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111th Congress	
  1st Session	          COMMITTEE PRINT

 
                      RULES ADOPTED BY THE COMMITTEES 
                       OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

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                             111th Congress
                               2009-2010

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                           COMMITTEE ON RULES

                LOUISE McINTOSH SLAUGHTER, New York, Chairwoman
JAMES P. McGOVERN, Massachusetts,     DAVID DREIER, California, Ranking
  Vice Chairman                         Member
ALCEE L. HASTINGS, Florida	      LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART, Florida 
DORIS O. MATSUI, California	      PETE SESSI 
DENNIS A. CARDOZA, California	      VIRGINIA FOXX, North Carolina 
MICHAEL A. ARCURI, New York	
ED PERLMUTTER, Colorado
CHELLIE PINGREE, Maine					
JARED POLIS, Colorado					               

                          MUFTIAH MCCARTIN, Staff Director
                    HUGH NATHANIAL HALPERN, Minority Staff Director
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                 SUBCOMMITTEE ON LEGISLATIVE AND BUDGET PROCESS

                     ALCEE L. HASTINGS, Florida, Chairman
DENNIS A. CARDOZA, California, Vice Chairman LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART, 
CHELLIE PINGREE, Maine                         Florida,    
JARED POLIS, Colorado                          Ranking Member                                                                                           LOUISE McINTOSH SLAUGHTER, New York	     DAVID DREIER, California
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            SUBCOMMITTEE ON RULES AND ORGANIZATION OF THE HOUSE

                   JAMES P. McGOVERN, Massachusetts, Chairman
DORIS O. MATSUI, California, Vice Chairman   PETE SESSIONS, Texas, 
MICHAEL A. ARCURI, New York                    Ranking Member		                            ED PERLMUTTER, Colorado 	             VIRGINIA FOXX, 
LOUISE McINTOSH SLAUGHTER, New York            North Carolina
			                                               
			        









                              C O N T E N T S
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                  PART I.-STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE HOUSE
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Committee on Agriculture..............................................3
Committee on Appropriations..........................................29
Committee on Armed Services..........................................43
Committee on the Budget..............................................57
Committee on Education and Labor.....................................67
Committee on Energy and Commerce.....................................87
Committee on Financial Services......................................99
Committee on Foreign Affairs........................................117
Committee on Homeland Security......................................139
Committee on House Administration...................................155
Committee on the Judiciary..........................................167
Committee on Natural Resources......................................173
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform........................191
Committee on Rules..................................................203
Committee on Science and Technology.................................215
Committee on Small Business.........................................235
Committee on Standards of Official Conduct..........................247
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure......................279
Committee on Veterans' Affairs......................................299
Committee on Ways and Means.........................................309

                  PART II.-PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE

Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence..........................325

                    PART III.-SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE 

Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming..........349

                    PART IV.-CONGRESSIONAL JOINT COMMITTEES

Joint Economic Committee............................................359
Joint Committee of Congress on the Library..........................367
Joint Committee on Printing.........................................371
Joint Committee on Taxation.........................................377

                                    APPENDIX

Rule X. Organization of Committees..................................381
Rule XI. Procedures of Committees and Unfinished Business...........415
Rule XIII. Calendars and Committee Reports..........................441










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                              PART I-STANDING COMMITTEES 
                                      OF THE HOUSE
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                               Committee on Agriculture

                     COLLIN C. PETERSON, Minnesota, Chairman
TIM HOLDEN, Pennsylvania, Vice        FRANK D. LUCAS, Oklahoma, Ranking
  Chairman                              Minority Member 
MIKE MCINTYRE, North Carolina         BOB GOODLATTE, Virginia
LEONARD L. BOSWELL, Iowa              JERRY MORAN, Kansas
JOE BACA, California                  TIMOTHY V. JOHNSON, Illinois
DENNIS A. CARDOZA, California         SAM GRAVES, Missouri
DAVID SCOTT, Georgia                  MIKE ROGERS, Alabama
JIM MARSHALL, Georgia                 STEVE KING, Iowa
STEPHANIE HERSETH SANDLIN,            RANDY NEUGEBAUER, Texas
  South Dakota                        K. MICHAEL CONAWAY, Texas
HENRY CUELLAR, Texas                  JEFF FORTENBERRY, Nebraska
JIM COSTA, California                 JEAN SCHMIDT, Ohio
BRAD ELLSWORTH, Indiana               ADRIAN SMITH, Nebraska
TIMOTHY J. WALZ, Minnesota            ROBERT E. LATTA, Ohio
STEVE KAGEN, Wisconsin                DAVID P. ROE, Tennessee
KURT SCHRADER, Oregon                 BLAINE LUETKEMEYER, Missouri
DEBORAH L. HALVORSON, Illinois        GLENN W. THOMPSON, Pennsylvania
KATHLEEN A. DAHLKEMPER, Pennsylvania  BILL CASSIDY, Louisiana*
ERIC J.J. MASSA, New York             CYNTHIA M. LUMMIS, Wyoming**
BOBBY BRIGHT, Alabama
BETSY MARKEY, Colorado
FRANK KRATOVIL, Maryland
MARK H. SCHAUER, Michigan
LARRY KISSELL, North Carolina
JOHN A. BOCCIERI, Ohio
SCOTT MURPHY, New York***
EARL POMEROY, North Dakota
TRAVIS W. CHILDERS, Mississippi
WALT MINNICK, Idaho


*Appointed to the Agriculture Committee on January 22, 2009 filling a 
vacancy created by the resignation of Rep. Virginia Foxx on January 
21, 2009.
**Appointed to the Agriculture Committee February 4, 2009.
***Appointed to the Agriculture Committee April 30, 2009 filling a 
vacancy created by the resignation of Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand from the 
House of Representatives on January 26, 2009.  

                              (Adopted January 28, 2009)

                            RULE I.-GENERAL PROVISIONS

       (a) Applicability of House Rules._(1) The Rules of the House 
shall govern the procedure of the Committee and its subcommittees, and 
the rules of the Committee on Agriculture so far as applicable shall be 
interpreted in accordance with the Rules of the House, 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, are non-debatable privileged motions in the Committee and 
its subcommittees. (See Appendix A for the applicable Rules of the U.S. 
House of Representatives.) 
       (2) As provided in clause 1(a)(2) of House Rule XI, each 
subcommittee is part of the Committee and is subject to the authority 
and direction of the Committee and its rules so far as applicable. (See 
also Committee rules III, IV, V, VI, VII and X, infra.) 
       (b) Authority to Conduct Investigations._The Committee and its 
subcommittees, after consultation with the Chairman of the Committee, 
may conduct such investigations and studies as they may consider 
necessary or appropriate in the exercise of their responsibilities 
under Rule X of the Rules of the House and in accordance with clause 
2(m) of House Rule XI. 
       (c) Authority to Print._The Committee is authorized by the Rules 
of the House to have printed and bound testimony and other data 
presented at hearings held by the Committee and its subcommittees. All 
costs of stenographic services and transcripts in connection with any 
meeting or hearing of the Committee and its subcommittees shall be paid 
from applicable accounts of the House described in clause 1(i)(1) of 
House Rule X in accordance with clause 1(c) of House Rule XI. (See also 
paragraphs (d), (e) and (f) of Committee rule VIII.) 
       (d) Vice Chairman._The Member of the majority party on the 
Committee or subcommittee designated by the Chairman of the full 
Committee shall be the vice chairman of the Committee or subcommittee 
in accordance with clause 2(d) of House Rule XI. 
       (e) Presiding Member._If the Chairman of the Committee or 
subcommittee is not present at any Committee or subcommittee meeting or 
hearing, the vice chairman shall preside. If the Chairman and vice 
chairman of the Committee or subcommittee are not present at a 
Committee or subcommittee meeting or hearing the ranking Member of the 
majority party who is present shall preside in accordance with clause 
2(d), House Rule XI. 
       (f) Activities Report._(1) The Committee shall submit to the 
House, not later than January 2 of each odd-numbered year, a report on 
the activities of the Committee under Rules X and XI of the Rules of 
the House during the Congress ending on January 3 of such year. (See 
also Committee rule VIII (h)(2).) 
       (2) Such report shall include separate sections summarizing the 
legislative and oversight activities of the Committee during that 
Congress. 
       (3) The oversight section of such report shall include a summary 
of the oversight plans submitted by the Committee pursuant to clause 
2(d) of House Rule X, a summary of the actions taken and 
recommendations made with respect to each such plan, and a summary of 
any additional oversight activities undertaken by the Committee, and 
any recommendations made or actions taken with respect thereto. 
       (g) Publication of Rules._The Committee's rules shall be 
published in the Congressional Record not later than thirty days after 
the Committee is elected in each odd-numbered year as provided in 
clause 2(a) of House Rule XI. 
       (h) Joint Committee Reports of Investigation or Study._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. 

RULE II.__COMMITTEE BUSINESS MEETINGS__REGULAR, ADDITIONAL AND SPECIAL

       (a) Regular Meetings._(1)Regular meetings of the Committee, in 
accordance with clause 2(b) of House Rule XI, shall be held on the 
first Wednesday of every month to transact its business unless such day 
is a holiday, or Congress is in recess or is adjourned, in which case 
the Chairman shall determine the regular meeting day of the Committee, 
if any, for that month. The Chairman shall provide each member of the 
Committee, as far in advance of the day of the regular meeting as 
practicable, a written agenda of such meeting. Items may be placed on 
the agenda by the Chairman or a majority of the Committee. If the 
Chairman believes that there will not be any bill, resolution or other 
matter considered before the full Committee and there is no other 
business to be transacted at a regular meeting, the meeting may be 
cancelled or it may be deferred until such time as, in the judgment of 
the Chairman, there may be matters which require the Committee's 
consideration. This paragraph shall not apply to meetings of any 
subcommittee. (See paragraph (f) of Committee rule X for provisions 
that apply to meetings of subcommittees.) 
       (b) Additional Meetings._The Chairman may call and convene, as 
he or she considers necessary, after consultation with the Ranking 
Minority Member of the Committee, 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 for such additional meetings pursuant to a notice from the 
Chairman. 
       (c) Special Meetings._If at least three members of the Committee 
desire that a special meeting of the Committee be called by the 
Chairman, those members may file in the offices of the Committee their 
written request to the Chairman for such special meeting. Such request 
shall specify the measure or matters to be considered. Immediately upon 
the filing of the request, the Majority Staff Director (serving as the 
clerk of the Committee for such purpose) shall notify the Chairman of 
the filing of the request. If, within three calendar days after the 
filing of the request, the Chairman does not call the requested special 
meeting to be held within 7 calendar days after the filing of the 
request, a majority of the members of the Committee may file in the 
offices of the Committee their written notice that a special meeting of 
the Committee will be held, specifying the date and hour thereof, and 
the measures or matter to be considered at that special meeting in 
accordance with clause 2(c)(2) of House Rule XI. The Committee shall 
meet on that date and hour. Immediately upon the filing of the notice, 
the Majority Staff Director (serving as the clerk) of the Committee 
shall notify all members of the Committee that such meeting will be 
held and inform them of its date and hour and the measure or matter to 
be considered, and only the measure or matter specified in that notice 
may be considered at that special meeting. 

       RULE III__OPEN MEETINGS AND HEARINGS; BROADCASTING

       (a) Open Meetings and Hearings._Each meeting for the transaction 
of business, including the markup of legislation, and each hearing by 
the Committee or a subcommittee shall be open to the public unless 
closed in accordance with clause 2(g) of House Rule XI. (See Appendix 
A.) 
       (b) Broadcasting and Photography._Whenever a Committee or 
subcommittee meeting for the transaction of business, including the 
markup of legislation, or a hearing is open to the public, that meeting 
or hearing shall be open to coverage by television, radio, and still 
photography in accordance with clause 4 of House Rule XI (See Appendix 
A). When such radio coverage is conducted in the Committee or 
subcommittee, written notice to that effect shall be placed on the desk 
of each Member. The Chairman of the Committee or subcommittee, shall 
not limit the number of television or still cameras permitted in a 
hearing or meeting room to fewer than two representatives from each 
medium (except for legitimate space or safety considerations, in which 
case pool coverage shall be authorized). 
       (c) Closed Meetings_Attendees._No person other than Members of 
the Committee or subcommittee and such congressional staff and 
departmental representatives as the Committee or subcommittee may 
authorize shall be present at any business or markup session that has 
been closed to the public as provided in clause 2(g)(1) of House Rule 
XI. 
       (d) Addressing the Committee._A Committee member may address the 
Committee or a subcommittee on any bill, motion, or other matter under 
consideration (See Committee rule VII (e) relating to questioning a 
witness at a hearing). The time a member may address the Committee or 
subcommittee for any such purpose shall be limited to five minutes, 
except that this time limit may be waived by unanimous consent. A 
member shall also be limited in his or her remarks to the subject 
matter under consideration, unless the Member receives unanimous 
consent to extend his or her remarks beyond such subject. 
       (e) Meetings to Begin Promptly._Subject to the presence of a 
quorum, each meeting or hearing of the Committee and its subcommittees 
shall begin promptly at the time so stipulated in the public 
announcement of the meeting or hearing. 
       (f) Prohibition on Proxy Voting._No vote by any Member of the 
Committee or subcommittee with respect to any measure or matter may be 
cast by proxy. 
       (g) Location of Persons at Meetings._No person other than the 
Committee or subcommittee Members and Committee or subcommittee staff 
may be seated in the rostrum area during a meeting of the Committee or 
subcommittee unless by unanimous consent of Committee or subcommittee. 
       (h) Consideration of Amendments and Motions._A Member, upon 
request, shall be recognized by the Chairman to address the Committee 
or subcommittee at a meeting for a period limited to five minutes on 
behalf of an amendment or motion offered by the Member or another 
Member, or upon any other matter under consideration, unless the Member 
receives unanimous consent to extend the time limit. Every amendment or 
motion made in Committee or subcommittee shall, upon the demand of any 
Member present, be reduced to writing, and a copy thereof shall be made 
available to all Members present. Such amendment or motion shall not be 
pending before the Committee or subcommittee or voted on until the 
requirements of this paragraph have been met. 
       (i) Demanding Record Vote.__
       (1) A record vote of the Committee or subcommittee on a question 
or action shall be ordered on a demand by one-fifth of the Members 
present. 
       (2) The Chairman of the Committee or Subcommittee may postpone 
further proceedings when a record vote is ordered on the question of 
approving a measure or matter or on adopting an amendment. If the 
Chairman postpones further proceedings: 
       (A) the Chairman may resume such postponed proceedings, after 
giving Members adequate notice, at a time chosen in consultation with 
the Ranking Minority Member; and 
       (B) notwithstanding any intervening order for the previous 
question, the underlying proposition on which proceedings were 
postponed shall remain subject to further debate or amendment to the 
same extent as when the question was postponed. 
       (j) Submission of Motions or Amendments In Advance of Business 
Meetings._The Committee and subcommittee-Chairman may request and 
Committee and subcommittee Members should, insofar as practicable, 
cooperate in providing copies of proposed amendments or motions to the 
Chairman and the Ranking Minority Member of the Committee or the 
subcommittee twenty-four hours before a Committee or subcommittee 
business meeting. 
       (k) Points of Order._No point of order against the hearing or 
meeting procedures of the Committee or subcommittee shall be 
entertained unless it is made in a timely fashion. 
       (l) Limitation on Committee Sittings._The Committee or 
subcommittees 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. 
       (m) Prohibition of Wireless Telephones._Use of wireless phones 
during a committee or subcommittee hearing or meeting is prohibited. 

                         RULE IV.__QUORUMS

       (a) Working Quorum._One-third of the members of the Committee or 
a subcommittee shall constitute a quorum for taking any action, other 
than as noted in paragraphs (b) and (c). 
       (b) Majority Quorum._A majority of the members of the Committee 
or subcommittee shall constitute a quorum for: 
       (1) the reporting of a bill, resolution or other measure (See 
clause 2(h)(1) of House Rules XI, and Committee rule VIII); 
       (2) the closing of a meeting or hearing to the public pursuant 
to clauses 2(g) and 2(k)(5) of the Rule XI of the Rules of the House; 
and 
       (3) the authorizing of a subpoena as provided in clause 2(m)(3), 
of House Rule XI. (See also Committee rule VI.) 
       (c) Quorum for Taking Testimony._Two members of the Committee or 
subcommittee shall constitute a quorum for the purpose of taking 
testimony and receiving evidence. 

                         RULE V.__RECORDS

       (a) Maintenance of Records._The Committee shall keep a complete 
record of all Committee and subcommittee action which shall include__
       (1) in the case of any meeting or hearing transcripts, 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 
       (2) written minutes shall include a record of all Committee and 
subcommittee action and a record of all votes on any question and a 
tally on all record votes. 
       The result of each such record vote shall be made available by 
the Committee for inspection by the public at reasonable times in the 
offices of the Committee and by telephone request. The result of each 
such record vote shall also be made available on the Committee's 
website as soon as practicable, but not later than 2 business days 
after such vote is taken. Information so available for public 
inspection shall include a description of the amendment, motion, order 
or other proposition and the name of each member voting for and each 
member voting against such amendment, motion, order, or proposition, 
and the names of those members present but not voting. 
       (b) Access to and Correction of Records._Any public witness, or 
person authorized by such witness, during Committee office hours in the 
Committee offices and within two weeks of the close of hearings, may 
obtain a transcript copy of that public witness's testimony and make 
such technical, grammatical and typographical corrections as authorized 
by the person making the remarks involved as will not alter the nature 
of testimony given. There shall be prompt return of such corrected copy 
of the transcript to the Committee. Members of the Committee or 
subcommittee shall receive copies of transcripts for their prompt 
review and correction and prompt return to the Committee. The Committee 
or subcommittee may order the printing of a hearing record without the 
corrections of any Member or witness if it determines that such Member 
or witness has been afforded a reasonable time in which to make such 
corrections and further delay would seriously impede the consideration 
of the legislative action that is subject of the hearing. The record of 
a hearing shall be closed ten calendar days after the last oral 
testimony, unless the Committee or subcommittee determines otherwise. 
Any person requesting to file a statement for the record of a hearing 
must so request before the hearing concludes and must file the 
statement before the record is closed unless the Committee or 
subcommittee determines otherwise. The Committee or subcommittee may 
reject any statement in light of its length or its tendency to defame, 
degrade, or incriminate any person. 
       (c) Property of the House._All Committee and subcommittee 
hearings, records, data, charts, and files shall be kept separate and 
distinct from the congressional office records of the Members serving 
as Chairman and such records shall be the property of the House and all 
Members of the House shall have access thereto. The Majority Staff 
Director shall promptly notify the Chairman and the Ranking Minority 
Member of any request for access to such records. 
       (d) Availability of Archived Records._The records of the 
Committee at the National Archives and Records Administration shall be 
made available for public use in accordance with House Rule VII. The 
Chairman shall notify the Ranking Minority Member of the Committee of 
the need for a Committee order pursuant to clause 3(b)(3) or clause 
4(b) of such House Rule, to withhold a record otherwise available. 
       (e) Special Rules for Certain Records and Proceedings._A 
stenographic record of a business meeting of the Committee or 
subcommittee may be kept and thereafter may be published if the 
Chairman of the Committee, after consultation with the Ranking Minority 
Member, determines there is need for such a record. The proceedings of 
the Committee or subcommittee in a closed meeting, evidence or 
testimony in such meeting, shall not be divulged unless otherwise 
determined by a majority of the Committee or subcommittee. 
       (f) Electronic Availability of Committee Publications._To the 
maximum extent feasible, the Committee shall make its publications 
available in electronic form. 

              RULE VI.__P OWER TO SIT AND ACT; SUBPOENA POWER

       (a) Authority to Sit and Act._For the purpose of carrying out 
any of its function and duties under House Rules X and XI, the 
Committee and each of its subcommittees is authorized (subject to 
paragraph (b)(1) of this rule)__ 
       (1) 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, and 
       (2) 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 deems necessary. 
The Chairman of the Committee or subcommittee, or any member designated 
by the Chairman, may administer oaths to any witness. 
       (b) Issuance of Subpoenas._(1) A subpoena may be authorized and 
issued by the Committee or subcommittee under paragraph (a)(2) in the 
conduct of any investigation or series of investigations or activities, 
only when authorized by a majority of the members voting, a majority 
being present, as provided in clause 2(m)(3)(A) of House Rule XI. Such 
authorized subpoenas shall be signed by the Chairman of the Committee 
or by any member designated by the Committee. As soon as practicable 
after a subpoena is issued under this rule, the Chairman shall notify 
all members of the Committee of such action. 
       (2) Notice of a meeting to consider a motion to authorize and 
issue a subpoena should be given to all Members of the Committee by 
5 p.m. of the day preceding such meeting. 
       (3) Compliance with any subpoena issued by the Committee or 
subcommittee under paragraph (a)(2) may be enforced only as authorized 
or directed by the House. 
       (4) 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) Expenses of Subpoenaed Witnesses._Each witness who has been 
subpoenaed, upon the completion of his or her testimony before the 
Committee or any subcommittee, may report to the offices of the 
Committee, and there sign appropriate vouchers for travel allowances 
and attendance fees to which he or she is entitled. If hearings are 
held in cities other than Washington D.C., the subpoenaed witness may 
contact the Majority Staff Director of the Committee, or his or her representative, before leaving the hearing room. 

                     RULE VII.__HEARING PROCEDURES

       (a) Power to Hear._For the purpose of carrying out any of its 
functions and duties under House Rule X and XI, the Committee and its 
subcommittees are authorized to sit and hold hearings at any time or 
place within the United States whether the House is in session, has 
recessed, or has adjourned. (See paragraph (a) of Committee rule VI and 
paragraph (f) of Committee rule X for provisions relating to 
subcommittee hearings and meetings.) 
       (b) Announcement._The Chairman of the Committee shall after 
consultation with the Ranking Minority Member of the Committee, make a 
public announcement of the date, place and subject matter of any 
Committee hearing at least one week before the commencement of the 
hearing. The Chairman of a subcommittee shall schedule a hearing only 
after consultation with the Chairman of the Committee and after 
consultation with the Ranking Minority Member of the subcommittee, and 
the Chairmen of the other subcommittees after such consultation with 
the Committee Chairman, and shall request the Majority Staff Director 
to make a public announcement of the date, place, and subject matter of 
such hearing at least one week before the hearing. If the Chairman of 
the Committee or the subcommittee, with concurrence of the Ranking 
Minority Member of the Committee or subcommittee, determines there is 
good cause to begin the hearing sooner, or if the Committee or 
subcommittee so determines by majority vote, a quorum being present for 
the transaction of business, the Chairman of the Committee or 
subcommittee, as appropriate, shall request the Majority Staff Director 
to make such public announcement at the earliest possible date. The 
clerk of the Committee shall promptly notify the Daily Digest Clerk of 
the Congressional Record, and shall promptly enter the appropriate 
information into the Committee scheduling service of the House 
Information Systems as soon as possible after such public announcement 
is made. 
       (c) Scheduling of Witnesses._Except as otherwise provided in 
this rule, the scheduling of witnesses and determination of the time 
allowed for the presentation of testimony at hearings shall be at the 
discretion of the Chairman of the Committee or subcommittee, unless a 
majority of the Committee or subcommittee determines otherwise. 
       (d) Written Statement; Oral Testimony._(1) Each witness who is 
to appear before the Committee or a subcommittee, shall insofar as 
practicable file with the Majority Staff Director of the Committee, at 
least two working days before day of his or her appearance, a written 
statement of proposed testimony. Witnesses shall provide sufficient 
copies of their statement for distribution to Committee or subcommittee  
Members, staff, and the news media. Insofar as practicable, the 
Committee or subcommittee staff shall distribute such written 
statements to all Members of the Committee or subcommittee as soon as 
they are received as well as any official reports from departments and 
agencies on such subject matter. All witnesses may be limited in their 
oral presentations to brief summaries of their statements within the 
time allotted to them, at the discretion of the Chairman of the 
Committee or subcommittee, in light of the nature of the testimony and 
the length of time available. 
       (2) As noted in paragraph (a) of Committee rule VI, the Chairman 
of the Committee or one of its subcommittees, or any Member designated 
by the Chairman, may administer an oath to any witness. 
       (3) To the greatest extent practicable, each witness appearing 
in a non-governmental capacity shall include with the written statement 
of proposed testimony a curriculum vitae and disclosure of the amount 
and source (by agency and program) of any Federal grant (or subgrant 
thereof) or contract (or subcontract thereof) received during the 
current fiscal year or either of the two preceding fiscal years. 
       (e) Questioning of Witnesses._Committee or subcommittee Members 
may question witnesses only when they have been recognized by the 
Chairman of the Committee or subcommittee for that purpose. Each Member 
so recognized shall be limited to questioning a witness for five 
minutes until such time as each Member of the Committee or subcommittee 
who so desires has had an opportunity to question the witness for five 
minutes; and thereafter the Chairman of the Committee or subcommittee 
may limit the time of a further round of questioning after giving due 
consideration to the importance of the subject matter and the length of 
time available. All questions put to witnesses shall be germane to the 
measure or matter under consideration. Unless a majority of the 
Committee or subcommittee determines otherwise, no committee or 
subcommittee staff shall interrogate witnesses. 
       (f) Extended Questioning for Designated Members._Notwithstanding 
paragraph (e), the Chairman and Ranking Minority member may designate 
an equal number of Members from each party to question a witness for a 
period not longer than 60 minutes. 
       (g) Witnesses for the Minority._When any hearing is conducted by 
the Committee or any subcommittee upon any measure or matter, the 
minority party members on the Committee or subcommittee shall be 
entitled, upon request to the Chairman by a majority of those minority 
members before the completion of such hearing, to call witnesses 
selected by the minority to testify with respect to that measure or 
matter during at least one day of hearing thereon as provided in clause 
2(j)(1) of House Rule XI. 
       (h) Summary of Subject Matter._Upon announcement of a hearing, 
to the extent practicable, the Committee shall make available 
immediately to all members of the Committee a concise summary of the 
subject matter (including legislative reports and other material) under 
consideration. In addition, upon announcement of a hearing and 
subsequently as they are received, the Chairman of the Committee or 
subcommittee shall, to the extent practicable, make available to the 
members of the Committee any official reports from departments and 
agencies on such matter. (See Committee rule X(f).) 
       (i) Open Hearings._Each hearing conducted by the Committee or 
subcommittee shall be open to the public, including radio, television 
and still photography coverage, except as provided in clause 4 of House 
Rule XI (see also Committee rule III (b).). In any event, no Member of 
the House may be excluded from nonparticipatory attendance at any 
hearing unless the House by majority vote shall authorize the Committee 
or subcommittee, for purposes of a particular series of hearings on a 
particular bill or resolution or on a particular subject of 
investigation, to close its hearings to Members by means of the above 
procedure. 
       (j) Hearings and Reports._(1)(i) The Chairman of the Committee 
or subcommittee at a hearing shall announce in an opening statement the 
subject of the investigation. A copy of the Committee rules (and the 
applicable provisions of clause 2 of House Rule XI, regarding hearing 
procedures, an excerpt of which appears in Appendix A thereto) shall be 
made available to each witness upon request. Witnesses at hearings may 
be accompanied by their own counsel for the purpose of advising them 
concerning their constitutional rights. The Chairman of the Committee 
or subcommittee may punish breaches of order and decorum, and of 
professional ethics on the part of counsel, by censure and exclusion 
from the hearings; but only the full Committee may cite the offender to 
the House for contempt. 
       (ii) Whenever it is asserted by a member of the committee that 
the evidence or testimony at a hearing may tend to defame, degrade, or 
incriminate any person, or it is asserted by a witness that the 
evidence or testimony that the witness would give at a hearing may tend 
to defame, degrade, or incriminate the witness, such testimony or 
evidence shall be presented in executive session, notwithstanding the 
provisions of paragraph (i) of this rule, if by a majority of those 
present, there being in attendance the requisite number required under 
the rules of the Committee to be present for the purpose of taking 
testimony, the Committee or subcommittee determines that such evidence 
or testimony may tend to defame, degrade, or incriminate any person. 
The Committee or subcommittee shall afford a person an opportunity 
voluntarily to appear as a witness; and the Committee or subcommittee 
shall receive and shall dispose of requests from such person to 
subpoena additional witnesses. 
       (iii) No evidence or testimony taken in executive session may be 
released or used in public sessions without the consent of the 
Committee or subcommittee. In the discretion of the Committee or 
subcommittee, witnesses may submit brief and pertinent statements in 
writing for inclusion in the record. The Committee or subcommittee is 
the sole judge of the pertinency of testimony and evidence adduced at 
its hearings. A witness may obtain a transcript copy of his or her 
testimony given at a public session or, if given at an executive 
session, when authorized by the Committee or subcommittee. (See 
paragraph (c) of Committee rule V.) 
       (2) A proposed investigative or oversight report shall be 
considered as read if it has been available to the members of the 
Committee for at least 24 hours (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, or legal 
holidays except when the House is in session on such day) in advance of 
their consideration. 

             RULE VIII.__THE REPORTING OF BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS 

       (a) Filing of Reports._The Chairman shall report or cause to be 
reported promptly to the House any bill, resolution, or other measure 
approved by the Committee and shall take or cause to be taken all 
necessary steps to bring such bill, resolution, or other measure to a 
vote. No bill, resolution, or measure shall be reported from the 
Committee unless a majority of Committee is actually present. A 
Committee report on any bill, resolution, or other measure approved by 
the Committee shall be filed within seven calendar days (not counting 
days on which the House is not in session) after the day on which there 
has been filed with the Majority Staff Director of the Committee a 
written request, signed by a majority of the Committee, for the 
reporting of that bill or resolution. The Majority Staff Director of 
the Committee shall notify the Chairman immediately when such a request 
is filed. 
       (b) Content of Reports._Each Committee report on any bill or 
resolution approved by the Committee shall include as separately 
identified sections: 
       (1) a statement of the intent or purpose of the bill or 
resolution; 
       (2) a statement describing the need for such bill or 
resolution; 
       (3) a statement of Committee and subcommittee consideration of 
the measure including a summary of amendments and motions offered and 
the actions taken thereon; 
       (4) the results of the each record vote on any amendment in the 
Committee and subcommittee and on the motion to report the measure or 
matter, including the names of those Members and the total voting for 
and the names of those Members and the total voting against such 
amendment or motion (See clause 3(b) of House rule XIII); 
       (5) the oversight findings and recommendations of the Committee 
with respect to the subject matter of the bill or resolution as 
required pursuant to clause 3(c)(1) of House Rule XIII and clause 
2(b)(1) of House Rule X; 
       (6) the detailed statement described in section 308(a) of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 if the bill or resolution provides new 
budget authority (other than continuing appropriations), new spending 
authority described in section 401(c)(2) of such Act, new credit 
authority, or an increase or decrease in revenues or tax expenditures, 
except that the estimates with respect to new budget authority shall 
include, when practicable, a comparison of the total estimated funding 
level for the relevant program (or programs) to the appropriate levels 
under current law; 
       (7) the estimate of costs and comparison of such estimates, if 
any, prepared by the Director of the Congressional Budget Office in 
connection with such bill or resolution pursuant to section 402 of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 if submitted in timely fashion to the 
Committee; 
       (8) a statement of general performance goals and objectives, 
including outcome-related goals and objectives, for which the measure 
authorizes funding; 
       (9) a statement citing the specific powers granted to the 
Congress in the Constitution to enact the law proposed by the bill or 
joint resolution; 
       (10) an estimate by the committee of the costs that would be 
incurred in carrying out such bill or joint resolution in the fiscal 
year in which it is reported and for its authorized duration or for 
each of the five fiscal years following the fiscal year of reporting, 
whichever period is less (see Rule XIII, clause 3(d)(2), (3) and 
(h)(2), (3)), together with__ 
       (i) a comparison of these estimates with those made and 
submitted to the Committee by any Government agency when practicable, 
and (ii) a comparison of the total estimated funding level for the 
relevant program (or programs) with appropriate levels under current 
law (The provisions of this clause do not apply if a cost estimate and 
comparison prepared by the Director of the Congressional Budget Office 
under section 403 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 has been 
timely submitted prior to the filing of the report and included in the 
report); 
       (11) 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; 
       (12) the changes in existing law (if any) shown in accordance 
with clause 3 of House Rule XIII; 
       (13) the determination required pursuant to section 5(b) of 
Public Law 92-463, if the legislation reported establishes or 
authorizes the establishment of an advisory committee; and 
       (14) the information on Federal and intergovernmental mandates 
required by section 423(c) and (d) of the Congressional Budget Act of 
1974, as added by the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 
(P.L. 104-4). 
       (15) a statement regarding the applicability of section 
102(b)(3) of the Congressional Accountability Act, Public Law 104-1. 
       (c) Supplemental, Minority, or Additional Views._If, at the time 
of approval of any measure or matter by the Committee, any Member of 
the Committee gives notice of intention to file supplemental, minority, 
or additional views, that Member shall be entitled to not less than two 
subsequent calendar days (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal 
holidays except when the House is in session on such date) in which to 
file such views, in writing and signed by that Member, with the 
Majority Staff Director of the Committee. When time guaranteed by this 
paragraph has expired (or if sooner, when all separate views have been 
received), the Committee may arrange to file its report with the Clerk 
of the House not later than one hour after the expiration of such time. 
All such views (in accordance with House Rule XI, clause 2(1) and House 
Rule XIII, clause 3(a)(1)), as filed by one or more Members of the 
Committee, shall be included within and made a part of the report filed 
by the Committee with respect to that bill or resolution. 
       (d) Printing of Reports._The report of the Committee on the 
measure or matter noted in paragraph (a) above shall be printed in a 
single volume, which shall: 
       (1) include all supplemental, minority or additional views that 
have been submitted by the time of the filing of the report; and 
       (2) bear on its cover a recital that any such supplemental, 
minority, or additional views (and any material submitted under House 
Rule XII, clause 3(a)(1)) are included as part of the report. 
       (e) Immediate Printing; Supplemental Reports._Nothing in this 
rule shall preclude (1) the immediate filing or printing of a Committee 
report unless timely request for the opportunity to file supplemental, 
minority, or additional views has been made as provided by paragraph 
(c), or (2) the filing by the Committee of any supplemental report on 
any bill or resolution that may be required for the correction of any 
technical error in a previous report made by the Committee on that bill 
or resolution. 
       (f) Availability of Printed Hearing Records._If hearings have 
been held on any reported bill or resolution, the Committee shall make 
every reasonable effort to have the record of such hearings printed and 
available for distribution to the Members of the House prior to the 
consideration of such bill or resolution by the House. Each printed 
hearing of the Committee or any of its subcommittees shall include a 
record of the attendance of the Members. 
       (g) Committee Prints._All Committee or subcommittee prints or 
other Committee or subcommittee documents, other than reports or prints 
of bills, that are prepared for public distribution shall be approved 
by the Chairman of the Committee or the Committee prior to public 
distribution. 
       (h) Post Adjournment Filing of Committee Reports._(1) After an 
adjournment of the last regular session of a Congress sine die, an 
investigative or oversight report approved by the Committee may be 
filed with the Clerk at any time, provided that if a member gives 
notice at the time of approval of intention to file supplemental, 
minority, or additional views, that member shall be entitled to not 
less than seven calendar days in which to submit such views for 
inclusion with the report. 
       (2) After an adjournment of the last regular session of a 
Congress sine die, the Chairman of the Committee may file at any time 
with the Clerk the Committee's activity report for that Congress 
pursuant to clause 1(d)(1) of rule XI of the Rules of the House without 
the approval of the Committee, provided that a copy of the report has 
been available to each member of the Committee for at least seven 
calendar days and the report includes any supplemental, minority, or 
additional views submitted by a member of the Committee. 
       (i) The Chairman is directed to offer a motion under clause 1 of 
rule XXII of the Rules of the House whenever the Chairman considers it 
appropriate. 

                   RULE IX.__OTHER COMMITTEE ACTIVITIES 

       (a) Oversight Plan._Not later than February 15 of the first 
session of a Congress, the Chairman shall convene the Committee in a 
meeting that is open to the public and with a quorum present to adopt 
its oversight plans for that Congress. Such plans shall be submitted 
simultaneously to the Committee on Government Reform and to the 
Committee on House Administration. In developing such plans the 
Committee shall, to the maximum extent feasible__ 
       (1) consult with other committees of the House that have 
jurisdiction over the same or related laws, programs, or agencies 
within its jurisdiction, with the objective of ensuring that such laws, 
programs, or agencies are reviewed in the same Congress and that there 
is a maximum of coordination between such committees in the conduct of 
such reviews; and such plans shall include an explanation of what steps 
have been and will be taken to ensure such coordination and 
cooperation; 
       (2) 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; 
and 
       (3) give priority consideration to including in its plans the 
review of those laws, programs, or agencies operating under permanent 
budget authority or permanent statutory authority; and 
       (4) have a view toward ensuring that all significant laws, 
programs, or agencies within its jurisdiction are subject to review at 
least once every ten years. The Committee and its appropriate 
subcommittees shall review and study, on a continuing basis, the impact 
or probable impact of tax policies affecting subjects within its 
jurisdiction as provided in clause 2(d) of House Rule X. The Committee 
shall include in the report filed pursuant to clause 1(d) of House Rule 
XI a summary of the oversight plans submitted by the Committee under 
clause 2(d) of House Rule X, a summary of actions taken and 
recommendations made with respect to each such plan, and a summary of 
any additional oversight activities undertaken by the Committee and any 
recommendations made or actions taken thereon. 
       (b) Annual Appropriations._The Committee shall, in its 
consideration of all bills and joint resolutions of a public character 
within its jurisdiction, ensure that appropriations for continuing 
programs and activities of the Federal government and the District of 
Columbia government will be made annually to the maximum extent 
feasible and consistent with the nature, requirements, and objectives 
of the programs and activities involved. The Committee shall review, 
from time to time, each continuing program within its jurisdiction for 
which appropriations are not made annually in order to ascertain 
whether such program could be modified so that appropriations therefor 
would be made annually. 
       (c) Budget Act Compliance: Views and Estimates 
(See Appendix B)._Not later than six weeks after the President submits 
his budget under section 1105(a) of title 31, United State Code, or at 
such time as the Committee on the Budget may request, the Committee 
shall, submit to the Committee on the Budget (1) 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 (under section 301 
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974_see Appendix B) that are within 
its jurisdiction or functions; and (2) 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. 
       (d) Budget Act Compliance: Recommended Changes._Whenever the 
Committee is directed in a concurrent resolution on the budget to 
determine and recommend changes in laws, bills, or resolutions under 
the reconciliation process, it shall promptly make such determination 
and recommendations, and report a reconciliation bill or resolution (or 
both) to the House or submit such recommendations to the Committee on 
the Budget, in accordance with the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 
(See Appendix B). 
       (e) Conference Committees._Whenever in the legislative process 
it becomes necessary to appoint conferees, the Chairman shall, after 
consultation with the Ranking Minority Member, determine the number of 
conferees the Chairman deems most suitable and then recommend to the 
Speaker as conferees, in keeping with the number to be appointed by the 
Speaker as provided in House Rule I, clause 11, the names of those 
Members of the Committee of not less than a majority who generally 
supported the House position and who were primarily responsible for the 
legislation. The Chairman shall, to the fullest extent feasible, 
include those Members of the Committee who were the principal 
proponents of the major provisions of the bill as it passed the House 
and such other Committee Members of the majority party as the Chairman 
may designate in consultation with the Members of the majority party. 
Such recommendations shall provide a ratio of majority party Members to 
minority party Members no less favorable to the majority party than the 
ratio of majority party Members to minority party Members on the 
Committee. In making recommendations of Minority Party Members as 
conferees, the Chairman shall consult with the Ranking Minority Member 
of the Committee. 
       (f)(1) The Committee, or a subcommittee, shall hold at least one 
hearing during each 120-day period following the establishment of the 
committee on the topic of waste, fraud, abuse, or mismanagement in 
Government programs which the committee may authorize. 
       (2) A hearing described in subparagraph (1) shall include a 
focus on the most egregious instances of waste, fraud, abuse, or 
mismanagement as documented by any report the committee has received 
from a Federal Office of the Inspector General or the Comptroller 
General of the United States. 
       (g) The Committee or a subcommittee, shall hold at least one 
hearing in any session in which the committee has received disclaimers 
of agency financial statements from auditors of any Federal agency that 
the committee may authorize to hear testimony on such disclaimers from 
representatives of any such agency. 
       (h) The Committee or a subcommittee, shall hold at least one 
hearing on issues raised by reports issued by the Comptroller General 
of the United States indicating that Federal programs or operations 
that the committee may authorize are at high risk for waste, fraud, and 
mismanagement, known as the `high-risk-list' or the `high-risk series'. 

                        RULE X.__SUBCOMMITTEES

       (a) Number and Composition._There shall be such subcommittees as 
specified in paragraph (c) of this rule. Each of such subcommittees 
shall be composed of the number of members set forth in paragraph (c) 
of this rule, including ex officio members. The Chairman may create 
additional subcommittees of an ad hoc nature as the Chairman determines 
to be appropriate subject to any limitations provided for in the House 
Rules. 
       (b) Ratios._On each subcommittee, there shall be a ratio of 
majority party members to minority party members which shall be 
consistent with the ratio on the full Committee. In calculating the 
ratio of majority party members to minority party members, there shall 
be included the ex officio members of the subcommittees and ratios 
below reflect that fact. 
       (c) Jurisdiction._Each subcommittee shall have the following 
general jurisdiction and number of members: 
       Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research (32 members, 19 
majority and 13 minority)._Soil, water, and resource conservation, 
small watershed program, energy and biobased energy production, rural 
electrification, agricultural credit, and agricultural research, 
education and extension services. 
       Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition, and Forestry (12 
members, 7 majority and 5 minority)._Agency oversight, review and 
analysis, special investigations, food stamps, nutrition and consumer 
programs, forestry in general, and forest reserves other than those 
created from the public domain. 
       General Farm Commodities and Risk Management (20 members, 12 
majority and 8 minority)._Program and markets related to cotton, 
cottonseed, wheat, feed grains, soybeans, oilseeds, rice, dry beans, 
peas, lentils, the Commodity Credit Corporation, risk management, 
including crop insurance, and commodity exchanges. 
       Horticulture and Organic Agriculture (12 members, 7 majority and 
5 minority)._Fruits and vegetables, honey and bees, marketing and 
promotion orders, plant pesticides, quarantine, adulteration of seeds, 
and insect pests, and organic agriculture. 
       Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry (20 members, 12 majority and 8 
minority)._Livestock, dairy, poultry, meat, seafood and seafood 
products, inspection, marketing, and promotion of such commodities, 
aquaculture, animal welfare, and grazing. 
       Rural Development, Biotechnology, Speciality Crops, and Foreign 
Agriculture (12 members, 7 majority and 5 minority)._Peanuts, sugar, 
tobacco, marketing orders relating to such commodities, rural 
development, farm security and family farming matters, biotechnology, 
foreign agricultural assistance, and trade promotion programs, 
generally. 
       (d) Referral of Legislation.__
       (1)(a) In General._All bills, resolutions, and other matters 
referred to the Committee shall be referred to all subcommittees of 
appropriate jurisdiction within 2 weeks after being referred to the 
Committee. After consultation with the Ranking Minority Member, the 
Chairman may determine that the Committee will consider certain bills, 
resolutions, or other matters. 
       (b) Trade Matters._Unless action is otherwise taken under 
subparagraph (3), bills, resolutions, and other matters referred to the 
Committee relating to foreign agriculture, foreign food or commodity 
assistance, and foreign trade and marketing issues will be considered 
by the Committee. 
       (2) The Chairman, by a majority vote of the Committee, may 
discharge a subcommittee from further consideration of any bill, 
resolution, or other matter referred to the subcommittee and have such 
bill, resolution or other matter considered by the Committee. The 
Committee having referred a bill, resolution, or other matter to a 
subcommittee in accordance with this rule may discharge such 
subcommittee from further consideration thereof at any time by a vote 
of the majority members of the Committee for the Committee's direct 
consideration or for reference to another subcommittee. 
       (3) Unless the Committee, a quorum being present, decides 
otherwise by a majority vote, the Chairman may refer bills, 
resolutions, legislation or other matters not specifically within the 
jurisdiction of a subcommittee, or that is within the jurisdiction of 
more than one subcommittee, jointly or exclusively as the Chairman 
deems appropriate, including concurrently to the subcommittees with 
jurisdiction, sequentially to the subcommittees with jurisdiction 
(subject to any time limits deemed appropriate), divided by subject 
matter among the subcommittees with jurisdiction, or to an ad hoc 
subcommittee appointed by the Chairman for the purpose of considering 
the matter and reporting to the Committee thereon, or make such other 
provisions deemed appropriate. 
       (e) Participation and Service of Committee Members on 
Subcommittees._(1) The Chairman and the Ranking Minority Member shall 
serve as ex officio members of all subcommittees and shall have the 
right to vote on all matters before the subcommittees. The Chairman and 
the Ranking Minority Member may not be counted for the purpose of 
establishing a quorum. 
       (2) Any member of the Committee who is not a member of the 
subcommittee may have the privilege of sitting and nonparticipatory 
attendance at subcommittee hearings or meetings in accordance with 
clause 2(g)(2) of House Rule XI. Such member may not: 
       (i) vote on any matter; 
       (ii) be counted for the purpose of a establishing a quorum; 
       (iii) participate in questioning a witness under the five minute 
rule, unless permitted to do so by the subcommittee Chairman in 
consultation with the Ranking Minority Member or a majority of the 
subcommittee, a quorum being present; 
       (iv) raise points of order; or 
       (v) offer amendments or motions. 
       (f) Subcommittee Hearings and Meetings._(1) Each subcommittee is 
authorized to meet, hold hearings, receive evidence, and make 
recommendations to the Committee on all matters referred to it or under 
its jurisdiction after consultation by the subcommittee Chairmen with 
the Committee Chairman. (See Committee rule VII.) 
       (2) After consultation with the Committee Chairman, subcommittee 
Chairmen shall set dates for hearings and meetings of their 
subcommittees and shall request the Majority Staff Director to make any 
announcement relating thereto. (See Committee rule VII(b).) In setting 
the dates, the Committee Chairman and subcommittee Chairman shall 
consult with other subcommittee Chairmen and relevant Committee and 
Subcommittee Ranking Minority Members in an effort to avoid 
simultaneously scheduling Committee and subcommittee meetings or 
hearings to the extent practicable. 
       (3) Notice of all subcommittee meetings shall be provided to the 
Chairman and the Ranking Minority Member of the Committee by the 
Majority Staff Director. 
       (4) Subcommittees may hold meetings or hearings outside of the 
House if the Chairman of the Committee and other subcommittee Chairmen 
and the Ranking Minority Member of the subcommittee is consulted in 
advance to ensure that there is no scheduling problem. However, the 
majority of the Committee may authorize such meeting or hearing. 
       (5) The provisions regarding notice and the agenda of Committee 
meetings under Committee rule II(a) and special or additional meetings 
under Committee rule II(b) shall apply to subcommittee meetings. 
       (6) If a vacancy occurs in a subcommittee chairmanship, the 
Chairman may set the dates for hearings and meetings of the 
subcommittee during the period of vacancy. The Chairman may also 
appoint an acting subcommittee Chairman until the vacancy is filled. 
       (g) Subcommittee Action._(1) Any bill, resolution, 
recommendation, or other matter forwarded to the Committee by a 
subcommittee shall be promptly forwarded by the subcommittee Chairman 
or any subcommittee member authorized to do so by the subcommittee. 
(2) Upon receipt of such recommendation, the Majority Staff Director of 
the Committee shall promptly advise all members of the Committee of the 
subcommittee action. 
       (3) The Committee shall not consider any matters recommended by 
subcommittees until two calendar days have elapsed from the date of 
action, unless the Chairman or a majority of the Committee determines 
otherwise. 
       (h) Subcommittee Investigations._No investigation shall be 
initiated by a subcommittee without the prior consultation with the 
Chairman of the Committee or a majority of the Committee. 

               RULE XI.__COMMITTEE BUDGET, STAFF, AND TRAVEL 

       (a) Committee Budget._The Chairman, in consultation with the 
majority members of the Committee, and the minority members of the 
Committee, shall prepare a preliminary budget for each session of the 
Congress. Such budget shall include necessary amounts for staff 
personnel, travel, investigation, and other expenses of the Committee 
and subcommittees. After consultation with the 
       Ranking Minority Member, the Chairman shall include an amount 
budgeted to minority members for staff under their direction and 
supervision. Thereafter, the Chairman shall combine such proposals into 
a consolidated Committee budget, and shall take whatever action is 
necessary to have such budget duly authorized by the House. 
       (b) Committee Staff._(1) The Chairman shall appoint and 
determine the remuneration of, and may remove, the professional and 
clerical employees of the Committee not assigned to the minority. The 
professional and clerical staff of the Committee not assigned to the 
minority shall be under the general supervision and direction of the 
Chairman, who shall establish and assign the duties and 
responsibilities of such staff members and delegate such authority as 
he or she determines appropriate. (See House Rule X, clause 9) 
       (2) The Ranking Minority member of the Committee shall appoint 
and determine the remuneration of, and may remove, the professional and 
clerical staff assigned to the minority within the budget approved for 
such purposes. The professional and clerical staff assigned to the 
minority shall be under the general supervision and direction of the 
Ranking Minority Member of the Committee who may delegate such 
authority as he or she determines appropriate. 
       (3) From the funds made available for the appointment of 
Committee staff pursuant to any primary or additional expense 
resolution, the Chairman shall ensure that each subcommittee is 
adequately funded and staffed to discharge its responsibilities and 
that the minority party is fairly treated in the appointment of such 
staff (See House Rule X, clause 6(d)). 
       (c) Committee Travel._(1) 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 regarding domestic and foreign 
travel (See House rule XI, clause 2(n) and House Rule X, clause 8 
(reprinted in Appendix A)). Official travel 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 Committee Member and any Committee staff member in connection with 
the attendance of hearings conducted by the Committee and its 
subcommittees 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: 
       (i) The purpose of the official travel; 
       (ii) 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; 
       (iii) The location of the event for which the official travel is 
to be made; and 
       (iv) The names of members and Committee staff seeking 
authorization. 
       (2) 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 to be paid for out of funds allocated 
to the Committee, prior authorization must be obtained from the 
subcommittee Chairman and the full Committee Chairman. Such prior 
authorization shall be given by the Chairman only upon the 
representation by the applicable subcommittee Chairman in writing 
setting forth those items enumerated in clause (1). 
       (3) Within 60 days of the conclusion of any official travel 
authorized under this rule, there shall be submitted to the 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. 
       (4) 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, its territories or 
possessions. No appropriated funds shall be expended for the purpose of 
defraying expenses of Members of the Committee or its employees in any 
country where local currencies are available for this purpose; and the 
following conditions shall apply with respect to their use of such 
currencies; 
       (i) No Member or employee of the Committee shall receive or 
expend local currencies for subsistence in any country at a rate in 
excess of the maximum per diem rate set forth in applicable Federal 
law; and 
       (ii) Each Member or employee of the Committee shall make an 
itemized report to the Chairman within 60 days following the completion 
of travel showing the dates each country was visited, the amount of per 
diem furnished, the cost of transportation furnished, and any funds 
expended for any other official purpose, and shall summarize in these 
categories the total foreign currencies and appropriated funds 
expended. All such individual reports shall be filed by the Chairman 
with the Committee on House Administration and shall be open to public 
inspection. 

                     RULE XII.__AMENDMENT OF RULES 

       These rules may be amended by a majority vote of the Committee. 
A proposed change in these rules shall not be considered by the 
Committee as provided in clause 2 of House Rule XI, unless written 
notice of the proposed change has been provided to each Committee 
member two legislative days in advance of the date on which the matter 
is to be considered. Any such change in the rules of the Committee 
shall be published in the Congressional Record within 30 calendar days 
after its approval. 

                       Committee on Appropriations

                         DAVID R. OBEY, Wisconsin, Chairman
JOHN P. MURTHA, Pennsylvania           JERRY LEWIS, California, Ranking 
NORMAN D. DICKS, Washington              Member
ALAN B. MOLLOHAN, West Virginia        C. W. BILL YOUNG, Florida
MARCY KAPTUR, Ohio                     HAROLD ROGERS, Kentucky
PETER J. VISCLOSKY, Indiana            FRANK R. WOLF, Virginia
NITA M. LOWEY, New York                JACK KINGSTON, Georgia
JOSE E. SERRANO, New York      RODNEY P. FRELINGHUYSEN, 
ROSA L. DELAURO, Connecticut             New Jersey
JAMES P. MORAN, Virginia               TODD TIAHRT, Kansas
JOHN W. OLVER, Massachusetts           ZACH WAMP, Tennessee
ED PASTOR, Arizona                     TOM LATHAM, Iowa
DAVID E. PRICE, North Carolina         ROBERT B. ADERHOLT, Alabama
CHET EDWARDS, Texas                    JO ANN EMERSON, Missouri
PATRICK J. KENNEDY, Rhode Island       KAY GRANGER, Texas
MAURICE D. HINCHEY, New York           MICHAEL K. SIMPSON, Idaho
LUCILLE ROYBAL-ALLARD, California      JOHN ABNEY CULBERSON, Texas
SAM FARR, California                   MARK STEVEN KIRK, Illinois
JESSE L. JACKSON, JR., Illinois        ANDER CRENSHAW, Florida
CAROLYN C. KILPATRICK, Michigan        DENNIS R. REHBERG, Montana
ALLEN BOYD, Florida                    JOHN R. CARTER, Texas
CHAKA FATTAH, Pennsylvania             RODNEY ALEXANDER, Louisiana
STEVEN R. ROTHMAN, New Jersey          KEN CALVERT, California
SANFORD D. BISHOP, JR., Georgia        JO BONNER, Alabama
MARION BERRY, Arkansas                 STEVEN C. LATOURETTE, Ohio
BARBARA LEE, California                TOM COLE, Oklahoma
ADAM B. SCHIFF, California
MICHAEL M. HONDA, California
BETTY MCCOLLUM, Minnesota
STEVE ISRAEL, New York
TIM RYAN, Ohio
C.A. DUTCH RUPPERSBERGER, 
   Maryland
BEN CHANDLER, Kentucky
DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, 
   Florida
CIRO D. RODRIGUEZ, Texas
LICOLN DAVIS, Tennessee
JOHN T. SALAZAR, Colorado


                             (Adopted January 21, 2009)

       RESOLVED, That the rules and practices of the Committee on 
Appropriations, House of Representatives, in the One Hundred Tenth 
Congress, except as otherwise provided hereinafter, shall be and are 
hereby adopted as the rules and practices of the Committee on 
Appropriations in the One Hundred Eleventh Congress. 
       The foregoing resolution adopts the following rules: 

                        SEC. 1: POWER TO SIT AND ACT 

       (a) For the purpose of carrying out any of its functions and 
duties under Rules X and XI of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives, the Committee and each of its subcommittees is 
authorized: 
       (1) 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 deems necessary; and (2) To require, by 
subpoena or otherwise, the attendance and testimony of such witnesses 
and the production of such books, reports, correspondence, memorandums, 
papers, and documents as it deems necessary. 
       (b) The Chairman, or any Member designated by the Chairman, may 
administer oaths to any witness. 
       (c) A subpoena may be authorized and issued by the Committee or 
its subcommittees under subsection (a)(2) in the conduct of any 
investigation or activity or series of investigations or activities, 
only when authorized by a majority of the Members of the Committee 
voting, a majority being present. The power to authorize and issue 
subpoenas under subsection (a)(2) may be delegated to the Chairman 
pursuant to such rules and under such limitations as the Committee may 
prescribe. Authorized subpoenas shall be signed by the Chairman or by 
any Member designated by the Committee. 
       (d) Compliance with any subpoena issued by the Committee or its 
subcommittees may be enforced only as authorized or directed by the 
House. 

                        SEC. 2: SUBCOMMITTEES 

       (a) The Majority Caucus of the Committee shall establish the 
number of subcommittees and shall determine the jurisdiction of each 
subcommittee. 
       (b) Each subcommittee is authorized to meet, hold hearings, 
receive evidence, and report to the Committee all matters referred to 
it. 
       (c) All legislation and other matters referred to the Committee 
shall be referred to the subcommittee of appropriate jurisdiction 
within two weeks unless, by majority vote of the Majority Members of 
the full Committee, consideration is to be by the full Committee. 
       (d) The Majority Caucus of the Committee shall determine an 
appropriate ratio of Majority to Minority Members for each 
subcommittee. The Chairman is authorized to negotiate that ratio with 
the Minority; Provided, however, That party representation in each 
subcommittee, including ex-officio members, shall be no less favorable 
to the Majority than the ratio for the full Committee. 
       (e) The Chairman and Ranking Minority Member of the full 
Committee are each authorized to sit as a member of all subcommittees 
and to participate, including voting, in all of the work of the 
subcommittees. 

                              SEC. 3: STAFFING

       (a) Committee Staff_The Chairman is authorized to appoint the 
staff of the Committee, and make adjustments in the job titles and 
compensation thereof subject to the maximum rates and conditions 
established in Clause 9(c) of Rule X of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives. In addition, he is authorized, in his discretion, to 
arrange for their specialized training. The Chairman is also authorized 
to employ additional personnel as necessary. 
       (b) Assistants to Members: 
       (1) Each of the top twenty-one senior majority and minority 
Members of the full Committee may select and designate one staff member 
who shall serve at the pleasure of that Member. Effective as of such 
date as the Chairman may determine, all other Members of the Committee 
may also each select and designate one such staff member. 
       (2) Effective as of such date as the Chairman may determine, the 
Chairman and Ranking Minority Member of the full committee and of each 
subcommittee may each select and designate one staff member, in 
addition to the staff member designated under the preceding paragraph, 
who shall serve at the pleasure of the Member making the designation. 
       (3) Staff members designated under this subsection shall be 
compensated at a rate, determined by the Member, not to exceed 75 per 
centum of the maximum established in Clause 9 (c) of Rule X of the 
Rules of the House of Representatives. Effective as of such date as the 
Chairman may determine, the limit on compensation under this subsection 
shall be increased to 80 per centum of such maximum. 
       (4) Members designating staff members under this subsection must 
specifically certify by letter to the Chairman that the employees are 
needed and will be utilized for Committee work. 

                              SEC. 4: COMMITTEE MEETINGS 

       (a) Regular Meeting Day_The regular meeting day of the Committee 
shall be the first Wednesday of each month while the House is in 
session, unless the Committee has met within the past 30 days or the 
Chairman considers a specific meeting unnecessary in the light of the 
requirements of the Committee business schedule. 
       (b) Additional and Special Meetings: 
       (1) The Chairman 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 for such 
purpose pursuant to that call of the Chairman. 
       (2) If at least three Committee Members desire that a special 
meeting of the Committee be called by the Chairman, those Members may 
file in the Committee Offices a written request to the Chairman for 
that special meeting. Such request shall specify the measure or matter 
to be considered. Upon the filing of the request, the Committee Clerk 
shall notify the Chairman. 
       (3) If within three calendar days after the filing of the 
request, the Chairman does not call the requested special meeting to be 
held within seven calendar days after the filing of the request, a 
majority of the Committee Members may file in the Committee Offices 
their written notice that a special meeting will be held, specifying 
the date and hour of such meeting, and the measure or matter to be 
considered. The Committee shall meet on that date and hour. 
       (4) Immediately upon the filing of the notice, the Committee 
Clerk shall notify all Committee Members 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 the special meeting. 
       (c) Vice Chairman To Preside in Absence of Chairman_A member of 
the majority party on the Committee or subcommittee thereof designated 
by the Chairman of the full Committee shall be vice chairman of the 
Committee or subcommittee, as the case may be, and shall preside at any 
meeting during the temporary absence of the chairman. If the chairman 
and vice chairman of the Committee or subcommittee are not present at 
any meeting of the Committee or subcommittee, the ranking member of the 
majority party who is present shall preside at that meeting. 
       (d) Business Meetings: 
       (1) Each meeting for the transaction of business, including the 
markup of legislation, of the Committee and its subcommittees shall be 
open to the public except when the Committee or the subcommittee 
concerned, in open session and with a majority present, determines by 
roll call vote that all or part of the remainder of the meeting on that 
day shall be closed. 
       (2) No person other than Committee Members and such 
congressional staff and departmental representatives as they may 
authorize shall be present at any business or markup session which has 
been closed. 
       (e) Committee Records: 
       (1) The Committee shall keep a complete record of all Committee 
action, including a record of the votes on any question on which a roll 
call is demanded. The result of each roll call vote shall be available 
for inspection by the public during regular business hours in the 
Committee Offices. The information made available for public inspection 
shall include a description of the amendment, motion, or other 
proposition, and the name of each Member voting for and each Member 
voting against, and the names of those Members present but not voting. 
       (2) All hearings, records, data, charts, and files of the 
Committee shall be kept separate and distinct from the congressional 
office records of the Chairman of the Committee. Such records shall be 
the property of the House, and all Members of the House shall have 
access thereto. 
       (3) The records of the Committee at the National Archives and 
Records Administration shall be made available in accordance with Rule 
VII of the Rules of the House, except that the Committee authorizes use 
of any record to which Clause 3 (b)(4) of Rule VII of the Rules of the 
House would otherwise apply after such record has been in existence for 
20 years. The Chairman shall notify the Ranking Minority Member of any 
decision, pursuant to Clause 3 (b)(3) or Clause 4 (b) of Rule VII of 
the Rules of the House, to withhold a record otherwise available, and 
the matter shall be presented to the Committee for a determination upon 
the written request of any Member of the Committee. 
       (f) Availability of Record Votes on the Committee's Website._In 
addition to any other requirement of these rules or the Rules of the 
House, the Chairman shall make the record of the votes on any question 
on which a record vote is demanded available on the Committee's website 
not later than 3 legislative days after such vote is taken. Such record 
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. 

                     SEC. 5: COMMITTEE AND SUBCOMMITTEE HEARINGS

       (a) Overall Budget Hearings_Overall budget hearings by the 
Committee, including the hearing required by Section 242 (c) of the 
Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 and Clause 4 (a)(1) of Rule X of 
the Rules of the House of Representatives shall be conducted in open 
session except when the Committee in open session and with a majority 
present, determines by roll call vote that the testimony to be taken at 
that hearing on that day may be related to a matter of national 
security; except that the Committee may by the same procedure close one 
subsequent day of hearing. A transcript of all such hearings shall be 
printed and a copy furnished to each Member, Delegate, and the Resident 
Commissioner from Puerto Rico. 
       (b) Other Hearings: 
       (1) All other hearings conducted by the Committee or its 
subcommittees shall be open to the public except when the Committee or 
subcommittee in open session and with a majority present determines by 
roll call vote that all or part of the remainder of that hearing on 
that day shall be closed to the public because disclosure of testimony, 
evidence, or other matters to be considered would endanger the national 
security or would violate any law or Rule of the House of 
Representatives. Notwithstanding the requirements of the preceding 
sentence, a majority of those present at a hearing conducted by the 
Committee or any of its subcommittees, there being in attendance the 
number required under Section 5 (c) of these Rules to be present for 
the purpose of taking testimony, (1) may vote to close the hearing for 
the sole purpose of discussing whether testimony or evidence to be 
received would endanger the national security or violate Clause 2 
(k)(5) of Rule XI of the Rules of the House of Representatives or (2) 
may vote to close the hearing, as provided in Clause 2 (k)(5) of such 
Rule. No Member of the House of Representatives may be excluded from 
nonparticipatory attendance at any hearing of the Committee or its 
subcommittees unless the House of Representatives shall by majority 
vote authorize the Committee or any of its subcommittees, 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 by the same procedures designated in this 
subsection for closing hearings to the public; Provided, however, That 
the Committee or its subcommittees may by the same procedure vote to 
close five subsequent days of hearings. 
       (2) Subcommittee chairmen shall coordinate the development of 
schedules for meetings or hearings after consultation with the Chairman 
and other subcommittee chairmen with a view toward avoiding 
simultaneous scheduling of Committee and subcommittee meetings or 
hearings. 
       (3) Each witness who is to appear before the Committee or any of 
its subcommittees as the case may be, insofar as is practicable, shall 
file in advance of such appearance, a written statement of the proposed 
testimony and shall limit the oral presentation at such appearance to a 
brief summary, except that this provision shall not apply to any witness 
appearing before the Committee in the overall budget hearings. 
       (4) Each witness appearing in a nongovernmental capacity before 
the Committee, or any of its subcommittees as the case may be, shall to 
the greatest extent practicable, submit a written statement including a 
curriculum vitae and a disclosure of the amount and source (by agency 
and program) of any Federal grant (or subgrant thereof) or contract (or 
subcontract thereof) received during the current fiscal year or either 
of the two previous fiscal years by the witness or by an entity 
represented by the witness. 
       (c) Quorum for Taking Testimony_The number of Members of the 
Committee which shall constitute a quorum for taking testimony and 
receiving evidence in any hearing of the Committee shall be two. 
       (d) Calling and Interrogation of Witnesses: 
       (1) The Minority Members of the Committee or its subcommittees 
shall be entitled, upon request to the Chairman or subcommittee 
chairman, by a majority of them before completion of any hearing, to 
call witnesses selected by the Minority to testify with respect to the 
matter under consideration during at least one day of hearings thereon. 
       (2) The Committee and its subcommittees shall observe the 
five-minute rule during the interrogation of witnesses until such time 
as each Member of the Committee or subcommittee who so desires has had 
an opportunity to question the witness. 
       (e) Broadcasting and Photographing of Committee Meetings and 
Hearings_Whenever a hearing or meeting conducted by the full Committee 
or any of its subcommittees is open to the public, those proceedings 
shall be open to coverage by television, radio, and still photography, 
as provided in Clause (4)(f) of Rule XI of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives. Neither the full Committee Chairman or subcommittee 
chairman shall limit the number of television or still cameras to 
fewer than two representatives from each medium. 
       (f) Subcommittee Meetings_No subcommittee shall sit while the 
House is reading an appropriation measure for amendment under the 
five-minute rule or while the Committee is in session. 
       (g) Public Notice of Committee Hearings_The Chairman of the 
Committee shall make public announcement of the date, place, and 
subject matter of any Committee or subcommittee hearing at least one 
week before the commencement of the hearing. If the Chairman of the 
Committee or subcommittee, with the concurrence of the ranking 
minority member of the Committee or respective subcommittee, determines 
there is good cause to begin the hearing sooner, or if the Committee or 
subcommittee so determines by majority vote, a quorum being present for 
the transaction of business, the Chairman or subcommittee chairman 
shall make the announcement at the earliest possible date. Any 
announcement made under this subsection shall be promptly published in 
the Daily Digest and promptly entered into the Committee scheduling 
service of the House Information Systems. 

           SEC. 6: PROCEDURES FOR REPORTING BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS 

       (a) Prompt Reporting Requirement: 
       (1) It shall be the duty of the Chairman to report, or cause to 
be reported promptly to the House any bill or resolution approved by 
the Committee and to take or cause to be taken necessary steps to bring 
the matter to a vote. 
       (2) In any event, a report on a bill or resolution which the 
Committee has approved shall be filed within seven calendar days 
(exclusive of days in which the House is not in session) after the day 
on which there has been filed with the Committee Clerk a written 
request, signed by a majority of Committee Members, for the reporting 
of such bill or resolution. Upon the filing of any such request, the 
Committee Clerk shall notify the Chairman immediately of the filing of 
the request. This subsection does not apply to the reporting of a 
regular appropriation bill or to the reporting of a resolution of 
inquiry addressed to the head of an executive department. 
       (b) Presence, of Committee Majority_No measure or recommendation 
shall be reported from the Committee unless a majority of the Committee 
was actually present. 
       (c) Roll Call Votes_With respect to each roll call vote on a 
motion to report any measure or matter of a public character, and on 
any amendment offered to the measure of matter, the total number of 
votes cast for and against, and the names of those Members voting for 
and against, shall be included in the Committee report on the measure 
or matter. 
       (d) Compliance With Congressional Budget Act_A Committee report 
on a bill or resolution which has been approved by the Committee shall 
include the statement required by Section 308(a) of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974, separately set out and clearly identified, if the 
bill or resolution provides new budget authority. 
       (e) Constitutional Authority Statement_Each report of the 
Committee on a bill or joint resolution of a public character shall 
include a statement citing the specific powers granted to the Congress 
in the Constitution to enact the law proposed by the bill or joint 
resolution. 
       (f) Changes in Existing Law_Each Committee report on a general 
appropriation bill shall contain a concise statement describing fully 
the effect of any provision of the bill which directly or indirectly 
changes the application of existing law. 
       (g) Rescissions and Transfers_Each bill or resolution reported 
by the Committee shall include separate headings for rescissions and 
transfers of unexpended balances with all proposed rescissions and 
transfers listed therein. The report of the Committee accompanying such 
a bill or resolution shall include a separate section with respect to 
such rescissions or transfers. 
       (h) Listing of Unauthorized Appropriations_Each Committee report 
on a general appropriation bill shall contain a list of all 
appropriations contained in the bill for any expenditure not currently 
authorized by law for the period concerned (except for classified 
intelligence or national security programs, projects, or activities) 
along with a statement of the last year for which such expenditures 
were authorized, the level of expenditures authorized for that year, 
the actual level of expenditures for that year, and the level of 
appropriations in the bill for such expenditures. 
       (i) Supplemental or Minority Views: 
       (1) If, at the time the Committee approves any measure or 
matter, any Committee Member gives notice of intention to file 
supplemental, minority, or additional views, the Member shall be 
entitled to not less than two additional calendar days after the day of 
such notice (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays) in which 
to file such views in writing and signed by the Member, with the Clerk 
of the Committee. All such views so filed shall be included in and 
shall be a part of the report filed by the Committee with respect to 
that measure or matter. 
       2) The Committee report on that measure or matter shall be 
printed in a single volume which__ 
       (i) shall include all supplemental, minority, or additional 
views which have been submitted by the time of the filing of the 
report, and 
       (ii) shall have on its cover a recital that any such 
supplemental, minority, or additional views are included as part of the 
report. 
       (3) This subsection does not preclude__ 
       (i) the immediate filing or printing of a Committee report 
unless timely request for the opportunity to file supplemental, 
minority, or additional views has been made as provided by such 
subsection; or 
       (ii) the filing by the Committee of a supplemental report on a 
measure or matter which may be required for correction of any technical 
error in a previous report made by the Committee on that measure or 
matter. 
       (4) If, at the time a subcommittee approves any measure or 
matter for recommendation to the full Committee, any Member of that 
subcommittee who gives notice of intention to offer supplemental, 
minority, or additional views shall be entitled, insofar as is 
practicable and in accordance with the printing requirements as 
determined by the subcommittee, to include such views in the Committee 
Print with respect to that measure or matter. 
       (j) Availability of Reports_A copy of each bill, resolution, or 
report shall be made available to each Member of the Committee at least 
three calendar days (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays) 
in advance of the date on which the Committee is to consider each bill, 
resolution, or report; Provided, That this subsection may be waived by 
agreement between the Chairman and the Ranking Minority Member of the 
full Committee. 
       (k) Performance Goals and Objectives_Each Committee report shall 
contain a statement of general performance goals and objectives, 
including outcome-related goals and objectives, for which the measure 
authorizes funding. 
       (l) Motion to go to Conference_The Chairman is directed to offer 
a motion under clause 1 of rule XXII of the Rules of the House whenever 
the Chairman considers it appropriate. 

