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                      COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

                     U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                               __________

                            MANUAL OF RULES

                                 of the

                      COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

                               during the

                       ONE HUNDRED TENTH CONGRESS

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                      COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

                 CHARLES B. RANGEL, New York, Chairman
FORTNEY PETE STARK, California       JIM McCRERY, Louisiana
SANDER M. LEVIN, Michigan            WALLY HERGER, California
JIM McDERMOTT, Washington            DAVE CAMP, Michigan
JOHN LEWIS, Georgia                  JIM RAMSTAD, Minnesota
RICHARD E. NEAL, Massachusetts       SAM JOHNSON, Texas
MICHAEL R. McNULTY, New York         PHIL ENGLISH, Pennsylvania
JOHN S. TANNER, Tennessee            JERRY WELLER, Illinois
XAVIER BECERRA, California           KENNY HULSHOF, Missouri
LLOYD DOGGETT, Texas                 RON LEWIS, Kentucky
EARL POMEROY, North Dakota           KEVIN BRADY, Texas
STEPHANIE TUBBS JONES, Ohio          THOMAS M. REYNOLDS, New York
MIKE THOMPSON, California            PAUL RYAN, Wisconsin
JOHN B. LARSON, Connecticut          ERIC CANTOR, Virginia
RAHM EMANUEL, Illinois               JOHN LINDER, Georgia
EARL BLUMENAUER, Oregon              DEVIN NUNES, California
RON KIND, Wisconsin                  PAT TIBERI, Ohio
BILL PASCRELL Jr., New Jersey        JON PORTER, Nevada
SHELLEY BERKLEY, Nevada
JOSEPH CROWLEY, New York
CHRIS VAN HOLLEN, Maryland
KENDRICK MEEK, Florida
ALLYSON Y. SCHWARTZ, Pennsylvania
ARTUR DAVIS, Alabama
             Janice Mays, Chief Counsel and Staff Director
                  Brett Loper, Minority Staff Director

                                FOREWORD

    This manual has been prepared to assist Members of the 
Committee on Ways and Means, its staff, and the public. It 
presents in two parts various rules that affect the 
organization and procedures of the Committee on Ways and Means. 
Part I contains rules adopted by the Committee for the 110th 
Congress. Part II contains selected Rules of the House of 
Representatives, which are also a part of the rules of the 
Committee, affecting all standing committees of the House.


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Foreword.........................................................   III

            PART I--RULES OF THE COMMITTEE ON WAY AND MEANS
                               A. General

Rule 1. Application of House Rules...............................     3
Rule 2. Meeting Date and Quorums.................................     3
Rule 3. Committee Budget.........................................     3
Rule 4. Publication of Committee Documents.......................     4
Rule 5. Official Travel..........................................     4
Rule 6. Availability of Committee Records and publications.......     5
Rule 7. Committee Website........................................     5

                            B. Subcommittees

Rule 8. Subcommittee Ratios and Jurisdiction.....................     5
    1. The Subcommittee on Trade.................................     6
    2. The Subcommittee on Oversight.............................     6
    3. The Subcommittee on Health................................     6
    4. The Subcommittee on Social Security.......................     7
    5. The Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support....     7
    6. The Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures...............     7
Rule 9. Ex-Officio Members.......................................     8
Rule 10. Subcommittee Meetings...................................     8
Rule 11. Reference of Legislation and Subcommittee Reports.......     8
Rule 12. Recommendation for Appointment of Conferees.............     8

                              C. Hearings

Rule 13. Witnesses...............................................     9
Rule 14. Questioning of Witnesses................................     9
Rule 15. Subpoena Power..........................................    10
Rule 16. Records of Hearings.....................................    10
Rule 17. Broadcasting of Hearings................................    10

                               D. Markups

Rule 18. Previous Question.......................................    10
Rule 19. Postponement of Proceedings.............................    10
Rule 20. Motion to go to Conference..............................    11
Rule 21. Official Transcripts of Markups and Other Committee 
  Meetings.......................................................    11
Rule 22. Publication of Decisions and Legislative Language.......    11

                                E. Staff

Rule 23. Supervision of Committee Staff..........................    12

        PART II--SELECTED RULES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Rule VII. Records Of The House...................................    15
    Archiving....................................................    15
    Public Availability..........................................    15
    Definition of Record.........................................    16
Rule X. Organization Of Committees...............................    16
    Committees and Their Legislative Jurisdictions...............    16
    General Oversight Responsibilities...........................    17
    Special Oversight Functions..................................    18
    Additional Functions of Committees...........................    18
    Budget Act Responsibilities..................................    18
    Election and Membership of Standing Committees...............    19
    Expense Resolutions..........................................    19
    Interim Funding..............................................    20
    Travel.......................................................    21
    Committee Staffs.............................................    22
Rule XI. Procedures of Committees and Unfinished Business........    24
    In General...................................................    24
    Adoption of Written Rules....................................    25
    Regular Meeting Days.........................................    25
    Additional and Special Meetings..............................    25
    Temporary Absence of Chairman................................    26
    Committee Records............................................    26
    Prohibition Against Proxy Voting.............................    27
    Open Meetings and Hearings...................................    27
    Quorum Requirements..........................................    29
    Limitation on Committee Sittings.............................    29
    Calling and Questioning of Witnesses.........................    29
    Hearing Procedures...........................................    30
    Supplemental, Minority, or Additional Views..................    31
    Power To Sit and Act; Subpoena Power.........................    31
    Audio and Visual Coverage of Committee Proceedings...........    31
    Pay of Witnesses.............................................    33
Rule XIII. Calendars and Committee Reports.......................    34
    Calendars....................................................    34
    Filing and Printing of Reports...............................    34
    Content of Reports...........................................    35
    Availability of Reports......................................    37
Rule XVI. Motions and Amendments.................................    38
    Motions......................................................    38
    Withdrawal...................................................    38
    Question of Consideration....................................    38
    Precedence of Motions........................................    39
    Divisibility.................................................    39
    Amendments...................................................    39
    Germaneness..................................................    39
    Readings.....................................................    40
Rule XIX. Motions Following the Amendment Stage..................    40
    Previous Question............................................    40
    Recommit.....................................................    40
    Reconsideration..............................................    41
Rule XXI. Restrictions on Certain Bills..........................    41
    Reservation of Certain Points of Order.......................    41
    General Appropriation Bills and Amendments...................    41
    Transportation Obligation Limitations........................    42
    Appropriations on Legislative Bills..........................    42
    Tax and Tariff Measures and Amendments.......................    42
    Passage of Tax Rate Increases................................    43
    Consideration of Retroactive Tax Rate Increases..............    43
    Designation of public works..................................    43
    Reconciliation...............................................    43
    Applying points of order under Budget Act to bills and joint 
      resolutions considered under special rules.................    44
    Point of Order against Congressional Earmarks................    44
Rule XXII. House And Senate Relations............................    46
Rule XXVII. Statutory Limit on Public Debt.......................    47


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                                 Part I
 
                RULES OF THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

                     U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             110TH CONGRESS

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                                 PART I

    Rules of the Committee on Ways and Means for the 110th Congress

                               A. GENERAL

                   Rule 1. Application of House Rules

    The rules of the House are the rules of the Committee on 
Ways and Means and its subcommittees so far as applicable, 
except that a motion to recess from day to day, and a motion to 
dispense with the first reading (in full) of a bill or 
resolution, if printed copies are available, is a non-debatable 
motion of high privilege in the Committee.
    Each subcommittee of the Committee is part of the Committee 
and is subject to the authority and direction of the Committee 
and to its rules so far as applicable. Written rules adopted by 
the Committee, not inconsistent with the Rules of the House, 
shall be binding on each subcommittee of the Committee.
    The provisions of rule XI of the Rules of the House are 
incorporated by reference as the rules of the Committee to the 
extent applicable.

