives 
                notice of intention to file supplemental, 
                minority, or additional views for inclusion in 
                the report to the House thereon, that member 
                shall be entitled to not less than two 
                additional calendar days after the day of such 
                notice (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal 
                holidays except when the House is in session on 
                such a day) to file such views, in writing and 
                signed by that member, with the clerk of the 
                committee.

Power to sit and act; subpoena power
                (m)(1) For the purpose of carrying out any of 
                its functions and duties under this rule and 
                rule X (including any matters referred to it 
                under clause 2 of rule XII), a committee or 
                subcommittee is authorized (subject to 
                subparagraph (3)(A)--
                                (A) to sit and act at such 
                                times and places within the 
                                United States, whether the 
                                House is in session, has 
                                recessed, or has adjourned, and 
                                to hold such hearings as it 
                                considers necessary; and
                                (B) to require, by subpoena or 
                                otherwise, the attendance and 
                                testimony of such witnesses and 
                                the production of such books, 
                                records, correspondence, 
                                memoranda, papers, and 
                                documents as it considers 
                                necessary.
                        (2) The chairman of the committee, or a 
                        member designated by the chairman, may 
                        administer oaths to witnesses.
                        (3)(A)(i) Except as provided in 
                        subdivision (A)(ii), a subpoena may be 
                        authorized and issued by a committee or 
                        subcommittee under subparagraph (1)(B) 
                        in the conduct of an investigation or 
                        series of investigations or activities 
                        only when authorized by the committee 
                        or subcommittee, a majority being 
                        present. The power to authorize and 
                        issue subpoenas under subparagraph 
                        (1)(B) may be delegated to the chairman 
                        of the committee under such rules and 
                        under such limitations as the committee 
                        may prescribe. Authorized subpoenas 
                        shall be signed by the chairman of the 
                        committee or by a member designated by 
                        the committee.
                                        (ii) In the case of a 
                                        subcommittee of the 
                                        Committee on Standards 
                                        of Official Conduct, a 
                                        subpoena may be 
                                        authorized and issued 
                                        only by an affirmative 
                                        vote of a majority of 
                                        its members.
                                (B) A subpoena duces tecum may 
                                specify terms of return other 
                                than at a meeting or hearing of 
                                the committee or subcommittee 
                                authorizing the subpoena.
                                (C) Compliance with a subpoena 
                                issued by a committee or 
                                subcommittee under subparagraph 
                                (1)(B) may be enforced only as 
                                authorized or directed by the 
                                House.

                               * * * * *

                                RULE XII

              RECEIPT AND REFERRAL OF MEASURES AND MATTERS

Referral
        2. (a) The Speaker shall refer each bill, resolution, 
        or other matter that relates to a subject listed under 
        a standing committee named in clause 1 of rule X in 
        accordance with the provisions of this clause.
                (b) The Speaker shall refer matters under 
                paragraph (a) in such manner as to ensure to 
                the maximum extent feasible that each committee 
                that has jurisdiction under clause 1 of rule X 
                over the subject matter of a provision thereof 
                may consider such provision and report to the 
                House thereon. Precedents, rulings, or 
                procedures in effect before the Ninety-Fourth 
                Congress shall be applied to referrals under 
                this clause only to the extent that they will 
                contribute to the achievement of the objectives 
                of this clause.
                (c) In carrying out paragraphs (a) and (b) with 
                respect to the referral of a matter, the 
                Speaker--(1) shall designate a committee of 
                primary jurisdiction (except where he 
                determines that extraordinary circumstances 
                justify review by more than one committee as 
                though primary);
                        (2) may refer the matter to one or more 
                        additional committees for consideration 
                        in sequence, either initially or after 
                        the matter has been reported by the 
                        committee of primary jurisdiction;
                        (3) may refer portions of the matter 
                        reflecting different subjects and 
                        jurisdictions to one or more additional 
                        committees;
                        (4) may refer the matter to a special, 
                        ad hoc committee appointed by the 
                        Speaker with the approval of the House, 
                        and including members of the committees 
                        of jurisdiction, for the specific 
                        purpose of considering that matter and 
                        reporting to the House thereon;
                        (5) may subject a referral to 
                        appropriate time limitations; and
                        (6) may make such other provision as 
                        may be considered appropriate.
                (d) A bill for the payment or adjudication of a 
                private claim against the Government may not be 
                referred to a committee other than the 
                Committee on Foreign Affairs or the Committee 
                on the Judiciary, except by unanimous consent.

Petitions, memorials, and private bills
        3. If a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner has 
        a petition, memorial, or private bill to present, he 
        shall endorse his name, deliver it to the Clerk, and 
        may specify the reference or disposition to be made 
        thereof. Such petition, memorial, or private bill 
        (except when judged by the Speaker to be obscene or 
        insulting) shall be entered on the Journal with the 
        name of the Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner 
        presenting it and shall be printed in the Congressional 
        Record.
        4. A private bill or private resolution (including an 
        omnibus claim or pension bill), or amendment thereto, 
        may not be received or considered in the House if it 
        authorizes or directs--
                (a) the payment of money for property damages, 
                for personal injuries or death for which suit 
                may be instituted under the Tort Claims 
                Procedure provided in title 28, United States 
                Code, or for a pension (other than to carry out 
                a provision of law or treaty stipulation);
                (b) the construction of a bridge across a 
                navigable stream; or
                (c) the correction of a military or naval 
                record.
Prohibition on commemorations
        5. (a) A bill or resolution, or an amendment thereto, 
        may not be introduced or considered in the House if it 
        establishes or expresses a commemoration.
                (b) In this clause the term ``commemoration'' 
                means a remembrance, celebration, or 
                recognition for any purpose through the 
                designation of a specified period of time.

Excluded matters
        6. A petition, memorial, bill, or resolution excluded 
        under this rule shall be returned to the Member, 
        Delegate, or Resident Commissioner from whom it was 
        received. A petition or private bill that has been 
        inappropriately referred may, by direction of the 
        committee having possession of it, be properly referred 
        in the manner originally presented. An erroneous 
        reference of a petition or private bill under this 
        clause does not confer jurisdiction on a committee to 
        consider or report it.

Sponsorship
        7. (a) Bills, memorials, petitions, and resolutions, 
        endorsed with the names of Members, Delegates, or the 
        Resident Commissioner introducing them, may be 
        delivered to the Speaker to be referred. The titles and 
        references of all bills, memorials, petitions, 
        resolutions, and other documents referred under this 
        rule shall be entered on the Journal and printed in the 
        Congressional Record. An erroneous reference may be 
        corrected by the House in accordance with rule X on any 
        day immediately after the Pledge of Allegiance to the 
        Flag by unanimous consent or motion. Such a motion 
        shall be privileged if offered by direction of a 
        committee to which the bill has been erroneously 
        referred or by direction of a committee claiming 
        jurisdiction and shall be decided without debate.
                (b)(1) The primary sponsor of a public bill or 
                public resolution may name cosponsors. The name 
                of a cosponsor added after the initial printing 
                of a bill or resolution shall appear in the 
                next printing of the bill or resolution on the 
                written request of the primary sponsor. Such a 
                request may be submitted to the Speaker at any 
                time until the last committee authorized to 
                consider and report the bill or resolution 
                reports it to the House or is discharged from 
                its consideration.
                        (2) The name of a cosponsor of a bill 
                        or resolution may be deleted by 
                        unanimous consent. The Speaker may 
                        entertain such a request only by the 
                        Member, Delegate, or Resident 
                        Commissioner whose name is to be 
                        deleted or by the primary sponsor of 
                        the bill or resolution, and only until 
                        the last committee authorized to 
                        consider and report the bill or 
                        resolution reports it to the House or 
                        is discharged from its consideration. 
                        The Speaker may not entertain a request 
                        to delete the name of the primary 
                        sponsor of a bill or resolution. A 
                        deletion shall be indicated by date in 
                        the next printing of the bill or 
                        resolution.
                        (3) The addition or deletion of the 
                        name of a cosponsor of a bill or 
                        resolution shall be entered on the 
                        Journal and printed in the 
                        Congressional Record of that day.
                        (4) A bill or resolution shall be 
                        reprinted on the written request of the 
                        primary sponsor. Such a request may be 
                        submitted to the Speaker only when 20 
                        or more cosponsors have been added 
                        since the last printing of the bill or 
                        resolution.
                        (5) When a bill or resolution is 
                        introduced by request,'' those words 
                        shall be entered on the Journal and 
                        printed in the Congressional Record.
Executive communications
        8. Estimates of appropriations and all other 
        communications from the executive departments intended 
        for the consideration of any committees of the House 
        shall be addressed to the Speaker for referral as 
        provided in clause 2 of rule XIV.