                          SEC. 7: VOTING 

       (a) No vote by any Member of the Committee or any of its 
subcommittees with respect to any measure or matter may be cast by 
proxy. 
       (b) The vote on any question before the Committee shall be taken 
by the yeas and nays on the demand of one-fifth of the Members present. 
       (c) The Chairman of the Committee or the chairman of any of its 
subcommittees may__ 
       (1) postpone further proceedings when a record vote is ordered 
on the question of approving a measure or matter or on adopting an 
amendment; 
       (2) resume proceedings on a postponed question at any time after 
reasonable notice. 
       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. 

                      SEC. 8: STUDIES AND EXAMINATIONS

       The following procedure shall be applicable with respect to the 
conduct of studies and examinations of the organization and operation 
of Executive Agencies under authority contained in Section 202(b) of 
the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 and in Clause (3)(a) of Rule 
X of the Rules of the House of Representatives: 
       (a) The Chairman is authorized to appoint such staff and, in his 
discretion, arrange for the procurement of temporary services of 
consultants, as from time to time may be required. 
       (b) Studies and examinations will be initiated upon the written 
request of a subcommittee which shall be reasonably specific and 
definite in character, and shall be initiated only by a majority vote 
of the subcommittee, with the chairman of the subcommittee and the 
ranking minority member thereof participating as part of such majority 
vote. When so initiated such request shall be filed with the Clerk of 
the Committee for submission to the Chairman and the Ranking Minority 
Member and their approval shall be required to make the same effective. 
Notwithstanding any action taken on such request by the chairman and 
ranking minority member of the subcommittee, a request may be approved 
by a majority of the Committee. 
       (c) Any request approved as provided under subsection (b) shall 
be immediately turned over to the staff appointed for action. 
       (d) Any information obtained by such staff shall be reported to 
the chairman of the subcommittee requesting such study and examination 
and to the Chairman and Ranking Minority Member, shall be made 
available to the members of the subcommittee concerned, and shall not 
be released for publication until the subcommittee so determines. 
       (e) Any hearings or investigations which may be desired, aside 
from the regular hearings on appropriation items, when approved by the 
Committee, shall be conducted by the subcommittee having jurisdiction 
over the matter. 

                         SEC. 9: OFFICIAL TRAVEL 

       (a) The chairman of a subcommittee shall approve requests for 
travel by subcommittee members and staff for official business within 
the jurisdiction of that subcommittee. The ranking minority member of a 
subcommittee shall concur in such travel requests by minority members 
of that subcommittee and the Ranking Minority Member shall concur in 
such travel requests for Minority Members of the Committee. Requests in 
writing covering the purpose, itinerary, and dates of proposed travel 
shall be submitted for final approval to the Chairman. Specific 
approval shall be required for each and every trip. 
       (b) The Chairman is authorized during the recess of the Congress 
to approve travel authorizations for Committee Members and staff, 
including travel outside the United States. 
       (c) As soon as practicable, the Chairman shall direct the head 
of each Government agency concerned not to honor requests of 
subcommittees, individual Members, or staff for travel, the direct or 
indirect expenses of which are to be defrayed from an executive 
appropriation, except upon request from the Chairman. 
       (d) In accordance with Clause 8 of Rule X of the Rules of the 
House of Representatives and Section 502 (b) of the Mutual Security 
Act of 1954, as amended, local currencies owned by the United States 
shall be available to Committee Members and staff engaged in carrying 
out their official duties outside the United States, its territories, 
or possessions. No Committee Member or staff member shall receive or 
expend local currencies for subsistence in any country at a rate in 
excess of the maximum per diem rate set forth in applicable Federal 
law. 
       (e) Travel Reports: 
       (1) Members or staff shall make a report to the Chairman on 
their travel, covering the purpose, results, itinerary, expenses, and 
other pertinent comments. 
       (2) With respect to travel outside the United. States or its 
territories or possessions, the report shall include: (1) an itemized 
list showing the dates each country was visited, the amount of per diem 
furnished, the cost of transportation furnished, and any funds expended 
for any other official purpose; and (2) a summary in these categories 
of the total foreign currencies and/or appropriated funds expended. All 
such individual reports on foreign travel shall be filed with the 
Chairman no later than sixty days following completion of the travel 
for use in complying with reporting requirements in applicable Federal 
law, and shall be open for public inspection. 
       (3) Each Member or employee performing such travel shall be 
solely responsible for supporting the amounts reported by the Member or 
employee. 
       (4) No report or statement as to any trip shall be publicized 
making any recommendations in behalf of the Committee without the 
authorization of a majority of the Committee. 
       (f) Members and staff of the Committee performing authorized 
travel on official business pertaining to the jurisdiction of the 
Committee shall be governed by applicable laws or regulations of the 
House and of the Committee on House Administration pertaining to such 
travel, and as promulgated from time to time by the Chairman.
       
                         Committee on Armed Services

                       IKE SKELTON, Missouri, Chairman
JOHN M. SPRATT, JR., South Carolina     HOWARD P. BUCK MCKEON, 
SOLOMON P. ORTIZ, Texas	                  California, Ranking Member
GENE TAYLOR, Mississippi	        ROSCOE G. BARTLETT, Maryland
NEIL ABERCROMBIE, Hawaii                MAC THORNBERRY, Texas
SILVESTRE REYES, Texas	                WALTER B. JONES, North Carolina
VIC SNYDER, Arkansas	                W. TODD AKIN, Missouri
ADAM SMITH, Washington	                J. RANDY FORBES, Virginia
LORETTA SANCHEZ, California             JEFF MILLER, Florida
MIKE MCINTYRE, North Carolina           JOE WILSON, South Carolina 
ROBERT A. BRADY, Pennsylvania           FRANK A. LOBIONDO, New Jersey
ROBERT E. ANDREWS, New Jersey           ROB BISHOP, Utah
SUSAN A. DAVIS, California	        MICHAEL R. TURNER, Ohio
JAMES R. LANGEVIN, Rhode Island         JOHN KLINE, Minnesota
RICK LARSEN, Washington	                MIKE ROGERS, Alabama 
JIM COOPER, Tennessee	                TRENT FRANKS, Arizona
JIM MARSHALL, Georgia	                BILL SHUSTER, Pennsylvania
MADELEINE Z. BORDALLO, Guam             CATHY MCMORRIS RODGERS, 
BRAD ELLSWORTH, Indiana                   Washington
PATRICK J. MURPHY, Pennsylvania         K. MICHAEL CONAWAY, Texas
HENRY C. HANK JOHNSON, JR., 
  Georgia                               DOUG LAMBORN, Colorado
CAROL SHEA-PORTER, New Hampshire        ROBERT J. WITTMAN, Virginia
JOE COURTNEY, Connecticut               MARY FALLIN, Oklahoma
DAVID LOEBSACK, Iowa                    DUNCAN HUNTER, California 
JOE SESTAK, Pennsylvania                JOHN FLEMING, Louisiana
GABRIELLE GIFFORDS, Arizona             MIKE COFFMAN, Colorado
NIKI TSONGAS, Massachusetts             THOMAS J. ROONEY, Florida
GLENN C. NYE, Virginia                  TODD RUSSELL PLATTS, 
CHELLIE PINGREE, Maine                    Pennsylvania**
LARRY KISSELL, North Carolina 
MARTIN HEINRICH, New Mexico 
FRANK KRATOVIL, Jr., Maryland 
ERIC J.J. MASSA, New York 
BOBBY BRIGHT, Alabama 
SCOTT MURPHY, New York* 
DAN BOREN, Oklahoma 
VACANCY*** 

*Appointed to the Armed Services Committee on April 30, 2009 filling a 
vacancy created by the resignation of Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand from the 
House of Representatives  on January 26, 2009.
**Appointed to the Armed Services Committee on June 16, 2009 filling a 
vacancy created by the resignation of Rep. John M. McHugh on June 3, 
2009.  
***Vacancy created by the resignation of Rep. Ellen Tauscher from the 
House of Representatives on June 26, 2009.  

                             (Adopted January 14, 2009)

                       RULE 1.__APPLICATION OF HOUSE RULES 

       The Rules of the House of Representatives are the rules of the 
Committee on Armed Services (hereinafter referred to in these rules as 
the ``Committee'') and its subcommittees so far as applicable. 

                       RULE 2.__FULL COMMITTEE MEETING DATE 

       (a) The Committee shall meet every Wednesday at 10:00 a.m., when 
the House of Representatives is in session, and at such other times as 
may be fixed by the Chairman of the Committee (hereinafter referred to 
as the ``Chairman''), or by written request of members of the Committee 
pursuant to clause 2(c) of rule XI of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives. 
       (b) A Wednesday meeting of the Committee may be dispensed with 
by the Chairman, but such action may be reversed by a written request 
of a majority of the members of the Committee. 

                       RULE 3.__SUBCOMMITTEE MEETING DATES 

       Each subcommittee is authorized to meet, hold hearings, receive 
evidence, and report to the Committee on all matters referred to it. 
Insofar as possible, meetings of the Committee and its subcommittees 
shall not conflict. A subcommittee Chairman shall set meeting dates 
after consultation with the Chairman, other subcommittee Chairmen, and 
the Ranking Minority Member of the subcommittee with a view toward 
avoiding, whenever possible, simultaneous scheduling of Committee and 
subcommittee meetings or hearings. 

             RULE 4.__JURISDICTION AND MEMBERSHIP OF COMMITTEE AND 
                                SUBCOMMITTEES 
     
       (a) Jurisdiction 
       (1) The Committee retains jurisdiction of all subjects listed in 
clause 1(c) and clause 3(b) of rule X of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives and retains exclusive jurisdiction for: defense policy 
generally, ongoing military operations, the organization and reform of 
the Department of Defense and Department of Energy, counter-drug 
programs, security and humanitarian assistance (except special 
operations-related activities) of the Department of Defense, 
acquisition and industrial base policy, technology transfer and export 
controls, joint interoperability, the Cooperative Threat Reduction 
program, Department of Energy nonproliferation programs, detainee 
affairs and policy, and inter-agency reform as it pertains to the 
Department of Defense and the nuclear weapons programs of the 
Department of Energy. While subcommittees are provided jurisdictional 
responsibilities in subparagraph (2), the Committee retains the right 
to exercise oversight and legislative jurisdiction over all subjects 
within its purview under rule X of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives. 
       (2) The Committee shall be organized to consist of seven 
standing subcommittees with the following jurisdictions: 
       Subcommittee on Air and Land Forces: All Army and Air Force 
acquisition programs (except strategic missiles, special operations and 
information technology programs). In addition, the subcommittee will be 
responsible for deep strike bombers and related systems, National Guard 
and Army and Air Force reserve modernization, and ammunition programs. 
       Subcommittee on Military Personnel: Military personnel policy, 
reserve component integration and employment issues, military health 
care, military education, and POW/MIA issues. In addition, the 
subcommittee will be responsible for Morale, Welfare and Recreation 
issues and programs. 
       Subcommittee on Readiness: Military readiness, training, 
logistics and maintenance issues and programs. In addition, the 
subcommittee will be responsible for all military construction, 
installations and family housing issues, including the base closure 
process, and energy policy and programs of the Department of Defense. 
       Subcommittee on Seapower and Expeditionary Forces: Navy and 
Marine Corps acquisition programs (except strategic weapons, space, 
special operations, and information technology programs) and Naval 
Reserve equipment. In addition, the subcommittee will be responsible 
for maritime programs under the jurisdiction of the Committee as 
delineated in paragraphs 5, 6, and 9 of clause 1(c) of rule X of the 
Rules of the House of Representatives. 
       Subcommittee on Strategic Forces: Strategic weapons (except deep 
strike bombers and related systems), space programs, ballistic missile 
defense, intelligence policy and national programs, and Department of 
Energy national security programs (except non-proliferation programs). 
       Subcommittee on Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and 
Capabilities: Department of Defense counter-proliferation and 
counter-terrorism programs and initiatives. In addition, the 
subcommittee will be responsible for Special Operations Forces; science 
and technology policy, including the Defense Advanced Research Projects 
Agency and information technology programs; force protection policy; 
homeland defense and consequence management programs within the 
Committee's jurisdiction; and related intelligence support. 
       Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations: Any matter within 
the jurisdiction of the Committee, subject to the concurrence of the 
Chairman of the Committee and, as appropriate, affected subcommittee 
chairmen. The subcommittee shall have no legislative jurisdiction. 
       (b) Membership of the Subcommittees 
       (1) Subcommittee memberships, with the exception of membership
 on the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, shall be filled 
in accordance with the rules of the Majority party's caucus and the 
Minority party's conference, respectively. 
       (2) The Chairman and Ranking Minority Member of the Subcommittee 
on Oversight and Investigations shall be filled in accordance with the 
rules of the Majority party's caucus and the Minority party's 
conference, respectively. Consistent with the party ratios established 
by the Majority party, all other Majority members of the subcommittee 
shall be appointed by the Chairman of the Committee, and all other 
Minority members shall be appointed by the Ranking Minority Member of 
the Committee. 
       (3) The Chairman of the Committee and Ranking Minority Member 
thereof may sit as ex officio members of all subcommittees. Ex officio 
members shall not vote in subcommittee hearings or meetings or be taken 
into consideration for the purpose of determining the ratio of the 
subcommittees or establishing a quorum at subcommittee hearings or 
meetings. 
       (4) A member of the Committee who is not a member of a 
particular subcommittee may sit with the subcommittee and participate 
during any of its hearings but shall not have authority to vote, cannot 
be counted for the purpose of achieving a quorum, and cannot raise a 
point of order at the hearing. 

                   RULE 5.__COMMITTEE PANELS AND TASK FORCES 

       (a) Committee Panels 
       (1) The Chairman may designate a panel of the Committee 
consisting of members of the Committee to inquire into and take 
testimony on a matter or matters that fall within the jurisdiction of 
more than one subcommittee and to report to the Committee. 
       (2) No panel appointed by the Chairman shall continue in 
existence for more than six months after the appointment. A panel so 
appointed may, upon the expiration of six months, be reappointed by the 
Chairman for a period of time which is not to exceed six months. 
       (3) Consistent with the party ratios established by the Majority 
party, all Majority members of the panels shall be appointed by the 
Chairman of the Committee, and all Minority members shall be appointed 
by the Ranking Minority Member of the Committee. The Chairman of the 
Committee shall choose one of the Majority members so appointed who 
does not currently chair another subcommittee of the Committee to serve 
as Chairman of the panel. The Ranking Minority Member of the Committee 
shall similarly choose the Ranking Minority Member of the panel. 
       (4) No panel shall have legislative jurisdiction. 
       (b) Committee and Subcommittee Task Forces 
       (1) The Chairman of the Committee, or a Chairman of a 
subcommittee with the concurrence of the Chairman of the Committee, may 
designate a task force to inquire into and take testimony on a matter 
that falls within the jurisdiction of the Committee or subcommittee, 
respectively. The Chairman and Ranking Minority Member of the Committee 
or subcommittee shall each appoint an equal number of members to the 
task force. The Chairman of the Committee or subcommittee shall choose 
one of the members so appointed, who does not currently chair another 
subcommittee of the Committee, to serve as Chairman of the task force. 
The Ranking Minority Member of the Committee or subcommittee shall 
similarly appoint the Ranking Minority Member of the task force. 
       (2) No task force appointed by the Chairman of the Committee or 
subcommittee shall continue in existence for more than three months. A 
task force may only be reappointed for an additional three months with 
the written concurrence of the Chairman and Ranking Minority Member of 
the Committee or subcommittee whose Chairman appointed the task force. 
       (3) No task force shall have legislative jurisdiction. 

              RULE 6.__REFERENCE AND CONSIDERATION OF LEGISLATION 

       (a) The Chairman shall refer legislation and other matters to 
the appropriate subcommittee or to the full Committee. 
       (b) Legislation shall be taken up for a hearing or markup only 
when called by the Chairman of the Committee or subcommittee, as 
appropriate, or by a majority of the Committee or subcommittee, as 
appropriate. 
       (c) The Chairman, with approval of a majority vote of a quorum 
of the Committee, shall have authority to discharge a subcommittee from 
consideration of any measure or matter referred thereto and have such 
measure or matter considered by the Committee. 
       (d) Reports and recommendations of a subcommittee may not be 
considered by the Committee until after the intervention of three 
calendar days from the time the report is approved by the subcommittee 
and available to the members of the Committee, except that this rule 
may be waived by a majority vote of a quorum of the Committee. 
       (e) The Chairman, in consultation with the Ranking Minority 
Member, shall establish criteria for recommending legislation and other 
matters to be considered by the House of Representatives, pursuant to 
clause 1 of rule XV of the Rules of the House of Representatives. Such 
criteria shall not conflict with the Rules of the House of 
Representatives and other applicable rules. 

                    RULE 7.__PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT OF HEARINGS 

       Pursuant to clause 2(g)(3) of rule XI of the Rules of the House 
of Representatives, the Chairman of the Committee, or of any 
subcommittee, panel, or task force, shall make public announcement of 
the date, place, and subject matter of any hearing before that body at 
least one week before the commencement of the hearing. However, if the 
Chairman of the Committee, or of any subcommittee, panel, or task 
force, with the concurrence of the respective Ranking Minority Member, 
determines that there is good cause to begin the hearing sooner, or if 
the Committee, subcommittee, panel, or task force so determines by 
majority vote, a quorum being present for the transaction of business, 
such chairman shall make the announcement at the earliest possible 
date. Any announcement made under this rule shall be promptly published 
in the Daily Digest, promptly entered into the committee scheduling 
service of the House Information Resources, and promptly posted to the 
internet web page maintained by the Committee. 


                RULE 8.__BROADCASTING OF COMMITTEE HEARINGS AND 
                                    MEETINGS 

       Clause 4 of rule XI of the Rules of the House of Representatives 
shall apply to the Committee. 


               RULE 9. MEETINGS AND HEARINGS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC 

       (a) Each hearing and meeting for the transaction of business, 
including the markup of legislation, conducted by the Committee, or any 
subcommittee, panel, or task force, to the extent that the respective 
body is authorized to conduct markups, shall be open to the public 
except when the Committee, subcommittee, panel, or task force in open 
session and with a majority being present, determines by record vote 
that all or part of the remainder of that hearing or meeting on that 
day shall be in executive session because disclosure of testimony, 
evidence, or other matters to be considered would endanger the national 
security, would compromise sensitive law enforcement information, or 
would violate any law or rule of the House of Representatives. 
Notwithstanding the requirements of the preceding sentence, a majority 
of those present, there being in attendance no fewer than two members 
of the Committee, subcommittee, panel, or task force may vote to close 
a hearing or meeting for the sole purpose of discussing whether 
testimony or evidence to be received would endanger the national 
security, would compromise sensitive law enforcement information, or 
would violate any law or rule of the House of Representatives. If the 
decision is to proceed in executive session, the vote must be by record 
vote and in open session, a majority of the Committee, subcommittee, 
panel, or task force being present. 
       (b) Whenever it is asserted by a member of the Committee or 
subcommittee that the evidence or testimony at a hearing may tend to 
defame, degrade, or incriminate any person, or it is asserted by a 
witness that the evidence or testimony that the witness would give at 
a hearing may tend to defame, degrade, or incriminate the witness, 
notwithstanding the requirements of (a) and the provisions of clause 
2(g)(2) of rule XI of the Rules of the House of Representatives, such 
evidence or testimony shall be presented in executive session, if by a 
majority vote of those present, there being in attendance no fewer than 
two members of the Committee or subcommittee, the Committee or 
subcommittee determines that such evidence may tend to defame, degrade, 
or incriminate any person. A majority of those present, there being in 
attendance no fewer than two members of the Committee or subcommittee 
may also vote to close the hearing or meeting for the sole purpose of 
discussing whether evidence or testimony to be received would tend to 
defame, degrade or incriminate any person. The Committee or 
subcommittee shall proceed to receive such testimony in open session 
only if the Committee or subcommittee, a majority being present, 
determines that such evidence or testimony will not tend to defame, 
degrade, or incriminate any person. 
       (c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, and with the approval of the 
Chairman, each member of the Committee may designate by letter to the 
Chairman, only one member of that member's personal staff, which may 
include fellows, with Top Secret security clearance to attend hearings 
of the Committee, or that member's subcommittee(s), panel(s), or task 
force(s) (excluding briefings or meetings held under the provisions of 
committee rule 9(a)), which have been closed under the provisions of 
rule 9(a) above for national security purposes for the taking of 
testimony. The attendance of such a staff member or fellow at such 
hearings is subject to the approval of the Committee, subcommittee, 
panel, or task force as dictated by national security requirements at 
that time. The attainment of any required security clearances is the 
responsibility of individual members of the Committee. 
       (d) Pursuant to clause 2(g)(2) of rule XI of the Rules of the 
House of Representatives, no Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner 
may be excluded from nonparticipatory attendance at any hearing of the 
Committee or a subcommittee, unless the House of Representatives shall 
by majority vote authorize the 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 designated in this rule for closing hearings to the 
public. 
       (e) The Committee or the subcommittee may vote, by the same 
procedure, to meet in executive session for up to five additional 
consecutive days of hearings. 

                         RULE 10.__QUORUM 

       (a) For purposes of taking testimony and receiving evidence, two 
members shall constitute a quorum. 
       (b) One-third of the members of the Committee or subcommittee 
shall constitute a quorum for taking any action, with the following 
exceptions, in which case a majority of the Committee or subcommittee 
shall constitute a quorum: (1) Reporting a measure or recommendation; 
(2) closing Committee or subcommittee meetings and hearings to the 
public; (3) authorizing the issuance of subpoenas; (4) authorizing the 
use of executive session material; and (5) voting to proceed in open 
session after voting to close to discuss whether evidence or testimony 
to be received would tend to defame, degrade, or incriminate any 
person. 
       (c) No measure or recommendation shall be reported to the House 
of Representatives unless a majority of the Committee is actually 
present. 

                         RULE 11.__THE FIVE-MINUTE RULE 

       (a) Subject to rule 15, the time any one member may address the 
Committee or subcommittee on any measure or matter under consideration 
shall not exceed five minutes and then only when the member has been 
recognized by the Chairman or subcommittee chairman, as appropriate, 
except that this time limit may be exceeded by unanimous consent. Any 
member, upon request, shall be recognized for not more than five 
minutes to address the Committee or subcommittee on behalf of an 
amendment which the member has offered to any pending bill or 
resolution. The five-minute limitation shall not apply to the Chairman 
and Ranking Minority Member of the Committee or subcommittee. 
       (b)(1) Members who are present at a hearing of the Committee or 
subcommittee when a hearing is originally convened shall be recognized 
by the Chairman or subcommittee chairman, as appropriate, in order of 
seniority. Those members arriving subsequently shall be recognized in 
order of their arrival. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Chairman and 
the Ranking Minority Member will take precedence upon their arrival. In 
recognizing members to question witnesses in this fashion, the Chairman 
shall take into consideration the ratio of the Majority to Minority 
members present and shall establish the order of recognition for 
questioning in such a manner as not to disadvantage the members of 
either party. 
       (2) Pursuant to rule 4 and subject to rule 15, a member of the 
Committee who is not a member of a subcommittee may be recognized by a 
subcommittee chairman in order of their arrival and after all present 
subcommittee members have been recognized. 
       (3) The Chairman of the Committee or a subcommittee, with the 
concurrence of the respective Ranking Minority Member, may depart with 
the regular order for questioning which is specified in paragraphs (a) 
and (b) of this rule provided that such a decision is announced prior 
to the hearing or prior to the opening statements of the witnesses and 
that any such departure applies equally to the Majority and the 
Minority. 
       (c) No person other than a Member, Delegate, or Resident 
Commissioner of Congress and committee staff may be seated in or behind 
the dais area during Committee, subcommittee, panel, or task force 
hearings and meetings. 

                     RULE 12.__POWER TO SIT AND ACT; SUBPOENA POWER 

       (a) For the purpose of carrying out any of its functions and 
duties under rules X and XI of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives, the Committee and any subcommittee is authorized 
(subject to subparagraph (b)(1) of this paragraph): (1) 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 hearings, and 
(2) to require by subpoena, or otherwise, the attendance and testimony 
of such witnesses and the production of such books, records, 
correspondence, memorandums, papers and documents, including, but not 
limited to, those in electronic form, as it considers necessary. 
       (b)(1) A subpoena may be authorized and issued by the Committee, 
or any subcommittee with the concurrence of the full Committee Chairman 
and after consultation with the Ranking Minority Member of the 
Committee, under subparagraph (a)(2) in the conduct of any 
investigation, or series of investigations or activities, only when 
authorized by a majority of the members voting, a majority of the 
Committee or subcommittee being present. Authorized subpoenas shall be 
signed only by the Chairman, or by any member designated by the 
Committee. 
       (2) Pursuant to clause 2(m) of rule XI of the Rules of the House 
of Representatives, compliance with any subpoena issued by the 
Committee or any subcommittee under subparagraph (a)(2) may be enforced 
only as authorized or directed by the House of Representatives. 

                        RULE 13.__WITNESS STATEMENTS 

       (a) Any prepared statement to be presented by a witness to the 
Committee or a subcommittee shall be submitted to the Committee or 
subcommittee at least 48 hours in advance of presentation and shall be 
distributed to all members of the Committee or subcommittee as soon as 
practicable but not less than 24 hours in advance of presentation. A 
copy of any such prepared statement shall also be submitted to the 
Committee in electronic form. If a prepared statement contains national 
security information bearing a classification of Secret or higher, the 
statement shall be made available in the Committee rooms to all members 
of the Committee or subcommittee as soon as practicable but not less 
than 24 hours in advance of presentation; however, no such statement 
shall be removed from the Committee offices. The requirement of this 
rule may be waived by a majority vote of the Committee or subcommittee, 
a quorum being present. In cases where a witness does not submit a 
statement by the time required under this rule, the Chairman of the 
Committee or subcommittee, as appropriate, with the concurrence of the 
respective Ranking Minority Member, may elect to exclude the witness 
from the hearing. 
       (b) The Committee and each subcommittee shall require each 
witness who is to appear before it to file with the Committee in 
advance of his or her appearance a written statement of the proposed 
testimony and to limit the oral presentation at such appearance to a 
brief summary of the submitted written statement. 

                      RULE 14.__ADMINISTERING OATHS TO WITNESSES 

       (a) The Chairman, or any member designated by the Chairman, may 
administer oaths to any witness. 
       (b) Witnesses, when sworn, shall subscribe to the following 
oath: ``Do you solemnly swear (or affirm) that the testimony you will 
give before this Committee (or subcommittee) in the matters now under 
consideration will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the 
truth, so help you God?'' 

                      RULE 15.__QUESTIONING OF WITNESSES 

       (a) When a witness is before the Committee or a subcommittee, 
members of the Committee or subcommittee may put questions to the 
witness only when recognized by the Chairman or subcommittee chairman, 
as appropriate, for that purpose according to rule 11 of the Committee. 
       (b) Members of the Committee or subcommittee who so desire shall 
have not more than five minutes to question each witness or panel of 
witnesses, the responses of the witness or witnesses being included in 
the five-minute period, until such time as each member has had an 
opportunity to question each witness or panel of witnesses. Thereafter, 
additional rounds for questioning witnesses by members are within the 
discretion of the Chairman or subcommittee chairman, as appropriate. 
       (c) Questions put to witnesses before the Committee or 
subcommittee shall be pertinent to the measure or matter that may be 
before the Committee or subcommittee for consideration. 

               RULE 16.__PUBLICATION OF COMMITTEE HEARINGS AND MARKUPS

       The transcripts of those hearings conducted by the Committee, 
subcommittee, or panel will be published officially in verbatim form, 
with the material requested for the record inserted at that place 
requested, or at the end of the record, as appropriate. The transcripts 
of markups conducted by the Committee or any subcommittee may be 
published officially in verbatim form. Any requests to correct any 
errors, other than those in transcription, will be appended to the 
record, and the appropriate place where the change is requested will be 
 footnoted. Any transcript published under this rule shall include the 
results of record votes conducted in the session covered by the 
transcript and shall also include materials that have been submitted 
for the record and are covered under rule 19. The handling and 
safekeeping of these materials shall fully satisfy the requirements of 
rule 20. No transcript of an executive session conducted under rule 9 
shall be published under this rule. 

                            RULE 17.__VOTING AND ROLLCALLS 

       (a) Voting on a measure or matter may be by record vote, division 
vote, voice vote, or unanimous consent. 
       (b) A record vote shall be ordered upon the request of one-fifth 
of those members present. 
       (c) No vote by any member of the Committee or a subcommittee 
with respect to any measure or matter shall be cast by proxy. 
       (d) In the event of a vote or votes, when a member is in 
attendance at any other committee, subcommittee, or conference 
committee meeting during that time, the necessary absence of that 
member shall be so noted in the record vote record, upon timely 
notification to the Chairman by that member. 
       (e) The Chairman of the Committee or a subcommittee, as 
appropriate, with the concurrence of the Ranking Minority Member or the 
most senior Minority member who is present at the time, may elect to 
postpone requested record votes until such time or point at a markup as 
is mutually decided. When proceedings resume on a postponed question, 
notwithstanding any intervening order for the previous question, the 
underlying proposition shall remain subject to further debate or 
amendment to the same extent as when the question was postponed. 

                        RULE 18.__COMMITTEE REPORTS 

       (a) If, at the time of approval of any measure or matter by the 
Committee, any member of the Committee gives timely notice of intention 
to file supplemental, Minority, additional or dissenting views, that 
member shall be entitled to not less than two calendar days (excluding 
Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays except when the House is in 
session on such days) in which to file such views, in writing and 
signed by that member, with the Staff Director of the Committee, or the 
Staff Director's designee. All such views so filed by one or more 
members of the Committee shall be included within, and shall be a part 
of, the report filed by the Committee with respect to that measure or 
matter. 
       (b) With respect to each record vote on a motion to report any 
measure or matter, and on any amendment offered to the measure or 
matter, the total number of votes cast for and against, the names of 
those voting for and against, and a brief description of the question, 
shall be included in the Committee report on the measure or matter. 

                 RULE 19.__PUBLIC INSPECTION OF COMMITTEE ROLLCALLS 

       The result of each record vote in any meeting of the Committee 
shall be made available by the Committee for inspection by the public 
at reasonable times in the offices of the Committee. Information so 
available for public inspection shall include a description of the 
amendment, motion, order, or other proposition and the name of each 
member voting for and each member voting against such amendment, 
motion, order, or proposition and the names of those members present 
but not voting. 

          RULE 20.__PROTECTION OF NATIONAL SECURITY AND OTHER INFORMATION 

       (a) Except as provided in clause 2(g) of rule XI of the Rules of 
the House of Representatives, all national security information bearing 
a classification of Secret or higher which has been received by the 
Committee or a subcommittee shall be deemed to have been received in 
executive session and shall be given appropriate safekeeping. 
       (b) The Chairman of the Committee shall, with the approval of a 
majority of the Committee, establish such procedures as in his judgment 
may be necessary to prevent the unauthorized disclosure of any national 
security information that is received which is classified as Secret or 
higher. Such procedures shall, however, ensure access to this 
information by any member of the Committee or any other Member, 
Delegate, or Resident Commissioner of the House of Representatives, 
staff of the Committee, or staff designated under rule 9(c) who have 
the appropriate security clearances and the need to know, who has 
requested the opportunity to review such material. 
       (c) The Chairman of the Committee shall, in consultation with 
the Ranking Minority Member, establish such procedures as in his 
judgment may be necessary to prevent the unauthorized disclosure of any 
proprietary information that is received by the Committee, 
subcommittee, panel, or task force. Such procedures shall be consistent 
with the Rules of the House of Representatives and applicable law. 

                         RULE 21.__COMMITTEE STAFFING 

       The staffing of the Committee, the standing subcommittees, and 
any panel or task force designated by the Chairman or chairmen of the 
subcommittees shall be subject to the Rules of the House of 
Representatives. 

                         RULE 22.__COMMITTEE RECORDS 

       The records of the Committee at the National Archives and 
Records Administration shall be made available for public use in 
accordance with rule VII of the Rules of the House 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. 

                         RULE 23.__HEARING PROCEDURES 

       Clause 2(k) of rule XI of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives shall apply to the Committee. 

                         Committee on the Budget

                   JOHN M. SPRATT, JR., South Carolina, Chairman
ALLYSON Y. SCHWARTZ, Pennsylvania, PAUL RYAN, Wisconsin, Ranking Member 
  Vice Chair                       JEB HENSARLING, Texas, Vice Ranking 
MARCY KAPTUR, Ohio                   Member
XAVIER BECERRA, California         SCOTT GARRETT, New Jersey
LLOYD DOGGETT, Texas               MARIO DIAZ-BALART, Florida
EARL BLUMENAUER, Oregon            MICHAEL K. SIMPSON, Idaho
MARION BERRY, Arkansas             PATRICK T. MCHENRY, North Carolina
ALLEN BOYD, Florida                CONNIE MACK, Florida
JAMES P. MCGOVERN, Massachusetts   JOHN CAMPBELL, California
NIKI TSONGAS, Massachusetts        JIM JORDAN, Ohio
BOB ETHERIDGE, North Carolina      CYNTHIA M. LUMMIS, Wyoming
BETTY MCCOLLUM, Minnesota          STEVE AUSTRIA, Ohio
CHARLIE MELANCON, Louisiana        ROBERT B. ADERHOLT, Alabama
JOHN A. YARMUTH, Kentucky          DEVIN NUNES, California
ROBERT E. ANDREWS, New Jersey      GREGG HARPER, Mississippi
ROSA L. DELAURO, Connecticut       ROBERT E. LATTA, Ohio*
CHET EDWARDS, Texas
ROBERT C. BOBBY SCOTT, Virginia
JAMES R. LANGEVIN, Rhode Island
RICK LARSEN, Washington
TIMOTY H. BISHOP, New York
GWEN MOORE, Wisconsin
GERALD E. CONNOLLY, Virginia
KURT SCHRADER, Oregon

*Appointed to the Budget Committee on March 24, 2009 filling a vacancy 
created by the resignation of Rep. K. Michael Conaway on January 28, 
2009. 

                     (Adopted January 22, 2009)

                       GENERAL APPLICABILITY 

                  RULE 1.__APPLICABILITY OF HOUSE RULES 

       Except as otherwise specified herein, the Rules of the House are 
the rules of the committee so far as applicable, except that a motion 
to recess from day to day is a motion of high privilege. 

                            MEETINGS 

                    RULE 2.__REGULAR MEETINGS 

       (a) The regular meeting day of the committee shall be the second 
Wednesday of each month at 11 a.m., while the House is in session. 
       (b) The chairman is authorized to dispense with a regular meeting 
when the chairman determines there is no business to be considered by 
the committee. The chairman shall give written notice to that effect to 
each member of the committee as far in advance of the regular meeting 
day as the circumstances permit. 
       (c) Regular meetings shall be canceled when they conflict with 
meetings of either party's caucus or conference. 

                   RULE 3.__ADDITIONAL AND SPECIAL MEETINGS 

       (a) The chairman may call and convene additional meetings of the 
committee as the chairman considers necessary, or special meetings at 
the request of a majority of the members of the committee in accordance 
with House Rule XI, clause 2(c). 
       (b) In the absence of exceptional circumstances, the chairman 
shall provide written notice of additional meetings to the office of 
each member at least 24 hours in advance while Congress is in session, 
and at least 3 days in advance when Congress is not in session. 

                      RULE 4.__OPEN BUSINESS MEETINGS 

       (a) Each meeting for the transaction of committee business, 
including the markup of measures, shall be open to the public except 
when the committee, in open session and with a quorum present, 
determines by roll call vote that all or part of the remainder of the 
meeting on that day shall be closed to the public in accordance with 
House Rule XI, clause 2(g)(1). 
       (b) No person other than members of the committee and such 
congressional staff and departmental representatives as the committee 
may authorize shall be present at any business or markup session which 
has been closed to the public. 

                              RULE 5.__QUORUMS 

       A majority of the committee shall constitute a quorum. No 
business shall be transacted and no measure or recommendation shall be 
reported unless a quorum is actually present. 

                           RULE 6.__RECOGNITION 

       Any member, when recognized by the chairman, may address the 
committee on any bill, motion, or other matter under consideration 
before the committee. The time of such member shall be limited to 5 
minutes until all members present have been afforded an opportunity to 
comment. 

                       RULE 7.__CONSIDERATION OF BUSINESS 

       Measures or matters may be placed before the committee, for its 
consideration, by the chairman or by a majority vote of the members of 
the committee, a quorum being present. 

                      RULE 8.__AVAILABILITY OF LEGISLATION 

       The committee shall consider no bill, joint resolution, or 
concurrent resolution unless copies of the measure have been made 
available to all committee members at least 6 hours prior to the time 
at which such measure is to be considered. When considering concurrent 
resolutions on the budget, this requirement shall be satisfied by 
making available copies of the complete chairman's mark (or such 
material as will provide the basis for committee consideration). The 
provisions of this rule may be suspended with the concurrence of the 
chairman and ranking minority member. 

            RULE 9.__PROCEDURE FOR CONSIDERATION OF BUDGET RESOLUTION 

       (a) It shall be the policy of the committee that the starting 
point for any deliberations on a concurrent resolution on the budget 
should be the estimated or actual levels for the fiscal year preceding 
the budget year. 
       (b) In the consideration of a concurrent resolution on the 
budget, the committee shall first proceed, unless otherwise determined 
by the committee, to consider budget aggregates, functional categories, 
and other appropriate matters on a tentative basis, with the document 
before the committee open to amendment. Subsequent amendments may be 
offered to aggregates, functional categories, or other appropriate 
matters, which have already been amended in their entirety. 
       (c) Following adoption of the aggregates, functional categories, 
and other matters, the text of a concurrent resolution on the budget 
incorporating such aggregates, functional categories, and other 
appropriate matters shall be considered for amendment and a final vote. 

                          RULE 10.__ROLL CALL VOTES 

       A roll call of the members may be had upon the request of at 
least one-fifth of those present. In the apparent absence of a quorum, 
a roll call may be had on the request of any member. 

                                HEARINGS 

                     RULE 11.__ANNOUNCEMENT OF HEARINGS 

       The chairman shall make a public announcement of the date, 
place, and subject matter of any committee hearing at least 1 week 
before the hearing, beginning with the day in which the announcement is 
made and ending the day preceding the scheduled hearing unless the 
chairman, with the concurrence of the ranking minority member, or the 
committee by majority vote with a quorum present for the transaction of 
business, determines there is good cause to begin the hearing sooner, 
in which case the chairman shall make the announcement at the earliest 
possible date. 

                            RULE 12.__OPEN HEARINGS 

       (a) Each hearing conducted by the committee or any of its task 
forces shall be open to the public except when the committee or task 
force, in open session and with a quorum present, determines by roll 
call vote that all or part of the remainder of that hearing on that day 
shall be closed to the public because disclosure of testimony, 
evidence, or other matters to be considered would endanger the national 
security, or would compromise sensitive law enforcement information, or 
would tend to defame, degrade, or incriminate any person, or would 
violate any law or rule of the House of Representatives. The committee 
 or task forces may by the same procedure vote to close one subsequent 
day of hearing. 
       (b) For the purposes of House Rule XI, clause 2(g)(2), the task 
forces of the committee are considered to be subcommittees. 

                               RULE 13.__QUORUMS 

       For the purpose of hearing testimony, not less than two members 
of the committee shall constitute a quorum. 

                        RULE 14.__QUESTIONING WITNESSES 

       (a) Questioning of witnesses will be conducted under the 5-minute 
rule unless the committee adopts a motion pursuant to House Rule XI 
clause 2(j). 
       (b) In questioning witnesses under the 5-minute rule: 
       (1) First, the chairman and the ranking minority member shall be 
recognized; 
       (2) Next, the members present at the time the hearing is called 
to order shall be recognized in order of seniority; and 
       (3) Finally, members not present at the time the hearing is 
called to order may be recognized in the order of their arrival 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 the members of the majority. 

                         RULE 15.__SUBPOENAS AND OATHS 

       (a) In accordance with House Rule XI, clause 2(m) subpoenas 
authorized by a majority of the committee may be issued over the 
signature of the chairman or of any member of the committee designated 
by him, and may be served by any person designated by the chairman or 
such member. 
       (b) The chairman, or any member of the committee designated by 
the chairman, may administer oaths to witnesses. 

                      RULE 16.__WITNESSES' STATEMENTS 

       (a) So far as practicable, any prepared statement to be 
presented by a witness shall be submitted to the committee at least 24 
hours in advance of presentation, and shall be distributed to all 
members of the committee in advance of presentation. 
       (b) To the greatest extent possible, each witness appearing in a 
nongovernmental capacity shall include with the written statement of 
proposed testimony a curriculum vitae and a disclosure of the amount 
and source (by agency and program) of any Federal grant (or sub-grant 
thereof) or contract (or subcontract thereof) received during the 
current fiscal year or either of the two preceding fiscal years. 

                        PRINTS AND PUBLICATIONS 

                          RULE 17.__COMMITTEE PRINTS 

       All committee prints and other materials prepared for public 
distribution shall be approved by the committee prior to any 
distribution, unless such print or other material shows clearly on its 
face that it has not been approved by the committee. 

                 RULE 18.__COMMITTEE PUBLICATIONS ON THE INTERNET 

       To the maximum extent feasible, the committee shall make its 
publications available in electronic form. 

                                STAFF 

                     RULE 19.__COMMITTEE STAFF 

       (a) Subject to approval by the committee, and to the provisions 
of the following paragraphs, the professional and clerical staff of the 
committee shall be appointed, and may be removed, by the chairman. 
       (b) Committee staff shall not be assigned any duties other than 
those pertaining to committee business, and shall be selected without 
regard to race, creed, sex, or age, and solely on the basis of fitness 
to perform the duties of their respective positions. 
       (c) All committee staff shall be entitled to equitable 
treatment, including comparable salaries, facilities, access to 
official committee records, leave, and hours of work. 
       (d) Notwithstanding paragraphs a, b, and c, staff shall be 
employed in compliance with House rules, the Employment and 
Accountability Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, and any other 
applicable Federal statutes. 

                         RULE 20.__STAFF SUPERVISION 

       (a) Staff shall be under the general supervision and direction 
of the chairman, who shall establish and assign their duties and 
responsibilities, delegate such authority as he deems appropriate, fix 
and adjust staff salaries (in accordance with House Rule X, clause 
9(c)) and job titles, and, at his discretion, arrange for their 
specialized training. 
       (b) Staff assigned to the minority shall be under the general 
supervision and direction of the minority members of the committee, who 
may delegate such authority, as they deem appropriate. 

                               RECORDS 

         RULE 21.__PREPARATION AND MAINTENANCE OF  COMMITTEE RECORDS 

       (a) A substantially verbatim account of remarks actually made 
during the proceedings shall be made of all hearings and business 
meetings subject only to technical, grammatical, and typographical 
corrections. 
       (b) The proceedings of the committee shall be recorded in a 
journal, which shall among other things, include a record of the votes 
on any question on which a record vote is demanded. 
       (c) Members of the committee shall correct and return 
transcripts of hearings as soon as practicable after receipt thereof, 
except that any changes shall be limited to technical, grammatical, and 
typographical corrections. 
       (d) Any witness may examine the transcript of his own testimony 
and make grammatical, technical, and typographical corrections. 
       (e) The chairman may order the printing of a hearing record 
without the corrections of any member or witness if he determines that 
such member or witness has been afforded a reasonable time for 
correction, and that further delay would seriously impede the 
committee's responsibility for meeting its deadlines under the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974. 
       (f) Transcripts of hearings and meetings may be printed if the 
chairman decides it is appropriate, or if a majority of the members so 
request. 

                    RULE 22.__ACCESS TO COMMITTEE RECORDS 

       (a)(1) The chairman shall promulgate regulations to provide for 
public inspection of roll call votes and to provide access by members 
to committee records (in accordance with House Rule XI, clause 2(e)). 
       (2) Access to classified testimony and information shall be 
limited to Members of Congress and to House Budget Committee staff and 
staff of the Office of Official Reporters who have appropriate security 
clearance. 
       (3) Notice of the receipt of such information shall be sent to 
the committee members. Such information shall be kept in the committee 
safe, and shall be available to members in the committee office. 
       (b) 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 the rule, to withhold a 
record otherwise available, and the matter shall be presented to the 
committee for a determination on the written request of any member of 
the committee. 

                                OVERSIGHT 

                       RULE 23.__GENERAL  OVERSIGHT 

       (a) The committee shall review and study, on a continuing basis, 
the application, administration, execution, and effectiveness of those 
laws, or parts of laws, the subject of which is within its 
jurisdiction. 
       (b) The committee is authorized at any time to conduct such 
investigations and studies as it may consider necessary or appropriate 
in the exercise of its responsibilities under clause (1)(d) of Rule X 
of the Rules of the House, and, subject to the adoption of expense 
resolutions as required by clause 6 of Rule X, to incur expenses 
(including travel expenses) in connection therewith. 
       (c) Not later than February 15 of the first session of a 
Congress, the committee shall meet in open session, with a quorum 
present, to adopt its oversight plans for that Congress for submission 
to the Committee on House Administration and the Committee on Oversight
 and Government Reform in accordance with the provisions of clause 
(2)(d) of House Rule X. 

                                REPORTS 

                  RULE 24.__AVAILABILITY BEFORE FILING 

       (a) Any report accompanying any bill or resolution ordered 
reported to the House by the committee shall be available to all 
committee members at least 36 hours prior to filing with the House. 
       (b) No material change shall be made in any report made 
available to members pursuant to section (a) without the concurrence of 
the ranking minority member or by a majority vote of the committee. 
       (c) Notwithstanding any other rule of the committee, either or 
both subsections (a) and (b) may be waived by the chairman or with a 
majority vote by the committee. 

                  RULE 25.__REPORT ON THE BUDGET RESOLUTION 

       The report of the committee to accompany a concurrent resolution 
on the budget shall include a comparison of the estimated or actual 
levels for the year preceding the budget year with the proposed 
spending and revenue levels for the budget year and each out year along 
with the appropriate percentage increase or decrease for each budget 
function and aggregate. The report shall include any roll call vote on 
any motion to amend or report any measure. 

          RULE 26.__PARLIAMENTARIAN'S STATUS REPORT AND SECTION 302 
                                 STATUS REPORT 

       (a)(1) In order to carry out its duty under sections 311 and 312 
of the Congressional Budget Act to advise the House of Representatives 
as to the current level of spending and revenues as compared to the 
levels set forth in the latest agreed-upon concurrent resolution on the 
budget, the committee shall advise the Speaker on at least a monthly 
basis when the House is in session as to its estimate of the current 
level of spending and revenue. Such estimates shall be prepared by the 
staff of the committee, transmitted to the Speaker in the form of a 
Parliamentarian's Status Report, and printed in the Congressional 
Record. 
       (2) The committee authorizes the chairman, in consultation with 
the ranking minority member, to transmit to the Speaker the 
Parliamentarian's Status Report described above. 
       (b)(1) In order to carry out its duty under sections 302 and 312 
of the Congressional Budget Act to advise the House of Representative 
as to the current level of spending within the jurisdiction of 
committees as compared to the appropriate allocations made pursuant to 
the Budget Act in conformity with the latest agreed-upon concurrent 
resolution on the budget, the committee shall, as necessary, advise the
Speaker as to its estimate of the current level of spending within the 
jurisdiction of appropriate committees. Such estimates shall be 
prepared by the staff of the committee and transmitted to the Speaker 
in the form of a Section 302 Status Report. 
       (2) The committee authorizes the chairman, in consultation with 
the ranking minority member, to transmit to the Speaker the Section 302 
Status Report described above. 

                        RULE 27.__ACTIVITY REPORT 

       After an adjournment of the last regular session of a Congress 
sine die, the Chair of the committee may file any time with the Clerk 
the committee's activity report for that Congress pursuant to clause 
(1)(d)(1) of rule XI of the Rules of the House without the approval of 
the committee, if a copy of the report has been available to each 
member of the committee for at least seven calendar days and the report 
includes any supplemental, minority, or additional views submitted by a 
member of the committee. 

                            MISCELLANEOUS 

             RULE 28.__BROADCASTING OF MEETINGS AND HEARINGS 

       (a) It shall be the policy of the committee to give all news 
media access to open hearings of the committee, subject to the 
requirements and limitations set forth in House Rule XI, clause 4. 
       (b) Whenever any committee business meeting is open to the 
public, that meeting may be covered, in whole or in part, by television 
broadcast, radio broadcast, still photography, or by any of such 
methods of coverage, in accordance with House Rule XI, clause 4. 

                      RULE 29.__APPOINTMENT OF CONFEREES 

       (a) Majority party members recommended to the Speaker as 
conferees shall be recommended by the chairman subject to the approval 
of the majority party members of the committee. 
       (b) The chairman shall recommend such minority party members as 
conferees as shall be determined by the minority party; the recommended 
party representation shall be in approximately the same proportion as 
that in the committee. 

                            RULE 30.__WAIVERS 

       When a reported bill or joint resolution, conference report, or 
anticipated floor amendment violates any provision of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974, the chairman may, if practical, consult with the 
committee members on whether the chairman should recommend, in writing, 
that the Committee on Rules report a special rule that enforces the Act 
by not waiving the applicable points of order during the consideration 
of such measure. 

                      Committee on Education and Labor 

                     GEORGE MILLER, California, Chairman 
DALE E. KILDEE, Michigan,                 JOHN KLINE, Minnesota, 
DONALD M. PAYNE, New Jersey                 Ranking Member**
ROBERT E. ANDREWS, New Jersey             THOMAS E. PETRI, Wisconsin 
ROBERT C. BOBBY SCOTT, Virginia           HOWARD P. BUCK MCKEON, 
LYNN C. WOOLSEY, California                 California, 
RUBï¿½N HINOJOSA, Texas                     PETER HOEKSTRA, Michigan 
CAROLYN MCCARTHY, New York                MICHAEL N. CASTLE, Delaware 
JOHN F. TIERNEY, Massachusetts            MARK E. SOUDER, Indiana 
DENNIS J. KUCINICH, Ohio                  VERNON J. EHLERS, Michigan 
DAVID WU, Oregon                          JUDY BIGGERT, Illinois 
RUSH D. HOLT, New Jersey                  TODD RUSSELL PLATTS, 
SUSAN A. DAVIS, California                  Pennsylvania
RAL M. GRIJALVA, Arizona                  JOE WILSON, South Carolina 
TIMOTHY H. BISHOP, New York               CATHY MCMORRIS RODGERS, 
JOE SESTAK, Pennsylvania                    Washington 
DAVID LOEBSACK, Iowa                      TOM PRICE, Georgia 
MAZIE K. HIRONO, Hawaii                   ROB BISHOP, Utah 
JASON ALTMIRE, Pennsylvania               BRETT GUTHRIE, Kentucky 
PHIL HARE, Illinois                       BILL CASSIDY, Louisiana 
YVETTE D. CLARKE, New York                TOM MCCLINTOCK, California 
JOE COURTNEY, Connecticut                 DUNCAN D. HUNTER, California 
CAROL SHEA-PORTER, New Hampshire          DAVID P. ROE, Tennessee 
MARCIA L. FUDGE, Ohio                     GLENN THOMPSON, Pennsylvania* 
JARED POLIS, Colorado 
PAUL TONKO, New York 
PEDRO R. PIERLUISI, Puerto Rico 
GREGORIO KILILI CAMACHO 
  SABLAN, Northern Mariana Islands 
DINA TITUS, Nevada 
JUDY CHU, California*** 










*Appointed to the Education and Labor Committee on February 4, 2009. 
**Appointed Ranking Member of the Committee on Education and Labor on 
June 25, 2009 replacing Rep. Howard P. Buck McKeon as Ranking Member. 
***Appointed to the Education and Labor Committee on July 30, 2009. 

                        (Adopted January 21, 2009)

            RULE 1.__REGULAR, ADDITIONAL, AND SPECIAL MEETINGS

       (a) Regular meetings of the Committee shall be held on the 
second Wednesday of each month at 9:30 a.m., while the House is in 
session. When the Chair determines that the Committee will not consider 
any bill or resolution before the Committee and that there is no other 
business to be transacted at a regular meeting, he or she will give 
each member of the Committee, as far in advance of the day of the 
regular meeting as the circumstances make practicable, written notice 
to that effect, and no regular Committee meeting shall be held on that 
day. 
       (b) The Chair may call and convene, as he or she 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. 
       (c) If at least three members of the Committee desire that a 
special meeting of the Committee be called by the Chair, those members 
may file in the offices of the Committee their written request to the 
Chair for that special meeting. Immediately upon the filing of the 
request, the staff director of the Committee shall notify the Chair of 
the filing of the request. If, within three calendar days after the 
filing of the request, the Chair does not call the requested special 
meeting to be held within seven calendar days after the filing of the 
request, a majority of the members of the Committee may file in the 
offices of the Committee their written notice that a special meeting of 
the Committee will be held, specifying the date and hour thereof, and 
the measure or matter to be considered at that special meeting. 
Immediately upon the filing of the notice, the staff director of the 
Committee shall notify all members of the Committee that such meeting 
will be held and inform them of its date and hour and the measure or 
matter to be considered. The Committee shall meet on that date and hour 
and only the measure or matter specified in that notice may be 
considered at that special meeting. 
       (d) Legislative meetings of the Committee and its subcommittees 
shall be open to the public, including radio, television and still 
photography coverage, unless such meetings are closed pursuant to the 
requirements of the Rules of the House. No business meeting of the 
Committee, other than regularly scheduled meetings, may be held without 
each member being given reasonable notice. 
       (e) The Chair of the Committee or of a subcommittee, as 
appropriate, shall preside at meetings or hearings. In the absence of 
the Chair of the Committee or of a subcommittee, members shall preside 
as provided in clause 2(d) of Rule XI of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives. No person other than a Member of Congress or 
Congressional staff may walk in, stand in, or be seated at the rostrum 
area during a meeting or hearing of the Committee or Subcommittee 
unless authorized by the Chair. 

                RULE 2.__STANDING SUBCOMMITTEES AND JURISDICTION 

       (a) There shall be five standing subcommittees. In addition to 
conducting oversight in the area of their respective jurisdictions as 
required in clause 2 of Rule X of the House, each subcommittee shall 
have the following jurisdiction: 
       Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary 
Education._Education from early learning through the high school level 
including, but not limited to, elementary and secondary education, 
education of the disabled, the homeless and migrant and agricultural 
labor. Also including school construction, overseas dependent schools, 
career and technical training, school safety and alcohol and drug abuse 
prevention, educational research and improvement, including the 
Institute of Education Sciences; and early care and education programs 
and early learning programs, including the Head Start Act and the Child 
Care and Development Block Grant Act. 
       Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning and 
Competitiveness._Education and training beyond the high school level 
including, but not limited to higher education generally, postsecondary 
student assistance and employment services, the Higher Education Act; 
postsecondary career and technical education, training and 
apprenticeship, including the Workforce Investment Act, displaced 
homemakers, adult basic education (family literacy), rehabilitation, 
professional development, and training programs from immigration 
funding; pre-service and in-service teacher training, including Title 
II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and Title II of the 
Higher Education Act; science and technology programs; affirmative 
action in higher education; Title IX of the Education Amendments of 
1972; all welfare reform programs including, work incentive programs, 
welfare-to-work requirements; the Native American Programs Act, the 
Robert A. Taft Institute, and Institute for Peace. 
       Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities._Adolescent 
development and training programs, including but not limited to those 
providing for the care and treatment of certain at risk youth, 
including the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act and the 
Runaway and Homeless Youth Act; all matters dealing with child abuse 
and domestic violence, including the Child Abuse Prevention and 
Treatment Act, and child adoption; school lunch and child nutrition, 
poverty programs including the Community Services Block Grant Act, and 
the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP); all matters 
dealing with programs and services for the elderly, including nutrition 
programs and the Older Americans Act; environmental education; all 
domestic volunteer programs; library services and construction, and 
programs related to the arts and humanities, museum services, and arts 
and artifacts indemnity. 
       Subcommittee on Workforce Protections._Wages and hours of labor 
including, but not limited to, Davis-Bacon Act, Walsh-Healey Act, Fair 
Labor Standards Act, workers' compensation including, Longshore and 
Harbor Workers' Compensation Act, Federal Employees' Compensation Act, 
Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act, Service 
Contract Act, Family and Medical Leave Act, Worker Adjustment and 
Retraining Notification Act, including training for dislocated workers, 
Employee Polygraph Protection Act of 1988, trade and immigration issues 
as they impact employers and workers, and workers' health and safety 
including, but not limited to, occupational safety and health, mine 
health and safety, youth camp safety, and migrant and agricultural 
labor health and safety. 
       Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions._All 
matters dealing with relationships between employers and workers 
generally including, but not limited to, the National Labor Relations 
Act, Labor Management Relations Act, Labor-Management Reporting and 
Disclosure Act, Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment-related 
retirement security, including pension, health and other employee 
benefits, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA); all 
matters related to equal employment opportunity and civil rights in 
employment, including affirmative action. 
       (b) The majority party members of the Committee may provide for 
such temporary, ad hoc subcommittees as determined to be appropriate. 

                       RULE 3.__EX OFFICIO MEMBERSHIP 

       The Chair of the Committee and the ranking minority party member 
shall be ex officio members, but not voting members, of each 
subcommittee to which such Chair or ranking minority party member has 
not been assigned. 

                        RULE 4.__SUBCOMMITTEE SCHEDULING 

       (a) Subcommittee chair shall set meeting or hearing dates after 
consultation with the Chair and other subcommittee chair with a view 
toward avoiding simultaneous scheduling of Committee and subcommittee 
meetings or hearings, wherever possible. No such meetings or hearings, 
however, shall be held outside of Washington, D.C., or during a recess 
or adjournment of the House of Representatives without the prior 
authorization of the Committee Chair. Where practicable, 14 days' 
notice will be given of such meeting or hearing. 
       (b) Available dates for subcommittee meetings during the session 
shall be assigned by the Chair to the subcommittees as nearly as 
practicable in rotation and in accordance with their workloads. As far 
as practicable, the Chair shall not schedule simultaneous subcommittee 
markups, a subcommittee markup during a full Committee markup or any 
hearing during a markup. 

                             RULE 5.__SUBCOMMITTEE RULES 

       The rules of the Committee shall be the rules of its 
subcommittees. 

                        RULE 6.__SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT OF MEMBERS 

       To facilitate the oversight and other legislative and 
investigative activities of the committee, the Chair of the Committee 
may, at the request of a subcommittee Chair, make a temporary 
assignment of any member of the Committee to such subcommittee for the 
purpose of constituting a quorum and of enabling such member to 
participate in any public hearing, investigation, or study by such 
subcommittee to be held outside of Washington, D.C. Any member of the 
Committee may attend public hearings of any subcommittee and any member 
of the Committee may question witnesses only when they have been 
recognized by the Chair for that purpose. 

                              RULE 7.__HEARING PROCEDURE 

       (a) The Chair, in the case of hearings to be conducted by the 
Committee, and the appropriate subcommittee chair, in the case of 
hearings to be conducted by a subcommittee, shall make public 
announcement of the date, place, and subject matter of any hearing to 
be conducted on any measure or matter at least one week before the 
commencement of that hearing unless the Committee or subcommittee 
determines that there is good cause to begin such hearing at an earlier 
date. In the latter event, the Chair or the subcommittee chair, as the 
case may be, shall make such public announcement at the earliest 
possible date. To the extent practicable, the Chair or the subcommittee 
chair shall make public announcement of the final list of witnesses 
scheduled to testify at least 48 hours before the commencement of the 
hearing. The staff director of the Committee shall promptly notify the 
Daily Digest Clerk of the Congressional Record as soon as practicable 
after such public announcement is made. 
       (b) Subcommittees are authorized to hold hearings, receive 
exhibits, hear witnesses, and report to the Committee for final action, 
together with such recommendations as may be agreed upon by the 
subcommittee. 
       (c) All opening statements at hearings conducted by the 
Committee or any subcommittee will be made part of the permanent 
written record. Opening statements by members may not be presented 
orally, unless the Chair of the Committee or any subcommittee 
determines that one statement from the Chair or a designee will be 
presented, in which case the ranking minority party member or a 
designee may also make a statement. If a witness scheduled to testify 
at any hearing of the Committee or any subcommittee is a constituent of 
a member of the Committee or subcommittee, such member shall be 
entitled to briefly introduce such witness at the hearing. 
       (d) To the extent practicable, witnesses who are to appear 
before the Committee or a subcommittee shall file with the staff 
director of the Committee, at least 48 hours in advance of their 
appearance, a written statement of their proposed testimony, together 
with a brief summary thereof, and shall limit their oral presentation 
to a summary thereof. The staff director of the Committee shall 
promptly furnish to the staff director of the minority a copy of such 
testimony submitted to the Committee pursuant to this rule. 
       (e) When any hearing is conducted by the Committee or any 
subcommittee upon any measure or matter, the minority party members on 
the Committee shall be entitled, upon request to the Chair by a 
majority of those minority party members before the completion of such 
hearing, to call witnesses selected by the minority to testify with 
respect to that measure or matter during at least one day of hearing 
thereon. The minority party may waive this right by calling at least 
one witness during a Committee hearing or subcommittee hearing. 
       (f) In the conduct of hearings of subcommittees sitting jointly, 
the rules otherwise applicable to all subcommittees shall likewise 
apply to joint subcommittee hearings for purposes of such shared 
consideration. 

                 RULE 8.__QUESTIONING OF HEARING WITNESSES 

       (a) Subject to clauses (b), (c) and (d), a Committee member may 
question hearing witnesses only when the member has been recognized by 
the Chair for that purpose, and only for a 5-minute period until all 
members present have had an opportunity to question a witness. The 
questioning of witnesses in both Committee and subcommittee hearings 
shall be initiated by the Chair, followed by the ranking minority party 
member and all other members alternating between the majority and 
minority party. The Chair shall exercise discretion in determining the 
order in which members will be recognized. In recognizing members to 
question witnesses in this fashion, the Chair shall take into 
consideration the ratio of the majority to minority party members 
present and shall establish the order of recognition for questioning in 
such a manner as not to place the members of the majority party in a 
disadvantageous position. 
       (b) The Chair may permit a specified number of members to 
question a witness for longer than five minutes. The time for extended 
questioning of a witness under this clause shall be equal for the 
majority party and the minority party and may not exceed one hour in 
the aggregate. 
       (c) The Chair may permit Committee staff for the majority and 
the minority party members to question a witness for equal specified 
periods. The time for extended questioning of a witness under this 
clause shall be equal for the majority party and the minority party and 
may not exceed one hour in the aggregate. 
       (d) In an investigative hearing or in an executive session, the 
Chair's authority to extend questioning under subsection (b) and (c) of 
this rule shall be equal for the majority and the minority party and 
may not exceed one hour in the aggregate, and shall only be conducted 
by counsel for the majority and the minority party when authorized 
under subsection (c) of this rule. 

                          RULE 9.__SUBPOENA AUTHORITY       The power to authorize and issue subpoenas is delegated to the 
Chair 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. The Chair 
shall notify the ranking minority member prior to issuing any subpoena 
under such authority. To the extent practicable, the Chair shall 
consult with the ranking minority member at least 24 hours in advance 
of a subpoena being issued under such authority, excluding Saturdays, 
Sundays, and federal holidays. As soon as practicable after issuing any 
subpoena under such authority, the Chair shall notify in writing all 
members of the Committee of the issuance of the subpoena. 

                           RULE 10.__DEPOSITION PROCEDURE 

       (a) In accordance with the Committee receiving authorization by 
the House of Representatives for the taking of depositions in 
furtherance of a Committee investigation, the Chair, upon consultation 
with the ranking minority member, may order the taking of depositions 
pursuant to notice or subpoena as contemplated by this rule. 
       (b) The Chair or majority staff shall consult with the ranking 
minority member or minority staff no less than three business days 
before any notice or subpoena for a deposition is issued. After such 
consultation, all members shall receive written notice that a notice or 
subpoena for a deposition will be issued. 
       (c) A notice or subpoena issued under this rule shall specify 
the date, time, and place of the deposition and the method or methods 
by which the deposition will be recorded. Prior to testifying, a 
deponent shall be provided with a copy of the Committee's rules, the 
House Resolution authorizing the taking of the deposition, and Rule X 
of the Rules of the House of Representatives. 
       (d)(1) A deposition shall be conducted by one or more members or 
Committee counsel as designated by the Chair or ranking minority 
member. 
       (2) A deposition shall be taken under oath or affirmation 
administered by a member or a person otherwise authorized to administer 
oaths and affirmations. 
       (e) A deponent may be accompanied at a deposition by counsel to 
advise the deponent of the deponent's rights. Only members and 
Committee counsel, however, may examine the deponent. No one may be 
present at a deposition other than members, Committee staff designated 
by the Chair or ranking minority member, such individuals as may be 
required to administer the oath or affirmation and transcribe or record 
the proceedings, the deponent, and the deponent's counsel (including 
personal counsel and counsel for the entity employing the deponent if 
the scope of the deposition is expected to cover actions taken as part 
of the deponent's employment). Observers or counsel for other persons 
or entities may not attend. 
       (f)(1) Unless the majority, minority, and deponent agree 
otherwise, questions in a deposition shall be propounded in rounds, 
alternating between the majority and minority. A single round shall not 
exceed 60 minutes per side, unless the members or counsel conducting 
the deposition agree to a different length of questioning. In each 
round, a member or Committee counsel designated by the Chair shall ask 
questions first, and the member or Committee counsel designated by the 
ranking minority member shall ask questions second. 
       (2) Any objection made during a deposition must be stated 
concisely and in a non-argumentative and non-suggestive manner. 
Deponent may refuse to answer a question only to preserve a privilege. 
When the deponent has objected and refused to answer a question to 
preserve a privilege, the Chair may rule on any such objection after 
the deposition has adjourned. If the Chair overrules any such objection 
and thereby orders a deponent to answer any question to which a 
privilege objection was lodged, such ruling shall be filed with the 
clerk of the Committee and shall be provided to members and the 
deponent no less than three days before the ruling is enforced at a 
reconvened deposition. If a member of the Committee appeals in writing 
the ruling of the Chair, the appeal shall be preserved for Committee 
consideration. A deponent who refuses to answer a question after being 
directed to answer by the Chair in writing may be subject to sanction, 
except that no sanctions may be imposed if the ruling of the Chair is 
reversed on appeal. In all cases, when deposition testimony for which 
an objection has been made is offered for admission in evidence before 
the Committee, all properly lodged objections then made shall be timely 
and shall be considered by the Committee prior to admission in evidence 
before the Committee. 
       (g) Deposition testimony shall be transcribed by stenographic 
means and may also be video recorded. The clerk of the Committee shall 
receive the transcript and any video recording and promptly forward 
such to minority staff at the same time the clerk distributes such to 
other majority staff. 
       (h) The individual administering the oath shall certify on the 
transcript that the deponent was duly sworn. The transcriber shall 
certify that the transcript is a true, verbatim record of the 
testimony, and the transcript and any exhibits shall be filed, as shall 
any video recording, with the clerk of the Committee. In no case shall 
any video recording be considered the official transcript of a 
deposition or otherwise supersede the certified written transcript. 
       (i) After receiving the transcript, majority staff shall make 
available the transcript for review by the deponent or deponent's 
counsel. No later than ten business days thereafter, the deponent may 
submit suggested changes to the Chair. Committee majority staff may 
direct the clerk of the Committee to note any typographical errors, 
including any requested by the deponent or minority staff, via an 
errata sheet appended to the transcript. Any proposed substantive 
changes, modifications, clarifications, or amendments to the deposition 
testimony must be submitted by the deponent as an affidavit that 
includes the deponent's reasons therefore. Any substantive changes, 
modifications, clarifications, or amendments shall be included as an 
appendix to the transcript, a copy of which shall be promptly forwarded 
to minority staff. 
       (j) The Chair and ranking minority member shall consult 
regarding the release of deposition transcript or electronic 
recordings. If either objects in writing to a proposed release of a 
deposition transcript or electronic recording or a portion thereof, the 
matter shall be promptly referred to the Committee for resolution. 

                          RULE 11.__QUORUMS 

       One-third of the members of the Committee or subcommittee shall 
constitute a quorum for taking any action other than amending Committee 
rules, closing a meeting from the public, reporting a measure or 
recommendation, or in the case of the Committee or a subcommittee 
authorizing a subpoena. For the enumerated actions, a majority of the 
Committee or subcommittee shall constitute a quorum. Any two members 
shall constitute a quorum for the purpose of taking testimony and 
receiving evidence. 

          RULE 12.__REFERRAL OF BILLS, RESOLUTIONS, AND OTHER MATTERS

       (a) The Chair shall consult with subcommittee chair regarding 
referral to the appropriate subcommittees, of such bills, resolutions, 
and other matters, which have been referred to the Committee. Once 
printed copies of a bill, resolution, or other matter are available to 
the Committee, the Chair shall, within three weeks of such 
availability, provide notice of referral, if any, to the appropriate 
subcommittee. 
       (b) Referral to a subcommittee shall not be made until three 
days shall have elapsed after written notification of such proposed 
referral to all subcommittee chair, at which time such proposed 
referral shall be made unless one or more subcommittee chair shall have 
given written notice to the Chair of the full Committee and to the 
 chair of each subcommittee that he or she intends to question such 
proposed referral at the next regularly scheduled meeting of the 
Committee, or at a special meeting of the Committee called for that 
purpose, at which time referral shall be made by the majority members 
of the Committee. All bills shall be referred under this rule to the 
subcommittee of proper jurisdiction without regard to whether the 
author is or is not a member of the subcommittee. Upon a majority vote 
of the Committee, a bill, resolution, or other matter referred to a 
subcommittee in accordance with this rule may be recalled at any time 
for the Committee's direct consideration or for reference to another 
subcommittee. 
       (c) All members of the Committee shall be given at least 24 
hours' notice prior to the direct consideration of any bill, 
resolution, or other matter by the Committee; but this requirement may 
be waived upon determination, by a majority of the members voting, that 
emergency or urgent circumstances require immediate consideration 
thereof. 
       (d) When a bill or resolution is being considered by the 
Committee or a subcommittee, members shall provide the clerk in a 
timely manner a sufficient number of written copies of any amendment 
offered, so as to enable each member present to receive a copy thereof 
prior to taking action. A point of order may be made against any 
amendment not reduced to writing. A copy of each such amendment shall 
be maintained in the public records of the Committee or subcommittee, 
as the case may be. 
       (e) In determining the order in which amendments to a matter 
pending before the Committee or a subcommittee will be considered, the 
Chair may give priority to: 
       (1) The Chair's mark, and 
       (2) Amendments, otherwise in order, that have been filed with 
the Committee at least 24 hours prior to the Committee or Subcommittee 
business meeting on said measure or matter. 