                    Rule 2. Meeting Date and Quorums

    The regular meeting day of the Committee on Ways and Means 
shall be on the second Wednesday of each month while the House 
is in session. However, the Committee shall not meet on the 
regularly scheduled meeting day if there is no business to be 
considered.
    A majority of the Committee constitutes a quorum for 
business; provided however, that two Members shall constitute a 
quorum at any regularly scheduled hearing called for the 
purpose of taking testimony and receiving evidence. In 
establishing a quorum for purposes of a public hearing, every 
effort shall be made to secure the presence of at least one 
Member each from the majority and the minority.
    The Chairman of the Committee may call and convene, as he 
considers necessary, additional meetings of the Committee for 
the consideration of any bill or resolution pending before the 
Committee or for the conduct of other Committee business. The 
Committee shall meet pursuant to the call of the Chair.

                        Rule 3. Committee Budget

    For each Congress, the Chairman, in consultation with the 
Majority Members of the Committee, shall prepare a preliminary 
budget. Such budget shall include necessary amounts for staff 
personnel, travel investigation, and other expenses of the 
Committee. After consultation with the Minority Members, the 
Chairman shall include an amount budgeted by Minority Members 
for staff under their direction and supervision.
    Thereafter, the Chairman shall combine such proposals into 
a consolidated Committee budget, and shall present the same to 
the Committee for its approval or other action. The Chairman 
shall take whatever action is necessary to have the budget as 
finally approved by the Committee duly authorized by the House. 
After said budget shall have been adopted, no substantial 
change shall be made in such budget unless approved by the 
Committee.

               Rule 4. Publication of Committee Documents

    Any Committee or Subcommittee print, document, or similar 
material prepared for public distribution shall either be 
approved by the Committee or Subcommittee prior to distribution 
and opportunity afforded for the inclusion of supplemental, 
minority or additional views, or such document shall contain on 
its cover the following disclaimer:
    Prepared for the use of Members of the Committee on Ways 
and Means by members of its staff. This document has not been 
officially approved by the Committee and may not reflect the 
views of its Members.
    Any such print, document, or other material not officially 
approved by the Committee or Subcommittee shall not include the 
names of its Members, other than the name of the full Committee 
Chairman or Subcommittee Chairman under whose authority the 
document is released. Any such document shall be made available 
to the full Committee Chairman and Ranking Minority Member not 
less than 3 calendar days (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and 
legal holidays) prior to its public release.
    The requirements of this rule shall apply only to the 
publication of policy-oriented, analytical documents, and not 
to the publication of public hearings, legislative documents, 
documents which are administrative in nature or reports which 
are required to be submitted to the Committee under public law. 
The appropriate characterization of a document subject to this 
rule shall be determined after consultation with the Minority.

                        Rule 5. Official Travel

    Consistent with the primary expense resolution and such 
additional expense resolution as may have been approved, the 
provisions of this rule shall govern official travel of 
Committee Members and Committee staff. Official travel to be 
reimbursed from funds set aside for the full Committee for any 
Member or any Committee staff member shall be paid only upon 
the prior authorization of the Chairman. Official travel may be 
authorized by the Chairman for any Member and any Committee 
staff member in connection with the attendance of hearings 
conducted by the Committee, its Subcommittees, or any other 
Committee or Subcommittee of the Congress on matters relevant 
to the general jurisdiction of the Committee, and meetings, 
conferences, facility inspections, and investigations which 
involve activities or subject matter relevant to the general 
jurisdiction of the Committee. Before such authorization is 
given, there shall be submitted to the Chairman in writing the 
following:
          (1) The purpose of the official travel;
          (2) The dates during which the official travel is to 
        be made and the date or dates of the event for which 
        the official travel is being made;
          (3) The location of the event for which the official 
        travel is to be made; and
          (4) The names of the Members and Committee staff 
        seeking authorization.
    In the case of official travel of Members and staff of a 
Subcommittee to hearings, meetings, conferences, facility 
inspections and investigations involving activities or subject 
matter under the jurisdiction of such Subcommittee, prior 
authorization must be obtained from the Subcommittee Chairman 
and the full Committee Chairman. Such prior authorization shall 
be given by the full Committee Chairman only upon the 
representation by the applicable Subcommittee Chairman in 
writing setting forth those items enumerated above.
    Within 60 days of the conclusion of any official travel 
authorized under this rule, there shall be submitted to the 
full Committee Chairman a written report covering the 
information gained as a result of the hearing, meeting, 
conference, facility inspection or investigation attended 
pursuant to such official travel.

       Rule 6. Availability of Committee Records and Publications

    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 of 
Representatives. The Chairman shall notify the Ranking Minority 
Member of any decision, pursuant to clause 3(b)(3) or clause 
4(b) of Rule VII, 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 Committee shall, to the maximum extent feasible, 
make its publications available in electronic form.

                       Rule 7. Committee Website

    The Chairman shall maintain an official Committee website 
for the purpose of furthering the Committee's legislative and 
oversight responsibilities, including communicating information 
about the Committee's activities to Committee members and other 
members of the House. The ranking minority member may maintain 
a similar website for the same purpose, including communicating 
information about the activities of the minority to Committee 
members and other members of the House.