                               * * * * *

                               RULE XIII

                    CALENDARS AND COMMITTEE REPORTS

Calendars
Filing and printing of reports
        2. (a)(1) Except as provided in subparagraph (2), all 
        reports of committees (other than those filed from the 
        floor as privileged) shall be delivered to the Clerk 
        for printing and reference to the proper calendar under 
        the direction of the Speaker in accordance with clause 
        1. The title or subject of each report shall be entered 
        on the Journal and printed in the Congressional Record.
                        (2) A bill or resolution reported 
                        adversely shall be laid on the table 
                        unless a committee to which the bill or 
                        resolution was referred requests at the 
                        time of the report its referral to an 
                        appropriate calendar under clause 1 or 
                        unless, within three days thereafter, a 
                        Member, Delegate, or Resident 
                        Commissioner makes such a request.
                (b)(1) It shall be the duty of the chairman of 
                each committee to report or cause to be 
                reported promptly to the House a measure or 
                matter approved by the committee and to take or 
                cause to be taken steps necessary to bring the 
                measure or matter to a vote.
                        (2) In any event, the report of a 
                        committee on a measure that has been 
                        approved by the committee shall be 
                        filed within seven calendar days 
                        (exclusive of days on which the House 
                        is not in session) after the day on 
                        which a written request for the filing 
                        of the report, signed by a majority of 
                        the members of the committee, has been 
                        filed with the clerk of the committee. 
                        The clerk of the committee shall 
                        immediately notify the chairman of the 
                        filing of such a request. This 
                        subparagraph does not apply to a report 
                        of the Committee on Rules with respect 
                        to a rule, joint rule, or order of 
                        business of the House, or to the 
                        reporting of a resolution of inquiry 
                        addressed to the head of an executive 
                        department.
                (c) All supplemental, minority, or additional 
                views filed under clause 2(l) of rule XI by one 
                or more members of a committee shall be 
                included in, and shall be a part of, the report 
                filed by the committee with respect to a 
                measure or matter. When time guaranteed by 
                clause 2(l) of rule XI has expired (or, if 
                sooner, when all separate views have been 
                received), the committee may arrange to file 
                its report with the Clerk not later than one 
                hour after the expiration of such time. This 
                clause and provisions of clause 2(l) of rule XI 
                do not preclude the immediate filing or 
                printing of a committee report in the absence 
                of a timely request for the opportunity to file 
                supplemental, minority, or additional views as 
                provided in clause 2(l) of rule XI.
Content of reports
        3. (a)(1) Except as provided in subparagraph (2), the 
        report of a committee on a measure or matter shall be 
        printed in a single volume that--
                                (A) shall include all 
                                supplemental, minority, or 
                                additional views that have been 
                                submitted by the time of the 
                                filing of the report; and
                                (B) shall bear on its cover a 
                                recital that any such 
                                supplemental, minority, or 
                                additional views (and any 
                                material submitted under 
                                paragraph (c)(3)) are included 
                                as part of the report.
                        (2) A committee may file a supplemental 
                        report for the correction of a 
                        technical error in its previous report 
                        on a measure or matter. A supplemental 
                        report only correcting errors in the 
                        depiction of record votes under 
                        paragraph (b) may be filed under this 
                        subparagraph and shall not be subject 
                        to the requirement in clause 4 or 
                        clause 6 concerning the availability of 
                        reports.
                (b) With respect to each record vote on a 
                motion to report a measure or matter of a 
                public nature, and on any amendment offered to 
                the measure or matter, the total number of 
                votes cast for and against, and the names of 
                members voting for and against, shall be 
                included in the committee report. The preceding 
                sentence does not apply to a report by the 
                Committee on Rules on a rule, joint rule, or 
                the order of business or to votes taken in 
                executive session by the Committee on Standards 
                of Official Conduct.
                (c) The report of a committee on a measure that 
                has been approved by the committee shall 
                include, separately set out and clearly 
                identified, the following:
                        (1) Oversight findings and 
                        recommendations under clause 2(b)(1) of 
                        rule X.
                        (2) The statement required by section 
                        308(a) of the Congressional Budget Act 
                        of 1974, except that an estimate of new 
                        budget authority shall include, when 
                        practicable, a comparison of the total 
                        estimated funding level for the 
                        relevant programs to the appropriate 
                        levels under current law.
                        (3) An estimate and comparison prepared 
                        by the Director of the Congressional 
                        Budget Office under section 402 of the 
                        Congressional Budget Act of 1974 if 
                        timely submitted to the committee 
                        before the filing of the report.
                        (4) A statement of general performance 
                        goals and objectives, including outcome 
                        related goals and objectives, for which 
                        the measure authorizes funding.
                (d) Each report of a committee on a public bill 
                or public joint resolution shall contain the 
                following:
                        (1) A statement citing the specific 
                        powers granted to Congress in the 
                        Constitution to enact the law proposed 
                        by the bill or joint resolution.
                        (2)(A) An estimate by the committee of 
                        the costs that would be incurred in 
                        carrying out the bill or joint 
                        resolution in the fiscal year in which 
                        it is reported and in each of the five 
                        fiscal years following that fiscal year 
                        (or for the authorized duration of any 
                        program authorized by the bill or joint 
                        resolution if less than five years);
                                (B) a comparison of the 
                                estimate of costs described in 
                                subdivision (A) made by the 
                                committee with any estimate of 
                                such costs made by a Government 
                                agency and submitted to such 
                                committee; and
                                (C) when practicable, a 
                                comparison of the total 
                                estimated funding level for the 
                                relevant programs with the 
                                appropriate levels under 
                                current law.
                        (3)(A) In subparagraph (2) the term 
                        ``Government agency'' includes any 
                        department, agency, establishment, 
                        wholly owned Government corporation, or 
                        instrumentality of the Federal 
                        Government or the government of the 
                        District of Columbia.
                (e)(1) Whenever a committee reports a bill or 
                joint resolution proposing to repeal or amend a 
                statute or part thereof, it shall include in 
                its report or in an accompanying document--
                                (A) the text of a statute or 
                                part thereof that is proposed 
                                to be repealed; and
                                (B) a comparative print of any 
                                part of the bill or joint 
                                resolution proposing to amend 
                                the statute and of the statute 
                                or part thereof proposed to be 
                                amended, showing by appropriate 
                                typographical devices the 
                                omissions and insertions 
                                proposed.
                        (2) If a committee reports a bill or 
                        joint resolution proposing to repeal or 
                        amend a statute or part thereof with a 
                        recommendation that the bill or joint 
                        resolution be amended, the comparative 
                        print required by subparagraph (1) 
                        shall reflect the changes in existing 
                        law proposed to be made by the bill or 
                        joint resolution as proposed to be 
                        amended.
                (f)(1) A report of the Committee on 
                Appropriations on a general appropriation bill 
                shall include
                                (A) a concise statement 
                                describing the effect of any 
                                provision of the accompanying 
                                bill that directly or 
                                indirectly changes the 
                                application of existing law; 
                                and
                                (B) a list of all 
                                appropriations contained in the 
                                bill for expenditures not 
                                currently authorized by law for 
                                the period concerned (excepting 
                                classified intelligence or 
                                national security programs, 
                                projects, or activities), along 
                                with a statement of the last 
                                year for which such 
                                expenditures were authorized, 
                                the level of expenditures 
                                authorized for that year, the 
                                actual level of expenditures 
                                for that year, and the level of 
                                appropriations in the bill for 
                                such expenditures.
                        (2) Whenever the Committee on 
                        Appropriations reports a bill or joint 
                        resolution including matter specified 
                        in clause 1(b)(2) or (3) of rule X, it 
                        shall include--
                                (A) in the bill or joint 
                                resolution, separate headings 
                                for ``Rescissions'' and 
                                ``Transfers of Unexpended 
                                Balances''; and
                                (B) in the report of the 
                                committee, a separate section 
                                listing such rescissions and 
                                transfers.
                (g) Whenever the Committee on Rules reports a 
                resolution proposing to repeal or amend a 
                standing rule of the House, it shall include in 
                its report or in an accompanying document--
                        (1) the text of any rule or part 
                        thereof that is proposed to be 
                        repealed; and
                        (2) a comparative print of any part of 
                        the resolution proposing to amend the 
                        rule and of the rule or part thereof 
                        proposed to be amended, showing by 
                        appropriate typographical devices the 
                        omissions and insertions proposed.

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Availability of reports
        4. (a)(1) Except as specified in subparagraph (2), it 
        shall not be in order to consider in the House a 
        measure or matter reported by a committee until the 
        third calendar day (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, or 
        legal holidays except when the House is in session on 
        such a day) on which each report of a committee on that 
        measure or matter has been available to Members, 
        Delegates, and the Resident Commissioner.
                        (2) Subparagraph (1) does not apply 
                        to--
                                (A) a resolution providing a 
                                rule, joint rule, or order of 
                                business reported by the 
                                Committee on Rules considered 
                                under clause 6;
                                (B) a resolution providing 
                                amounts from the applicable 
                                accounts described in clause 
                                1(j)(1) of rule X reported by 
                                the Committee on House 
                                Administration considered under 
                                clause 6 of rule X;
                                (C) a resolution presenting a 
                                question of the privileges of 
                                the House reported by any 
                                committee;
                                (D) a measure for the 
                                declaration of war, or the 
                                declaration of a national 
                                emergency, by Congress; and
                                (E) a measure providing for the 
                                disapproval of a decision, 
                                determination, or action by a 
                                Government agency that would 
                                become, or continue to be, 
                                effective unless disapproved or 
                                otherwise invalidated by one or 
                                both Houses of Congress. In 
                                this subdivision the term 
                                ``Government agency'' includes 
                                any department, agency, 
                                establishment, wholly owned 
                                Government corporation, or 
                                instrumentality of the Federal 
                                Government or of the government 
                                of the District of Columbia.
                (b) A committee that reports a measure or 
                matter shall make every reasonable effort to 
                have its hearings thereon (if any) printed and 
                available for distribution to Members, 
                Delegates, and the Resident Commissioner before 
                the consideration of the measure or matter in 
                the House.
                        (c) A general appropriation bill 
                        reported by the Committee on 
                        Appropriations may not be considered in 
                        the House until the third calendar day 
                        (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and 
                        legal holidays except when the House is 
                        in session on such a day) on which 
                        printed hearings of the Committee on 
                        Appropriations thereon have been 
                        available to Members, Delegates, and 
                        the Resident Commissioner.

Privileged reports, generally
        5. (a) The following committees shall have leave to 
        report at any time on the following matters, 
        respectively:
                        (1) The Committee on Appropriations, on 
                        general appropriation bills and on 
                        joint resolutions continuing 
                        appropriations for a fiscal year after 
                        September 15 in the preceding fiscal 
                        year.
                        (2) The Committee on the Budget, on the 
                        matters required to be reported by such 
                        committee under titles III and IV of 
                        the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
                        (3) The Committee on House 
                        Administration, on enrolled bills, on 
                        contested elections, on matters 
                        referred to it concerning printing for 
                        the use of the House or the two Houses, 
                        on expenditure of the applicable 
                        accounts of the House described in 
                        clause 1(j)(1) of rule X, and on 
                        matters relating to preservation and 
                        availability of noncurrent records of 
                        the House under rule VII.
                        (4) The Committee on Rules, on rules, 
                        joint rules, and the order of business.
                        (5) The Committee on Standards of 
                        Official Conduct, on resolutions 
                        recommending action by the House with 
                        respect to a Member, Delegate, Resident 
                        Commissioner, officer, or employee of 
                        the House as a result of an 
                        investigation by the committee relating 
                        to the official conduct of such Member, 
                        Delegate, Resident Commissioner, 
                        officer, or employee.
                (b) A report filed from the floor as privileged 
                under paragraph (a) may be called up as a 
                privileged question by direction of the 
                reporting committee, subject to any requirement 
                concerning its availability to Members, 
                Delegates, and the Resident Commissioner under 
                clause 4 or concerning the timing of its 
                consideration under clause 6.
Resolutions of inquiry
        7. A report on a resolution of inquiry addressed to the 
        head of an executive department may be filed from the 
        floor as privileged. If such a resolution is not 
        reported to the House within 14 legislative days after 
        its introduction, a motion to discharge a committee 
        from its consideration shall be privileged.