                               RULE 13.__VOTES 

       (a) With respect to each roll call vote on a motion to report 
any bill, resolution or matter of a public character, and on any 
amendment offered thereto, the total number of votes cast for and 
against, and the names of those members voting for and against, shall 
be included in the Committee report on the measure or matter. 
       (b) In accordance with clause 2(h) of Rule XI of the House of 
Representatives, the Chair of the Committee or a Subcommittee is 
authorized to postpone further proceedings when a record vote is 
 ordered on the question of approving a measure or matter or on 
adopting an amendment. Such Chair may resume proceedings on a postponed 
request at any time after reasonable notice. 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 14.__RECORDS AND ROLLCALLS 

       (a) Written records shall be kept of the proceedings of the 
Committee and of each subcommittee, including a record of the votes on 
any question on which a roll call is demanded. The result of each such 
roll call vote shall be made available by the Committee or subcommittee 
for inspection by the public at reasonable times in the offices of the 
Committee or subcommittee and shall be made available on the 
Committee's website not later than 3 business days after conclusion of 
the markup. Information so available for public inspection and on the 
Committee's website shall include a description of the amendment, 
motion, order, or other proposition and the name of each member voting 
for and each member voting against such amendment, motion, order, or 
proposition, and the names of those members present but not voting. A 
record vote may be demanded by one-fifth of the members present or, in 
the apparent absence of a quorum, by any one member. 
       (b) In accordance with Rule VII of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives, any official permanent record of the Committee 
(including any record of a legislative, oversight, or other activity of 
the Committee or any subcommittee) shall be made available for public 
use if such record has been in existence for 30 years, except that__ 
       (1) any record that the Committee (or a subcommittee) makes 
available for public use before such record is delivered to the 
Archivist under clause 2 of Rule VII of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives shall be made available immediately, including any 
record described in subsection (a) of this Rule; 
       (2) any investigative record that contains personal data 
relating to a specific living individual (the disclosure of which would 
be an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy), any administrative 
record with respect to personnel, and any record with respect to a 
hearing closed pursuant to clause 2(g)(2) of Rule XI of the Rules of 
the House of Representatives shall be available if such record has been 
in existence for 50 years; or 
       (3) except as otherwise provided by order of the House of 
Representatives, any record of the 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. 
       (c) The official permanent records of the Committee include 
noncurrent records of the Committee (including subcommittees) delivered 
by the Clerk of the House of Representatives to the Archivist of the 
United States for preservation at the National Archives and Records 
Administration, which are the property of and remain subject to the 
rules and orders of the House of Representatives. 
       (d)(1) Any order of the Committee with respect to any matter 
described in paragraph (2) of this subsection shall be adopted only if 
the notice requirements of Committee Rule 15(a)(2) have been met, a 
quorum consisting of a majority of the members of the Committee is 
present at the time of the vote, and a majority of those present and 
voting approve the adoption of the order, which shall be submitted to 
the Clerk of the House of Representatives, together with any 
accompanying report. 
       (2) This subsection applies to any order of the Committee 
which__ 
       (A) provides for the non-availability of any record subject to 
subsection (b) of this rule for a period longer than the period 
otherwise applicable; or 
       (B) is subsequent to, and constitutes a later order under clause 
4(b) of Rule VII of the Rules of the House of Representatives, 
regarding a determination of the Clerk of the House of Representatives 
with respect to authorizing the Archivist of the United States to make 
available for public use the records delivered to the Archivist under 
clause 2 of Rule VII of the Rules of the House of Representatives; or 
       (C) specifies a time, schedule, or condition for availability 
pursuant to subsection (b) (3) of this Rule. 

                               RULE 15.__REPORTS 

       (a) Reports of the Committee: All Committee reports on bills or 
resolutions shall comply with the provisions of clause 2 of Rule XI and 
clauses 2, 3, and 4 of Rule XIII of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives. 
       (1) No such report shall be filed until copies of the proposed 
report have been available to all members at least 36 hours prior to 
such filing in the House of Representatives. No material change shall 
be made in the report distributed to members unless agreed to by the 
ranking minority member; but any member or members of the Committee may 
file, as part of the printed report, individual, minority, or 
dissenting views, without regard to the preceding provisions of this 
rule. 
       (2) Such 36-hour period shall not conclude earlier than the end 
of the period provided under clause 4 of Rule XIII of the Rules of the 
House of Representatives after the Committee approves a measure or 
matter if a member, at the time of such approval, gives notice of 
intention to file supplemental, minority, or additional views for 
inclusion as part of the printed report. 
       (3) To the extent practicable, any report prepared pursuant to a 
Committee or subcommittee study or investigation shall be available to 
members no later than 48 hours prior to consideration of any such 
report by the Committee or subcommittee, as the case may be. 
       (b) Disclaimers: (1) The report on activities of the Committee 
required under clause 1 of Rule XI of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives shall include the following disclaimer in the document 
transmitting the report to the Clerk of the House of Representatives: 
       This report has not been officially adopted by the Committee on 
Education and Labor or any subcommittee thereof and therefore may not 
necessarily reflect the views of its members. 
       Such disclaimer need not be included if the report was 
circulated to all members of the Committee at least 7 days prior to its 
submission to the House of Representatives and provision is made for 
the filing by any member, as part of the printed report, of individual, 
minority, or dissenting views. 
       (2) All Committee or subcommittee reports printed pursuant to 
legislative study or investigation and not approved by a majority vote 
of the Committee or subcommittee, as appropriate, shall contain the 
following disclaimer on the cover of such report: 
       This report has not been officially adopted by the Committee on 
Education and Labor (or pertinent subcommittee thereof) and therefore 
may not necessarily reflect the views of its members. 
       The minority party members of the Committee or subcommittee 
shall have three calendar days, excluding weekends and holidays, to 
file, as part of the printed report, supplemental, minority, or 
additional views. 
       (c) Reports of Subcommittees. Whenever a subcommittee has 
ordered a bill, resolution, or other matter to be reported to the 
Committee, the chair of the subcommittee reporting the bill, 
resolution, or matter to the Committee, or any member authorized by the 
subcommittee to do so, may report such bill, resolution, or matter to 
the Committee. It shall be the duty of the chair of the subcommittee to 
report or cause to be reported promptly such bill, resolution, or 
matter, and to take or cause to be taken the necessary steps to bring 
such bill, resolution, or matter to a vote. 
       (1) In any event, the report, described in the proviso in 
subsection (c) (2) of this rule, of any subcommittee on a measure which 
has been approved by the subcommittee shall be filed within seven 
calendar days (exclusive of days on which the House is not in session) 
after the day on which there has been filed with the staff director of 
the Committee a written request, signed by a majority of the members of 
the subcommittee, for the reporting of that measure. Upon the filing of 
any such request, the staff director of the Committee shall transmit 
immediately to the chair of the subcommittee a notice of the filing of 
that request. 
       (2) Bills, resolutions, or other matters favorably reported by a 
subcommittee shall automatically be placed upon the agenda of the 
Committee as of the time they are reported. No bill or resolution or 
other matter reported by a subcommittee shall be considered by the full 
Committee unless it has been delivered or electronically sent to all 
members and notice of its prior transmission has been in the hands of 
all members at least 48 hours prior to such consideration. A member of 
the Committee shall receive, upon his or her request, a paper copy of 
such bill, resolution, or other matter reported. When a bill is 
reported from a subcommittee, such measure shall be accompanied by a 
section-by-section analysis; and, if the Chair of the Committee so 
requires (in response to a request from the ranking minority member of 
the Committee or for other reasons), a comparison showing proposed 
changes in existing law. 

            RULE 16.__APPOINTMENT OF CONFEREES, NOTICE OF CONFERENCE 
                       MEETINGS AND CONFERENCE MOTION 

       (a) Whenever in the legislative process it becomes necessary to 
appoint conferees, the Chair shall recommend to the Speaker as 
conferees the names of those members of the subcommittee which handled 
the legislation in the order of their seniority upon such subcommittee 
and such other Committee members as the Chair may designate with the 
approval of the majority party members. Recommendations of the Chair to 
the Speaker shall provide a ratio of majority party members to minority 
party members no less favorable to the majority party than the ratio of 
majority members to minority party members on the full committee. In 
making assignments of minority party members as conferees, the Chair 
shall consult with the ranking minority party member of the committee. 
       (b) After the appointment of conferees pursuant to clause 11 of 
Rule I of the Rules of the House of Representatives for matters within 
the jurisdiction of the committee, the Chair shall notify all members 
appointed to the conference of meetings at least 48 hours before the 
commencement of the meeting. If such notice is not possible, then 
notice shall be given as soon as possible. 
       (c) The Chair is directed to offer a motion under clause 1 of 
rule XXII of the Rules of the House of Representatives whenever the 
Chair considers it appropriate. 

                RULE 17.__MEASURES TO BE CONSIDERED UNDER SUSPENSION 

       A member of the Committee may not seek to suspend the Rules of 
the House of Representatives on any bill, resolution, or other matter 
which has been modified after such measure is ordered reported, unless 
notice of such action has been given to the Chair and ranking minority 
member of the full Committee. 

             RULE 18.__BROADCASTING OF COMMITTEE HEARINGS AND MEETINGS 

       (a) Television, Radio and Still Photography._(1) Whenever a 
hearing or meeting conducted by the Committee or any subcommittee is 
open to the public, those proceedings shall be open to coverage by 
television, radio, and still photography subject to the requirements of 
Rule XI, clause 4 of the Rules of the House of Representatives and 
except when the hearing or meeting is closed pursuant to the Rules of 
the House of Representatives and of the Committee. The coverage of any 
hearing or meeting of the Committee or any subcommittee thereof by 
television, radio, or still photography shall be under the direct 
supervision of the Chair of the Committee, the subcommittee chair, or 
other member of the Committee presiding at such hearing or meeting and 
may be terminated by such member in accordance with the Rules of the 
House of Representatives. 
       (2) Personnel providing coverage by the television and radio 
media shall be then currently accredited to the Radio and Television 
Correspondents' Galleries. 
       (3) Personnel providing coverage by still photography shall be 
then accredited to the Press Photographers' Gallery. 
       (b) Internet Broadcast._An open meeting or hearing of the 
Committee or subcommittee may be covered and recorded, in whole or in 
part, by Internet broadcast, unless such meeting or hearing is closed 
pursuant to the Rules of the House of Representatives and of the 
Committee. Such coverage shall be fair and nonpartisan in accordance 
with clause 4(b) of Rule XI of the House of Representatives and other 
applicable rules of the House of Representatives and of the Committee. 
Members of the Committee shall have prompt access to any recording of 
such coverage to the extent that such coverage is maintained. Personnel 
providing such coverage shall be employees of the House of 
Representatives or currently accredited to the Radio and Television 
Correspondents' Galleries. 

                          RULE 19.__COMMITTEE STAFF 

       (a) The employees of the Committee shall be appointed by the 
Chair in consultation with subcommittee chair and other majority party 
members of the Committee within the budget approved for such purposes 
by the Committee. 
       (b) The staff appointed by the minority shall have their 
remuneration determined in such manner as the minority party members of 
the Committee shall determine within the budget approved for such 
purposes by the Committee. 

            RULE 20.__SUPERVISION AND DUTIES OF COMMITTEE STAFF 

       The staff of the Committee shall be under the general 
supervision and direction of the Chair, who shall establish and assign 
the duties and responsibilities of such staff members and delegate 
authority as he determines appropriate. The staff appointed by the 
minority shall be under the general supervision and direction of the 
minority party members of the Committee, who may delegate such 
authority as they determine appropriate. All Committee staff shall be 
assigned to Committee business and no other duties may be assigned to 
them. 

                        RULE 21.__AUTHORIZATION FOR TRAVEL 

       (a) Consistent with the primary expense resolution and such 
additional expense resolutions as may have been approved; the 
provisions of this rule shall govern travel of Committee members and 
staff. Travel to be paid from funds set aside for the full Committee 
for any member or any staff member shall be paid only upon the prior 
authorization of the Chair. Travel may be authorized by the Chair for 
any member and any staff member in connection with the attendance of 
hearings conducted by the Committee or any subcommittee thereof and 
meetings, conferences, and investigations which involve activities or 
subject matter under the general jurisdiction of the Committee. The 
Chair shall review travel requests to assure the validity to Committee 
business. Before such authorization is given, there shall be submitted 
to the Chair in writing the following: 
       (1) The purpose of the travel; 
       (2) The dates during which the travel is to be made and the date 
or dates of the event for which the travel is being made; 
       (3) The location of the event for which the travel is to be 
made; and 
       (4) The names of members and staff seeking authorization. 
       (b)(1) In the case of travel outside the United States of 
members and staff of the Committee for the purpose of conducting 
hearings, investigations, studies, or attending meetings and 
conferences involving activities or subject matter under the 
legislative assignment of the Committee or pertinent subcommittees, 
prior authorization must be obtained from the Chair, or, in the case of 
a subcommittee, from the subcommittee chair and the Chair. Before such 
authorization is given, there shall be submitted to the Chair, in 
writing, a request for such authorization. Each request, which shall be 
filed in a manner that allows for a reasonable period of time for 
review before such travel is scheduled to begin, shall include the 
following: 
       (A) The purpose of travel; 
       (B) The dates during which the travel will occur; 
       (C) The names of the countries to be visited and the length of 
time to be spent in each; 
       (D) an agenda of anticipated activities for each country for 
which travel is authorized together with a description of the purpose 
to be served and the areas of Committee jurisdiction involved; and 
       (E) The names of members and staff for whom authorization is 
sought. 
       (2) Requests for travel outside the United States may be 
initiated by the Chair or the chair of a subcommittee (except that 
individuals may submit a request to the Chair for the purpose of 
attending a conference or meeting) and shall be limited to members and 
permanent employees of the Committee. 
       (3) The Chair shall not approve a request involving travel 
outside the United States while the House is in session (except in the 
case of attendance at meetings and conferences or where circumstances 
warrant an exception). 
       (4) At the conclusion of any hearing, investigation, study, 
meeting, or conference for which travel outside the United States has 
been authorized pursuant to this rule, each subcommittee (or members 
and staff attending meetings or conferences) shall submit a written 
report to the Chair covering the activities of the subcommittee and 
containing the results of these activities and other pertinent 
observations or information gained as a result of such travel. 
       (c) Members and staff of the Committee performing authorized 
travel on official business shall be governed by applicable laws, 
resolutions, or regulations of the House of Representatives and of the 
Committee on House Administration pertaining to such travel, including 
rules, procedures, and limitations prescribed by the Committee on House 
Administration with respect to domestic and foreign expense allowances. 
       (d) Prior to the Chair's authorization for any travel, the 
ranking minority party member shall be given a copy of the written 
request therefor. 

                       RULE 22.__BUDGET AND EXPENSES 

       (a) The Chair in consultation with the majority party members of 
the Committee shall prepare a preliminary budget. Such budget shall 
include necessary amounts for staff personnel, for necessary travel, 
investigation, and other expenses of the committee; and, after 
consultation with the minority party membership, the Chair shall 
include amounts budgeted to the minority party members for staff 
personnel to be under the direction and supervision of the minority 
party, travel expenses of minority party members and staff, and 
minority party office expenses. All travel expenses of minority party 
members and staff shall be paid for out of the amounts so set aside and 
budgeted. The Chair shall take whatever action is necessary to have the 
budget as finally approved by the Committee duly authorized by the 
House of Representatives. After such budget shall have been adopted, no 
change shall be made in such budget unless approved by the committee. 
The Chair or the chair of any standing subcommittee may initiate 
necessary travel requests as provided in Rule 21 within the limits of 
their portion of the consolidated budget as approved by the House, and 
the Chair may execute necessary vouchers therefor. 
       (b) Subject to the rules of the House of Representatives and 
procedures prescribed by the Committee on House Administration, and 
with the prior authorization of the Chair of the Committee in each 
case, there may be expended in any one session of Congress for 
necessary travel expenses of witnesses attending hearings in 
Washington, DC: 
       (1) Out of funds budgeted and set aside for each subcommittee, 
not to exceed $5,000 for expenses of witnesses attending hearings of 
each such subcommittee; 
       (2) Out of funds budgeted for the full Committee majority, not 
to exceed $5,000 for expenses of witnesses attending full Committee 
hearings; and 
       (3) Out of funds set aside to the minority party members, 
       (A) Not to exceed, for each of the subcommittees, $5,000 for 
expenses of witnesses attending subcommittee hearings, and 
       (B) Not to exceed $5,000 for expenses of witnesses attending 
full Committee hearings. 
       (c) A full and detailed monthly report accounting for all 
expenditures of Committee funds shall be maintained in the Committee 
office, where it shall be available to each member of the committee. 
Such report shall show the amount and purpose of each expenditure, and 
the budget to which such expenditure is attributed. 

                   RULE 23.__CHANGES IN COMMITTEE RULES 

       The Committee shall not consider a proposed change in these 
rules unless the text of such change has been delivered or 
electronically sent to all members and notice of its prior transmission 
has been in the hands of all members at least 48 hours prior to such 
consideration; a member of the Committee shall receive, upon his or her 
request, a paper copy of the proposed change. 
       
                      Committee on Energy and Commerce 

                    HENRY A. WAXMAN, California, Chairman
JOHN D. DINGELL, Michigan, Chair      JOE BARTON, Texas, Ranking Member 
   Emeritus                           RALPH M. HALL, Texas 
EDWARD J. MARKEY, Massachusetts       FRED UPTON, Michigan 
RICK BOUCHER, Virginia                CLIFF STERNS, Florida 
FRANK PALLONE, JR., New Jersey        NATHAN DEAL, Georgia 
BART GORDON, Tennessee                ED WHITFIELD, Kentucky 
BOBBY L. RUSH, Illinois               JOHN SHIMKUS, Illinois 
ANNA G. ESHOO, California             JOHN B. SHADEGG, Arizona 
BART STUPAK, Michigan                 ROY BLUNT, Missouri 
ELIOT L. ENGEL, New York              STEVE BUYER, Indiana 
GENE GREEN, Texas                     GEORGE RADANOVICH, California 
DIANA DEGETTE, Colorado               JOSEPH R. PITTS, Pennsylvania 
LOIS CAPPS, California                MARY BONO MACK, California 
MICHAEL F. DOYLE, Pennsylvania        GREG WALDEN, Oregon 
JANE HARMAN, California               LEE TERRY, Nebraska 
JANICE D. SCHAKOWSKY, Illinois        MIKE ROGERS, Michigan 
CHARLES A. GONZALEZ, Texas            SUE WILKINS MYRICK, North Carolina 
JAY INSLEE, Washington                JOHN SULLIVAN, Oklahoma 
TAMMY BALDWIN, Wisconsin              TIM MURPHY, Pennsylvania 
MIKE ROSS, Arkansas                   MICHAEL C. BURGESS, Texas 
ANTHONY D. WEINER, New York           MARSHA BLACKBURN, Tennessee 
JIM MATHESON, Utah                    PHIL GINGREY, Georgia 
G.K. BUTTERFIELD, North Carolina      STEVE SCALISE, Louisiana 
CHARLIE MELANCON, Louisiana 
JOHN BARROW, Georgia 
BARON P. HILL, Indiana 
DORIS O. MATSUI, California 
DONNA M. CHRISTENSEN, Virgin Islands 
KATHY CASTOR, Florida 
JOHN P. SARBANES, Maryland 
CHRISTOPHER S. MURPHY, Connecticut 
ZACHARY T. SPACE, Ohio 
JERRY MCNERNEY, California 
BETTY SUTTON, Ohio 
BRUCE L BRALEY, Iowa 
PETER WELCH, Vermont 

                          (Adopted January 14, 2009)

                         RULE 1.__GENERAL PROVISIONS

       (a) Rules of the Committee. The Rules of the House are the rules 
of the Committee on Energy and Commerce (hereinafter the "Committee") 
and its subcommittees so far as is applicable.
       (b) Rules of the Subcommittees. 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.

                              RULE 2.__MEETINGS 

       (a) Regular Meeting Days. The Committee shall meet on the fourth 
Tuesday of each month at 10 a.m., for the consideration of bills, 
resolutions, and other business, if the House is in session on that 
day. If the House is not in session on that day and the Committee has 
not met during such month, the Committee shall meet at the earliest 
practicable opportunity when the House is again in session. The chairman 
of the Committee may, at his discretion, cancel, delay, or defer any 
meeting required under this section, after consultation with the 
ranking  minority member.
       (b) Additional Meetings. The chairman 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 
for such purposes pursuant to that call of the chairman.
       (c) Notice. The date, time, place, and subject matter of any 
meeting of the Committee or its subcommittees scheduled on a Tuesday, 
Wednesday, or Thursday when the House will be in session shall be 
announced at least 36 hours (exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays, and legal 
holidays except when the House is in session on such days) in advance 
of the commencement of such meeting. The date, time, place, and subject 
matter of other meetings shall be announced at least 72 hours in 
advance of the commencement of such meeting.
       (d) Agenda. The agenda for each Committee or subcommittee 
meeting, setting out all items of business to be considered, shall be 
provided to each member of the Committee at least 36 hours in advance 
of such meeting.
       (e) Availability of Texts. No bill, recommendation, or other 
matter reported by a subcommittee shall be considered by the Committee 
unless the text of the matter reported, together with an explanation, 
has been available to members of the Committee for at least 36 hours. 
Such explanation shall include a summary of the major provisions of the 
legislation, an explanation of the relationship of the matter to 
present law, and a summary of the need for the legislation.
       (f) Waiver. The requirements of subsections (c), (d), and (e) 
may be waived by a majority of those present and voting (a majority 
being present) of the Committee or subcommittee, or by the chairman 
with the concurrence of the ranking member, as the case may be.

                            RULE 3.__HEARINGS 

       (a) Notice. The date, time, place, and subject matter of any 
hearing of the Committee or any of its subcommittees shall be announced 
at least one week in advance of the commencement of such hearing, 
unless a determination is made in accordance with clause 2(g)(3) of 
Rule XI of the Rules of the House that there is good cause to begin the 
hearing sooner.
       (b) Memorandum. Each member of the Committee or subcommittee 
shall be provided, except in the case of unusual circumstances, with a 
memorandum at least 48 hours before each hearing explaining (1) the 
purpose of the hearing and (2) the names of any witnesses.
       (c) Witnesses. (1) Each witness who is to appear before the 
Committee or a subcommittee shall file with the clerk of the Committee, 
at least two working days in advance of his or her appearance, 
sufficient copies, as determined by the chairman of the Committee or a 
subcommittee, of a written statement of his or her proposed testimony 
to provide to members and staff of the Committee or subcommittee, the 
news media, and the general public.ï¿½ Each witness shall, to the greatest 
extent practicable, also provide a copy of such written testimony in an 
electronic format prescribed by the chairman. Each witness shall limit 
his or her oral presentation to a brief summary of the argument. The 
chairman of the Committee or of a subcommittee, or the presiding 
member, may waive the requirements of this paragraph or any part 
thereof.
       (2) To the greatest extent practicable, the written testimony of 
each witness appearing in a nongovernï¿½mental capacity shall include a 
curriculum vitae and a disclosure of the amount and source (by agency 
and program) of any federal grant (or subgrant thereof) or contract (or 
subcontract thereof) received during the current fiscal year or either 
of the two preceding fiscal years by the witness or by an entity 
represented by the witness.
       (d) Questioning. (1) The right to interrogate the witnesses 
before the Committee or any of its subcommittees shall alternate 
between majority and minority members.ï¿½ Each member shall be limited to 5 
minutes in the interrogation of witnesses until such time as each 
member who so desires has had an opportunity to question witnesses. No 
member shall be recognized for a second period of 5 minutes to 
interrogate a witness until each member of the Committee or 
subcommittee present has been recognized once for that purpose. While 
the Committee or subcommittee is operating under the 5 minute rule for 
the interrogation of witnesses, the chairman shall recognize in order 
of appearance members who were not present when the meeting was called 
to order after all members who were present when the meeting was called 
to order have been recognized in the order of seniority on the 
Committee or subcommittee, as the case may be.
       (2) The chairman with the concurrence of the ranking minority 
member, or the Committee by motion, may permit an equal number of 
majority and minority members to question a witness for a specified, 
total period that is equal for each side and not longer than thirty 
minutes for each side.ï¿½ The chairman with the concurrence of the ranking 
minority member, or the Committee by motion, may also permit committee 
staff of the majority and minority to question a witness for a 
specified, total period that is equal for each side and not longer than 
thirty minutes for each side.
       (3) Each member may submit to the  chairman of the Committee or 
the subcommittee additional questions for the record, to be answered by 
the witnesses who have appeared.ï¿½ Each member shall provide a copy of the 
questions in an electronic format to the clerk of the Committee no 
later than ten business days following a hearing.ï¿½ The chairman shall 
transmit all questions received from members of the Committee or the 
subcommittee to the appropriate witness and include the transmittal 
letter and the responses from the witnesses in the hearing record.

                     RULE 4.__VICE CHAIRMEN; PRESIDING MEMBER 

       The chairman shall designate a member of the majority party to 
serve as vice chairman of the Committee, and shall designate a majority 
member of each subcommittee to serve as vice chairman of each 
subcommittee. The vice chairman of the Committee or subcommittee, as the 
case may be, shall preside at any meeting or hearing during the 
temporary absence of the chairman.ï¿½ If the chairman and vice chairman of 
the Committee or subcommittee are not present at any meeting or 
hearing, the ranking member of the majority party who is present shall 
preside at the meeting or hearing.

                             RULE 5.__OPEN PROCEEDINGS

       Except as provided by the Rules of the House, each meeting and 
hearing of the Committee or any of its subcommittees for the 
transaction of business, including the markup of legislation, and each 
hearing, shall be open to the public, including to radio, television, 
and still photography coverage, consistent with the provisions of Rule 
XI of the Rules of the House.

                             RULE 6.__QUORUM


       Testimony may be taken and evidence received at any hearing at 
which there are present not fewer than two members of the Committee or 
subcommittee in question.ï¿½ A majority of the members of the Committee or 
subcommittee shall constitute a quorum for those actions for which the 
House rules require a majority quorum.ï¿½ For the purposes of taking any 
other action, one-third of the members of the Committee or subcommittee 
shall constitute a quorum.

                         RULE 7.__OFFICIAL COMMITTEE RECORDS


       (a)(1) Journal. The proceedings of the Committee and its 
subcommittees shall be recorded in a journal which shall, among other 
things, show those present at each meeting, and include a record of the 
vote on any question on which a record vote is demanded and a 
description of the amendment, motion, order, or other proposition 
voted. A copy of the journal shall be furnished to the ranking minority 
member.
       (2) Record Votes. A record vote may be demanded by one-fifth of 
the members present or, in the apparent absence of a quorum, by any one 
member. No demand for a record vote shall be made or obtained except 
for the purpose of procuring a record vote or in the apparent absence 
of a quorum. The result of each record vote in any meeting of the 
Committee and its subcommittees shall be made available in the 
Committee office for inspection by the public, as provided in Rule XI, 
clause 2(e) of the Rules of the House.ï¿½ The Chairman also shall make the 
record of the votes on any question on which a record vote is demanded 
available on the Committee's website not later than 2 business days 
after such vote is taken.ï¿½ Such record 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.
       (b) Archived Records. The records of the Committee at the 
National Archives and Records Administration shall be made available 
for public use in accordance with Rule VII of the Rules of the House. 
The chairman shall notify the ranking minority member of any decision, 
pursuant to clause 3 (b)(3) or clause 4 (b) of the Rule, to withhold a 
record otherwise available, and the matter shall be presented to the 
Committee for a determination on the written request of any member of 
the Committee.ï¿½ The chairman shall consult with the ranking minority 
member on any communication from the Archivist of the United States or 
the Clerk of the House concerning the disposition of noncurrent records 
pursuant to clause 3(b) of the Rule.                           RULE 8.__SUBCOMMITTEES
 

       (a) Establishment. There shall be such standing subcommittees 
with such jurisdiction and size as determined by the majority party 
caucus of the Committee. The jurisdiction, number, and size of the 
subcommittees shall be determined by the majority party caucus prior to 
the start of the process for establishing subcommittee chairmanships 
and assignments. 
       (b) Powers and Duties. Each subcommittee is authorized to meet, 
hold hearings, receive testimony, mark up legislation, and report to 
the Committee on all matters referred to it. Subcommittee chairmen 
 shall set hearing and meeting dates only with the approval of the 
chairman of the Committee with a view toward assuring the availability 
of meeting rooms and avoiding simultaneous scheduling of Committee and 
subcommittee meetings or hearings whenever possible.
       (c) Ratio of Subcommittees. The majority caucus of the Committee 
shall determine an appropriate ratio of majority to minority party 
members for each subcommittee and the chairman shall negotiate that 
ratio with the minority party, provided that the ratio of party members 
on each subcommittee shall be no less favorable to the majority than 
that of the full Committee, nor shall such ratio provide for a majority 
of less than two majority members.
       (d) Selection of Subcommittee Members. Prior to any 
organizational meeting held by the Committee, the majority and minority 
caucuses shall select their respective members of the standing 
subcommittees.
       (e) Ex Officio Members. The chairman and ranking minority member 
of the Committee shall be ex officio members with voting privileges of 
each subcommittee of which they are not assigned as members and may be 
counted for purposes of establishing a quorum in such subcommittees. 
The chairman emeritus shall be an ex officio member without voting 
privileges of each subcommittee of which the chairman emeritus is not 
assigned as a member and may not be counted for purposes of 
establishing a quorum on any such subcommittee.
       (f) Subcommittee on Witness Inquiry. There shall also be 
established a Subcommittee on Witness Inquiry that may examine 
witnesses in executive session pursuant to House Rule XI, clause 
2(g)(2) and 2(k)(5). The subcommittee shall be comprised of two members 
of the majority party appointed at the discretion of the chairman and 
one member of the minority party appointed at the discretion of the 
ranking minority member. Subsections (a), (b), (c), (d), and (e) shall 
not apply to the Subcommittee.

                        RULE 9.__OPENING STATEMENTS 

       (a) Written Statements.ï¿½ All written opening statements at 
business meetings conducted by the committee or any of its 
subcommittees shall be made part of the permanent record.
       (b) Length. Statements shall be limited to 5 minutes each for 
the chairman and ranking minority member (or their respective designee) 
of the Committee or subcommittee, as applicable, and 3 minutes each for 
all other members. At any business meeting of the full Committee, the 
chairman may limit opening statements for Members (including, at the 
discretion of the Chairman, the chairman and ranking minority member) 
to one minute.

                  RULE 10.__REFERENCE OF LEGISLATION AND OTHER MATTERS
 

    All legislation and other matters referred to the Committee shall 
be referred to the subcommittee of appropriate jurisdiction within two 
weeks of the date of receipt by the Committee unless action is taken by 
the full Committee within those two weeks, or by majority vote of the 
members of the Committee, consideration is to be by the full Committee. 
In the case of legislation or other matter within the jurisdiction of 
more than one subcommittee, the chairman of the Committee may, in his 
discretion, refer the matter simultaneously to two or more 
subcommittees for concurrent consideration, or may designate a 
subcommittee of primary jurisdiction and also refer the matter to one 
or more additional subcommittees for consideration in sequence (subject 
to appropriate time limitations), either on its initial referral or 
after the matter has been reported by the subcommittee of primary 
jurisdiction. Such authority shall include the authority to refer such 
legislation or matter to an ad hoc subcommittee appointed by the 
chairman, with the approval of the Committee, from the members of the 
subcommittees having legislative or oversight jurisdiction. 

                    RULE 11.__MANAGING LEGISLATION ON THE HOUSE FLOOR
 

    The chairman, in his discretion, shall designate which member shall 
manage legislation reported by the Committee to the House.

                RULE 12.__COMMITTEE PROFESSIONAL AND CLERICAL STAFF 
                                  APPOINTMENTS
 

       (a) Delegation of Staff. Whenever the chairman of the Committee 
determines that any professional staff member appointed pursuant to the 
provisions of clause 9 of Rule X of the House of Representatives, who 
is assigned to such chairman and not to the ranking minority member, by 
reason of such professional staff member's expertise or qualifications 
will be of assistance to one or more subcommittees in carrying out 
their assigned responsibilities, he may delegate such member to such 
subcommittees for such purpose.ï¿½ A delegation of a member of the 
professional staff pursuant to this subsection shall be made after 
consultation with subcommittee chairmen and with the approval of the 
subcommittee chairman or chairmen involved.
       (b) Minority Professional Staff. Professional staff members 
appointed pursuant to clause 9 of Rule X of the House of 
Representatives, who are assigned to the ranking minority member of the 
Committee and not to the chairman of the Committee, shall be assigned 
to such Committee business as the minority party members of the 
Committee consider advisable.
       (c) Additional Staff Appointments. An addition to the 
professional staff appointed pursuant to clause 9 of Rule X of the 
House of Representatives, the chairman of the Committee shall be 
entitled to make such appointments to the professional and clerical 
staff of the Committee as may be provided within the budget approved 
for such purposes by the Committee.ï¿½ Such appointee shall be assigned to 
such business of the full Committee as the chairman of the Committee 
considers advisable.
       (d) Sufficient Staff. The chairman shall ensure that sufficient 
staff is made available to each subcommittee to carry out its 
responsibilities under the rules of the Committee.
       (e) Fair Treatment of Minority Members in Appointment of 
Committee Staff.ï¿½ The chairman shall ensure that the minority members of 
the Committee are treated fairly in appointment of Committee staff.
       (f) Contracts for Temporary or Intermittent Services. Any 
contract for the temporary services or intermittent service of 
individual consultants or organizations to make studies or advise the 
Committee or its subcommittees with respect to any matter within their 
jurisdiction shall be deemed to have been approved by a majority of the 
members of the Committee if approved by the chairman and ranking 
minority member of the Committee.ï¿½ Such approval shall not be deemed to 
have been given if at least one-third of the members of the Committee 
request in writing that the Committee formally act on such a contract, 
if the request is made within 10 days after the latest date on which 
such chairman or chairmen, and such ranking minority member or members, 
approve such contract.

                      RULE 13.__SUPERVISION, DUTIES OF STAFF

       
       (a) Supervision of Majority Staff. The professional and clerical 
staff of the Committee not assigned to the minority shall be under the 
supervision and direction of the chairman who, in consultation with the 
chairmen of the subcommittees, shall establish and assign the duties 
and responsibilities of such staff members and delegate such authority 
as he determines appropriate.
       (b) Supervision of Minority Staff.ï¿½ The professional and clerical 
staff assigned to the minority shall be under the supervision and 
direction of the minority members of the Committee, who may delegate 
such authority as they determine appropriate.

                             RULE 14.__COMMITTEE BUDGET


       (a) Preparation of Committee Budget. The chairman of the 
Committee, after consultation with the ranking minority member of the 
Committee and the chairmen of the subcommittees, shall for the 110th 
Congress prepare a preliminary budget for the Committee, with such 
budget including necessary amounts for professional and clerical staff, 
travel, investigations, equipment and miscellaneous expenses of the 
Committee and the subcommittees, and which shall be adequate to fully 
discharge the Committee's responsibilities for legislation and 
oversight. Such budget shall be presented by the chairman to the 
majority party caucus of the Committee and thereafter to the full 
Committee for its approval.
       (b) Approval of the Committee Budget. The chairman shall take 
whatever action is necessary to have the budget as finally approved by 
the Committee duly authorized by the House. To proposed Committee 
budget may be submitted to the Committee on House Administration unless 
it has been presented to and approved by the majority party caucus and 
thereafter by the full Committee. The chairman of the Committee may 
authorize all necessary expenses in accordance with these rules and 
within the limits of the Committee's budget as approved by the House.
       (c) Monthly Expenditures Report. Committee members shall be 
furnished a copy of each monthly report, prepared by the chairman for 
the Committee on House Administration, which shows expenditures made 
during the reporting period and cumulative for the year by the 
Committee and subcommittees, anticipated expenditures for the projected 
Committee program, and detailed information on travel.

                    RULE 15.__BROADCASTING OF COMMITTEE HEARINGS
 

       Any meeting or hearing that is open to the public may be covered 
in whole or in part by radio or television or still photography, 
subject to the requirements of clause 4 of Rule XI of the Rules of the 
House. The coverage of any hearing or other proceeding of the Committee 
or any subcommittee thereof by television, radio, or still photography 
shall be under the direct supervision of the chairman of the Committee, 
the subcommittee chairman, or other member of the Committee presiding 
at such hearing or other proceeding and may be terminated by such 
member in accordance with the Rules of the House.

                            RULE 16.__SUBPOENAS
       

       The chairman of the Committee may, after consultation with the 
ranking minority member, authorize and issue a subpoena under clause 
2(m)(2)(A) of Rule XI of the House.ï¿½ If the ranking minority member 
objects to the proposed subpoena in writing, the matter shall be 
referred to the Committee for resolution. The chairman of the Committee 
may authorize and issue subpoenas without referring the matter to the 
Committee for resolution during any period for which the House has 
adjourned for a period in excess of 3 days when, in the opinion of the 
chairman, authorization and issuance of the subpoena is necessary. The 
chairman shall report to the members of the Committee on the 
authorization and issuance of a subpoena during the recess period as 
soon as practicable but in no event later than one week after service 
of such subpoena.

                     RULE 17.__TRAVEL OF MEMBERS AND STAFF
 

       (a) Approval of Travel. Consistent with the primary expense 
resolution and such additional expense resolutions as may have been 
approved, travel to be reimbursed from funds set aside for the 
Committee for any member or any staff member shall be paid only upon 
the prior authorization of the chairman.ï¿½ Travel may be authorized by the 
chairman for any member and any staff member in connection with the 
attendance of hearings conducted by the Committee or any subcommittee 
thereof and meetings, conferences, and investigations which involve 
activities or subject matter under the general jurisdiction of the 
Committee. Therefore such authorization is given there shall be 
submitted to the chairman in writing the following: (1) the purpose of 
the travel; (2) the dates during which the travel is to be made and the 
date or dates of the event for which the travel is being made; (3) the 
location of the event for which the travel is to be made; and (4) the 
names of members and staff seeking authorization. 
       (b) Approval of Travel by Minority Members and Staff. In the 
case of travel by minority party members and minority party 
professional staff for the purpose set out in (a), the prior approval, 
not only of the chairman but also of the ranking minority member, 
shall be required.ï¿½ Such prior authorization shall be given by the 
chairman only upon the representation by the ranking minority member in 
writing setting forth those items enumerated in (1), (2), (3), and (4) 
of paragraph (a).

                              RULE 18
 

       The chairman shall maintain an official Committee website for 
the purposes 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 an official website for 
the purpose of carrying out official responsibilities, including 
communicating information about the activities of the minority members 
of the Committee to Committee members and other members of the House.

                              RULE 19
 

       The chairman of the Committee is directed to offer a motion 
under clause 1 of Rule XXII of the Rules of the House whenever the 
chairman considers it appropriate.

                      Committee on Financial Services 

                  BARNEY FRANK, Massachusetts, Chairman 
PAUL E. KANJORKSI, Pennsylvania     SPENCER BACHUS, Alabama, 
MAXINE WATERS, California	      Ranking Member 
CAROLYN B. MALONEY, New York        MICHAEL N. CASTLE, Delaware 
LUIS V. GUTIERREZ, Illinois	    PETER T. KING, New York 
NYDIA M. VELAZQUEZ,       EDWARD R. ROYCE, California 
  New York                          FRANK D. LUCAS, Oklahoma 
MELVIN L. WATT, North Carolina      RON PAUL, Texas 
GARY L. ACKERMAN, New York          DONALD A. MANZULLO, Illinois 
BRAD SHERMAN, California            WALTER B. JONES, North Carolina 
GREGORY W. MEEKS, New York          JUDY BIGGERT, Illinois 
DENNIS MOORE, Kansas	            GARY G. MILLER, California 
MICHAEL E. CAPUANO,                 SHELLEY MOORE CAPITO, West Virginia 
  Massachusetts                     JEB HENSARLING, Texas 
RUBEN HINOJOSA, Texas	    SCOTT GARRETT, New Jersey 
WM. LACY CLAY, Missouri	            J. GRESHAM BARRETT, South Carolina 
CAROLYN MCCARTHY, New York          JIM GERLACH, Pennsylvania 
JOE BACA, California	            RANDY NEUGEBAUER, Texas 
STEPHEN F. LYNCH, Massachusetts     TOM PRICE, Georgia 
BRAD MILLER, North Carolina	    PATRICK T. MCHENRY, North Carolina 
DAVID SCOTT, Georgia	            JOHN CAMPBELL, California                         
AL GREEN, Texas		            ADAM H. PUTNAM, Florida                                         
EMANUEL CLEAVER, Missouri	    MICHELE BACHMANN, Minnesota                                                            
MELISSA L. BEAN, Illinois	    KENNY MARCHANT, Texas 
GWEN MOORE, Wisconsin	            THADDEUS G. MCCOTTER, 
PAUL W. HODES, New Hampshire           Michigan 
KEITH ELLISON, Minnesota            KEVIN MCCARTHY, California 
RON KLEIN, Florida                  BILL POSEY, Florida 
CHARLES A. WILSON, Ohio             LYNN JENKINS, Kansas 
ED PERLMUTTER, Colorado             CHRISTOPHER JOHN LEE, New York 
JOE DONNELLY, Indiana               ERIK PAULSEN, Minnesota 
BILL FOSTER, Illinois               LEONARD LANCE, New Jersey 
ANDRE CARSON, Indiana 
JACKIE SPEIER, California 
TRAVIS W. CHILDERS, Mississippi 
WALT MINNICK, Idaho 
JOHN H. ADLER, New Jersey 
MARY JO KILROY, Ohio 
STEVE DRIEHAUS, Ohio 
SUZANNE M. KOSMAS, Florida 
ALAN GRAYSON, Florida 
JAMES A. HIMES, Connecticut 
GARY C. PETERS, Michigan 
DANIEL B. MAFFEI, New York 

                          (Adopted January 27, 2009) 

                         RULE 1.__GENERAL PROVISIONS 

       (a) The rules of the House are the rules of the Committee on 
Financial Services (hereinafter in these rules referred to as the 
``Committee'') 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, are privileged motions in the Committee and shall be 
considered without debate. A proposed investigative or oversight report 
shall be considered as read if it has been available to the members of 
the Committee for at least 24 hours (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, or 
legal holidays except when the House is in session on such day). 
       (b) Each subcommittee is a part of the Committee, and is subject 
to the authority and direction of the Committee and to its rules so far 
as applicable. 
       (c) The provisions of clause 2 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.__MEETINGS 

                              Calling of Meetings 

       (a)(1) The Committee shall regularly meet on the first Tuesday 
of each month when the House is in session. 
       (2) A regular meeting of the Committee may be dispensed with if, 
in the judgment of the Chairman of the Committee (hereinafter in these 
rules referred to as the ``Chair'', there is no need for the meeting. 
       (3) Additional regular meetings and hearings of the Committee 
may be called by the Chair, in accordance with clause 2(g)(3) of rule 
XI of the rules of the House. 
       (4) Special meetings shall be called and convened by the Chair 
as provided in clause 2(c)(2) of rule XI of the Rules of the House. 
       
                               Notice for Meetings 

       (b)(1) The Chair shall notify each member of the Committee of 
the agenda of each regular meeting of the Committee at least two 
calendar days before the time of the meeting. 
       (2) The Chair shall provide to each member of the Committee, at 
least two calendar days before the time of each regular meeting for 
each measure or matter on the agenda a copy of__
       (A) the measure or materials relating to the matter in question; 
and 
       (B) an explanation of the measure or matter to be considered, 
which, in the case of an explanation of a bill, resolution, or similar 
measure, shall include a summary of the major provisions of the 
legislation, an explanation of the relationship of the measure to 
present law, and a summary of the need for the legislation. 
       (3) The agenda and materials required under this subsection 
shall be provided to each member of the Committee at least three 
calendar days before the time of the meeting where the measure or 
matter to be considered was not approved for full Committee 
consideration by a subcommittee of jurisdiction. 
       (4) The provisions of this subsection may be waived by a 
two-thirds vote of the Committee, or by the Chair with the concurrence 
of the ranking minority member. 

                      RULE 3.__MEETING AND HEARING PROCEDURES 

                                     In General 

       (a)(1) Meetings and hearings of the Committee shall be called to 
order and presided over by the Chair or, in the Chair's absence, by the 
member designated by the Chair as the Vice Chair of the Committee, or 
by the ranking majority member of the Committee present as Acting 
Chair. 
       (2) Meetings and hearings of the committee shall be open to the 
public unless closed in accordance with clause 2(g) of rule XI of the 
Rules of the House. 
       (3) Any meeting or hearing of the Committee that is open to the 
public shall be open to coverage by television broadcast, radio 
broadcast, and still photography in accordance with the provisions of 
clause 4 of rule XI of the Rules of the House (which are incorporated 
by reference as part of these rules). Operation and use of any 
Committee operated broadcast system shall be fair and nonpartisan and 
in accordance with clause 4(b) of rule XI and all other applicable 
rules of the Committee and the House. 
       (4) Opening statements by members at the beginning of any 
hearing or meeting of the Committee shall be limited to 5 minutes each 
for the Chair or ranking minority member, or their respective designee, 
and 3 minutes each for all other members. 
       (5) No person, other than a Member of Congress, Committee staff, 
or an employee of a Member when that Member has an amendment under 
consideration, may stand in or be seated at the rostrum area of the 
Committee rooms unless the Chair determines otherwise. 
       
                               Quorum 

       (b)(1) For the purpose of taking testimony and receiving 
evidence, two members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum. 
       (2) A majority of the members of the Committee shall constitute 
a quorum for the purposes of reporting any measure or matter, of 
authorizing a subpoena, of closing a meeting or hearing pursuant to 
clause 2(g) of rule XI of the rules of the House (except as provided in 
clause 2(g)(2)(A) and (B)) or of releasing executive session material 
pursuant to clause 2(k)(7) of rule XI of the rules of the House. 
       (3) For the purpose of taking any action other than those 
specified in paragraph (2) one-third of the members of the Committee 
shall constitute a quorum. 
       
                               Voting 
       
       (c)(1) No vote may be conducted on any measure or matter pending 
before the Committee unless the requisite number of members of the 
Committee is actually present for such purpose. 
       (2) A record vote of the Committee shall be provided on any 
question before the Committee upon the request of one-fifth of the 
members present. 
       (3) No vote by any member of the Committee on any measure or 
matter may be cast by proxy. 
       (4) In addition to any other requirement of these rules or the 
Rules of the House, the Chair shall make the record of the votes on any 
question on which a record vote is demanded available on the 
Committee's Web site not later than 2 business days after such vote is 
taken. Such record 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. 
       (5) In accordance with clause 2(e)(1)(B) of rule XI, a record of 
the vote of each member of the Committee on each record vote on any 
measure or matter before the Committee shall be available for public  
inspection at the offices of the Committee, and, with respect to any 
record vote on any motion to report or on any amendment, shall be 
included in the report of the Committee showing the total number of 
votes cast for and against and the names of those members voting for 
and against. 
       (6) POSTPONED RECORD VOTES._(A) Subject to subparagraph (B), 
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, but no later than the next meeting day. 
       (B) In exercising postponement authority under subparagraph (A), 
the Chairman shall take all reasonable steps necessary to notify 
members on the resumption of proceedings on any postponed record vote. 
       (C) 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. 
       
                           Hearing Procedures 

       (d)(1)(A) The Chair shall make public announcement of the date, 
place, and subject matter of any committee hearing at least one week 
before the commencement of the hearing, unless the Chair, with the 
concurrence of the ranking minority member, or the Committee by 
majority vote with a quorum present for the transaction of business, 
determines there is good cause to begin the hearing sooner, in which 
case the Chair shall make the announcement at the earliest possible 
date. 
       (B) Not less than three days before the commencement of a 
hearing announced under this paragraph, the Chair shall provide to the 
members of the Committee a concise summary of the subject of the 
hearing, or, in the case of a hearing on a measure or matter, a copy of 
the measure or materials relating to the matter in question and a 
concise explanation of the measure or matter to be considered. At the 
same time the Chair provides the information required by the preceding 
sentence, the Chair shall also provide to the members of the Committee 
a final list consisting of the names of each witness who is to appear 
before the Committee at that hearing. The witness list may not be 
modified within 24 hours of a hearing, unless the Chair, with the 
concurrence of the ranking minority member, determines there is good 
cause for such modification. 
       (2) To the greatest extent practicable__ 
       (A) each witness who is to appear before the Committee shall 
file with the Committee two business days in advance of the appearance 
sufficient copies (including a copy in electronic form), as determined 
by the Chair, of a written statement of proposed testimony and shall 
limit the oral presentation to the Committee to brief summary thereof; 
and 
       (B) each witness appearing in a non-governmental capacity shall 
include with the written statement of proposed testimony a curriculum 
vitae and a disclosure of the amount and source (by agency and program) 
of any Federal grant (or subgrant thereof) or contract (or subcontract 
thereof) received during the current fiscal year or either of the two 
preceding fiscal years. 
       (3) The requirements of paragraph (2)(A) may be modified or 
waived by the Chair when the Chair determines it to be in the best 
interest of the Committee. 
       (4) The five-minute rule shall be observed in the interrogation 
of witnesses before the Committee until each member of the Committee 
has had an opportunity to question the witnesses. No member shall be 
recognized for a second period of 5 minutes to interrogate witnesses 
until each member of the Committee present has been recognized once for 
that purpose. 
       (5) Whenever any hearing is conducted by the Committee on any 
measure or matter, the minority party members of the Committee shall be 
entitled, upon the request of a majority of them before the completion 
of the hearing, to call witnesses with respect to that measure or 
matter during at least one day of hearing thereon. 
       
                              Subpoenas and Oaths 

       (e)(1) Pursuant to clause 2(m) of rule XI of the Rules of the 
House, a subpoena may be authorized and issued by the Committee or a 
subcommittee in the conduct of any investigation or series of 
investigations or activities, only when authorized by a majority of the 
members voting, a majority being present, or pursuant to paragraph (2). 
       (2) The Chair, with the concurrence of the ranking minority 
member, may authorize and issue subpoenas under such clause during any 
period for which the House has adjourned for a period in excess of 3 
days when, in the opinion of the Chair, authorization and issuance of 
the subpoena is necessary to obtain the material or testimony set forth 
in the subpoena. The Chair shall report to the members of the Committee 
on the authorization and issuance of a subpoena during the recess 
period as soon as practicable, but in no event later than one week 
after service of such subpoena. 
       (3) Authorized subpoenas shall be signed by the Chair or by any 
member designated by the Committee, and may be served by any person 
designated by the Chair or such member. 
       (4) The Chair, or any member of the Committee designated by the 
Chair, may administer oaths to witnesses before the Committee. 
       
                              Special Procedures 

       (f)(1)(A) COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS AND COINS._It shall not be in 
order for the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology 
to hold a hearing on any commemorative medal or commemorative coin 
legislation unless the legislation is cosponsored by at least 
two-thirds of the members of the House. 
       (B) It shall not be in order for the subcommittee to approve a 
bill or measure authorizing commemorative coins for consideration by 
the full Committee which does not conform with the mintage restrictions 
established by section 5112 of title 31, United States Code. 
       (C) In considering legislation authorizing Congressional gold 
medals, the subcommittee shall apply the following standards__ 
       (i) the recipient shall be a natural person; 
       (ii) the recipient shall have performed an achievement that has 
an impact on American history and culture that is likely to be 
recognized as a major achievement in the recipient's field long after 
the achievement; 
       (iii) the recipient shall not have received a medal previously 
for the same or substantially the same achievement; 
       (iv) the recipient shall be living or, if deceased, shall have 
been deceased for not less than 5 years and not more than 25 years; 
       (v) the achievements were performed in the recipient's field of 
endeavor, and represent either a lifetime of continuous superior 
achievements or a single achievement so significant that the recipient 
is recognized and acclaimed by others in the same field, as evidenced 
by the recipient having received the highest honors in the field. 
       (2) TESTIMONY OF CERTAIN OFFICIALS.__ 
       (A) Notwithstanding subsection (a)(4), when the Chair announces 
a hearing of the Committee for the purpose of receiving__ 
       (i) testimony from the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board 
pursuant to section 2B of the Federal Reserve Act (12 U.S.C. 221 et 
seq.), or 
       (ii) testimony from the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board or 
a member of the President's cabinet at the invitation of the Chair, the 
Chair may, in consultation with the ranking minority member, limit the 
number and duration of opening statements to be delivered at such 
hearing. The limitation shall be included in the announcement made 
pursuant to subsection (d)(1)(A), and shall provide that the opening 
statements of all members of the Committee shall be made a part of the 
hearing record. 
       (B) Notwithstanding subsection (a)(4), at any hearing of the 
Committee for the purpose of receiving testimony (other than testimony 
described in clause (i) or (ii) of subparagraph (A)), the Chair may, 
after consultation with the ranking minority member, limit the duration 
of opening statements to ten minutes, to be divided between the Chair 
and Chair of the pertinent subcommittee, or the Chair's designees, and 
ten minutes, to be controlled by the ranking minority member, or the 
ranking minority member's designees. Following such time, the duration 
for opening statements may be extended by agreement between the 
Chairman and ranking minority member, to be divided at the discretion 
of the Chair or ranking minority member. The Chair shall provide that 
the opening statements for all members of the Committee shall be made a 
part of the hearing record. 
       (C) At any hearing of a subcommittee, the Chair of the 
subcommittee may, in consultation with the ranking minority member of 
the subcommittee, limit the duration of opening statements to ten 
minutes, to be divided between the majority and minority. Following 
such time, the duration for opening statements may be extended by 
either the Chair of the subcommittee or ranking minority member of the 
subcommittee for an additional ten minutes each, to be divided at the 
discretion of the Chair of the subcommittee or ranking minority member 
of the subcommittee. The Chair of the subcommittee shall ensure that 
opening statements for all members be made part of the hearing record. 
       (D) If the Chair and ranking minority member acting jointly 
determine that extraordinary circumstances exist necessitating allowing 
members to make opening statements, subparagraphs (B) or (C), as the 
case may be, shall not apply to such hearing. 

             RULE 4.__PROCEDURES FOR REPORTING MEASURES OR MATTERS 

       (a) No measure or matter shall be reported from the Committee 
unless a majority of the Committee is actually present. 
       (b) The Chair of the Committee shall report or cause to be 
reported promptly to the House any measure approved by the Committee 
and take necessary steps to bring a matter to a vote. 
       (c) The report of the Committee on a measure which 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 there has been filed with the clerk of the Committee a written 
request, signed by a majority of the members of the Committee, for the 
reporting of that measure pursuant to the provisions of clause 2(b)(2) 
of rule XIII of the Rules of the House. 
       (d) All reports printed by the Committee pursuant to a 
legislative study or investigation and not approved by a majority vote 
of the Committee shall contain the following disclaimer on the cover of 
such report: ``This report has not been officially adopted by the 
Committee on Financial Services and may not necessarily reflect the 
views of its Members.'' 
       (e) The Chair is directed to offer a motion under clause 1 of 
rule XXII of the Rules of the House whenever the Chair considers it 
appropriate.                          RULE 5.__SUBCOMMITTEES 

              Establishment and Responsibilities of Subcommittees 

       (a)(1) There shall be 6 subcommittees of the Committee as 
follows: 
       (A) SUBCOMMITTEE ON CAPITAL MARKETS, INSURANCE, AND GOVERNMENT 
SPONSORED ENTERPRISES._The jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Capital 
Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises includes__ 
       (i) securities, exchanges, and finance; 
       (ii) capital markets activities, including business capital 
formation and venture capital; 
       (iii) activities involving futures, forwards, options, and other 
types of derivative instruments; 
       (iv) the Securities and Exchange Commission; 
       (v) secondary market organizations for home mortgages, including 
the Federal National Mortgage Association, the Federal Home Loan 
Mortgage Corporation, and the Federal Agricultural Mortgage 
Corporation; 
       (vi) the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight; 
       (vii) the Federal Home Loan Banks; 
       (viii) the Federal Housing Finance Board; 
       (ix) terrorism risk insurance; and 
       (x) insurance generally. 
       (B) SUBCOMMITTEE ON DOMESTIC MONETARY POLICY AND TECHNOLOGY._The 
jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and 
Technology includes__ 
       (i) financial aid to all sectors and elements within the 
economy; 
       (ii) economic growth and stabilization; 
       (iii) defense production matters as contained in the Defense 
Production Act of 1950, as amended; 
       (iv) domestic monetary policy, and agencies which directly or 
indirectly affect domestic monetary policy, including the effect of 
such policy and other financial actions on interest rates, the 
allocation of credit, and the structure and functioning of domestic 
financial institutions; 
       (v) coins, coinage, currency, and medals, including 
commemorative coins and medals, proof and mint sets and other special 
coins, the Coinage Act of 1965, gold and silver, including the coinage 
thereof (but not the par value of gold), gold medals, counterfeiting, 
currency denominations and design, the distribution of coins, and the 
operations of the Bureau of the Mint and the Bureau of Engraving and 
Printing; and 
       (vi) development of new or alternative forms of currency. 
       (C) SUBCOMMITTEE ON FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND CONSUMER 
CREDIT._The jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions 
and Consumer Credit includes__ 
       (i) all agencies, including the Office of the Comptroller of the 
Currency, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Board of 
Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Reserve System, 
the Office of Thrift Supervision, and the National Credit Union 
Administration, which directly or indirectly exercise supervisory or 
regulatory authority in connection with, or provide deposit insurance 
for, financial institutions, and the establishment of interest rate 
ceilings on deposits; 
       (ii) the chartering, branching, merger, acquisition, 
consolidation, or conversion of financial institutions; 
       (iii) consumer credit, including the provision of consumer 
credit by insurance companies, and further including those matters in 
the Consumer Credit Protection Act dealing with truth in lending, 
extortionate credit transactions, restrictions on garnishments, fair 
credit reporting and the use of credit information by credit bureaus 
and credit providers, equal credit opportunity, debt collection 
practices, and electronic funds transfers; 
       (iv) creditor remedies and debtor defenses, Federal aspects of 
the Uniform Consumer Credit Code, credit and debit cards, and the 
preemption of State usury laws; 
       (v) consumer access to financial services, including the Home 
Mortgage Disclosure Act and the Community Reinvestment Act; 
       (vi) the terms and rules of disclosure of financial services, 
including the advertisement, promotion and pricing of financial 
services, and availability of government check cashing services; 
       (vii) deposit insurance; and 
       (viii) consumer access to savings accounts and checking accounts 
in financial institutions, including lifeline banking and other 
consumer accounts. 
       (D) SUBCOMMITTEE ON HOUSING AND COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITY._The 
jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity 
includes__ 
       (i) housing (except programs administered by the Department of 
Veterans Affairs), including mortgage and loan insurance pursuant to 
the National Housing Act; rural housing; housing and homeless 
assistance programs; all activities of the Government National Mortgage 
Association; private mortgage insurance; housing construction and 
design and safety standards; housing-related energy conservation; 
housing research and demonstration programs; financial and technical 
assistance for nonprofit housing sponsors; housing counseling and 
technical assistance; regulation of the housing industry (including 
landlord/tenant relations); and real estate lending including 
regulation of settlement procedures; 
       (ii) community development and community and neighborhood 
planning, training and research; national urban growth policies; 
urban/rural research and technologies; and regulation of interstate 
land sales; 
       (iii) government sponsored insurance programs, including those 
offering protection against crime, fire, flood (and related land use 
controls), earthquake and other natural hazards, but not including 
terrorism risk insurance; and 
       (iv) the qualifications for and designation of Empowerment Zones 
and Enterprise Communities (other than matters relating to tax 
benefits). 
       (E) SUBCOMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL MONETARY POLICY AND TRADE._The 
jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on International Monetary Policy and 
Trade includes__ 
       (i) multilateral development lending institutions, including 
activities of the National Advisory Council on International Monetary 
and Financial Policies as related thereto, and monetary and financial 
developments as they relate to the activities and objectives of such 
institutions; 
       (ii) international trade, including but not limited to the 
activities of the Export-Import Bank; 
       (iii) the International Monetary Fund, its permanent and 
temporary agencies, and all matters related thereto; and 
       (iv) international investment policies, both as they relate to 
United States investments for trade purposes by citizens of the United 
States and investments made by all foreign entities in the United 
States. 
       (F) SUBCOMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND INVESTIGATIONS._The 
jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations 
includes__ 
       (i) the oversight of all agencies, departments, programs, and 
matters within the jurisdiction of the Committee, including the 
development of recommendations with regard to the necessity or 
desirability of enacting, changing, or repealing any legislation within 
the jurisdiction of the Committee, and for conducting investigations 
within such jurisdiction; and 
       (ii) research and analysis regarding matters within the 
jurisdiction of the Committee, including the impact or probable impact 
of tax policies affecting matters within the jurisdiction of the 
Committee.  
       (2) In addition, each such subcommittee shall have specific 
responsibility for such other measures or matters as the Chair refers 
to it. 
       (3) Each subcommittee of the Committee shall review and study, 
on a continuing basis, the application, administration, execution, and 
effectiveness of those laws, or parts of laws, the subject matter of 
which is within its general responsibility. 
       
            Referral of Measures and Matters to Subcommittees 

       (b)(1) The Chair shall regularly refer to one or more 
subcommittees such measures and matters as the Chair deems appropriate 
given its jurisdiction and responsibilities. In making such a referral, 
the Chair may designate a subcommittee of primary jurisdiction and 
subcommittees of additional or sequential jurisdiction. 
       (2) All other measures or matters shall be subject to 
consideration by the full Committee. 
       (3) In referring any measure or matter to a subcommittee, the 
Chair may specify a date by which the subcommittee shall report thereon 
to the Committee. 
       (4) The Committee by motion may discharge a subcommittee from 
consideration of any measure or matter referred to a subcommittee of 
the Committee. 
       
                      Composition of Subcommittees 

       (c)(1) Members shall be elected to each subcommittee and to the 
positions of chair and ranking minority member thereof, in accordance 
with the rules of the respective party caucuses. The Chair of the 
Committee shall designate a member of the majority party on each 
subcommittee as its vice chair. 
       (2) The Chair and ranking minority member of the Committee shall 
be ex officio members with voting privileges of each subcommittee of 
which they are not assigned as members and may be counted for purposes 
of establishing a quorum in such subcommittees. 
       (3) The subcommittees shall be comprised as follows: 
       (A) The Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and 
Government Sponsored Enterprises shall be comprised of 50 members, 30 
elected by the majority caucus and 20 elected by the minority caucus. 
       (B) The Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology 
shall be comprised of 17 members, 10 elected by the majority caucus and 
7 elected by the minority caucus. 
       (C) The Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer 
Credit shall be comprised of 45 members, 27 elected by the majority 
caucus and 18 elected by the minority caucus. 
       (D) The Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity shall 
be comprised of 25 members, 15 elected by the majority caucus and 10 
elected by the minority caucus. 
       (E) The Subcommittee on International Monetary Policy and Trade 
shall be comprised of 15 members, 9 elected by the majority caucus and 
6 elected by the minority caucus. 
       (F) The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations shall be 
comprised of 15 members, 9 elected by the majority caucus and 6 elected 
by the minority caucus. 
       
                       Subcommittee Meetings and Hearings 

       (d)(1) Each subcommittee of the Committee is authorized to meet, 
hold hearings, receive testimony, mark up legislation, and report to 
the full Committee on any measure or matter referred to it, consistent 
with subsection (a). 
       (2) No subcommittee of the Committee may meet or hold a hearing 
at the same time as a meeting or hearing of the Committee. 
       (3) The chair of each subcommittee shall set hearing and meeting 
dates only with the approval of the Chair with a view toward assuring 
the availability of meeting rooms and avoiding simultaneous scheduling 
of Committee and subcommittee meetings or hearings. 
       
                             Effect of a Vacancy 

       (e) Any vacancy in the membership of a subcommittee shall not 
affect the power of the remaining members to execute the functions of 
the subcommittee as long as the required quorum is present. 
       
                                  Records 

       (f) Each subcommittee of the Committee shall provide the full 
Committee with copies of such records of votes taken in the sub- 
committee and such other records with respect to the subcommittee as 
the Chair deems necessary for the Committee to comply with all rules 
and regulations of the House. 

                            RULE 6._STAFF 
                        
                             In General 

       (a)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the professional and 
other staff of the Committee shall be appointed, and may be removed by 
the Chair, and shall work under the general supervision and direction 
of the Chair. 
       (2) All professional and other staff provided to the minority 
party members of the Committee shall be appointed, and may be removed, 
by the ranking minority member of the Committee, and shall work under 
the general supervision and direction of such member. 
       (3) It is intended that the skills and experience of all members 
of the Committee staff be available to all members of the Committee. 
       
                         Subcommittee Staff 

       (b) From funds made available for the appointment of staff, the 
Chair of the Committee shall, pursuant to clause 6(d) of rule X of the 
Rules of the House, ensure that sufficient staff is made available so 
that each subcommittee can carry out its responsibilities under the 
rules of the Committee and that the minority party is treated fairly in 
the appointment of such staff. 
       
                         Compensation of Staff 

       (c)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the Chair shall fix 
the compensation of all professional and other staff of the Committee. 
       (2) The ranking minority member shall fix the compensation of 
all professional and other staff provided to the minority party members 
of the Committee. 

                         RULE 7._BUDGET AND TRAVEL 

                                     Budget 

       (a)(1) The Chair, in consultation with other members of the 
Committee, shall prepare for each Congress a budget providing amounts 
for staff, necessary travel, investigation, and other expenses of the 
Committee and its subcommittees. 
       (2) From the amount provided to the Committee in the primary 
expense resolution adopted by the House of Representatives, the Chair, 
after consultation with the ranking minority member, shall designate an 
amount to be under the direction of the ranking minority member for the 
compensation of the minority staff, travel expenses of minority members 
and staff, and minority office expenses. All expenses of minority 
members and staff shall be paid for out of the amount so set aside. 
       
                                     Travel 

       (b)(1) The Chair may authorize travel for any member and any 
staff member of the Committee in connection with activities or subject 
matters under the general jurisdiction of the Committee. Before such 
authorization is granted, there shall be submitted to the Chair in 
writing the following: 
       (A) The purpose of the travel. 
       (B) The dates during which the travel is to occur. 
       (C) The names of the States or countries to be visited and the 
length of time to be spent in each. 
       (D) The names of members and staff of the Committee for whom the 
authorization is sought. 
       (2) Members and staff of the Committee shall make a written 
report to the Chair on any travel they have conducted under this 
subsection, including a description of their itinerary, expenses, and 
activities, and of pertinent information gained as a result of such 
travel. 
       (3) Members and staff of the Committee performing authorized 
travel on official business shall be governed by applicable laws, 
resolutions, and regulations of the House and of the Committee on House 
Administration. 

                      RULE 8._COMMITTEE ADMINISTRATION 
                      
                                   Records 

       (a)(1) There shall be a transcript made of each regular meeting 
and hearing of the Committee, and the transcript may be printed if the 
Chair decides it is appropriate or if a majority of the members of the 
Committee requests such printing. Any such transcripts shall be 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. Nothing in 
this paragraph shall be construed to require that all such transcripts 
be subject to correction and publication. 
       (2) The Committee shall keep a record of all actions of the 
Committee and of its subcommittees. The record shall contain all 
information required by clause 2(e)(1) of rule XI of the Rules of the 
House and shall be available for public inspection at reasonable times 
in the offices of the Committee. 
       (3) All Committee hearings, records, data, charts, and files 
shall be kept separate and distinct from the congressional office 
records of the Chair, shall be the property of the House, and all 
Members of the House shall have access thereto as provided in clause 
2(e)(2) of rule XI of the Rules of the House. 
       (4) 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 Chair shall notify the ranking minority member of any decision, 
pursuant to clause 3(b)(3) or clause 4(b) of the rule, to withhold a 
record otherwise available, and the matter shall be presented to the 
Committee for a determination on written request of any member of the 
Committee. 
       Committee Publications on the Internet 
       (b) To the maximum extent feasible, the Committee shall make 
its publications available in electronic form. 
       
                      Committee on Foreign Affairs 

                       HOWARD L. BERMAN, California, Chairman 

GARY L. ACKERMAN, New York Vice      ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN, Florida, 
  Chair                                Ranking Member 
ENI F.H. FALEOMAVAEGA, American      CHRISTOPHER H. SMITH, New Jersey 
  Samoa                              DAN BURTON, Indiana 
DONALD M. PAYNE, New Jersey          ELTON GALLEGLY, California 
BRAD SHERMAN, California             DANA ROHRABACHER, California 
ROBERT WEXLER, Florida               DONALD A. MANZULLO, Illinois 
ELIOT L. ENGEL, New York             EDWARD R. ROYCE, California 
BILL DELAHUNT, Massachusetts         RON PAUL, Texas 
GREGORY W. MEEKS, New York           JEFF FLAKE, Arizona 
DIANE E. WATSON, California          MIKE PENCE, Indiana 
RUSS CARNAHAN, Missouri              JOE WILSON, South Carolina 
ALBIO SIRES, New Jersey              JOHN BOOZMAN, Arkansas 
GERALD E. CONNOLLY, Virginia         J. GRESHAM BARRETT, South Carolina 
MICHAEL E. MCMAHON, New York         CONNIE MACK, Florida 
JOHN S. TANNER, Tennessee            JEFF FORTENBERRY, Nebraska 
GENE GREEN, Texas                    MICHAEL T. MCCAUL, Texas 
LYNN C. WOOLSEY, California*         TED POE, Texas 
SHEILA JACKSON LEE, Texas            BOB INGLIS, South Carolina 
BARBARA LEE, California              GUS M. BILIRAKIS, Florida 
SHELLEY BERKLEY, Nevada 
JOSEPH CROWLEY, New York 
MIKE ROSS, Arkansas 
BRAD MILLER, North Carolina 
DAVID SCOTT, Georgia 
JIM COSTA, California 
KEITH ELLISON, Minnesota 
GABRIELLE GIFFORDS, Arizona 
RON KLEIN, Florida 

*Appointed to the Foreign Affairs Committee on March 12, 2009 filling a 
vacancy created by the resignation of Rep. Adam Smith on February 10, 
2009.

                           (Adopted January 28, 2009) 

                           RULE 1._GENERAL PROVISIONS       The Rules of the House of Representatives, and in particular, the 
committee rules enumerated in clause 2 of rule XI, are the rules of the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs (hereafter referred to as the 
``Committee''), to the extent applicable. A motion to recess and a 
motion to dispense with the first reading (in full) of a bill or 
resolution, if printed copies are available, are privileged 
non-debatable motions in Committee. The Chairman of the Committee on 
Foreign Affairs (hereinafter referred to as the ``Chairman'') shall 
consult the Ranking Minority Member to the extent possible with respect 
to the business of the Committee. Each subcommittee of the Committee is 
a part of the Committee and is subject to the authority and direction 
of the Committee and to its rules, to the extent applicable.

                             RULE 2._DATE OF MEETING 
  
     The regular meeting date of the Committee shall be the first 
Tuesday of every month when the House of Representatives is in session 
pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule XI of the House of Representatives. 
Additional meetings may be called by the Chairman as he may deem 
necessary or at the request of a majority of the Members of the 
Committee in accordance with clause 2(c) of rule XI of the House of 
Representatives. The determination of the business to be considered at 
each meeting shall be made by the Chairman subject to clause 2(c) of 
rule XI of the House of Representatives. A regularly scheduled meeting 
need not be held if, in the judgment of the Chairman, there is no 
business to be considered.

                                RULE 3._QUORUM 

       For purposes of taking testimony and receiving evidence, two 
Members shall constitute a quorum, and the Chairman of the Full 
Committee or subcommittee shall make every effort to ensure that the 
relevant Ranking Minority Member or another Minority Member is present 
at the time a hearing is convened. One-third of the Members of the 
Committee shall constitute quorum for taking any action, except: (1) 
reporting a measure or recommendation; (2) closing Committee meetings 
and hearings to the public; (3) authorizing the issuance of subpoenas; 
and (4) any other action for which an actual majority quorum is 
required by any rule of the House of Representatives or by law. No 
measure or recommendation shall be reported to the House of 
Representatives unless a majority of the Committee is actually present. 
A record vote may be demanded by one-fifth of the Members present or, 
in the apparent absence of a quorum, by any one Member.