                            B. SUBCOMMITTEES


              Rule 8. Subcommittee Ratios and Jurisdiction

    All matters referred to the Committee on Ways and Means 
involving revenue measures, except those revenue measures 
referred to Subcommittees under paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 
shall be considered by the full Committee and not in 
Subcommittee. There shall be six standing Subcommittees as 
follows: a Subcommittee on Trade; a Subcommittee on Oversight; 
a Subcommittee on Health; a Subcommittee on Social Security; a 
Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support; and a 
Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures. The ratio of Democrats 
to Republicans on any Subcommittee of the Committee shall be 
consistent with the ratio of Democrats to Republicans on the 
full Committee.
    1. The Subcommittee on Trade shall consist of 15 Members, 9 
of whom shall be Democrats and 6 of whom shall be Republicans.
    The jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Trade shall include 
bills and matters referred to the Committee on Ways and Means 
that relate to customs and customs administration including 
tariff and import fee structure, classification, valuation of 
and special rules applying to imports, and special tariff 
provisions and procedures which relate to customs operation 
affecting exports and imports; import trade matters, including 
import impact, industry relief from injurious imports, 
adjustment assistance and programs to encourage competitive 
responses to imports, unfair import practices including 
antidumping and countervailing duty provisions, and import 
policy which relates to dependence on foreign sources of 
supply; commodity agreements and reciprocal trade agreements 
involving multilateral and bilateral trade negotiations and 
implementation of agreements involving tariff and non-tariff 
trade barriers to and distortions of international trade; 
international rules, organizations and institutional aspects of 
international trade agreements; budget authorizations for the 
customs revenue functions of the Department of Homeland 
Security, the U.S. International Trade Commission, and the U.S. 
Trade Representative; and special trade-related problems 
involving market access, competitive conditions of specific 
industries, export policy and promotion, access to materials in 
short supply, bilateral trade relations including trade with 
developing countries, operations of multinational corporations, 
and trade with non-market economies.
    2. The Subcommittee on Oversight shall consist of 13 
Members, 8 of whom shall be Democrats and 5 of whom shall be 
Republicans.
    The jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Oversight shall 
include all matters within the scope of the full Committee's 
jurisdiction but shall be limited to existing law. Said 
oversight jurisdiction shall not be exclusive but shall be 
concurrent with that of the other Subcommittees. With respect 
to matters involving the Internal Revenue Code and other 
revenue issues, said concurrent jurisdiction shall be shared 
with the full Committee. Before undertaking any investigation 
or hearing, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight shall 
confer with the Chairman of the full Committee and the Chairman 
of any other Subcommittee having jurisdiction.
    3. The Subcommittee on Health shall consist of 13 Members, 
8 of whom shall be Democrats and 5 of whom shall be 
Republicans.
    The jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Health shall 
include bills and matters referred to the Committee on Ways and 
Means that relate to programs providing payments (from any 
source) for health care, health delivery systems, or health 
research. More specifically, the jurisdiction of the 
Subcommittee on Health shall include bills and matters that 
relate to the health care programs of the Social Security Act 
(including titles V, XI (Part B), XVIII, and XIX thereof) and, 
concurrent with the full Committee, tax credit and deduction 
provisions of the Internal Revenue Code dealing with health 
insurance premiums and health care costs.
    4. The Subcommittee on Social Security shall consist of 13 
Members, 8 of whom shall be Democrats and 5 of whom shall be 
Republicans.
    The jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Social Security 
shall include bills and matters referred to the Committee on 
Ways and Means that relate to the Federal Old Age, Survivors' 
and Disability Insurance System, the Railroad Retirement 
System, and employment taxes and trust fund operations relating 
to those systems. More specifically, the jurisdiction of the 
Subcommittee on Social Security shall include bills and matters 
involving title II of the Social Security Act and Chapter 22 of 
the Internal Revenue Code (the Railroad Retirement Tax Act), as 
well as provisions in title VII and title XI of the Act 
relating to procedure and administration involving the Old Age, 
Survivors' and Disability Insurance System.
    5. The Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support 
shall consist of 13 Members, 8 of whom shall be Democrats and 5 
of whom shall be Republicans.
    The jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Income Security and 
Family Support shall include bills and matters referred to the 
Committee on Ways and Means that relate to the public 
assistance provisions of the Social Security Act, including 
temporary assistance for needy families, child care, child and 
family services, child support, foster care, adoption, 
supplemental security income social services, eligibility of 
welfare recipients for food stamps, and low-income energy 
assistance. More specifically, the jurisdiction of the 
Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support shall 
include bills and matters relating to titles I, IV, VI, X, XIV, 
XVI, XVII, XX and related provisions of titles VII and XI of 
the Social Security Act.
    The jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Income Security and 
Family Support shall also include bills and matters referred to 
the Committee on Ways and Means that relate to the Federal-
State system of unemployment compensation, and the financing 
thereof, including the programs for extended and emergency 
benefits. More specifically, the jurisdiction of the 
Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support shall also 
include all bills and matters pertaining to the programs of 
unemployment compensation under titles III, IX and XII of the 
Social Security Act, Chapters 23 and 23A of the Internal 
Revenue Code, and the Federal-State Extended Unemployment 
Compensation Act of 1970, and provisions relating thereto.
    6. The Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures shall 
consist of 13 Members, 8 of whom shall be Democrats and 5 of 
whom shall be Republicans.
    The jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Select Revenue 
Measures shall consist of those revenue measures that, from 
time to time, shall be referred to it specifically by the 
Chairman of the full Committee.

              Rule 9. Ex-Officio Members of Subcommittees

    The Chairman of the full Committee and the Ranking Minority 
Member may sit as ex-officio Members of all Subcommittees. They 
may be counted for purposes of assisting in the establishment 
of a quorum for a Subcommittee. However, their absence shall 
not count against the establishment of a quorum by the regular 
Members of the Subcommittee. Ex-officio Members shall neither 
vote in the Subcommittee nor be taken into consideration for 
the purposes of determining the ratio of the Subcommittee.

                     Rule 10. Subcommittee Meetings

    Insofar as practicable, meetings of the full Committee and 
its Subcommittees shall not conflict. Subcommittee Chairmen 
shall set meeting dates after consultation with the Chairman of 
the full Committee and other Subcommittee Chairmen with a view 
towards avoiding, wherever possible, simultaneous scheduling of 
full Committee and Subcommittee meetings or hearings.

       Rule 11. Reference of Legislation and Subcommittee Reports

    Except for bills or measures retained by the Chairman of 
the full Committee for full Committee consideration, every bill 
or other measure referred to the Committee shall be referred by 
the Chairman of the full Committee to the appropriate 
Subcommittee in a timely manner. A Subcommittee shall, within 
three legislative days of the referral, acknowledge same to the 
full Committee.
    After a measure has been pending in a Subcommittee for a 
reasonable period of time, the Chairman of the full Committee 
may make a request in writing to the Subcommittee that the 
Subcommittee forthwith report the measure to the full Committee 
with its recommendations. If within seven legislative days 
after the Chairman's written request, the Subcommittee has not 
so reported the measure, then there shall be in order in the 
full Committee a motion to discharge the Subcommittee from 
further consideration of the measure. If such motion is 
approved by a majority vote of the full Committee, the measure 
may thereafter be considered only by the full Committee.
    No measure reported by a Subcommittee shall be considered 
by the full Committee unless it has been presented to all 
Members of the full Committee at least two legislative days 
prior to the full Committee's meeting, together with a 
comparison with present law, a section-by-section analysis of 
the proposed change, a section-by-section justification, and a 
draft statement of the budget effects of the measure that is 
consistent with the requirements for reported measures under 
clause 3(d)(2) of Rule XIII of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives.

          Rule 12. Recommendation for Appointment of Conferees

    Whenever in the legislative process it becomes necessary to 
appoint conferees, the Chairman of the full Committee shall 
recommend to the Speaker as conferees the names of those 
Committee Members as the Chairman may designate. In making 
recommendations of Minority Members as conferees, the Chairman 
shall consult with the Ranking Minority Member of the 
Committee.

                              C. HEARINGS


                           Rule 13. Witnesses

    In order to assure the most productive use of the limited 
time available to question hearing witnesses, a witness who is 
scheduled to appear before the full Committee or a Subcommittee 
shall file with the Clerk of the Committee at least 48 hours in 
advance of his or her appearance a written statement of their 
proposed testimony. In addition, all witnesses shall comply 
with formatting requirements as specified by the Committee and 
the Rules of the House. Failure to comply with the 48-hour rule 
may result in a witness being denied the opportunity to testify 
in person. Failure to comply with the formatting requirements 
may result in a witness's statement being rejected for 
inclusion in the published hearing record. In addition to the 
requirements of clause 2(g)(4) of Rule XI of the Rules of the 
House regarding information required of public witnesses, a 
witness shall limit his or her oral presentation to a summary 
of their position and shall provide sufficient copies of their 
written statement to the Clerk for distribution to Members, 
staff and news media.
    A witness appearing at a public hearing, or submitting a 
statement for the record of a public hearing, or submitting 
written comments in response to a published request for 
comments by the Committee must include in their statement or 
submission, a list of all clients, persons or organizations on 
whose behalf the witness appears. Oral testimony and statements 
for the record, or written comments in response to a request 
for comments by the Committee, will be accepted only from 
citizens of the United States or corporations or associations 
organized under the laws of one of the 50 States of the United 
States or the District of Columbia, unless otherwise directed 
by the Chairman of the full Committee or Subcommittee involved. 
Written statements from non-citizens may be considered for 
acceptance in the record if transmitted to the Committee in 
writing by Members of Congress.

                   Rule 14. Questioning of Witnesses

    Committee Members may question witnesses only when 
recognized by the Chairman for that purpose. All Members shall 
be limited to five minutes on the initial round of questioning. 
In questioning witnesses under the five minute rule, the 
Chairman and the Ranking Minority Member shall be recognized 
first, after which Members who are in attendance at the 
beginning of a hearing will be recognized in the order of their 
seniority on the Committee. Other Members shall be recognized 
in the order of their appearance at the hearing. In recognizing 
Members to question witnesses, the Chairman may take into 
consideration the ratio of Majority Members to Minority Members 
and the number of Majority and Minority Members present and 
shall apportion the recognition for questioning in such a 
manner as not to disadvantage Members of the majority.