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                                RULE XV

                   Business in Order on Special Days

Discharge motions, second and fourth Mondays
        2. (a) Motions to discharge committees shall be in 
        order on the second and fourth Mondays of a month.
                (b)(1) A Member may present to the Clerk a 
                motion in writing to discharge--
                                (A) a committee from 
                                consideration of a public bill 
                                or public resolution that has 
                                been referred to it for 30 
                                legislative days or
                                (B) the Committee on Rules from 
                                consideration of a resolution 
                                that has been referred to it 
                                for seven legislative days and 
                                that proposes a special order 
                                of business for the 
                                consideration of a public bill 
                                or public resolution that has 
                                been reported by a standing 
                                committee or has been referred 
                                to a standing committee for 30 
                                legislative days.
                        (2) Only one motion may be presented 
                        for a bill or resolution. A Member may 
                        not file a motion to discharge the 
                        Committee on Rules from consideration 
                        of a resolution providing for the 
                        consideration of more than one public 
                        bill or public resolution or admitting 
                        or effecting a nongermane amendment to 
                        a public bill or public resolution.
                (c) A motion presented under paragraph (b) 
                shall be placed in the custody of the Clerk, 
                who shall arrange a convenient place for the 
                signatures of Members. A signature may be 
                withdrawn by a Member in writing at any time 
                before a motion is entered on the Journal. The 
                Clerk shall make signatures a matter of public 
                record, causing the names of the Members who 
                have signed a discharge motion during a week to 
                be published in a portion of the Congressional 
                Record designated for that purpose on the last 
                legislative day of the and making cumulative 
                lists of such names available each day for 
                public inspection in an appropriate office of 
                the House. The Clerk shall devise a means for 
                making such lists available to offices of the 
                House and to the public in electronic form. 
                When a majority of the total membership of the 
                House shall have signed the motion, it shall be 
                entered on the Journal, published with the 
                signatures thereto in the Record, and referred 
                to the Calendar of Motions to Discharge 
                Committees.
                (d) On the second and fourth Mondays of a month 
                (except during the last six days of a session 
                of Congress), immediately after the Pledge of 
                Allegiance to the Flag, a motion to discharge 
                that has been on the calendar for at least 
                seven legislative days shall be privileged if 
                called up by a Member whose signature appears 
                thereon. When such a motion is called up, the 
                House shall proceed to its consideration under 
                this paragraph without intervening motion 
                except one motion to adjourn. Privileged 
                motions to discharge shall have precedence in 
                the order of their entry on the Journal.
                        (2) When a motion to discharge is 
                        called up, the bill or resolution to 
                        which it relates shall be read by title 
                        only. The motion is debatable for 20 
                        minutes, one-half in favor of the 
                        motion and one-half in opposition 
                        thereto.
                (e)(1) If a motion prevails to discharge the 
                Committee on Rules from consideration of a 
                resolution, the House shall immediately 
                consider the resolution, pending which the 
                Speaker may entertain one motion that the House 
                adjourn but may not entertain any other 
                dilatory motion until the resolution has been 
                disposed of. If the resolution is adopted, the 
                House shall immediately proceed to its 
                execution.
                        (2) If a motion prevails to discharge a 
                        standing committee from consideration 
                        of a public bill or public resolution, 
                        a motion that the House proceed to the 
                        immediate consideration of such bill or 
                        resolution shall be privileged if 
                        offered by a Member whose signature 
                        appeared on the motion to discharge. 
                        the motion to proceed is not debatable. 
                        If the motion to proceed is adopted, 
                        the bill or resolution shall be 
                        considered immediately under the 
                        general rules of the House. If 
                        unfinished before adjournment of the 
                        day on which it is called up, the bill 
                        or resolution shall remain the 
                        unfinished business until it is 
                        disposed of. If the motion to proceed 
                        is rejected, the bill or resolution 
                        shall be referred to the appropriate 
                        calendar, where it shall have the same 
                        status as if the committee from which 
                        it was discharged had duly reported it 
                        to the House.
                (f)(1) When a motion to discharge originated 
                under this clause has once been acted on by the 
                House, it shall not be in order to entertain 
                during the same session of Congress--
                                (A) a motion to discharge a 
                                committee from consideration of 
                                that bill or resolution or of 
                                any other bill or resolution 
                                that, by relating in substance 
                                to or dealing with the same 
                                subject matter, is 
                                substantially the same; or
                                (B) a motion to discharge the 
                                Committee on Rules from 
                                consideration of a resolution 
                                providing a special order of 
                                business for the consideration 
                                of that bill or resolution or 
                                of any other bill or resolution 
                                that, by relating in substance 
                                to or dealing with the same 
                                subject matter, is 
                                substantially the same.
                        (2) A motion to discharge on the 
                        Calendar of Motions to Discharge 
                        Committees that is rendered out of 
                        order under subparagraph (1) shall be 
                        stricken from that calendar.
Calendar Call of Committees,
Wednesdays
        6. (a) On Wednesday of each week, business shall not be 
        in order before completion of the call of the 
        committees (except as provided by clause 4 of rule XIV) 
        unless two-thirds of the Members voting, a quorum being 
        present, agree to a motion that the House dispense with 
        the call. Such a motion shall be privileged. Debate on 
        such a motion shall be limited to five minutes in 
        support and five minutes in opposition.
                (b) A bill or resolution on either the House or 
                the Union Calendar, except bills or resolutions 
                that are privileged under the Rules of the 
                House, may be called under this clause. A bill 
                or resolution called up from the Union Calendar 
                shall be considered in the Committee of the 
                Whole House on the State of the Union without 
                motion, subject to clause 3 of rule XVI. 
                General debate on a measure considered under 
                this clause shall be confined to the measure 
                and may not exceed two hours equally divided 
                between a proponent and an opponent.
                (c) When a committee has occupied the call 
                under this clause on one Wednesday, it shall 
                not be in order on a succeeding Wednesday to 
                consider unfinished business previously called 
                up by that committee until the other committees 
                have been called in their turn unless--
        (1) the previous question has been ordered on such 
        unfinished business; or
        (2) the House adopts a motion to dispense with the call 
        under paragraph (A).
                (d) If any committee has not been called under 
                this clause during a session of a Congress, 
                then at the next session of that Congress the 
                call shall resume where it left off at the end 
                of the preceding session.
                (e) This clause does not apply during the last 
                two weeks of a session of Congress.
        (f) The Speaker may not entertain a motion that the 
        Speaker be authorized to declare a recess on a 
        Wednesday except during the last two weeks of a session 
        of Congress.

                               * * * * *

                               RULE XVII

                           DECORUM AND DEBATE

Decorum
        1. (a) A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner who 
        desires to speak or deliver a matter to the House shall 
        rise and respectfully address himself to ``Mr. 
        Speaker'' and, on being recognized, may address the 
        House from any place on the floor. When invited by the 
        Chair, a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may 
        speak from the Clerk's desk.
                (b) Remarks in debate (which may include 
                references to the Senate or its Members) shall 
                be confined to the question under debate, 
                avoiding personality.

Recognition
        2. When two or more Members, Delegates, or the Resident 
        Commissioner rise at once, the Speaker shall name the 
        Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner who is first 
        to speak. A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner 
        may not occupy more than one hour in debate on a 
        question in the House or in the Committee of the Whole 
        House on the state of the Union except as otherwise 
        provided in this rule.

Managing debate
        3. (a) The Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner 
        who calls up a measure may open and close debate 
        thereon. When general debate extends beyond one day, 
        that Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner shall 
        be entitled to one hour to close without regard to the 
        time used in opening.
                (b) Except as provided in paragraph (a), a 
                Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may 
                not speak more than once to the same question 
                without leave of the House.
                (c) A manager of a measure who opposes an 
                amendment thereto is entitled to close 
                controlled debate thereon.

Call to order
        4. (a) If a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner, 
        in speaking or otherwise, transgresses the Rules of the 
        House, the Speaker shall, or a Member, Delegate, or 
        Resident Commissioner may, call to order the offending 
        Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner, who shall 
        immediately sit down unless permitted on motion of 
        another Member, Delegate, or the Resident Commissioner 
        to explain. If a Member, Delegate, or Resident 
        Commissioner is called to order, the Member, Delegate, 
        or Resident Commissioner making the call to order shall 
        indicate the words excepted to, which shall be taken 
        down in writing at the Clerk's desk and read aloud to 
        the House.
                (b) The Speaker shall decide the validity of a 
                call to order. The House, if appealed to, shall 
                decide the question without debate. If the 
                decision is in favor of the Member, Delegate, 
                or Resident Commissioner called to order, the 
                Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner 
                shall be at liberty to proceed, but not 
                otherwise. If the case requires it, an 
                offending Member, Delegate, or Resident 
                Commissioner shall be liable to censure or such 
                other punishment as the House may consider 
                proper. A Member, Delegate, or Resident 
                Commissioner may not be held to answer a call 
                to order, and may not be subject to the censure 
                of the House therefor, if further debate or 
                other business has intervened.

Comportment
        5. When the Speaker is putting a question or addressing 
        the House, a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner 
        may not walk out of or across the Hall. When a Member, 
        Delegate, or Resident Commissioner is speaking, a 
        Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may not pass 
        between the person speaking and the Chair. During the 
        session of the House, a Member, Delegate, or Resident 
        Commissioner may not wear a hat or remain by the 
        Clerk's desk during the call of the roll or the 
        counting of ballots. A person may not smoke or use a 
        wireless telephone or personal computer on the floor of 
        the House. The Sergeant-at-Arms is charged with the 
        strict enforcement of this clause.

Exhibits
        6. When the use of an exhibit in debate is objected to 
        by a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner, the 
        Chair, in his discretion, may submit the question of 
        its use to the House without debate.

Galleries
        7. During a session of the House, it shall not be in 
        order for a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner 
        to introduce to or to bring to the attention of the 
        House an occupant in the galleries of the House. The 
        Speaker may not entertain a request for the suspension 
        of this rule by unanimous consent or otherwise.

Congressional Record
        8. (a) The Congressional Record shall be a 
        substantially verbatim account of remarks made during 
        the proceedings of the House, subject only to 
        technical, grammatical, and typographical corrections 
        authorized by the Member, Delegate, or Resident 
        Commissioner making the remarks.
                (b) Unparliamentary remarks may be deleted only 
                by permission or order of the House.
                (c) This clause establishes a standard of 
                conduct within the meaning of clause 3(a)(2) of 
                rule XI.

Secret sessions
        9. When confidential communications are received from 
        the President, or when the Speaker or a Member, 
        Delegate, or Resident Commissioner informs the House 
        that he has communications that he believes ought to be 
        kept secret for the present, the House shall be cleared 
        of all persons except the Members, Delegates, Resident 
        Commissioner, and officers of the House for the reading 
        of such communications, and debates and proceedings 
        thereon, unless otherwise ordered by the House.