               RULE 4._MEETINGS AND HEARINGS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC 

       (a) Meetings 
       (1) Each meeting for the transaction of business, including the 
markup of legislation, of the Committee or a subcommittee shall be open 
to the public 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 closed to 
the public, because disclosure of matters to be considered would 
endanger national security, would compromise sensitive law enforcement 
information, or would tend to defame, degrade or incriminate any person 
or otherwise violate any labor rule of the House of Representatives. No 
person other than Members of the Committee and such congressional staff 
and departmental representatives as the Committee or subcommittee may 
authorize shall be present at any business or markup session which has 
been closed to the public. This subsection does not apply to open 
Committee hearings which are provided for by subsection (b) of this 
rule. 
       (2) 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. When exercising postponement authority, 
the Chairman shall take all reasonable steps necessary 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. 
       (b) Hearings 
       (1) Each hearing conducted by the Committee or a subcommittee 
shall be open to the public 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 should be 
closed to the public because disclosure of testimony, evidence or other 
matters to be considered would endanger the national security, would 
compromise sensitive law enforcement information, or otherwise would 
violate any law or rule of the House of Representatives. 
Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, a majority of those present, 
there being in attendance the requisite number required under the rules 
of the Committee to be present for the purpose of taking testimony__ 
       (A) may vote to close the hearing for the sole purpose of 
discussing whether testimony or evidence to be received would endanger 
the national security, would compromise sensitive law enforcement 
information, or violate paragraph (2) of this subsection; or 
       (B) May vote to close the hearing, as provided in paragraph (2) 
of this subsection. 
       (2) Whenever it is asserted by a Member of the Committee that 
the evidence or testimony at a hearing may tend to defame, degrade, or 
incriminate any person, or it is asserted by a witness that the 
evidence or testimony that the witness would give at a hearing may tend 
to defame, degrade, or incriminate the witness__ 
       (A) such testimony or evidence shall be presented in executive 
session, notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1) of this 
subsection, if by a majority of those present, there being in 
attendance the requisite number required under the rules of the 
Committee to be present for the purpose of taking testimony, the 
Committee or subcommittee determines that such evidence or testimony 
may tend to defame, degrade, or incriminate any person; and 
       (B) The Committee or subcommittee 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. 
       (3) No Member of the House of Representatives may be excluded 
from non-participatory attendance at any hearing of the Committee or a 
subcommittee unless the House of Representatives has by majority vote 
authorized the 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 
by the same procedures designated in this subsection for closing 
hearings to the public. 
       (4) The Committee or a subcommittee may by the procedure 
designated in this subsection vote to close one (1) subsequent day of 
hearing.
       (5) No congressional staff shall be present at any meeting or 
hearing of the Committee or a subcommittee that has been closed to the 
public, and at which classified information will be involved, unless 
such person is authorized access to such classified information in 
accordance with rule XX of the House of Representatives. 

                   RULE 5.__ANNOUNCEMENT OF HEARINGS AND MARKUPS 

       (a) Hearings 
       Public announcement shall be made of the date, place, and 
subject matter of any hearing to be conducted by the Committee or a 
subcommittee at the earliest possible date, and in any event at least 
one (1) week before the commencement of that hearing.  If the Chairman 
of the Committee or the subcommittee, with the concurrence of the 
Ranking Minority Member, determines that there is good cause to begin a 
hearing sooner, or if the Committee or subcommittee so determines by 
majority vote in the presence of the number of members required under 
the rules of the Committee for the taking of action, the Chairman of 
the Committee shall make the announcement at the earliest possible 
date.
       (b) Markups and Other Meetings to Transact Business 
       The Chairman or subcommittee chairman may call or convene, as he 
considers necessary, meetings of the Committee or subcommittee for the 
consideration of a bill or resolution pending before the Committee or 
subcommittee, as the case may be, or for the conduct of other Committee 
or subcommittee business.  Public announcement shall be made of the 
date, place and subject matter of any markup or other meeting to 
conduct business at the earliest possible date, and in any event at 
least one (1) week before the commencement of such markup or meeting, 
unless the Chairman or subcommittee Chairman determines, in 
consultation with the Ranking Minority Member, that there is good cause 
to begin such a markup or meeting on an earlier date.  If such 
determination is made, the Chairman of the Committee shall make the 
announcement at the earliest possible date.  The agenda for each 
Committee and subcommittee markup or other meeting to transact 
business, setting out all items of business to be considered, including 
whenever possible a copy of any bill or other document scheduled for 
markup, shall be furnished to each Committee or subcommittee Member by 
delivery to the Member's office at least 24 hours (excluding Saturdays, 
Sundays, and legal holidays) before the meeting.  Bills on subjects not 
listed on such agenda shall be subject to a point of order unless their 
consideration is agreed to by a two-thirds vote of the Committee or 
subcommittee, or by the Chairman of the Committee or subcommittee, with 
the concurrence of the Ranking Minority Member. 
       (c) Publication  
       Public announcement of all hearings and markups shall be 
published in the Daily Digest portion of the Congressional Record.  
Members shall be notified by the Chief of Staff of all meetings 
(including markups and hearings) and briefings of subcommittees and of 
the Full Committee. 

                              RULE 6.__WITNESSES 

       (a) Interrogation of Witnesses 
       (1) In so far as practicable, witnesses shall be permitted to 
present their oral statements without interruption subject to 
reasonable time constraints imposed by the Chairman, with questioning 
by the Committee Members taking place afterward. Members should refrain 
from questions until such statements are completed. 
       (2) In recognizing Members, the Chairman shall, to the extent 
practicable, give preference to the Members on the basis of their 
arrival at the hearing, taking into consideration the majority and 
minority ratio of the Members actually present. A Member desiring to 
speak or ask a question shall address the Chairman and not the witness. 
       (3) Subject to paragraph (4), each Member may interrogate the 
witness for 5 minutes, the reply of the witness being included in the 
5-minute period. After all Members have had an opportunity to ask 
questions, the round shall begin again under the 5-minute rule. 
       (4) Notwithstanding paragraph (3), the Chairman, with the 
concurrence of the Ranking Minority Member, may permit one (1) or more 
majority Members of the Committee designated by the Chairman to 
question a witness for a specified period of not longer than 30 
minutes. On such occasions, an equal number of minority Members of the 
Committee designated by the Ranking Minority Member shall be permitted 
to question the same witness for the same period of time. Committee 
staff may be permitted to question a witness for equal specified 
periods either with the concurrence of the Chairman and Ranking 
Minority Member or by motion. However, in no case may questioning by 
Committee staff proceed before each Member of the Committee who wishes 
to speak under the 5-minute rule has had one opportunity to do so. 
       (b) Statements of Witnesses 
       Each witness who is to appear before the Committee or a 
subcommittee is required to file with the clerk of the Committee, at 
least two (2) working days in advance of his or her appearance, 
sufficient copies, as determined by the Chairman of the Committee or 
subcommittee, of his or her proposed testimony to provide to Members 
and staff of the Committee or subcommittee, the news media, and the 
general public. The witness shall limit his or her oral presentation to 
a brief summary of his or her testimony. In the case of a witness 
appearing in a nongovernmental capacity, a written statement of 
proposed testimony shall, to the extent practicable, include a 
curriculum vitae and a disclosure of the amount and source (by agency 
and program) of any Federal grant (or subgrant thereof) or contract (or 
subcontract thereof) received during the current fiscal year or either 
of the two previous fiscal years by the witness or by an entity 
represented by the witness, to the extent that such information is 
relevant to the subject matter of, and the witness' representational 
capacity at, the hearing. 
       To the extent practicable, each witness should provide the text 
of his or her proposed testimony in machine-readable form, along with 
any attachments and appendix materials. 
       The Committee or subcommittee shall notify Members at least two 
working days in advance of a hearing of the availability of testimony 
submitted by witnesses. 
       The requirements of this subsection or any part thereof may be 
waived by the Chairman of the Committee or subcommittee, or the 
presiding Member, or the Ranking Member of the Committee or 
subcommittee as it relates to witnesses who are called by the minority 
to testify, provided that the witness or the Chairman or Ranking 
Minority Member has submitted, prior to the witness's appearance, a 
written explanation to the reasons testimony has not been made 
available to the Committee or subcommittee.  In the event a witness who 
is not an official of the U.S. Government neither submits his or her 
testimony at least two working days in advance of his or her appearance 
nor has a written explanation been submitted as to prior availability, 
the witness shall be released from testifying unless a majority of the 
Committee or subcommittee votes to accept his or her testimony. 
       (c) Oaths 
       The Chairman, or any Member of the Committee designated by the 
Chairman, may administer oaths to any witness appearing before the 
Committee. 

           RULE 7.__PREPARATION AND MAINTENANCE OF COMMITTEE RECORDS 

       An accurate stenographic record shall be made of all hearings 
and markup sessions. Members of the Committee and any witness may 
examine the transcript of his or her own remarks and may make any 
grammatical or technical changes that do not substantively alter the 
record. Any such Member or witness shall return the transcript to the 
Committee offices within five (5) calendar days (not including 
Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays) after receipt of the 
transcript, or as soon thereafter as is practicable. 
       Any information supplied for the record at the request of a 
Member of the Committee shall be provided to the Member when received 
by the Committee. 
       Transcripts of hearings and markup sessions (except for the 
record of a meeting or hearing which is closed to the public) shall be 
printed as soon as is practicable after receipt of the corrected 
versions, except that the Chairman may order the transcript of a 
hearing to be printed without the corrections of a Member or witness if 
the Chairman determines that such Member or witness has been afforded a 
reasonable time to correct such transcript and such transcript has not 
been returned within such time. 
       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 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 the rule, to withhold a record 
otherwise available, and the matter shall be presented to the Committee 
for a determination on the written request of any Member of the 
Committee. 
       The Committee shall, to the maximum extent feasible, make its 
publications available in electronic form. 

         RULE 8.__EXTRANEOUS MATERIAL IN COMMITTEE HEARINGS PRINTS 

       No extraneous material shall be printed in either the body or 
appendices of any Committee or subcommittee hearing, except matter 
which has been accepted for inclusion in the record during the hearing 
or by agreement of the Chairman and Ranking Minority Member of the 
Committee or subcommittee within five calendar days of the hearing. 
Copies of bills and other legislation under consideration and responses 
to written questions submitted by Members shall not be considered 
extraneous material. 
       Extraneous material in either the body or appendices of any 
hearing to be printed which would be in excess of eight (8) printed 
pages (for any one submission) shall be accompanied by a written 
request to the Chairman. Such written request shall contain an estimate 
in writing from the Public Printer of the probable cost of publishing 
such material. 

                RULE 9.__PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF COMMITTEE VOTES 

       The result of each record vote in any meeting of the Committee 
shall be made available for inspection by the public at reasonable 
times at the Committee offices. Such result shall include a description 
of the amendment, motion, order, or other proposition, the name of each 
Member voting for and against, and the Members present but not voting. 

                               RULE 10.__PROXIES 

       Proxy voting is not permitted in the Committee or in 
subcommittees. 

                               RULE 11.__REPORTS 

       (a) Reports on Bills and Resolutions 
       To the extent practicable, not later than 24 hours before a 
report is to be filed with the Clerk of the House on a measure that has 
been ordered reported by the Committee, the Chairman shall make 
available for inspection by all Members of the Committee a copy of the 
draft Committee report in order to afford Members adequate information 
and the opportunity to draft and file any supplemental, minority or 
additional views which they may deem appropriate. 
       With respect to each record vote on a motion to report any 
measure or matter of a public character, and on any amendment offered 
to the measure or matter, the total number of votes cast for and 
against, and the names of those Members voting for and against, shall 
be included in any Committee report on the measure or matter. 
        (b) Prior Approval of Certain Reports 
       No Committee, subcommittee, or staff report, study, or other 
document which purports to express publicly the views, findings, 
conclusions, or recommendations of the Committee or a subcommittee may 
be released to the public or filed with the Clerk of the House unless 
approved by a majority of the Committee or subcommittee, as 
appropriate. A proposed investigative or oversight report shall be 
considered as read if it has been available to Members of the Committee 
for at least 24 hours (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, or legal holidays 
except when the House is in session on such a day). In any case in 
which  clause 2(l) of rule XI and clause 3(a)(1) of rule XIII of the 
House of Representatives does not apply, each Member of the Committee 
or subcommittee shall be given an opportunity to have views or a 
disclaimer included as part of the material filed or released, as the 
case maybe. 
        (c) Foreign Travel Reports 
       At the same time that the report required by clause 8(b) (3) of 
rule X of the House of Representatives, regarding foreign travel 
reports, is submitted to the Chairman, Members and employees of the 
Committee shall provide a report to the Chairman listing all official 
meetings, interviews, inspection tours and other official functions in 
which the individual participated, by country and date. Under 
extraordinary circumstances, the Chairman may waive the listing in such 
report of an official meeting, interview, inspection tour, or other 
official function. The report shall be maintained in the Full Committee 
offices and shall be available for public inspection during normal 
business hours. 

                     RULE 12.__REPORTING BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS 

       Except in unusual circumstances, bills and resolutions will not 
be considered by the Committee unless and until the appropriate 
subcommittee has recommended the bill or resolution for Committee 
action, and will not be taken to the House of Representatives for 
action unless and until the Committee has ordered reported such bill or 
resolution, a quorum being present. 
       Except in unusual circumstances, a bill or resolution 
originating in the House of Representatives that contains exclusively 
findings and policy declarations or expressions of the sense of the 
House of Representatives or the sense of the Congress shall not be 
considered by the Committee or a subcommittee unless such bill or 
resolution has at least 25 House co-sponsors, at least 10 of whom are 
Members of the Committee.   
       For purposes of this rule, unusual circumstances will be 
determined by the Chairman, after consultation with the Ranking 
Minority Member and such other Members of the Committee as the Chairman 
deems appropriate. 
       The Chairman is directed to offer a motion under clause 1 of 
rule XXII of the Rules of the House whenever the Chairman considers it 
appropriate. 

                           RULE 13.__STAFF SERVICES 

       The Committee staff shall be selected and organized so that it 
can provide a comprehensive range of professional services in the field 
of foreign affairs to the Committee, the subcommittees, and all its 
Members. The staff shall include persons with training and experience 
in foreign affairs, making available to the Committee individuals with 
knowledge of major countries, areas, and U.S. overseas programs and 
operations. 
       Subject to clause 9 of rule X of the House of Representatives, 
the staff of the Committee, except as provided in paragraph (c), shall 
be appointed, and may be removed, by the Chairman with the approval of 
the majority of the Members in the majority party of the Committee. 
Their remuneration shall be fixed by the Chairman, and they shall work 
under the general supervision and direction of the Chairman. Staff 
assignments are to be authorized by the Chairman or by the Chief of 
Staff under the direction of the Chairman. 
       Subject to clause 9 of rule X of the House of Representatives, 
the staff of the Committee assigned to the minority shall be appointed, 
their remuneration determined, and may be removed, by the Ranking 
Minority Member with the approval of the majority of the minority party 
Members of the Committee. No minority staff person shall be compensated 
at a rate which exceeds that paid his or her majority staff 
counterpart. Such staff shall work under the general supervision and 
direction of the Ranking Minority Member with the approval or 
consultation of the minority Members of the Committee. 
       The Chairman shall ensure that sufficient staff is made 
available to each subcommittee to carry out its responsibilities under 
the rules of the Committee. The Chairman shall ensure that the minority 
party is fairly treated in the appointment of such staff. 

              RULE 14.__NUMBER AND JURISDICTION OF SUBCOMMITTEES 

       (a) Full Committee  
       The Full Committee will be responsible for oversight and 
legislation relating to: foreign assistance (including development 
assistance, Millennium Challenge Corporation, the Millennium Challenge 
Account, HIV/AIDS in foreign countries, security assistance, and Public 
Law 480 programs abroad); the Peace Corps; national security 
developments affecting foreign policy; strategic planning and 
agreements; war powers, treaties, executive agreements, and the 
deployment and use of United States Armed Forces; peacekeeping, peace 
enforcement, and enforcement of United Nations or other international 
sanctions; arms control and disarmament issues; the United States 
Agency for International Development; activities and policies of the 
State, Commerce and Defense Departments and other agencies related to 
the Arms Export Control Act, and the Foreign Assistance Act including 
export and licensing policy for munitions items and technology and 
dual-use equipment and technology; international law; promotion of 
democracy; international law enforcement issues, including narcotics 
control programs and activities; Broadcasting Board of Governors; 
embassy security; international broadcasting; public diplomacy, 
including international communication, information policy, 
international education, and cultural programs; and all other matters 
not specifically assigned to a subcommittee. The Full Committee will 
have jurisdiction over legislation with respect to the administration 
of the Export Administration Act, including the export and licensing of 
dual-use equipment and technology and other matters related to 
international economic policy and trade not otherwise assigned to a 
subcommittee and with respect to the United Nations, its affiliated 
agencies and other international organizations, including assessed and 
voluntary contributions to such organizations.  The Full Committee may 
conduct oversight with respect to any matter within the jurisdiction of 
the Committee as defined in the Rules of the House of Representatives. 

        (b) Subcommittees 
       There shall be seven (7) standing subcommittees. The names and 
jurisdiction of those subcommittees shall be as follows: 
        (1) Functional Subcommittees 
       There shall be two subcommittees with functional jurisdiction: 
       Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and 
Trade._Oversight and legislative responsibilities over the United 
States' efforts to manage and coordinate international programs to 
combat terrorism as coordinated by the Department of State and other 
agencies, including diplomatic, economic, and military assistance 
programs in areas designed to prevent terrorism, and efforts intended 
to identify, arrest, and bring international terrorists to justice. 
Oversight of, and (to the degree applicable to matters outside the 
Foreign Assistance Act, the Arms Export Control Act, the Export 
Administration Act, sanctions laws pertaining to individual countries 
and the provision of foreign assistance) legislation pertaining to: 
nonproliferation including matters relating to arms transfer policy; 
export control policy including the transfer of dual-use equipment and 
technology; matters involving nuclear, chemical, biological and other 
weapons of mass destruction; and legislation aimed at the promotion of 
sanctions and other nonproliferation matters generally. Oversight of 
matters relating to international economic and trade policy; commercial 
intercourse with foreign countries; international investment policy; 
the Overseas Private Investment Corporation and the Trade and 
Development Agency; commodity agreements; and special oversight of 
international financial and monetary institutions; the Export-Import 
Bank, and customs.  Legislative jurisdiction over measures related to 
export promotion and measures related to the Overseas Private 
Investment Corporation and the Trade and Development Agency. 
       Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and 
Oversight._With the concurrence of the Full Committee Chairman, 
oversight and investigations of all matters within the jurisdiction of 
the Committee.  Responsibility for oversight of, and (to the degree 
applicable to matters outside the Foreign Assistance Act, the Arms 
Export Control Act, the Export Administration Act, and the provision of 
foreign assistance) legislation pertaining to implementation of the 
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and other matters relating to 
internationally-recognized human rights, including sanctions 
legislation aimed at the promotion of human rights and democracy 
generally; parliamentary conferences and exchanges; the American Red 
Cross; and the United Nations, its affiliated agencies and other 
international organizations, including assessed and voluntary 
contributions to such organizations.. 
        (2) Regional Subcommittees 
       There shall be five subcommittees with regional jurisdiction: 
the Subcommittee on Europe; the Subcommittee on the Middle East and 
South Asia; the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere; the 
Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health; and the Subcommittee on Asia, 
the Pacific, and the Global Environment (including the Central Asian 
republics). Two of  the regional subcommittees, the Subcommittee on 
Africa and Global Health and the Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and 
the Global Environment, shall also have functional jurisdiction. 
       The regional subcommittees shall have jurisdiction over the 
following within their respective regions: 

       (1) Matters affecting the political relations between the United 
       States and other countries and regions, including resolutions or 
       other legislative measures directed to such relations. 
       (2) Legislation with respect to disaster assistance outside the 
       Foreign Assistance Act, boundary issues, and international 
       claims. 
       (3) Legislation with respect to region- or country-specific 
       loans or other financial relations outside the Foreign 
       Assistance Act. 
       (4) Resolutions of disapproval under section 36(b) of the Arms 
       Export Control Act, with respect to foreign military sales. 
       (5) Legislation and oversight regarding human rights practices 
       in particular countries. 
       (6) Oversight of regional lending institutions. 
       (7) Oversight of matters related to the regional activities of 
       the United Nations, of its affiliated agencies, and of other 
       multilateral institutions. 
       (8) Identification and development of options for meeting future 
       problems and issues relating to U.S. interests in the region. 
       (9) Base rights and other facilities access agreements and 
       regional security pacts. 
       (10) Oversight of matters relating to parliamentary conferences 
       and exchanges involving the region.
       (11) Concurrent oversight jurisdiction with respect to matters 
       assigned to the functional subcommittees insofar as they may 
       affect the region. 
       (12) Oversight of all foreign assistance activities affecting 
       the region. 
       (13) Such other matters as the Chairman of the Full Committee 
       may determine. 
       The Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health._In addition to its 
regional jurisdiction, responsibility for oversight of international 
health issues, including transboundary infectious diseases and programs 
related to enhancing global capacity to address health issues. 
       The Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and the Global 
Environment._In addition to its regional jurisdiction, responsibility 
for oversight of international environmental policy, international 
fishing agreements and scientific developments affecting foreign 
policy.

                      RULE 15.__POWERS AND DUTIES OF SUBCOMMITTEES 

       Each subcommittee is authorized to meet, hold hearings, receive 
evidence, and report to the Full Committee on all matters referred to 
it. Subcommittee chairmen shall set meeting dates after consultation 
with the Chairman, other subcommittee chairmen, the relevant Ranking 
Minority Member and other appropriate Members, with a view toward 
minimizing scheduling conflicts. It shall be the practice of the 
Committee that meetings of subcommittees not be scheduled to occur 
simultaneously with meetings of the Full Committee. 
       In order to ensure orderly administration and fair assignment of 
hearing and meeting rooms, the subject, time, and location of hearings 
and meetings shall be arranged in advance with the Chairman through the 
Chief of Staff of the Committee. 
       The Chairman of the Full Committee shall designate a Member of 
the majority party on each subcommittee as its vice chairman.  
       The Chairman and the Ranking Minority Member may attend the 
meetings and participate in the activities of all subcommittees of 
which they are not Members, except that they may not vote or be counted 
for a quorum in such subcommittees.

                     RULE 16.__REFERRAL OF BILLS BY CHAIRMAN 

       In accordance with rule 14 of the Committee and to the extent 
practicable, all legislation and other matters referred to the 
Committee shall be referred by the Chairman to a subcommittee of 
primary jurisdiction within two (2) weeks. In accordance with rule 14 
of the Committee, legislation may also be referred to additional 
subcommittees for consideration. Unless otherwise directed by the 
Chairman, such subcommittees shall act on or be discharged from 
consideration of legislation that has been approved by the subcommittee 
of primary jurisdiction within two (2) weeks of such action. In 
referring any legislation to a subcommittee, the Chairman may specify a 
date by which the subcommittee shall report thereon to the Full 
Committee. 
       The Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights 
and Oversight and the subcommittees with regional jurisdiction shall 
have joint jurisdiction over legislation regarding human rights 
practices in particular countries within the region. 
       The Chairman may designate a subcommittee chairman or other 
Member to take responsibility as manager of a bill or resolution during 
its consideration in the House of Representatives. 

      RULE 17.__PARTY RATIOS ON SUBCOMMITTEES AND CONFERENCE COMMITTEES 

       The majority party caucus of the Committee shall determine an 
appropriate ratio of majority to minority party Members for each 
subcommittee. Party representation on each subcommittee or conference 
committee shall be no less favorable to the majority party than the 
ratio for the Full Committee. The Chairman and the Ranking Minority 
Member are authorized to negotiate matters affecting such ratios 
including the size of subcommittees and conference committees. 

                RULE 18.__SUBCOMMITTEE FUNDING AND RECORDS 

       Each subcommittee shall have adequate funds to discharge its 
responsibility for legislation and oversight. 
       In order to facilitate Committee compliance with clause 2(e)(1) 
of rule XI of the House of Representatives, each subcommittee shall 
keep a complete record of all subcommittee actions which shall include 
a record of the votes on any question on which a record vote is 
demanded. The result of each record vote shall be promptly made 
available to the Full Committee for inspection by the public in 
accordance with rule 9 of the Committee. 
       All subcommittee hearings, records, data, charts, and files 
shall be kept distinct from the congressional office records of the 
Member serving as chairman of the subcommittee. Subcommittee records 
shall be coordinated with the records of the Full Committee, shall be 
the property of the House, and all Members of the House shall have 
access thereto. 

                 RULE 19.__MEETINGS OF SUBCOMMITTEE CHAIRMEN 

       The Chairman shall call a meeting of the subcommittee chairmen 
on a regular basis not less frequently than once a month. Such a 
meeting need not be held if there is no business to conduct. It shall 
be the practice at such meetings to review the current agenda and 
activities of each of the subcommittees. 

                  RULE 20.__ACCESS TO CLASSIFIED INFORMATION 

       (a) Authorized persons. 
       In accordance with the stipulations of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives, all Members of the House who have executed the oath 
required by clause 13 of rule XXIII of the House of Representatives 
shall be authorized to have access to classified information within the 
possession of the Committee. 
       Members of the Committee staff shall be considered authorized to 
have access to classified information within the possession of the 
Committee when they have the proper security clearances, when they have 
executed the oath required by clause 13 of rule XXIII of the House of 
Representatives, and when they have a demonstrable need to know. The 
decision on whether a given staff member has a need to know will be 
made on the following basis: 
       (1) In the case of the Full Committee majority staff, by the 
Chairman, acting through the Chief of Staff; 
       (2) In the case of the Full Committee minority staff, by the 
Ranking Minority Member of the Committee, acting through the Minority 
Chief of Staff; 
       (3) In the case of subcommittee majority staff, by the chairman 
of the subcommittee; 
       (4) In the case of the subcommittee minority staff, by the 
Ranking Minority Member of the subcommittee. No other individuals shall 
be considered authorized persons, unless so designated by the Chairman. 
       (b) Designated persons 
       Each Committee Member is permitted to designate one member of 
his or her staff as having the right of access to information 
classified confidential. Such designated persons must have the proper 
security clearance, have executed the oath required by clause 13 of 
rule XXIII of the House of Representatives, and have a need to know as 
determined by his or her principal. Upon request of a Committee Member 
in specific instances, a designated person also shall be permitted 
access to information classified secret which has been furnished to the 
Committee pursuant to section 36 of the Arms Export Control Act, as 
amended. Upon the written request of a Committee Member and with the 
approval of the Chairman in specific instances, a designated person may 
be permitted access to other classified materials. Designation of a 
staff person shall be by letter from the Committee Member to the 
Chairman. 
       (c) Location 
       Classified information will be stored in secure safes in the 
Committee rooms. All materials classified top secret must be stored in 
a Secure Compartmentalized Information Facility (SCIF). 
       (d) Handling 
       Materials classified confidential or secret may be taken from 
Committee offices to other Committee offices and hearing rooms by 
Members of the Committee and authorized Committee staff in connection 
with hearings and briefings of the Committee or its subcommittees for 
which such information is deemed to be essential. Removal of such 
information from the Committee offices shall be only with the 
permission of the Chairman under procedures designed to ensure the safe 
handling and storage of such information at all times. Except as 
provided in this paragraph, top secret materials may not be taken from 
the SCIF for any purpose, except that such materials may be taken to 
hearings and other meetings that are being conducted at the top secret 
level when necessary. Top secret materials may otherwise be used under 
conditions approved by the Chairman after consultation with the Ranking 
Minority Member. 
       (e) Notice 
       Appropriate notice of the receipt of classified documents 
received by the Committee from the Executive Branch will be sent 
promptly to Committee Members through the Survey of Activities or by 
other means. 
       (f) Access 
       Except as provided for above, access to materials classified top 
secret or otherwise restricted held by the Committee will be in the 
SCIF. The following procedures will be observed: 
       (1) Authorized or designated persons will be admitted to the 
       SCIF after inquiring of the Chief of Staff or an assigned staff 
       member. Access to the SCIF will be afforded during regular 
       Committee hours. 
       (2) Authorized or designated persons will be required to 
       identify themselves, to identify the documents or information 
       they wish to view, and to sign the Classified Materials Log, 
       which is kept with the classified information. 
       (3) The assigned staff member will be responsible for 
       maintaining a log which identifies: (1) authorized and 
       designated persons seeking access, (2) the classified 
       information requested, and (3) the time of arrival and departure 
       of such persons. The assigned staff member will also assure that 
       the classified materials are returned to the proper location. 
       (4) The Classified Materials Log will contain a statement 
       acknowledged by the signature of the authorized or designated 
       person that he or she has read the Committee rules and will abide 
       by them. 
       (g) Divulgence
       Classified information provided to the Committee by the 
Executive Branch shall be handled in accordance with the procedures 
that apply within the Executive Branch for the protection of such 
information. Any classified information to which access has been gained 
through the Committee may not be divulged to any unauthorized person. 
Classified material shall not be photocopied or otherwise reproduced. 
In no event shall classified information be discussed in a non-secure 
environment. Apparent violations of this rule should be reported as 
promptly as possible to the Chairman for appropriate action. 
     (h) Other regulations
     The Chairman, after consultation with the Ranking Minority Member, 
may establish such additional regulations and procedures as in his 
judgment may be necessary to safeguard classified information under the 
control of the Committee. Members of the Committee will be given notice 
of any such regulations and procedures promptly. They may be modified 
or waived in any or all particulars by a majority vote of the Full 
Committee. 

            RULE 21.__BROADCASTING OF COMMITTEE HEARINGS AND MEETINGS 

       All Committee and subcommittee meetings or hearings which are 
open to the public may be covered, in whole or in part, by television 
broadcast, radio broadcast, and still photography, or by any such 
methods of coverage in accordance with the provisions of clause 3 of 
House rule XI. 
       The Chairman or subcommittee chairman shall determine, in his or 
her discretion, the number of television and still cameras permitted in 
a hearing or meeting room, but shall not limit the number of television 
or still cameras to fewer than two (2) representatives from each 
medium. 
       Such coverage shall be in accordance with the following 
requirements contained in section 116(b) of the Legislative 
Reorganization Act of 1970, and clause 4 of XI of the Rules of the 
House of Representatives: 
       (a) If the television, Internet or radio 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. 
       (b) No witness served with a subpoena by the Committee shall be 
required against his will to be photographed at any hearing or to give 
evidence or testimony while the broadcasting of that hearing, by radio 
or television is being conducted. At the request of any such witness 
who does not wish to be subjected to radio, television, Internet or 
still photography coverage, all lenses shall be covered and all 
microphones used for coverage turned off. This subparagraph is 
supplementary to clause 2(k) (5) of rule XI of the Rules of the House 
of Representatives relating to the protection of the rights of 
witnesses. 
       (c) The allocation among cameras permitted by the Chairman or 
subcommittee chairman in a hearing room shall be in accordance with 
fair and equitable procedures devised by the Executive Committee of the 
Radio and Television Correspondents' Galleries. 
       (d) Television cameras shall be placed so as not to obstruct in 
any way the space between any witness giving evidence or testimony and 
Member of the Committee or its subcommittees or the visibility of that 
witness and that Member to each other. 
       (e) Television cameras shall operate from fixed positions but 
shall not be placed in positions which obstruct unnecessarily the 
coverage of the hearing by the other media. 
       (f) Equipment necessary for coverage by the television and radio 
media shall not be installed in, or removed from, the hearing or 
meeting room while the Committee or subcommittee is in session. 
       (g) Floodlights, spotlights, strobe lights, and flashguns shall 
not be used in providing any method of coverage of the hearing or 
meeting, except that the television media may install additional 
lighting in the hearing room, without cost to the Government, in order 
to raise the ambient lighting level in the hearing room to the lowest 
level necessary to provide adequate television coverage of the hearing 
or meeting at the current state-of-the-art level of television 
coverage. 
       (h) In the allocation of the number of still photographers 
permitted by the Chairman or subcommittee chairman in a hearing or 
meeting room, preference shall be given to photographers from 
Associated Press Photos, United Press International News pictures, and 
Reuters. If requests are made by more of the media than will be 
permitted by the Chairman or subcommittee chairman for coverage of the 
hearing or meeting by still photography, that coverage shall be made on 
the basis of a fair and equitable pool arrangement devised by the 
Standing Committee of Press Photographers. 
       (i) Photographers shall not position themselves, at any time 
during the course of the hearing or meeting, between the witness table 
and the Members of the Committee or its subcommittees. 
       (j) Photographers shall not place themselves in positions which 
obstruct unnecessarily the coverage of the hearing by the other media. 
       (k) Personnel providing coverage by the television and radio 
media shall be currently accredited to the Radio and Television 
Correspondents' Galleries. 
       (l) Personnel providing coverage by still photography shall be 
currently accredited to the Press Photographers' Gallery Committee of 
Press Photographers. 
       (m) 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. 

                              RULE 22.__SUBPOENA POWERS 

       A subpoena may be authorized and issued by the Chairman, in 
accordance with clause 2(m) of rule XI of the House of Representatives, 
in the conduct of any investigation or activity or series of 
investigations or activities within the jurisdiction of the Committee, 
following consultation with the Ranking Minority Member. 
       In addition, a subpoena may be authorized and issued by the 
Committee or its subcommittees in accordance with clause 2(m) of rule 
XI of the House of the Representatives, in the conduct of any 
investigation or activity or series of investigations or activities, 
when authorized by a majority of the Members voting, a majority of the 
Committee or subcommittee being present. 
       Authorized subpoenas shall be signed by the Chairman or by any 
Member designated by the Committee. 

               RULE 23.__RECOMMENDATION FOR APPOINTMENT OF CONFEREES 

       Whenever the Speaker is to appoint a conference committee, the 
Chairman shall recommend to the Speaker as conferees those Members of 
the Committee who are primarily responsible for the legislation 
(including to the full extent practicable the principal proponents of 
the major provisions of the bill as it passed the House), who have 
actively participated in the Committee or subcommittee consideration of 
the legislation, and who agree to attend the meetings of the 
conference. With regard to the appointment of minority Members, the 
Chairman shall consult with the Ranking Minority Member. 

                           RULE 24.__GENERAL OVERSIGHT 

       Not later than February 15th of the first session of a Congress, 
the Committee shall meet in open session, with a quorum present, to 
adopt its oversight plans for that Congress for submission to the 
Committee on House Oversight and the Committee on Oversight and 
Government Reform, in accordance with the provisions of clause 2(d) of 
rule X of the House of Representatives. 

                      RULE 25.__OTHER PROCEDURES AND REGULATIONS 

       The Chairman, in consultation with the Ranking Minority Member, 
may establish such other procedures and take such actions as may be 
necessary to carry out the foregoing rules or to facilitate the 
effective operation of the Committee. Any additional procedures or 
regulations may be modified or rescinded in any or all particulars by a 
majority vote of the Full Committee. 

                        Committee on Homeland Security 
                    
                          BENNIE G. THOMPSON, Mississippi, Chairman 
LORETTA SANCHEZ, California, Vice      PETER T. KING, New York, Ranking 
  Chair                                  Member 
JANE HARMAN, California                LAMAR S. SMITH, Texas 
PETER A. DEFAZIO, Oregon               MARK E. SOUDER, Indiana 
ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON, District        DANIEL E. LUNGREN, California 
  of Columbia                          MIKE ROGERS, Alabama 
ZOE LOFGREN, California                MICHAEL T. MCCAUL, Texas 
SHEILA JACKSON LEE, Texas              CHARLES W. DENT, Pennsylvania 
HENRY CUELLAR, Texas                   GUS M. BILIRAKIS, Florida 
CHRISTOPHER P. CARNEY,                 PAUL C. BROUN, Georgia 
  Pennsylvania                         CANDICE S. MILLER, Michigan 
YVETTE D. CLARK, New York              PETE OLSON, Texas 
LAURA RICHARDSON, California           AHN ``JOSEPH'' CAO, Louisiana 
ANN KIRKPATRICK, Arizona               STEVE AUSTRIA, Ohio 
BEN RAY LUJAN, New Mexico 
BILL PASCRELL, JR., New Jersey 
EMANUEL CLEAVER, Missouri 
AL GREEN, Texas 
JAMES A. HIMES, Connecticut 
MARY JO KILROY, Ohio 
ERIC J.J. MASSA, New York 
DINA TITUS, Nevada 
VACANCY 

                         (Adopted February 4, 2009) 

                          RULE I.__GENERAL PROVISIONS 

       (A) Applicability of the Rules of the U.S. House of 
Representatives._The Rules of the U.S. House of Representatives (the 
``House'') are the rules of the Committee on Homeland Security (the 
``Committee'') and its subcommittees insofar as applicable. 
       (B) Applicability to Subcommittees._Except where the terms 
``Full Committee'' and ``subcommittee'' are specifically mentioned, the 
following rules shall apply to the Committee's subcommittees and their 
respective Chairmen and Ranking Minority Members to the same extent as 
they apply to the Full Committee and its Chairman and Ranking Minority 
Member. 
       (C) Appointments by the Chairman._The Chairman shall designate a 
Member of the Majority party to serve as Vice Chairman of the Full 
Committee. The Vice Chairman of the Full Committee shall preside at any 
 meeting or hearing of the Full Committee during the temporary absence 
of the Chairman. In the absence of both the Chairman and Vice Chairman, 
the Chairman's designee shall preside. 
       (D) Recommendation of Conferees._Whenever the Speaker of the 
House is to appoint a conference committee on a matter 
within the jurisdiction of the Full Committee, the Chairman shall 
recommend to the Speaker of the House conferees from the Full 
Committee. In making recommendations of Minority Members as conferees, 
the Chairman shall do so with the concurrence of the Ranking Minority 
Member of the Committee. 
       (E) Motions to Disagree._The Chairman is directed to offer a 
motion under clause 1 of Rule XXII of the Rules of the House whenever 
the Chairman considers it appropriate. 
       (F) Committee Website._The Chairman shall maintain an official 
Committee website for the purposes of furthering the Committee's 
legislative and oversight responsibilities, including communicating 
information about the Committee's activities to Committee Members, 
other Members, and the public at large. The Ranking Minority Member may 
maintain a similar website for the same purposes. 

                            RULE II.__TIME OF MEETINGS 

       (A) Regular Meeting Date._The regular meeting date and time for 
the transaction of business of the Full Committee shall be on the first 
Wednesday that the House is in Session each month, unless otherwise 
directed by the Chairman. 
       (B) Additional Meetings._At the discretion of the Chairman, 
additional meetings of the Committee may be scheduled for the 
consideration of any legislation or other matters pending before the 
Committee or to conduct other Committee business. The Committee shall 
meet for such purposes pursuant to the call of the Chairman. 
       (C) Consideration._Except in the case of a special meeting held 
under clause 2(c)(2) of House Rule XI, the determination of the 
business to be considered at each meeting of the Committee shall be 
made by the Chairman. 

                            RULE III.__NOTICE AND PUBLICATION 
       (A) Notice.__ 
       (1) Hearings._Pursuant to clause 2(g)(3) of rule XI of the Rules 
of the House of Representatives, the Chairman of the Committee shall 
make public announcement of the date, place, and subject matter of any 
hearing before the Full Committee or subcommittee at least one week 
before the commencement of the hearing. However, if the Chairman of the 
Committee, with the concurrence of the Ranking Minority Member, 
determines that there is good cause to begin the hearing sooner, or if 
the Committee so determines by majority vote, a quorum being present 
for the transaction of business, the Chairman shall make the 
announcement at the earliest possible date. The names of all witnesses 
scheduled to appear at such hearing shall be provided to Members no 
later than 48 hours prior to the commencement of such hearing. 
       (2) Meetings._The date, time, place and subject matter of any 
meeting, other than a hearing or a regularly scheduled meeting, shall 
be announced at least 36 hours in advance of a meeting, excluding 
Saturdays, Sundays, and Federal Holidays except when the House is in 
session on such a day, to take place on a day the House is in session, 
and 72 hours in advance of a meeting, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and 
Federal Holidays except when the House is in session on such a day, to 
take place on a day the House is not in session, except in the case of 
a special meeting called under clause 2(c)(2) of House Rule XI. These 
notice requirements may be waived by the Chairman with the concurrence 
of the Ranking Minority Member. 
       (a) Copies of any measure to be considered for approval by the 
Committee at any meeting, including any mark, print or amendment in the 
nature of a substitute shall be provided to the Members at least 24 
hours in advance. 
       (b) The requirement in subsection (a) may be waived or abridged 
by the Chairman, with advance notice to the Ranking Minority Member. 
       (3) Publication._The meeting or hearing announcement shall be 
promptly published in the Daily Digest portion of the Congressional 
Record. To the greatest extent practicable, meeting announcements shall 
be entered into the Committee scheduling service of the House 
Information Resources. 

                RULE IV.__OPEN MEETINGS AND HEARINGS; BROADCASTING 

       (A) Open Meetings._All meetings and hearings of the Committee 
shall be open to the public including to radio, television, and still 
photography coverage, except as provided by Rule XI of the Rules of the 
House or when the Committee, in open session and with a majority 
present, determines by recorded vote that all or part of the remainder 
of that hearing on that day shall be closed to the public because 
disclosure of testimony, evidence, or other matters to be considered 
would endanger the national security, compromise sensitive law 
enforcement information, tend to defame, degrade or incriminate a 
witness, or violate any law or rule of the House of Representatives. 
       (B) Broadcasting._Whenever any hearing or meeting conducted by 
the Committee is open to the public, the Committee shall permit that 
hearing or meeting to be covered by television broadcast, internet 
broadcast, print media, and still photography, or by any of such 
methods of coverage, in accordance with the provisions of clause 4 of 
Rule XI of the Rules of the House. Operation and use of any Committee 
operated broadcast system shall be fair and nonpartisan and in 
accordance with clause 4(b) of Rule XI and all other applicable rules 
of the Committee and the House. Priority shall be given by the 
Committee to members of the Press Galleries. 
       (C) Transcripts._A transcript shall be made of the testimony of 
each witness appearing before the Committee during a Committee hearing. 
All transcripts of meetings or hearings that are open to the public 
shall be made available. 

             RULE V.__PROCEDURES FOR MEETINGS AND HEARINGS 

       (A) Opening Statements._At any meeting of the Committee, the 
Chairman and Ranking Minority Member shall be entitled to present oral 
opening statements of five minutes each. Other Members may submit 
written opening statements for the record. The Chairman presiding over 
the meeting may permit additional opening statements by other Members 
of the Full Committee or of that subcommittee, with the concurrence of 
the Ranking Minority Member. 
       (B) The Five-Minute Rule._The time any one Member may address 
the Committee on any bill, motion, or other matter under consideration 
by the Committee shall not exceed five minutes, and then only when the 
Member has been recognized by the Chairman, except that this time limit 
may be extended when permitted by unanimous consent. 
       C) Postponement of Vote._The Chairman may postpone further 
proceedings when a record vote is ordered on the question of approving 
any measure or matter or adopting an amendment. The Chairman may resume 
proceedings on a postponed vote at any time, provided that all 
reasonable steps have been taken to notify Members of the resumption of 
such proceedings. When proceedings resume on a postponed question, 
notwithstanding any intervening order for the previous question, an 
underlying proposition shall remain subject to further debate or 
amendment to the same extent as when the question was postponed. 
       (D) Contempt Procedures._No recommendation that a person be 
cited for contempt of Congress shall be forwarded to the House unless 
and until the Full Committee has, upon notice to all its Members, met 
and considered the alleged contempt. The person to be cited for 
contempt shall be afforded, upon notice of at least 72 hours, an 
opportunity to state why he or she should not be held in contempt prior 
to a vote of the Full Committee, with a quorum being present, on the 
question whether to forward such recommendation to the House. Such 
statement shall be, in the discretion of the Chairman, either in 
writing or in person before the Full Committee. 

                              RULE VI.__WITNESSES  

       (A) Questioning of Witnesses.__ 
       (1) Questioning of witnesses by Members will be conducted under 
the five-minute rule unless the Committee adopts a motion permitted by 
House Rule XI (2)(j)(2). 
       (2) In questioning witnesses under the 5-minute rule, the 
Chairman and the Ranking Minority Member shall first be recognized. In 
a subcommittee meeting or hearing, the Chairman and Ranking Minority 
Member of the Full Committee are then recognized. All other Members 
that arrive before the commencement of the meeting or hearing will be 
recognized in the order of seniority on the Committee, alternating 
between Majority and Minority Members. Committee Members arriving after 
the commencement of the hearing shall be recognized in order of 
appearance, alternating between Majority and Minority Members, after 
all Members present at the beginning of the hearing have been 
recognized. Each Member shall be recognized at least once before any 
Member is given a second opportunity to question a witness. 
       (3) The Chairman, in consultation with the Ranking Minority 
Member, or the Committee by motion, may permit an extension of the 
period of questioning of a witness beyond five minutes but the time 
allotted must be equally apportioned to the Majority party and the 
Minority and may not exceed one hour in the aggregate. 
       (4) The Chairman, in consultation with the Ranking Minority 
Member, or the Committee by motion, may permit Committee staff of the 
Majority and Minority to question a witness for a specified period of 
time, but the time allotted must be equally apportioned to the Majority 
and Minority staff and may not exceed one hour in the aggregate. 
       (B) Minority Witnesses._Whenever a hearing is conducted by the  
Committee upon any measure or matter, the Minority party Members on the 
Committee shall be entitled, upon request to the Chairman by a Majority 
of those Minority Members before the completion of such hearing, to 
call witnesses selected by the Minority to testify with respect to that 
measure or matter during at least one day of hearing thereon. 
       (C) Oath or Affirmation._The Chairman of the Committee or any 
Member designated by the Chairman, may administer an oath to any 
witness. 
       (D) Statements by Witnesses.__ 
       (1) Consistent with the notice given, witnesses shall submit a 
prepared or written statement for the record of the proceedings 
(including, where practicable, an electronic copy) with the Clerk of 
the Committee no less than 48 hours in advance of the witness's 
appearance before the Committee. Unless the 48 hour requirement is 
waived or otherwise modified by the Chairman after consultation with 
the Ranking Minority Member, the failure to comply with this 
requirement may result in the exclusion of the written testimony from 
the hearing record and/or the barring of an oral presentation of the 
testimony. 
       (2) To the greatest extent practicable, the written testimony of 
each witness appearing in a non-governmental capacity shall include a 
curriculum vitae and a disclosure of the amount and source (by agency 
and program) of any Federal grant (or subgrant thereof) or contract (or 
subcontract thereof) received during the current fiscal year or either 
of the two preceding fiscal years by the witness or by an entity 
represented by the witness to the extent that such information is 
relevant to the subject matter of, and the witness' representational 
capacity at, the hearing. 

                            RULE VII.__QUORUM 

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


                            RULE VIII.__DECORUM 

       (A) Breaches of Decorum._The Chairman may punish breaches of 
order and decorum, by censure and exclusion from the hearing; and the 
Committee may cite the offender to the House for contempt. 
       (B) Access to Dais._Access to the dais before, during, and after 
a hearing, markup, or other meeting of the Committee shall be limited 
to Members and Staff of the Committee. Subject to availability of space 
on the dais, Committee Members' personal staff may be present on the 
dais during a hearing if their employing Member is seated on the dais 
and during a markup or other meeting if their employing Member is the 
author of a measure or amendment under consideration by the Committee, 
but only during the time that the measure or amendment is under active 
consideration by the Committee, or otherwise at the discretion of the 
Chairman or Ranking Minority Member. 
       (C) Wireless Communications Use Prohibited._During a hearing, 
mark-up, or other meeting of the Committee, ringing or audible sounds 
or conversational use of cellular telephones or other electronic 
devices is prohibited in the Committee room. 


                        RULE IX.__SUBCOMMITTEES 

       (A) Generally._The Full Committee shall be organized into the 
following six standing subcommittees: 
       (1) Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global 
Counterterrorism; 
       (2) Subcommittee on Emergency Communications, Preparedness, and 
Response; 
       (3) Subcommittee on Transportation Security and Infrastructure 
Protection; 
       (4) Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing, and 
Terrorism Risk Assessment; 
       (5) Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, and Science 
and Technology; and 
       (6) Subcommittee on Management, Investigations, and Oversight. 
       (B) Selection and Ratio of Subcommittee Members._The Chairman 
and Ranking Minority Member of the Full Committee shall select their 
respective Members of each subcommittee. The ratio of Majority to 
Minority Members shall be comparable to the Full Committee, except that 
each subcommittee shall have at least two more Majority Members than 
Minority Members. 
       (C) Ex Officio Members._The Chairman and Ranking Minority Member 
of the Full Committee shall be ex officio members of each subcommittee 
but are not authorized to vote on matters that arise before each 
subcommittee. The Chairman and Ranking Minority Member of the Full 
Committee shall not be counted to satisfy the quorum requirement for 
any purpose other than taking testimony unless they are regular members 
of that subcommittee. 
       (D) Powers and Duties of Subcommittees._Except as otherwise 
directed by the Chairman of the Full Committee, each subcommittee is 
authorized to meet, hold hearings, receive testimony, mark up 
legislation, and report to the Full Committee on all matters within its 
purview. Subcommittee Chairmen shall set hearing and meeting dates only 
with the approval of the Chairman of the Full Committee. To the 
greatest extent practicable, no more than one meeting and hearing 
should be scheduled for a given time. 
       (E) Special Voting Provision._If a tie vote occurs in a 
subcommittee on the question of reporting any measure to the Full 
Committee, the measure shall be placed on the agenda for Full Committee 
consideration as if it had been ordered reported by the subcommittee 
without recommendation. 

                         RULE X.__COMMITTEE PANELS 

       (A) Designation._The Chairman of the Full Committee, with the 
concurrence of the Ranking Minority Member, may designate a panel of 
the Committee consisting of members of the Committee to inquire into 
and take testimony on a matter or matters that warrant enhanced 
consideration and to report to the Committee. 
       (B) Duration._No panel appointed by the Chairman shall continue 
in existence for more than six months after the appointment. 
       (C) Party Ratios and Appointment._Consistent with the party 
ratios established by the Majority party, all Majority members of the 
panels shall be appointed by the Chairman of the Committee, and all 
Minority members shall be appointed by the Ranking Minority Member of 
the Committee. The Chairman of the Committee shall choose one of the 
Majority members so appointed who does not currently chair another 
subcommittee of the Committee to serve as Chairman of the panel. The 
Ranking Minority Member of the Committee shall similarly choose the 
Ranking Minority Member of the panel. 
       (D) Ex-Officio Members._The Chairman and Ranking Minority Member 
of the Full Committee may serve as ex-officio Members of each committee 
panel but are not authorized to vote on matters that arise before a 
committee panel and shall not be counted to satisfy the quorum 
requirement for any purpose other than taking testimony. 
       (E) Jurisdiction._No panel shall have legislative jurisdiction. 
       (F) Applicability of Committee Rules._Any designated panel shall 
be subject to all Committee Rules herein. 

                      RULE XI.__REFERRALS TO SUBCOMMITTEES 

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

                            RULE XII.__SUBPOENAS 

       (A) Authorization._Pursuant to clause 2(m) of Rule XI of the 
House, a subpoena may be authorized and issued under the seal of the 
House and attested by the Clerk of the House, and may be served by any 
person designated by the Full Committee for the furtherance of an 
investigation with authorization by__ 
       (1) a majority of the Full Committee, a quorum being present; or 
       (2) the Chairman of the Full Committee, after consultation with 
the Ranking Minority Member of the Full Committee, during any period 
for which the House has adjourned for a period in excess of 3 days 
when, in the opinion of the Chairman of the Full Committee, 
authorization and issuance of the subpoena is necessary to obtain the 
material or testimony set forth in the subpoena. The Chairman of the 
Full Committee shall notify Members of the Committee of the 
authorization and issuance of a subpoena under this rule as soon as 
practicable, but in no event later than one week after service of such 
subpoena. 
       (B) Disclosure._Provisions may be included in a subpoena with 
the concurrence of the Chairman and the Ranking Minority Member of the 
Full Committee, or by the Committee, to prevent the disclosure of the 
Full Committee's demands for information when deemed necessary for the 
security of information or the progress of an investigation, including 
but not limited to prohibiting the revelation by witnesses and their 
counsel of Full Committee's inquiries. 
       (C) Subpoena duces tecum._A subpoena duces tecum may be issued 
whose return to the Committee Clerk shall occur at a time and place 
other than that of a regularly scheduled meeting. 
       (D) Affidavits and Depositions._The Chairman of the Full 
Committee, in consultation with the Ranking Minority Member of the Full 
Committee, or the Committee may authorize the taking of an affidavit or 
deposition with respect to any person who is subpoenaed under these 
rules but who is unable to appear in person to testify as a witness at 
any hearing or meeting. Notices for the taking of depositions shall 
specify the date, time and place of examination. Depositions shall be 
taken under oath administered by a Member or a person otherwise 
authorized by law to administer oaths. Prior consultation with the 
Ranking Minority Member of the Full Committee shall include written 
notice three business days before any deposition is scheduled to 
provide an opportunity for Minority staff to be present during the 
questioning. 

                        RULE XIII.__COMMITTEE STAFF 

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

               RULE XIV.__COMMITTEE MEMBER AND COMMITTEE STAFF TRAVEL 

       (A) Approval of Travel._Consistent with the primary expense 
resolution and such additional expense resolutions as may have been 
approved, travel to be reimbursed from funds set aside for the 
Committee for any Committee Member or Committee staff shall be paid 
only upon the prior authorization of the Chairman. Travel may be 
authorized by the Chairman for any Committee Member or Committee staff 
only in connection with official Committee business, such as the 
attendance of hearings conducted by the Committee and meetings, 
conferences, site visits, and investigations that involve activities or 
subject matters under the general jurisdiction of the Full Committee. 
       (1) Proposed Travel by Majority Party Committee Members and 
Committee Staff._In the case of proposed travel by Majority party 
Committee Members or Committee staff, before such authorization is 
given, there shall be submitted to the Chairman in writing the 
following: (a) the purpose of the travel; (b) the dates during which 
the travel is to be made and the date or dates of the event for which 
the travel is being made; (c) the location of the event for which the 
travel is to be made; and (d) the names of Members and staff seeking 
authorization. On the basis of that information, the Chairman shall 
determine whether the proposed travel is for official Committee 
business, concerns a subject matter under the jurisdiction of the Full 
Committee, and is not excessively costly in view of the Committee 
business proposed to be conducted. 
       (2) Proposed Travel by Minority Party Committee Members and 
Committee Staff._In the case of proposed travel by Minority party 
Committee Members or Committee Staff, the Ranking Minority Member shall 
provide to the Chairman a written representation setting forth the 
information specified in items (a), (b), (c), and (d) of subparagraph 
(1) and his or her determination that such travel complies with the 
other requirements of subparagraph (1). 
       (B) Foreign Travel._All Committee Members and Committee staff 
requests for foreign travel must include a written representation 
setting forth the information specified in items (a), (b), (c), and 
(d) of subparagraph (A)(1) and be submitted to the Chairman not fewer 
than ten business days prior to the start of the travel. Within thirty 
days of the conclusion of any such foreign travel authorized under this 
rule, there shall be submitted to the Chairman a written report 
summarizing the information gained as a result of the travel in 
question, or other Committee objectives served by such travel. The 
requirements of this section may be waived or abridged by the Chairman. 

        RULE XV.__CLASSIFIED AND CONTROLLED UNCLASSIFIED INFORMATION 

       (A) Security Precautions._Committee staff offices, including 
Majority and Minority offices, shall operate under strict security 
precautions administered by the Security Officer of the Committee. A 
security officer shall be on duty at all times during normal office 
hours. Classified documents and controlled unclassified information 
(CUI)_formerly known as sensitive but unclassified (SBU) information' 
may be destroyed, discussed, examined, handled, reviewed, stored, 
transported and used only in an appropriately secure manner in 
accordance with all applicable laws, executive orders, and other 
governing authorities. Such documents may be removed from the 
Committee's offices only in furtherance of official Committee business. 
Appropriate security procedures, as determined by the Chairman in 
consultation with the Ranking Minority Member, shall govern the 
handling of such documents removed from the Committee's offices. 
       (B) Temporary Custody of Executive Branch Material._Executive 
branch documents or other materials containing classified information 
in any form that were not made part of the record of a Committee 
hearing, did not originate in the Committee or the House, and are not 
otherwise records of the Committee shall, while in the custody of the 
Committee, be segregated and maintained by the Committee in the same 
manner as Committee records that are classified. Such documents and 
other materials shall be returned to the Executive branch agency from 
which they were obtained at the earliest practicable time. 
       (C) Access by Committee Staff._Access to classified information 
supplied to the Committee shall be limited to Committee staff members 
with appropriate security clearances and a need-to-know, as determined 
by the Chairman or Ranking Minority Member, and under the direction of 
the Majority or Minority Staff Directors. 
       (D) Maintaining Confidentiality._No Committee Member or 
Committee staff shall disclose, in whole or in part or by way of 
summary, to any person who is not a Committee Member or authorized 
Committee staff for any purpose or in connection with any proceeding, 
judicial or otherwise, any testimony given before the Committee in 
executive session. Classified information and controlled unclassified 
information (CUI) shall be handled in accordance with all applicable 
laws, executive orders, and other governing authorities and 
consistently with the provisions of these rules and Committee 
procedures. 
       (E) Oath._Before a Committee Member or Committee staff may have 
access to classified information, the following oath (or affirmation) 
shall be executed: 
       I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will not disclose any 
classified information received in the course of my service on the 
Committee on Homeland Security, except as authorized by the Committee 
or the House of Representatives or in accordance with the Rules of such 
Committee or the Rules of the House. 
       Copies of the executed oath (or affirmation) shall be retained 
by the Chief Clerk as part of the records of the Committee. 
       (F) Disciplinary Action._The Chairman shall immediately consider 
disciplinary action in the event any Committee Member or Committee 
staff member fails to conform to the provisions of these rules 
governing the disclosure of classified or unclassified information. 
Such disciplinary action may include, but shall not be limited to, 
immediate dismissal from the Committee staff, criminal referral to the 
Justice Department, and notification of the Speaker of the House. With 
respect to Minority staff, the Chairman shall consider such 
disciplinary action in consultation with the Ranking Minority Member. 


                          RULE XVI.__COMMITTEE RECORDS 

       (A) Committee Records._Committee Records shall constitute all 
data, charts and files in possession of the Committee and shall be 
maintained in accordance with House Rule XI, clause 2(e). 
       (B) Legislative Calendar._The Clerk of the Committee shall 
maintain a printed calendar for the information of each Committee 
Member showing any procedural or legislative measures considered or 
scheduled to be considered by the Committee, and the status of such 
measures and such other matters as the Committee determines shall be 
included. The calendar shall be revised from time to time to show 
pertinent changes. A copy of such revisions shall be made available to 
each Member of the Committee upon request. 
       (C) Members Right To Access._Members of the Committee and of the 
House shall have access to all official Committee Records. Access to 
Committee files shall be limited to examination within the Committee 
offices at reasonable times. Access to Committee Records that contain 
classified information shall be provided in a manner consistent with 
these rules. 
       (D) Removal of Committee Records._Files and records of the 
Committee are not to be removed from the Committee offices. No 
Committee files or records that are not made publicly available shall 
be photocopied by any Member. 
       (E) Executive Session Records._Evidence or testimony received by 
the Committee in executive session shall not be released or made 
available to the public unless agreed to by the Committee. Members may 
examine the Committee's executive session records, but may not make 
copies of, or take personal notes from, such records. 
       (F) Public Inspection._The Committee shall keep a complete 
record of all Committee action including recorded votes. Information so 
available for public inspection shall include a description of each 
amendment, motion, order, or other proposition and the name of each 
Member voting for and each Member voting against each such amendment, 
motion, order, or proposition, as well as the names of those Members 
present but not voting. Such record shall be made available to the 
public at reasonable times within the Committee offices. 
       (G) Recorded Votes on the Official Committee Web Site._The 
Chairman shall create a record of the votes on any question of agreeing 
to a bill, resolution, or amendment or ordering reported any bill or 
resolution on which a recorded vote is demanded in open session in the 
Full Committee. Such record shall be made available on the Committee's 
official website not later than 3 legislative days after adjournment of 
the markup at which such vote was taken, excluding days when the House 
is in session pro forma. Such record shall identify the offeror of the 
bill, resolution, or amendment, in addition to a description of the 
bill, resolution, or amendment, the name of each Member voting for and 
each Member voting against such bill, resolution, or amendment, and the 
names of the Members voting present. 
       (H) Separate and Distinct._All Committee records and files must 
be kept separate and distinct from the office records of the Members 
serving as Chairman and Ranking Minority Member. Records and files of 
Members' personal offices shall not be considered records or files of 
the Committee. 
       (I) Disposition of Committee Records._At the conclusion of each 
Congress, non-current records of the Committee shall be delivered to 
the Archivist of the United States in accordance with Rule VII of the 
Rules of the House. 
       (J) Archived Records._The records of the Committee at the 
National Archives and Records Administration shall be made available 
for public use in accordance with Rule VII of the Rules of the House. 
The Chairman shall notify the Ranking Minority Member of any decision, 
pursuant to clause 3(b)(3) or clause 4(b) of the Rule, to withhold a 
record otherwise available, and the matter shall be presented to the 
Committee for a determination on the written request of any member of 
the Committee. The Chairman shall consult with the Ranking Minority 
Member on any communication from the Archivist of the United States or 
the Clerk of the House concerning the disposition of noncurrent records 
pursuant to clause 3(b) of the Rule. 

                      RULE XVII.__CHANGES TO COMMITTEE RULES 

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

                    ROBERT A. BRADY, Pennsylvania, Chairman
ZOE LOFGREN, California			DANIEL E. LUNGREN, California, 
MICHAEL E. CAPUANO, Massachusetts         Ranking Member
CHARLES A. GONZALEZ, Texas		KEVIN MCCARTHY, California
SUSAN A. DAVIS, California		GREGG HARPER, Mississippi
ARTUR DAVIS, Alabama                                         

                        (Adopted January 27, 2009)

                       RULE NO. 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS

       (a) The Rules of the House are the rules of the Committee so far 
as applicable, except that a motion to recess from day to day is a 
privileged motion in the Committee. Each subcommittee of the committee 
is a part of the committee and is subject to the authority and 
direction of the chair and to its rules as far as applicable. 
       (b) The Committee is authorized at any time to conduct such 
investigations and studies as it may consider necessary or appropriate 
in the exercise of its responsibilities under House Rule X and, subject 
to the adoption of expense resolutions as required by House Rule X, 
clause 6, to incur expenses (including travel expenses) in connection 
therewith. 
       (c) The Committee is authorized to have printed and bound 
testimony and other data presented at hearings held by the Committee, 
and to make such information available to the public. All costs of 
stenographic services and transcripts in connection with any meeting or 
hearing of the Committee shall be paid from the appropriate House 
account. 
       (d) The Committee shall submit to the House, not later than 
January 2 of each odd-numbered year, a report on the activities of the 
committee under House Rules X and XI during the Congress ending at noon 
on January 3 of such year. 
       (e) The Committee's rules shall be published in the 
Congressional Record not later than 30 days after the Committee is 
elected in each odd-numbered year. 

                    RULE NO. 2: REGULAR AND SPECIAL MEETINGS 

       (a) The regular meeting date of the Committee on House 
Administration shall be the second Wednesday of every month when the 
House is in session in accordance with Clause 2(b) of House Rule XI. 
Additional meetings may be called by the Chair of the Committee as she 
or he may deem necessary or at the request of a majority of the members 
of the Committee in accordance with Clause 2(c) of House Rule XI. The 
determination of the business to be considered at each meeting shall be 
made by the Chair subject to Clause 2(c) of House Rule XI. A regularly 
scheduled meeting may be dispensed with if, in the judgment of the 
Chair, there is no need for the meeting. 
       (b) If the Chair is not present at any meeting of the Committee, 
or at the discretion of the Chair, the Vice Chair of the Committee 
shall preside at the meeting. If the Chair and Vice Chair of the 
Committee are not present at any meeting of the Committee, the ranking 
member of the majority party who is present shall preside at the 
meeting. 

                          RULE NO. 3: OPEN MEETINGS 

       As required by Clause 2(g), of House Rule XI, each meeting for 
the transaction of business, including the markup of legislation of the 
Committee shall be open to the public except when the Committee in open 
session and with a quorum present determines by record vote that all or 
part of the remainder of the meeting on that day shall be closed to the 
public because disclosure of matters to be considered would endanger 
national security, would compromise sensitive law enforcement 
information, or would tend to defame, degrade or incriminate any 
person, or otherwise would violate any law or rule of the House: 
Provided, however, that no person other than members of the Committee, 
and such congressional staff and such other persons as the Committee 
may authorize, shall be present in any business or markup session which 
has been closed to the public. 

                         RULE NO. 4: RECORDS AND ROLLCALLS 

       (a)(1) A record vote shall be held if requested by any member of 
the Committee. 
       (a)(2) The result of each record vote in any meeting of the 
Committee shall be made available for inspection by the public at 
reasonable times at the Committee offices, including a description of 
the amendment, motion, order or other proposition; the name of each 
member voting for and against; and the members present but not voting. 
       (a)(3) The Chairman shall make the record of the votes on any 
question on which a record vote is demanded available on the 
Committee's website not later than two calendar days after such vote is 
taken (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays). Such record 
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. 
       (b)(1) Subject to subparagraph (2), the Chair may postpone 
further proceedings when a record vote is ordered on the question of 
approving any measure or matter or adopting an amendment. The Chair may 
resume proceedings on a postponed request at any time. 
       (2) In exercising postponement authority under subparagraph (1), 
the Chair shall take all reasonable steps necessary to notify members 
on the resumption of proceedings on any postponed record vote. 
       (3) 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. 
       (c) All Committee and subcommittee hearings, records, data, 
charts, and files shall be kept separate and distinct from the 
congressional office records of the member serving as Chair; and such 
records shall be the property of the House and all members of the House 
shall have access thereto. 
       (d) House records of the Committee which are at the National 
Archives shall be made available pursuant to House Rule VII. The Chair 
shall notify the ranking minority member of any decision to withhold a 
record pursuant to the rule, and shall present the matter to the 
Committee upon written request of any Committee member. 
       (e) To the maximum extent feasible, the Committee shall make its 
publications available in electronic form. 

                                RULE NO. 5: PROXIES  

       No vote by any member in the Committee may be cast by proxy. 

                  RULE NO. 6__POWER TO SIT AND ACT; SUBPOENA POWER 

       (a) For the purpose of carrying out any of its functions and 
duties under House Rules X and XI, the Committee or any subcommittee 
thereof is authorized (subject to subparagraph (b)(1) of this 
paragraph)__ 
       (1) 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; and 
       (2) to require, by subpoena or otherwise, the attendance and 
testimony of such witnesses and the production of such books, records, 
correspondence, memorandums, papers, documents and other materials as 
it deems necessary, including materials in electronic form. The Chair, 
or any member designated by the Chair, may administer oaths to any 
witness. 
       (b)(1) A subpoena may be authorized and issued by the Committee 
or subcommittee in the conduct of any investigation or series of 
investigations or activities, only when authorized by a majority of the 
members voting, a majority being present. The power to authorize and 
issue subpoenas under subparagraph (a)(2) may be delegated to the Chair 
pursuant to such rules and under such limitations as the Committee may 
prescribe. Authorized subpoenas shall be signed by the Chair or by any 
member designated by the Committee, and may be served by any person 
designated by the Chair or such member. 
       (2) Compliance with any subpoena issued by the Committee or a 
subcommittee may be enforced only as authorized or directed by the 
House. 

                             RULE NO. 7: QUORUMS 

       No measure or recommendation shall be reported to the House 
unless a majority of the Committee is actually present. For the 
purposes of taking any action other than reporting any measure, 
issuance of a subpoena, closing meetings, promulgating Committee 
orders, or changing the rules of the Committee, one-third of the 
members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum. For purposes of 
taking testimony and receiving evidence, two members shall constitute a 
quorum. 

                         RULE NO. 8: AMENDMENTS 

       Any amendment offered to any pending legislation before the 
Committee or a subcommittee must be made available in written form when 
requested by any member of the Committee. If such amendment is not 
available in written form when requested, the Chair will allow an 
appropriate period of time for the provision thereof. 

                         RULE NO. 9: HEARING PROCEDURES 

       (a) The Chair, in the case of hearings to be conducted by the 
Committee, and the appropriate subcommittee chair, in the case of 
hearings to be conducted by a subcommittee, shall make public 
announcement of the date, place, and subject matter of any hearing to 
be conducted on any measure or matter at least one (1) week before the 
commencement of that hearing. If the Chair, with the concurrence of the 
ranking minority member, determines that there is good cause to begin 
the hearing sooner, or if the Committee so determines by majority vote, 
a quorum being present, the Chair shall make the announcement at the 
earliest possible date. The clerk of the Committee shall promptly 
notify the Daily Digest Clerk of the Congressional Record as soon as 
possible after such public announcement is made. 
       (b) Unless excused by the Chair, each witness who is to appear 
before the 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 his or her proposed testimony and shall limit his 
or her oral presentation to a summary of his or her statement. 
       (c) When any hearing is conducted by the Committee upon any 
measure or matter, the minority party members on the Committee shall be 
entitled, upon request to the Chair by a majority of those minority 
members before the completion of such hearing, to call witnesses 
selected by the minority to testify with respect to that measure or 
matter during at least one day of hearings thereon. 
       (d) Any member of the Committee may, if a subcommittee grants 
unanimous consent for a specific hearing, be permitted to sit during 
that hearing with a subcommittee on which he or she does not serve, but 
no member who has not been elected to a subcommittee shall count for a 
quorum, offer any measure, motion, or amendment, or vote on any matter 
before that subcommittee. 
       (e) Committee or subcommittee members may question witnesses 
only when they have been recognized by the Chair for that purpose, and 
only for a 5-minute period until all members present have had an 
opportunity to question a witness. The 5-minute period for questioning 
a witness by any one member can be extended as provided by House Rules. 
The questioning of a witness in Committee or subcommittee hearings 
shall be initiated by the Chair, followed by the ranking minority 
member and all other members alternating between the majority and 
minority. In recognizing members to question witnesses in this fashion, 
the Chair shall take into consideration the ratio of the majority to 
minority members present and shall establish the order of recognition 
for questioning in such a manner as not to disadvantage the members of 
the majority. The Chair may accomplish this by recognizing two majority 
members for each minority member recognized. 
       (f) The following additional rules shall apply to hearings of 
the Committee or a subcommittee, as applicable: 
       (1) The Chair at a hearing shall announce in an opening 
statement the subject of the investigation. 
       (2) A copy of the Committee rules and this clause shall be made 
available to each witness as provided by clause 2(k)(2) of Rule XI. 
       (3) Witnesses at hearings may be accompanied by their own 
counsel for the purpose of advising them concerning their 
constitutional rights. 
       (4) The Chair 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) If the Committee determines that evidence or testimony at a 
hearing may tend to defame, degrade, or incriminate any person, it 
shall__ 
       (A) afford such person an opportunity voluntarily to appear as a 
witness; 
       (B) receive such evidence or testimony in executive session; and 
(C) receive and dispose of requests from such person to subpoena 
additional witnesses. 
       (6) Except as provided in subparagraph (f)(5), the Chair shall 
receive and the Committee shall dispose of requests to subpoena 
additional witnesses. 
       (7) No evidence or testimony taken in executive session may be 
released or used in public sessions without the consent of the 
Committee. 
       (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. 