                        Rule 15. Subpoena Power

    The power to authorize and issue subpoenas is delegated to 
the Chairman of the full Committee, as provided for under 
clause 2(m)(3)(A)(i) of Rule XI of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives.

                      Rule 16. Records of Hearings

    An accurate stenographic record shall be kept of all 
testimony taken at a public hearing. The staff shall transmit 
to a witness the transcript of his or her testimony for 
correction and immediate return to the Committee offices. Only 
changes in the interest of clarity, accuracy and corrections in 
transcribing errors will be permitted. Changes that 
substantially alter the actual testimony will not be permitted. 
Members shall have the opportunity to correct their own 
testimony before publication. The Chairman of the full 
Committee may order the printing of a hearing without the 
corrections of a witness or Member if he determines that a 
reasonable time has been afforded to make corrections and that 
further delay would impede the consideration of the legislation 
or other measure that is the subject of the hearing.

                   Rule 17. Broadcasting of Hearings

    The provisions of clause 4(f) of Rule XI of the Rules of 
the House of Representatives are specifically made a part of 
these rules by reference. In addition, the following policy 
shall apply to media coverage of any meeting of the full 
Committee or a Subcommittee:
          (1) An appropriate area of the Committee's hearing 
        room will be designated for members of the media and 
        their equipment.
          (2) No interviews will be allowed in the Committee 
        room while the Committee is in session. Individual 
        interviews must take place before the gavel falls for 
        the convening of a meeting or after the gavel falls for 
        adjournment.
          (3) Day-to-day notification of the next day's 
        electronic coverage shall be provided by the media to 
        the Chairman of the full Committee through an 
        appropriate designee.
          (4) Still photography during a Committee meeting will 
        not be permitted to disrupt the proceedings or block 
        the vision of Committee Members or witnesses.
          (5) Further conditions may be specified by the 
        Chairman.

                               D. MARKUPS


                       Rule 18. Previous Question

    The Chairman shall not recognize a Member for the purpose 
of moving the previous question unless the Member has first 
advised the Chair and the Committee that this is the purpose 
for which recognition is being sought.

                  Rule 19. Postponement of Proceedings

    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 request 
at any time. In exercising postponement authority the Chairman 
shall take reasonable steps to notify Members on the resumption 
of proceedings on any postponed record vote.
    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.

                  Rule 20. Motion to go to Conference

    The Chairman is authorized to offer a motion under clause 1 
of rule XXII of the Rules of the House of Representatives 
whenever the Chairman considers it appropriate.

 Rule 21. Official Transcripts of Markups and Other Committee Meetings

    An official stenographic transcript shall be kept 
accurately reflecting all markups and other official meetings 
of the full Committee and the Subcommittees, whether they be 
open or closed to the public. This official transcript, marked 
as ``uncorrected,'' shall be available for inspection by the 
public (except for meetings closed pursuant to clause 2(g)(1) 
of Rule XI of the Rules of the House), by Members of the House, 
or by Members of the Committee together with their staffs, 
during normal business hours in the full Committee or 
Subcommittee office under such controls as the Chairman of the 
full Committee deems necessary. Official transcripts shall not 
be removed from the Committee or Subcommittee office.
    If, however, (1) in the drafting of a Committee or 
Subcommittee decision, the Office of the House Legislative 
Counsel or (2) in the preparation of a Committee report, the 
Chief of Staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation determines 
(in consultation with appropriate majority and minority 
committee staff) that it is necessary to review the official 
transcript of a markup, such transcript may be released upon 
the signature and to the custody of an appropriate committee 
staff person. Such transcript shall be returned immediately 
after its review in the drafting session.
    The official transcript of a markup or Committee meeting 
other than a public hearing shall not be published or 
distributed to the public in any way except by a majority vote 
of the Committee. Before any public release of the uncorrected 
transcript, Members must be given a reasonable opportunity to 
correct their remarks. In instances in which a stenographic 
transcript is kept of a conference committee proceeding, all of 
the requirements of this rule shall likewise be observed.

       Rule 22. Publication of Decisions and Legislative Language

    A press release describing any tentative or final decision 
made by the full Committee or a Subcommittee on legislation 
under consideration shall be made available to each Member of 
the Committee as soon as possible, but no later than the next 
day. However, the legislative draft of any tentative or final 
decision of the full Committee or a Subcommittee shall not be 
publicly released until such draft is made available to each 
Member of the Committee.

                                E. STAFF


                Rule 23. Supervision of Committee Staff

    The staff of the Committee shall be under the general 
supervision and direction of the Chairman of the full Committee 
except as provided in clause 9 of Rule X of the Rules of the 
House of Representatives concerning Committee expenses and 
staff.
    Pursuant to clause 6(d) of Rule X of the Rules of the House 
of Representatives, the Chairman of the full Committee, from 
the funds made available for the appointment of Committee staff 
pursuant to primary and additional expense resolutions, shall 
ensure that each Subcommittee receives sufficient staff to 
carry out its responsibilities under the rules of the 
Committee, and that the minority party is fairly treated in the 
appointment of such staff.
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                                Part II

             SELECTED RULES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

    Part II of the Manual of Rules of the Committee on Ways and 
Means consists of selected Rules of the House of 
Representatives, which are also part of the Committee's rules 
and which affect its organization, administration, and 
operation. The rules cited herein are not exclusive of other 
rules of the House of Representatives applicable to the 
Committee, but rather are considered to be some of the more 
important rules to which frequent reference is made.

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                                PART II

             SELECTED RULES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                     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 paragraph (b), clause 4, 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);

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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: * * *
    (t) Committee on Ways and Means.
    (1) Customs revenue, collection districts, and ports of 
entry and delivery.
    (2) Reciprocal trade agreements.
    (3) Revenue measures generally.
    (4) Revenue measures relating to insular possessions.
    (5) Bonded debt of the United States, subject to the last 
sentence of clause 4(f).
    (6) Deposit of public monies.
    (7) Transportation of dutiable goods.
    (8) Tax exempt foundations and charitable trusts.
    (9) National social security (except health care and 
facilities programs that are supported from general revenues as 
opposed to payroll deductions and except work incentive 
programs).
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--
    (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.

Special Oversight Functions

    3. * * *
    (f) The Committee on Foreign Affairs shall review and study 
on a continuing basis laws, programs, and Government activities 
relating to customs administration, intelligence activities 
relating to foreign policy, international financial and 
monetary organizations, and international fishing agreements.

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Additional Functions of Committees

    4. * * *
    (b) The Committee on the Budget shall--* * *
    (6) request and evaluate continuing studies of tax 
expenditures, devise methods of coordinating tax expenditures, 
policies, and programs with direct budget outlays, and report 
the results of such studies to the House on a recurring basis.

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Budget Act Responsibilities

    (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.

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Election and Membership of Standing Committees

    5. * * *
    (2)(A) The Committee on the Budget shall be composed of 
members as follows:
    (i) Members, Delegates, or the Resident Commissioner who 
are members of other standing committees, including five who 
are members of the Committee on Appropriations and five who are 
members of the Committee on Ways and Means;

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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 expenditures 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 under this paragraph 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 paragraph 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 
paragraph 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 paragraph shall expire upon adoption by the House of a 
primary expense resolution for the committee.
    (2) Amounts made available under this paragraph 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(i)(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 paragraph (a) of 
clause 6, 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 shall be privileged if printed copies 
are available.
    (B) A motion accorded privilege under this subparagraph 
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(i)(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.