                               * * * * *

                               RULE XXIII

                        CODE OF OFFICIAL CONDUCT

There is hereby established by and for the House the following 
code of conduct, to be known as the ``Code of Official 
Conduct'':
        1. A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, 
        or employee of the House shall conduct himself at all 
        times in a manner that shall reflect creditably on the 
        House.
        2. A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, 
        or employee of the House shall adhere to the spirit and 
        the letter of the Rules of the House and to the rules 
        of duly constituted committees thereof.
        3. A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, 
        or employee of the House may not receive compensation 
        and may not permit compensation to accrue to his 
        beneficial interest from any source, the receipt of 
        which would occur by virtue of influence improperly 
        exerted from his position in Congress.
        4. A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, 
        or employee of the House may not accept gifts except as 
        provided by clause 5 of rule XXV.
        5. A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, 
        or employee of the House may not accept an honorarium 
        for a speech, a writing for publication, or other 
        similar activity, except as otherwise provided under 
        rule XXV.
        6. A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner--
                (a) shall keep his campaign funds separate from 
                his personal funds;
                (b) may not convert campaign funds to personal 
                use in excess of an amount representing 
                reimbursement for legitimate and verifiable 
                campaign expenditures; and
                (c) except as provided in clause 1(b) of rule 
                XXIV, may not expend funds from his campaign 
                account that are not attributable to bona fide 
                campaign or political purposes.
        7. A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner shall 
        treat as campaign contributions all proceeds from 
        testimonial dinners or other fundraising events.
        8. (a) A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or 
        officer of the House may not retain an employee who 
        does not perform duties for the offices of the 
        employing authority commensurate with the compensation 
        he receives.
                (b) In the case of a committee employee who 
                works under the direct supervision of a member 
                of the committee other than a chairman, the 
                chairman may require that such member affirm in 
                writing that the employee has complied with 
                clause 8(a) (subject to clause 9 of rule X) as 
                evidence of compliance by the chairman with 
                this clause and with clause 9 of rule X.
                (c)(1) Except as specified in subparagraph 
                (2)--(A) a Member, Delegate, or Resident 
                Commissioner may not retain his spouse in a 
                paid position; and (B) an employee of the House 
                may not accept compensation for work for a 
                committee on which his spouse serves as a 
                member.
                        (2) Subparagraph (1) shall not apply in 
                        the case of a spouse whose pertinent 
                        employment predates the One Hundred 
                        Seventh Congress.
        9. A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, 
        or employee of the House may not discharge and may not 
        refuse to hire an individual, or otherwise discriminate 
        against an individual with respect to compensation, 
        terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because 
        of the race, color, religion, sex (including marital or 
        parental status), disability, age, or national origin 
        of such individual, but may take into consideration the 
        domicile or political affiliation of such individual.
        10. A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner who 
        has been convicted by a court of record for the 
        commission of a crime for which a sentence of two or 
        more years( imprisonment may be imposed should refrain 
        from participation in the business of each committee of 
        which he is a member, and a Member should refrain from 
        voting on any question at a meeting of the House or of 
        the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the 
        Union, unless or until judicial or executive 
        proceedings result in reinstatement of the presumption 
        of his innocence or until he is reelected to the House 
        after the date of such conviction.
        11. A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may 
        not authorize or otherwise allow an individual, group, 
        or organization not under the direction and control of 
        the House to use the words ``Congress of the United 
        States,'' ``House of Represen tatives,'' or ``Official 
        Business,'' or any combination of words thereof, on any 
        letterhead or envelope.
        12. (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b), an 
        employee of the House who is required to file a report 
        under rule XXVI may not participate personally and 
        substantially as an employee of the House in a contact 
        with an agency of the executive or judicial branches of 
        Government with respect to nonlegislative matters 
        affecting any nongovernmental person in which the 
        employee has a significant financial interest.
                        (b) Paragraph (a) does not apply if an 
                        employee first advises his employing 
                        authority of a significant financial 
                        interest described in paragraph (a) and 
                        obtains from his employing authority a 
                        written waiver stating that the 
                        participation of the employee in the 
                        activity described in paragraph (a) is 
                        necessary. A copy of each such waiver 
                        shall be filed with the Committee on 
                        Standards of Official Conduct.
        13. Before a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, 
        officer, or employee of the House may have access to 
        classified information, the following oath (or 
        affirmation) shall be executed: ``I do solemnly swear 
        (or affirm) that I will not disclose any classified 
        information received in the course of my service with 
        the House of Representatives, except as authorized by 
        the House of Representatives or in accordance with its 
        Rules.'' Copies of the executed oath (or affirmation) 
        shall be retained by the Clerk as part of the records 
        of the House. The Clerk shall make signatures a matter 
        of public record, causing the names of each Member, 
        Delegate, or Resident Commissioner who has signed the 
        oath during a week (if any) to be published in a 
        portion of the Congressional Record designated for that 
        purpose on the last legislative day of the week and 
        making cumulative lists of such names available each 
        day for public inspection in an appropriate office of 
        the House.
        14. A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may 
        not, with the intent to influence on the basis of 
        partisan political affiliation make an employment 
        decision or employment practice of any private entity--
                (a) take or withhold, or offer or threaten to 
                take or withhold, an official act; or
                (b) influence, or offer or threaten to 
                influence, the official act of another.
        15. (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b), a Member, 
        Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may not use personal 
        funds, official funds, or campaign funds for a flight 
        on an aircraft.
                (b) Paragraph (a) does not apply if--
                        (1) the aircraft is operated by an air 
                        carrier or commercial operator 
                        certificated by the Federal Aviation 
                        Administration and the flight is 
                        required to be conducted under air 
                        carrier safety rules, or, in the case 
                        of travel which is abroad, by an air 
                        carrier or commercial operator 
                        certificated by an appropriated foreign 
                        civil aviation authority and the flight 
                        is required to be conducted under air 
                        carrier safety rules;
                        (2) the aircraft is owned or leased by 
                        a Member, delegate, Resident member 
                        (including an aircraft owned by an 
                        entity that is not a public corporation 
                        in which the Member, Delegate, Resident 
                        Commissioner or his or her family 
                        member has an ownership interest, 
                        provided that such Member, Delegate, or 
                        Resident Commissioner does not use the 
                        aircraft any more than the Member, 
                        Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or 
                        family member's proportionate share of 
                        ownership allows);
                        (3) the flight consists of the personal 
                        use of an aircraft by a Member, 
                        Delegate, or Resident Commissioner that 
                        is supplied by an individual on the 
                        basis of personal friendship; or
                        (4) the aircraft is operated by an 
                        entity of the Federal government or an 
                        entity of the government of any State.
                (c) In this clause--
                        (1) the term ``campaign funds'' 
                        includes funds of any political 
                        committee under the Federal Election 
                        Campaign Act of 1971, without regard to 
                        whether the committee is an authorized 
                        committee of the Member, Delegate, or 
                        Resident Commissioner involved under 
                        such Act;
                        (2) the term ``family member'' means an 
                        individual who is related to the 
                        Member, Delegate, or Resident 
                        Commissioner, as father, mother, son, 
                        daughter, brother, sister, husband, 
                        wife, father-in-law, or mother-in-law; 
                        and
                        (3) the term ``on the basis of personal 
                        friendship'' has the same meaning as in 
                        clause 5(a)(3)(D)(ii) of rule XXV.
        16. A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may 
        not condition the inclusion of language to provide 
        funding for a congressional earmark, a limited tax 
        benefit, or a limited tariff benefit in any bill or 
        joint resolution (or an accompanying report) or in any 
        conference report on a bill or joint resolution 
        (including an accompanying joint explanatory statement 
        of managers) on any vote cast by another Member, 
        Delegate, or Resident Commissioner. For purposes of 
        this clause and clause 17, the terms ``congressional 
        earmark,'' ``limited tax benefit,'' and ``limited 
        tariff benefit'' shall have the meanings given to them 
        in clause 9 of rule XXI.
        17. (a) A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner 
        who requests a congressional earmark, a limited tax 
        benefit, or a limited tariff benefit in any bill or 
        joint resolution (or an accompanying report) or in any 
        conference report on a bill or joint resolution (or an 
        accompanying joint statement of managers) shall provide 
        a written statement to the chairman and ranking 
        minority member of the committee of jurisdiction, 
        including--
                        (1) the name of the Member, Delegate, 
                        or Resident Commissioner;
                        (2) in the case of a congressional 
                        earmark, the name and address of the 
                        intended recipient or, if there is no 
                        specifically intended recipient, the 
                        intended location of the activity;
                        (3) in the case of a limited tax or 
                        tariff benefit, identification of the 
                        individual or entities reasonably 
                        anticipated to benefit, to the extent 
                        known to the Member, Delegate, or 
                        Resident Commissioner;
                        (4) the purpose of such congressional 
                        earmark or limited tax or tariff 
                        benefit; and
                        (5) a certification that the Member, 
                        Delegate, or Resident Commissioner or 
                        spouse has no financial interest in 
                        such congressional earmark or limited 
                        tax or tariff benefit.
                (b) Each committee shall maintain the 
                information transmitted under paragraph (a), 
                and the written disclosures for any 
                congressional earmarks, limited tax benefits, 
                or limited tariff benefits included in any 
                measure reported by the committee or conference 
                report filed by the chairman of the committee 
                or any subcommittee thereof shall be open for 
                public inspection.
        18. (a) In this Code of Official Conduct, the term 
        ``officer or employee of the House'' means an 
        individual whose compensation is disbursed by the Chief 
        Administrative Officer.
                (b) An individual whose services are 
                compensated by the House pursuant to a 
                consultant contract shall be considered an 
                employee of the House for purposes of clauses 
                1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, and 13 of this rule. An 
                individual whose services are compensated by 
                the House pursuant to a consultant contract may 
                not lobby the contracting committee or the 
                members or staff of the contracting committee 
                on any matter. Such an individual may lobby 
                other Members, Delegates, or the Resident 
                Commissioner or staff of the House on matters 
                outside the jurisdiction of the contracting 
                committee.

                               * * * * *

                               RULE XXIV

                  LIMITATIONS ON USE OF OFFICIAL FUNDS

Prohibition on use of funds by Members not elected to 
succeeding Congress
        1. Funds from the applicable accounts described in 
        clause 1(j)1) of rule X, including funds from committee 
        expense resolutions, and funds in any local currencies 
        owned by the United States may not be made available 
        for travel by a Member, Delegate, Resident 
        Commissioner, or Senator after the date of a general 
        election in which he was not elected to the succeeding 
        Congress or, in the case of a Member, Delegate, or 
        Resident Commissioner who is not a candidate in a 
        general election, after the earlier of the date of such 
        general election or the adjournment sine die of the 
        last regular session of the Congress.

                               * * * * *

                                RULE XXV

                     Limitations on Outside Earned

                     Income and Acceptance of Gifts

Outside earned income; honoraria
        1. (a) Except as provided by paragraph (b), a Member, 
        Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee 
        of the House may not--
                        (1) have outside earned income 
                        attributable to a calendar year that 
                        exceeds 15 percent of the annual rate 
                        of basic pay for level II of the 
                        Executive Schedule under section 5313 
                        of title 5, United States Code, as of 
                        January 1 of that calendar year; or
                        (2) relieve any honorarium, except that 
                        an officer or employee of the House who 
                        is paid at a rate less than 120 percent 
                        of the minimum rate of basic pay for 
                        GS-15 of the General Schedule may 
                        receive an honorarium unless the 
                        subject matter is directly related to 
                        the official duties of the individual, 
                        the payment is made because of the 
                        status of the individual with the 
                        House, or the person offering the 
                        honorarium has interests that may be 
                        substantially affected by the 
                        performance or nonperformance of the 
                        official duties of the individual.
                (b) In the case of an individual who becomes a 
                Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, 
                officer, or employee of the House, such 
                individual may not have outside earned income 
                attributable to the portion of a calendar year 
                that occurs after such individual becomes a 
                Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, 
                officer, or employee that exceeds 15 percent of 
                the annual rate of basic pay for level II of 
                the Executive Schedule under section 5313 of 
                title 5, United States Code, as of January 1 of 
                that calendar year multiplied by a fraction, 
                the numerator of which is the number of days 
                the individual is a Member, Delegate, Resident 
                Commissioner, officer, or employee during that 
                calendar year and the denominator of which is 
                365.
                (c) A payment in lieu of an honorarium that is 
                made to a charitable organization on behalf of 
                a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, 
                officer, or employee of the House may not be 
                received by that Member, Delegate, Resident 
                Commissioner, officer, or employee. Such a 
                payment may not exceed $2,000 or be made to a 
                charitable organization from which the Member, 
                Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or 
                employee or a parent, sibling, spouse, child, 
                or dependent relative of the Member, Delegate, 
                Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee, 
                derives a financial benefit.
        2. A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, 
        or employee of the House may not--
                (a) receive compensation for affiliating with 
                or being employed by a firm, partnership, 
                association, corporation, or other entity that 
                provides professional services involving a 
                fiduciary relationship except for the practice 
                of medicine.
                (b) permit his name to be sued by such a firm, 
                partnership, association, corporation, or other 
                entity;
                (c) receive compensation for practicing a 
                profession that involves a fiduciary 
                relationship except for the practice of 
                medicine;
                (d) serve for compensation as an officer or 
                member of the board of an association, 
                corporation, or entity;
                (e) receive compensation for teaching, without 
                the prior notification and approval of the 
                Committee on Standards of Official Conduct.