            RULE NO. 10: PROCEDURES FOR REPORTING MEASURES OR MATTERS 

       (a)(1) It shall be the duty of the Chair to report or cause to 
be reported promptly to the House any measure approved by the Committee 
and to take or cause to be taken necessary steps to bring the matter to 
a vote. 
       (2) In any event, the report of the Committee on a measure which 
has been approved by the Committee shall be filed within 7 calendar 
days (exclusive of days on which the House is not in session) after the 
day on which there has been filed with the clerk of the Committee a 
written request, signed by a majority of the members of the Committee, 
for the reporting of that measure. Upon the filing of any such request, 
the clerk of the Committee shall transmit immediately to the Chair 
notice of the filing of that request. 
       (b)(1) No measure or recommendation shall be reported to the 
House unless a majority of the Committee is actually present. 
       (2) With respect to each record vote on a motion to report any 
measure or matter of a public character, and on any amendment offered 
to the measure or matter, the total number of votes cast for and 
against, and the names of those members voting for and against, shall 
be included in the Committee report on the measure or matter. 
       (c) The report of the Committee on a measure or matter which has 
been approved by the Committee shall include the matters required by 
Clause 3(c) of Rule XIII of the Rules of the House. 
       (d) Each report of the Committee on each bill or joint 
resolution of a public character reported by the Committee shall 
include a statement citing the specific powers granted to the Congress 
in the Constitution to enact the law proposed by the bill or joint 
resolution. 
       (e) If, at the time any measure or matter is ordered reported by 
the Committee, any member of the Committee gives notice of intention to 
file supplemental, minority, or additional views, that member shall be 
entitled to not less than two additional calendar days after the day of 
such notice, commencing on the day on which the measure or matter(s) 
was approved, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays, in 
which to file such views, in writing and signed by that member, with 
the clerk of the Committee. All such views so filed by one or more 
members of the Committee shall be included within, and shall be a part 
of, the report filed by the Committee with respect to that measure or 
matter. The report of the Committee upon that measure or matter shall 
be printed in a single volume which__ 
       (1) shall include all supplemental, minority, or additional 
views, in the form submitted, by the time of the filing of the report, 
and 
       (2) shall bear upon its cover a recital that any such 
supplemental, minority, or additional views (and any material submitted 
under subparagraph (c)) are included as part of the report. This 
subparagraph does not preclude__ 
       (A) the immediate filing or printing of a Committee report 
unless timely request for the opportunity to file supplemental, 
minority, or additional views has been made as provided by paragraph 
(c); or 
       (B) the filing of any supplemental report upon any measure or 
matter which may be required for the correction of any technical error 
in a previous report made by the Committee upon that measure or matter. 
       (3) shall, when appropriate, contain the documents required by 
Clause 3(e) of Rule XIII of the Rules of the House. 
       (f) The Chair, following consultation with the ranking minority 
member, is directed to offer a motion under clause 1 of Rule XXII of 
the Rules of the House, relating to going to conference with the 
Senate, whenever the Chair considers it appropriate. 
       (g) If hearings have been held on any such measure or matter so 
reported, the Committee shall make every reasonable effort to have such 
hearings published and available to the members of the House prior to 
the consideration of such measure or matter in the House. 
       (h) The Chair may designate any majority member of the Committee 
to act as ``floor manager'' of a bill or resolution during its 
consideration in the House. 

                     RULE NO. 11: COMMITTEE OVERSIGHT 

       The Committee shall conduct oversight of matters within the 
jurisdiction of the Committee in accordance with House Rule X, clause 2 
and clause 4. Not later than February 15 of the first session of a 
Congress, the Committee shall, in a meeting that is open to the public 
and with a quorum present, adopt its oversight plan for that Congress 
in accordance with House Rule X, clause 2(d). 

    RULE NO. 12: REVIEW OF CONTINUING PROGRAMS; BUDGET ACT PROVISIONS 

       (a) The Committee shall, in its consideration of all bills and 
joint resolutions of a public character within its jurisdiction, ensure 
that appropriation for continuing programs and activities of the 
Federal Government will be made annually to the maximum extent feasible 
and consistent with the nature, requirement, and objectives of the 
programs and activities involved. For the purposes of this paragraph a 
Government agency includes the organizational units of government 
listed in Clause 4(e) of Rule X of House Rules. 
       (b) The Committee shall review, from time to time, each 
continuing program within its jurisdiction for which appropriations are 
not made annually in order to ascertain whether such program could be 
modified so that appropriations therefore would be made annually. 
       (c) The Committee shall, on or before February 25 of each year, 
submit to the Committee on the Budget (1) 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 which are within its 
jurisdiction or functions, and (2) an estimate of the total amounts of 
new budget authority, and budget outlays resulting there from, to be 
provided or authorized in all bills and resolutions within its 
jurisdiction which it intends to be effective during that fiscal year. 
       (d) As soon as practicable after a concurrent resolution on the 
budget for any fiscal year is agreed to, the Committee (after 
consulting with the appropriate committee or committees of the Senate) 
shall subdivide any allocation made to it in the joint explanatory 
statement accompanying the conference report on such resolution, and 
promptly report such subdivisions to the House, in the manner provided 
by section 302 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. 
       (e) Whenever the Committee is directed in a concurrent 
resolution on the budget to determine and recommend changes in laws, 
bills, or resolutions under the reconciliation process it shall 
promptly make such determination and recommendations, and report a 
reconciliation bill or resolution (or both) to the House or submit such 
recommendations to the Committee on the Budget, in accordance with the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974. 

          RULE NO. 13: BROADCASTING OF COMMITTEE HEARINGS AND MEETINGS 

       Whenever any hearing or meeting conducted by the Committee is 
open to the public, those proceedings shall be open to coverage by 
television, radio, and still photography, as provided in Clause 4 of 
House Rule XI, subject to the limitations therein. Operation and use of 
any Committee Internet broadcast system shall be fair and nonpartisan 
and in accordance with Clause 4(b) of rule XI and all other applicable 
rules of the Committee and the House. 

                RULE NO. 14: COMMITTEE AND SUBCOMMITTEE STAFF 

       The staff of the Committee on House Administration shall be 
appointed as follows: 
       (a) The staff shall be appointed by the Chair except as provided 
in paragraph (b), and may be removed by the Chair, and shall work under 
the general supervision and direction of the Chair; 
       (b) All staff provided to the minority party members of the 
Committee shall be appointed by the ranking member, and may be removed 
by the ranking minority member of the Committee, and shall work under 
the general supervision and direction of such member; 
       (c) The appointment of all professional staff shall be subject 
to the approval of the Committee as provided by, and subject to the 
provisions of, clause 9 of Rule X of the Rules of the House; 
       (d) The Chair shall fix the compensation of all staff of the 
Committee, after consultation with the ranking minority member 
regarding any minority party staff, within the budget approved for such 
purposes for the Committee. 

                     RULE NO. 15: TRAVEL OF MEMBERS AND STAFF 

       (a) Consistent with the primary expense resolution and such 
additional expense resolutions as may have been approved, the 
provisions of this rule shall govern travel of Committee members and 
staff. Travel for any member or any staff member shall be paid only 
upon the prior authorization of the Chair or her or his designee. 
Travel may be authorized by the Chair for any member and any staff 
member in connection with the attendance at hearings conducted by the 
Committee and meetings, conferences, and investigations which involve 
activities or subject matter under the general jurisdiction of the 
Committee. Before such authorization is given there shall be submitted 
to the Chair in writing the following: 
       (1) The purpose of the travel; 
       (2) The dates during which the travel will occur; 
       (3) The locations to be visited and the length of time to be 
spent in each; and 
       (4) The names of members and staff seeking authorization. 
       (b)(1) In the case of travel outside the United States of 
members and staff of the Committee for the purpose of conducting 
hearings, investigations, studies, or attending meetings and 
conferences involving activities or subject matter under the 
legislative assignment of the committee, prior authorization must be 
obtained from the Chair. Before such authorization is given, there 
shall be submitted to the Chair, in writing, a request for such 
authorization. Each request, which shall be filed in a manner that 
allows for a reasonable period of time for review before such travel is 
scheduled to begin, shall include the following: 
       (A) the purpose of the travel; 
       (B) the dates during which the travel will occur; 
       (C) the names of the countries to be visited and the length of 
time to be spent in each; 
       (D) an agenda of anticipated activities for each country for 
which travel is authorized together with a description of the purpose 
to be served and the areas of committee jurisdiction involved; and 
       (E) the names of members and staff for whom authorization is 
sought. 
       (2) At the conclusion of any hearing, investigation, study, 
meeting or conference for which travel outside the United States has 
been authorized pursuant to this rule, members and staff attending 
meetings or conferences shall submit a written report to the Chair 
covering the activities and other pertinent observations or information 
gained as a result of such travel. 
       (c) Members and staff of the Committee performing authorized 
travel on official business shall be governed by applicable laws, 
resolutions, or regulations of the House and of the Committee on House 
Administration pertaining to such travel. 

           RULE NO. 16: NUMBER AND JURISDICTION OF SUBCOMMITTEES 

       (a) There shall be two standing subcommittees, with party ratios 
of members as indicated. Subcommittees shall have jurisdictions as 
stated by these rules, may conduct oversight over such subject matter, 
and may consider such legislation as may be referred to them by the 
Chair. The names and jurisdiction of the subcommittees shall be: 
       (1) Subcommittee on Capitol Security_(2/1). Matters pertaining 
to operations and security of the Congress, and of the Capitol complex 
including the House wing of the Capitol, the House Office Buildings, 
the Library of Congress, and other policies and facilities supporting 
congressional operations; the U.S. Capitol Police. 
       (2) Subcommittee on Elections_(4/2). Matters pertaining to the 
Federal Election Campaign Act, the Federal Contested Elections Act, the 
Help America Vote Act, the National Voter Registration Act, the 
Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act, the Federal Voting 
Assistance Program, the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, the Americans 
with Disabilities Act (accessibility for voters with disabilities), the 
Federal Elections Commission (FEC), the Elections Assistance Commission 
(EAC), and other election related issues. 
       (b) No subcommittee shall meet during any full Committee meeting 
or hearing. 
       (c) The Chair may establish and appoint members to serve on task 
forces of the Committee, to perform specific functions for limited 
periods of time, as she or he deems appropriate. 

             RULE NO. 17: REFERRAL OF LEGISLATION TO SUBCOMMITTEES 

       The Chair may refer legislation or other matters to a 
subcommittee, or subcommittees, as she or he considers appropriate. The 
Chair may discharge any subcommittee of any matter referred to it. 


               RULE NO. 18: OTHER PROCEDURES AND REGULATIONS 

       The Chair may establish such other procedures and take such 
actions as may be necessary to carry out the foregoing rules or to 
facilitate the effective operation of the committee. 


             RULE NO. 19: DESIGNATION OF CLERK OF THE COMMITTEE 

       For the purposes of these rules and the Rules of the House of 
Representatives, the staff director of the Committee shall act as the 
clerk of the Committee. 

                          Committee on the Judiciary 

                     JOHN CONYERS, JR., Michigan, Chairman 
HOWARD L. BERMAN, California         LAMAR SMITH, Texas, Ranking Member 
RICK BOUCHER, Virginia               F. JAMES SENSENBRENNER, JR., 
JERROLD NADLER, New York               Wisconsin 
ROBERT C. ``BOBBY'' SCOTT,           HOWARD COBLE, North Carolina 
  Virginia                           ELTON GALLEGLY, California 
MELVIN L. WATT, North Carolina       BOB GOODLATTE, Virginia 
ZOE LOFGREN, California              DANIEL E. LUNGREN, California 
SHEILA JACKSON LEE, Texas            DARRELL E. ISSA, California 
MAXINE WATERS, California            J. RANDY FORBES, Virginia 
BILL DELAHUNT, Massachusetts         STEVE KING, Iowa 
ROBERT WEXLER, Florida               TRENT FRANKS, Arizona 
STEVE COHEN, Tennessee               LOUIE GOHMERT, Texas 
HENRY C. ``HANK'' JOHNSON, JR.,      JIM JORDAN, Ohio 
  Georgia                            TED POE, Texas 
PEDRO R. PIERLUISI, Puerto Rico      JASON CHAFFETZ, Utah 
MIKE QUIGLEY, Illinois               THOMAS J. ROONEY, Florida 
LUIS V. GUTIERREZ, Illinois          GREGG HARPER, Mississippi 
BRAD SHERMAN, California 
TAMMY BALDWIN, Wisconsin 
CHARLES A. GONZALEZ, Texas 
ANTHONY D. WEINER, New York 
ADAM B. SCHIFF, California 
LINDA T. SANCHEZ, California 
DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Florida 
DANIEL B. MAFFEI, New York 

                          (Adopted January 22, 2009) 

                                  RULE I. 

       The Rules of the House of Representatives are the rules of the 
Committee on the Judiciary and its Subcommittees with the following 
specific additions thereto.

                          RULE II.__COMMITTEE MEETINGS 

       (a) The regular meeting day of the Committee on the Judiciary 
for the conduct of its business shall be on Wednesday of each week 
while the House is in session. 
       (b) Additional meetings may be called by the Chairman and a 
regular meeting of the Committee may be dispensed with when, in the 
judgment of the Chairman, there is no need therefor. 
       (c) At least 24 hours (excluding Saturdays, Sundays and legal 
holidays when the House is not in session) before each scheduled 
Committee or Subcommittee meeting, each Member of the Committee or 
Subcommittee shall be furnished a list of the bill(s) and subject(s) to 
be considered and/or acted upon at the meeting. Bills or subjects not 
listed shall be subject to a point of order unless their consideration 
is agreed to by a two-thirds vote of the Committee or Subcommittee.
       (d) In an emergency that does not reasonably allow for 24 hours' 
notice, the Chairman may waive the 24-hour notice requirement with the 
agreement of the Ranking Minority Member. 
       (e) Committee and Subcommittee meetings for the transaction of 
business, i.e., meetings other than those held for the purpose of 
taking testimony, shall be open to the public except when the Committee 
or Subcommittee determines by majority vote to close the meeting 
because disclosure of matters to be considered would endanger national 
security, would compromise sensitive law enforcement information, or 
would tend to defame, degrade or incriminate any person or otherwise 
would violate any law or rule of the House. 
       (f) Every motion made to the Committee and entertained by the 
Chairman shall be reduced to writing upon demand of any Member, and a 
copy made available to each Member present. 
       (g) For purposes of taking any action at a meeting of the full 
Committee or any Subcommittee thereof, a quorum shall be constituted by 
the presence of not less than one-third of the Members of the Committee 
or subcommittee, except that a full majority of the Members of the 
Committee or Subcommittee shall constitute a quorum for purposes of 
reporting a measure or recommendation from the Committee or 
Subcommittee, closing a meeting to the public, or authorizing the 
issuance of a subpoena. 
       (h)(1) Subject to subparagraph (2), 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. 
       (2) In exercising postponement authority under subparagraph (1), 
the Chairman shall take all reasonable steps necessary to notify 
Members on the resumption of proceedings on any postponed record vote. 
       (3) 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. 
       (i) Transcripts of markups shall be recorded and may be 
published in the same manner as hearings before the Committee. 
       (j) Without further action of the Committee, the Chairman is 
directed 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 III.__HEARINGS 

       (a) The Committee Chairman or any subcommittee chairman shall 
make public announcement of the date, place, and subject matter of any 
hearing to be conducted by it on any measure or matter at least one 
week before the commencement of that hearing. If the Chairman of the 
Committee, or Subcommittee, with the concurrence of the Ranking 
Minority Member, determines there is good cause to begin the hearing 
sooner, or if the Committee or Subcommittee so determines by majority 
vote, a quorum being present for the transaction of business, the 
Chairman or Subcommittee chairman shall make the announcement at the 
earliest possible date. 
       (b) Committee and Subcommittee hearings shall be open to the 
public except when the Committee or Subcommittee determines by majority 
vote to close the meeting because disclosure of matters to be 
considered would endanger national security, would compromise sensitive 
law enforcement information, or would tend to defame, degrade or 
incriminate any person or otherwise would violate any law or rule of 
the House. 
       (c) For purposes of taking testimony and receiving evidence 
before the Committee or any Subcommittee, a quorum shall be constituted 
by the presence of two Members. 
       (d) In the course of any hearing each Member shall be allowed 
five minutes for the interrogation of a witness until such time as each 
Member who so desires has had an opportunity to question the witness. 
       (e) The transcripts of those hearings conducted by the Committee 
which are decided to be printed shall be published in verbatim form, 
with the material requested for the record inserted at that place 
requested, or at the end of the record, as appropriate. Individuals, 
including Members of Congress, whose comments are to be published as 
part of a Committee document shall be given the opportunity to verify 
the accuracy of the transcription in advance of publication. Any 
requests by those Members, staff or witnesses to correct any errors 
other than errors in the transcription, or disputed errors in 
transcription, shall be appended to the record, and the appropriate 
place where the change is requested will be footnoted. Prior to 
approval by the Chairman of hearings conducted jointly with another 
congressional Committee, a memorandum of understanding shall be 
prepared which incorporates an agreement for the publication of the 
verbatim transcript. 

                           RULE IV.__BROADCASTING 

       Whenever a hearing or meeting conducted by the Committee or any 
Subcommittee is open to the public, those proceedings shall be open to 
coverage by television, radio and still photography except when the 
hearing or meeting is closed pursuant to the Committee Rules of 
Procedure. 

                         RULE V.__STANDING SUBCOMMITTEES 

       (a) The full Committee shall have jurisdiction over the 
following subject matters: copyright, patent, and trademark law, 
information technology, tort liability, including medical malpractice 
and product liability, legal reform generally, and such other matters 
as determined by the Chairman. 
       (b) There shall be five standing Subcommittees of the Committee 
on the Judiciary, with jurisdictions as follows: 
       (1) Subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy: antitrust 
law, monopolies, and restraints of trade, administration of U.S. 
courts, Federal Rules of Evidence, Civil and Appellate Procedure, 
judicial ethics, other appropriate matters as referred by the Chairman, 
and relevant oversight. 
       (2) Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil 
Liberties: constitutional amendments, constitutional rights, federal 
civil rights laws, ethics in government, other appropriate matters as 
referred by the Chairman, and relevant oversight. 
       (3) Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law: 
bankruptcy and commercial law, bankruptcy judgeships, administrative 
law, independent counsel, state taxation affecting interstate commerce, 
interstate compacts, other appropriate matters as referred by the 
Chairman, and relevant oversight. 
       (4) Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security: 
Federal Criminal Code, drug enforcement, sentencing, parole and 
pardons, terrorism, internal and homeland security, Federal Rules of 
Criminal Procedure, prisons, criminal law enforcement, other 
appropriate matters as referred by the Chairman, and relevant 
oversight. 
       (5) Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border 
Security, and International Law: immigration and naturalization, border 
security, admission of refugees, treaties, conventions and 
international agreements, claims against the United States, federal 
charters of incorporation, private immigration and claims bills, 
non-border enforcement, other appropriate mattersas referred by the 
Chairman, and relevant oversight. 
       (c) The Chairman of the Committee and Ranking Minority Member 
thereof shall be ex officio Members, but not voting Members, of each 
Subcommittee to which such Chairman or Ranking Minority Member has not 
been assigned by resolution of the Committee. Ex officio Members shall 
not be counted as present for purposes of constituting a quorum at any 
hearing or meeting of such Subcommittee. 

                  RULE VI.__POWERS AND DUTIES OF SUBCOMMITTEES 

       Each Subcommittee is authorized to meet, hold hearings, receive 
evidence, and report to the full Committee on all matters referred to 
it or under its jurisdiction. Subcommittee chairmen shall set dates for 
hearings and meetings of their respective Subcommittees after 
consultation with the Chairman and other Subcommittee chairmen with a 
view toward avoiding simultaneous scheduling of full Committee and 
Subcommittee meetings or hearings whenever possible. 

                       RULE VII.__NON-LEGISLATIVE REPORTS 

       No report of the Committee or Subcommittee which does not 
accompany a measure or matter for consideration by the House shall be 
published unless all Members of the Committee or Subcommittee issuing 
the report shall have been apprised of such report and given the 
opportunity to give notice of intention to file supplemental, 
additional, or dissenting views as part of the report. In no case shall 
the time in which to file such views be less than three calendar days 
(excluding Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays when the House is not 
in session). 

                          RULE VIII.__COMMITTEE RECORDS 

       The records of the Committee at the National Archives and 
Records Administration shall be made available for public use according 
to the Rules of the House. The Chairman shall notify the Ranking 
Minority Member of any decision 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. 

                         RULE IX.__OFFICIAL COMMITTEE WEBSITE 

       (a) The Chairman shall maintain an official website on behalf of 
the Committee 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. 
       (b) The Chairman shall make the record of the votes on any 
question on which a record vote is demanded in the full Committee 
available on the Committee's official website not later than 3 
legislative days after such vote is taken. Such record shall identify 
or describe 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 the Members 
voting present. 
       (c) The Ranking Member is authorized to maintain a similar 
official website on behalf of the Committee Minority for the same 
purpose, including communicating information about the activities of 
the Minority to Committee Members and other Members of the House. 

                      Committee on Natural Resources 

                NICK J. RAHALL, II, West Virginia, Chairman
DALE E. KILDEE, Michigan              DOC HASTINGS, Washington, Ranking 
ENI F.H. FALEOMAVAEGA, American         Republican Member 
  Samoa                               DON YOUNG, Alaska 
NEIL ABERCROMBIE, Hawaii              ELTON GALLEGLY, California 
FRANK PALLONE, JR., New Jersey        JOHN J. DUNCAN, JR., Tennessee 
GRACE F. NAPOLITANO, California       JEFF FLAKE, Arizona 
RUSH D. HOLT, New Jersey              HENRY E. BROWN, JR., 
RAUL M. GRIJALVA,           CATHY MCMORRIS RODGERS,  
  Arizona                                 Washington   
MADELEINE Z. BORDALLO, Guam           LOUIE GOHMERT, Texas                  
JIM COSTA, California                 ROB BISHOP, Utah                      
DAN BOREN, Oklahoma                   BILL SHUSTER, Pennsylvania            
GREGORIO KILILI CAMACHO               DOUG LAMBORN, Colorado                
  SABLAN, Northern Mariana Islands    ADRIAN SMITH, Nebraska                
MARTIN HEINRICH, New Mexico           ROBERT J. WITTMAN, Virginia           
GEORGE MILLER, California             PAUL C. BROUN, Georgia                
EDWARD J. MARKEY, Massachusetts       JOHN FLEMING, Louisiana               
PETER A. DEFAZIO, Oregon              MIKE COFFMAN, Colorado                
MAURICE D. HINCHEY, New York          JASON CHAFFETZ, Utah                  
DONNA M. CHRISTENSEN, Virgin          CYNTHIA M. LUMMIS, Wyoming            
  Islands                             TOM MCCLINTOCK, California            
DIANA DEGETTE, Colorado               BILL CASSIDY, Louisiana               
RON KIND, Wisconsin                   
LOIS CAPPS, California                
JAY INSLEE, Washington                
JOE BACA, California                  
STEPHANIE HERSETH SANDLIN,            
  South Dakota                        
JOHN P. SARBANES, Maryland            
CAROL SHEA-PORTER, New Hampshire      
NIKI TSONGAS, Massachusetts           
FRANK KRATOVIL, JR., Maryland         
PEDRO R. PIERLUISI, Puerto Rico       
  South Carolina                      

                            (Adopted February 4, 2009) 

                      RULE 1.__RULES OF THE HOUSE; VICE CHAIRMEN 

       (a) Applicability of House Rules. 
       (1) The Rules of the House of Representatives, so far as they 
are applicable, are the rules of the Committee on Natural Resources 
(hereinafter in these rules referred to as the ``Committee'') and its 
Subcommittees. 
       (2) Each Subcommittee is part of the Committee and is subject to 
the authority, direction and rules of the Committee. References in 
these rules to ``Committee'' and ``Chairman'' shall apply to each 
Subcommittee and its Chairman wherever applicable. 
       (3) House Rule XI is incorporated and made a part of the rules 
of the Committee to the extent applicable. 
       (b) Vice Chairmen._Unless inconsistent with other rules, the 
Chairman shall appoint a Vice Chairman of the Committee and the 
Subcommittee Chairmen will appoint Vice Chairmen of each of 
the Subcommittees. If the Chairman of the Committee or Subcommittee is 
not present at any meeting of the Committee or Subcommittee, as the 
case may be, the Vice Chairman shall preside. If the Vice Chairman is 
not present, the ranking Member of the Majority party on the Committee 
or Subcommittee who is present shall preside at that meeting. 

                          RULE 2.__MEETINGS IN GENERAL 

       (a) Scheduled Meetings._The Committee shall meet at 10 a.m. 
every Wednesday when the House is in session, unless canceled by the 
Chairman. The Committee shall also meet at the call of the Chairman 
subject to advance notice to all Members of the Committee. Special 
meetings shall be called and convened by the Chairman as provided in 
clause 2(c)(1) of House Rule XI. Any Committee meeting or hearing that 
conflicts with a party caucus, conference, or similar party meeting 
shall be rescheduled at the discretion of the Chairman, in consultation 
with the Ranking Minority Member. The 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. 
       (b) Open Meetings._Each meeting for the transaction of business, 
including the markup of legislation, and each hearing of the Committee 
or a Subcommittee shall be open to the public, except as provided by 
clause 2(g) and clause 2(k) of House Rule XI. 
       (c) Broadcasting._Whenever a meeting for the transaction of 
business, including the markup of legislation, or a hearing is open to 
the public, that meeting or hearing shall be open to coverage by 
television, radio, and still photography in accordance with clause 4 of 
House Rule XI. The provisions of clause 4(f) of House Rule XI are 
specifically made part of these rules by reference. Operation and use 
of any Committee Internet broadcast system shall be fair and 
nonpartisan and in accordance with clause 4(b) of House Rule XI and all 
other applicable rules of the Committee and the House. 
       (d) Oversight Plan._No later than February 15 of the first 
session of each Congress, the Committee shall adopt its oversight plans 
for that Congress in accordance with clause 2(d)(1) of House Rule X. 

                          RULE 3.__PROCEDURES IN GENERAL 

       (a) Agenda of Meetings; Information for Members._An agenda of 
the business to be considered at meetings shall be delivered to the 
office of each Member of the Committee no later than 48 hours before 
the  meeting. This requirement may be waived by a majority vote of the 
Committee at the time of the consideration of the measure or matter. To 
the extent practicable, a summary of the major provisions of any bill 
being considered by the Committee, including the need for the bill and 
its effect on current law, will be available for the Members of the 
Committee no later than 48 hours before the meeting. 
       (b) Meetings and Hearings to Begin Promptly._Each meeting or 
hearing of the Committee shall begin promptly at the time stipulated in 
the public announcement of the meeting or hearing. 
       (c) Addressing the Committee._A Committee Member may address the 
Committee or a Subcommittee on any bill, motion, or other matter under 
consideration or may question a witness at a hearing only when 
recognized by the Chairman for that purpose. The time a Member may 
address the Committee or Subcommittee for any purpose or to question a 
witness shall be limited to five minutes, except as provided in 
Committee Rule 4(g). A Member shall limit his remarks to the subject 
matter under consideration. The Chairman shall enforce the preceding 
provision.
       (d) Quorums. 
       (1) A majority of the Members of the Committee shall constitute 
a quorum for the reporting of any measure or recommendation, the 
authorizing of a subpoena, the closing of any meeting or hearing to the 
public under clause 2(g)(1), clause 2(g)(2)(A) and clause 2(k)(5)(B) of 
House Rule XI, and the releasing of executive session materials under 
clause 2(k)(7) of House Rule X. Testimony and evidence may be received 
at any hearing at which there are at least two Members of the Committee 
present. For the purpose of transacting all other business of the 
Committee, one third of the Members shall constitute a quorum. 
       (2) When a call of the roll is required to ascertain the 
presence of a quorum, the offices of all Members shall be notified and 
the Members shall have not less than 15 minutes to prove their 
attendance. The Chairman shall have the discretion to waive this 
requirement when a quorum is actually present or whenever a quorum is 
secured and may direct the Chief Clerk to note the names of all Members 
present within the 15-minute period. 
       (e) Participation of Members in Committee and Subcommittees._Any 
Member of the Committee may sit with any Subcommittee during any 
meeting or hearing, and by unanimous consent of the Members of the 
Subcommittee may participate in such meeting or hearing. However, a 
Member who is not a Member of the Subcommittee may not vote on any 
matter before the Subcommittee, be counted for purposes of establishing 
a quorum or raise points of order. 
       (f) Proxies._No vote in the Committee or its Subcommittees may 
be cast by proxy. 
       (g) Record Votes._Record votes shall be ordered on the demand of 
one-fifth of the Members present, or by any Member in the apparent 
absence of a quorum. 
       (h) Postponed Record Votes. 
       (1) Subject to paragraph (2), the Chairman may, after 
consultation with the Ranking Minority Member, postpone further 
proceedings when a record vote is ordered on the question of approving 
any measure or matter or adopting an amendment. The Chairman shall 
resume proceedings on a postponed request at any time after reasonable 
notice, but no later than the next meeting day. 
       (2) Notwithstanding any intervening order for the previous 
question, when proceedings resume on a postponed question under 
paragraph (1), an underlying proposition shall remain subject to 
further debate or amendment to the same extent as when the question was 
postponed. 
       (3) This rule shall apply to Subcommittee proceedings. 
       (i) Privileged Motions._A motion to recess from day to day, a 
motion to recess subject to the call of the Chairman (within 24 hours), 
and a motion to dispense with the first reading (in full) of a bill or 
resolution if printed copies are available, are nondebatable motions of 
high privilege. 
       (j) Layover and Copy of Bill._No measure or recommendation 
reported by a Subcommittee shall be considered by the Committee until 
two calendar days from the time of Subcommittee action. No bill shall 
be considered by the Committee unless a copy has been delivered to the 
office of each Member of the Committee requesting a copy. These 
requirements may be waived by a majority vote of the Committee at the 
time of consideration of the measure or recommendation. 
       (k) Access to Dais and Conference Room._Access to the hearing 
rooms' daises [and to the conference rooms adjacent to the Committee 
hearing rooms] shall be limited to Members of Congress and employees of 
the Committee during a meeting of the Committee, except that Committee 
Members' personal staff may be present on the daises if their employing 
Member is the author of a bill or amendment under consideration by the 
Committee, but only during the time that the bill or amendment is under 
active consideration by the Committee. Access to the conference rooms 
adjacent to the Committee hearing rooms shall be limited to Members of 
Congress and employees of Congress during a meeting of the Committee. 
       (l) Cellular Telephones._The use of cellular telephones is 
prohibited on the Committee dais or in the Committee hearing rooms 
during a meeting of the Committee. 
       (m) Motion to go to Conference with the Senate. The Chairman may 
offer a motion under clause 1 of Rule XXII whenever the Chairman 
considers it appropriate. 

                           RULE 4.__HEARING PROCEDURES 

       (a) Announcement._The Chairman shall publicly announce the date, 
place, and subject matter of any hearing at least one week before the 
hearing unless the Chairman, with the concurrence of the Ranking 
Minority Member, determines that there is good cause to begin the 
hearing sooner, or if the Committee so determines by majority vote. In 
these cases, the Chairman shall publicly announce the hearing at the 
earliest possible date. The Chief Clerk of the Committee shall promptly 
notify the Daily Digest Clerk of the Congressional Record and shall 
promptly enter the appropriate information on the Committee's web site 
as soon as possible after the public announcement is made. 
       (b) Written Statement; Oral Testimony._Each witness who is to 
appear before the Committee or a Subcommittee shall file with the Chief 
Clerk of the Committee or Subcommittee Clerk, at least two working days 
before the day of his or her appearance, a written statement of their 
proposed testimony. Failure to comply with this requirement may result 
in the exclusion of the written testimony from the hearing record 
and/or the barring of an oral presentation of the testimony. Each 
witness shall limit his or her oral presentation to a five-minute 
summary of the written statement, unless the Chairman, in consultation 
with the Ranking Minority Member, extends this time period. In 
addition, all witnesses shall be required to submit with their 
testimony a resume or other statement describing their education, 
employment, professional affiliations and other background information 
pertinent to their testimony. 
       (c) Minority Witnesses._When any hearing is conducted by the 
Committee or any Subcommittee upon any measure or matter, the Minority 
party Members on the Committee or Subcommittee shall be entitled, upon 
request to the Chairman by a majority of those Minority Members 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 hearings thereon. 
       (d) Information for Members._After announcement of a hearing, 
the Committee shall make available as soon as practicable to all 
Members of the Committee a tentative witness list and to the extent 
practicable a memorandum explaining the subject matter of the hearing 
(including relevant legislative reports and other necessary material). 
In addition, the Chairman shall make available to the Members of the 
Committee any official reports from departments and agencies on the 
subject matter as they are received. 
       (e) Subpoenas._The Committee or a Subcommittee may authorize and 
issue a subpoena under clause 2(m) of House Rule XI if authorized by a 
majority of the Members voting. In addition, the Chairman of the 
Committee may authorize and issue subpoenas during any period of time 
in which the House of Representatives has adjourned for more than three 
days. Subpoenas shall be signed only by the Chairman of the Committee, 
or any Member of the Committee authorized by the Committee, and may be 
served by any person designated by the Chairman or Member. 
       (f) Oaths._The Chairman of the Committee or any Member 
designated by the Chairman may administer oaths to any witness before 
the Committee. All witnesses appearing in hearings may be administered 
the following oath by the Chairman or his designee prior to receiving 
the testimony: ``Do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony 
that you are about to give is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing 
but the truth, so help you God?''. 
       (g) Opening Statements; Questioning of Witnesses. 
       (1) Opening statements by Members may not be presented orally, 
unless the Chairman or his designee makes a statement, in which case 
the Ranking Minority Member or his designee may also make a statement. 
If a witness scheduled to testify at any hearing of the Committee is a 
constituent of a Member of the Committee, that Member shall be entitled 
to introduce the witness at the hearing. 
       (2) The questioning of witnesses in Committee and Subcommittee 
hearings shall be initiated by the Chairman, followed by the Ranking 
Minority Member and all other Members alternating between the Majority 
and Minority parties. In recognizing Members to question witnesses, the 
Chairman shall take into consideration the ratio of the Majority to 
Minority Members present and shall establish the order of recognition 
for questioning in a manner so as not to disadvantage the Members of 
the Majority or the Members of the Minority. A motion is in order to 
allow designated Majority and Minority party Members to question a 
witness for a specified period to be equally divided between the 
Majority and Minority parties. This period shall not exceed one hour in 
the aggregate. 
       (h) Materials for Hearing Record._Any materials submitted 
specifically for inclusion in the hearing record must address the 
announced subject matter of the hearing and be submitted to the 
relevant Subcommittee Clerk or Chief Clerk no later than 10 business 
days following the last day of the hearing. 
       (i) Claims of Privilege._Claims of common-law privileges made by 
witnesses in hearings, or by interviewees or deponents in 
investigations or inquiries, are applicable only at the discretion of 
the Chairman, subject to appeal to the Committee. 

                    RULE 5.__FILING OF COMMITTEE REPORTS 

       (a) Duty of Chairman._Whenever the Committee authorizes the 
favorable reporting of a measure from the Committee, the Chairman or 
his designee shall report the same to the House of Representatives and 
shall take all steps necessary to secure its passage without any 
additional authority needing to be set forth in the motion to report 
each individual measure. In appropriate cases, the authority set forth 
in this rule shall extend to moving in accordance with the Rules of the 
House of Representatives that the House be resolved into the Committee 
of the Whole House on the State of the Union for the consideration of 
the measure; and to moving in accordance with the Rules of the House of 
Representatives for the disposition of a Senate measure that is 
substantially the same as the House measure as reported. 
       (b) Filing._A report on a measure which has been approved by the 
Committee shall be filed within seven calendar days (exclusive of days 
on which the House of Representatives is not in session) after the day 
on which there has been filed with the Committee Chief Clerk a written 
request, signed by a majority of the Members of the Committee, for the 
reporting of that measure. Upon the filing with the Committee Chief 
Clerk of this request, the Chief Clerk shall transmit immediately to 
the Chairman notice of the filing of that request. 
       (c) Supplemental, Additional or Minority Views._Any Member may, 
if notice is given at the time a bill or resolution is approved by the 
Committee, file supplemental, additional, or minority views. These 
views must be in writing and signed by each Member joining therein and 
be filed with the Committee Chief Clerk not less than two additional 
calendar days (excluding Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays except 
when the House is in session on those days) of the time the bill or 
resolution is approved by the Committee. This paragraph shall not 
preclude the filing of any supplemental report on any bill or 
resolution that may be required for the correction of any technical 
error in a previous report made by the Committee on that bill or 
resolution. 
       (d) Review by Members._Each Member of the Committee shall be 
given an opportunity to review each proposed Committee report before it 
is filed with the Clerk of the House of Representatives. Nothing in 
this paragraph extends the time allowed for filing supplemental, 
additional or minority views under paragraph (c). 
       (e) Disclaimer._All Committee or Subcommittee reports printed 
and not approved by a majority vote of the Committee or Subcommittee, 
as appropriate, shall contain the following disclaimer on the cover of 
the report: ``This report has not been officially adopted by the 
{Committee on Natural Resources} {Subcommittee} and may not therefore 
necessarily reflect the views of its Members.''. 

  RULE 6.__ESTABLISHMENT OF SUBCOMMITTEES; FULL COMMITTEE JURISDICTION; 
                            BILL REFERRALS 

       (a) Subcommittees._There shall be four standing Subcommittees of 
the Committee, with the following jurisdiction and responsibilities: 
       Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands 
       1) Measures and matters related to the National Park System and 
its units, including Federal reserved water rights. 
       (2) The National Wilderness Preservation System. 
       (3) Wild and Scenic Rivers System, National Trails System, 
national heritage areas and other national units established for 
protection, conservation, preservation or recreational development, 
other than coastal barriers. 
       (4) Military parks and battlefields, national cemeteries 
administered by the Secretary of the Interior, parks in and within the 
vicinity of the District of Columbia and the erection of monuments to 
the memory of individuals. 
       (5) Federal and non-Federal outdoor recreation plans, programs 
and administration including the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act 
of 1965 and the Outdoor Recreation Act of 1963. 
       (6) Preservation of prehistoric ruins and objects of interest on 
the public domain and other historic preservation programs and 
activities, including national monuments, historic sites and programs 
for international cooperation in the field of historic preservation. 
       (7) Matters concerning the following agencies and programs: 
Urban Parks and Recreation Recovery Program, Historic American 
Buildings Survey, Historic American Engineering Record, and U.S. 
Holocaust Memorial. 
       (8) Public lands generally, including measures or matters 
relating to entry, easements, withdrawals, grazing and Federal reserved 
water rights. 
       (9) Forfeiture of land grants and alien ownership, including 
alien ownership of mineral lands. 
       (10) Cooperative efforts to encourage, enhance and improve 
international programs for the protection of the environment and the 
conservation of natural resources otherwise within the jurisdiction of 
the Subcommittee. 
       (11) Forest reservations, including management thereof, created 
from the public domain. 
       (12) Public forest lands generally, including measures or 
matters related to entry, easements, withdrawals, grazing and Federal 
reserved water rights. 
       (13) General and continuing oversight and investigative 
authority over activities, policies and programs within the 
jurisdiction of the Subcommittee. 
       Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife 
       (1) All matters regarding insular areas of the United States. 
       (2) All measures or matters regarding the Freely Associated 
States and Antarctica. 
       (3) Fisheries management and fisheries research generally, 
including the management of all commercial and recreational fisheries, 
the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, 
interjurisdictional fisheries, international fisheries agreements, 
aquaculture, seafood safety and fisheries promotion. 
       (4) Wildlife resources, including research, restoration, refuges 
and conservation. 
       (5) All matters pertaining to the protection of coastal and 
marine environments, including estuarine protection. 
       (6) Coastal barriers. 
       (7) Oceanography. 
       (8) Ocean engineering, including materials, technology and 
systems. 
       (9) Coastal zone management. 
       (10) Marine sanctuaries. 
       (11) U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea. 
       (12) Sea Grant programs and marine extension services. 
       (13) Cooperative efforts to encourage, enhance and improve 
international programs for the protection of the environment and the 
conservation of natural resources otherwise within the jurisdiction of 
the Subcommittee. 
       (14) General and continuing oversight and investigative 
authority over activities, policies and programs within the 
jurisdiction of the Subcommittee. 
       Subcommittee on Water and Power 
       (1) Generation and marketing of electric power from Federal 
water projects by Federally chartered or Federal regional power 
marketing authorities. 
       (2) All measures and matters concerning water resources planning 
conducted pursuant to the Water Resources Planning Act, water resource 
research and development programs and saline water research and 
development. 
       (3) Compacts relating to the use and apportionment of interstate 
waters, water rights and major interbasin water or power movement 
programs. 
       (4) All measures and matters pertaining to irrigation and 
reclamation projects and other water resources development and 
recycling programs, including policies and procedures. 
       (5) Indian water rights and settlements. 
       (6) Cooperative efforts to encourage, enhance and improve 
international programs for the protection of the environment and the 
conservation of natural resources otherwise within the jurisdiction of 
the Subcommittee. 
       (7) General and continuing oversight and investigative authority 
over activities, policies and programs within the jurisdiction of the 
Subcommittee. 
       Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources 
       (1) All measures and matters concerning the U.S. Geological 
Survey, except for the activities and programs of the Water Resources 
Division or its successor. 
       (2) All measures and matters affecting geothermal resources. 
       (3) Conservation of United States uranium supply. 
       (4) Mining interests generally, including all matters involving 
mining regulation and enforcement, including the reclamation of mined 
lands, the environmental effects of mining, and the management of 
mineral receipts, mineral land laws and claims, long-range mineral 
programs and deep seabed mining. 
       (5) Mining schools, experimental stations and long-range mineral 
programs. 
       (6) Mineral resources on public lands. 
       (7) Conservation and development of oil and gas resources of the 
Outer Continental Shelf. 
       (8) Petroleum conservation on the public lands and conservation 
of the radium supply in the United States. 
       (9) Measures and matters concerning the transportation of 
natural gas from or within Alaska and disposition of oil transported by 
the trans-Alaska oil pipeline. 
       (10) Rights of way over public lands for underground 
energy-related transportation. 
       (11) Cooperative efforts to encourage, enhance and improve 
international programs for the protection of the environment and the 
conservation of natural resources otherwise within the jurisdiction of 
the Subcommittee. 
       (12) General and continuing oversight and investigative 
authority over activities, policies and programs within the 
jurisdiction of the Subcommittee. 
       (b) Full Committee._The following measures and matters shall be 
retained at the Full Committee: 
       (1) Environmental and habitat measures of general applicability. 
       (2) Measures relating to the welfare of Native Americans, 
including management of Indian lands in general and special measures 
relating to claims which are paid out of Indian funds. 
       (3) All matters regarding the relations of the United States 
with Native Americans and Native American tribes, including special 
oversight functions under Rule X of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives. 
       (4) All matters regarding Native Alaskans and Native Hawaiians. 
       (5) All matters related to the Federal trust responsibility to 
Native Americans and the sovereignty of Native Americans. 
       (6) Cooperative efforts to encourage, enhance and improve 
international programs for the protection of the environment and the 
conservation of natural resources otherwise within the jurisdiction of 
the Full Committee under this paragraph. 
       (7) All other measures and matters retained by the Full 
Committee, including those retained under Committee Rule 6(e). 
       (8) General and continuing oversight and investigative authority 
over activities, policies and programs within the jurisdiction of the 
Committee under House Rule X. 
       (c) Ex-officio Members._The Chairman and Ranking Minority Member 
of the Committee may serve as ex-officio Members of each standing 
Subcommittee to which the Chairman or the Ranking Minority Member have 
not been assigned. Ex-officio Members shall have the right to fully 
participate in Subcommittee activities but may not vote and may not be 
counted in establishing a quorum. 
       (d) Powers and Duties of Subcommittees._Each Subcommittee is 
authorized to meet, hold hearings, receive evidence and report to the 
Committee on all matters within its jurisdiction. Each Subcommittee 
shall review and study, on a continuing basis, the application, 
administration, execution and effectiveness of those statutes, or parts 
of statutes, the subject matter of which is within that Subcommittee's 
jurisdiction; and the organization, operation, and regulations of any 
Federal agency or entity having responsibilities in or for the 
administration of such statutes, to determine whether these statutes 
are being implemented and carried out in accordance with the intent of 
Congress. Each Subcommittee shall review and study any conditions or 
circumstances indicating the need of enacting new or supplemental 
legislation within the jurisdiction of the Subcommittee. Each 
Subcommittee shall have general and continuing oversight and 
investigative authority over activities, policies and programs within 
the jurisdiction of the Subcommittee. 
       (e) Referral to Subcommittees; Recall. 
       (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2) and for those measures 
or matters retained at the Full Committee, every legislative measure or 
other matter referred to the Committee shall be referred to the 
Subcommittee of jurisdiction within two weeks of the date of its 
referral to the Committee. If any measure or matter is within or 
affects the jurisdiction of one or more Subcommittees, the Chairman may 
refer that measure or matter simultaneously to two or more 
Subcommittees for concurrent consideration or for consideration in 
sequence subject to appropriate time limits, or divide the matter into 
two or more parts and refer each part to a Subcommittee. 
       (2) The Chairman, with the approval of a majority of the 
Majority Members of the Committee, may refer a legislative measure or 
other matter to a select or special Subcommittee. A legislative measure 
or other matter referred by the Chairman to a Subcommittee may be 
recalled from the Subcommittee for direct consideration by the Full 
Committee, or for referral to another Subcommittee, provided Members of 
the Committee receive one week written notice of the recall and a 
majority of the Members of the Committee do not object. In addition, a 
legislative measure or other matter referred by the Chairman to a 
Subcommittee may be recalled from the Subcommittee at any time by 
majority vote of the Committee for direct consideration by the Full 
Committee or for referral to another Subcommittee. 
       (f) Consultation._Each Subcommittee Chairman shall consult with 
the Chairman of the Full Committee prior to setting dates for 
Subcommittee meetings with a view towards avoiding whenever possible 
conflicting Committee and Subcommittee meetings. 
       (g) Vacancy._A vacancy in the membership of a Subcommittee shall 
not affect the power of the remaining Members to execute the functions 
of the Subcommittee. 

             RULE 7.__TASK FORCES, SPECIAL  OR SELECT SUBCOMMITTEES 

       (a) Appointment._The Chairman of the Committee is authorized, 
after consultation with the Ranking Minority Member, to appoint Task 
Forces, or special or select Subcommittees, to carry out the duties and 
functions of the Committee. 
       (b) Ex-Officio Members._The Chairman and Ranking Minority Member 
of the Committee may serve as ex-officio Members of each Task Force, or 
special or select Subcommittee if they are not otherwise members. 
Ex-officio Members shall have the right to fully participate in 
activities but may not vote and may not be counted in establishing a 
quorum. 
       (c) Party Ratios._The ratio of Majority Members to Minority 
Members, excluding ex-officio Members, on each Task Force, special or 
select Subcommittee shall be as close as practicable to the ratio on 
the Full Committee. 
       (d) Temporary Resignation._A Member can temporarily resign his 
or her position on a Subcommittee to serve on a Task Force, special or 
select Subcommittee without prejudice to the Member's seniority on the 
Subcommittee. 
       (e) Chairman and Ranking Minority Member._The Chairman of any 
Task Force, or special or select Subcommittee shall be appointed by the 
Chairman of the Committee. The Ranking Minority Member shall select a 
Ranking Minority Member for each Task Force, or standing, special or 
select Subcommittee. 

                     RULE 8.__RECOMMENDATION OF CONFEREES 

       Whenever it becomes necessary to appoint conferees on a 
particular measure, the Chairman shall recommend to the Speaker as 
conferees those Majority Members, as well as those Minority Members 
recommended to the Chairman by the Ranking Minority Member, primarily 
responsible for the measure. The ratio of Majority Members to Minority 
Members recommended for conferences shall be no greater than the ratio 
on the Committee. 

                            RULE 9.__COMMITTEE RECORDS 

       (a) Segregation of Records._All Committee records shall be kept 
separate and distinct from the office records of individual Committee 
Members serving as Chairmen or Ranking Minority Members. These records 
shall be the property of the House and all Members shall have access to 
them in accordance with clause 2(e)(2) of House Rule XI. 
       (b) Availability._The Committee shall make available to the 
public for review at reasonable times in the Committee office the 
following records: 
       (1) transcripts of public meetings and hearings, except those 
that are unrevised or unedited and intended solely for the use of the 
Committee; and 
       (2) the result of each rollcall vote taken in the Committee, 
including a description of the amendment, motion, order or other 
proposition voted on, the name of each Committee Member voting for or 
against a proposition, and the name of each Member present but not 
voting. 
       (c) Archived Records._Records of the Committee which are 
deposited with the National Archives shall be made available for public 
use pursuant to House Rule VII. The Chairman of the Committee shall 
notify the Ranking Minority Member of any decision, pursuant to clause 
3(b)(3) or clause 4(b) of House Rule VII, to withhold, or to provide a 
time, schedule or condition for availability of any record otherwise 
available. At the written request of any Member of the Committee, the 
matter shall be presented to the Committee for a determination and 
shall be subject to the same notice and quorum requirements for the 
conduct of business under Committee Rule 3. 
       (d) Records of Closed Meetings._Notwithstanding the other 
provisions of this rule, no records of Committee meetings or hearings 
which were closed to the public pursuant to the Rules of the House of 
Representatives shall be released to the public unless the Committee 
votes to release those records in accordance with the procedure used to 
close the Committee meeting. 
       (e) Classified Materials._All classified materials shall be 
maintained in an appropriately secured location and shall be released 
only to authorized persons for review, who shall not remove the 
material from the Committee offices without the written permission of 
the Chairman. 
       (f) Record Votes._In addition to any other requirement of these 
rules or the Rules of the House of Representatives, the Chairman shall 
make available to the public on the Committee's website a record of the 
votes on any question on which a recorded vote is demanded. Such record 
shall be posted no later than two business days after the vote is 
taken. The record shall include: 
       (1) a copy of the amendment or a detailed description of the 
motion, order or other proposition; and 
       (2) the name of each Member voting for and each Member voting 
against such amendment, motion, order, or proposition, the names of 
those Members voting present, and the names of any Member not present. 

                     RULE 10.__COMMITTEE BUDGET AND EXPENSES 

       (a) Budget._At the beginning of each Congress, after 
consultation with the Chairman of each Subcommittee and the Ranking 
Minority Member, the Chairman shall present to the Committee for its 
approval a budget covering the funding required for staff, travel, and 
miscellaneous expenses. 
       (b) Expense Resolution._Upon approval by the Committee of each 
budget, the Chairman, acting pursuant to clause 6 of House Rule X, 
shall prepare and introduce in the House a supporting expense 
resolution, and take all action necessary to bring about its approval 
by the Committee on House Administration and by the House of 
Representatives. 
       (c) Amendments._The Chairman shall report to the Committee any 
amendments to each expense resolution and any related changes in the 
budget. 
       (d) Additional Expenses._Authorization for the payment of 
additional or unforeseen Committee expenses may be procured by one or 
more additional expense resolutions processed in the same manner as set 
out under this rule. 
       (e) Monthly Reports._Copies of each monthly report, prepared by 
the Chairman for the Committee on House Administration, which shows 
expenditures made during the reporting period and cumulative for the 
year, anticipated expenditures for the projected Committee program, and 
detailed information on travel, shall be available to each Member. 

                        RULE 11.__COMMITTEE STAFF 

       (a) Rules and Policies._Committee staff members are subject to 
the provisions of clause 9 of House Rule X, as well as any written 
personnel policies the Committee may from time to time adopt. 
       (b) Majority and Nonpartisan Staff._The Chairman shall appoint, 
determine the remuneration of, and may remove, the legislative and 
administrative employees of the Committee not assigned to the Minority. 
The legislative and administrative staff of the Committee not assigned 
to the Minority shall be under the general supervision and direction of 
the Chairman, who shall establish and assign the duties and 
responsibilities of these staff members and delegate any authority he 
determines appropriate. 
       (c) Minority Staff._The Ranking Minority Member of the Committee 
shall appoint, determine the remuneration of, and may remove, the 
legislative and administrative staff assigned to the Minority within 
the budget approved for those purposes. The legislative and 
administrative staff assigned to the Minority shall be under the 
general supervision and direction of the Ranking Minority Member of the 
Committee who may delegate any authority he determines appropriate. 
       (d) Availability._The skills and services of all Committee staff 
shall be available to all Members of the Committee.                           RULE 12.__COMMITTEE TRAVEL 

       In addition to any written travel policies the Committee may 
from time to time adopt, all travel of Members and staff of the 
Committee or its Subcommittees, to hearings, meetings, conferences and 
investigations, including all foreign travel, must be authorized by the 
Full Committee Chairman prior to any public notice of the travel and 
prior to the actual travel. In the case of Minority staff, all travel 
shall first be approved by the Ranking Minority Member. Funds 
authorized for the Committee under clauses 6 and 7 of House Rule X are 
for expenses incurred in the Committee's activities within the United 
States. 

                     RULE 13.__CHANGES TO COMMITTEE RULES 

       The rules of the Committee may be modified, amended, or 
repealed, by a majority vote of the Committee, provided that 48 hours' 
written notice of the proposed change has been provided each Member of 
the Committee prior to the meeting date on which the changes are to be 
discussed and voted on. A change to the rules of the Committee shall be 
published in the Congressional Record no later than 30 days after its 
approval. 

                           RULE 14.__OTHER PROCEDURES 

       The Chairman may establish procedures and take actions as may be 
necessary to carry out the rules of the Committee or to facilitate the 
effective administration of the Committee, in accordance with the rules 
of the Committee and the Rules of the House of Representatives. 

                 Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 

                       EDOLPHUS TOWNS, New York, Chairman 
PAUL E. KANJORSKI, Pennsylvania      DARRELL E. ISSA, California, 
CAROLYN B. MALONEY, New York           Ranking Minority Member 
ELIJAH E. CUMMINGS, Maryland         DAN BURTON, Indiana
DENNIS J. KUCINICH, Ohio             JOHN L. MICA, Florida
JOHN F. TIERNEY, Massachusetts       MARK E. SOUDER, Indiana
WM. LACY CLAY, Missouri              JOHN J. DUNCAN, JR., Tennessee
DIANE E. WATSON, California          MICHAEL R. TURNER, Ohio
STEPHEN F. LYNCH, Massachusetts      LYNN A. WESTMORELAND, Georgia
JIM COOPER, Tennessee                PATRICK T. MCHENRY, North Carolina
GERALD E. CONNOLLY, Virginia         BRIAN P. BILBRAY, California
MIKE QUIGLEY, Illinois*              JIM JORDAN, Ohio
MARCY KAPTUR, Ohio*                  JEFF FLAKE, Arizona
ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON, District      JEFF FORTENBERRY, Nebraska
  of Columbia                        JASON CHAFFETZ, Utah
PATRICK J. KENNEDY, Rhode Island     AARON SCHOCK, Illinois
DANNY K. DAVIS, Illinois             BLAINE LUETKEMEYER, Missouri**
CHRIS VAN HOLLEN, Maryland           VACANCY***
HENRY CUELLAR, Texas                   
PAUL W. HODES, New Hampshire           
CHRISTOPHER S. MURPHY, 
  Connecticut     
PETER WELCH, Vermont                   
BILL FOSTER, Illinois                  
JACKIE SPEIER, California              
STEVE DRIEHAUS, Ohio                   
VACANCY

*Appointed to the Oversight and Government Reform Committee on 
April 30, 2009.
**Appointed to the Oversight and Government Reform Committee on 
September 9, 2009, filling a vacancy created by the resignation of 
Rep. Todd Platts on June 16, 2009.
***Vacancy created by the resignation of Rep. John M. McHugh from the 
House of Representatives on September 21, 2009.  

                         (Adopted February 11, 2009) 

                        RULE 1.__APPLICATION OF RULES 

       Except where the terms ``full committee'' and ``subcommittee;; 
are specifically referred to, the following rules shall apply to the 
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and its subcommittees as 
well as to the respective chairs. [See House Rule XI, 1.] 
       
                              RULE 2.__MEETINGS 

       The regular meetings of the full Committee shall be held on the 
second Thursday of each month at 10 a.m., when the House is in session. 
       The chairman is authorized to dispense with a regular meeting or 
to change the date thereof, and to call and convene additional 
meetings, when circumstances warrant. A special meeting of the 
Committee may be requested by members of the Committee following the 
provisions of House Rule XI, clause 2(c)(2). Subcommittees shall meet 
at the call of the subcommittee chairs. Every member of the Committee 
or the appropriate subcommittee, unless prevented by unusual 
circumstances, shall be provided with a memorandum at least three 
calendar days before each meeting or hearing explaining (1) the purpose 
of the meeting or hearing; and (2) the names, titles, background and 
reasons for appearance of any witnesses. The ranking minority member 
shall be responsible for providing the same information on witnesses 
whom the minority may request. [See House Rule XI, 2 (b) and (c).] 

                            RULE 3.__QUORUMS 

       (a) A majority of the members of the Committee shall form a 
quorum, except that two members shall constitute a quorum for taking 
testimony and receiving evidence, and one third of members shall form a 
quorum for taking any action other than for which the presence of a 
majority of the Committee is otherwise required. If the chairman is not 
present at any meeting of the committee or subcommittee, the ranking 
member of the majority party on the Committee or subcommittee who is 
present shall preside at that meeting. 
       (b) The chairman of the Committee may, at the request of a 
subcommittee chair, make a temporary assignment of any member of the 
Committee to such subcommittee for the purpose of constituting a quorum 
at and participating in any public hearing by such subcommittee to be 
held outside of Washington, DC. Members appointed to such temporary 
positions shall not be voting members. The chairman shall give 
reasonable notice of such temporary assignment to the ranking members 
of the Committee and subcommittee. [See House Rule XI, 2(h).]

                          RULE 4.__COMMITTEE REPORTS 

       Bills and resolutions approved by the Committee shall be 
reported by the chairman following House Rule XIII, clauses 2- 4. A 
proposed report shall not be considered in subcommittee or full 
Committee unless the proposed report has been available to the members 
of such subcommittee or full Committee for at least three calendar days 
(excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays, unless the House is 
in session on such days) before consideration of such proposed report 
in subcommittee or full Committee. Any report will be considered as 
read if available to the members at least 24 hours before 
consideration, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays unless 
the House is in session on such days. If hearings have been held on the 
matter reported upon, every reasonable effort shall be made to have 
such hearings printed and available to the members of the subcommittee 
or full Committee before the consideration of the proposed report in 
such subcommittee or full Committee. Every investigative report shall 
be approved by a majority vote of the Committee at a meeting at which 
a quorum is present. Supplemental, minority, or additional views may be 
filed following House Rule XI, clause 2(l) and Rule XIII, clause 
3(a)(1). The time allowed for filing such views shall be three calendar 
days, beginning on the day of notice, but excluding Saturdays, Sundays, 
and legal holidays (unless the House is in session on such a day), 
unless the Committee agrees to a different time, but agreement on a 
shorter time shall require the concurrence of each member seeking to 
file such views. An investigative or oversight report may be filed 
after sine die adjournment of the last regular session of Congress, 
provided that if a member gives timely notice of intention to file 
supplemental, minority or additional views, that member shall be 
entitled to not less than seven calendar days in which to submit such 
views for inclusion with the report. Only those reports approved by a 
majority vote of the Committee may be ordered printed, unless otherwise 
required by the Rules of the House of Representatives.
       
                             RULE 5.__PROXY VOTES 

       In accordance with the Rules of the House of Representatives, 
members may not vote by proxy on any measure or matter before the 
Committee or any subcommittee. [See House Rule XI, 2(f).] 
       
                              RULE 6.__RECORD VOTES 

       A record vote of the members may be had upon the request of any 
member upon approval of a one-fifth vote of the members present.
       
                       RULE 7.__RECORD OF COMMITTEE ACTIONS 

       The Committee staff shall maintain in the Committee offices a 
complete record of Committee actions from the current Congress 
including a record of the rollcall votes taken at Committee business 
meetings. The original records, or true copies thereof, as appropriate, 
shall be available for public inspection whenever the Committee offices 
are open for public business. The staff shall assure that such original 
records are preserved with no unauthorized alteration, additions, or 
defacement. [See House Rule XI, 2(e).] 
       
                          RULE 8.__SUBCOMMITTEES; REFERRALS 

       (a) There shall be five standing subcommittees with appropriate 
party ratios. The chairman shall assign members to the subcommittees. 
Minority party assignments shall be made only with the concurrence of 
the ranking minority member. The subcommittees shall have the following 
fixed jurisdictions: 
       (1) The Subcommittee on Domestic Policy - Oversight jurisdiction 
over domestic policies, including matters relating to energy, labor, 
education, criminal justice, and the economy. The Subcommittee also has 
legislative jurisdiction over the Office of National Drug Control 
Policy; 
       (2) The Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and 
the District of Columbia - Federal employee issues, the municipal 
affairs (other than appropriations) of the District of Columbia, and 
the Postal Service. The Subcommittee's jurisdiction includes postal 
namings, holidays, and celebrations; 
       (3) The Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and 
Procurement - The management of government operations, reorganizations 
of the executive branch, and federal procurement; 
       (4) The Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National 
Archives - Public information and records laws such as the Freedom of 
Information Act, the Presidential Records Act, and the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act, the Census Bureau, and the National Archives and Records 
Administration; and 
       (5) The Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs - 
Oversight jurisdiction over national security, homeland security, and 
foreign affairs. 
       (b) Bills, resolutions, and other matters shall be expeditiously 
referred by the chairman to subcommittees for consideration or 
investigation in accordance with their fixed jurisdictions. Where the 
subject matter of the referral involves the jurisdiction of more than 
one subcommittee or does not fall within any previously assigned 
jurisdiction, the chairman shall refer the matter as he may deem 
advisable. Bills, resolutions, and other matters referred to 
subcommittees may be reassigned by the chairman when, in his judgment, 
the subcommittee is not able to complete its work or cannot reach 
agreement therein. In a subcommittee having an even number of members, 
if there is a tie vote with all members voting on any measure, the 
measure shall be placed on the agenda for full Committee consideration 
as if it had been ordered reported by the subcommittee without 
recommendation. This provision shall not preclude further action on the 
measure by the subcommittee. 
       
                          RULE 9.__EX OFFICIO MEMBERS 

       The chairman and the ranking minority member of the Committee 
shall be ex officio members of all subcommittees. They are authorized 
to vote on subcommittee matters; but, unless they are regular members 
of the subcommittee, they shall not be counted in determining a 
subcommittee quorum other than a quorum for taking testimony.
       
                               RULE 10.__STAFF 

       Except as otherwise provided by House Rule X, clauses 6, 7 and 
9, the chairman of the full Committee shall have the authority to hire 
and discharge employees of the professional and clerical staff of the 
full Committee and of subcommittees. 
       
                             RULE 11.__STAFF DIRECTION 

       Except as otherwise provided by House Rule X, clauses 6, 7 and 
9, the staff of the Committee shall be subject to the direction of the 
chairman of the full Committee and shall perform such duties as he may 
assign.
       
                       RULE 12.__HEARING DATES AND WITNESSES 

       (a) Each subcommittee of the Committee is authorized to meet, 
hold hearings, receive testimony, mark up legislation, and report to 
the full Committee on any measure or matter referred to it.
       (b) No subcommittee of the Committee may meet or hold a hearing 
at the same time as a meeting or hearing of the Committee.
       (c) The chair of each subcommittee shall set hearing and meeting 
dates only with the approval of the chairman with a view toward 
assuring the availability of meeting rooms and avoiding simultaneous 
scheduling of Committee and subcommittee meetings or hearings. 
       (d) Each subcommittee chair shall notify the chairman of any 
hearing plans at least two weeks before the date of commencement of the 
hearings, including the date, place, subject matter, and the names of 
witnesses, willing and unwilling, who would be called to testify, 
including, to the extent the chair is advised thereof, witnesses whom 
the minority members may request.
       (e) Witnesses appearing before the Committee shall so far as 
practicable, submit written statements at least 24 hours before their 
appearance and, when appearing in a non-governmental capacity, provide 
a curriculum vitae and a listing of any Federal Government grants and 
contracts received in the previous fiscal year. [See House Rules XI, 2 
(g)(3), (g)(4), (j) and (k).] 
       
                         RULE 13.__OPEN MEETINGS 

       Meetings for the transaction of business and hearings of the 
Committee shall be open to the public or closed in accordance with Rule 
XI of the House of Representatives. [See House Rules XI, 2 (g) and 
(k).]
       
                        RULE 14.__FIVE-MINUTE RULE 

       (a) A Committee member may question a witness only when 
recognized by the chairman for that purpose. In accordance with House 
Rule XI, clause 2(j)(2), each Committee member may request up to five 
minutes to question a witness until each member who so desires has had 
such opportunity. Until all such requests have been satisfied, the 
chairman shall, so far as practicable, recognize alternately based on 
seniority of those majority and minority members present at the time 
the hearing was called to order and others based on their arrival at 
the hearing. After that, additional time may be extended at the 
direction of the chairman.
       (b) The chairman, with the concurrence of the ranking minority 
member, or the Committee by motion, may permit an equal number of 
majority and minority members to question a witness for a specified, 
total period that is equal for each side and not longer than thirty 
minutes for each side. 
       (c) The chairman, with the concurrence of the ranking minority 
member, or the Committee by motion, may permit Committee staff of the 
majority and minority to question a witness for a specified, total 
period that is equal for each side and not longer than thirty minutes 
for each side.
       (d) Nothing in paragraph (b) or (c) affects the rights of a 
Member (other than a Member designated under paragraph (b)) to question 
a witness for 5 minutes in accordance with paragraph (a) after the 
questioning permitted under paragraph (b) or (c). In any extended 
questioning permitted under paragraph (b) or (c), the chairman shall 
determine how to allocate the time permitted for extended questioning 
by majority members or majority Committee staff and the ranking 
minority member shall determine how to allocate the time permitted for 
extended questioning by minority members or minority committee staff. 
The chairman or the ranking minority member, as applicable, may 
allocate the time for any extended questioning permitted to staff under 
paragraph (c) to members.
       
                   RULE 15.__INVESTIGATIVE HEARING PROCEDURES 

       Investigative hearings shall be conducted according to the 
procedures in House Rule XI, clause 2(k). All questions put to 
witnesses before the Committee shall be relevant to the subject matter 
before the Committee for consideration, and the chairman shall rule on 
the relevance of any questions put to the witnesses. 

                          RULE 16.__STENOGRAPHIC RECORD 
       
       A stenographic record of all testimony shall be kept of public 
hearings and shall be made available on such conditions as the chairman 
may prescribe. 
       
          RULE 17.__AUDIO AND VISUAL COVERAGE OF COMMITTEE PROCEEDINGS 

       (a) An open meeting or hearing of the Committee or a 
subcommittee may be covered, in whole or in part, by television 
broadcast, radio broadcast, Internet broadcast, and still photography, 
unless closed subject to the provisions of House Rule XI, clause 2(g). 
Any such coverage shall conform with the provisions of House Rule XI, 
clause 4. 
       (b) Use of the Committee Broadcast System shall be fair and 
nonpartisan, and in accordance with House Rule XI, clause 4(b), and all 
other applicable rules of the House of Representatives and the 
Committee on Government Reform. Members of the committee shall have 
prompt access to a copy of coverage by the Committee Broadcast System, 
to the extent that such coverage is maintained. 
       (c) Personnel providing coverage of an open meeting or hearing 
of the Committee or a subcommittee by Internet broadcast, other than 
through the Committee Broadcast System, shall be currently accredited 
to the Radio and Television Correspondents' Galleries. 
       
                        RULE 18.__COMMITTEE WEBSITE 

       (a) The chairman shall maintain an official website on behalf of 
the Committee 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. 
       (b) The Chairman shall make the record of the votes on any 
question on which a record vote is demanded in the full Committee 
available on the Committee's official website not later than 3 
legislative days after such vote is taken. Such record shall identify 
or describe the amendment, motion, order, or other proposition, the 
name of each member voting and for each member voting against such 
amendment, motion, order, or proposition, and the names of the Members 
voting present.
       (c) The ranking minority member is authorized to maintain a 
similar official website on behalf of the Committee minority for the 
same purpose, including communicating information about the activities 
of the minority to Committee members and other members of the House. 
       
                     RULE 19.__ADDITIONAL DUTIES OF CHAIRMAN 

       The chairman of the full Committee shall: 
       (a) Make available to other committees the findings and 
recommendations resulting from the investigations of the Committee or 
its subcommittees as required by House Rule X, clause 4(c)(2); 
       (b) Direct such review and studies on the impact or probable 
impact of tax policies affecting subjects within the Committee's 
jurisdiction as required by House Rule X, clause 2(c); 
       (c) Submit to the Committee on the Budget views and estimates 
required by House Rule X, clause 4(f), and to file reports with the 
House as required by the Congressional Budget Act; 
       (d) Authorize and issue subpoenas as provided in House Rule XI, 
clause 2(m), in the conduct of any investigation or activity or series 
of investigations or activities within the jurisdiction of the 
Committee;
       (e) Prepare, after consultation with subcommittee chairs and the 
minority, a budget for the Committee which shall include an adequate 
budget for the subcommittees to discharge their responsibilities; 
       (f) Make any necessary technical and conforming changes to 
legislation reported by the committee upon unanimous consent; and 
       (g) The chairman is directed to offer a motion under clause 1 of 
Rule XXII of the Rules of the House whenever the chairman considers it 
appropriate.
       
                          RULE 20.__SUBJECTS OF STAMPS 

       The Committee has adopted the policy that the determination of 
the subject matter of commemorative stamps and new semi-postal issues 
is properly is for consideration by the Postmaster General and that the 
Committee will not give consideration to legislative proposals 
specifying the subject matter of commemorative stamps and new 
semi-postal issues. It is suggested that recommendations for the 
subject matter of stamps be submitted to the Postmaster General. 
       
                     RULE 21.__PANELS AND TASK FORCES 

       (a) The chairman of the Committee is authorized to appoint 
panels or task forces to carry out the duties and functions of the 
Committee. 
       (b) The chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee 
may serve as ex-officio members of each panel or task force.
       (c) The chairman of any panel or task force shall be appointed 
by the chairman of the Committee. The ranking minority member shall 
select a ranking minority member for each panel or task force. 
       (d) The House and Committee rules applicable to subcommittee 
meetings, hearings, recommendations, and reports shall apply to the 
meetings, hearings, recommendations, and reports of panels and task 
forces. 
       (e) No panel or task force so appointed shall continue in 
existence for more than six months. A panel or task force so appointed 
may, upon the expiration of six months, be reappointed by the chairman. 
       