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 subcommittee) 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 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 that the evidence or testimony 
at an investigative 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 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 (2)(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.

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Audio and Visual Coverage of Committee Proceedings

    4. (a) The purpose of this clause is to provide a means, in 
conformity with acceptable standards of dignity, propriety, and 
decorum, by which committee hearings or committee meetings that 
are open to the public may be covered by audio and visual 
means--
    (1) for the education, enlightenment, and information of 
the general public, on the basis of accurate and impartial news 
coverage, regarding the operations, procedures, and practices 
of the House as a legislative and representative body, and 
regarding the measures, public issues, and other matters before 
the House and its committees, the consideration thereof, and 
the action taken thereon; and
    (2) for the development of the perspective and 
understanding of the general public with respect to the role 
and function of the House under the Constitution as an 
institution of the Federal Government.
    (b) In addition, it is the intent of this clause that radio 
and television tapes and television film of any coverage under 
this clause may not be used, or made available for use, as 
partisan political campaign material to promote or oppose the 
candidacy of any person for elective public office.
    (c) It is, further, the intent of this clause that the 
general conduct of each meeting (whether of a hearing or 
otherwise) covered under authority of this clause by audio or 
visual means, and the personal behavior of the committee 
members and staff, other Government officials and personnel, 
witnesses, television, radio, and press media personnel, and 
the general public at the hearing or other meeting, shall be in 
strict conformity with and observance of the acceptable 
standards of dignity, propriety, courtesy, and decorum 
traditionally observed by the House in its operations, and may 
not be such as to--
    (1) distort the objects and purposes of the hearing or 
other meeting or the activities of committee members in 
connection with that hearing or meeting or in connection with 
the general work of the committee or of the House; or
    (2) cast discredit or dishonor on the House, the committee, 
or a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner or bring the 
House, the committee, or a Member, Delegate, or Resident 
Commissioner into disrepute.
    (d) The coverage of committee hearings and meetings by 
audio and visual means shall be permitted and conducted only in 
strict conformity with the purposes, provisions, and 
requirements of this clause.
    (e) Whenever a hearing or meeting conducted by a committee 
or subcommittee is open to the public, those proceedings shall 
be open to coverage by audio and visual means. A committee or 
subcommittee chairman may not limit the number of television or 
still cameras to fewer than two representatives from each 
medium (except for legitimate space or safety considerations, 
in which case pool coverage shall be authorized).
    (f) Each committee shall adopt written rules to govern its 
implementation of this clause. Such rules shall contain 
provisions to the following effect:
    (1) If audio or visual coverage of the hearing or meeting 
is to be presented to the public as live coverage, that 
coverage shall be conducted and presented without commercial 
sponsorship.
    (2) The allocation among the television media of the 
positions or the number of television cameras permitted by a 
committee or subcommittee chairman in a hearing or meeting room 
shall be in accordance with fair and equitable procedures 
devised by the Executive Committee of the Radio and Television 
Correspondents' Galleries.
    (3) Television cameras shall be placed so as not to 
obstruct in any way the space between a witness giving evidence 
or testimony and any member of the committee or the visibility 
of that witness and that member to each other.
    (4) Television cameras shall operate from fixed positions 
but may not be placed in positions that obstruct unnecessarily 
the coverage of the hearing or meeting by the other media.
    (5) Equipment necessary for coverage by the television and 
radio media may not be installed in, or removed from, the 
hearing or meeting room while the committee is in session.
    (6)(A) Except as provided in subdivision (B), floodlights, 
spotlights, strobelights, and flashguns may not be used in 
providing any method of coverage of the hearing or meeting.
    (B) The television media may install additional lighting in 
a hearing or meeting room, without cost to the Government, in 
order to raise the ambient lighting level in a hearing or 
meeting room to the lowest level necessary to provide adequate 
television coverage of a hearing or meeting at the current 
state of the art of television coverage.
    (7) In the allocation of the number of still photographers 
permitted by a committee or subcommittee chairman in a hearing 
or meeting room, preference shall be given to photographers 
from Associated Press Photos and United Press International 
Newspictures. If requests are made by more of the media than 
will be permitted by a committee or subcommittee chairman for 
coverage of a hearing or meeting by still photography, that 
coverage shall be permitted on the basis of a fair and 
equitable pool arrangement devised by the Standing Committee of 
Press Photographers.
    (8) Photographers may not position themselves between the 
witness table and the members of the committee at any time 
during the course of a hearing or meeting.
    (9) Photographers may not place themselves in positions 
that obstruct unnecessarily the coverage of the hearing by the 
other media.
    (10) Personnel providing coverage by the television and 
radio media shall be currently accredited to the Radio and 
Television Correspondents' Galleries.
    (11) Personnel providing coverage by still photography 
shall be currently accredited to the Press Photographers' 
Gallery.
    (12) Personnel providing coverage by the television and 
radio media and by still photography shall conduct themselves 
and their coverage activities in an orderly and unobtrusive 
manner.

Pay of Witnesses

    5. Witnesses appearing before the House or any of its 
committees shall be paid the same per diem rate as established, 
authorized, and regulated by the Committee on House
    Administration for Members, Delegates, the Resident 
Commissioner, and employees of the House, plus actual expenses 
of travel to or from the place of examination. Such per diem 
may not be paid when a witness has been summoned at the place 
of examination.

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               Rule XIII. Calendars and Committee Reports


Calendars

    1. (a) All business reported by committees shall be 
referred to one of the following three calendars:
          (1) A Calendar of the Committee of the Whole House on 
        the state of the Union, to which shall be referred 
        public bills and public resolutions raising revenue, 
        involving a tax or charge on the people, directly or 
        indirectly making appropriations of money or property 
        or requiring such appropriations to be made, 
        authorizing payments out of appropriations already 
        made, releasing any liability to the United States for 
        money or property, or referring a claim to the Court of 
        Claims.
          (2) A House Calendar, to which shall be referred all 
        public bills and public resolutions not requiring 
        referral to the Calendar of the Committee of the Whole 
        House on the state of the Union.
          (3) A Private Calendar as provided in clause 5 of 
        rule XV, to which shall be referred all private bills 
        and private resolutions.
    (b) There is established a Calendar of Motions to Discharge 
Committees as provided in clause 2 of rule XV.

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) or (4)) 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 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.
    (B) Subparagraph (2) does not apply to the Committee on 
Appropriations, the Committee on House Administration, the 
Committee on Rules, or the Committee on Standards of Official 
Conduct, and does not apply when a cost estimate and comparison 
prepared by the Director of the Congressional Budget Office 
under section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 has 
been included in the report under paragraph (c)(3).
    (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 previously authorized by law for the period 
concerned (except 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 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.
    (h)(1) It shall not be in order to consider a bill or joint 
resolution reported by the Committee on Ways and Means that 
proposes to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 unless--
    (A) the report includes a tax complexity analysis prepared 
by the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation in 
accordance with section 4022(b) of the Internal Revenue Service 
Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998; or
    (B) the chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means causes 
such a tax complexity analysis to be printed in the 
Congressional Record before consideration of the bill or joint 
resolution.
    (2)(A) It shall not be in order to consider a bill or joint 
resolution reported by the Committee on Ways and Means that 
proposes to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 unless--
    (i) the report includes a macroeconomic impact analysis;
    (ii) the report includes a statement from the Joint 
Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation explaining why a 
macroeconomic impact analysis is not calculable; or
    (iii) the chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means 
causes a macroeconomic impact analysis to be printed in the 
Congressional Record before consideration of the bill or joint 
resolution.
    (B) In subdivision (A), the term ``macroeconomic impact 
analysis'' means--
    (i) an estimate prepared by the Joint Committee on Internal 
Revenue Taxation of the changes in economic output, employment, 
capital stock, and tax revenues expected to result from 
enactment of the proposal; and
    (ii) a statement from the Joint Committee on Internal 
Revenue Taxation identifying the critical assumptions and the 
source of data underlying that estimate.