Copyright royalties
        3. (a) A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, 
        officer, or employee of the House may not receive an 
        advance payment on copyright royalties. This paragraph 
        does not prohibit a literary agent, researcher, or 
        other individual (other than an individual employed by 
        the House or a relative of a Member, Delegate Resident 
        Commissioner, officer, or employee) working on behalf 
        of a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, 
        or employee with respect to a publication from 
        receiving an advance payment of a copyright royalty 
        directly from a publisher and solely for the benefit of 
        that literary agent, research, or other individual.
                (b) A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, 
                officer, or employee of the House may not 
                receive copyright royalties under a contract 
                entered into on or after January 1, 1996, 
                unless that contract is first approved by the 
                Committee on Standards of Official Conduct as 
                complying with the requirement of clause 
                4(c)(1)(E) (that royalties are received from an 
                established publisher under usual and customary 
                contractual terms).

Definitions
        4. (a)(1) In this rule, except as provided in 
        subparagraph (2), the term ``officer or employee of the 
        House'' means an individual (other than a Member, 
        Delegate, or Resident Commissioner) whose pay is 
        disbursed by the Chief Administrative Officer, who is 
        paid at a rate equal to or greater than 120 percent of 
        the minimum rate of basic pay for GS-15 of the General 
        Schedule, and who is so employed for more than 90 days 
        in a calendar year.
                        (2)(A) When used with respect to an 
                        honorarium, the term ``officer or 
                        employee of the House'' means and 
                        individual (other than a Member, 
                        Delegate, or Resident Commissioner) 
                        whose salary is disbursed by the Chief 
                        Administrative Officer.
                                (B) When used in clause 5 of 
                                this rule, the terms 
                                ``officer'' and ``employee'' 
                                have the same meanings as in 
                                rule XXIII.
                (b) In this rule the term ``honorarium'' means 
                a payment of money or a thing of value for an 
                appearance, speech, or article (including a 
                series of appearance, speeches, or articles) by 
                a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, 
                officer, or employee of the House, excluding 
                any actual and necessary travel expenses 
                incurred by that Member, Delegate, Resident 
                Commissioner, officer, or employee (and one 
                relative) to the extent that such expenses are 
                paid or reimbursed by any other person. The 
                amount otherwise determined shall be reduced by 
                the amount of any such expenses to the extent 
                that such expenses are not so paid or 
                reimbursed.
                (c) In this rule the term ``travel expenses'' 
                means, with respect to a Member Delegate, 
                Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of 
                the House, or a relative of such Member, 
                Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or 
                employee, the cost of transportation, and the 
                cost of lodging and meals while away from his 
                residence or principal place of employment.
                (d)(1) In this rule the term ``outside earned 
                income'' means, with respect to a Member, 
                Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or 
                employee of the House, wages, salaries, fees, 
                and other amounts received or to be received as 
                compensation for personal services actually 
                rendered, but does not include--
                                (A) the salary of a Member, 
                                Delegate, Resident 
                                Commissioner, officer, or 
                                employee;
                                (B) any compensation derived by 
                                a Member, Delegate, Resident 
                                Commissioner, officer, or 
                                employee of the House for 
                                personal services actually 
                                rendered before the adoption of 
                                this rule or before he or she 
                                became a Member, Delegate, 
                                Resident Commissioner, officer, 
                                of employee;
                                (C) any amount paid by, or on 
                                behalf of, a Member, Delegate, 
                                Resident Commissioner, officer, 
                                or employee of the House to a 
                                tax qualified pension, profit-
                                sharing, or stock bonus plan 
                                and received by him or her from 
                                such a plan;
                                (D) in the case of a Member, 
                                Delegate, Resident 
                                Commissioner, officer, or 
                                employee of the House engaged 
                                in a trade or business in which 
                                he or his family holds a 
                                controlling interest and in 
                                which both personal services 
                                actually rendered by him in the 
                                trade or business do not 
                                generate a significant amount 
                                of income; or
                                (E) copyright royalties 
                                received from established 
                                publishers under usual and 
                                customary contractual terms; 
                                and
                        (2) outside earned income shall be 
                        determined without regard to community 
                        property law.
                (e) In this rule the term ``charitable 
                organization'' means an organization described 
                in section 170(c) of the Internal Revenue code 
                of 1986.