                       RULE 22.__DEPOSITION AUTHORITY 

       The chairman, upon consultation with the ranking minority 
member, may order the taking of depositions, under oath and pursuant to 
notice or subpoena. 
       Notices for the taking of depositions shall specify the date, 
time, and place of examination. Depositions shall be taken under oath 
administered by a member or a person otherwise authorized to administer 
oaths. 
       Consultation with the ranking minority member shall include 
three business day's written notice before any deposition is taken. All 
members shall also receive three business day's written notice that a 
deposition has been scheduled. 
       Witnesses may be accompanied at a deposition by counsel to 
advise them of their rights. No one may be present at depositions 
except members, Committee staff designated by the chairman or ranking 
minority member, an official reporter, the witness, and the witness's 
counsel. Observers or counsel for other persons, or for agencies under 
investigation, may not attend.
       A deposition shall be conducted by any member or staff attorney 
designated by the chairman or ranking minority member. When depositions 
are conducted by Committee staff attorneys, there shall be no more than 
two Committee staff attorneys permitted to question a witness per 
round. One of the Committee staff attorneys shall be designated by the 
chairman and the other by the ranking minority member. Other Committee 
staff members designated by the chairman or ranking minority member may 
attend, but may not pose questions to the witness.
       Questions in the deposition shall be propounded in rounds, 
alternating between the majority and minority. A single round shall not 
exceed 60 minutes per side, unless the members or staff attorneys 
conducting the deposition agree to a different length of questioning. 
In each round, a member or Committee staff attorney designated by the 
chairman shall ask questions first, and the member or Committee staff 
attorney designated by the ranking minority member shall ask questions 
second. 
       The chairman may rule on any objections raised during a 
deposition. If a member of the Committee appeals in writing the ruling 
of the chairman, the appeal shall be preserved for Committee 
consideration. A witness that refuses to answer a question after being 
directed to answer by the chairman may be subject to sanction, except 
that no sanctions may be imposed if the ruling of the chairman is 
reversed on appeal. 
       Committee staff shall ensure that the testimony is either 
transcribed or electronically recorded or both. If a witness's 
testimony is transcribed, the witness or the witness's counsel shall be 
afforded an opportunity to review a copy. No later than five days 
thereafter, the witness may submit suggested changes to the chairman. 
Committee staff may make any typographical and technical changes 
requested by the witness. Substantive changes, modifications, 
clarifications, or amendments to the deposition transcript submitted by 
the witness must be accompanied by a letter signed by the witness 
requesting the changes and a statement of the witness's reasons for 
each proposed change. Any substantive changes, modifications, 
clarifications, or amendments shall be included as an appendix to the 
transcript conditioned upon the witness signing the transcript.
       The individual administering the oath, if other than a member, 
shall certify on the transcript that the witness was duly sworn. The 
transcriber shall certify that the transcript is a true record of the 
testimony, and the transcript shall be filed, together with any 
electronic recording, with the clerk of the Committee in Washington, 
DC. Depositions shall be considered to have been taken in Washington, 
DC, as well as the location actually taken once filed there with the 
clerk of the Committee for the Committee's use. The chairman and the 
ranking minority member shall be provided with a copy of the 
transcripts of the deposition at the same time. 
       The chairman and ranking minority member shall consult regarding 
the release of depositions. If either objects in writing to a proposed 
release of a deposition or a portion thereof, the matter shall be 
promptly referred to the Committee for resolution. 
       A witness shall not be required to testify unless the witness 
has been provided with a copy of the Committee's rules. 

                               Committee on Rules 

                  LOUISE MCINTOSH SLAUGHTER, New York, Chairwoman 
JAMES P. MCGOVERN, Massachusetts        DAVID DREIER, California, 
ALCEE L. HASTINGS, Florida                Ranking Minority Member
DORIS O. MATSUI, California             LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART, Florida
DENNIS A. CARDOZA, California           PETE SESSIONS, Texas
MICHAEL A. ARCURI, New York             VIRGINIA FOXX, North Carolina**
ED PERLMUTTER, Colorado*
CHELLIE PINGREE, Maine*
JARED POLIS, Colorado*

*Appointed to the Rules Committee on January 13, 2009.  
**Appointed to the Rules Committee on January 14, 2009.
***Rep. Peter Welch, Rep. Betty Sutton, and Rep. Kathy Castor resigned from the Rules Committee on January 13, 2009 (effective January 14, 2009). 

                             (Adopted January 7, 2009)

                            RULE 1.__GENERAL PROVISIONS 

   (a) The Rules of the House are the rules of the Committee 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, are 
non-debatable privileged motions in the Committee. A proposed 
investigative or oversight report shall be considered as read if it has 
been available to the members of the Committee for at least 24 hours 
(excluding Saturdays, Sundays, or legal holidays except when the House 
is in session on such day). 
   (b) Each subcommittee is a part of the Committee, and is subject to 
the authority and direction of the Committee and to its rules so far as 
applicable. 
   (c) The provisions of clause 2 of rule XI of the Rules of the House 
are incorporated by reference as the rules of the Committee to the 
extent applicable. 
   (d) The Committee's rules shall be published in the Congressional 
Record not later than 30 days after the Committee is elected in each 
odd-numbered year. 

            RULE 2.__REGULAR, ADDITIONAL, AND SPECIAL MEETINGS 

                               REGULAR MEETINGS 
   
   (a)(1) The Committee shall regularly meet at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday 
of each week when the House is in session. 
  (2) A regular meeting of the Committee may be dispensed with if, in 
the judgment of the Chairman of the Committee (hereafter in these rules 
referred to as the "Chair"), there is no need for the meeting. 
  (3) Additional regular meetings and hearings of the Committee may be 
called by the Chair. 


                         NOTICE FOR REGULAR MEETINGS 

   (b) The Chair shall notify in electronic or written form each member 
of the Committee of the agenda of each regular meeting of the Committee 
at least 48 hours before the time of the meeting and shall provide to 
each member of the Committee, at least 24 hours before the time of each 
regular meeting: 
  (1) for each bill or resolution scheduled on the agenda for 
consideration of a rule, a copy of__ 
        (A) the bill or resolution; 
        (B) any committee reports thereon; and 
   (C) any letter requesting a rule for the bill or resolution; and 
  (2) for each other bill, resolution, report, or other matter on the 
agenda a copy of__ 
  (A) the bill, resolution, report, or materials relating to the other 
matter in question; and 
  (B) any report on the bill, resolution, report, or any other matter 
made by any subcommittee of the Committee. 

                                EMERGENCY MEETINGS 

   (c)(1) The Chair may call an emergency meeting of the Committee at 
any time on any measure or matter which the Chair determines to be of 
an emergency nature; provided, however, that the Chair has made an 
effort to consult the ranking minority member, or, in such member's 
absence, the next ranking minority party member of the Committee. 
  (2) As soon as possible after calling an emergency meeting of the 
Committee, the Chair shall notify each member of the Committee of the 
time and location of the meeting. 
  (3) To the extent feasible, the notice provided under paragraph (2) 
shall include the agenda for the emergency meeting and copies of 
available materials which would otherwise have been provided under 
subsection (b) if the emergency meeting was a regular meeting.

                               SPECIAL MEETINGS 

   (d) Special meetings shall be called and convened as provided in 
clause 2(c)(2) of rule XI of the Rules of the House. 

                     RULE 3.__MEETING AND HEARING PROCEDURES 

                                     IN GENERAL 

   (a)(1) Meetings and hearings of the Committee shall be called to 
order and presided over by the Chair or, in the Chair's absence, by the 
member designated by the Chair as the Vice Chair of the Committee, or 
by the ranking majority member of the Committee present as Acting 
Chair. 
  (2) Meetings and hearings of the Committee shall be open to the 
public unless closed in accordance with clause 2(g) of rule XI of the 
Rules of the House of Representatives. 
  (3) Any meeting or hearing of the Committee that is open to the 
public shall be open to coverage by television, radio, and still 
photography in accordance with the provisions of clause 4 of rule XI of 
the Rules of the House (which are incorporated by reference as part of 
these rules). 
  (4) When a recommendation is made as to the kind of rule which should 
be granted for consideration of a bill or resolution, a copy of the 
language recommended shall be furnished to each member of the Committee 
at the beginning of the Committee meeting at which the rule is to be 
considered or as soon thereafter as the proposed language becomes 
available. 

                                 QUORUM 

   (b)(1) For the purpose of hearing testimony on requests for rules, 
five members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum. 
  (2) For the purpose of taking testimony and receiving evidence on 
measures or matters of original jurisdiction before the Committee, 
three members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum. 
  (3) A majority of the members of the Committee shall constitute a 
quorum for the purposes of reporting any measure or matter, of 
authorizing a subpoena, of closing a meeting or hearing pursuant to 
clause 2(g) of rule XI of the Rules of the House (except as provided in 
clause 2(g)(2)(A) and (B)), or of taking any other action. 

                                 VOTING 

   (c)(1) No vote may be conducted on any measure or motion pending 
before the Committee unless a majority of the members of the Committee 
is actually present for such purpose. 
  (2) A record vote of the Committee shall be provided on any question 
before the Committee upon the request of any member. 
  (3) No vote by any member of the Committee on any measure or matter 
may be cast by proxy. 
  (4) A record of the vote of each Member of the Committee on each 
record vote on any matter before the Committee shall be available for 
public inspection at the offices of the Committee, and with respect to 
any record vote on any motion to amend or report, shall be included in 
the report of the Committee showing the total number of votes cast for 
and against and the names of those members voting for and against.

                            HEARING PROCEDURES 

   (d)(1) With regard to hearings on matters of original jurisdiction, 
to the greatest extent practicable: 
   (A) each witness who is to appear before the Committee shall file 
with the Committee at least 24 hours in advance of the appearance a 
statement of proposed testimony in written and electronic form and 
shall limit the oral presentation to the Committee to a brief summary 
thereof; and 
   (B) each witness appearing in a non-governmental capacity shall 
include with the statement of proposed testimony provided in written 
and electronic form a curriculum vitae and a disclosure of the amount 
and source (by agency and program) of any Federal grant (or subgrant 
thereof) or contract (or subcontract thereof) received during the 
current fiscal year or either of the two preceding fiscal years. 
  (2) The five-minute rule shall be observed in the interrogation of 
each witness before the Committee until each member of the Committee 
has had an opportunity to question the witness. 
  (3) The provisions of clause 2(k) of rule XI of the Rules of the 
House shall apply to any hearing conducted by the Committee. 

                            SUBPOENAS AND OATHS 

   (e)(1) Pursuant to clause 2(m) of rule XI of the Rules of the House 
of Representatives, a subpoena may be authorized and issued by the 
Committee or a subcommittee in the conduct of any investigation or 
series of investigations or activities, only when authorized by a 
majority of the members voting, a majority being present. 
  (2) The Chair may authorize and issue subpoenas under such clause 
during any period in which the House has adjourned for a period of 
longer than three days. 
  (3) Authorized subpoenas shall be signed by the Chair or by any 
member designated by the Committee, and may be served by any person 
designated by the Chair or such member. 
  (4) The Chair, or any member of the Committee designated by the 
Chair, may administer oaths to witnesses before the Committee. 

                  RULE 4.__GENERAL OVERSIGHT RESPONSIBILITIES 

   (a) The Committee shall review and study, on a continuing basis, the 
application, administration, execution, and effectiveness of those 
laws, or parts of laws, the subject matter of which is within its 
jurisdiction. 
   (b) Not later than February 15 of the first session of a Congress, 
the Committee shall meet in open session, with a quorum present, to 
adopt its oversight plans for that Congress for submission to the 
Committee on House Administration and the Committee on Oversight and 
Government Reform, in accordance with the provisions of clause 2(d) 
of House rule X. 

                             RULE 5.__SUBCOMMITTEES 

             ESTABLISHMENT AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF SUBCOMMITTEES 

   (a)(1) There shall be two subcommittees of the Committee as follows: 
   (A) Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process, which shall have 
general responsibility for measures or matters related to relations 
between the Congress and the Executive Branch. 
   (B) Subcommittee on Rules and Organization of the House, which shall 
have general responsibility for measures or matters related to process 
and procedures of the House, relations between the two Houses of 
Congress, relations between the Congress and the Judiciary, and 
internal operations of the House. 
  (2) In addition, each such subcommittee shall have specific 
responsibility for such other measures or matters as the Chair refers 
to it. 
  (3) Each subcommittee of the Committee shall review and study, on a 
continuing basis, the application, administration, execution, and 
effectiveness of those laws, or parts of laws, the subject matter of 
which is within its general responsibility. 

              REFERRAL OF MEASURES AND MATTERS TO SUBCOMMITTEES 

   (b)(1) In view of the unique procedural responsibilities of the 
Committee, no special order providing for the consideration of any bill 
or resolution shall be referred to a subcommittee of the Committee. 
  (2) The Chair shall refer to a subcommittee such measures or matters 
of original jurisdiction as the Chair deems appropriate given its 
jurisdiction and responsibilities. 
  (3) All other measures or matters of original jurisdiction shall be 
subject to consideration by the full Committee. 
  (4) In referring any measure or matter of original jurisdiction to a 
subcommittee, the Chair may specify a date by which the subcommittee 
shall report thereon to the Committee. 
  (5) The Committee by motion may discharge a subcommittee from 
consideration of any measure or matter referred to a subcommittee of 
the Committee. 

                            COMPOSITION OF SUBCOMMITTEES 

   (c) The size and ratio of each subcommittee shall be determined by 
the Committee and members shall be elected to each subcommittee, and to 
the positions of chairman and ranking minority member thereof, in 
accordance with the rules of the respective party caucuses. The Chair 
of the full Committee shall designate a member of the majority party on 
each subcommittee as its vice chairman. 

                        SUBCOMMITTEE MEETINGS AND HEARINGS 

   (d)(1) Each subcommittee of the Committee is authorized to meet, 
hold hearings, receive testimony, mark up legislation, and report to 
the full Committee on any measure or matter referred to it. 
  (2) No subcommittee of the Committee may meet or hold a hearing at 
the same time as a meeting or hearing of the full Committee is being 
held. 
  (3) The chairman of each subcommittee shall schedule meetings and 
hearings of the subcommittee only after consultation with the Chair. 

                                  QUORUM 

   (e)(1) For the purpose of taking testimony, two members of the 
subcommittee shall constitute a quorum. 
  (2) For all other purposes, a quorum shall consist of a majority of 
the members of a subcommittee. 

                              EFFECT OF A VACANCY 

   (f) Any vacancy in the membership of a subcommittee shall not affect 
the power of the remaining members to execute the functions of the 
subcommittee. 
RECORDS
   (g) Each subcommittee of the Committee shall provide the full 
Committee with copies of such records of votes taken in the 
subcommittee and such other records with respect to the subcommittee 
necessary for the Committee to comply with all rules and regulations of 
the House. 

                                 RULE 6.__STAFF 
                              
                                    IN GENERAL 

   (a)(1) Except as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3), the 
professional and other staff of the Committee shall be appointed, by 
the Chair, and shall work under the general supervision and direction 
of the Chair. 
  (2) All professional, and other staff provided to the minority party 
members of the Committee shall be appointed, by the ranking minority 
member of the Committee, and shall work under the general supervision 
and direction of such member. 
  (3) The appointment of all professional staff shall be subject to the 
approval of the Committee as provided by, and subject to the provisions 
of, clause 9 of rule X of the Rules of the House. 

                                ASSOCIATE STAFF 

   (b) Associate staff for members of the Committee may be appointed 
only at the discretion of the Chair (in consultation with the ranking 
minority member regarding any minority party associate staff), after 
taking into account any staff ceilings and budgetary constraints in 
effect at the time, and any terms, limits, or conditions established by 
the Committee on House Administration under clause 9 of rule X of the 
Rules of the House. 

                              SUBCOMMITTEE STAFF 

   (c) From funds made available for the appointment of staff, the 
Chair of the Committee shall, pursuant to clause 6(d) of rule X of the 
Rules of the House, ensure that sufficient staff is made available to 
each subcommittee to carry out its responsibilities under the rules of 
the Committee, and, after consultation with the ranking minority member 
of the Committee, that the minority party of the Committee is treated 
fairly in the appointment of such staff. 

                              COMPENSATION OF STAFF 

   (d) The Chair shall fix the compensation of all professional and 
other staff of the Committee, after consultation with the ranking 
minority member regarding any minority party staff. 

                              CERTIFICATION OF STAFF 

   (e)(1) To the extent any staff member of the Committee or any of its 
subcommittees does not work under the direct supervision and direction 
of the Chair, the Member of the Committee who supervises and directs 
the staff member's work shall file with the Chief of Staff of the 
Committee (not later than the tenth day of each month) a certification 
regarding the staff member's work for that member for the preceding 
calendar month. 
  (2) The certification required by paragraph (1) shall be in such form 
as the Chair may prescribe, shall identify each staff member by name, 
and shall state that the work engaged in by the staff member and the 
duties assigned to the staff member for the member of the Committee 
with respect to the month in question met the requirements of clause 9 
of rule X of the Rules of the House. 
  (3) Any certification of staff of the Committee, or any of its 
subcommittees, made by the Chair in compliance with any provision of 
law or regulation shall be made__ 
   (A) on the basis of the certifications filed under paragraph (1) to 
the extent the staff is not under the Chair's supervision and 
direction, and 
   (B) on his own responsibility to the extent the staff is under the 
Chair's direct supervision and direction. 

                    RULE 7.__BUDGET, TRAVEL, PAY OF WITNESSES 
                                     BUDGET 

   (a) The Chair, in consultation with other members of the Committee, 
shall prepare for each Congress a budget providing amounts for staff, 
necessary travel, investigation, and other expenses of the Committee 
and its subcommittees. 

                                    TRAVEL 

   (b)(1) The Chair may authorize travel for any member and any staff 
member of the Committee in connection with activities or subject 
matters under the general jurisdiction of the Committee. Before such 
authorization is granted, there shall be submitted to the Chair in 
writing the following: 
        (A) The purpose of the travel. 
        (B) The dates during which the travel is to occur. 
   (C) The names of the States or countries to be visited and the 
length of time to be spent in each. 
  (D) The names of members and staff of the Committee for whom the 
authorization is sought. 
  (2) Members and staff of the Committee shall make a written report to 
the Chair on any travel they have conducted under this subsection, 
including a description of their itinerary, expenses, and activities, 
and of pertinent information gained as a result of such travel. 
  (3) Members and staff of the Committee performing authorized travel 
on official business shall be governed by applicable laws, resolutions, 
and regulations of the House and of the Committee on House 
Administration. 

                               PAY OF WITNESSES 

   (c) Witnesses may be paid from funds made available to the Committee 
in its expense resolution subject to the provisions of clause 5 of rule 
XI of the Rules of the House. 

                         RULE 8.__COMMITTEE ADMINISTRATION 

                                  REPORTING 

   (a) Whenever the Committee authorizes the favorable reporting of a 
bill or resolution from the Committee__ 
  (1) the Chair or acting Chair shall report it to the House or 
designate a member of the Committee to do so, and 
  (2) in the case of a bill or resolution in which the Committee has 
original jurisdiction, the Chair shall allow, to the extent that the 
anticipated floor schedule permits, any member of the Committee a 
reasonable amount of time to submit views for inclusion in the 
Committee report on the bill or resolution. Any such report shall 
contain all matters required by the Rules of the House of 
Representatives (or by any provision of law enacted as an exercise of 
the rulemaking power of the House) and such other information as the 
Chair deems appropriate. 

                                    RECORDS 

   (b)(1) There shall be a transcript made of each regular meeting and 
hearing of the Committee, and the transcript may be printed if the 
Chair decides it is appropriate or if a majority of the Members of the 
Committee requests such printing. Any such transcripts shall be 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. Nothing in 
this paragraph shall be construed to require that all such transcripts 
be subject to correction and publication. 
  (2) The Committee shall keep a record of all actions of the Committee 
and of its subcommittees. The record shall contain all information 
required by clause 2(e)(1) of rule XI of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives and shall be available for public inspection at 
reasonable times in the offices of the Committee. 
  (3) All Committee hearings, records, data, charts, and files shall be 
kept separate and distinct from the congressional office records of the 
Chair, shall be the property of the House, and all Members of the House 
shall have access thereto as provided in clause 2(e)(2) of rule XI of 
the Rules of the House. 
  (4) The records of the Committee at the National Archives and Records 
Administration shall be made available for public use in accordance 
with rule VII of the Rules of the House. The Chair shall notify the 
ranking minority member of any decision, pursuant to clause 3(b)(3) or 
clause 4(b) of the rule, to withhold a record otherwise available, and 
the matter shall be presented to the Committee for a determination on 
written request of any member of the Committee.


                 COMMITTEE PUBLICATIONS ON THE INTERNET 

   (c) To the maximum extent feasible, the Committee shall make its 
publications available in electronic form. 

                              CALENDARS 

   (d)(1) The Committee shall maintain a Committee Calendar, which 
shall include all bills, resolutions, and other matters referred to or 
reported by the Committee and all bills, resolutions, and other matters 
reported by any other committee on which a rule has been granted or 
formally requested, and such other matters as the Chair shall direct. 
The Calendar shall be published periodically, but in no case less often 
than once in each session of Congress. 
  (2) The staff of the Committee shall furnish each member of the 
Committee with a list of all bills or resolutions (A) reported from the 
Committee but not yet considered by the House, and    (B) on which a 
rule has been formally requested but not yet granted. The list shall be 
updated each week when the House is in session. 
  (3) For purposes of paragraphs (1) and (2), a rule is considered as 
formally requested when the Chairman of a committee which has reported 
a bill or resolution (or a member of such committee authorized to act 
on the Chairman's behalf): 
   (A) has requested, in writing to the Chair, that a hearing be 
scheduled on a rule for the consideration of the bill or resolution, 
and 
   (B) has supplied the Committee with an adequate number of copies of 
the bill or resolution, as reported, together with the final printed 
committee report thereon. 

                                 OTHER PROCEDURES 

   (e) The Chair may establish such other Committee procedures and 
take such actions as may be necessary to carry out these rules or to 
facilitate the effective operation of the Committee and its 
subcommittees in a manner consistent with these rules.

                     RULE 9.__AMENDMENTS TO COMMITTEE RULES 

   The rules of the Committee may be modified, amended or repealed, in 
the same manner and method as prescribed for the adoption of committee 
rules in clause 2 of rule XI of the Rules of the House, but only if 
written notice of the proposed change has been provided to each such 
Member at least 48 hours before the time of the meeting at which the 
vote on the change occurs. Any such change in the rules of the 
Committee shall be published in the Congressional Record within 30 
calendar days after their approval. 

                   Committee on Science and Technology 

                     BART GORDON, Tennessee, Chairman
JERRY F. COSTELLO, Illinois               RALPH M. HALL, Texas, Ranking 
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON, Texas                Republican Member   
LYNN C. WOOLSEY, California               F. JAMES SENSENBRENNER JR., 
DAVID WU, Oregon                            Wisconsin             
BRIAN BAIRD, Washington                   LAMAR SMITH, Texas      
BRAD MILLER, North Carolina               DANA ROHRABACHER, California  
DANIEL LIPINSKI, Illinois                 ROSCOE G. BARTLETT, Maryland  
GABRIELLE GIFFORDS, Arizona               VERNON J. EHLERS, Michigan    
DONNA F. EDWARDS, Maryland                FRANK D. LUCAS, Oklahoma                          
MARCIA L. FUDGE, Ohio                     JUDY BIGGERT, Illinois                            
BEN RAY LUJAN, New Mexico        W. TODD AKIN, Missouri                            
PAUL D. TONKO, New York                   RANDY NEUGEBAUER, Texas                           
PARKER GRIFFITH, Alabama                  BOB INGLIS, South Carolina
STEVEN R. ROTHMAN, New Jersey             MICHAEL T. MCCAUL, Texas
JIM MATHESON, Utah                        MARIO DIAZ-BALART, Florida
LINCOLN DAVIS, Tennessee                  BRIAN P. BILBRAY, California
BEN CHANDLER, Kentucky                    ADRIAN SMITH, Nebraska
RUSS CARNAHAN, Missouri                   PAUL C. BROUN, Georgia
BARON P. HILL, Indiana                    PETE OLSON, Texas
HARRY E. MITCHELL, Arizona                
CHARLES A. WILSON, Ohio                   
KATHLEEN A. DAHLKEMPER, Pennsylvania      
ALAN GRAYSON, Florida                     
SUZANNE M. KOSMAS, Florida                
GARY C. PETERS, Michigan                  
VACANCY                                   

                       (Adopted January 28, 2009) 

                        RULE 1.__GENERAL PROVISIONS 

       1(a) IN GENERAL._The Rules of the House of Representatives, as 
applicable, shall govern the Committee and its Subcommittees, 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, are privileged motions in the Committee and its 
Subcommittees and shall be decided without debate. [House Rule XI 1(a)] 
       (b) SUBCOMMITTEES._The rules of the Committee, as applicable, 
shall be the rules of its Subcommittees. [House Rule XI 1(a)] 
       (c) VICE CHAIR._A Member of the majority party on the Committee 
or Subcommittee shall be designated by the Chair of the Committee as 
the Vice Chair of the Committee or Subcommittee, as the case may be, 
and shall preside during the absence of the Chair from any meeting. If 
the Chair and Vice Chair of the 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. [House 
Rule XI 2(d)] 
       (d) ORDER OF BUSINESS._The order of business and procedure of 
the Committee and the subjects of inquiries or investigations will be 
decided by the Chair, subject always to an appeal to the Committee. 
       (e) USE OF HEARING ROOMS._In consultation with the Ranking 
Minority Member, the Chair of the Committee shall establish guidelines 
for the use of Committee hearing rooms. 
       (f) NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION._All  national security 
information bearing a classification of secret or higher which has been 
received by the Committee or a Subcommittee shall be deemed to have 
been received in Executive Session and shall be given appropriate 
safekeeping. The Chair of the Committee may establish such regulations 
and procedures as in the Chair's judgment are necessary to safeguard 
classified information under the control of the Committee. Such 
procedures shall, however, ensure access to this information by any 
Member of the Committee or any other Member of the House of 
Representatives who has requested the opportunity to review such 
material. 
       (g) AVAILABILITY OF PUBLICATIONS._To the maximum extent 
feasible, the Committee shall make its publications available in 
electronic form, including on the Committee website. [House Rule XI 
2(e)(4)] 
       (h) COMMITTEE WEBSITE._The Chair of the Committee 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 of 
the Committee 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. 
       (i) MOTION TO GO TO CONFERENCE._The Chair is directed to offer a 
motion under clause 1 of Rule XXII of the Rules of the House whenever 
the Chair considers it appropriate. [House Rule XI 2(a)(3)] 
       (j) CONFERENCE COMMITTEES._Recommendations of conferees to the 
Speaker shall provide a ratio of majority party Members to minority 
party Members which shall be no less favorable to the majority party 
than the ratio of the Committee. 
       (k) OTHER PROCEDURES._The Chair of the Committee, after 
consultation with the Ranking Minority Member of the Committee, may 
establish such other procedures and take such actions as may be 
necessary to carry out these rules or to facilitate the effective 
operation of the Committee. 

                  RULE 2.__REGULAR, ADDITIONAL, AND SPECIAL MEETINGS 

       (a) REGULAR MEETINGS._Unless dispensed with by the Chair of the 
Committee, the meetings of the Committee shall be held on the second 
(2nd) and fourth (4th) Wednesdays of each month the House is in session 
at 10:00 a.m. [House Rule XI 2(b)] 
       (b) ADDITIONAL MEETINGS._The Chair of the Committee may call and 
convene, as the Chair 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 for such purpose under that call of the Chair. 
[House Rule XI 2(c)(1)] 
       (c) SPECIAL MEETINGS._Rule XI 2(c) of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives is hereby incorporated by reference. [House Rule XI 
2(c)(2)] 

                     RULE 3.__MEETINGS AND HEARINGS GENERALLY 

       (a) OPENING STATEMENTS._Insofar as is practicable, the Chair, 
after consultation with the Ranking Minority Member, shall limit the 
total time of opening statements by Members to no more than 10 minutes, 
the time to be divided equally between the Chair and Ranking Minority 
Member. 
       (b) ADDRESSING THE COMMITTEE._The time any one (1) Member may 
address the Committee on any bill, motion, or other matter under 
consideration by the Committee or the time allowed for the questioning 
of a witness at hearings before the Committee will be limited to five 
(5) minutes, and then only when the Member has been recognized by the 
Chair, except that this time limit may be waived by the Chair. [House 
Rule XI 2(j)(2)] 
       (c) REQUESTS FOR WRITTEN MOTIONS._Any motion made at a meeting 
of the Committee and which is entertained by the Chair of the Committee 
or the Subcommittee shall be presented in writing upon the demand of 
any Member present and a copy made available to each Member present. 
       (d) OPEN MEETINGS AND HEARINGS._Each meeting for the transaction 
of business, including the markup of legislation, and each hearing of 
the Committee or a Subcommittee shall be open to the public, including 
to radio, television, and still photography, unless closed in 
accordance with clause 2(g) of rule XI of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives. [House Rule XI 2(g)] 
       (e) AUDIO AND VIDEO COVERAGE.__  
       (1) Whenever a hearing or meeting conducted by the Committee is 
open to the public, these proceedings shall be open to coverage by 
audio and visual means, except as provided in Rule XI 4(f)(2) of the 
House of Representatives. The Chair of the Committee or Subcommittee 
may not limit the number of television, or still cameras to fewer than 
two (2) representatives from each medium (except for legitimate space 
or safety considerations, in which case pool coverage shall be 
authorized). 
       (2) Radio and television tapes, television films, and Internet 
recordings of any Committee hearings or meetings that are open to the 
public 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. 
       (3) It is, further, the intent of this rule that the general 
conduct of each meeting or hearing covered under authority of this rule 
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 meeting or hearing, 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: 
       (A) distort the objects and purposes of the meeting or hearing 
or the activities of Committee Members in connection with that meeting 
or hearing or in connection with the general work of the Committee or 
of the House; or 
       (B) 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. 
       (4) The coverage of Committee meetings and hearings by audio and 
visual means shall be permitted and conducted only in strict conformity 
with the purposes, provisions, and requirements of this rule. 
       (5) The following shall apply to coverage of Committee meetings 
or hearings by audio or visual means: 
       (A) 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. 
       (B) The allocation among the television media of the positions 
or the number of television cameras permitted by a Committee or 
Subcommittee Chair 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. 
       (C) 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. 
       (D) 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. 
       (E) 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. 
       (F) (i) Except as provided in subdivision (ii), floodlights, 
spotlights, strobelights, and flashguns may not be used in providing 
any method of coverage of the hearing or meeting. 
       (ii) 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. 
       (G) In the allocation of the number of still photographers 
permitted by a Committee or Subcommittee Chair 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 Chair 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. 
       (H) 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. 
       (I) Photographers may not place themselves in positions that 
obstruct unnecessarily the coverage of the hearing by the other media. 
       (J) Personnel providing coverage by the television and radio 
media shall be currently accredited to the Radio and Television 
Correspondents' Galleries. 
       (K) Personnel providing coverage by still photography shall be 
currently accredited to the Press Photographers' Gallery. 
       (L) 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. [House Rule 
XI (4)] 

                  RULE 4.__CONSIDERATION OF MEASURE OR MATTER 

       (a) IN GENERAL._Bills and other substantive matters may be taken 
up for consideration only when called by the Chair of the Committee or 
by a majority vote of a quorum of the Committee, except those matters 
which are the subject of special call meetings outlined in Rule 2(c). 
       (b) NOTICE.__ 
       (1) It shall not be in order for the Committee to consider any 
new or original measure or matter unless written notice of the date, 
place and subject matter of consideration and, to the maximum extent 
practicable, a written copy of the measure or matter to be considered 
and, to the maximum extent practicable, the original text of the 
measure to be considered for purposes of markup have been available to 
each Member of the Committee for at least 48 hours in advance of 
consideration, excluding Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays. 
       (2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), consideration of any 
legislative measure or matter by the Committee shall be in order by 
vote of two-thirds of the Members present, provided that a majority of 
the Committee is present. 
       (c) SUBMISSION OF AMENDMENTS._To the maximum extent practicable, 
amendments to a measure or matter shall be submitted in writing to the 
Clerk of the Committee at least 24 hours prior to the consideration of 
the measure or matter. 
       (d) SUSPENDED PROCEEDINGS._During the consideration of any 
measure or matter, the Chair of the Committee, or of any Subcommittee, 
may recess the Committee or Subcommittee, as the case may be, at any 
point. Additionally, during the consideration of any measure or matter, 
the Chair of the Committee, or of any Subcommittee, shall suspend 
further proceedings after a question has been put to the Committee or 
Subcommittee at any time when there is a vote by electronic device 
occurring in the House of Representatives. Suspension of proceedings 
after a record vote is ordered on the question of approving a measure 
or matter or on adopting an amendment shall be conducted in compliance 
with the provisions of Rule 6(d). 
       (e) INVESTIGATIVE OR OVERSIGHT REPORTS._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). [House Rule XI 1(b)(2)] 
       (f) GERMANENESS._The rules of germaneness shall be enforced by 
the Chair of the Committee or Subcommittee, as the case may be. 

                  RULE 5.__POWER TO SIT AND ACT; SUBPOENA POWER 

       (a) IN GENERAL.__  
       (1) Notwithstanding paragraph (2), a subpoena may be authorized 
and issued in the conduct of any investigation or series of 
investigations or activities to require the attendance and testimony of 
such witnesses and the production of such books, records, 
correspondence, memoranda, papers and documents as deemed necessary, 
only when authorized by majority vote of the Committee or Subcommittee 
(as the case may be), a majority of the Committee or Subcommittee being 
present. Authorized subpoenas shall be signed only by the Chair of the 
Committee, or by any Member designated by the Chair. [House Rule XI 
2(m)(3)(A)] 
       (2) The Chair of the Committee, after consultation with the 
Ranking Minority Member of the Committee, or, if the Ranking Member 
cannot be reached, the Ranking Minority Member of the relevant 
Subcommittee, may authorize and issue such subpoenas as described in 
paragraph (1) during any period in which the House has adjourned for a 
period longer than seven (7) days. [House Rule XI 2(m)(3)(A)] 
       (3) A subpoena duces tecum may specify terms of return other 
than at a meeting or a hearing of the Committee. [House Rule XI 
2(m)(3)(B)] 
       (b) SENSITIVE OR CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION._Unless otherwise 
determined by the Committee or Subcommittee, certain information 
received by the Committee or Subcommittee pursuant to a subpoena not 
made part of the record at an open hearing shall be deemed to have been 
received in Executive Session when the Chair of the Committee, in the 
Chair's judgment and after consultation with the Ranking Minority 
Member of the Committee, deems that in view of all of the 
circumstances, such as the sensitivity of the information or the 
confidential nature of the information, such action is appropriate. 

                          RULE 6.__QUORUMS AND VOTING 
       (a) QUORUMS.__ 
       (1) One-third (1/3) of the Members of the Committee shall 
constitute a quorum for all purposes except as provided in paragraphs 
(2) and (3) of this Rule. [House Rule XI 2(h)(3)] 
       (2) A majority of the Members of the Committee shall constitute 
a quorum in order to: (A) report any legislation, measure, or matter; 
(B) close Committee meetings or hearings pursuant to Rule 3(d); and (C) 
authorize the issuance of subpoenas pursuant to Rule 5(a). [House Rule 
XI 2(h)(1); House Rule XI 2(g); House Rule XI 2(m)(3)(A)] 
       (3) Two (2) Members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum 
for taking testimony and receiving evidence, which, unless waived by 
the Chair of the Committee after consultation with the Ranking Minority 
Member of the Committee, shall include at least one (1) Member from 
each of the majority and minority parties. [House Rule XI 2(h)(2)] 
       (b) VOTING BY PROXY._No Member may authorize a vote by proxy 
with respect to any measure or matter before the Committee. [House Rule 
XI 2(f)] 
       (c) REQUESTS FOR RECORD VOTE AT COMMITTEE._A record vote of the 
Members may be had at the request of three (3) or more Members or, in 
the apparent absence of a quorum, by any one (1) Member. 
       (d) POSTPONEMENT OF PROCEEDINGS._The Chair of the Committee, or 
of any Subcommittee, is authorized 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 to resume proceedings on a 
postponed question at any time after reasonable notice. Upon resuming 
proceedings 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. [House Rule XI 2(h)(4)] 

                        RULE 7.__HEARING PROCEDURES 

       (a) ANNOUNCEMENT OF HEARING._The Chair shall make a public 
announcement of the date, time, place, and subject matter of a hearing, 
and to the extent practicable, a list of witnesses at least one (1) 
week before the commencement of the hearing. If the Chair, with the 
concurrence of the Ranking Minority Member, determines there is good 
cause to begin the hearing sooner, or if the Committee so determines by 
majority vote, a quorum being present for the transaction of business, 
the Chair shall make the announcement at the earliest possible date. 
Any announcement made under this Rule shall be promptly published in 
the Daily Digest, and promptly made available in electronic form, 
including on the Committee website. [House Rule XI 2(g)(3)] 
       (b) WITNESS STATEMENT; TESTIMONY.__ 
       (1) Insofar as is practicable, no later than 48 hours in advance 
of his or her appearance, each witness who is to appear before the 
Committee shall file in printed copy and in electronic form a written 
statement of his or her proposed testimony and a curriculum vitae. 
[House Rule XI 2(g)(4)] 
       (2) To the greatest extent practicable, each witness appearing 
before the Committee shall include with the written statement of 
proposed testimony a disclosure of any financial interests which are 
relevant to the subject of his or her testimony. These include, but are 
not limited to, public and private research grants, stock or stock 
options held in publicly traded and privately owned companies, 
government contracts with the witness or the witness' employer, and any 
form of payment of compensation from any relevant entity. The source 
and amount of the financial interest should be included in this 
disclosure. [House Rule XI 2(g)(4)] 
       (3) Each witness shall limit his or her presentation to a five 
(5) minute summary, provided that additional time may be granted by the 
Chair of the Committee or Subcommittee when appropriate. 
       (c) MINORITY WITNESSES._Whenever any hearing is conducted by the 
Committee on any measure or matter, the minority Members of the 
Committee shall be entitled, upon request to the Chair by a majority of 
them before the completion of the hearing, to call witnesses selected 
by the minority to testify with respect to the measure or matter during 
at least one (1) day of hearing thereon. [House Rule XI 2(j)(1)] 
       (d) EXTENDED QUESTIONING OF WITNESSES BY MEMBERS._Notwithstanding 
Rule 3(b), upon a motion, the Chair, in consultation with the Ranking 
Minority Member, may designate an equal number of Members from each 
party to question a witness for a period of time equally divided 
between the majority party and the minority party, not to exceed one 
(1) hour in the aggregate or, upon a motion, may designate staff from 
each party to question a witness for equal specific periods that do not 
exceed one (1) hour in the aggregate. [House Rule X12(j)(2)] 
       (e) ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS FOR THE RECORD._Members of the 
Committee have two (2) weeks from the date of a hearing to submit 
additional questions for the record to be answered by witnesses who 
have appeared in person. The letters of transmittal and any responses 
thereto shall be printed in the hearing record. 
       (f) ADDITIONAL HEARING PROCEDURES._Rule XI 2(k) of the Rules of 
the House of Representatives is hereby incorporated by reference. 
[House Rule XI 2(k)] 

            RULE 8.__PROCEDURES FOR REPORTING MEASURES OR MATTERS 

       (a) FILING OF REPORTS.__ 
       (1) It shall be the duty of the Chair of the Committee to report 
or cause to be reported promptly to the House any measure approved by 
the Committee and to take or cause to be taken the necessary steps to 
bring the matter to a vote. To the maximum extent practicable, the 
written report of the Committee on such measures shall be made 
available to the Committee membership for review at least 24 hours in 
advance of filing. [House Rule XIII 2(b)(1)] 
       (2) The report of the Committee on a measure which has been 
approved by the Committee shall be filed within seven (7) calendar days 
(exclusive of days on which the House is not in session) after the day 
on which there has been filed with the Clerk of the Committee a written 
request, signed by the majority of the Members of the Committee, for 
the reporting of that measure. Upon the filing of any such request, the 
Clerk of the Committee shall transmit immediately to the Chair of the 
Committee notice of the filing of that request. [House Rule XIII 
2(b)(2)] 
       (b) SUPPLEMENTAL, MINORITY, OR ADDITIONAL VIEWS._If, at the time 
of approval of any measure or matter by the Committee, any Member of 
the Committee gives notice of intention to file supplemental, minority, 
or additional views, that Member shall have two (2) subsequent calendar 
days after the day of such notice (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and 
legal holidays) in which to file such views, in writing and signed by 
that Member, with the Clerk of the Committee. No supplemental, 
minority, or additional views shall be accepted for inclusion in the 
report if submitted after two (2) subsequent calendar days have elapsed 
unless the Chair of the Committee or Subcommittee, as appropriate, 
decides to extend the time for submission of views, in which case the 
Chair shall communicate such fact, including the revised day and hour 
for submissions to be received, to the Members of the Committee without 
delay. All such views so filed by one (1) or more Members of the 
Committee shall be included within, and shall be a part of, the report 
filed by the Committee with respect to that measure or matter. [House 
Rule XI 2(I)] 
       (c) CONTENTS OF REPORT.__ 
       (1) The report of the Committee on a measure or matter shall be 
printed in a single volume that shall__ 
       (A) include all supplemental, minority, or additional views that 
have been submitted by the time of the filing of the report on that 
measure or matter; and 
       (B) bear on its cover a recital that any such supplemental, 
minority, or additional views (and any material submitted under rule 
8(c)(3)(A)) are included as part of the report. 
       (2) The report of the Committee on a measure which has been 
approved by the Committee shall include the following, to be provided 
by the Committee: 
       (A) the oversight findings and recommendations required pursuant 
to Rule X 2(b)(1) of the Rules of the House of Representatives, 
separately set out and identified; [House Rule XIII 3(c)(1)] 
       (B) the statement required by section 308(a) of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, separately set out and identified, if 
the measure provides new budget authority or new or increased tax 
expenditures as specified in Rule XIII 3(c)(2); [House Rule XIII 
3(c)(2)] 
       (C) with respect to reports on a bill or joint resolution of a 
public character, a ``Constitutional Authority Statement'' citing the 
specific powers granted to Congress by the Constitution pursuant to 
which the bill or joint resolution is proposed to be enacted; [House 
Rule XIII 3(d)(1)] 
       (D) with respect to each recorded vote on a motion to report any 
measure or matter of a public character, and on any amendment offered 
to the measure or matter, the total number of votes cast for and 
against, and the names of those Members voting for and against, shall 
be included in the Committee report on the measure or matter; 
       (E) the estimate and comparison prepared by the Committee under 
Rule XIII, clause 3(d)(2) of the Rules of the House of Representatives, 
unless the estimate and comparison prepared by the Director of the 
Congressional Budget Office prepared under subparagraph 3 of this Rule 
has been timely submitted prior to the filing of the report and 
included in the report; [House Rule XIII 3(d)(2)] 
       (F) in the case of a bill or joint resolution which repeals or 
amends any statute or part thereof, the text of the statute or part 
thereof which is proposed to be repealed, and a comparative print of 
that part of the bill or joint resolution making the amendment and of 
the statute or part thereof proposed to be amended; [House Rule XIII 
3(e)] 
       (G) a transcript of the markup of the measure or matter unless 
waived under Rule 12(a); and 
       (H) a statement of general performance goals and objectives, 
including outcome-related goals and objectives, for which the measure 
authorizes funding. [House Rule XIII 3(e)(4)] 
       (4) The report of the Committee on a measure which has been 
approved by the Committee shall further include the following, to be 
provided by sources other than the Committee: 
       (A) the estimate and comparison prepared by the Director of the 
Congressional Budget Office required under section 403 of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, separately set out and identified, 
whenever the Director (if timely, and submitted prior to the filing of 
the report) has submitted such estimate and comparison of the 
Committee; [House Rule XIII 3(c)(3)] 
       (B) if the Committee has not received prior to the filing of the 
report the material required under subparagraph (A) of this Rule, then 
it shall include a statement to that effect in the report on the 
measure. 
       (d) IMMEDIATE PRINTING; SUPPLEMENTAL REPORTS._This Rule does not 
preclude__ 
       (1) the immediate filing or printing of a Committee report 
unless a timely request for the opportunity to file supplemental, 
minority, or additional views has been made as provided by this Rule; 
or 
       (2) the filing by the Committee of any supplemental report upon 
any measure or matter which may be required for the correction of any 
technical error in a previous report made by that Committee upon that 
measure or matter. 
       (e) PRIVATE BILLS._No private bill will be reported by the 
Committee if there are two (2) or more dissenting votes. Private bills 
so rejected by the Committee will not be reconsidered during the same 
Congress unless new evidence sufficient to justify a new hearing has 
been presented to the Committee. 
       (f) REPORT LANGUAGE ON USE OF FEDERAL RESOURCES._No legislative 
report filed by the Committee on any measure or matter reported by the 
Committee shall contain language which has the effect of specifying the 
use of federal resources more explicitly (inclusively or exclusively) 
than that specified in the measure or matter as ordered reported, 
unless such language has been approved by the Committee during a 
meeting or otherwise in writing by a majority of the Members. 

                      RULE 9.__OTHER COMMITTEE PUBLICATIONS 

       (a) HOUSE REPORTS._Any document published by the Committee as a 
House Report, other than a report of the Committee on a measure which 
has been approved by the Committee, shall be approved by the Committee 
at a meeting, and Members shall have the same opportunity to submit 
views as provided for in Rule 8(b). 
       (b) OTHER DOCUMENTS.__ 
       (1) Subject to paragraph (2) and (3), the Chair of the Committee 
may approve the publication of any document as a Committee print which 
in the Chair's discretion the Chair determines to be useful for the 
information of the Committee. 
       (2) Any document to be published as a Committee print which 
purports to express the views, findings, conclusions, or 
recommendations of the Committee or any of its Subcommittees, other 
than a report of the Committee on a measure which has been approved by 
the Committee, must be approved by the Committee or its Subcommittees, 
as applicable, in a meeting or otherwise in writing by a majority of 
the Members, and such Members shall have the right to submit 
supplemental, minority, or additional views for inclusion in the print 
within at least 48 hours after such approval. 
       (3) Any document to be published as a Committee print, other 
than a document described in subsection (2) of this Rule, shall__ 
       (A) include on its cover the following statement: ``This 
document has been printed for informational purposes only and does not 
represent either findings or recommendations adopted by this 
Committee;'' and 
       (B) not be published following the sine die adjournment of a 
Congress, unless approved by the Chair of the Committee after 
consultation with the Ranking Minority Member of the Committee. 
       (c) JOINT INVESTIGATION OR STUDY._A report of an investigation 
or study conducted jointly by the Committee and one (1) or more other 
Committee(s) may be filed jointly, provided that each of the Committees 
complies independently with all requirements for approval and filing of 
the report. [House Rule XI 1(b)(2)] 
       (d) POST ADJOURNMENT FILING OF COMMITTEE REPORTS.__ 
       (1) After an adjournment of the last regular session of a 
Congress sine die, an investigative or oversight report approved by the 
Committee may be filed with the Clerk at any time, provided that if a 
Member gives notice at the time of approval of intention to file 
supplemental, minority, or additional views, that Member shall be 
entitled to not less than seven (7) calendar days in which to submit 
such views for inclusion with the report. [House Rule XI 1(b)(4)] 
       (2) After an adjournment sine die of the last regular session of 
a Congress, the Chair of the Committee may file the Committee's 
Activity Report for that Congress under clause 1(d)(1) of Rule XI of 
the Rules of the House with the Clerk of the House at anytime and 
without the approval of the Committee, provided that a copy of the 
report has been available to each Member of the Committee for at least 
seven (7) calendar days and that the report includes any supplemental, 
minority, or additional views submitted by a Member of the Committee. 
[House Rule XI 1(d)(1)] 

         RULE 10.__GENERAL OVERSIGHT AND INVESTIGATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES 

       (a) OVERSIGHT.__ 
       (1) IN GENERAL._The Committee shall review and study on a 
continuing basis laws, programs, and Government activities relating to 
nonmilitary research and development. [House Rule X 3(k)] 
       (2) OVERSIGHT PLAN._Not later than February 15 of the first 
session of a Congress, the Committee shall meet in open session, with a 
quorum present, to adopt its oversight plans for that Congress for 
submission to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the 
Committee on House Administration, in accordance with the provisions of 
clause 2(d) of Rule X of the House of Representatives. [House Rule X 
2(d)] 
       (b) INVESTIGATIONS.__ 
       (1) IN GENERAL._The Chair of the Committee may undertake any 
formal investigation in the name of the Committee after consultation 
with the Ranking Minority Member of the Committee. 
       (2) SUBCOMMITTEE INVESTIGATIONS._The Chair of any Subcommittee 
shall not undertake any formal investigation in the name of the 
Committee or Subcommittee without formal approval by the Chair of the 
Committee, in consultation with other appropriate Subcommittee Chairs, 
and after consultation with the Ranking Minority Member of the 
Committee. The Chair of any Subcommittee shall also consult with the 
Ranking Minority Member of the Subcommittee before undertaking any 
investigation in the name of the Committee. 

                         RULE 11.__SUBCOMMITTEES 

       (a) ESTABLISHMENT AND JURISDICTION OF SUBCOMMITTEES._The 
Committee shall have the following standing Subcommittees with the 
jurisdiction indicated. 
       (1) SUBCOMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT._Legislative 
jurisdiction and general oversight and investigative authority on all 
matters relating to energy research, development, and demonstration and 
projects therefor, commercial application of energy technology, and 
environmental research, including: 
       (A) Department of Energy research, development, and 
demonstration programs; 
       (B) Department of Energy laboratories; 
       (C) Department of Energy science activities; 
       (D) energy supply activities; 
       (E) nuclear, solar and renewable energy, and other advanced 
energy technologies; 
       (F) uranium supply and enrichment, and Department of Energy 
waste management and environment, safety, and health activities, as 
appropriate; 
       (G) fossil energy research and development; 
       (H) clean coal technology; 
       (I) energy conservation research and development; 
       (J) energy aspects of climate change; 
       (K) pipeline research, development, and demonstration projects; 
       (L) energy and environmental standards; 
       (M) energy conservation, including building performance, 
alternate fuels for and improved efficiency of vehicles, distributed 
power systems, and industrial process improvements; 
       (N) Environmental Protection Agency research and development 
programs; 
       (O) the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 
including all activities related to weather, weather services, climate, 
the atmosphere, marine fisheries, and oceanic research; 
       (P) risk assessment activities; and 
       (Q) scientific issues related to environmental policy, including 
climate change. 
       (2) Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation._Legislative 
jurisdiction and general oversight and investigative authority on all 
matters relating to competitiveness, technology, standards, and 
innovation, including: 
       (A) standardization of weights and measures, including technical 
standards, standardization, and conformity assessment; 
       (B) measurement, including the metric system of measurement; 
       (C) the Technology Administration of the Department of Commerce; 
       (D) the National Institute of Standards and Technology; 
       (E) the National Technical Information Service; 
       (F) competitiveness, including small business competitiveness; 
       (G) tax, antitrust, regulatory and other legal and governmental 
policies as they relate to technological development and 
commercialization; 
       (H) technology transfer, including civilian use of defense 
technologies; 
       (I) patent and intellectual property policy; 
       (J) international technology trade; 
       (K) research, development, and demonstration activities of the 
Department of Transportation; 
       (L) surface and water transportation research, development, and 
demonstration programs; 
       (M) earthquake programs (except for NSF) and fire research 
programs, including those related to wildfire proliferation research 
and prevention; 
       (N) biotechnology policy; 
       (O) research, development, demonstration, and standards-related 
activities of the Department of Homeland Security; 
       (P) Small Business Innovation Research and Technology Transfer; 
and 
       (Q) voting technologies and standards. 
       (3) SUBCOMMITTEE ON RESEARCH AND SCIENCE EDUCATION._Legislative 
jurisdiction and general oversight and investigative authority on all 
matters relating to science policy and science education, including: 
       (A) the Office of Science and Technology Policy; 
       (B) all scientific research, and scientific and engineering 
resources (including human resources), math, science and engineering 
education; 
       (C) intergovernmental mechanisms for research, development, and 
demonstration and cross-cutting programs; 
       (D) international scientific cooperation; 
       (E) National Science Foundation, including earthquake programs; 
       (F) university research policy, including infrastructure and 
overhead; 
       (G) university research partnerships, including those with 
industry; 
       (H) science scholarships; 
       (I) computing, communications, and information technology; 
       (J) research and development relating to health, biomedical, and 
nutritional programs; 
       (K) to the extent appropriate, agricultural, geological, 
biological and life sciences research; and 
       (L) materials research, development, and demonstration and 
policy. 
       (4) SUBCOMMITTEE ON SPACE AND AERONAUTICS._Legislative 
jurisdiction and general oversight and investigative authority on all 
matters relating to astronautical and aeronautical research and 
development, including: 
       (A) national space policy, including access to space; 
       (B) sub-orbital access and applications; 
       (C) National Aeronautics and Space Administration and its 
contractor and government-operated labs; 
       (D) space commercialization, including commercial space 
activities relating to the Department of Transportation and the 
Department of Commerce; 
       (E) exploration and use of outer space; 
       (F) international space cooperation; 
       (G) the National Space Council; 
       (H) space applications, space communications and related 
matters; 
       (I) earth remote sensing policy; 
       (J) civil aviation research, development, and demonstration; 
       (K) research, development, and demonstration programs of the 
Federal Aviation Administration; and 
       (L) space law. 
       (5) SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS AND OVERSIGHT._General and 
special investigative authority on all matters within the jurisdiction 
of the Committee on Science and Technology. 
       (b) RATIOS._A majority of the majority Members of the Committee 
shall determine an appropriate ratio of majority to minority Members of 
each Subcommittee and shall authorize the Chair of the Committee to 
negotiate that ratio with the minority party; Provided, however, that 
the ratio of majority Members to minority Members on each Subcommittee 
(including any ex-officio Members) shall be no less favorable to the 
majority party than the ratio for the Committee. 
       (c) EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS._The Chair of the Committee and Ranking 
Minority Member of the Committee shall serve as ex-officio Members of 
all Subcommittees and shall have the right to vote and be counted as 
part of the quorum and ratios on all matters before the Subcommittee. 
       (d) REFERRAL OF LEGISLATION._The Chair of the Committee shall 
refer all legislation and other matters referred to the Committee to 
the Subcommittee or Subcommittees of appropriate primary and secondary 
jurisdiction within two (2) weeks of the matters being referred to the 
Committee, unless the Chair of the Committee deems consideration is to 
be by the Committee. Subcommittee Chairs may make requests for referral 
of specific matters to their Subcommittee within the two (2) week 
period if they believe Subcommittee jurisdictions so warrant. 
       (e) PROCEDURES.__ 
       (1) No Subcommittee shall meet to consider for markup or 
approval any measure or matter when the Committee or any other 
Subcommittee of the Committee is meeting to consider any measure or 
matter for markup or approval. 
       (2) Each Subcommittee is authorized to meet, hold hearings, 
receive testimony or evidence, mark up legislation, and report to the 
Committee on all matters referred to it. For matters within its 
jurisdiction, each Subcommittee is authorized to conduct legislative, 
investigative, forecasting, and general oversight hearings; to conduct 
inquiries into the future; and to undertake budget impact studies. 
       (3) Subcommittee Chairs shall set meeting dates after 
consultation with the Chair of the Committee and other Subcommittee 
Chairs with a view toward avoiding simultaneous scheduling of Committee 
and Subcommittee meetings or hearings wherever possible. 
       (4) Any Member of the Committee may have the privilege of 
sitting with any Subcommittee during its hearings or deliberations and 
may participate in such hearings or deliberations, but no Member who is 
not a Member of the Subcommittee shall vote on any matter before such 
Subcommittee, except as provided in subsection (c) of this Rule. 
       (5) During consideration of any measure or matter for markup or 
approval in a Subcommittee proceeding, a record vote may be had at the 
request of one (1) or more Members of that Subcommittee. 
       (f) CONSIDERATION OF SUBCOMMITTEE REPORTS._After ordering a 
measure or matter reported, a Subcommittee shall issue a Subcommittee 
report in such form as the Chair of the Committee shall specify. 
Reports and recommendations of a Subcommittee shall not be considered 
by the Committee until after the intervention of 48 hours, excluding 
Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays, from the time the report is 
submitted and made available to the Members of the Committee and 
printed hearings thereon shall be made available, if feasible, to the 
Members of the Committee, except that this Rule may be waived at the 
discretion of the Chair of the Committee after consultation with the 
Ranking Minority Member of the Committee. 

                          RULE 12.__COMMITTEE RECORDS 

       (a) TRANSCRIPTS._The transcripts of those hearings conducted by 
the Committee and Subcommittees shall be published as 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. Transcripts of 
markups shall be recorded and published in the same manner as hearings 
before the Committee and shall be included as part of the legislative 
report unless waived by the Chair of the Committee. [House Rule XI 
2(e)(1)(A)] 
       (b) KEEPING OF RECORDS.__The Committee shall keep a complete 
record of all Committee action, which shall include a record of the 
votes on any question on which a record vote is demanded. The result of 
each record vote shall be made available by the Committee for 
inspection by the public at reasonable times in the offices of the 
Committee. Information so available for public inspection shall include 
a description of the amendment, motion, order, or other proposition and 
the name of each Member voting for and each Member voting against such 
amendment, motion, order, or proposition, and the names of those 
Members present but not voting. [House Rule XI 2(e)(1)] 
       (c) AVAILABILITY OF ARCHIVED RECORDS._The records of the 
Committee at the National Archives and Records Administration shall be 
made available for public use in accordance with Rule VII of the Rules 
of the House of Representatives. The Chair of the Committee shall 
notify the Ranking Minority Member of the Committee of any decision, 
pursuant to Rule VII 3(b)(3) or clause 4(b) of the Rules of the House 
of Representatives, 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. [House Rule XI 2(e)(3)] 
       (d) PROPERTY OF HOUSE.__ 
       (1) Except as provided for in paragraph (2), 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 Chair. Such records shall be the property of the House, and each 
Member, Delegate, and the Resident Commissioner, shall have access 
thereto. 
       (2) 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 the Committee respecting the conduct of a 
Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the 
House without the specific prior permission of the Committee. [House 
Rule XI 2(e)(2)] 

                      Committee on Small Business 

                    NYDIA VELAZQUEZ, New York, Chairwoman
DENNIS MOORE, Kansas                      SAM GRAVES, Missouri, Ranking    
HEATH SHULER, North Carolina                Member
KATHLEEN A. DAHLKEMPER,                   ROSCOE G. BARTLETT, Maryland
  Pennsylvania                            W. TODD AKIN, Missouri
KURT SCHRADER, Oregon                     STEVE KING, Iowa
ANN KIRKPATRICK, Arizona                  LYNN A. WESTMORELAND, Georgia
GLENN NYE, Virginia                       LOUIE GOHMERT, Texas
MICHAEL A. MICHAUD, Maine                 MARY FALLIN, Oklahoma
MELISSA L. BEAN, Illinois                 VERN BUCHANAN, Florida
DANIEL LIPINSKI, Illinois                 BLAINE LUETKEMEYER, Missouri
JASON ALTMIRE, Pennsylvania               AARON SCHOCK, Illinois
YVETTE D. CLARKE, New York                GLENN THOMPSON, Pennsylvania
BRAD ELLSWORTH, Indiana                   MIKE COFFMAN, Colorado
JOE SESTAK, Pennsylvania                  
BOBBY BRIGHT, Alabama                     
PARKER GRIFFITH, Alabama                  
DEBORAH L. HALVORSON, Illinois            

                        (Adopted January 28, 2009) 

                         RULE 1.__GENERAL PROVISIONS 

       The Rules of the House of Representatives, and in particular the 
committee rules enumerated in rule XI, are the rules of the Committee 
on Small Business to the extent applicable and by this reference are 
incorporated. Each subcommittee of the Committee on Small Business 
(hereinafter referred to as the ``committee'') is a part of the 
committee and is subject to the authority and direction of the 
committee, and to its rules to the extent applicable. 

                      RULE 2.__REFERRAL OF BILLS BY CHAIRWOMAN 

       Unless retained for consideration by the committee, all 
legislation and other matters referred to the committee shall be 
referred by the Chairwoman as she deems appropriate to the subcommittee 
of appropriate jurisdiction within 14 days. Where the subject matter of 
the referral involves the jurisdiction of more than one subcommittee or 
does not fall within any previously assigned jurisdictions, the 
Chairwoman shall refer the matter, as she may deem advisable. 
       In referring any measure or matter to a subcommittee, the 
Chairwoman may specify a date by which the subcommittee shall report 
thereon to the subcommittee. The Chairwoman may also discharge a 
subcommittee from consideration of any measure or matter referred to a 
subcommittee. 
       
                           RULE 3.__DATE OF MEETING 

       The regular meeting date of the committee shall be the second 
Thursday of every month when the House is in session. A regular meeting 
of the committee may be dispensed with if, in the judgment of the 
Chairwoman, there is no need for the meeting. Additional meetings may 
be called by the Chairwoman as she may deem necessary or at the request 
of a majority of the members of the committee in accordance with clause 
2(c) of rule XI of the House. 
       At least 3 days notice of such an additional meeting shall be 
given unless the Chairwoman determines that there is good cause to call 
the meeting on less notice. 
       The determination of the business to be considered at each 
meeting shall be made by the Chairwoman subject to clause 2(c) of rule 
XI of the House. 
       A regularly scheduled meeting need not be held if there is no 
business to be considered or, upon at least 3 days notice, it may be 
set for a different date. 

                          RULE 4.__ANNOUNCEMENT OF HEARINGS 

       Unless the Chairwoman, with the concurrence of the Ranking 
Minority Member, or the committee by majority vote, determines that 
there is good cause to begin a hearing at an earlier date, public 
announcement shall be made of the date, place and subject matter of any 
hearing to be conducted by the committee at least 7 calendar days 
before the commencement of that hearing. 
       After announcement of a hearing, the committee shall make 
available as soon as practicable to all Members of the committee a 
tentative witness list and to the extent practicable a memorandum 
explaining the subject matter of the hearing (including relevant 
legislative reports and other necessary material). In addition, the 
Chairwoman shall make available as soon as practicable to the Members 
of the committee any official reports from departments and agencies on 
the subject matter as they are received. 

                   RULE 5.__MEETINGS AND HEARINGS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC 

       (A) Meetings 
       Each meeting of the committee or its subcommittees for the 
transaction of business, including the markup of legislation, shall be 
open to the public, including to radio, television and still 
photography coverage, except as provided by clause 4 of rule XI of the 
House, 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 closed to the public 
because disclosure of matters to be considered would endanger national 
security, would compromise sensitive law enforcement information, or 
would tend to defame, degrade or incriminate any person or otherwise 
would violate any law or rule of the House; Provided, however, that no 
person other than members of the committee, and such congressional 
staff and such executive branch representatives as they may authorize, 
shall be present in any business meeting or markup session which has 
been closed to the public. 
       (B) Hearings 
       Each hearing conducted by the committee or its subcommittees 
shall be open to the public, including 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 hearing on that day shall be 
closed to the public because disclosure of testimony, evidence or other 
matters to be considered would endanger the national security, would 
compromise sensitive law enforcement information, or would violate any 
law or rule of the House; Provided, however, that the committee or 
subcommittee may by the same procedure vote to close one subsequent 
day of hearings. Notwithstanding the requirements of the preceding 
sentence, a majority of those present, there being in attendance the 
requisite number required under the rules of the committee to be 
present for the purpose of taking testimony, (i) may vote to close the 
hearing for the sole purpose of discussing whether testimony or 
evidence to be received would endanger the national security, would 
compromise sensitive law enforcement information, or violate clause 
2(k)(5) of rule XI of the House; or (ii) may vote to close the hearing, 
as provided in clause 2(k)(5) of rule XI of the House. 
       All members of the committee shall be able to participate in any 
subcommittee hearing. 
       No member of the House may be excluded from non-participatory 
attendance at any hearing of the committee or any subcommittee, unless 
the House of Representatives shall by majority vote authorize the 
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 hearing to members by the same 
procedures designated for closing hearings to the public. Additionally, 
such members who would like to not only attend, but participate shall 
notify the Ranking Minority Member and submit a request in writing to 
the Chairwoman two days in advance of such hearing. Such requests shall 
be subject to approval of the Chairwoman and the Ranking Member. 

                            RULE 6.__WITNESSES 

       (A) Statement of witnesses 
       Each witness who is to appear before the committee or 
subcommittee shall file with the committee at least two business days 
before the day of his or her appearance 75 copies of his or her written 
statement of proposed testimony. Each witness shall also submit to the 
committee a copy of his or her final prepared statement in an 
electronic format at that time. 
       At least one copy of the statement of each witness shall be 
furnished directly to the Ranking Minority Member. In addition, all 
witnesses shall be required to submit with their testimony a curriculum 
vitae or other statement describing their education, employment, 
professional affiliations and other background information pertinent to 
their testimony unless waived by the Chairwoman. Each witness will 
complete a disclosure form detailing any contracts or business that 
they currently have with the federal government. 
       The committee will provide public access to its printed 
materials, including the proposed testimony of witnesses, in electronic 
form. 
       (B) Interrogation of witnesses 
       Whenever any hearing is conducted by the committee or any 
subcommittee upon any measure or matter, the minority party members on 
the committee shall be entitled, upon request to the Chairwoman by a 
majority of those minority members, to call a witness or witnesses 
selected by the minority to testify with respect to that measure or 
matter. The minority shall be entitled to a ratio of one-third of the 
witnesses testifying. For the purposes of determining this ratio, it 
shall not include testifying government officials. The witnesses 
requested by the minority shall be invited to testify by the Chairwoman 
and must furnish at least one copy of his or her statement and any 
supplementary materials directly to the Chairwoman within two business 
days before the day of his or her appearance unless waived by the 
Chairwoman. 
       Except when the committee adopts a motion pursuant to 
subdivisions (B) and (C) of clause 2(j)(2) of rule XI of the rules of 
the House, committee members may question witnesses only when they have 
been recognized by the Chairwoman for that purpose, and only for a 
5-minute period until all members present have had an opportunity to 
question a witness. The Chairwoman and the Ranking Member shall not be 
subject to the 5-minute period limitation. For all other Committee 
Members, the 5-minute period for questioning a witness by any one 
member can be extended only with the unanimous consent of all members 
present. The Chairwoman, followed by the Ranking Minority Member and 
all other members alternating between the majority and minority, shall 
initiate the questioning of witnesses in both the full and subcommittee 
hearings. The order for questioning by members of each party shall be 
determined by the time in which the member arrived at the hearing after 
the gavel has been struck, with the first arriving having priority over 
members of his or her party. If members arrive at the same time, then 
seniority on the committee shall dictate the order. 
       In recognizing members to question witnesses, the Chairwoman may 
take into consideration the ratio of majority and minority members 
present in such a manner as not to disadvantage the Members of either 
party. The Chairwoman, in consultation with the Ranking Minority 
Member, may decrease the 5-minute time period in order to accommodate 
the needs of all the Members present and the schedule of the witnesses. 

                              RULE 7.__SUBPOENAS 

       A subpoena may be authorized and issued by the committee in the 
conduct of any investigation or series of investigations or activities 
to require the attendance and testimony of such witness and the 
production of such books, records, correspondence, memoranda, papers 
and documents, as deemed necessary. Such a subpoena shall be authorized 
by a majority vote of the full committee. The requirement that the 
authorization of a subpoena require a majority vote may be waived by 
the Ranking Minority Member. The Chairwoman may issue a subpoena, in 
consultation with the Ranking Minority Member, when the House is out of 
session for a period of 3 days or longer. 

                               RULE 8.__QUORUM 

       No measure or recommendation shall be reported unless a majority 
of the committee was actually present. For purposes of taking testimony 
or receiving evidence, there shall be one member from the majority and 
one member from the minority for the purposes of a quorum. Such 
requirement may be waived for field hearings by the Chairwoman. For all 
other purposes, one-third of the members (or 11 Members) shall 
constitute a quorum. 

                        RULE 9.__AMENDMENTS DURING MARK-UP 

       Any amendment offered to any pending legislation before the 
committee or subcommittee must be made available in written form when 
requested by any member of the committee. If such amendment is not 
available in written form when requested, the Chair shall allow an 
appropriate period for the provision thereof. 

                      RULE 10.__POSTPONEMENT OF PROCEEDINGS 

       The Chairwoman in consultation with the Ranking Minority Member 
may postpone further proceedings when a record vote is ordered on the 
question of approving any measure or matter or adopting an amendment. 
The Chairwoman may resume proceedings postponed at any time, but no 
later than the next meeting day. In exercising postponement authority, 
the Chairwoman shall take all reasonable steps necessary to notify 
members on the resumption of proceedings on any postponed recorded 
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 11.__NUMBER AND JURISDICTION OF SUBCOMMITTEES 

       There will be five subcommittees as follows: 
       Subcommittee on Finance and Tax 
       The Small Business Administration (SBA) Lending and Investment 
programs: Section 7(a) loan program, 504 Certified Development Company 
program, Small Business Investment Company program, Disaster Loan 
Assistance programs, and Microloan program. 
       Access to capital and finance issues generally. 
       Oversight over tax policy and retirement/pension matters 
affecting small businesses. 
       Subcommittee on Contracting and Technology 
       SBA Contracting programs including the following: Section 8(a) 
Business Development program, Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB) 
certification operated by SBA, Women's Procurement Program, HUBZone 
program, Surety Bond program, Service-disabled veteran procurement, and 
Section 7(j) management and technical assistance program. 
       SBA Technology programs: Small Business Innovation Research 
(SBIR) program, Small Business Technology Transfer program. 
       Oversight of government-wide procurement practices and programs 
affecting small businesses. 
       Oversight of technology and patent issues. 
       Subcommittee on Regulations and Healthcare 
       The Regulatory Flexibility Act, the Small Business Regulatory 
Enforcement Fairness Act, and the Paperwork Reduction Act. 
       SBA's Office of Advocacy, National Ombudsman, and SBA small 
business size standards. 
       Oversight of regulations and regulatory issues that affect small 
businesses. 
       Oversight of healthcare coverage issues. 
       Oversight over issues affecting small healthcare providers. 
       Subcommittee on Rural Development, Entrepreneurship and Trade 
       SBA entrepreneurial development programs: Women's Business 
Centers, National Veterans Business Development Corporation, Small 
Business Development Centers, SCORE, Drug Free Workplace program, 
Office of Women's Business Ownership, and National Women's Business 
Council (NWBC) 
       New Markets Venture Capital (NMVC) program, New Markets Tax 
Credit program, BusinessLINC and the Program for Re-Investment in Micro 
entrepreneurs. 
       General oversight of programs targeted toward rural development 
and economic growth as well as general federal government 
entrepreneurial development programs. 
       Oversight of agricultural issues. 
       Oversight of energy issues. 
       Oversight of trade issues, including SBA's Office of 
International Trade. 
       Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight 
       Oversight of SBA Administration, Management, and Agency 
Practices. 
       Oversight of activities by the Office of the Inspector General 
at SBA. 
       Oversight over general issues impacting small businesses. 

                           RULE 12.__COMMITTEE STAFF 

       (A) Majority staff 
       The employees of the committee, except those assigned to the 
minority as provided below, shall be appointed and assigned, and may be 
removed by the Chairwoman. The Chairwoman shall fix their remuneration, 
and they shall be under the general supervision and direction of the 
Chairwoman. 
       (B) Minority staff 
       The employees of the committee assigned to the minority shall be 
appointed and assigned, and their remuneration determined, as the 
Ranking Minority Member of the committee shall determine. 
       (C) Subcommittee staff 
       The Chairwoman and Ranking Minority Member of the full committee 
shall endeavor to ensure that sufficient committee staff is made 
available to each subcommittee to carry out its responsibilities under 
the rules of the committee. 

                 RULE 13.__POWERS AND DUTIES OF SUBCOMMITTEES 

       Each subcommittee is authorized to meet, hold hearings, receive 
evidence, and report to the full committee on all matters referred to 
it. Subcommittee chairmen shall hold such meetings and hearings after 
approval of the Chairwoman of the full committee. Meetings and hearings 
of subcommittees shall not be scheduled to occur simultaneously with 
meetings or hearings of the full committee. 