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(i)(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.

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                    Rule XVI. Motions and Amendments


Motions

    1. Every motion entertained by the Speaker shall be reduced 
to writing on the demand of a Member, Delegate, or Resident 
Commissioner and, unless it is withdrawn the same day, shall be 
entered on the Journal with the name of the Member, Delegate, 
or Resident Commissioner offering it. A dilatory motion may not 
be entertained by the Speaker.

Withdrawal

    2. When a motion is entertained, the Speaker shall state it 
or cause it to be read aloud by the Clerk before it is debated. 
The motion then shall be in the possession of the House but may 
be withdrawn at any time before a decision or amendment 
thereon.

Question of Consideration

    3. When a motion or proposition is entertained, the 
question, ``Will the House now consider it?'' may not be put 
unless demanded by a Member, Delegate, or Resident 
Commissioner.

Precedence of Motions

    4. (a) When a question is under debate, only the following 
motions may be entertained (which shall have precedence in the 
following order):
    (1) To adjourn.
    (2) To lay on the table.
    (3) For the previous question.
    (4) To postpone to a day certain.
    (5) To refer.
    (6) To amend.
    (7) To postpone indefinitely.
    (b) A motion to adjourn, to lay on the table, or for the 
previous question shall be decided without debate. A motion to 
postpone to a day certain, to refer, or to postpone 
indefinitely, being decided, may not be allowed again on the 
same day at the same stage of the question.
    (c)(1) It shall be in order at any time for the Speaker, in 
his discretion, to entertain a motion--
    (A) that the Speaker be authorized to declare a recess; or
    (B) that when the House adjourns it stand adjourned to a 
day and time certain.
    (2) Either motion shall be of equal privilege with the 
motion to adjourn and shall be decided without debate.

Divisibility

    5. (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b), a question 
shall be divided on the demand of a Member, Delegate, or 
Resident Commissioner before the question is put if it includes 
propositions so distinct in substance that, one being taken 
away, a substantive proposition remains.
    (b)(1) A motion or resolution to elect members to a 
standing committee of the House, or to a joint standing 
committee, is not divisible.
    (2) A resolution or order reported by the Committee on 
Rules providing a special order of business is not divisible.
    (c) A motion to strike and insert is not divisible, but 
rejection of a motion to strike does not preclude another 
motion to amend.

Amendments

    6. When an amendable proposition is under consideration, a 
motion to amend and a motion to amend that amendment shall be 
in order, and it also shall be in order to offer a further 
amendment by way of substitute for the original motion to 
amend, to which one amendment may be offered but which may not 
be voted on until the original amendment is perfected. An 
amendment may be withdrawn in the House at any time before a 
decision or amendment thereon. An amendment to the title of a 
bill or resolution shall not be in order until after its 
passage or adoption and shall be decided without debate.

Germaneness

    7. No motion or proposition on a subject different from 
that under consideration shall be admitted under color of 
amendment.

Readings

    8. Bills and joint resolutions are subject to readings as 
follows:
    (a) A first reading is in full when the bill or joint 
resolution is first considered.
    (b) A second reading occurs only when the bill or joint 
resolution is read for amendment in a Committee of the Whole 
House on the state of the Union under clause 5 of rule XVIII.
    (c) A third reading precedes passage when the Speaker 
states the question: ``Shall the bill [or joint resolution] be 
engrossed [when applicable] and read a third time?'' If that 
question is decided in the affirmative, then the bill or joint 
resolution shall be read the final time by title and then the 
question shall be put on its passage.

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            Rule XIX. Motions Following the Amendment Stage


Previous Question

    1. (a) There shall be a motion for the previous question, 
which, being ordered, shall have the effect of cutting off all 
debate and bringing the House to a direct vote on the immediate 
question or questions on which it has been ordered. Whenever 
the previous question has been ordered on an otherwise 
debatable question on which there has been no debate, it shall 
be in order to debate that question for 40 minutes, equally 
divided and controlled by a proponent of the question and an 
opponent. The previous question may be moved and ordered on a 
single question, on a series of questions allowable under the 
rules, or on an amendment or amendments, or may embrace all 
authorized motions or amendments and include the bill or 
resolution to its passage, adoption, or rejection.
    (b) Incidental questions of order arising during the 
pendency of a motion for the previous question shall be 
decided, whether on appeal or otherwise, without debate.

Recommit

    2. (a) After the previous question has been ordered on 
passage or adoption of a measure, or pending a motion to that 
end, it shall be in order to move that the House recommit (or 
commit, as the case may be) the measure, with or without 
instructions, to a standing or select committee. For such a 
motion to recommit, the Speaker shall give preference in 
recognition to a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner who 
is opposed to the measure.
    (b) Except as provided in paragraph (c), if a motion that 
the House recommit a bill or joint resolution on which the 
previous question has been ordered to passage includes 
instructions, it shall be debatable for 10 minutes equally 
divided between the proponent and an opponent.
    (c) On demand of the floor manager for the majority, it 
shall be in order to debate the motion for one hour equally 
divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent.

Reconsideration

    3. When a motion has been carried or lost, it shall be in 
order on the same or succeeding day for a Member on the 
prevailing side of the question to enter a motion for the 
reconsideration thereof. The entry of such a motion shall take 
precedence over all other questions except the consideration of 
a conference report or a motion to adjourn, and may not be 
withdrawn after such succeeding day without the consent of the 
House. Once entered, a motion may be called up for 
consideration by any Member. During the last six days of a 
session of Congress, such a motion shall be disposed of when 
entered.
    4. A bill, petition, memorial, or resolution referred to a 
committee, or reported therefrom for printing and recommitment, 
may not be brought back to the House on a motion to reconsider.

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                Rule XXI. Restrictions on Certain Bills


Reservation of Certain Points of Order

    1. At the time a general appropriation bill is reported, 
all points of order against provisions therein shall be 
considered as reserved.

General Appropriation Bills and Amendments

    2. (a)(1) An appropriation may not be reported in a general 
appropriation bill, and may not be in order as an amendment 
thereto, for an expenditure not previously authorized by law, 
except to continue appropriations for public works and objects 
that are already in progress.
    (2) A reappropriation of unexpended balances of 
appropriations may not be reported in a general appropriation 
bill, and may not be in order as an amendment thereto, except 
to continue appropriations for public works and objects that 
are already in progress. This subparagraph does not apply to 
transfers of unexpended balances within the department or 
agency for which they were originally appropriated that are 
reported by the Committee on Appropriations.
    (b) A provision changing existing law may not be reported 
in a general appropriation bill, including a provision making 
the availability of funds contingent on the receipt or 
possession of information not required by existing law for the 
period of the appropriation, except germane provisions that 
retrench expenditures by the reduction of amounts of money 
covered by the bill (which may include those recommended to the 
Committee on Appropriations by direction of a legislative 
committee having jurisdiction over the subject matter) and 
except rescissions of appropriations contained in appropriation 
Acts.
    (c) An amendment to a general appropriation bill shall not 
be in order if changing existing law, including an amendment 
making the availability of funds contingent on the receipt or 
possession of information not required by existing law for the 
period of the appropriation. Except as provided in paragraph 
(d), an amendment proposing a limitation not specifically 
contained or authorized in existing law for the period of the 
limitation shall not be in order during consideration of a 
general appropriation bill.
    (d) After a general appropriation bill has been read for 
amendment, a motion that the Committee of the Whole House on 
the state of the Union rise and report the bill to the House 
with such amendments as may have been adopted shall, if offered 
by the Majority Leader or a designee, have precedence over 
motions to amend the bill. If such a motion to rise and report 
is rejected or not offered, amendments proposing limitations 
not specifically contained or authorized in existing law for 
the period of the limitation or proposing germane amendments 
that retrench expenditures by reductions of amounts of money 
covered by the bill may be considered.
    (e) A provision other than an appropriation designated an 
emergency under section 251(b)(2) or section 252(e) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, a rescission 
of budget authority, or a reduction in direct spending or an 
amount for a designated emergency may not be reported in an 
appropriation bill or joint resolution containing an emergency 
designation under section 251(b)(2) or section 252(e) of such 
Act and may not be in order as an amendment thereto.
    (f) During the reading of an appropriation bill for 
amendment in the Committee of the Whole House on the state of 
the Union, it shall be in order to consider en bloc amendments 
proposing only to transfer appropriations among objects in the 
bill without increasing the levels of budget authority or 
outlays in the bill. When considered en bloc under this 
paragraph, such amendments may amend portions of the bill not 
yet read for amendment (following disposition of any points of 
order against such portions) and is not subject to a demand for 
division of the question in the House or in the Committee of 
the Whole.