Gifts
        5. (a)(1)(A)(i) A Member, Delegate, Resident 
        Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House may not 
        knowingly accept a gift except as provided in this 
        clause.
                                        (ii) A Member, 
                                        Delegate, Resident 
                                        Commissioner, officer, 
                                        or employee of the 
                                        House may not knowingly 
                                        accept a gift from a 
                                        registered lobbyist or 
                                        agent of a foreign 
                                        principal or from a 
                                        private entity that 
                                        retains or employs 
                                        registered lobbyists or 
                                        agents of a foreign 
                                        principal except as 
                                        provided in 
                                        subparagraph (3) of 
                                        this paragraph.
                                (B)(i) A Member, Delegate, 
                                Resident Commissioner, officer, 
                                or employee of the House may 
                                accept a gift (other than cash 
                                or cash equivalent) not 
                                prohibited by subdivision 
                                (A)(ii) that the Member, 
                                Delegate, Resident 
                                Commissioner, officer, or 
                                employee reasonably and in good 
                                faith believes to have a value 
                                of less than $50 and a 
                                cumulative value from one 
                                source during a calendar year 
                                of less than $100. A gift 
                                having a value of less than $10 
                                does not count toward the $100 
                                annual limit. The value of 
                                perishable food sent to an 
                                office shall be allocated among 
                                the individual recipients and 
                                not to the Member, Delegate, or 
                                Resident Commissioner. Formal 
                                recordkeeping is not required 
                                by this subdivision, but a 
                                Member, Delegate, Resident 
                                Commissioner, officer, or 
                                employee of the House shall 
                                make a good faith effort to 
                                comply with this subdivision.
                                        (ii) A gift of a ticket 
                                        to a sporting or 
                                        entertainment event 
                                        shall be valued at the 
                                        face value of the 
                                        ticket or, in the case 
                                        of a ticket without a 
                                        face value, at the 
                                        highest cost of a 
                                        ticket with a face 
                                        value for the event. 
                                        The price printed on a 
                                        ticket to an event 
                                        shall be deemed its 
                                        face value only if it 
                                        also is the price at 
                                        which the issuer offers 
                                        that ticket for sale to 
                                        the public.
                        (2)(A) In this clause the term ``gift'' 
                        means a gratuity, favor, discount, 
                        entertainment, hospitality, loan, 
                        forbearance, or other item having 
                        monetary value. The term includes gifts 
                        of services, training, transportation, 
                        lodging, and meals, whether provided in 
                        kind, by purchase of a ticket, payment 
                        in advance, or reimbursement after the 
                        expense has been incurred.
                                (B)(i) A gift to a family 
                                member of a Member, Delegate, 
                                Resident Commissioner, officer, 
                                or employee of the House, or a 
                                gift to any other individual 
                                based on that individual's 
                                relationship with the Member, 
                                Delegate, Resident 
                                Commissioner, officer, or 
                                employee, shall be considered a 
                                gift to the Member, Delegate, 
                                Resident Commissioner, officer, 
                                or employee if it is given with 
                                the knowledge and acquiescence 
                                of the Member, Delegate, 
                                Resident Commissioner, officer, 
                                or employee and the Member, 
                                Delegate, Resident 
                                Commissioner, officer, or 
                                employee has reason to believe 
                                the gift was given because of 
                                his official position.
                                        (ii) If food or 
                                        refreshment is provided 
                                        at the same time and 
                                        place to both a Member, 
                                        Delegate, Resident 
                                        Commissioner, officer, 
                                        or employee of the 
                                        House and the spouse or 
                                        dependent thereof, only 
                                        the food or refreshment 
                                        provided to the Member, 
                                        Delegate, Resident 
                                        Commissioner, officer, 
                                        or employee shall be 
                                        treated as a gift for 
                                        purposes of this 
                                        clause.
                        (3) The restrictions in subparagraph 
                        (1) do not apply to the following:
                                (A) Anything for which the 
                                Member, Delegate, Resident 
                                Commissioner, officer, or 
                                employee of the House pays the 
                                market value, or does not use 
                                and promptly returns to the 
                                donor.
                                (B) A contribution, as defined 
                                in section 301(8) of the 
                                Federal Election Campaign Act 
                                of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 431) that is 
                                lawfully made under that Act, a 
                                lawful contribution for 
                                election to a State or local 
                                government office, or 
                                attendance at a fundraising 
                                event sponsored by a political 
                                organization described in 
                                section 527(e) of the Internal 
                                Revenue Code of 1986.
                                (C) A gift from a relative as 
                                described in section 109(16) of 
                                title I of the Ethics in 
                                Government Act of 1978 (5 
                                U.S.C. App. 109(16)).
                                (D)(i) Anything provided by an 
                                individual on the basis of a 
                                personal friendship unless the 
                                Member, Delegate, Resident 
                                Commissioner, officer, or 
                                employee of the House has 
                                reason to believe that, under 
                                the circumstances, the gift was 
                                provided because of his 
                                official position and not 
                                because of the personal 
                                friendship.
                                        (ii) In determining 
                                        whether a gift is 
                                        provided on the basis 
                                        of personal friendship, 
                                        the Member, Delegate, 
                                        Resident Commissioner, 
                                        officer, or employee of 
                                        the House shall 
                                        consider the 
                                        circumstances under 
                                        which the gift was 
                                        offered, such as:
                                        (I) The history of his 
                                        relationship with the 
                                        individual giving the 
                                        gift, including any 
                                        previous exchange of 
                                        gifts between them.
                                        (II) Whether to his 
                                        actual knowledge the 
                                        individual who gave the 
                                        gift personally paid 
                                        for the gift or sought 
                                        a tax deduction or 
                                        business reimbursement 
                                        for the gift.
                                        (III) Whether to his 
                                        actual knowledge the 
                                        individual who gave the 
                                        gift also gave the same 
                                        or similar gifts to 
                                        other Members, 
                                        Delegates, the Resident 
                                        Commissioners, 
                                        officers, or employees 
                                        of the House.
                                (E) Except as provided in 
                                paragraph (e)(3), a 
                                contribution or other payment 
                                to a legal expense fund 
                                established for the benefit of 
                                a Member, Delegate, Resident 
                                Commissioner, officer, or 
                                employee of the House that is 
                                otherwise lawfully made in 
                                accordance with the 
                                restrictions and disclosure 
                                requirements of the Committee 
                                on Standards of Official 
                                Conduct.
                                (F) A gift from another Member, 
                                Delegate, Resident 
                                Commissioner, officer, or 
                                employee of the House or 
                                Senate.
                                (G) Food, refreshments, 
                                lodging, transportation, and 
                                other benefits--
                                        (i) resulting from the 
                                        outside business or 
                                        employment activities 
                                        of the Member, 
                                        Delegate, Resident 
                                        Commissioner, officer, 
                                        or employee of the 
                                        House (or other outside 
                                        activities that are not 
                                        connected to his duties 
                                        as an officeholder), or 
                                        of his spouse, if such 
                                        benefits have not been 
                                        offered or enhanced 
                                        because of his official 
                                        position and are 
                                        customarily provided to 
                                        others in similar 
                                        circumstances;
                                        (ii) customarily 
                                        provided by a 
                                        prospective employer in 
                                        connection with bona 
                                        fide employment 
                                        discussions; or
                                        (iii) provided by a 
                                        political organization 
                                        described in section 
                                        527(e) of the Internal 
                                        Revenue Code of 1986 in 
                                        connection with a 
                                        fundraising or campaign 
                                        event sponsored by such 
                                        organization.
                                (H) Pension and other benefits 
                                resulting from continued 
                                participation in an employee 
                                welfare and benefits plan 
                                maintained by a former 
                                employer.
                                (I) Informational materials 
                                that are sent to the office of 
                                the Member, Delegate, Resident 
                                Commissioner, officer, or 
                                employee of the House in the 
                                form of books, articles, 
                                periodicals, other written 
                                materials, audiotapes, 
                                videotapes, or other forms of 
                                communication.
                                (J) Awards or prizes that are 
                                given to competitors in 
                                contests or events open to the 
                                public, including random 
                                drawings.
                                (K) Honorary degrees (and 
                                associated travel, food, 
                                refreshments, and 
                                entertainment) and other bona 
                                fide, nonmonetary awards 
                                presented in recognition of 
                                public service (and associated 
                                food, refreshments, and 
                                entertainment provided in the 
                                presentation of such degrees 
                                and awards).
                                (L) Training (including food 
                                and refreshments furnished to 
                                all attendees as an integral 
                                part of the training) if such 
                                training is in the interest of 
                                the House.
                                (M) Bequests, inheritances, and 
                                other transfers at death.
                                (N) An item, the receipt of 
                                which is authorized by the 
                                Foreign Gifts and Decorations 
                                Act, the Mutual Educational and 
                                Cultural Exchange Act, or any 
                                other statute.
                                (O) Anything that is paid for 
                                by the Federal Government, by a 
                                State or local government, or 
                                secured by the Government under 
                                a Government contract.
                                (P) A gift of personal 
                                hospitality (as defined in 
                                section 109(14) of the Ethics 
                                in Government Act) of an 
                                individual other than a 
                                registered lobbyist or agent of 
                                a foreign principal.
                                (Q) Free attendance at a widely 
                                attended event permitted under 
                                subparagraph (4).
                                (R) Opportunities and benefits 
                                that are--
                                        (i) available to the 
                                        public or to a class 
                                        consisting of all 
                                        Federal employees, 
                                        whether or not 
                                        restricted on the basis 
                                        of geographic 
                                        consideration;
                                        (ii) offered to members 
                                        of a group or class in 
                                        which membership is 
                                        unrelated to 
                                        congressional 
                                        employment;
                                        (iii) offered to 
                                        members of an 
                                        organization, such as 
                                        an employees' 
                                        association or 
                                        congressional credit 
                                        union, in which 
                                        membership is related 
                                        to congressional 
                                        employment and similar 
                                        opportunities are 
                                        available to large 
                                        segments of the public 
                                        through organizations 
                                        of similar size;
                                        (iv) offered to a group 
                                        or class that is not 
                                        defined in a manner 
                                        that specifically 
                                        discriminates among 
                                        Government employees on 
                                        the basis of branch of 
                                        Government or type of 
                                        responsibility, or on a 
                                        basis that favors those 
                                        of higher rank or rate 
                                        of pay;
                                        (v) in the form of 
                                        loans from banks and 
                                        other financial 
                                        institutions on terms 
                                        generally available to 
                                        the public; or
                                        (vi) in the form of 
                                        reduced membership or 
                                        other fees for 
                                        participation in 
                                        organization activities 
                                        offered to all 
                                        Government employees by 
                                        professional 
                                        organizations if the 
                                        only restrictions on 
                                        membership relate to 
                                        professional 
                                        qualifications.
                                (S) A plaque, trophy, or other 
                                item that is substantially 
                                commemorative in nature and 
                                that is intended for 
                                presentation.
                                (T) Anything for which, in an 
                                unusual case, a waiver is 
                                granted by the Committee on 
                                Standards of Official Conduct.
                                (U) Food or refreshments of a 
                                nominal value offered other 
                                than as a part of a meal.
                                (V) Donations of products from 
                                the district or State that the 
                                Member, Delegate, or Resident 
                                Commissioner represents that 
                                are intended primarily for 
                                promotional purposes, such as 
                                display or free distribution, 
                                and are of minimal value to any 
                                single recipient.
                                (W) An item of nominal value 
                                such as a greeting card, 
                                baseball cap, or a T-shirt.
                        (4)(A) A Member, Delegate, Resident 
                        Commissioner, officer, or employee of 
                        the House may accept an offer of free 
                        attendance at a widely attended 
                        convention, conference, symposium, 
                        forum, panel discussion, dinner, 
                        viewing, reception, or similar event, 
                        provided by the sponsor of the event, 
                        if--
                                        (i) the Member, 
                                        Delegate, Resident 
                                        Commissioner, officer, 
                                        or employee of the 
                                        House participates in 
                                        the event as a speaker 
                                        or a panel participant, 
                                        by presenting 
                                        information related to 
                                        Congress or matters 
                                        before Congress, or by 
                                        performing a ceremonial 
                                        function appropriate to 
                                        his official position; 
                                        or
                                        (ii) attendance at the 
                                        event is appropriate to 
                                        the performance of the 
                                        official duties or 
                                        representative function 
                                        of the Member, 
                                        Delegate, Resident 
                                        Commissioner, officer, 
                                        or employee of the 
                                        House.
                                (B) A Member, Delegate, 
                                Resident Commissioner, officer, 
                                or employee of the House who 
                                attends an event described in 
                                subdivision (A) may accept a 
                                sponsor's unsolicited offer of 
                                free attendance at the event 
                                for an accompanying individual.
                                (C) A Member, Delegate, 
                                Resident Commissioner, officer, 
                                or employee of the House, or 
                                the spouse or dependent 
                                thereof, may accept a sponsor's 
                                unsolicited offer of free 
                                attendance at a charity event, 
                                except that reimbursement for 
                                transportation and lodging may 
                                not be accepted in connection 
                                with the event unless--
                                        (i) all of the net 
                                        proceeds of the event 
                                        are for the benefit of 
                                        an organization 
                                        described in section 
                                        501(c)(3) of the 
                                        Internal Revenue Code 
                                        of 1986 and exempt from 
                                        taxation under section 
                                        501(a) of such Code;
                                        (ii) reimbursement for 
                                        the transportation and 
                                        lodging in connection 
                                        with the event is paid 
                                        by such organization; 
                                        and
                                        (iii) the offer of free 
                                        attendance at the event 
                                        is made by such 
                                        organization.
                                (D) In this paragraph the term 