                                RULE 14.__RECORDS 

       The committee shall keep a complete record of all actions, which 
shall include a record of the votes on any question on which a record 
vote is demanded. The result of each subcommittee record vote, together 
with a description of the matter voted upon, shall promptly be made 
available to the full committee. A record of such votes shall be made 
available for inspection by the public at reasonable times in the 
offices of the committee. 
       The committee shall keep a complete record of all committee and 
subcommittee activity which, in the case of any meeting or hearing 
transcript, shall include 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. 
       The records of the committee at the National Archives and 
Records Administration shall be made available in accordance with rule 
VII of the Rules of the House. The Chairwoman of the full committee 
shall notify the Ranking Minority Member of the full committee of any 
decision, pursuant to clause 3(b)(3) or clause 4(b) of rule VII of the 
House, to withhold a record otherwise available, and the matter shall 
be presented to the committee for a determination of the written 
request of any member of the committee. 

            RULE 15.__ACCESS TO CLASSIFIED OR SENSITIVE INFORMATION 

       Access to classified or sensitive information supplied to the 
committee and attendance at closed sessions of the committee or its 
subcommittees shall be limited to members and necessary committee staff 
and stenographic reporters who have appropriate security clearance when 
the Chairwoman determines that such access or attendance is essential 
to the functioning of the committee. 
       The procedures to be followed in granting access to those 
hearings, records, data, charts, and files of the committee which 
involve classified information or information deemed to be sensitive 
shall be as follows: 
       (A) Only Members of the House of Representatives and 
specifically designated committee staff of the Committee on Small 
Business may have access to such information. 
       (B) Members who desire to read materials that are in the 
possession of the committee should notify the clerk of the committee. 
       (C) The clerk will maintain an accurate access log, which 
identifies the circumstances surrounding access to the information, 
without revealing the material examined. 
       (D) If the material desired to be reviewed is material which the 
committee or subcommittee deems to be sensitive enough to require 
special handling, before receiving access to such information, 
individuals will be required to sign an access information sheet 
acknowledging such access and that the individual has read and 
understands the procedures under which access is being granted. 
       (E) Material provided for review under this rule shall not be 
removed from a specified room within the committee offices. 
       (F) Individuals reviewing materials under this rule shall make 
certain that the materials are returned to the proper custodian. 
       (G) No reproductions or recordings may be made of any portion of 
such materials. 
       (H) The contents of such information shall not be divulged to 
any person in any way, form, shape, or manner, and shall not be 
discussed with any person who has not received the information in an 
authorized manner. 
       (I) When not being examined in the manner described herein, such 
information will be kept in secure safes or locked file cabinets in the 
committee offices. 
       (J) These procedures only address access to information the 
committee or a subcommittee deems to be sensitive enough to require 
special treatment. 
       (K) If a member of the House of Representatives believes that 
certain sensitive information should not be restricted as to 
dissemination or use, the member may petition the committee or 
subcommittee to so rule. With respect to information and materials 
provided to the committee by the executive branch, the classification 
of information and materials as determined by the executive branch 
shall prevail unless affirmatively changed by the committee or the 
subcommittee involved, after consultation with the appropriate 
executive agencies. 
       (L) Other materials in the possession of the committee are to be 
handled in accordance with the normal practices and traditions of the 
committee. 

                         RULE 16.__OTHER PROCEDURES 

       The Chairwoman of the full committee may establish such other 
procedures and take such actions as may be necessary to carry out the 
foregoing rules or to facilitate the effective operation of the 
committee. 

                    RULE 17.__AMENDMENTS TO COMMITTEE RULES 

       The rules of the committee may be modified, amended or repealed 
by a majority of the members, at a meeting specifically called for such 
purpose, but only if written notice of the proposed change has been 
provided to each such member at least 3 days before the time of the 
meeting. 

                            RULE 18.__BUDGET AND TRAVEL 

       (A) From the amount provided to the Committee in the primary 
expense resolution adopted by the U.S. House of Representatives for the 
111th Congress, the Chairwoman, after consultation with the Ranking 
Minority Member, shall designate one-third of the budget under the 
direction of the Ranking Minority Member for the purposes of minority 
staff, travel expenses of minority staff and members, and minority 
office expenses. 
       (B) The Chairwoman may authorize travel in connection with 
activities or subject matters under the general jurisdiction of the 
Committee. 
       (C) The Ranking Minority Member may authorize travel for any 
minority member or minority committee staff member in connection with 
activities or subject matters under the general jurisdiction of the 
Committee. Before such travel, there shall be submitted to the 
Chairwoman in writing the following at least seven calendar days prior: 
       (a) The purpose of the travel. 
       (b) The dates during which the travel is to occur. 
       (c) The names of the States or countries to be visited and the 
length of time spent in each. 
       (d) The names of members and staff of the committee 
participating in such travel. 
       At the conclusion of such travel, a summary of the activity and 
its accomplishments shall be provided to the Chairwoman within ten 
calendar days. 

                          RULE 19.__COMMITTEE WEBSITE 

       The Chairwoman 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 Members 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. 

                              RULE 20.__VICE CHAIR 

       Pursuant to House Rules, the Chairwoman shall designate a member 
of the majority party to serve as Vice Chairman of the Committee. The 
Vice Chairman shall preside at any meeting or hearing during the 
temporary absence of the Chairwoman. The Chair also reserves the right 
to designate a committee member of the majority to serve as the Chair 
at a hearing or meeting. 

      RULE 21.__AVAILABILITY OF RECORD VOTES ON THE COMMITTEE'S WEBSITE 

       In addition to any other requirement of these rules or the Rules 
of the House, the Chair shall make the record of the votes on any 
questions on which a record vote is demanded available on the 
Committee's website and for inspection by the public at reasonable 
times in the Offices of the Committee not later than 2 business days 
after such a vote is taken. Such record 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 name of those members of the 
committee present but not voting. 

                 Committee on Standards of Official Conduct 

                        ZOE LOFGREN, California, Chair 
BEN CHANDLER, Kentucky               JOE BONNER, Alabama, Ranking 
G.K. BUTTERFIELD, North Carolina       Republican Member 
KATHY CASTOR, Florida                J. GRESHAM BARRETT, South Carolina 
PETER WELCH, Vermont                 K. MICHAEL CONAWAY, Texas 
                                     CHARLES W. DENT, Pennsylvania 
                                     GREGG HARPER, Mississippi* 

*Appointed to the Standards of Official Conduct Committee on 
July 14, 2009 filling a vacancy created by the resignation of Rep. John 
Kline on July 14, 2009.

                         (Adopted February 10, 2009)

                                   FOREWORD 

       The Committee on Standards of Official Conduct is unique in the 
House of Representatives. Consistent with the duty to carry out its 
advisory and enforcement responsibilities in an impartial manner, the 
Committee is the only standing committee of the House of 
Representatives the membership of which is divided evenly by party. 
These rules are intended to provide a fair procedural framework for the 
conduct of the Committee's activities and to help ensure that the 
Committee serves well the people of the United States, the House of 
Representatives, and the Members, officers, and employees of the House 
of Representatives. 

                          PART I__GENERAL COMMITTEE RULES 

                             RULE 1.__GENERAL PROVISIONS 

       (a) So far as applicable, these rules and the Rules of the House 
of Representatives shall be the rules of the Committee and any 
subcommittee. The Committee adopts these rules under the authority of 
clause 2(a)(1) of Rule XI of the Rules of the House of Representatives, 
111th Congress. 
       (b) The rules of the Committee may be modified, amended, or 
repealed by a vote of a majority of the Committee. 
       (c) When the interests of justice so require, the Committee, by 
a majority vote of its members, may adopt any special procedures, not 
inconsistent with these rules, deemed necessary to resolve a particular 
matter before it. Copies of such special procedures shall be furnished 
to all parties in the matter. 
       (d) The Chair and Ranking Minority Member shall have access to 
such information that they request as necessary to conduct Committee 
business. 
       
                              RULE 2.__DEFINITIONS 

       (a) ``Committee'' means the Committee on Standards of Official 
Conduct. 
       (b) ``Complaint'' means a written allegation of improper conduct 
against a Member, officer, or employee of the House of Representatives 
filed with the Committee with the intent to initiate an inquiry. 
       (c) ``Inquiry'' means an investigation by an investigative 
subcommittee into allegations against a Member, officer, or employee of 
the House of Representatives. 
       (d) ``Investigative Subcommittee'' means a subcommittee 
designated pursuant to Rule 19(a) to conduct an inquiry to determine if 
a Statement of Alleged Violation should be issued. 
       (e) ``Statement of Alleged Violation'' means a formal charging 
document filed by an investigative subcommittee with the Committee 
containing specific allegations against a Member, officer, or employee 
of the House of Representatives of a violation of the Code of Official 
Conduct, or of a law, rule, regulation, or other standard of conduct 
applicable to the performance of official duties or the discharge of 
official responsibilities. 
       (f) ``Adjudicatory Subcommittee'' means a subcommittee 
designated pursuant to Rule 23(a) that holds an adjudicatory hearing 
and determines whether the counts in a Statement of Alleged Violation 
are proved by clear and convincing evidence. 
       (g) ``Sanction Hearing'' means a Committee hearing to determine 
what sanction, if any, to adopt or to recommend to the House of 
Representatives. 
       (h) ``Respondent'' means a Member, officer, or employee of the 
House of Representatives who is the subject of a complaint filed with 
the Committee or who is the subject of an inquiry or a Statement of 
Alleged Violation. 
       (i) ``Office of Advice and Education'' refers to the Office 
established by section 803(i) of the Ethics Reform Act of 1989. The 
Office handles inquiries; prepares written opinions in response to 
specific requests; develops general guidance; and organizes seminars, workshops, and briefings for the benefit of the House of 
Representatives. 
       (j) ``Member'' means a Representative in, or a Delegate to, or 
the Resident Commissioner to, the U.S. House of Representatives. 

                    RULE 3. ADVISORY OPINIONS AND WAIVERS 

       (a) The Office of Advice and Education shall handle inquiries; 
prepare written opinions providing specific advice; develop general 
guidance; and organize seminars, workshops, and briefings for the 
benefit of the House of Representatives. 
       (b) Any Member, officer, or employee of the House of 
Representatives may request a written opinion with respect to the 
propriety of any current or proposed conduct of such Member, officer, 
or employee. 
       (c) The Office of Advice and Education may provide information 
and guidance regarding laws, rules, regulations, and other standards of 
conduct applicable to Members, officers, and employees in the 
performance of their duties or the discharge of their responsibilities. 
       (d) In general, the Committee shall provide a written opinion to 
an individual only in response to a written request, and the written 
opinion shall address the conduct only of the inquiring individual, or 
of persons for whom the inquiring individual is responsible as 
employing authority. 
       (e) A written request for an opinion shall be addressed to the 
Chair of the Committee and shall include a complete and accurate 
statement of the relevant facts. A request shall be signed by the 
requester or the requester's authorized representative or employing 
authority. A representative shall disclose to the Committee the 
identity of the principal on whose behalf advice is being sought. 
       (f) The Office of Advice and Education shall prepare for the 
Committee a response to each written request for an opinion from a 
Member, officer, or employee. Each response shall discuss all 
applicable laws, rules, regulations, or other standards. 
       (g) Where a request is unclear or incomplete, the Office of 
Advice and Education may seek additional information from the 
requester. 
       (h) The Chair and Ranking Minority Member are authorized to take 
action on behalf of the Committee on any proposed written opinion that 
they determine does not require consideration by the Committee. If the 
Chair or Ranking Minority Member requests a written opinion, or seeks 
a waiver, extension, or approval pursuant to Rules 3(1), 4(c), 4(e), or 
4(h), the next ranking member of the requester's party is authorized to 
act in lieu of the requester. 
       (i) The Committee shall keep confidential any request for advice 
from a Member, officer, or employee, as well as any response thereto. 
       (j) The Committee may take no adverse action in regard to any 
conduct that has been undertaken in reliance on a written opinion if 
the conduct conforms to the specific facts addressed in the opinion. 
       (k) Information provided to the Committee by a Member, officer, 
or employee seeking advice regarding prospective conduct may not be 
used as the basis for initiating an investigation under clause 3(a)(2) 
or clause 3(b) of Rule XI of the Rules of the House of Representatives, 
if such Member, officer, or employee acts in good faith in accordance 
with the written advice of the Committee. 
       (l) A written request for a waiver of clause 5 of House Rule XXV 
(the House gift rule), or for any other waiver or approval, shall be 
treated in all respects like any other request for a written opinion. 
       (m) A written request for a waiver of clause 5 of House Rule XXV 
(the House gift rule) shall specify the nature of the waiver being 
sought and the specific circumstances justifying the waiver. 
       (n) An employee seeking a waiver of time limits applicable to 
travel paid for by a private source shall include with the request 
evidence that the employing authority is aware of the request. In any 
other instance where proposed employee conduct may reflect on the 
performance of official duties, the Committee may require that the 
requester submit evidence that the employing authority knows of the 
conduct. 

                          RULE 4.__FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE 

       (a) In matters relating to Title I of the Ethics in Government 
Act of 1978, the Committee shall coordinate with the Clerk of the House 
of Representatives, Legislative Resource Center, to assure that 
appropriate individuals are notified of their obligation to file 
Financial Disclosure Statements and that such individuals are provided 
in a timely fashion with filing instructions and forms developed by the 
Committee. 
       (b) The Committee shall coordinate with the Legislative Resource 
Center to assure that information that the Ethics in Government Act 
requires to be placed on the public record is made public. 
       (c) The Chair and Ranking Minority Member are authorized to 
grant on behalf of the Committee requests for reasonable extensions of 
time for the filing of Financial Disclosure Statements. Any such 
request must be received by the Committee no later than the date on 
which the Statement in question is due. A request received after such 
date may be granted by the Committee only in extraordinary 
circumstances. Such extensions for one individual in a calendar year 
shall not exceed a total of 90 days. No extension shall be granted 
authorizing a nonincumbent candidate to file a statement later than 30 
days prior to a primary or general election in which the candidate is 
participating. 
       (d) An individual who takes legally sufficient action to 
withdraw as a candidate before the date on which that individual's 
Financial Disclosure Statement is due under the Ethics in Government 
Act shall not be required to file a Statement. An individual shall not 
be excused from filing a Financial Disclosure Statement when withdrawal 
as a candidate occurs after the date on which such Statement was due. 
       (e) Any individual who files a report required to be filed under 
title I of the Ethics in Government Act more than 30 days after the 
later of__ 
       (1) the date such report is required to be filed, or 
       (2) if a filing extension is granted to such individual, the 
last day of the filing extension period, is required by such Act to pay 
a late filing fee of $200. The Chair and Ranking Minority Member are 
authorized to approve requests that the fee be waived based on 
extraordinary circumstances. 
       (f) Any late report that is submitted without a required filing 
fee shall be deemed procedurally deficient and not properly filed. 
       (g) The Chair and Ranking Minority Member are authorized to 
approve requests for waivers of the aggregation and reporting of gifts 
as provided by section 102(a)(2)(C) of the Ethics in Government Act. If 
such a request is approved, both the incoming request and the Committee 
response shall be forwarded to the Legislative Resource Center for 
placement on the public record. 
       (h) The Chair and Ranking Minority Member are authorized to 
approve blind trusts as qualifying under section 102(0(3) of the Ethics 
in Government Act. The correspondence relating to formal approval of a 
blind trust, the trust document, the list of assets transferred to the 
trust, and any other documents required by law to be made public, shall 
be forwarded to the Legislative Resource Center for such purpose. 
       (i) The Committee shall designate staff counsel who shall review 
Financial Disclosure Statements and, based upon information contained 
therein, indicate in a form and manner prescribed by the Committee 
whether the Statement appears substantially accurate and complete and 
the filer appears to be in compliance with applicable laws and rules. 
       (j) Each Financial Disclosure Statement shall be reviewed within 
60 days after the date of filing. 
       (k) If the reviewing counsel believes that additional 
information is required because (1) the Statement appears not 
substantially accurate or complete, or (2) the filer may not be in 
compliance with applicable laws or rules, then the reporting individual 
shall be notified in writing of the additional information believed to 
be required, or of the law or rule with which the reporting individual 
does not appear to be in compliance. Such notice shall also state the 
time within which a response is to be submitted. Any such notice shall 
remain confidential. 
       (1) Within the time specified, including any extension granted 
in accordance with clause (c), a reporting individual who concurs with 
the Committee's notification that the Statement is not complete, or 
that other action is required, shall submit the necessary information 
or take appropriate action. Any amendment may be in the form of a 
revised Financial Disclosure Statement or an explanatory letter 
addressed to the Clerk of the House of Representatives. 
       (m) Any amendment shall be placed on the public record in the 
same manner as other Statements. The individual designated by the 
Committee to review the original Statement shall review any amendment 
thereto. 
       (n) Within the time specified, including any extension granted 
in accordance with clause (c), a reporting individual who does not 
agree with the Committee that the Statement is deficient or that other 
action is required, shall be provided an opportunity to respond orally 
or in writing. If the explanation is accepted, a copy of the response, 
if written, or a note summarizing an oral response, shall be retained 
in Committee files with the original report. 
       (o) The Committee shall be the final arbiter of whether any 
Statement requires clarification or amendment. 
       (p) If the Committee determines, by vote of a majority of its 
members, that there is reason to believe that an individual has 
willfully failed to file a Statement or has willfully falsified or 
willfully failed to file information required to be reported, then the 
Committee shall refer the name of the individual, together with the 
evidence supporting its finding, to the Attorney General pursuant to 
section 104(b) of the Ethics in Government Act. Such referral shall not 
preclude the Committee from initiating such other action as may be 
authorized by other provisions of law or the Rules of the House of 
Representatives. 

                             RULE 5.__MEETINGS 

       (a) The .regular meeting day of the Committee shall be the 
second Tuesday of each month, except when the House of Representatives 
is not meeting on that day. When the Committee Chair determines that 
there is sufficient reason, meetings may be called on additional days. 
A regularly scheduled meeting need not be held when the Chair 
determines there is no business to be considered. 
       (b) The Chair shall establish the agenda for meetings of the 
Committee and the Ranking Minority Member may place additional items on 
the agenda. 
       (c) All meetings of the Committee or any subcommittee shall 
occur in executive session unless the Committee or subcommittee, by an 
affirmative vote of a majority of its members, opens the meeting or 
hearing to the public. 
       (d) Any hearing held by an adjudicatory subcommittee or any 
sanction hearing held by the Committee shall be open to the public 
unless the Committee or subcommittee, by an affirmative vote of a 
majority of its members, closes the hearing to the public. 
       (e) A subcommittee shall meet at the discretion of its Chair. 
       (f) Insofar as practicable, notice for any Committee or 
subcommittee meeting shall be provided at least seven days in advance 
of the meeting. The Chair of the Committee or subcommittee may waive 
such time period for good cause. 

                            RULE 6.__COMMITTEE STAFF 

       (a) The staff is to be assembled and retained as a professional, 
nonpartisan staff. 
       (b) Each member of the staff shall be professional and 
demonstrably qualified for the position for which the individual is 
hired. 
       (c) The staff as a whole and each individual member of the staff 
shall perform all official duties in a nonpartisan manner. 
       (d) No member of the staff shall engage in any partisan 
political activity directly affecting any congressional or presidential 
election. 
       (e) No member of the staff or outside counsel may accept public 
speaking engagements or write for publication on any subject that is in 
any way related to the employment or duties with the Committee of such 
individual without specific prior approval from the Chair and Ranking 
Minority Member. 
       (f) All staff members shall be appointed by an affirmative vote 
of a majority of the members of the Committee. Such vote shall occur at 
the first meeting of the membership of the Committee during each 
Congress and as necessary during the Congress. 
       (g) Subject to the approval of the Committee on House 
Administration, the Committee may retain counsel not employed by the 
House of Representatives whenever the Committee determines, by an 
affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the Committee, that 
the retention of outside counsel is necessary and appropriate. 
       (h) If the Committee determines that it is necessary to retain 
staff members for the purpose of a particular investigation or other 
proceeding, then such staff shall be retained only for the duration of 
that particular investigation or proceeding. 
       (i) Outside counsel may be dismissed prior to the end of a 
contract between the Committee and such counsel only by a majority vote 
of the members of the Committee. 
       (j) In addition to any other staff provided for by law, rule, or 
other authority, with respect to the Committee, the Chair and Ranking 
Minority Member each may appoint one individual as a shared staff 
member from the respective personal staff of the Chair or Ranking 
Minority Member to perform service for the Committee. Such shared staff 
may assist the Chair or Ranking Minority Member on any subcommittee on 
which the Chair or Ranking Minority Member serves. Only paragraphs (c) 
and (e) of this Rule and Rule 7(b) shall apply to shared staff. 

                            RULE 7.__CONFIDENTIALITY 

       (a) Before any Member or employee of the Committee, including 
members of an investigative subcommittee selected under clause 5(a)(4) 
of Rule X of the House of Representatives and shared staff designated 
pursuant to Committee Rule 6(j), may have access to information that is 
confidential under the rules of the Committee, the following oath (or 
affirmation) shall be executed in writing: 
       ``I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will not disclose, to 
any person or entity outside the Committee on Standards of Official 
Conduct, any information received in the course of my service with the 
Committee, except as authorized by the Committee or in accordance with 
its rules.'' 
       Copies of the executed oath shall be provided to the Clerk of 
the House as part of the records of the House. Breaches of 
confidentiality shall be investigated by the Committee and appropriate 
action shall be taken. 
       (b) No member of the staff or outside counsel may make public, 
unless approved by an affirmative vote of a majority of the members of 
the Committee, any information, document, or other material that is 
confidential, derived from executive session, or classified and that is 
obtained during the course of employment with the Committee. 
       (c) Committee members and staff shall not disclose any evidence 
relating to an investigation to any person or organization outside the 
Committee unless authorized by the Committee. 
       (d) Members and staff of the Committee shall not disclose to any 
person or organization outside the Committee, unless authorized by the 
Committee, any information regarding the Committee's or a 
subcommittee's investigative, adjudicatory or other proceedings, 
including but not limited to: (i) the fact or nature of any complaints; 
(ii) executive session proceedings; (iii) information pertaining to or 
copies of any Committee or subcommittee report, study or other document 
which purports to express the views, findings, conclusions or 
recommendations of the Committee or subcommittee in connection with any 
of its activities or proceedings; or (iv) any other information or 
allegation respecting the conduct of a Member, officer or employee of 
the House. 
       (e) Except as otherwise specifically authorized by the 
Committee, no Committee member or staff member shall disclose to any 
person outside the Committee, the name of any witness subpoenaed to 
testify or to produce evidence. 
       (f) The Committee shall not disclose to any person or 
organization outside the Committee any information concerning the 
conduct of a respondent until it has transmitted a Statement of Alleged 
Violation to such respondent and the respondent has been given full 
opportunity to respond pursuant to Rule 22. The Statement of Alleged 
Violation and any written response thereto shall be made public at the 
first meeting or hearing on the matter that is open to the public after 
such opportunity has been provided. Any other materials in the 
possession of the Committee regarding such statement may be made public 
as authorized by the Committee to the extent consistent with the Rules 
of the House of Representatives. If no public hearing is held on the 
matter, the Statement of Alleged Violation and any written response 
thereto shall be included in the Committee's final report on the matter 
to the House of Representatives. 
       (g) Unless otherwise determined by a vote of the Committee, only 
the Chair or Ranking Minority Member of the Committee, after 
consultation with each other, may make public statements regarding 
matters before the Committee or any subcommittee. 
       (h) The Committee may establish procedures necessary to prevent 
the unauthorized disclosure of any testimony or other information 
received by the Committee or its staff. 

           RULE 8.__SUBCOMMITTEES__GENERAL POLICY AND STRUCTURE 

       (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of these Rules, the 
Chair and Ranking Minority Member of the Committee may consult with an 
investigative subcommittee either on their own initiative or on the 
initiative of the subcommittee, shall have access to evidence and 
information before a subcommittee with whom they so consult, and shall 
not thereby be precluded from serving as full, voting members of any 
adjudicatory subcommittee. Except for the Chair and Ranking Minority 
Member of the Committee pursuant to this paragraph, evidence in the 
possession of an investigative subcommittee shall not be disclosed to 
other Committee members except by a vote of the subcommittee. 
       (b) The Committee may establish other noninvestigative and 
nonadjudicatory subcommittees and may assign to them such functions as 
it may deem appropriate. The membership of each subcommittee shall 
provide equal representation for the majority and minority parties. 
       (c) The Chair may refer any bill, resolution, or other matter 
before the Committee to an appropriate subcommittee for consideration. 
Any such bill, resolution, or other matter may be discharged from the 
subcommittee to which it was referred by a majority vote of the 
Committee. 
       (d) Any member of the Committee may sit with any 
noninvestigative or nonadjudicatory subcommittee, but only regular 
members of such subcommittee may vote on any matter before that 
subcommittee. 

                   RULE 9.__QUORUMS AND MEMBER DISQUALIFICATION 

       (a) The quorum for an investigative subcommittee to take 
testimony and to receive evidence shall be two members, unless 
otherwise authorized by the House of Representatives. 
       (b) The quorum for an adjudicatory subcommittee to take 
testimony, receive evidence, or conduct business shall consist of a 
majority plus one of the members of the adjudicatory subcommittee. 
       (c) Except as stated in clauses (a) and (b) of this rule, a 
quorum for the purpose of conducting business consists of a majority of 
the members of the Committee or subcommittee. 
       (d) A member of the Committee shall be ineligible to participate 
in any Committee or subcommittee proceeding in which such Member is the 
respondent. 
       (e) A member of the Committee may seek disqualification from 
participating in any investigation of the conduct of a Member, officer, 
or employee of the House of Representatives upon the submission in 
writing and under oath of an affidavit of disqualification stating that 
the member cannot render an impartial and unbiased decision. If the 
Committee approves and accepts such affidavit of disqualification, or 
if a member is disqualified pursuant to Rule 17(e) or Rule 23(a), the 
Chair shall so notify the Speaker and ask the Speaker to designate a 
Member of the House of Representatives from the same political party as 
the disqualified member of the Committee to act as a member of the 
Committee in any Committee proceeding relating to such investigation. 

                     RULE 10.__VOTE REQUIREMENTS 

       (a) The following actions shall be taken only upon an 
affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the Committee or 
subcommittee, as appropriate: 
       (1) Issuing a subpoena. 
       (2) Adopting a full Committee motion to create an investigative 
subcommittee. 
       (3) Adopting or amending of a Statement of Alleged Violation. 
       (4) Finding that a count in a Statement of Alleged Violation has 
been proved by clear and convincing evidence. 
       (5) Sending a letter of reproval. 
       (6) Adopting a recommendation to the House of Representatives 
that a sanction be imposed. 
       (7) Adopting a report relating to the conduct of a Member, 
officer, or employee. 
       (8) Issuing an advisory opinion of general applicability 
establishing new policy. 
       b) Except as stated in clause (a), action may be taken by the 
Committee or any subcommittee thereof by a simple majority, a quorum 
being present. 
       (c) No motion made to take any of the actions enumerated in 
clause (a) of this Rule may be entertained by the Chair unless a quorum 
of the Committee is present when such motion is made. 

                        RULE 11.__COMMITTEE RECORDS 

       (a) All communications and all pleadings pursuant to these rules 
shall be filed with the Committee at the Committee's office or such 
other place as designated by the Committee. 
       (b) All records of the Committee which have been delivered to 
the Archivist of the United States shall be made available to the 
public in accordance with Rule VII of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives. 

         RULE 12.__BROADCASTS OF COMMITTEE AND SUBCOMMITTEE PROCEEDINGS 

       (a) Television or radio coverage of a Committee or subcommittee 
hearing or meeting shall be without commercial sponsorship. 
       (b) No witness shall be required against the witness' will to be 
photographed or otherwise to have a graphic reproduction of the 
witness' image made at any hearing or to give evidence or testimony 
while the broadcasting of that hearing, by radio or television, is 
being conducted. At the request of any witness, all media microphones 
shall be turned off, all television and camera lenses shall be covered, 
and the making of a graphic reproduction at the hearing shall not be 
permitted. This paragraph supplements clause 2(k)(5) of Rule XI of the 
Rules of the House of Representatives relating to the protection of the 
rights of witnesses. 
       (c) Not more than four television cameras, operating from fixed 
positions, shall be permitted in a hearing or meeting room. The 
Committee may allocate the positions of permitted television cameras 
among the television media in consultation with the Executive Committee 
of the Radio and Television Correspondents' Galleries. 
       (d) Television cameras shall be placed so as not to obstruct in 
any way the space between any witness giving evidence or testimony and 
any member of the Committee, or the visibility of that witness and that 
member to each other. 
       (e) Television cameras shall not be placed in positions that 
unnecessarily obstruct the coverage of the hearing or meeting by the 
other media. 

                      PART II__INVESTIGATIVE AUTHORITY 

                         RULE 13.__HOUSE RESOLUTION 

       Whenever the House of Representatives, by resolution, authorizes 
or directs the Committee to undertake an inquiry or investigation, the 
provisions of the resolution, in conjunction with these Rules, shall 
govern. To the extent the provisions of the resolution differ from 
these Rules, the resolution shall control. 

        RULE 14.__COMMITTEE AUTHORITY TO INVESTIGATE__GENERAL POLICY 

       (a) Pursuant to clause 3(b) of Rule XI of the Rules of the House 
of Representatives, the Committee may exercise its investigative 
authority when: 
       (1) information offered as a complaint by a Member of the House 
of Representatives is transmitted directly to the Committee; 
       (2) information offered as a complaint by an individual not a 
Member of the House is transmitted to the Committee, provided that a 
Member of the House certifies in writing that such Member believes the 
information is submitted in good faith and warrants the review and 
consideration of the Committee; 
       (3) the Committee, on its own initiative, establishes an 
investigative subcommittee; 
       (4) a Member, officer, or employee is convicted in a Federal, 
State, or local court of a felony; 
       (5) the House of Representatives, by resolution, authorizes or 
directs the Committee to undertake an inquiry or investigation; or 
       (b) The Committee also has investigatory authority over: 
       (1) certain unauthorized disclosures of intelligence-related 
information, pursuant to House Rule X, clauses 11(g)(4) and (g)(5); or 
       (2) reports received from the Office of the Inspector General 
pursuant to House Rule II, clause 6(c)(5). 

                             RULE 15.__COMPLAINTS 

       (a) A complaint submitted to the Committee shall be in writing, 
dated, and properly verified (a document will be considered properly 
verified where a notary executes it with the language, ``Signed and 
sworn to (or affirmed) before me on (date) by (the name of the 
person)'' setting forth in simple, concise, and direct statements__ 
       (1) the name and legal address of the party filing the complaint 
(hereinafter referred to as the ``complainant''); 
       (2) the name and position or title of the respondent; 
       (3) the nature of the alleged violation of the Code of Official 
Conduct or of other law, rule, regulation, or other standard of conduct 
applicable to the performance of duties or discharge of 
responsibilities; and 
       (4) the facts alleged to give rise to the violation. The 
complaint shall not contain innuendo, speculative assertions, or 
conclusory statements. 
       (b) Any documents in the possession of the complainant that 
relate to the allegations may be submitted with the complaint. 
       (c) Information offered as a complaint by a Member of the House 
of Representatives may be transmitted directly to the Committee. 
       (d) Information offered as a complaint by an individual not a 
Member of the House may be transmitted to the Committee, provided that 
a Member of the House certifies in writing that such Member believes 
the information is submitted in good faith and warrants the review and 
consideration of the Committee. 
       (e) A complaint must be accompanied by a certification, which 
may be unSworn, that the complainant has provided an exact copy of the 
filed complaint and all attachments to the respondent. 
       (f) The Committee may defer action on a complaint against a 
Member, officer, or employee of the House of Representatives when the 
complaint alleges conduct that the Committee has reason to believe is 
being reviewed by appropriate law enforcement or regulatory 
authorities, or when the Committee determines that it is appropriate 
for the conduct alleged in the complaint to be reviewed initially by 
law enforcement or regulatory authorities. 
       (g) A complaint may not be amended without leave of the 
Committee. Otherwise, any new allegations of improper conduct must be 
submitted in a new complaint that independently meets the procedural 
requirements of the Rules of the House of Representatives and the 
Committee's Rules. 
       (h) The Committee shall not accept, and shall return to the 
complainant, any complaint submitted within the 60 days prior to an 
election in which the subject of the complaint is a candidate. 
       (i) The Committee shall not consider a complaint, nor shall any 
investigation be undertaken by the Committee, of any alleged violation 
which occurred before the third previous Congress unless the Committee 
determines that the alleged violation is directly related to an alleged 
violation which occurred in a more recent Congress. 

     RULE 16.__DUTIES OF COMMITTEE CHAIR AND RANKING MINORITY MEMBER 

       (a) Whenever information offered as a complaint is submitted to 
the Committee, the Chair and Ranking Minority Member shall have 14 
calendar days or 5 legislative days, whichever occurs first, to 
determine whether the information meets the requirements of the 
Committee's rules for what constitutes a complaint. 
       (b) Whenever the Chair and Ranking Minority Member jointly 
determine that information submitted to the Committee meets the 
requirements of the Committee's rules for what constitutes a complaint, 
they shall have 45 calendar days or 5 legislative days, whichever is 
later, after the date that the Chair and Ranking Minority Member 
determine that information filed meets the requirements of the 
Committee's rules for what constitutes a complaint, unless the 
Committee by an affirmative vote of a majority of its members votes 
otherwise, to__ 
       (1) recommend to the Committee that it dispose of the complaint, 
or any portion thereof, in any manner that does not require action by 
the House, which may include dismissal of the complaint or resolution 
of the complaint by a letter to the Member, officer, or employee of the 
House against whom the complaint is made; 
       (2) establish an investigative subcommittee; or 
       (3) request that the Committee extend the applicable 45-calendar 
day period when they determine more time is necessary in order to make 
a recommendation under paragraph (1) or (2) of Rule 16(b). 
       (c) The Chair and Ranking Minority Member may jointly gather 
additional information concerning alleged conduct which is the basis of 
a complaint or of information offered as a complaint until they have 
established an investigative subcommittee or the Chair or Ranking 
Minority Member has placed on the agenda the issue of whether to 
establish an investigative subcommittee. 
       (d) If the Chair and Ranking Minority Member jointly determine 
that information submitted to the Committee meets the requirements of 
the Committee rules for what constitutes a complaint, and the complaint 
is not disposed of within 45 calendar days or 5 legislative days, 
whichever is later, and no additional 45-day extension is made, then 
they shall establish an investigative subcommittee and forward the 
complaint, or any portion thereof, to that subcommittee for its 
consideration. If at any time during the time period either the Chair 
or Ranking Minority Member places on the agenda the issue of whether to 
establish an investigative subcommittee, then an investigative 
subcommittee may be established only by an affirmative vote of a 
majority of the members of the Committee. 
       (e) Whenever the Chair and Ranking Minority Member jointly 
determine that information submitted to the Committee does not meet the 
requirements for what constitutes a complaint set forth in the 
Committee rules, they may (1) return the information to the complainant 
with a statement that it fails to meet the requirements for what 
constitutes a complaint set forth in the Committee's rules; or (2) 
recommend to the Committee that it authorize the establishment of an 
investigative subcommittee. 

                        RULE 17.__PROCESSING OF COMPLAINTS 

       (a) If a complaint is in compliance with House and Committee 
Rules, a copy of the complaint and the Committee Rules shall be 
forwarded to the respondent within 5 days with notice that the 
complaint conforms to the applicable rules. 
       (b) The respondent may, within 30 days of the Committee's 
notification, provide to the Committee any information relevant to a 
complaint filed with the Committee. The respondent may submit a written 
statement in response to the complaint. Such a statement shall be 
signed by the respondent. If the statement is prepared by counsel for 
the respondent, the respondent shall sign a representation that the 
respondent has reviewed the response and agrees with the factual 
assertions contained therein. 
       (c) The Committee staff may request information from the 
respondent or obtain additional information pertinent to the case from 
other sources prior to the establishment of an investigative 
subcommittee only when so directed by the Chair and Ranking Minority 
Member. 
       (d) The respondent shall be notified in writing regarding the 
Committee's decision either to dismiss the complaint or to create an 
investigative subcommittee. 
       (e) The respondent shall be notified of the membership of the 
investigative subcommittee and shall have 10 days after such notice is 
transmitted to object to the participation of any subcommittee member. 
Such objection shall be in writing and must be on the grounds that the 
subcommittee member cannot render an impartial and unbiased decision. 
The subcommittee member against whom the objection is made shall be the 
sole judge of any disqualification. 

                       RULE 18.__COMMITTEE-INITIATED INQUIRY 

       (a) Notwithstanding the absence of a filed complaint, the 
Committee may consider any information in its possession indicating 
that a Member, officer, or employee may have committed a violation of 
the Code of Official Conduct or any law, rule, regulation, or other 
standard of conduct applicable to the conduct of such Member, officer, 
or employee in the performance of the duties or the discharge of the 
responsibilities of such individual. The Chair and Ranking Minority 
Member may jointly gather additional information concerning such an 
alleged violation by a Member, officer, or employee unless and until an 
investigative subcommittee has been established. 
       (b) If the Committee votes to establish an investigative 
subcommittee, the Committee shall proceed in accordance with Rule 19. 
       (c) Any written request by a Member, officer, or employee of the 
House of Representatives that the Committee conduct an inquiry into 
such person's own conduct shall be considered in accordance with 
subsection (a) of this Rule. 
       (d) An inquiry shall not be undertaken regarding any alleged 
violation that occurred before the third previous Congress unless a 
majority of the Committee determines that the alleged violation is 
directly related to an alleged violation that occurred in a more recent 
Congress. 
       (e) An inquiry shall be undertaken by an investigative 
subcommittee with regard to any felony conviction of a Member, officer, 
or employee of the House of Representatives in a Federal, State, or 
local court who has been sentenced. Notwithstanding this provision, the 
Committee has the discretion to initiate an inquiry upon an affirmative 
vote of a majority of the members of the Committee at any time prior to 
conviction or sentencing. 

                    RULE 19.__INVESTIGATIVE SUBCOMMITTEE 

       (a) Upon the establishment of an investigative subcommittee, the 
Chair and Ranking Minority Member of the Committee shall designate four 
members (with equal representation from the majority and minority 
parties) to serve as an investigative subcommittee to undertake an 
inquiry. Members of the Committee and Members of the House selected 
pursuant to clause 5(a)(4)(A) of Rule X of the House of Representatives 
are eligible for appointment to an investigative subcommittee, as 
determined by the Chair and Ranking Minority Member of the Committee. 
At the time of appointment, the Chair shall designate one member of the 
subcommittee to serve as the Chair and the Ranking Minority Member 
shall designate one member of the subcommittee to serve as the ranking 
minority member of the investigative subcommittee. The Chair and 
Ranking Minority Member of the Committee may serve as members of an 
investigative subcommittee, but may not serve as non-voting, ex-officio 
members. 
       (b) In an inquiry undertaken by an investigative subcommittee__ 
       (1) All proceedings, including the taking of testimony, shall be 
conducted in executive session and all testimony taken by deposition or 
things produced pursuant to subpoena or otherwise shall be deemed to 
have been taken or produced in executive session. 
       (2) The Chair of the investigative subcommittee shall ask the 
respondent and all witnesses whether they intend to be represented by 
counsel. If so, the respondent or witnesses or their legal 
representatives shall provide written designation of counsel. A 
respondent or witness who is represented by counsel shall not be 
questioned in the absence of counsel unless an explicit waiver is 
obtained. 
       (3) The subcommittee shall provide the respondent an opportunity 
to present, orally or in writing, a statement, which must be under oath 
or affirmation, regarding the allegations and any other relevant 
questions arising out of the inquiry. 
       (4) The staff may interview witnesses, examine documents and 
other evidence, and request that submitted statements be under oath or 
affirmation and that documents be certified as to their authenticity 
and accuracy. 
       (5) The subcommittee, by a majority vote of its members, may 
require, by subpoena or otherwise, the attendance and testimony of 
witnesses and the production of such books, records, correspondence, 
memoranda, papers, documents, and other items as it deems necessary to 
the conduct of the inquiry. Unless the Committee otherwise provides, 
the subpoena power shall rest in the Chair and Ranking Minority Member 
of the Committee and a subpoena shall be issued upon the request of the 
investigative subcommittee. 
       (6) The subcommittee shall require that testimony be given under 
oath or affirmation. The form of the oath or affirmation shall be: ``Do 
you solemnly swear (or affirm) that the testimony you will give before 
this subcommittee in the matter now under consideration will be the 
truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth (so help you God)?'' 
The oath or affirmation shall be administered by the Chair or 
subcommittee member designated by the Chair to administer oaths. 
       (c) During the inquiry, the procedure respecting the 
admissibility of evidence and rulings shall be as follows: 
       (1) Any relevant evidence shall be admissible unless the 
evidence is privileged under the precedents of the House of 
Representatives. 
       (2) The Chair of the subcommittee or other presiding member at 
any investigative subcommittee proceeding shall rule upon any question 
of admissibility or pertinency of evidence, motion, procedure or any 
other matter, and may direct any witness to answer any question under 
penalty of contempt. A witness, witness counsel, or a member of the 
subcommittee may appeal any rulings to the members present at that 
proceeding. A majority vote of the members present at such proceeding 
on such appeal shall govern the question of admissibility, and no 
appeal shall lie to the Committee. 
       (3) Whenever a person is determined by a majority vote to be in 
contempt of the subcommittee, the matter may be referred to the 
Committee to determine whether to refer the matter to the House of 
Representatives for consideration. 
       (4) Committee counsel may, subject to subcommittee approval, 
enter into stipulations with the respondent and/or the respondent's 
counsel as to facts that are not in dispute. 
       (d) Upon an affirmative vote of a majority of the subcommittee 
members, and an affirmative vote of a majority of the full Committee, 
an investigative subcommittee may expand the scope of its 
investigation. 
       (e) Upon completion of the investigation, the staff shall draft 
for the investigative subcommittee a report that shall contain a 
comprehensive summary of the information received regarding the alleged 
 violations. 
       (f) Upon completion of the inquiry, an investigative 
subcommittee, by a majority vote of its members, may adopt a Statement 
of Alleged Violation if it determines that there is substantial reason 
to believe that a violation of the Code of Official Conduct, or of a 
law, rule, regulation, or other standard of conduct applicable to the 
performance of official duties or the discharge of official 
responsibilities by a Member, officer, or employee of the House of 
Representatives has occurred. If more than one violation is alleged, 
such Statement shall be divided into separate counts. Each count shall 
relate to a separate violation, shall contain a plain and concise 
statement of the alleged facts of such violation, and shall include a 
reference to the provision of the Code of Official Conduct or law, 
rule, regulation or other applicable standard of conduct governing the 
performance of duties or discharge of responsibilities alleged to have 
been violated. A copy of such Statement shall be transmitted to the 
respondent and the respondent's counsel. 
       (g) If the investigative subcommittee does not adopt a Statement 
of Alleged Violation, it shall transmit to the Committee a report 
containing a summary of the information received in the inquiry, its 
conclusions and reasons therefore, and any appropriate recommendation. 

           RULE 20.__AMENDMENTS TO STATEMENTS OF ALLEGED VIOLATION 

       (a) An investigative subcommittee may, upon an affirmative vote 
of a majority of its members, amend its Statement of Alleged Violation 
anytime before the Statement of Alleged Violation is transmitted to the 
Committee; and 
       (b) If an investigative subcommittee amends its Statement of 
Alleged Violation, the respondent shall be notified in writing and 
shall have 30 calendar days from the date of that notification to file 
an answer to the amended Statement of Alleged Violation. 

                   RULE 21.__COMMITTEE REPORTING REQUIREMENTS 

       (a) Whenever an investigative subcommittee does not adopt a 
Statement of Alleged Violation and transmits a report to that effect to 
the Committee, the Committee may by an affirmative vote of a majority 
of its members transmit such report to the House of Representatives; 
       (b) Whenever an investigative subcommittee adopts a Statement of 
Alleged Violation but recommends that no further action be taken, it 
shall transmit a report to the Committee regarding the Statement of 
Alleged Violation; and 
       (c) Whenever an investigative subcommittee adopts a Statement of 
Alleged Violation, the respondent admits to the violations set forth in 
such Statement, the respondent waives the right to an adjudicatory 
hearing, and the respondent's waiver is approved by the Committee__ 
       (1) the subcommittee shall prepare a report for transmittal to 
the Committee, a final draft of which shall be provided to the 
respondent not less than 15 calendar days before the subcommittee votes 
on whether to adopt the report; 
       2) the respondent may submit views in writing regarding the 
final draft to the subcommittee within 7 calendar days of receipt of 
that draft; 
       (3) the subcommittee shall transmit a report to the Committee 
regarding the Statement of Alleged Violation together with any views 
submitted by the respondent pursuant to subparagraph (2), and the 
Committee shall make the report, together with the respondent's views, 
available to the public before the commencement of any sanction 
hearing; and 
       (4) the Committee shall by an affirmative vote of a majority of 
its members issue a report and transmit such report to the House of 
Representatives, together with the respondent's views previously 
submitted pursuant to subparagraph (2) and any additional views 
respondent may submit for attachment to the final report; and 
       (d) Members of the Committee shall have not less than 72 hours 
to review any report transmitted to the Committee by an investigative 
subcommittee before both the commencement of a sanction hearing and the 
Committee vote on whether to adopt the report. 

                             RULE 22.__RESPONDENT'S ANSWER 

       (a)(1) Within 30 days from the date of transmittal of a 
Statement of Alleged Violation, the respondent shall file with the 
investigative subcommittee an answer, in writing and under oath, signed 
by respondent and respondent's counsel. Failure to file an answer 
within the time prescribed shall be considered by the Committee as a 
denial of each count. 
       (2) The answer shall contain an admission to or denial of each 
count set forth in the Statement of Alleged Violation and may include 
negative, affirmative, or alternative defenses and any supporting 
evidence or other relevant information. 
       (b) The respondent may file a Motion for a Bill of Particulars 
within 10 days of the date of transmittal of the Statement of Alleged 
Violation. If a Motion for a Bill of Particulars is filed, the 
respondent shall not be required to file an answer until 20 days after 
the subcommittee has replied to such motion. 
       (c)(1) The respondent may file a Motion to Dismiss within 10 
days of the date of transmittal of the Statement of Alleged Violation 
or, if a Motion for a Bill of Particulars has been filed, within 10 
days of the date of the subcommittee's reply to the Motion for a Bill 
of Particulars. If a Motion to Dismiss is filed, the respondent shall 
not be required to file an answer until 20 days after the subcommittee 
has replied to the Motion to Dismiss, unless the respondent previously 
filed a Motion for a Bill of Particulars, in which case the respondent 
shall not be required to file an answer until 10 days after the 
subcommittee has replied to the Motion to Dismiss. The investigative 
subcommittee shall rule upon any motion to dismiss filed during the 
period between the establishment of the subcommittee and the 
subcommittee's transmittal of a report or Statement of Alleged 
Violation to the Committee or to the Chair and Ranking Minority Member 
at the conclusion of an inquiry, and no appeal of the subcommittee's 
ruling shall lie to the Committee. 
       (2) A Motion to Dismiss may be made on the grounds that the 
Statement of Alleged Violation fails to state facts that constitute a 
violation of the Code of Official Conduct or other applicable law, 
rule, regulation, or standard of conduct, or on the grounds that the 
Committee lacks jurisdiction to consider the allegations contained in 
the Statement. 
       (d) Any motion filed with the subcommittee pursuant to this rule 
shall be accompanied by a Memorandum of Points and Authorities. 
       (e)(1) The Chair of the investigative subcommittee, for good 
cause shown, may permit the respondent to file an answer or motion 
after the day prescribed above. 
       (2) If the ability of the respondent to present an adequate 
defense is not adversely affected and special circumstances so require, 
the Chair of the investigative subcommittee may direct the respondent 
to file an answer or motion prior to the day prescribed above. 
       (f) If the day on which any answer, motion, reply, or other 
pleading must be filed falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or holiday, such 
filing shall be made on the first business day thereafter. 
       (g) As soon as practicable after an answer has been filed or the 
time for such filing has expired, the Statement of Alleged Violation 
and any answer, motion, reply, or other pleading connected therewith 
shall be transmitted by the Chair of the investigative subcommittee to 
the Chair and Ranking Minority Member of the Committee. 

                            RULE 23.__ADJUDICATORY HEARINGS 

       (a) If a Statement of Alleged Violation is transmitted to the 
Chair and Ranking Minority Member pursuant to Rule 22, and no waiver 
pursuant to Rule 26(b) has occurred, the Chair shall designate the 
members of the Committee who did not serve on the investigative 
subcommittee to serve on an adjudicatory subcommittee. The Chair and 
Ranking Minority Member of the Committee shall be the Chair and Ranking 
Minority Member of the adjudicatory subcommittee unless they served on 
the investigative subcommittee. The respondent shall be notified of the 
designation of the adjudicatory subcommittee and shall have 10 days 
after such notice is transmitted to object to the participation of any 
subcommittee member. Such objection shall be in writing and shall be on 
the grounds that the member cannot render an impartial and unbiased 
decision. The member against whom the objection is made shall be the 
sole judge of any disqualification. 
       (b) A majority of the adjudicatory subcommittee membership plus 
one must be present at all times for the conduct of any business 
pursuant to this rule. 
       (c) The adjudicatory subcommittee shall hold a hearing to 
determine whether any counts in the Statement of Alleged Violation have 
been proved by clear and convincing evidence and shall make findings of 
fact, except where such violations have been admitted by respondent. 
       (d) At an adjudicatory hearing, the subcommittee may require, by 
subpoena or otherwise, the attendance and testimony of such witnesses 
and production of such books, records, correspondence, memoranda, 
papers, documents, and other items as it deems necessary. Depositions, 
interrogatories, and sworn statements taken under any investigative 
subcommittee direction may be accepted into the hearing record. 
       (e) The procedures set forth in clause 2(g) and (k) of Rule XI 
of the Rules of the House of Representatives shall apply to 
adjudicatory hearings. All such hearings shall be open to the public 
unless the adjudicatory subcommittee, pursuant to such clause, 
determines that the hearings or any part thereof should be closed. 
       (f)(1) The adjudicatory subcommittee shall, in writing, notify 
the respondent that the respondent and respondent's counsel have the 
right to inspect, review, copy, or photograph books, papers, documents, 
photographs, or other tangible objects that the adjudicatory 
subcommittee counsel intends to use as evidence against the respondent 
in an adjudicatory hearing. The respondent shall be given access to 
such evidence, and shall be provided the names of witnesses the 
subcommittee counsel intends to call, and a summary of their expected 
testimony, no less than 15 calendar days prior to any such hearing. 
Except in extraordinary circumstances, no evidence may be introduced or 
witness called in an adjudicatory hearing unless the respondent has 
been afforded a prior opportunity to review such evidence or has been 
provided the name of the witness. 
       (2) After a witness has testified on direct examination at an 
adjudicatory hearing, the Committee, at the request of the respondent, 
shall make available to the respondent any statement of the witness in 
the possession of the Committee which relates to the subject matter as 
to which the witness has testified. 
       (3) Any other testimony, statement, or documentary evidence in 
the possession of the Committee which is material to the respondent's 
defense shall, upon request, be made available to the respondent. 
       (g) No less than 5 days prior to the hearing, the respondent or 
counsel shall provide the adjudicatory subcommittee with the names of 
witnesses expected to be called, summaries of their expected testimony, 
and copies of any documents or other evidence proposed to be 
introduced. 
       (h) The respondent or counsel may apply to the subcommittee for 
the issuance of subpoenas for the appearance of witnesses or the 
production of evidence. The application shall be granted upon a showing 
by the respondent that the proposed testimony or evidence is relevant 
and not otherwise available to respondent. The application may be 
denied if not made at a reasonable time or if the testimony or evidence 
would be merely cumulative. 
       (i) During the hearing, the procedures regarding the 
admissibility of evidence and rulings shall be as follows: 
       (1) Any relevant evidence shall be admissible unless the 
evidence is privileged under the precedents of the House of 
Representatives. 
       (2) The Chair of the subcommittee or other presiding member at 
an adjudicatory subcommittee hearing shall rule upon any question of 
admissibility or pertinency of evidence, motion, procedure, or any 
other matter, and may direct any witness to answer any question under 
penalty of contempt. A witness, witness counsel, or a member of the 
subcommittee may appeal any ruling to the members present at that 
proceeding. A majority vote of the members present at such proceeding 
on such an appeal shall govern the question of admissibility and no 
appeal shall lie to the Committee. 
       (3) Whenever a witness is deemed by a Chair or other presiding 
member to be in contempt of the subcommittee, the matter may be 
referred to the Committee to determine whether to refer the matter to 
the House of Representatives for consideration. 
       (4) Committee counsel may, subject to subcommittee approval, 
enter into stipulations with the respondent and/or the respondent's 
counsel as to facts that are not in dispute. 
       (j) Unless otherwise provided, the order of an adjudicatory 
hearing shall be as follows: 
       (1) The Chair of the subcommittee shall open the hearing by 
stating the adjudicatory subcommittee's authority to conduct the 
hearing and the purpose of the hearing. 
       (2) The Chair shall then recognize Committee counsel and the 
respondent's counsel, in turn, for the purpose of giving opening 
statements. 
       (3) Testimony from witnesses and other pertinent evidence shall 
be received in the following order whenever possible: 
       (i) witnesses (deposition transcripts and affidavits obtained 
during the inquiry may be used in lieu of live witnesses if the witness 
is unavailable) and other evidence offered by the Committee counsel, 
       (ii) witnesses and other evidence offered by the respondent, 
       (iii) rebuttal witnesses, as permitted by the Chair. 
       (4) Witnesses at a hearing shall be examined first by counsel 
calling such witness. The opposing counsel may then cross-examine the 
witness. Redirect examination and recross examination by counsel may 
be permitted at the Chair's discretion. Subcommittee members may then 
question witnesses. Unless otherwise directed by the Chair, questions 
by Subcommittee members shall be conducted under the five-minute rule. 
       (5) The Chair shall then recognize Committee counsel and 
respondent's counsel, in turn, for the purpose of giving closing 
arguments. Committee counsel may reserve time for rebuttal argument, as 
permitted by the Chair. 
       (k) A subpoena to a witness to appear at a hearing shall be 
served sufficiently in advance of that witness' scheduled appearance to 
allow the witness a reasonable period of time, as determined by the 
Chair of the adjudicatory subcommittee, to prepare for the hearing and 
to employ counsel. 
       (l) Each witness appearing before the subcommittee shall be 
furnished a printed copy of the Committee rules, the pertinent 
provisions of the Rules of the House of Representatives applicable to 
the rights of witnesses, and a copy of the Statement of Alleged 
Violation. 
       (m) Testimony of all witnesses shall be taken under oath or 
affirmation. The form of the oath or affirmation shall be: ``Do you 
solemnly swear (or affirm) that the testimony you will give before this 
subcommittee in the matter now under consideration will be the truth, 
the whole truth, and nothing but the truth (so help you God)?'' The 
oath or affirmation shall be administered by the Chair or Committee 
member designated by the Chair to administer oaths. 
       (n) At an adjudicatory hearing, the burden of proof rests on 
Committee counsel to establish the facts alleged in the Statement of 
Alleged Violation by clear and convincing evidence. However, Committee 
counsel need not present any evidence regarding any count that is 
admitted by the respondent or any fact stipulated. 
       (o) As soon as practicable after all testimony and evidence have 
been presented, the subcommittee shall consider each count contained in 
the Statement of Alleged Violation and shall determine by a majority 
vote of its members whether each count has been proved. If a majority 
of the subcommittee does not vote that a count has been proved, a 
motion to reconsider that vote may be made only by a member who voted 
that the count was not proved. A count that is not proved shall be 
considered as dismissed by the subcommittee. 
       (p) The findings of the adjudicatory subcommittee shall be 
reported to the Committee. 

       RULE 24.__SANCTION HEARING AND CONSIDERATION OF SANCTIONS OR 
                          OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS 

       (a) If no count in a Statement of Alleged Violation is proved, 
the Committee shall prepare a report to the House of Representatives, 
based upon the report of the adjudicatory subcommittee. 
       (b) If an adjudicatory subcommittee completes an adjudicatory 
hearing pursuant to Rule 23 and reports that any count of the Statement 
of Alleged Violation has been proved, a hearing before the Committee 
shall be held to receive oral and/or written submissions by counsel for 
the Committee and counsel for the respondent as to the sanction the 
Committee should recommend to the House of Representatives with respect 
to such violations. Testimony by witnesses shall not be heard except by 
written request and vote of a majority of the Committee. 
       (c) Upon completion of any proceeding held pursuant to clause 
(b), the Committee shall consider and vote on a motion to recommend to 
the House of Representatives that the House take disciplinary action. 
If a majority of the Committee does not vote in favor of the 
recommendation that the House of Representatives take action, a motion 
to reconsider that vote may be made only by a member who voted against 
the recommendation. The Committee may also, by majority vote, adopt a 
motion to issue a Letter of Reproval or take other appropriate 
Committee action. 
       (d) If the Committee determines a Letter of Reproval constitutes 
sufficient action, the Committee shall include any such letter as a 
part of its report to the House of Representatives. 
       (e) With respect to any proved counts against a Member of the 
House of Representatives, the Committee may recommend to the House one 
or more of the following sanctions: 
       (1) Expulsion from the House of Representatives. 
       (2) Censure. 
       (3) Reprimand. 
       (4) Fine. 
       (5) Denial or limitation of any right, power, privilege, or 
immunity of the Member if under the Constitution the House of 
Representatives may impose such denial or limitation. 
       (6) Any other sanction determined by the Committee to be 
appropriate. 
       (f) With respect to any proved counts against an officer or 
employee of the House of Representatives, the Committee may recommend 
to the House one or more of the following sanctions: 
       (1) Dismissal from employment. 
       (2) Reprimand. 
       (3) Fine. 
       (4) Any other sanction determined by the Committee to be 
appropriate. 
       (g) With respect to the sanctions that the Committee may 
recommend, reprimand is appropriate for serious violations, censure is 
appropriate for more serious violations, and expulsion of a Member or 
dismissal of an officer or employee is appropriate for the most serious 
violations. A recommendation of a fine is appropriate in a case in 
which it is likely that the violation was committed to secure a 
personal financial benefit; and a recommendation of a denial or 
limitation of a right, power, privilege, or immunity of a Member is 
appropriate when the violation bears upon the exercise or holding of 
such right, power, privilege, or immunity. This clause sets forth 
general guidelines and does not limit the authority of the Committee to 
recommend other sanctions. 
       (h) The Committee report shall contain an appropriate statement 
of the evidence supporting the Committee's findings and a statement of 
the Committee's reasons for the recommended sanction. 

       RULE 25.__DISCLOSURE OF EXCULPATORY INFORMATION TO RESPONDENT 

       If the Committee, or any investigative or adjudicatory 
subcommittee at any time receives any exculpatory information 
respecting a Complaint or Statement of Alleged Violation concerning a 
Member, officer, or employee of the House of Representatives, it shall 
make such information known and available to the Member, officer, or 
employee as soon as practicable, but in no event later than the 
transmittal of evidence supporting a proposed Statement of Alleged 
Violation pursuant to Rule 26(c). If an investigative subcommittee does 
not adopt a Statement of Alleged Violation, it shall identify any 
exculpatory information in its possession at the conclusion of its 
inquiry and shall include such information, if any, in the 
subcommittee's final report to the Committee regarding its inquiry. For 
purposes of this rule, exculpatory evidence shall be any evidence or 
information that is substantially favorable to the respondent with 
respect to the allegations or charges before an investigative or 
adjudicatory subcommittee. 

                   RULE 26.__RIGHTS OF RESPONDENTS AND WITNESSES 

       (a) A respondent shall be informed of the right to be 
represented by counsel, to be provided at the respondent's own expense. 
       (b) A respondent may seek to waive any procedural rights or 
steps in the disciplinary process. A request for waiver must be in 
writing, signed by the respondent, and must detail what procedural 
steps the respondent seeks to waive. Any such request shall be subject 
to the acceptance of the Committee or subcommittee, as appropriate. 
       (c) Not less than 10 calendar days before a scheduled vote by an 
investigative subcommittee on a Statement of Alleged Violation, the 
subcommittee shall provide the respondent with a copy of the Statement 
of Alleged Violation it intends to adopt together with all evidence it 
intends to use to prove those charges which it intends to adopt, 
including documentary evidence, witness testimony, memoranda of witness 
interviews, and physical evidence, unless the subcommittee by an 
affirmative vote of a majority of its members decides to withhold 
certain evidence in order to protect a witness, but if such evidence is 
withheld, the subcommittee shall inform the respondent that evidence is 
being withheld and of the count to which such evidence relates. 
       (d) Neither the respondent nor respondent's counsel shall, 
directly or indirectly, contact the subcommittee or any member thereof 
during the period of time set forth in paragraph (c) except for the 
sole purpose of settlement discussions where counsels for the 
respondent and the subcommittee are present. 
       (e) If, at any time after the issuance of a Statement of Alleged 
Violation, the Committee or any subcommittee thereof determines that it 
intends to use evidence not provided to a respondent under paragraph 
(c) to prove the charges contained in the Statement of Alleged 
Violation (or any amendment thereof), such evidence shall be made 
immediately available to the respondent, and it may be used in any 
further proceeding under the Committee's rules. 
       (f) Evidence provided pursuant to paragraph (c) or (e) shall be 
made available to the respondent and respondent's counsel only after 
each agrees, in writing, that no document, information, or other 
materials obtained pursuant to that paragraph shall be made public 
until__ 
       (1) such time as a Statement of Alleged Violation is made public 
by the Committee if the respondent has waived the adjudicatory hearing; 
or 
       (2) the commencement of an adjudicatory hearing if the 
respondent has not waived an adjudicatory hearing; but the failure of 
respondent and respondent's counsel to so agree in writing, and 
therefore not receive the evidence, shall not preclude the issuance of 
a Statement of Alleged Violation at the end of the period referenced to 
in (c). 
       (g) A respondent shall receive written notice whenever__ 
       (1) the Chair and Ranking Minority Member determine that 
information the Committee has received constitutes a complaint; 
       (2) a complaint or allegation is transmitted to an investigative 
subcommittee; 
       (3) that subcommittee votes to authorize its first subpoena or 
to take testimony under oath, whichever occurs first; and 
       (4) the Committee votes to expand the scope of the inquiry of an 
investigative subcommittee. 
       (h) Whenever an investigative subcommittee adopts a Statement of 
Alleged Violation and a respondent enters into an agreement with that 
subcommittee to settle a complaint on which the Statement is based, 
that agreement, unless the respondent requests otherwise, shall be in 
writing and signed by the respondent and the respondent's counsel, the 
Chair and Ranking Minority Member of the subcommittee, and outside 
counsel, if any. 
       (i) Statements or information derived solely from a respondent 
or respondent's counsel during any settlement discussions between the 
Committee or a subcommittee thereof and the respondent shall not be 
included in any report of the subcommittee or the Committee or 
otherwise publicly disclosed without the consent of the respondent. 
       (j) Whenever a motion to establish an investigative subcommittee 
does not prevail, the Committee shall promptly send a letter to the 
respondent informing the respondent of such vote. 
       (k) Witnesses shall be afforded a reasonable period of time, as 
determined by the Committee or subcommittee, to prepare for an 
appearance before an investigative subcommittee or for an adjudicatory 
hearing and to obtain counsel. 
       (l) Prior to their testimony, witnesses shall be furnished a 
printed copy of the Committee's Rules of Procedure and the provisions 
of the Rules of the House of Representatives applicable to the rights 
of witnesses. 
       (m) Witnesses may be accompanied by their own counsel for the 
purpose of advising them concerning their constitutional rights. The 
Chair may punish breaches of order and decorum, and of professional 
responsibility on the part of counsel, by censure and exclusion from 
the hearings; and the Committee may cite the offender to the House of 
Representatives for contempt. 
       (n) Each witness subpoenaed to provide testimony or other 
evidence shall be provided the same per diem rate as established, 
authorized, and regulated by the Committee on House Administration for 
Members, officers and employees of the House, and, as the Chair 
considers appropriate, actual expenses of travel to or from the place 
of examination. No compensation shall be authorized for attorney's fees 
or for a witness' lost earnings. Such per diem may not be paid if a 
witness had been summoned at the place of examination. 
       (o) With the approval of the Committee, a witness, upon request, 
may be provided with a transcript of the witness' own deposition or 
other testimony taken in executive session, or, with the approval of 
the Chair and Ranking Minority Member, may be permitted to examine such 
transcript in the office of the Committee. Any such request shall be in 
writing and shall include a statement that the witness, and counsel, 
agree to maintain the confidentiality of all executive session 
proceedings covered by such transcript. 

                         RULE 27.__FRIVOLOUS FILINGS 

       If a complaint or information offered as a complaint is deemed 
frivolous by an affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the 
Committee, the Committee may take such action as it, by an affirmative 
vote of a majority deems appropriate in the circumstances. 


            RULE 28.__REFERRALS TO FEDERAL  OR STATE AUTHORITIES 

       Referrals made under clause 3(a)(3) of Rule XI of the Rules of 
the House of Representatives may be made by an affirmative vote of 
two-thirds of the members of the Committee. 

               Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 

                   JAMES L. OBERSTAR, Minnesota, Chairman
NICK J. RAHALL II, West Virginia     JOHN L. MICA, Florida, Ranking 
PETER A. DEFAZIO, Oregon               Republican Member
JERRY F. COSTELLO, Illinois          DON YOUNG, Alaska
ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON, District      THOMAS E. PETRI, Wisconsin
  of Columbia                        HOWARD COBLE, North Carolina
JERROLD NADLER, New York             JOHN J. DUNCAN, JR., Tennessee
CORRINE BROWN, Florida               VERNON J. EHLERS, Michigan
BOB FILNER, California               FRANK A. LOBIONDO, New Jersey
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON, Texas         JERRY MORAN, Kansas
GENE TAYLOR, Mississippi             GARY G. MILLER, California
ELIJAH E. CUMMINGS, Maryland         HENRY E. BROWN JR., South Carolina
LEONARD L. BOSWELL, Iowa             TIMOTHY V. JOHNSON, Illinois 
TIM HOLDEN, Pennsylvania             TODD RUSSELL PLATTS, Pennsylvania
BRIAN BAIRD, Washington              SAM GRAVES, Missouri
RICK LARSEN, Washington              BILL SHUSTER, Pennsylvania
MICHAEL E. CAPUANO,                  JOHN BOOZMAN, Arkansas
  Massachusetts                      SHELLEY MOORE CAPITO, West 
TIMOTHY H. BISHOP, New York            Virginia
MICHAEL H. MICHAUD, Maine            JIM GERLACH, Pennsylvania
RUSS CARNAHAN, Missouri              MARIO DIAZ-BALART, Florida
GRACE F. NAPOLITANO, California      CHARLES W. DENT, Pennsylvania
DANIEL LIPINSKI, Illinois            CONNIE MACK, Florida
MAZIE K. HIRONO, Hawaii              LYNN A. WESTMORELAND, Georgia
JASON ALTMIRE, Pennsylvania          JEAN SCHMIDT, Ohio
TIMOTHY J. WALTZ, Minnesota          CANDICE S. MILLER, Michigan
HEATH SHULER, North Carolina         MARY FALLIN, Oklahoma
MICHAEL A. ARCURI, New York          VERN BUCHANAN, Florida
HARRY E. MITCHELL, Arizona           ROBERT E. LATTA, Ohio
CHRISTOPHER P. CARNEY,               BRETT GUTHRIE, Kentucky*
  Pennsylvania                       ANH ``JOSEPH'' CAO, Louisiana*
JOHN J. HALL, New York               AARON SCHOCK, Illinois*
STEVE KAGEN, Wisconsin               PETE OLSON, Texas*
STEVE COHEN, Tennessee               
LAURA RICHARDSON, California         
ALBIO SIRES, New Jersey              
DONNA F. EDWARDS, Maryland           
SOLOMON P. ORTIZ, Texas              
PHIL HARE, Illinois                  
JOHN A. BOCCIERI, Ohio               
MARK H. SCHAUER, Michigan            
BETSY MARKEY, Colorado               
PARKER GRIFFITH, Alabama             
MICHAEL E. MCMAHON, New York         
THOMAS S.P. PERRIELLO, Virginia      
DINA TITUS, Nevada                   
HARRY TEAGUE, New Mexico             
VACANCY**                            

*Appointed to the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on 
January 22, 2009, filling a vacancy created by the resignation of 
Rep. Steve Scalise on January 20, 2009.
**Vacancy created by the resignation of Rep. Ellen Tauscher from the 
House of Representatives on June 26, 2009.

                             (Adopted January 15, 2009) 
        
                            RULE I. GENERAL PROVISIONS.

       (a) APPLICABILITY OF HOUSE RULES.__ 
       (1) IN GENERAL._The Rules of the House are the rules of the 
Committee 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, are non-debatable privileged motions in the Committee and 
its subcommittees.
       (2) SUBCOMMITTEES._Each subcommittee is part of the Committee, 
and is subject to the authority and direction of the Committee and its 
rules so far as applicable.
       (3) INCORPORATION OF HOUSE RULE ON COMMITTEE PROCEDURE._Rule XI 
of the Rules of the House, which pertains entirely to Committee 
procedure, is incorporated and made a part of the rules of the 
Committee to the extent applicable. Pursuant to clause 2(a)(3) of Rule 
XI of the Rules of the House, the Chairman is authorized to offer a 
motion under clause 1 of Rule XXII of the Rules of the House whenever 
the Chairman considers it appropriate.
       (b) PUBLICATION OF RULES._The Committee's rules shall be 
published in the Congressional Record not later than 30 days after the 
Committee is elected in each odd-numbered year.
       (c) VICE CHAIRMAN._The Chairman shall appoint a vice chairman of 
the Committee and of each subcommittee. If the Chairman of the 
Committee or subcommittee is not present at any meeting of the 
Committee or subcommittee, as the case may be, the vice chairman shall 
preside. If the vice chairman is not present, the ranking member of the 
 majority party on the Committee or subcommittee who is present shall 
preside at that meeting.

               RULE II. REGULAR, ADDITIONAL, AND SPECIAL MEETINGS. 