Transportation Obligation Limitations

    3. It shall not be in order to consider a bill, joint 
resolution, amendment, or conference report that would cause 
obligation limitations to be below the level for any fiscal 
year set forth in section 8103 of the Transportation Equity Act 
for the 21st Century, as adjusted, for the highway category or 
the mass transit category, as applicable.

Appropriations on Legislative Bills

    4. A bill or joint resolution carrying an appropriation may 
not be reported by a committee not having jurisdiction to 
report appropriations, and an amendment proposing an 
appropriation shall not be in order during the consideration of 
a bill or joint resolution reported by a committee not having 
that jurisdiction. A point of order against an appropriation in 
such a bill, joint resolution, or amendment thereto may be 
raised at any time during pendency of that measure for 
amendment.

Tax and Tariff Measures and Amendments

    5. (a)(1) A bill or joint resolution carrying a tax or 
tariff measure may not be reported by a committee not having 
jurisdiction to report tax or tariff measures, and an amendment 
in the House or proposed by the Senate carrying a tax or tariff 
measure shall not be in order during the consideration of a 
bill or joint resolution reported by a committee not having 
that jurisdiction. A point of order against a tax or tariff 
measure in such a bill, joint resolution, or amendment thereto 
may be raised at any time during pendency of that measure for 
amendment.
    (2) For purposes of paragraph (1), a tax or tariff measure 
includes an amendment proposing a limitation on funds in a 
general appropriation bill for the administration of a tax or 
tariff.

Passage of Tax Rate Increases

    (b) A bill or joint resolution, amendment, or conference 
report carrying a Federal income tax rate increase may not be 
considered as passed or agreed to unless so determined by a 
vote of not less than three-fifths of the Members voting, a 
quorum being present. In this paragraph the term ``Federal 
income tax rate increase'' means any amendment to subsection 
(a), (b), (c), (d), or (e) of section 1, or to section 11(b) or 
55(b), of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, that imposes a new 
percentage as a rate of tax and thereby increases the amount of 
tax imposed by any such section.

Consideration of Retroactive Tax Rate Increases

    (c) It shall not be in order to consider a bill, joint 
resolution, amendment, or conference report carrying a 
retroactive Federal income tax rate increase. In this 
paragraph--
    (1) the term ``Federal income tax rate increase'' means any 
amendment to subsection (a), (b), (c), (d), or (e) of section 
1, or to section 11(b) or 55(b), of the Internal Revenue Code 
of 1986, that imposes a new percentage as a rate of tax and 
thereby increases the amount of tax imposed by any such 
section; and
    (2) a Federal income tax rate increase is retroactive if it 
applies to a period beginning before the enactment of the 
provision.

Designation of public works

    6. It shall not be in order to consider a bill, joint 
resolution, amendment, or conference report that provides for 
the designation or redesignation of a public work in honor of 
an individual then serving as a Member, Delegate, Resident 
Commissioner, or Senator.

Reconciliation

    7. It shall not be in order to consider a concurrent 
resolution on the budget, or an amendment thereto, or a 
conference report thereon that contains reconciliation 
directives under section 310 of the Congressional Budget Act of 
1974 that specify changes in law reducing the surplus or 
increasing the deficit for either the period comprising the 
current fiscal year and the five fiscal years beginning with 
the fiscal year that ends in the following calendar year. In 
determining whether reconciliation directives specify changes 
in law reducing the surplus or increasing the deficit, the sum 
of the directives for each reconciliation bill (under section 
310 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974) envisioned by that 
measure shall be evaluated.

Applying points of order under Budget Act to bills and joint 
        resolutions considered under special rules

    8. With respect to measures considered pursuant to a 
special order of business, points of order under title III of 
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 shall operate without 
regard to whether the measure concerned has been reported from 
committee. Such points of order shall operate with respect to 
(as the case may be)--
    (a) the form of a measure recommended by the reporting 
committee where the statute uses the term ``as reported'' (in 
the case of a measure that has been so reported);
    (b) the form of the measure made in order as an original 
bill or joint resolution for the purpose of amendment; or
    (c) the form of the measure on which the previous question 
is ordered directly to passage.

Point of Order against Congressional Earmarks

    9. (a) It shall not be in order to consider--
    (1) a bill or joint resolution reported by a committee 
unless the report includes a list of congressional earmarks, 
limited tax benefits, and limited tariff benefits in the bill 
or in the report (and the name of any Member, Delegate, or 
Resident Commissioner who submitted a request to the committee 
for each respective item included in such list) or a statement 
that the proposition contains no congressional earmarks, 
limited tax benefits, or limited tariff benefits;
    (2) a bill or joint resolution not reported by a committee 
unless the chairman of each committee of initial referral has 
caused a list of congressional earmarks, limited tax benefits, 
and limited tariff benefits in the bill (and the name of any 
Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner who submitted a 
request to the committee for each respective item included in 
such list) or a statement that the proposition contains no 
congressional earmarks, limited tax benefits, or limited tariff 
benefits to be printed in the Congressional Record prior to its 
consideration;
    (3) an amendment to a bill or joint resolution to be 
offered at the outset of its consideration for amendment by a 
member of a committee of initial referral as designated in a 
report of the Committee on Rules to accompany a resolution 
prescribing a special order of business unless the proponent 
has caused a list of congressional earmarks, limited tax 
benefits, and limited tariff benefits in the amendment (and the 
name of any Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner who 
submitted a request to the proponent for each respective item 
included in such list) or a statement that the proposition 
contains no congressional earmarks, limited tax benefits, or 
limited tariff benefits to be printed in the Congressional 
Record prior to its consideration; or
    (4) a conference report to accompany a bill or joint 
resolution unless the joint explanatory statement prepared by 
the managers on the part of the House and the managers on the 
part of the Senate includes a list of congressional earmarks, 
limited tax benefits, and limited tariff benefits in the 
conference report or joint statement (and the name of any 
Member, Delegate, Resident commissioner, or Senator who 
submitted a request to the House or Senate committees of 
jurisdiction for each respective item included in such list) or 
a statement that the proposition contains no congressional 
earmarks, limited tax benefits, or limited tariff benefits.
    (b) It shall not be in order to consider a rule or order 
that waives the application of paragraph (a). As disposition of 
a point of order under this paragraph, the Chair shall put the 
question of consideration with respect to the rule or order 
that waives the application of paragraph (a). The question of 
consideration shall be debatable for 10 minutes by the Member 
initiating the point of order and for 10 minutes by an 
opponent, but shall otherwise be decided without intervening 
motion except one that the House adjourn.
    (c) In order to be cognizable by the Chair, a point of 
order raised under paragraph (a) may be based only on the 
failure or a report, submission to the Congressional Record, or 
joint explanatory statement to include a list required by 
paragraph (a) or a statement that the proposition contains no 
congressional earmarks, limited tax benefits, or limited tariff 
benefits.
    (d) For the purpose of this clause, the term `congressional 
earmark' means a provision or report language included 
primarily at the request of a Member, Delegate, Resident 
Commissioner, or Senator providing, authorizing or recommending 
a specific amount of discretionary budget authority, credit 
authority, or other spending authority for a contract, loan, 
loan guarantee, grant, loan authority, or other expenditure 
with or to any entity, or targeted to a specific State, 
locality or Congressional district, other than through a 
statutory or administrative formula-driven or competitive award 
process.
    (e) For the purpose of this clause, the term `limited tax 
benefit' means--
    (1) any revenue-losing provision that--
    (A) provides a Federal tax deduction, credit, exclusion, or 
preference to 10 or fewer beneficiaries under the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986, and
    (B) contains eligibility criteria that are not uniform in 
application with respect to potential beneficiaries of such 
provision; or
    (2) any Federal tax provision which provides one 
beneficiary temporary or permanent transition relief from a 
change to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
    (f) For the purpose of this clause, the term `limited 
tariff benefit' means a provision modifying the Harmonized 
Tariff Schedule of the United States in a manner that benefits 
10 or fewer entities.
    10. It shall not be in order to consider any bill, joint 
resolution, amendment, or conference report if the provisions 
of such measure affecting direct spending and revenues have the 
net effect of increasing the deficit or reducing the surplus 
for either the period comprising the current fiscal year and 
the five fiscal years beginning with the fiscal year that ends 
in the following calendar year or the period comprising the 
current fiscal year and the ten fiscal years beginning with the 
fiscal year that ends in the following calendar year. The 
effect of such measure on the deficit or surplus shall be 
determined on the basis of estimates made by the Committee on 
the Budget relative to--
    (a) the most recent baseline estimates supplied by the 
Congressional Budget Office consistent with section 257 of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 used 
in considering a concurrent resolution on the budget; or
    (b) after the beginning of a new calendar year and before 
consideration of a concurrent resolution on the budget, the 
most recent baseline estimates supplied by the Congressional 
Budget Office consistent with section 257 of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.