                                ``free attendance'' may include 
                                waiver of all or part of a 
                                conference or other fee, the 
                                provision of local 
                                transportation, or the 
                                provision of food, 
                                refreshments, entertainment, 
                                and instructional materials 
                                furnished to all attendees as 
                                an integral part of the event. 
                                The term does not include 
                                entertainment collateral to the 
                                event, nor does it include food 
                                or refreshments taken other 
                                than in a group setting with 
                                all or substantially all other 
                                attendees.
                        (5) A Member, Delegate, Resident 
                        Commissioner, officer, or employee of 
                        the House may not accept a gift of 
                        value which exceeds $250 on the basis 
                        of the personal friendship exception in 
                        subparagraph (3)(D) unless the 
                        Committee on Standards of Official 
                        Conduct issues a written determination 
                        that such exception applies. A 
                        determination under this subparagraph 
                        is not required for gifts given on the 
                        basis of the family relationship 
                        exception in subparagraph (3)(C).
                        (6) When it is not practicable to 
                        return a tangible item because it is 
                        perishable, the item may, at the 
                        discretion of the recipient, be given 
                        to an appropriate charity or destroyed.
                (b)(1)(A) A reimbursement (including payment in 
                kind) to a Member, Delegate, Resident 
                Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House 
                for necessary transportation, lodging, and 
                related expenses for travel to a meeting, 
                speaking engagement, factfinding trip, or 
                similar event in connection with his duties as 
                an officeholder shall be considered as a 
                reimbursement to the House and not a gift 
                prohibited by this clause when it is from a 
                private source other than a registered lobbyist 
                or agent of a foreign principal or a private 
                entity that retains or employs registered 
                lobbyists or agents of a foreign principal 
                (except as provided in subdivision (C)), if the 
                Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, 
                officer, or employee--
                                        (i) in the case of an 
                                        employee, receives 
                                        advance authorization, 
                                        from the Member, 
                                        Delegate, Resident 
                                        Commissioner, or 
                                        officer under whose 
                                        direct supervision the 
                                        employee works, to 
                                        accept reimbursement; 
                                        and
                                        (ii) discloses the 
                                        expenses reimbursed or 
                                        to be reimbursed and 
                                        the authorization to 
                                        the Clerk within 15 
                                        days after the travel 
                                        is completed.
                                (B) For purposes of subdivision 
                                (A), events, the activities of 
                                which are substantially 
                                recreational in nature, are not 
                                considered to be in connection 
                                with the duties of a Member, 
                                Delegate, Resident 
                                Commissioner, officer, or 
                                employee of the House as an 
                                officeholder.
                                (C) A reimbursement (including 
                                payment in kind) to a Member, 
                                Delegate, Resident 
                                Commissioner, officer, or 
                                employee of the House for any 
                                purpose described in 
                                subdivision (A) also shall be 
                                considered as a reimbursement 
                                to the House and not a gift 
                                prohibited by this clause 
                                (without regard to whether the 
                                source retains or employs 
                                registered lobbyists or agents 
                                of a foreign principal) if it 
                                is, under regulations 
                                prescribed by the Committee on 
                                Standards of Official Conduct 
                                to implement this provision--
                                        (i) directly from an 
                                        institution of higher 
                                        education within the 
                                        meaning of section 101 
                                        of the Higher Education 
                                        Act of 1965; or
                                        (ii) provided only for 
                                        attendance at or 
                                        participation in a one-
                                        day event (exclusive of 
                                        travel time and an 
                                        overnight stay).
Regulations prescribed to implement this provision may permit a 
two-night stay when determined by the committee on a case-by-
case basis to be practically required to participate in the 
one-day event.
                        (2) Each advance authorization to 
                        accept reimbursement shall be signed by 
                        the Member, Delegate, Resident 
                        Commissioner, or officer of the House 
                        under whose direct supervision the 
                        employee works and shall include--
                                (A) the name of the employee;
                                (B) the name of the person who 
                                will make the reimbursement;
                                (C) the time, place, and 
                                purpose of the travel; and
                                (D) a determination that the 
                                travel is in connection with 
                                the duties of the employee as 
                                an officeholder and would not 
                                create the appearance that the 
                                employee is using public office 
                                for private gain.
                        (3) Each disclosure made under 
                        subparagraph (1)(A) shall be signed by 
                        the Member, Delegate, Resident 
                        Commissioner, or officer (in the case 
                        of travel by that Member, Delegate, 
                        Resident Commissioner, or officer) or 
                        by the Member, Delegate, Resident 
                        Commissioner, or officer under whose 
                        direct supervision the employee works 
                        (in the case of travel by an employee) 
                        and shall include--
                                (A) a good faith estimate of 
                                total transportation expenses 
                                reimbursed or to be reimbursed;
                                (B) a good faith estimate of 
                                total lodging expenses 
                                reimbursed or to be reimbursed;
                                (C) a good faith estimate of 
                                total meal expenses reimbursed 
                                or to be reimbursed;
                                (D) a good faith estimate of 
                                the total of other expenses 
                                reimbursed or to be reimbursed;
                                (E) a determination that all 
                                such expenses are necessary 
                                transportation, lodging, and 
                                related expenses as defined in 
                                subparagraph (4);
                                (F) a description of meetings 
                                and events attended; and
                                (G) in the case of a 
                                reimbursement to a Member, 
                                Delegate, Resident 
                                Commissioner, or officer, a 
                                determination that the travel 
                                was in connection with his 
                                duties as an officeholder and 
                                would not create the appearance 
                                that the Member, Delegate, 
                                Resident Commissioner, or 
                                officer is using public office 
                                for private gain.
                        (4) In this paragraph the term 
                        ``necessary transportation, lodging, 
                        and related expenses''--
                                (A) includes reasonable 
                                expenses that are necessary for 
                                travel for a period not 
                                exceeding four days within the 
                                United States or seven days 
                                exclusive of travel time 
                                outside of the United States 
                                unless approved in advance by 
                                the Committee on Standards of 
                                Official Conduct;
                                (B) is limited to reasonable 
                                expenditures for 
                                transportation, lodging, 
                                conference fees and materials, 
                                and food and refreshments, 
                                including reimbursement for 
                                necessary transportation, 
                                whether or not such 
                                transportation occurs within 
                                the periods described in 
                                subdivision (A);
                                (C) does not include 
                                expenditures for recreational 
                                activities, nor does it include 
                                entertainment other than that 
                                provided to all attendees as an 
                                integral part of the event, 
                                except for activities or 
                                entertainment otherwise 
                                permissible under this clause; 
                                and
                                (D) may include travel expenses 
                                incurred on behalf of a 
                                relative of the Member, 
                                Delegate, Resident 
                                Commissioner, officer, or 
                                employee.
                        (5) The Clerk of the House shall make 
                        all advance authorizations, 
                        certifications, and disclosures filed 
                        pursuant to this paragraph available 
                        for public inspection as soon as 
                        possible after they are received.
                (c)(1)(A) Except as provided in subdivision 
                (B), a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, 
                officer, or employee of the House may not 
                accept a reimbursement (including payment in 
                kind) for transportation, lodging, or related 
                expenses for a trip on which the traveler is 
                accompanied on any segment by a registered 
                lobbyist or agent of a foreign principal.
                                (B) Subdivision (A) does not 
                                apply to a trip for which the 
                                source of reimbursement is an 
                                institution of higher education 
                                within the meaning of section 
                                101 of the Higher Education Act 
                                of 1965.
                        (2) A Member, Delegate, Resident 
                        Commissioner, officer, or employee of 
                        the House may not accept a 
                        reimbursement (including payment in 
                        kind) for transportation, lodging, or 
                        related expenses under the exception in 
                        paragraph (b)(1)(C)(ii) of this clause 
                        for a trip that is financed in whole or 
                        in part by a private entity that 
                        retains or employs registered lobbyists 
                        or agents of a foreign principal unless 
                        any involvement of a registered 
                        lobbyist or agent of a foreign 
                        principal in the planning, 
                        organization, request, or arrangement 
                        of the trip is de minimis under rules 
                        prescribed by the Committee on 
                        Standards of Official Conduct to 
                        implement paragraph (b)(1)(C) of this 
                        clause.
                        (3) A Member, Delegate, Resident 
                        Commissioner, officer, or employee of 
                        the House may not accept a 
                        reimbursement (including payment in 
                        kind) for transportation, lodging, or 
                        related expenses for a trip (other than 
                        a trip permitted under paragraph 
                        (b)(1)(C) of this clause) if such trip 
                        is in any part planned, organized, 
                        requested, or arranged by a registered 
                        lobbyist or agent of a foreign 
                        principal.
                (d) A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, 
                officer, or employee of the House shall, before 
                accepting travel otherwise permissible under 
                paragraph (b)(1) of this clause from any 
                private source--
                        (1) provide to the Committee on 
                        Standards of Official Conduct before 
                        such trip a written certification 
                        signed by the source or (in the case of 
                        a corporate person) by an officer of 
                        the source--
                                (A) that the trip will not be 
                                financed in any part by a 
                                registered lobbyist or agent of 
                                a foreign principal;
                                (B) that the source either--
                                        (i) does not retain or 
                                        employ registered 
                                        lobbyists or agents of 
                                        a foreign principal; or
                                        (ii) is an institution 
                                        of higher education 
                                        within the meaning of 
                                        section 101 of the 
                                        Higher Education Act of 
                                        1965; or
                                        (iii) certifies that 
                                        the trip meets the 
                                        requirements specified 
                                        in rules prescribed by 
                                        the Committee on 
                                        Standards of Official 
                                        Conduct to implement 
                                        paragraph (b)(1)(C)(ii) 
                                        of this clause and 
                                        specifically details 
                                        the extent of any 
                                        involvement of a 
                                        registered lobbyist or 
                                        agent of a foreign 
                                        principal in the 
                                        planning, organization, 
                                        request, or arrangement 
                                        of the trip considered 
                                        to qualify as de 
                                        minimis under such 
                                        rules;
                                (C) that the source will not 
                                accept from another source any 
                                funds earmarked directly or 
                                indirectly for the purpose of 
                                financing any aspect of the 
                                trip;
                                (D) that the traveler will not 
                                be accompanied on any segment 
                                of the trip by a registered 
                                lobbyist or agent of a foreign 
                                principal (except in the case 
                                of a trip for which the source 
                                of reimbursement is an 
                                institution of higher education 
                                within the meaning of section 
                                101 of the Higher Education Act 
                                of 1965); and
                                (E) that (except as permitted 
                                in paragraph (b)(1)(C) of this 
                                clause) the trip will not in 
                                any part be planned, organized, 
                                requested, or arranged by a 
                                registered lobbyist or agent of 
                                a foreign principal; and
                        (2) after the Committee on Standards of 
                        Official Conduct has promulgated the 
                        regulations mandated in paragraph 
                        (i)(1)(B) of this clause, obtain the 
                        prior approval of the committee for 
                        such trip.
                (e) A gift prohibited by paragraph (a)(1) 
                includes the following:
                        (1) Anything provided by a registered 
                        lobbyist or an agent of a foreign 
                        principal to an entity that is 
                        maintained or controlled by a Member, 
                        Delegate, Resident Commissioner, 
                        officer, or employee of the House.
                        (2) A charitable contribution (as 
                        defined in section 170(c) of the 
                        Internal Revenue Code of 1986) made by 
                        a registered lobbyist or an agent of a 
                        foreign principal on the basis of a 
                        designation, recommendation, or other 
                        specification of a Member, Delegate, 
                        Resident Commissioner, officer, or 
                        employee of the House (not including a 
                        mass mailing or other solicitation 
                        directed to a broad category of persons 
                        or entities), other than a charitable 
                        contribution permitted by paragraph 
                        (f).
                        (3) A contribution or other payment by 
                        a registered lobbyist or an agent of a 
                        foreign principal to a legal expense 
                        fund established for the benefit of a 
                        Member, Delegate, Resident 
                        Commissioner, officer, or employee of 
                        the House.
                        (4) A financial contribution or 
                        expenditure made by a registered 
                        lobbyist or an agent of a foreign 
                        principal relating to a conference, 
                        retreat, or similar event, sponsored by 
                        or affiliated with an official 
                        congressional organization, for or on 
                        behalf of Members, Delegates, the 
                        Resident Commissioner, officers, or 
                        employees of the House.
                (f)(1) A charitable contribution (as defined in 
                section 170(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 
                1986) made by a registered lobbyist or an agent 
                of a foreign principal in lieu of an honorarium 
                to a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, 
                officer, or employee of the House is not 
                considered a gift under this clause if it is 
                reported as provided in subparagraph (2).
                        (2) A Member, Delegate, Resident 
                        Commissioner, officer, or employee who 
                        designates or recommends a contribution 
                        to a charitable organization in lieu of 
                        an honorarium described in subparagraph 
                        (1) shall report within 30 days after 
                        such designation or recommendation to 
                        the Clerk--
                                (A) the name and address of the 
                                registered lobbyist who is 
                                making the contribution in lieu 
                                of an honorarium;
                                (B) the date and amount of the 
                                contribution; and
                                (C) the name and address of the 
                                charitable organization 
                                designated or recommended by 
                                the Member, Delegate, or 
                                Resident Commissioner. The 
                                Clerk shall make public 
                                information received under this 
                                subparagraph as soon as 
                                possible after it is received.
                (g) In this clause--
                        (1) the term ``registered lobbyist'' 
                        means a lobbyist registered under the 
                        Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act or 
                        any successor statute;
                        (2) the term ``agent of a foreign 
                        principal'' means an agent of a foreign 
                        principal registered under the Foreign 
                        Agents Registration Act; and
                        (3) the terms ``officer'' and 
                        ``employee'' have the same meanings as 
                        in rule XXIII.
                (h) All the provisions of this clause shall be 
                interpreted and enforced solely by the 
                Committee on Standards of Official Conduct. The 
                Committee on Standards of Official Conduct is 
                authorized to issue guidance on any matter 
                contained in this clause.
                (i)(1) Not later than 45 days after the date of 
                adoption of this paragraph and at annual 
                intervals thereafter, the Committee on 
                Standards of Official Conduct shall develop and 
                revise, as necessary--
                                (A) guidelines on judging the 
                                reasonableness of an expense or 
                                expenditure for purposes of 
                                this clause, including the 
                                factors that tend to 
                                establish--
                                        (i) a connection 
                                        between a trip and 
                                        official duties;
                                        (ii) the reasonableness 
                                        of an amount spent by a 
                                        sponsor;
                                        (iii) a relationship 
                                        between an event and an 
                                        officially connected 
                                        purpose; and
                                        (iv) a direct and 
                                        immediate relationship 
                                        between a source of 
                                        funding and an event; 
                                        and
                                (B) regulations describing the 
                                information it will require 
                                individuals subject to this 
                                clause to submit to the 
                                committee in order to obtain 
                                the prior approval of the 
                                committee for any travel 
                                covered by this clause, 
                                including any required 
                                certifications.
                        (2) In developing and revising 
                        guidelines under paragraph (1)(A), the 
                        committee shall take into account the 
                        maximum per diem rates for official 
                        Government travel published annually by 
                        the General Services Administration, 
                        the Department of State, and the 
                        Department of Defense.

Claims against the Government
        6. A person may not be an officer or employee of the 
        House, or continue in its employment, if he acts as an 
        agent for the prosecution of a claim against the 
        Government or if he is interested in such claim, except 
        as an original claimant or in the proper discharge of 
        official duties.

           Legislative History To Accompany Changes to Rule X

                             109th Congress

               [Congressional Record H25 January 4, 2005]

             Rule X and the Committee on Homeland Security

                          Legislative history

    Overall homeland security policy--The jurisdiction of the 
Committee on Homeland Security over ``overall homeland security 
policy'' is to be interpreted on a government-wide or multi-
agency basis similar to the Committee on Government Reform's 
jurisdiction over ``overall economy, efficiency, and management 
of government operations and activities. . . .'' Surgical 
addresses of homeland security policy in sundry areas of 
jurisdiction occupied by other committees would not be referred 
to the Committee on Homeland Security on the basis of 
``overall'' homeland security policy jurisdiction. For example, 
the Committee on Homeland Security shall have jurisdiction over 
a bill coordinating the homeland security efforts by all of the 
critical infrastructure protection sectors. Jurisdiction over a 
bill addressing the protection of a particular sector would lie 
with the committee otherwise having jurisdiction over that 
sector. Organization and administration of the Department of 
Homeland Security--The jurisdiction of the Committee on 
Homeland Security would apply only to organizational or 
administrative aspects of the Department where another 
committee's jurisdiction did not clearly apply. The Committee's 
jurisdiction is to be confined to organizational and 
administrative efforts and would not apply to programmatic 
efforts within the Department of Homeland Security within the 
jurisdiction of other committees. Homeland Security Oversight--
this would vest the Committee on Homeland Security with 
oversight jurisdiction over the homeland security community of 
the United States. Nothing in this clause shall be construed as 
prohibiting or otherwise restricting the authority of any other 
committee to study and review homeland security activities to 
the extent that such activity directly affects a matter 
otherwise within the jurisdiction of that committee.

Individual committee concerns
    Agriculture--The jurisdiction of the Committee on Homeland 
Security over ``border and port security'' shall be limited to 
agricultural importation and entry inspection activities of the 
Department of Homeland Security under section 421 of the 
Homeland Security Act of 2002. The Committee on Agriculture 
shall retain jurisdiction over animal and plant disease policy 
including the authority reserved to the Department of 
Agriculture to regulate policy under section 421 of the 
Homeland Security Act of 2002, and the Animal Health Protection 
Act, the Plant Protection Act, the Plant Quarantine Act, and 
the Agriculture Quarantine Inspection User Fee Account. The 
Committee on Agriculture shall retain jurisdiction over the 
agricultural research and diagnosis mission at the Plum Island 
Animal Disease Center.
    Armed Services--The Committee on Armed Services shall 
retain jurisdiction over warfighting, the military defense of 
the United States, and other military activities, including any 
military response to terrorism, pursuant to section 876 of the 
Homeland Security Act of 2002.
    Energy and Commerce--The Committee on Homeland Security 
shall have jurisdiction over measures that address the 
Department of Homeland Security's activities for domestic 
preparedness and collective response to terrorism. The words 
``to terrorism'' require a direct relation to terrorism. The 
Committee on Homeland Security's jurisdiction over ``collective 
response to terrorism'' means that it shall receive referrals 
of bills addressing the Department of Homeland Security's 
responsibilities for, and assistance to, first responders as a 
whole. The Committee on Energy and Commerce (and other relevant 
committees) shall retain their jurisdiction over bills 
addressing the separate entities that comprise the first 
responders. For example, the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
shall retain its jurisdiction over a bill directing the 
Department of Health and Human Services to train emergency 
medical personnel.
    Financial Services--The Committee on Financial Services 
shall retain jurisdiction over the National Flood Insurance 
Program and Emergency Food and Shelter Program of FEMA, and the 
Defense Production Act. The Committee on Financial Services 
shall retain its jurisdiction over the anti-money laundering, 
terrorist financing, and anti-counterfeiting activities within 
the Department of the Treasury and the financial regulators.
    Government Reform--The Committee on Homeland Security shall 
have jurisdiction over ``the organization and administration of 
the Department of Homeland Security.'' The Committee on 
Government Reform shall retain jurisdiction over federal civil 
service, the overall economy, efficiency, and management of 
government operations and activities, including Federal 
procurement, and federal paperwork reduction. The Committee on 
Government Reform shall retain jurisdiction over government-
wide information management efforts including the Federal 
Information Security Management Act. The Committee on Homeland 
Security shall have jurisdiction over integration, analysis, 
and dissemination of homeland security information by the 
Department of Homeland Security, and the Committee on 
Government Reform shall retain jurisdiction over measures 
addressing public information and records generally including 
the Privacy Act and the Freedom of Information Act. The 
Committee on Government Reform shall have jurisdiction over the 
policy coordination responsibilities of the Office of 
Counternarcotics Enforcement.
    Intelligence--The Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence shall retain jurisdiction over the intelligence 
and intelligence--related activities of all departments and 
agencies of the Federal Government, including the Office of the 
Director of National Intelligence and the National 
Counterterrorism Center as defined in the Intelligence Reform 
and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004.
    Judiciary--The Committee on the Judiciary shall retain 
jurisdiction over immigration policy and non-border enforcement 
of the immigration laws. Its jurisdiction over immigration 
policy shall include matters such as the immigration and 
naturalization process, numbers of aliens (including immigrants 
and non-immigrants) allowed, classifications and lengths of 
allowable stay, the adjudication of immigration petitions and 
the requirements for the same, the domestic adjudication of 
immigration petitions and applications submitted to the 
Department of Labor or the Department of Homeland Security and 
setting policy with regard to visa issuance and acceptance. Its 
jurisdiction over non-border enforcement shall be limited to 
those aspects of immigration enforcement not associated with 
the immediate entry of individuals into the country, including 
those aspects of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs 
Enforcement. The Committee on Homeland Security shall have 
jurisdiction over border and port security including the 
immigration responsibilities of inspectors at ports of entry 
and the border patrol. As used in the new Rule X(1)(l)(9) and 
this legislative history, the word ``immigration'' shall be 
construed to include ``naturalization'' and no substantive 
change is intended by the new rule's not containing the word 
``naturalization.''
    Science--The Committee on Science shall retain some 
jurisdiction over the research and development activities of 
the Department of Homeland Security as such matters are 
incidental to the Committee on Science's existing jurisdiction 
(except where those activities are in the jurisdiction of 
another committee).
    Transportation and Infrastructure--The Committee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure shall retain jurisdiction 
over the Coast Guard. However, the Committee on Homeland 
Security has jurisdiction over port security, and some Coast 
Guard responsibilities in that area will fall within the 
jurisdiction of both committees. Jurisdiction over emergency 
preparedness will be split between the Committee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure and the Committee on Homeland 
Security. The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 
shall retain its jurisdiction under clause 1(r)(2) over 
``federal management of emergencies and natural disasters.'' 
This means that the committee retains its general jurisdiction 
over the emergency preparedness and response operations of the 
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Bills addressing 
FEMA's general preparation for disaster from any cause shall be 
referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. 
The Committee on Homeland Security shall have jurisdiction over 
the Department of Homeland Security's responsibilities with 
regard to emergency preparedness only as they relate to acts of 
terrorism. Thus, the Committee on Homeland Security shall have 
jurisdiction over the responsibilities of the Office for 
Domestic Preparedness, in accordance with section 430 of the 
Homeland Security Act of 2002. As indicated earlier, the 
Committee on Homeland Security's jurisdiction over ``collective 
response to terrorism'' means that it would receive referrals 
of bills addressing the Department of Homeland Security's 
responsibilities for, and assistance to, first responders as a 
whole and not over measures addressing first responder 
communities individually. The Committee on Homeland Security 
shall have jurisdiction over the functions of the Department of 
Homeland Security relating to transportation security, while 
the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure shall retain 
its jurisdiction over transportation safety. In general, the 
Committee on Homeland Security would have jurisdiction over 
bills addressing the Transportation Security Administration and 
the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure would have 
jurisdiction over bills addressing the various entities within 
the Department of Transportation having responsibility for 
transportation safety, such as the Federal Aviation 
Administration and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety 
Administration. The jurisdiction of the Committee on Homeland 
Security does not include expenditures from trust funds under 
the jurisdiction of other committees, including but not limited 
to the Highway Trust Fund, the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, 
the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund, the Federal Buildings Fund, 
and the Inland Waterways Trust Fund.
    Ways and Means--The jurisdiction of the Committee on Ways 
and Means over ``customs revenue'' is intended to include those 
functions contemplated in section 412(b)(2) of the Homeland 
Security Act of 2002 and includes those functions as carried 
out in collection districts and ports of entry and delivery.

                                ------                                


                      MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING

                                BETWEEN

         THE COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE AND

                   THE COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY

              [Congressional Record H15, January 4, 2007]

    On January 4, 2005, the U.S. House of Representatives 
adopted H. Res. 5, establishing the Rules of the House for the 
109th Congress. Section 2(a) established the Committee on 
Homeland Security as a standing committee of the House of 
Representatives with specific legislative jurisdiction under 
House Rule X. A legislative history to accompany the changes to 
House Rule X was inserted in the Congressional Record on 
January 4, 2005.
    The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and the 
Committee on Homeland Security (hereinafter ``Committees'') 
jointly agree to the January 4, 2005 legislative history as the 
authoritative source of legislative history of section 2(a) of 
H. Res. 5 with the following two clarifications.
    First, with regard to the Federal Emergency Management 
Agency's, FEMA, emergency preparedness and response programs, 
the Committee on Homeland Security has jurisdiction over the 
Department of Homeland Security's responsibilities with regard 
to emergency preparedness and collective response only as they 
relate to terrorism. However, in light of the federal emergency 
management reforms that were enacted as title VI of Public Law 
109(295, a bill amending FEMA's all-hazards emergency 
preparedness programs that necessarily addresses FEMA's 
terrorism preparedness programs would be referred to the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure; in addition, 
the Committee on Homeland Security would have a jurisdictional 
interest in such bill. Nothing in this Memorandum of 
Understanding affects the jurisdiction of the Committee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure of the Robert T. Stafford 
Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act and the Federal 
Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974.
    Second, with regard to port security, the Committee on 
Homeland Security has jurisdiction over port security, and some 
Coast Guard responsibilities in that area fall within the 
jurisdiction of both Committees. A bill addressing the 
activities, programs, assets, and personnel of the Coast Guard 
as they relate to port security and non-port security missions 
would be referred to the Committee on Transportation and 
Infrastructure; in addition, the Committee on Homeland Security 
would have a jurisdictional interest in such bill.
    This Memorandum of Understanding between the Committee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure and the Committee on Homeland 
Security provides further clarification to the January 4, 2005 
legislative history of the jurisdiction of the Committees only 
with regard to these two specific issues. The Memorandum does 
not address any other issues and does not affect the 
jurisdiction of other committees.
                                  James L. Oberstar
                                        Chairman-designate,
                       Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure

                                 Bennie G. Thompson
                                        Chairman-designate,
                                     Committee on Homeland Security

                                 
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