Rule XXII. House And Senate Relations

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    11. It shall not be in order to consider a conference 
report to accompany a bill or joint resolution that proposes to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 unless--
    (a) the joint explanatory statement of the managers 
includes a tax complexity analysis prepared by the Joint 
Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation in accordance with 
section 4022(b) of the Internal Revenue Service Restructuring 
and Reform Act of 1998; or
    (b) the chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means causes 
such a tax complexity analysis to be printed in the 
Congressional Record before consideration of the conference 
report.
    12. (a)(1) Subject to subparagraph (2), a meeting of each 
conference committee shall be open to the public.
    (2) In open session of the House, a motion that managers on 
the part of the House be permitted to close to the public a 
meeting or meetings of their conference committee shall be 
privileged, shall be decided without debate, and shall be 
decided by a record vote.
    (b) A point of order that a conference committee failed to 
comply with paragraph (a) may be raised immediately after the 
conference report is read or considered as read. If such a 
point of order is sustained, the conference report shall be 
considered as rejected, the House shall be considered to have 
insisted on its amendments or on disagreement to the Senate 
amendments, as the case may be, and to have requested a further 
conference with the Senate, and the Speaker may appoint new 
conferees without intervening motion.
    (3) In conducting conferences with the Senate, managers on 
the part of the House should endeavor to ensure--
    (A) that meetings for the resolution of differences between 
the two Houses occur only under circumstances in which every 
manager on the part of the House has notice of the meeting and 
a reasonable opportunity to attend;
    (B) that all provisions on which the two Houses disagree 
are considered as open to discussion at any meeting of a 
conference committee; and
    (C) that papers reflecting a conference agreement are held 
inviolate to change without renewal of the opportunity of all 
managers on the part of the House to reconsider their decisions 
to sign or not to sign the agreement.
    (4) Managers on the part of the House shall be provided a 
unitary time and place with access to at least one complete 
copy of the final conference agreement for the purpose of 
recording their approval (or not) of the final conference 
agreement by placing their signatures (or not) on the sheets 
prepared to accompany the conference report and joint 
explanatory statement of the managers.
    13. It shall not be in order to consider a conference 
report the text of which differs in any way, other than 
clerical, from the text that reflects the action of the 
conferees on all of the differences between the two Houses, as 
recorded by their placement of their signatures (or not) on the 
sheets prepared to accompany the conference report and joint 
explanatory statement of the managers.

               Rule XXVII. Statutory Limit on Public Debt

    1. Upon adoption by Congress of a concurrent resolution on 
the budget under section 301 or 304 of the Congressional Budget 
Act of 1974 that sets forth, as the appropriate level of the 
public debt for the period to which the concurrent resolution 
relates, an amount that is different from the amount of the 
statutory limit on the public debt that otherwise would be in 
effect for that period, the Clerk shall prepare an engrossment 
of a joint resolution increasing or decreasing, as the case may 
be, the statutory limit on the public debt in the form 
prescribed in clause 2. Upon engrossment of the joint 
resolution, the vote by which the concurrent resolution on the 
budget was finally agreed to in the House shall also be 
considered as a vote on passage of the joint resolution in the 
House, and the joint resolution shall be considered as passed 
by the House and duly certified and examined. The engrossed 
copy shall be signed by the Clerk and transmitted to the Senate 
for further legislative action.
    2. The matter after the resolving clause in a joint 
resolution described in clause 1 shall be as follows: ``That 
subsection (b) of section 3101 of title 31, United States Code, 
is amended by striking out the dollar limitation contained in 
such subsection and inserting in lieu thereof `$___'.'', with 
the blank being filled with a dollar limitation equal to the 
appropriate level of the public debt set forth pursuant to 
section 301(a)(5) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 in 
the relevant concurrent resolution described in clause 1. If an 
adopted concurrent resolution under clause 1 sets forth 
different appropriate levels of the public debt for separate 
periods, only one engrossed joint resolution shall be prepared 
under clause 1; and the blank referred to in the preceding 
sentence shall be filled with the limitation that is to apply 
for each period.
    3. (a) The report of the Committee on the Budget on a 
concurrent resolution described in clause 1 and the joint 
explanatory statement of the managers on a conference report to 
accompany such a concurrent resolution each shall contain a 
clear statement of the effect the eventual enactment of a joint 
resolution engrossed under this rule would have on the 
statutory limit on the public debt.
    (b) It shall not be in order for the House to consider a 
concurrent resolution described in clause 1, or a conference 
report thereon, unless the report of the Committee on the 
Budget or the joint explanatory statement of the managers 
complies with paragraph a).
    4. Nothing in this rule shall be construed as limiting or 
otherwise affecting--
    (a) the power of the House or the Senate to consider and 
pass bills or joint resolutions, without regard to the 
procedures under clause 1, that would change the statutory 
limit on the public debt; or
    (b) the rights of Members, Delegates, the Resident 
Commissioner, or committees with respect to the introduction, 
consideration, and reporting of such bills or joint 
resolutions.
    5. In this rule the term ``statutory limit on the public 
debt'' means the maximum face amount of obligations issued 
under authority of chapter 31 of title 31, United States Code, 
and obligations guaranteed as to principal and interest by the 
United States (except such guaranteed obligations as may be 
held by the Secretary of the Treasury), as determined under 
section 3101(b) of such title after the application of section 
3101(a) of such title, that may be outstanding at any one time.

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