       (a) REGULAR MEETINGS.__
       (1) IN GENERAL._Regular meetings of the Committee shall be held 
on the first Wednesday of every month to transact its business unless 
such day is a holiday, or the House is in recess or is adjourned, in 
which case the Chairman shall determine the regular meeting day of the 
Committee for that month.
       (2) NOTICE._The Chairman shall give each member of the 
Committee, as far in advance of the day of the regular meeting as the 
circumstances make practicable, a written notice of such meeting and 
the matters to be considered at such meeting. To the maximum extent 
practicable, the Chairman shall provide such notice at least 3 days 
prior to such meeting.
       (3) CANCELLATION OR DEFERRAL._If the Chairman believes that the 
Committee will not be considering any bill or resolution before the 
full Committee and that there is no other business to be transacted at 
a regular meeting, the meeting may be canceled or it may be deferred 
until such time as, in the judgment of the Chairman, there may be 
matters which require the Committee's consideration.
       (4) APPLICABILITY._This paragraph shall not apply to meetings of 
any subcommittee.
       (b) ADDITIONAL MEETINGS._The Chairman may call and convene, as 
he or she 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 for such purpose pursuant to the call of the Chairman.
       (c) SPECIAL MEETINGS._If at least three members of the Committee 
desire that a special meeting of the Committee be called by the 
Chairman, those members may file in the offices of the Committee their 
written request to the Chairman for that special meeting. 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, within 3 calendar days after 
the filing of the request, the Chairman does not call the requested 
special meeting to be held within 7 calendar days after the filing of 
the request, a majority of the members of the Committee may file in the 
offices of the Committee their written notice that a special meeting of 
the Committee will be held, specifying the date and hour thereof, and 
the measure or matter to be considered at that special meeting. The 
Committee shall meet on that date and hour. Immediately upon the filing 
of the notice, the clerk of the Committee shall notify all members of 
the Committee that such meeting will be held and inform them of its 
date and hour and the measure or matter to be considered; and only the 
measure or matter specified in that notice may be considered at that 
special meeting.
       (d) PROHIBITION ON SITTING DURING JOINT SESSION._The 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.

                 RULE III. MEETINGS AND HEARINGS GENERALLY. 

       (a) OPEN MEETINGS._Each meeting for the transaction of business, 
including the markup of legislation, and each hearing of the Committee 
or a subcommittee shall be open to the public, except as provided by 
clause 2(g) of Rule XI of the Rules of the House.
       (b) MEETINGS TO BEGIN PROMPTLY._Each meeting or hearing of the 
Committee shall begin promptly at the time so stipulated in the public 
announcement of the meeting or hearing.
       (c) ADDRESSING THE COMMITTEE._A Committee member may address the 
Committee or a subcommittee on any bill, motion, or other matter under 
consideration__ 
       (1) only when recognized by the Chairman for that purpose; and 
       (2) only for 5 minutes until such time as each member of the 
Committee or subcommittee who so desires has had an opportunity to 
address the Committee or subcommittee.
       A member shall be limited in his or her remarks to the subject 
matter under consideration. The Chairman shall enforce this 
subparagraph.
       (d) PARTICIPATION OF MEMBERS IN SUBCOMMITTEE MEETINGS AND 
HEARINGS._All members of the Committee who are not members of a 
particular subcommittee may, by unanimous consent of the members of 
such subcommittee, participate in any subcommittee meeting or hearing. 
However, a member who is not a member of the subcommittee may not vote 
on any matter before the subcommittee, be counted for purposes of 
establishing a quorum, or raise points of order.
       (e) BROADCASTING._Whenever a meeting for the transaction of 
business, including the markup of legislation, or a hearing is open to 
the public, that meeting or hearing shall be open to coverage by 
television, radio, and still photography in accordance with clause 4 of 
Rule XI of the Rules of the House. Operation and use of any Committee 
Internet broadcast system shall be fair and nonpartisan and in 
accordance with clause 4(b) of Rule XI of the Rules of the House and 
all other applicable rules of the Committee and the House.
       (f) ACCESS TO THE DAIS AND LOUNGES._Access to the hearing rooms' 
daises and to the lounges adjacent to the Committee hearing rooms shall 
be limited to Members of Congress and employees of Congress during a 
meeting or hearing of the Committee unless specifically permitted by 
the Chairman or ranking minority member.
       (g) USE OF CELLULAR TELEPHONES._The use of cellular telephones 
in the Committee hearing room is prohibited during a meeting or hearing 
of the Committee.

       RULE IV. POWER TO SIT AND ACT: POWER TO CONDUCT INVESTIGATIONS; 
                         OATHS; SUBPOENA POWER. 

       (a) AUTHORITY TO SIT AND ACT._For the purpose of carrying out 
any of its functions and duties under Rules X and XI of the Rules of 
the House, the Committee and each of its subcommittees, is authorized 
(subject to paragraph (d)(1))__
       (1) 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; and 
       (2) to require, by subpoena or otherwise, the attendance and 
testimony of such witnesses and the production of such books, records, 
correspondence, memorandums, papers, and documents, as it deems 
necessary.
       (b) AUTHORITY TO CONDUCT INVESTIGATIONS.__ 
       (1) IN GENERAL._The Committee is authorized at any time to 
conduct such investigations and studies as it may consider necessary or 
appropriate in the exercise of its responsibilities under Rule X of the 
Rules of the House and (subject to the adoption of expense resolutions 
as required by Rule X, clause 6 of the Rules of the House) to incur 
expenses (including travel expenses) in connection therewith.
       (2) MAJOR INVESTIGATIONS BY SUBCOMMITTEES._A subcommittee may 
not begin a major investigation without approval of a majority of such 
subcommittee.
       (c) OATHS._The Chairman of the Committee, or any member 
designated by the Chairman, may administer oaths to any witness. 
       (d) ISSUANCE OF SUBPOENAS.__ 
       (1) IN GENERAL._A subpoena may be issued by the Committee or 
subcommittee under paragraph (a)(2) in the conduct of any investigation 
or activity or series of investigations or activities, only when 
authorized by a majority of the members voting, a majority being 
present. Such authorized subpoenas shall be signed by the Chairman of 
the Committee or by any member designated by the Committee. If a 
specific request for a subpoena has not been previously rejected by 
either the Committee or subcommittee, the Chairman of the Committee, 
after consultation with the ranking minority member of the Committee, 
may authorize and issue a subpoena under paragraph (a)(2) in the 
conduct of any investigation or activity or series of investigations or 
activities, and such subpoena shall for all purposes be deemed a 
subpoena issued by the Committee. As soon as practicable after a 
subpoena is issued under this rule, the Chairman shall notify all 
members of the Committee of such action.
       (2) ENFORCEMENT._Compliance with any subpoena issued by the 
Committee or subcommittee under paragraph (a)(2) may be enforced only 
as authorized or directed by the House. 
       (e) EXPENSES OF SUBPOENAED WITNESSES._Each witness who has been 
subpoenaed, upon the completion of his or her testimony before the 
Committee or any subcommittee, may report to the offices of the 
Committee, and there sign appropriate vouchers for travel allowances 
and attendance fees. If hearings are held in cities other than 
Washington, D.C., the witness may contact the counsel of the Committee, 
or his or her representative, before leaving the hearing room. 

             RULE V. QUORUMS AND RECORD VOTES; POSTPONEMENT OF VOTES. 

       (a) WORKING QUORUM._One-third of the members of the Committee or 
a subcommittee shall constitute a quorum for taking any action other 
than the closing of a meeting pursuant to clauses 2(g) and 2(k)(5) of 
Rule XI of the Rules of the House, the authorizing of a subpoena 
pursuant to paragraph (d) of Committee Rule IV, the reporting of a 
measure or recommendation pursuant to paragraph (b)(1) of Committee 
Rule VII, and the actions described in paragraphs (b), (c), and (d) of 
this rule.
       (b) QUORUM FOR REPORTING._A majority of the members of the 
Committee or a subcommittee shall constitute a quorum for the reporting 
of a measure or recommendation.
       (c) APPROVAL OF CERTAIN MATTERS._A majority of the members of 
the Committee or a subcommittee shall constitute a quorum for approval 
of a resolution concerning any of the following actions: 
       (1) A prospectus for construction, alteration, purchase, or 
acquisition of a public building or the lease of space as required by 
section 3307 of title 40, United States Code. 
       (2) Survey investigation of a proposed project for navigation, 
flood control, and other purposes by the Corps of Engineers (section 4 
of the Rivers and Harbors Act of March 4, 1913, 33 U.S.C. 542). 
       (3) Construction of a water resources development project by the 
Corps of Engineers with an estimated Federal cost not exceeding 
$15,000,000 (section 201 of the Flood Control Act of 1965). 
       (4) Deletion of water quality storage in a Federal reservoir 
project where the benefits attributable to water quality are 15 percent 
or more but not greater than 25 percent of the total project benefits 
(section 65 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1974). 
       (5) Authorization of a Natural Resources Conservation Service 
watershed project involving any single structure of more than 4,000 
acre feet of total capacity (section 2 of P.L. 566, 83rd Congress). 
       (d) QUORUM FOR TAKING TESTIMONY._Two members of the Committee or 
subcommittee shall constitute a quorum for the purpose of taking 
testimony and receiving evidence. 
       (e) RECORD VOTES._A record vote may be demanded by one-fifth of 
the members present. 
       (f) POSTPONEMENT OF VOTES.__ 
       (1) IN GENERAL._In accordance with clause 2(h)(4) of Rule XI of 
the Rules of the House, the Chairman of the Committee or a 
subcommittee, after consultation with the ranking minority member of 
the Committee or subcommittee, may__ 
       A) postpone further proceedings when a record vote is ordered on 
the question of approving a measure or matter or on adopting an 
amendment; and 
       (B) resume proceedings on a postponed question at any time after 
reasonable notice.
       (2) RESUMPTION OF PROCEEDINGS._When proceedings resume on a 
postponed question, notwithstanding any intervening order for the 
previous question, an underlying proposition shall remain subject to 
further debate or amendment to the same extent as when the question was 
postponed. 

                          RULE VI. HEARING PROCEDURES. 

       (a) ANNOUNCEMENT OF HEARING._The Chairman, in the case of a 
hearing to be conducted by the Committee, and the appropriate 
subcommittee chairman, in the case of a hearing to be conducted by a 
subcommittee, shall make public announcement of the date, place, and 
subject matter of such hearing at least one week before the hearing. If 
the Chairman or the appropriate subcommittee chairman, as the case may 
be, with the concurrence of the ranking minority member of the 
Committee or subcommittee as appropriate, determines there is good 
cause to begin the hearing sooner, or if the Committee or subcommittee 
so determines by majority vote, a quorum being present for the 
transaction of business, the Chairman shall make the announcement at 
the earliest possible date. The clerk of the Committee shall promptly 
notify the Daily Digest Clerk of the Congressional Record as soon as 
possible after such public announcement is made. 
       (b) WRITTEN STATEMENT; ORAL TESTIMONY._So far as practicable, 
each witness who is to appear before the Committee or a subcommittee 
shall file with the clerk of the Committee or subcommittee, at least 2 
working days before the day of his or her appearance, a written 
statement of proposed testimony and shall limit his or her oral 
presentation to a summary of the written statement. 
       (c) MINORITY WITNESSES._When any hearing is conducted by the 
Committee or any subcommittee upon any measure or matter, the minority 
party members on the Committee or subcommittee shall be entitled, upon 
request to the Chairman by a majority of those minority members before 
the completion of such hearing, to call witnesses selected by the 
minority to testify with respect to that measure or matter during at 
least one day of hearing thereon. 
       (d) SUMMARY OF SUBJECT MATTER._Upon announcement of a hearing, 
to the extent practicable, the Committee shall make available 
immediately to all members of the Committee a concise summary of the 
subject matter (including legislative reports and other material) under 
consideration. In addition, upon announcement of a hearing and 
subsequently as they are received, the Chairman shall make available to 
the members of the Committee any official reports from departments and 
agencies on such matter.
       (e) QUESTIONING OF WITNESSES._The questioning of witnesses in 
Committee and subcommittee hearings shall be initiated by the Chairman, 
followed by the ranking minority member and all other members 
alternating between the majority and minority parties. In recognizing 
members to question witnesses in this fashion, the Chairman shall take 
into consideration the ratio of the majority to minority members 
present and shall establish the order of recognition for questioning in 
such a manner as not to disadvantage the members of the majority nor 
the members of the minority. The Chairman may accomplish this by 
recognizing two majority members for each minority member recognized. 
       (f) PROCEDURES FOR QUESTIONS.__ 
       (1) IN GENERAL.``A Committee member may question a witness at a 
hearing''
       (A) only when recognized by the Chairman for that purpose; and 
       (B) subject to subparagraphs (2) and (3), only for 5 minutes 
until such time as each member of the Committee or subcommittee who so 
desires has had an opportunity to question the witness.
       A member shall be limited in his or her remarks to the subject 
matter under consideration. The Chairman shall enforce this paragraph.
       (2) EXTENDED QUESTIONING OF WITNESSES BY MEMBERS._The Chairman 
of the Committee or a subcommittee, with the concurrence of the ranking 
minority member, or the Committee or subcommittee by motion, may permit 
a specified number of its members to question a witness for longer than 
5 minutes. The time for extended questioning of a witness under this 
subdivision shall be equal for the majority party and minority party 
and may not exceed one hour in the aggregate. 
       (3) EXTENDED QUESTIONING OF WITNESSES BY STAFF._The Chairman of 
the Committee or a subcommittee, with the concurrence of the ranking 
minority member, or the Committee or subcommittee by motion, may permit 
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 minority party and may not exceed one hour in the 
aggregate. 
       (4) RIGHT TO QUESTION WITNESSES FOLLOWING EXTENDED 
QUESTIONING._Nothing in subparagraph (2) or (3) affects the right of a 
member (other than a member designated under subparagraph (2)) to 
question a witness for 5 minutes in accordance with subparagraph (1)(B) 
after the questioning permitted under subparagraph (2) or (3). 
       (g) ADDITIONAL HEARING PROCEDURES._Clause 2(k) of Rule XI of the 
Rules of the House (relating to additional rules for hearings) applies 
to hearings of the Committee and its subcommittees. 

    RULE VII. PROCEDURES FOR REPORTING BILLS, RESOLUTIONS, AND REPORTS. 
       (a) FILING OF REPORTS.__ 
       (1) IN GENERAL._The Chairman of the Committee shall report 
promptly to the House any measure or matter approved by the Committee 
and take necessary steps to bring the measure or matter to a vote. 
       (2) REQUESTS FOR REPORTING._The report of the Committee on a 
measure or matter which has been approved by the Committee shall be 
filed within 7 calendar days (exclusive of days on which the House is 
not in session) after the day on which there has been filed with the 
clerk of the Committee a written request, signed by a majority of the 
members of the Committee, for the reporting of that measure or matter. 
Upon the filing of any such request, the clerk of the Committee shall 
transmit immediately to the Chairman of the Committee notice of the 
filing of that request. 
       (b) QUORUM; RECORD VOTES.__ 
       (1) QUORUM._No measure, matter, or recommendation shall be 
reported from the Committee unless a majority of the Committee was 
actually present. 
       (2) RECORD VOTES.With respect to each record vote on a motion to 
report any measure or matter of a public character, and on any 
amendment offered to the measure or matter, the total number of votes 
cast for and against, and the names of those members voting for and 
against, shall be included in the Committee report on the measure or 
matter. 
       (c) REQUIRED MATTERS._The report of the Committee on a measure 
or matter which has been approved by the Committee shall include the 
items required to be included by clauses 2(c) and 3 of Rule XIII of the 
Rules of the House. 
       (d) ADDITIONAL VIEWS._If, at the time of approval of any measure 
or matter by the Committee, any member of the Committee gives notice of 
intention to file supplemental, minority, or additional views, that 
member shall be entitled to not less than two additional calendar days 
after the day of such notice (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal 
holidays) in which to file such views in accordance with clause 2(l) of 
Rule XI of the Rules of the House. 
       (e) ACTIVITIES REPORT.__ 
       (1) IN GENERAL._The Committee shall submit to the House, not 
later than January 2 of each odd-numbered year, a report on the 
activities of the Committee under Rules X and XI of the Rules of the 
House during the Congress ending on January 3 of such year. 
       (2) CONTENTS._Such report shall include separate sections 
summarizing the legislative and oversight activities of the Committee 
during that Congress.
       (3) OVERSIGHT SECTION._The oversight section of such report 
shall include a summary of the oversight plan submitted by the 
Committee pursuant to clause 2(d) of Rule X of the Rules of the House, 
a summary of the actions taken and recommendations made with respect to 
such plan, and a summary of any additional oversight activities 
undertaken by the Committee, and any recommendations made or actions 
taken thereon. 
       (f) OTHER COMMITTEE MATERIALS.__ 
       (1) IN GENERAL._All Committee and subcommittee prints, reports, 
documents, or other materials, not otherwise provided for under this 
rule, that purport to express publicly the views of the Committee or 
any of its subcommittees or members of the Committee or its 
subcommittees shall be approved by the Committee or the subcommittee 
prior to printing and distribution and any member shall be given an 
opportunity to have views included as part of such material prior to 
printing, release, and distribution in accordance with paragraph (d) of 
this rule. 
       (2) DOCUMENTS CONTAINING VIEWS OTHER THAN MEMBER VIEWS._A 
Committee or subcommittee document containing views other than those of 
members of the Committee or subcommittee shall not be published without 
approval of the Committee or subcommittee. 
       (3) DISCLAIMER._All Committee or subcommittee reports printed 
pursuant to legislative study or investigation and not approved by a 
majority vote of the Committee or subcommittee, as appropriate, shall 
contain the following disclaimer on the cover of such report: ``This 
report has not been officially adopted by the Committee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure (or pertinent subcommittee thereof) 
and may not therefore necessarily reflect the views of its members.''.
       (4) COMPILATIONS OF LAWS._To the maximum extent practicable, the 
Committee shall publish a compilation of laws under the jurisdiction of 
each subcommittee. 
       (g) AVAILABILITY OF PUBLICATIONS._Pursuant to clause 2(e)(4) of 
Rule XI of the Rules of the House, the Committee shall make its 
publications available in electronic form to the maximum extent 
feasible. 

      RULE VIII. ESTABLISHMENT OF SUBCOMMITTEES; SIZE AND PARTY RATIOS.

       (a) ESTABLISHMENT._There shall be 6 standing subcommittees. 
These subcommittees, with the following sizes (including delegates) and 
majority/minority ratios, are: 
       (1) Subcommittee on Aviation (43 Members: 26 Majority and 17 
Minority).
       (2) Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation (16 
Members: 10 Majority and 6 Minority).
       (3) Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and 
Emergency Management (20 Members: 12 Majority and 8 Minority). 
       (4) Subcommittee on Highways and Transit (55 Members: 33 
Majority and 22 Minority). 
       (5) Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous 
Materials (45 Members: 27 Majority and 18 Minority). 
       (6) Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment (40 Members: 
24 Majority and 16 Minority). 
       (b) EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS._The Chairman of the Committee shall 
serve as an ex-officio voting member on each subcommittee. 
       (c) RATIOS._On each subcommittee there shall be a ratio of 
majority party members to minority party members which shall be no less 
favorable to the majority party than the ratio for the full Committee. 
In calculating the ratio of majority party members to minority party 
members, there shall be included the ex-officio member of the 
subcommittees. 

                  RULE IX. POWERS AND DUTIES OF SUBCOMMITTEES. 

       (a) AUTHORITY TO SIT._Each subcommittee is authorized to meet, 
hold hearings, receive evidence, and report to the full Committee on 
all matters referred to it or under its jurisdiction. Subcommittee 
chairmen shall set dates for hearings and meetings of their respective 
subcommittees after consultation with the Chairman and other 
subcommittee chairmen with a view toward avoiding simultaneous 
scheduling of full Committee and subcommittee meetings or hearings 
whenever possible. 
       (b) CONSIDERATION BY COMMITTEE._Each bill, resolution, or other 
matter favorably reported by a subcommittee shall automatically be 
placed upon the agenda of the Committee. Any such matter reported by a 
subcommittee shall not be considered by the Committee unless it has 
been delivered to the offices of all members of the Committee at least 
48 hours before the meeting, unless the Chairman determines that the 
matter is of such urgency that it should be given early consideration. 
Where practicable, such matters shall be accompanied by a comparison 
with present law and a section-by-section analysis. 

             RULE X. REFERRAL OF LEGISLATION TO SUBCOMMITTEES. 

       (a) GENERAL REQUIREMENT._Except where the Chairman of the 
Committee determines, in consultation with the majority members of the 
Committee, that consideration is to be by the full Committee, each 
bill, resolution, investigation, or other matter which relates to a 
subject listed under the jurisdiction of any subcommittee established 
in Committee Rule VIII referred to or initiated by the full Committee 
shall be referred by the Chairman to all subcommittees of appropriate 
jurisdiction within two weeks. All bills shall be referred to the 
subcommittee of proper jurisdiction without regard to whether the 
author is or is not a member of the subcommittee. 
       (b) RECALL FROM SUBCOMMITTEE._A bill, resolution, or other 
matter referred to a subcommittee in accordance with this rule may be 
recalled therefrom at any time by a vote of a majority of the members 
of the Committee voting, a quorum being present, for the Committee's 
direct consideration or for reference to another subcommittee. 
       (c) MULTIPLE REFERRALS._In carrying out this rule with respect 
to any matter, the Chairman may refer the matter simultaneously to two 
or more subcommittees for concurrent consideration or for consideration 
in sequence (subject to appropriate time limitations in the case of any 
subcommittee after the first), or divide the matter into two or more 
parts (reflecting different subjects and jurisdictions) and refer each 
such part to a different subcommittee, or make such other provisions as 
he or she considers appropriate. 

                        RULE XI. RECOMMENDATION OF CONFEREES. 

       The Chairman of the Committee shall recommend to the Speaker as 
conferees the names of those members (1) of the majority party selected 
by the Chairman, and (2) of the minority party selected by the ranking 
minority member of the Committee. Recommendations of conferees to the 
Speaker shall provide a ratio of majority party members to minority 
party members which shall be no less favorable to the majority party 
than the ratio for the Committee. 

                                RULE XII. OVERSIGHT. 

       (a) PURPOSE._The Committee shall carry out oversight 
responsibilities as provided in this rule in order to assist the House 
in__ 
       (1) its analysis, appraisal, and evaluation of__ 
       (A) the application, administration, execution, and 
effectiveness of the laws enacted by the Congress; or 
       (B) conditions and circumstances which may indicate the 
necessity or desirability of enacting new or additional legislation; 
and 
       (2) its formulation, consideration, and enactment of such 
modifications or changes in those laws, and of such additional 
legislation, as may be necessary or appropriate. 
       (b) OVERSIGHT PLAN._Not later than February 15 of the first 
session of each Congress, the Committee shall adopt its oversight plan 
for that Congress in accordance with clause 2(d)(1) of Rule X of the 
Rules of the House. 
       (c) REVIEW OF LAWS AND PROGRAMS._The Committee and the 
appropriate subcommittees shall cooperatively review and study, on a 
continuing basis, the application, administration, execution, and 
effectiveness of those laws, or parts of laws, the subject matter of 
which is within the jurisdiction of the Committee, and the organization 
and operation of the Federal agencies and entities having 
responsibilities in or for the administration and execution thereof, to 
determine whether such laws and the programs thereunder are being 
implemented and carried out in accordance with the intent of the 
Congress and whether such programs should be continued, curtailed, or 
eliminated. In addition, the Committee and the appropriate 
subcommittees shall cooperatively review and study any conditions or 
circumstances which may indicate the necessity or desirability of 
enacting new or additional legislation within the jurisdiction of the 
Committee (whether or not any bill or resolution has been introduced 
with respect thereto), and shall on a continuing basis undertake future 
research and forecasting on matters within the jurisdiction of the 
Committee.
       (d) REVIEW OF TAX POLICIES._The Committee and the appropriate 
subcommittees shall cooperatively review and study on a continuing 
basis the impact or probable impact of tax policies affecting subjects 
within the jurisdiction of the Committee. 

       RULE XIII. REVIEW OF CONTINUING PROGRAMS; BUDGET ACT PROVISIONS. 

       (a) ENSURING ANNUAL APPROPRIATIONS._The Committee shall, in its 
consideration of all bills and joint resolutions of a public character 
within its jurisdiction, ensure that appropriations for continuing 
programs and activities of the Federal Government and the District of 
Columbia government will be made annually to the maximum extent 
feasible and consistent with the nature, requirements, and objectives 
of the programs and activities involved. 
       (b) REVIEW OF MULTI-YEAR APPROPRIATIONS._The Committee shall 
review, from time to time, each continuing program within its j
urisdiction for which appropriations are not made annually in order to 
ascertain whether such program could be modified so that appropriations 
therefore would be made annually.
       (c) VIEWS AND ESTIMATES._In accordance with clause 4(f)(1) of 
Rule X of the Rules of the House, the Committee shall submit to the 
Committee on the Budget__ 
       (1) 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 which are within its jurisdiction or functions; and 
       (2) an estimate of the total amount of new budget authority, and 
budget outlays resulting therefrom, to be provided or authorized in all 
bills and resolutions within its jurisdiction which it intends to be 
effective during that fiscal year. 
       (d) BUDGET ALLOCATIONS._As soon as practicable after a 
concurrent resolution on the budget for any fiscal year is agreed to, 
the Committee (after consulting with the appropriate committee or 
committees of the Senate) shall subdivide any allocations made to it in 
the joint explanatory statement accompanying the conference report on 
such resolution, and promptly report such subdivisions to the House, in 
the manner provided by section 302 of the Congressional Budget Act of 
1974. 
       (e) RECONCILIATION._Whenever the Committee is directed in a 
concurrent resolution on the budget to determine and recommend changes 
in laws, bills, or resolutions under the reconciliation process, it 
shall promptly make such determination and recommendations, and report 
a reconciliation bill or resolution (or both) to the House or submit 
such recommendations to the Committee on the Budget, in accordance with 
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. 

                               RULE XIV. RECORDS. 

       (a) KEEPING OF RECORDS._The Committee shall keep a complete 
record of all Committee action which shall include__ 
       (1) in the case of any meeting or hearing transcripts, 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 
       (2) a record of the votes on any question on which a record vote 
is demanded. 
       (b) PUBLIC INSPECTION._The result of each such record vote shall 
be made available by the Committee for inspection by the public at 
reasonable times in the offices of the Committee. Information so 
available for public inspection shall include a description of the 
amendment, motion, order, or other proposition and the name of each 
member voting for and each member voting against such amendment, 
motion, order, or proposition, and the names of those members present 
but not voting.
       (c) PROPERTY OF THE HOUSE._All Committee hearings, records, 
data, charts, and files shall be kept separate and distinct from the 
congressional office records of the member serving as Chairman of the 
 Committee; and such records shall be the property of the House and all 
members of the House shall have access thereto.
       (d) AVAILABILITY OF ARCHIVED RECORDS._The records of the 
Committee at the National Archives and Records Administration shall be 
made available for public use in accordance with Rule VII of the Rules 
of the House. The Chairman shall notify the ranking minority member of 
the Committee of any decision, pursuant to clause 3(b)(3) or clause 
4(b) of such rule, to withhold a record otherwise available, and the 
matter shall be presented to the Committee for a determination on 
written request of any member of the Committee. 
       (e) AUTHORITY TO PRINT._The Committee is authorized to have 
printed and bound testimony and other data presented at hearings held 
by the Committee. All costs of stenographic services and transcripts in 
connection with any meeting or hearing of the Committee shall be paid 
as provided in clause 1(c) of Rule XI of the House. 

                          RULE XV. COMMITTEE BUDGETS. 

       (a) BIENNIAL BUDGET._The Chairman, in consultation with the 
chairman of each subcommittee, the majority members of the Committee, 
and the minority members of the Committee, shall, for each Congress, 
prepare a consolidated Committee budget. Such budget shall include 
necessary amounts for staff personnel, necessary travel, investigation, 
and other expenses of the Committee. 
       (b) ADDITIONAL EXPENSES._Authorization for the payment of 
additional or unforeseen Committee expenses may be procured by one or 
more additional expense resolutions processed in the same manner as set 
out herein. 
       (c) TRAVEL REQUESTS._The Chairman or any chairman of a 
subcommittee may initiate necessary travel requests as provided in 
Committee Rule XVII within the limits of the consolidated budget as 
approved by the House and the Chairman may execute necessary vouchers 
thereof. 
       (d) MONTHLY REPORTS._Once monthly, the Chairman shall submit to 
the Committee on House Administration, in writing, a full and detailed 
accounting of all expenditures made during the period since the last 
such accounting from the amount budgeted to the Committee. Such report 
shall show the amount and purpose of such expenditure and the budget to 
which such expenditure is attributed. A copy of such monthly report 
shall be available in the Committee office for review by members of the 
Committee. 

                           RULE XVI. COMMITTEE STAFF. 

       (a) APPOINTMENT BY CHAIRMAN._The Chairman shall appoint and 
determine the remuneration of, and may remove, the employees of the 
Committee not assigned to the minority. The staff of the Committee not 
assigned to the minority shall be under the general supervision and 
direction of the Chairman, who shall establish and assign the duties 
and responsibilities of such staff members and delegate such authority 
as he or she determines appropriate. 
       (b) APPOINTMENT BY RANKING MINORITY MEMBER._The ranking minority 
member of the Committee shall appoint and determine the remuneration 
of, and may remove, the staff assigned to the minority within the 
budget approved for such purposes. The staff assigned to the minority 
shall be under the general supervision and direction of the ranking 
minority member of the Committee who may delegate such authority as he 
or she determines appropriate. 
       (c) INTENTION REGARDING STAFF._It is intended that the skills 
and experience of all members of the Committee staff shall be available 
to all members of the Committee. 

                       RULE XVII. TRAVEL OF MEMBERS AND STAFF. 

       (a) APPROVAL._Consistent with the primary expense resolution and 
such additional expense resolutions as may have been approved, the 
provisions of this rule shall govern travel of Committee members and 
staff. Travel to be reimbursed from funds set aside for the Committee 
for any member or any staff member shall be paid only upon the prior 
authorization of the Chairman. Travel shall be authorized by the 
Chairman for any member and any staff member in connection with the 
attendance of hearings conducted by the Committee or any subcommittee 
and meetings, conferences, and investigations which involve activities 
or subject matter under 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 travel. 
       (2) The dates during which the travel is to be made and the date 
or dates of the event for which the travel is being made. 
       (3) The location of the event for which the travel is to be 
made. 
       (4) The names of members and staff seeking authorization. 
       (b) SUBCOMMITTEE TRAVEL._In the case of travel of members and 
staff of a subcommittee to hearings, meetings, conferences, and 
investigations involving activities or subject matter under the 
legislative assignment of such subcommittee, prior authorization must 
be obtained from the subcommittee chairman and the Chairman. Such 
prior authorization shall be given by the Chairman only upon the 
representation by the chairman of such subcommittee in writing setting 
forth those items enumerated in subparagraphs (1), (2), (3), and (4) of 
paragraph (a) and that there has been a compliance where applicable 
with Committee Rule VI. 
       (c) TRAVEL OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES.__ 
       (1) IN GENERAL._In the case of travel outside the United States 
of members and staff of the Committee or of a subcommittee for the 
purpose of conducting hearings, investigations, studies, or attending 
meetings and conferences involving activities or subject matter under 
the legislative assignment of the Committee or pertinent subcommittee, 
prior authorization must be obtained from the Chairman, or, in the case 
of a subcommittee, from the subcommittee chairman and the Chairman. 
Before such authorization is given there shall be submitted to the 
Chairman, in writing, a request for such authorization. Each request, 
which shall be filed in a manner that allows for a reasonable period of 
time for review before such travel is scheduled to begin, shall include 
the following: 
       (A) The purpose of the travel. 
       (B) The dates during which the travel will occur. 
       (C) The names of the countries to be visited and the length of 
time to be spent in each. 
       (D) An agenda of anticipated activities for each country for 
which travel is authorized together with a description of the purpose 
to be served and the areas of Committee jurisdiction involved. 
       (E) The names of members and staff for whom authorization is 
sought. 
       (2) INITIATION OF REQUESTS._Requests for travel outside the 
United States may be initiated by the Chairman or the chairman of a 
subcommittee (except that individuals may submit a request to the 
Chairman for the purpose of attending a conference or meeting) and 
shall be limited to members and permanent employees of the Committee.
       (3) REPORTS BY STAFF MEMBERS._At the conclusion of any hearing, 
investigation, study, meeting, or conference for which travel has been 
authorized pursuant to this rule, each staff member involved in such 
travel shall submit a written report to the Chairman covering the 
activities and other pertinent observations or information gained as 
a result of such travel. 
       (d) APPLICABILITY OF LAWS, RULES, POLICIES._Members and staff of 
the Committee performing authorized travel on official business shall 
be governed by applicable laws, resolutions, or regulations of the 
House and of the Committee on House Administration pertaining to such 
travel, and by the travel policy of the Committee. 

                       Committee on Veterans' Affairs 
                        
                          BOB FILNER, California, Chairman 
CORRINE BROWN, Florida               STEVE BUYER, Indiana, Ranking  
VIC SNYDER, Arkansas                   Republican Member             
MICHAEL H. MICHAUD, Maine            CLIFF STEARNS, Florida          
STEPHANIE HERSETH SANDLIN,           JERRY MORAN, Kansas             
  South Dakota                       HENRY E. BROWN JR., South Carolina 
HARRY E. MITCHELL, Arizona           JEFF MILLER, Florida        
JOHN J. HALL, New York               JOHN BOOZMAN, Arkansas      
DEBORAH L. HALVORSON, Illinois       BRIAN P. BILBRAY, California 
THOMAS S.P. PERRIELLO, Virginia      DOUG LAMBORN, Colorado     
HARRY TEAGUE, New Mexico             GUS M. BILIRAKIS, Florida  
CIRO D. RODRIGUEZ, Texas             VERN BUCHANAN, Florida     
JOE DONNELLY, Indiana                DAVID P. ROE, Tennessee    
JERRY McNERNEY, California           
ZACHARY T. SPACE, Ohio               
TIMOTHY J. WALZ, Minnesota           
JOHN H. ADLER, New Jersey            
ANN KIRKPATRICK, Arizona             
GLENN C. NYE, Virginia               

                             (Adopted January 22, 2009) 

                              RULE 1.__GENERAL PROVISIONS 

       (a) APPLICABILITY OF HOUSE RULES_The Rules of the House are the 
rules of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs 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, are non-debatable 
privileged motions in Committees and subcommittees. 
       (b) SUBCOMMITTEES_Each subcommittee of the Committee is a part 
of the Committee and is subject to the authority and direction of the 
Committee and to its rules so far as applicable.
       (c) INCORPORATION OF HOUSE RULE ON COMMITTEE PROCEDURE _ Rule XI 
of the Rules of the House, which pertains entirely to Committee 
procedure, is incorporated and made part of the rules of the Committee 
to the extent applicable.  Pursuant to clause 2(a)(3) of Rule XI of the 
Rules of the House, the Chairman of the full Committee is directed to 
offer a motion under clause 1 of Rule XXII of the Rules of the House 
whenever the Chairman considers it appropriate.       
       (d) VICE CHAIRMAN_Pursuant to clause 2(d) of Rule XI of the 
Rules of the House, the Chairman of the full Committee shall designate 
the Vice Chairman of the Committee and a Vice Chairman of each 
subcommittee established under Rule 5(a)(1).                      RULE 2.__REGULAR AND ADDITIONAL MEETINGS 

       (a) REGULAR MEETINGS_The regular meeting day for the Committee 
shall be at 10 a.m. on the second Wednesday of each month in such place 
as the Chairman may designate. However, the Chairman may dispense with 
a regular Wednesday meeting of the Committee. 
       (b) ADDITIONAL MEETINGS_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 for such purpose pursuant to the call of the 
Chairman. 
       (c) NOTICE_The Chairman shall notify each member of the 
Committee of the agenda of each regular and additional meeting of the 
Committee at least 24 hours before the time of the meeting, except 
under circumstances the Chairman determines to be of an emergency 
nature. Under such circumstances, the Chairman shall make an effort to 
consult the ranking minority member, or in such member's absence, the 
next ranking minority party member of the Committee. 

                    RULE 3.__MEETINGS AND HEARINGS GENERALLY 

       (a) OPEN MEETINGS AND HEARINGS_Meetings and hearings of the 
Committee and each of its subcommittees shall be open to the public 
unless closed in accordance with clause 2(g) of Rule XI of the Rules of 
the House.
       (b)  ANNOUNCEMENT OF HEARING_The Chairman, in the case of a 
hearing to be conducted by the Committee, and the subcommittee 
Chairman, in the case of a hearing to be conducted by a subcommittee, 
shall make public announcement of the date, place, and subject matter 
of any hearing to be conducted on any measure or matter at least one 
week before the commencement of that hearing unless the Committee or 
the subcommittee determines that there is good cause to begin the 
hearing at an earlier date. In the latter event, the Chairman or the 
subcommittee Chairman, as the case may be, shall consult with the 
ranking minority member and make such public announcement at the 
earliest possible date. The clerk of the Committee shall promptly 
notify the Daily Clerk of the Congressional Record and the Committee 
scheduling service of the House Information Resources as soon as 
possible after such public announcement is made. 
       (c) WIRELESS TELEPHONE USE PROHIBITED_No person may use a 
wireless telephone during a Committee or subcommittee meeting or 
hearing.
       (d) MEDIA COVERAGE_Any meeting of the Committee or its 
subcommittees that is open to the public shall be open to coverage by 
radio, television, and still photography in accordance with the 
provisions of clause 4 of House rule XI. 
       (e) REQUIREMENTS FOR TESTIMONY 
       (1) Each witness who is to appear before the 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 his 
or her proposed testimony.  Each witness shall, to the greatest extent 
practicable, also provide a copy of such written testimony in an 
electronic format prescribed by the Chairman.  Each witness shall limit 
any oral presentation to a summary of the written statement.  
       (2) Pursuant to clause 4 of Rule XI of the Rules of the House, 
in the case of a witness appearing in a non-governmental 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 any Federal grant (or subgrant thereof) or contract (or subcontract 
thereof) received during the current fiscal year or either of the two 
preceding fiscal years by the witness or by an entity represented by 
the witness. 
       (f) CALLING AND QUESTIONING WITNESSES 
       (1)  Committee and subcommittee members may question witnesses 
only when they have been recognized by the Chairman of the Committee or 
subcommittee for that purpose, and only for a 5-minute period until 
all members present have had an opportunity to question a witness. The 
5-minute period for questioning a witness by any one member may be 
extended only with the unanimous consent of all members present. The 
questioning of witnesses in both Committee and subcommittee hearings 
shall be initiated by the Chairman, followed by the ranking minority 
party member and all other members alternating between the majority and 
minority. Except as otherwise announced by the Chairman at the 
beginning of a hearing, members who are present at the start of the 
hearing will be recognized before other members who arrive after the 
hearing has begun. In recognizing members to question witnesses in this 
fashion, the Chairman shall take into consideration the ratio of the 
majority to minority members present and shall establish the order of 
recognition for questioning in such a manner as not to disadvantage the 
members of the majority.
       (2) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1) regarding 
the 5-minute rule, the Chairman after consultation with the ranking 
minority member may designate an equal number of members of the 
Committee or subcommittee majority and minority party to question a 
witness for a period not longer than 30 minutes. In no event shall the 
Chairman allow a member to question a witness for an extended period 
under this rule until all members present have had the opportunity to 
ask questions under the 5-minute rule. The Chairman after consultation 
with the ranking minority member may permit Committee staff for its 
majority and minority party members to question a witness for equal 
specified periods of time. 
       (3) When a hearing is conducted by the Committee or a 
subcommittee on any measure or matter, the minority party members on 
the Committee shall be entitled, upon request to the Chairman of a 
majority of those minority members 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 the 
hearing thereon.       
       (g) SUBPOENAS_Pursuant to clause 2(m) of Rule XI of the Rules of 
the House, a subpoena may be authorized and issued by the Committee or 
a subcommittee in the conduct of any investigation or series of 
investigations or activities, only when authorized by a majority of the 
members voting, a majority being present.         RULE 4.__QUORUM AND RECORD VOTES; POSTPONEMENT OF PROCEEDINGS 

       (a) WORKING QUORUM_A majority of the members of the Committee 
shall constitute a quorum for business and a majority of the members of 
any subcommittee shall constitute a quorum thereof for business, except 
that two members shall constitute a quorum for the purpose of taking 
testimony and receiving evidence. 
       (b) QUORUM FOR REPORTING_No measure or recommendation shall be 
reported to the House of Representatives unless a majority of the 
Committee was actually present. 
       (c) RECORD VOTES_A record vote may be demanded by one-fifth of 
the members present or, in the apparent absence of a quorum, by any one 
member. With respect to any record vote on any motion to amend or 
report, the total number of votes cast for and against, and the names 
of those members voting for and against, shall be included in the 
report of the Committee on the bill or resolution. 
       (d) PROHIBITION AGAINST PROXY VOTING_No vote by any member of 
the Committee or a subcommittee with respect to any measure or matter 
may be cast by proxy.       
       (e) POSTPONING PROCEEDINGS_Committee and subcommittee chairmen 
may postpone further proceedings when a record vote is ordered on the 
question of approving a measure or matter or on adopting an amendment, 
and may resume proceedings within two legislative days on a postponed 
question after reasonable notice.ï¿½ 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 5.__SUBCOMMITTEES 

       (a) ESTABLISHMENT AND JURISDICTION__ 
       (1) There shall be four subcommittees of the Committee as 
follows: 
       (A) Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs, 
which shall have legislative, oversight and investigative jurisdiction 
over compensation; general and special pensions of all the wars of the 
United States; life insurance issued by the Government on account of 
service in the Armed Forces; cemeteries of the United States in which 
veterans of any war or conflict are or may be buried, whether in the 
United States or abroad, except cemeteries administered by the 
Secretary of the Interior; burial benefits; the Board of Veterans' 
Appeals; and the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans' Claims. 
       (B) Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity, which shall have 
legislative, oversight and investigative jurisdiction over education of 
veterans, employment and training of veterans, vocational 
rehabilitation, veterans' housing programs, readjustment of 
servicemembers to civilian life, and servicemembers civil relief.
       (C) Subcommittee on Health, which shall have legislative, 
oversight and investigative jurisdiction over veterans' hospitals, 
medical care, and treatment of veterans. 
       (D) Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, which shall 
have oversight and investigative jurisdiction over veterans' matters 
generally, and over such matters as may be referred to the subcommittee 
by the Chairman of the full Committee for its oversight or 
investigation and for its appropriate recommendations. The subcommittee 
shall only have legislative jurisdiction over such bills or resolutions 
as may be referred to it by the Chairman of the full Committee. 
       (2) Each subcommittee shall have responsibility for such other 
measures or matters as the Chairman refers to it. 
       (b) VACANCIES_Any vacancy in the membership of a subcommittee 
shall not affect the power of the remaining members to execute the 
functions of that subcommittee. 
       (c)  RATIOS_On each subcommittee, there shall be a ratio of 
majority party members to minority party members which shall be 
consistent with the ratio on the full Committee.  
       (d) REFERRAL TO SUBCOMMITTEES_The Chairman of the Committee may 
refer a measure or matter, which is within the general responsibility 
of more than one of the subcommittees of the Committee, as the Chairman 
deems appropriate.  In referring any measure or matter to a 
subcommittee, the Chairman of the Committee may specify a date by which 
the subcommittee shall report thereon to the Committee. 
       (e) POWERS AND DUTIES__ 
       (1) Each subcommittee is authorized to meet, hold hearings, 
receive evidence, and report to the full Committee on all matters 
referred to it or under its jurisdiction. Subcommittee chairmen shall 
 set dates for hearings and meetings of their respective subcommittees 
after consultation with the Chairman of the Committee and other 
subcommittee chairmen with a view toward avoiding simultaneous 
scheduling of Committee and subcommittee meetings or hearings whenever 
possible.
       (2) Whenever a subcommittee has ordered a bill, resolution, or 
other matter to be reported to the Committee, the Chairman of the 
subcommittee reporting the bill, resolution, or matter to the full 
Committee, or any member authorized by the subcommittee to do so shall 
notify the Chairman and the ranking minority party member of the 
Committee of the Subcommittee's action. 
       (3) A member of the Committee who is not a member of a 
particular subcommittee may sit with the subcommittee during any of its 
meetings and hearings, but shall not have authority to vote, cannot be 
counted for a quorum, and cannot raise a point of order at the meeting 
or hearing. 
       (4) Each subcommittee shall provide the Committee with copies of 
such record votes taken in subcommittee and such other records with 
respect to the subcommittee as the Chairman of the Committee deems 
necessary for the Committee to comply with all rules and regulations of 
the House.                   RULE 6.__GENERAL OVERSIGHT RESPONSIBILITY  

       (a) PURPOSE_Pursuant to clause 2 of Rule X of the Rules of the 
House, the Committee shall carry out oversight responsibilities. In 
order to assist the House in__ 
       (1) Its analysis, appraisal, evaluation of__ 
 (A) The application, administration, execution, and effectiveness of 
the laws enacted by the Congress, or 
 (B) Conditions and circumstances which may indicate the necessity or 
desirability of enacting new or additional legislation, and 
       (2) Its formulation, consideration and enactment of such 
modifications or changes in those laws, and of such additional 
legislation, as may be necessary or appropriate, the Committee and its 
various subcommittees, consistent with their jurisdiction as set forth 
in Rule 5, shall have oversight responsibilities as provided in 
subsection (b). 
       (b) REVIEW OF LAWS AND PROGRAMS_The Committee and its 
subcommittees shall review and study, on a continuing basis, the 
applications, administration, execution, and effectiveness of those 
laws, or parts of laws, the subject matter of which is within the 
jurisdiction of the Committee or subcommittee, and the organization and 
operation of the Federal agencies and entities having responsibilities 
in or for the administration and execution thereof, in order to 
determine whether such laws and the programs thereunder are being 
implemented and carried out in accordance with the intent of the 
Congress and whether such programs should be continued, curtailed, or 
eliminated.  In addition, the Committee and its subcommittees shall 
review and study any conditions or circumstances which may indicate the 
necessity or desirability of enacting new or additional legislation 
within the jurisdiction of the Committee or subcommittee (whether or 
not any bill or resolution has been introduced with respect thereto), 
and shall on a continuing basis undertake future research and 
forecasting on matters within the jurisdiction of the Committee or 
subcommittee. 
       (c) OVERSIGHT PLAN_Not later than February 15 of the first 
session of a Congress, the Committee shall meet in open session, with a 
quorum present, to adopt its oversight plans for that Congress for 
submission to the Committee on House Administration and the Committee 
on Oversight and Government Reform, in accordance with the provisions 
of clause 2(d) of Rule X of the Rules of the House. 
       (d) OVERSIGHT BY SUBCOMMITTEES_The existence and activities of 
the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations shall in no way limit 
the responsibility of the other subcommittees of the Committee on 
Veterans' Affairs for carrying out oversight duties.                       RULE 7.__BUDGET ACT RESPONSIBILITIES 

       (a)  BUDGET ACT RESPONSIBILITIES_Pursuant to clause 4(f)(1) of 
Rule X of the Rules of the House, the 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__ 
       (1) 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 
       (2) 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. 

                       RULE 8.__RECORDS AND OTHER MATTERS 

       (a) TRANSCRIPTS_There shall be a transcript made of each regular 
and additional meeting and hearing of the Committee and its 
subcommittees. Any such transcript shall be 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. 
       (b) RECORDS__ 
       (1) The Committee shall keep a record of all actions of the 
Committee and each of its subcommittees. The record shall contain all 
information required by clause 2(e)(1) of Rule XI of the Rules of the 
House and shall be available for public inspection at reasonable times 
in the offices of the Committee.
       (2) There shall be kept in writing a record of the proceedings 
of the Committee and each of its subcommittees, including a record of 
the votes on any question on which a recorded vote is demanded. The 
result of each such record vote shall be made available by the 
Committee for inspection by the public at reasonable times in the 
offices of the Committee. Information so available for public 
inspection shall include a description of the amendment, motion, order 
or other proposition and the name of each member voting for and each 
member voting against such amendment, motion, order, or proposition, 
and the names of those members present but not voting. 
       (c) AVAILABILITY OF ARCHIVED RECORDS_The records of the 
Committee at the National Archives and Records Administration shall be 
made available for public use in accordance with Rule VII of the Rules 
of the House. The Chairman shall notify the ranking minority member of 
any decision, pursuant to clause 3 or clause 4 of Rule VII of the Rules 
of the House, to withhold a record otherwise available, and the matter 
shall be presented to the Committee for a determination on written 
request of any member of the Committee. 
       (d) AVAILABILITY OF PUBLICATIONS_Pursuant to clause 2(e)(4) of 
Rule XI of the Rules of the House, the Committee shall make its 
publications available in electronic form to the maximum extent 
feasible. 

                        Committee on Ways and Means 

                         CHARLES B. RANGEL, New York, Chairman 
FORTNEY PETE STARK, California       DAVE CAMP, Michigan, Ranking 
SANDER M. LEVIN, Michigan              Member  
JIM MCDERMOTT, Washington            WALLY HERGER, California
JOHN LEWIS, Georgia                  SAM JOHNSON, Texas
RICHARD E. NEAL, Massachusetts       KEVIN BRADY, Texas
JOHN S. TANNER, Tennessee            PAUL RYAN, Wisconsin
XAVIER BECERRA, California           ERIC CANTOR, Virginia
LLOYD DOGGETT, Texas                 JOHN LINDER, Georgia
EARL POMEROY, North Dakota           DEVIN NUNES, California
MIKE THOMPSON, California            PATRICK TIBERI, Ohio
JOHN B. LARSON, Connecticut          GINNY BROWN-WAITE, Florida
EARL BLUMENAUER, Oregon              GEOFF DAVIS, Kentucky
RON KIND, Wisconsin                  DAVID G. REICHERT, Washington
BILL PASCRELL JR., New Jersey        CHARLES W. BOUSTANY JR., Louisiana 
SHELLEY BERKLEY, Nevada              DEAN HELLER, Nevada
JOSEPH CROWLEY, New York             PETER J. ROSKAM, Illinois
CHRIS VAN HOLLEN, Maryland              
KENDRICK B. MEEK, Florida               
ALLYSON Y. SCHWARTZ, Pennsylvania       
ARTUR DAVIS, Alabama                    
DANNY K. DAVIS, Illinois                
BOB ETHERIDGE, North Carolina           
LINDA T. SANCHEZ, California  
BRIAN HIGGINS, New York                 
JOHN A. YARMUTH, Kentucky                       

                             (Adopted January 28, 2009)

                                     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 Co4mmittee. 

                       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 14 Members, 9 of 
whom shall be Democrats and 5 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 14 Members, 9 
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 14 Members, 9 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 14 
Members, 9 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 14 Members, 9 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 
14 Members, 9 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' 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__PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE 
                             OF THE HOUSE 

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                  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence 

                        SILVESTRE REYES, Texas, Chairman
ALCEE L. HASTINGS, Florida                PETER HOEKSTRA, Michigan, 
ANNA G. ESHOO, California                   Ranking Member 
RUSH D. HOLT, New Jersey                  ELTON GALLEGLY, California
C.A. DUTCH RUPPERSBERGER,                 MAC THORNBERRY, Texas
  Maryland                                MIKE ROGERS, Michigan
JOHN F. TIERNEY, Massachusetts            SUE WILKINS MYRICK, North 
MIKE THOMPSON, California                   Carolina
JANICE D. SCHAKOWSKY, Illinois            ROY BLUNT, Missouri
JAMES R. LANGEVIN, Rhode Island           JEFF MILLER, Florida
PATRICK J. MURPHY, Pennsylvania           K. MICHAEL CONAWAY, Texas
ADAM B. SCHIFF, California                PETER T. KING, New York*
ADAM SMITH, Washington                       
DAN BOREN, Oklahoma                          

*Appointed to the Intelligence Committee on June 25, 2009 filling a 
vacancy created by the resignation of Rep. John Kline on June 25, 2009.

                       (Adopted February 12, 2009)

                          RULE 1.__MEETING DAY 

       Regular Meeting Day for the Full Committee. The regular meeting 
day of the Committee for the transaction of Committee business shall be 
the first Wednesday of each month, unless otherwise directed by the 
Chair. 
       
                       RULE 2.__NOTICE FOR MEETINGS 

       (a) Generally. In the case of any meeting of the Committee, the 
Chief Clerk of the Committee shall provide reasonable notice to every 
member of the Committee. Such notice shall provide the time and place 
of the meeting. 
       (b) Definition. For purposes of this rule, ``reasonable notice'' 
means: 
       (1) Written notification; 
       (2) Delivered by facsimile transmission, regular mail, or 
electronic mail that is: 
       (A) Delivered no less than 24 hours prior to the event for which 
notice is being given, if the event is to be held in Washington, D.C.; 
or 
       (B) Delivered no less than 48 hours prior to the event for which 
notice is being given, if the event is to be held outside Washington, 
D.C. 
       (c) Exception. In extraordinary circumstances only, the Chair 
may, after consulting with the Ranking Minority Member, 
call a meeting of the Committee without providing notice, as defined in 
subparagraph (b), to members of the Committee. 
       
              RULE 3.__PREPARATIONS FOR COMMITTEE MEETINGS 

       (a) Generally. Designated Committee Staff, as directed by the 
Chair, shall brief members of the Committee at a time sufficiently 
prior to any Committee meeting in order to: 
       (1) Assist Committee members in preparation for such meeting; 
and 
       (2) Determine which matters members wish considered during any 
meeting. 
       (b) Briefing Materials. 
       (1) Such a briefing shall, at the request of a member, include a 
list of all pertinent papers, and such other materials, that have been 
obtained by the Committee that bear on matters to be considered at the 
meeting; and 
       (2) The Staff Director shall also recommend to the Chair any 
testimony, papers, or other materials to be presented to the Committee 
at the meeting of the Committee. 
       
                               RULE 4.__OPEN MEETINGS 

       (a) Generally. Pursuant to House Rule XI, but subject to the 
limitations of subsections (b) and (c), Committee meetings held for the 
transaction of business and Committee hearings shall be open to the 
public. 
       (b) Meetings. Any meeting or portion thereof, for the 
transaction of business, including the markup of legislation, or any 
hearing or portion thereof, shall be closed to the public, if the 
Committee determines by record vote in open session, with a majority of 
the Committee present, that disclosure of the matters to be discussed 
may: 
       (1) Endanger national security; 
       (2) Compromise sensitive law enforcement information; 
       (3) Tend to defame, degrade, or incriminate any person; or 
       (4) Otherwise violate any law or Rule of the House. 
       (c) Hearings. The Committee may vote to close a Committee 
hearing pursuant to clause 11(d)(2) of House Rule X, regardless of 
whether a majority is present, so long as at least two members of the 
Committee are present, one of whom is a member of the Minority and 
votes upon the motion. 
       (d) Briefings. Committee briefings shall be closed to the 
public. 

                              RULE 5.__QUORUM 

       (a) Hearings. For purposes of taking testimony, or receiving 
evidence, a quorum shall consist of two Committee members, at least one 
of whom is a member of the Majority. 
       (b) Other Committee Proceedings. For purposes of the transaction 
of all other Committee business, other than the consideration of a 
motion to close a hearing as described in rule 4(c), a quorum shall 
consist of a majority of members. 
       
                  RULE 6.__PROCEDURES FOR AMENDMENTS AND VOTES  

       (a) Amendments. When a bill or resolution is being considered by 
the Committee, members shall provide the Chief Clerk in a timely manner 
with a sufficient number of written copies of any amendment offered, so 
as to enable each member present to receive a copy thereof prior to 
taking action. A point of order may be made against any amendment not 
reduced to writing. A copy of each such amendment shall be maintained 
in the public records of the Committee. 
       (b) Reporting Record Votes. Whenever the Committee reports any 
measure or matter by record vote, the report of the Committee upon such  
measure or matter shall include a tabulation of the votes cast in favor 
of, and the votes cast in opposition to, such measure or matter. 
       (c) Postponement of Further Proceedings. In accordance with 
clause 2(h) of House Rule XI, the Chair is authorized to postpone 
further proceedings when a record vote is ordered on the question of 
approving a measure or matter or adopting an amendment. The Chair may 
resume proceedings on a postponed request at any time after reasonable 
notice. When proceedings resume on a postponed question, 
notwithstanding any intervening order for the previous question, an 
underlying proposition shall remain subject to further debate or 
amendment to the same extent as when the question was postponed. 
       (d) Availability of Record Votes on Committee Website. In 
addition to any other requirement of the Rules of the House, the Chair 
shall make the record votes on any measure or matter on which a record 
vote is taken, other than a motion to close a Committee hearing, 
briefing, or meeting, available on the Committee's website not later 
than 2 business days after such vote is taken.  Such record shall 
include an unclassified description of the amendment, motion, order, or 
other proposition, the name of each member voting in favor of, and each 
member voting in opposition to, such amendment, motion, order, or 
proposition, and the names of those members of the Committee present 
but not voting.
       
                              RULE 7.__SUBCOMMITTEES 

       (a) Generally. 
       (1) Creation of subcommittees shall be by majority vote of the 
Committee. 
       (2) Subcommittees shall deal with such legislation and oversight 
of programs and policies as the Committee may direct. 
       (3) Subcommittees shall be governed by these rules. 
       (4) For purposes of these rules, any reference herein to the ``Committee'' shall be interpreted to include subcommittees, unless 
otherwise specifically provided. 
       (b) Establishment of Subcommittees. The Committee establishes 
the following subcommittees: 
       (1) Subcommittee on Terrorism, Human Intelligence, Analysis, and 
Counterintelligence; 
       (2) Subcommittee on Technical and Tactical Intelligence; 
       (3) Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations; and, 
       (4) Subcommittee on Intelligence Community Management. 
       (c) Subcommittee Membership. 
       (1) Generally. Each member of the Committee may be assigned to 
at least one of the four subcommittees. 
       (2) Ex Officio Membership. In the event that the Chair and 
Ranking Minority Member of the full Committee do not choose to sit as 
regular voting members of one or more of the subcommittees, each is 
authorized to sit as an ex officio member of the subcommittees and 
participate in the work of the subcommittees. When sitting ex officio, 
however, they: 
       (A) Shall not have a vote in the subcommittee; and 
       (B) Shall not be counted for purposes of determining a quorum. 
       (d) Regular Meeting Day for Subcommittees. There is no regular 
meeting day for subcommittees. 
       
              RULE 8.__PROCEDURES FOR TAKING TESTIMONY OR RECEIVING 
                                  EVIDENCE 

       (a) Notice. Adequate notice shall be given to all witnesses 
appearing before the Committee. 
       (b) Oath or Affirmation. The Chair may require testimony of 
witnesses to be given under oath or affirmation. 
       (c) Administration of Oath or Affirmation. Upon the 
determination that a witness shall testify under oath or affirmation, 
any member of the Committee designated by the Chair may administer the 
oath or affirmation. 
       (d) Questioning of Witnesses. 
       (1) Generally. Questioning of witnesses before the Committee 
shall be conducted by members of the Committee. 
       (2) Exceptions. 
       (A) The Chair, in consultation with the Ranking Minority Member, 
may determine that Committee Staff will be authorized to question 
witnesses at a hearing in accordance with clause (2)(j) of House Rule 
XI. 
       (B) The Chair and Ranking Minority Member are each authorized to 
designate Committee Staff to conduct such questioning. 
       (e) Counsel for the Witness. 
       (1) Generally. Witnesses before the Committee may be accompanied 
by counsel, subject to the requirements of paragraph (2). 
       (2) Counsel Clearances Required. In the event that a meeting of 
the Committee has been closed because the subject to be discussed deals 
with classified information, counsel accompanying a witness before the 
Committee must possess the requisite security clearance and provide 
proof of such clearance to the Committee at least 24 hours prior to the 
meeting at which the counsel intends to be present. 
       (3) Failure to Obtain Counsel. Any witness who is unable to 
obtain counsel should notify the Committee. If such notification occurs 
at least 24 hours prior to the witness' appearance before the 
Committee, the Committee shall then endeavor to obtain voluntary 
counsel for the witness. Failure to obtain counsel, however, will not 
excuse the witness from appearing and testifying. 
       (4) Conduct of Counsel for Witnesses. Counsel for witnesses 
appearing before the Committee shall conduct themselves ethically and 
professionally at all times in their dealings with the Committee. 
       (A) A majority of members of the Committee may, should 
circumstances warrant, find that counsel for a witness before the 
Committee failed to conduct himself or herself in an ethical or 
professional manner. 
       (B) Upon such finding, counsel may be subject to appropriate 
disciplinary action. 
       (5) Temporary Removal of Counsel. The Chair may remove counsel 
during any proceeding before the Committee for failure to act in an 
ethical and professional manner. 
       (6) Committee Reversal. A majority of the members of the 
Committee may vote to overturn the decision of the Chair to remove 
counsel for a witness. 
       (7) Role of Counsel for Witness. 
       (A) Counsel for a witness: 
       (i) Shall not be allowed to examine witnesses before the 
Committee, either directly or through cross-examination; but 
       (ii) May submit questions in writing to the Committee that 
counsel wishes propounded to a witness; or 
       (iii) May suggest, in writing to the Committee, the presentation 
of other evidence or the calling of other witnesses. 
       (B) The Committee may make such use of any such questions, or 
suggestions, as the Committee deems appropriate. 
       (f) Statements by Witnesses. 
       (1) Generally. A witness may make a statement, which shall be 
brief and relevant, at the beginning and at the conclusion of the 
witness' testimony. 
       (2) Length. Each such statement shall not exceed five minutes in 
length, unless otherwise determined by the Chair. 
       (3) Submission to the Committee. Any witness desiring to submit 
a written statement for the record of the proceeding shall submit a 
copy of the statement to the Chief Clerk of the Committee. 
       (A) Such statements shall ordinarily be submitted no less than 
48 hours in advance of the witness' appearance before the Committee and 
shall be submitted in written and electronic format. 
       (B) In the event that the hearing was called with less than 24 
hours notice, written statements should be submitted as soon as 
practicable prior to the hearing. 
       (g) Objections and Ruling. 
       (1) Generally. Any objection raised by a witness, or counsel for 
the witness, shall be ruled upon by the Chair, and such ruling shall be 
the ruling of the Committee. 
       (2) Committee Action. A ruling by the Chair may be overturned 
upon a majority vote of the Committee. 
       (h) Transcripts. 
       (1) Transcript Required. A transcript shall be made of the 
testimony of each witness appearing before the Committee during any 
hearing of the Committee. 
       (2) Opportunity to Inspect. Any witness testifying before the 
Committee shall be given a reasonable opportunity to inspect the 
transcript of the hearing, and may be accompanied by counsel to 
determine whether such testimony was correctly transcribed. Such 
counsel: 
       (A) May review the transcript only if he or she has the 
appropriate security clearances necessary to review any classified 
aspect of the transcript; and 
       (B) Should, to the extent possible, be the same counsel that was 
present for such classified testimony. 
       (3) Corrections. 
       (A) Pursuant to Rule XI of the House Rules, any corrections the 
witness desires to make in a transcript shall be limited to technical, 
grammatical, and typographical corrections. 
       (B) Corrections may not be made to change the substance of the 
Testimony. 
       (C) Such corrections shall be submitted in writing to the 
Committee within 7 days after the transcript is made available to the 
witnesses. 
       (D) Any questions arising with respect to such corrections shall 
be decided by the Chair. 
       (4) Copy for the Witness. At the request of the witness, any 
portion of the witness' testimony given in executive session shall be 
made available to that witness if that testimony is: subsequently 
quoted or intended to be made part of a public record. Such testimony 
shall be made available to the witness at the witness' expense. 
       (i) Requests to Testify. 
       (1) Generally. The Committee will consider requests to testify 
on any matter or measure pending before the Committee. 
       (2) Recommendations for Additional Evidence. Any person who 
believes that testimony, other evidence, or commentary, presented at a 
public hearing may tend to affect adversely that person's reputation 
may submit to the Committee, in writing: 
       (A) A request to appear personally before the Committee; 
       (B) A sworn statement of facts relevant to the testimony, 
evidence, or commentary; or 
       (C) Proposed questions for the cross-examination of other 
witnesses. 
       (3) Committee Discretion. The Committee may take those actions 
it deems appropriate with respect to such requests. 
       (j) Contempt Procedures. Citations for contempt of Congress 
shall be forwarded to the House only if: 
       (1) Reasonable notice is provided to all members of the 
Committee of a meeting to be held to consider any such contempt 
recommendations; 
       (2) The Committee has met and considered the contempt 
allegations; 
       (3) The subject of the allegations was afforded an opportunity 
to state either in writing or in person, why he or she should not be 
held in contempt; and 
       (4) The Committee agreed by majority vote to forward the 
citation recommendations to the House. 
       (k) Release of Name of Witness. 
       (1) Generally. At the request of a witness scheduled to be heard 
by the Committee, the name of that witness shall not be released 
publicly prior to, or after, the witness' appearance before the 
Committee. 
       (2) Exceptions. Notwithstanding paragraph (1), the Chair may 
authorize the release to the public of the name of any witness 
scheduled to appear before the Committee. 
       
                          RULE 9.__INVESTIGATIONS 

       (a) Commencing Investigations. The Committee shall conduct 
investigations only if approved by the Chair, in consultation with the 
Ranking Minority Member. 
       (b) Conducting Investigations. An authorized investigation may 
be conducted by members of the Committee or Committee Staff designated 
by the Chair, in consultation with the Ranking Minority Member, to 
undertake any such investigation. 
       
                              RULE 10.__SUBPOENAS 

       (a) Generally. All subpoenas shall be authorized by the Chair of 
the full Committee, upon consultation with the Ranking Minority Member, 
or by vote of the Committee. 
       (b) Subpoena Contents. Any subpoena authorized by the Chair of 
the full Committee, or the Committee, may compel: 
       (1) The attendance of witnesses and testimony before the 
Committee; or 
       (2) The production of memoranda, documents, records, or any 
other tangible item. 
       (c) Signing of Subpoena. A subpoena authorized by the Chair of 
the full Committee, or the Committee, may be signed by the Chair, or by 
any member of the Committee designated to do so by the Committee. 
       (d) Subpoena Service. A subpoena authorized by the Chair of the 
full Committee, or the Committee, may be served by any person 
designated to do so by the Chair. 
       (e) Other Requirements. Each subpoena shall have attached 
thereto a copy of these rules. 
       
                              RULE 11.__COMMITTEE STAFF 

       (a) Definition. For the purpose of these rules, ``Committee 
Staff'' or ``Staff of the Committee'' means: 
       (1) Employees of the Committee; 
       (2) Consultants to the Committee; 
       (3) Employees of other Government agencies detailed to the 
Committee; or 
       (4) Any other person engaged by contract, or otherwise, to 
perform services for, or at the request of, the Committee. 
       (b) Appointment of Committee Staff and Security Requirements. 
       (1) Chair's Authority. Except as provided in paragraph (2), the 
Committee Staff shall be appointed, and may be removed, by the Chair 
and shall work under the general supervision and direction of the 
Chair. 
       (2) Staff Assistance to Minority Membership. Except as provided 
in paragraphs (3) and (4), and except as otherwise provided by 
Committee Rules, the Committee Staff provided to the Minority Party 
members of the Committee shall be appointed, and may be removed, by the 
Ranking Minority Member of the Committee, and shall work under the 
general supervision and direction of such member. 
       (3) Security Clearance Required. All offers of employment for 
prospective Committee Staff positions shall be contingent upon: 
       (A) The results of a background investigation; and 
       (B) A determination by the Chair that requirements for the 
appropriate security clearances have been met. 
       (4) Security Requirements. Notwithstanding paragraph (2), the 
Chair shall supervise and direct the Committee Staff with respect to 
the security and nondisclosure of classified information. Committee 
Staff shall comply with requirements necessary to ensure the security 
and nondisclosure of classified information as determined by the Chair 
in consultation with the Ranking Minority Member. 
       
            RULE 12.__LIMIT ON DISCUSSION OF CLASSIFIED WORK OF THE 
                                    COMMITTEE 

       (a) Prohibition. 
       (1) Generally. Except as otherwise provided by these rules and 
the Rules of the House of Representatives, members of the Committee and 
Committee Staff shall not at any time, either during that person's 
tenure as a member of the Committee or as Committee Staff, or anytime 
thereafter, discuss or disclose, or cause to be discussed or disclosed: 
       (A) The classified substance of the work of the Committee; 
       (B) Any information received by the Committee in executive 
session; 
       (C) Any classified information received by the Committee from 
any source; or 
       (D) The substance of any hearing that was closed to the public 
pursuant to these rules or the Rules of the House. 
       (2) Non-Disclosure in Proceedings. 
       (A) Members of the Committee and the Committee Staff shall not 
discuss either the substance or procedure of the work of the Committee 
with any person not a member of the Committee or the Committee Staff in 
connection with any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, either during 
the person's tenure as a member of the Committee, or of the Committee 
Staff, or at any time thereafter, except as directed by the Committee 
in accordance with the Rules of the House and these rules. 
       (B) In the event of the termination of the Committee, members 
and Committee Staff shall be governed in these matters in a manner 
determined by the House concerning discussions of the classified work 
of the Committee. 
       (3) Exceptions. 
       (A) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a)(1), members 
of the Committee and the Committee Staff may discuss and disclose those 
matters described in subsection (a)(1) with: 
       (i) Members and staff of the Senate Select Committee on 
Intelligence designated by the chair of that committee; 
       (ii) The chairmen and ranking minority members of the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations and staff of those committees 
designated by the chairmen of those committees; 
       (iii) The chair and ranking minority member of the Subcommittee 
on Defense of the House Committee on Appropriations and staff of that 
subcommittee as designated by the chair of that subcommittee; and 
       (iv) Members and staff of the Intelligence Oversight Panel of 
the House Appropriations Committee as designated by the chair of that 
panel. 
       (B) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a)(1), members 
of the Committee and the Committee Staff may discuss and disclose only 
that budget-related information necessary to facilitate the enactment 
of the annual defense authorization bill with the chairmen and ranking 
minority members of the House and Senate Committees on Armed Services 
and the staff of those committees as designated by the chairmen of 
those committees. 
       (C) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a)(1), members 
of the Committee and the Committee Staff may discuss with and disclose 
to the chair and ranking minority member of a subcommittee of the House 
Appropriations Committee with jurisdiction over an agency or program 
within the National Intelligence Program (NIP), and staff of that 
subcommittee as designated by the chair of that subcommittee, only that 
budget-related information necessary to facilitate the enactment of an 
appropriations bill within which is included an appropriation for an 
agency or program within the NIP. 
       (D) The Chair may, in consultation with the Ranking Minority 
Member, upon the written request to the Chair from the Inspector 
General of an element of the Intelligence Community, grant access to 
Committee transcripts or documents that are relevant to an 
investigation of an allegation of possible false testimony or other 
inappropriate conduct before the Committee, or that are otherwise 
relevant to the Inspector General's investigation. 
       (E) Upon the written request of the head of an Intelligence 
Community element, the Chair may, in consultation with the Ranking 
Minority Member, make available Committee briefing or hearing 
transcripts to that element for review by that element if a 
representative of that element testified, presented information to the 
Committee, or was present at the briefing or hearing the transcript of 
which is requested for review. 
       (F) Members and Committee Staff may discuss and disclose such 
matters as otherwise directed by the Committee. 
       (b) Non-Disclosure Agreement. 
       (1) Generally. All Committee Staff must, before joining the 
Committee Staff, agree in writing, as a condition of employment, not to 
divulge or cause to be divulged any classified information which comes 
into such person's possession while a member of the Committee Staff, to 
any person not a member of the Committee or the Committee Staff, except 
as authorized by the Committee in accordance with the Rules of the 
House and these rules. 
       (2) Other Requirements. In the event of the termination of the 
Committee, members and Committee Staff must follow any determination by 
the House of Representatives with respect to the protection of 
classified information received while a member of the Committee or as 
Committee Staff. 
       (3) Requests for Testimony of Staff. 
       (A) All Committee Staff must, as a condition of employment, 
agree in writing to notify the Committee immediately of any request for 
testimony received while a member of the Committee Staff, or at any 
time thereafter, concerning any classified information received by such 
person while a member of the Committee Staff. 
       (B) Committee Staff shall not disclose, in response to any such 
request for testimony, any such classified information, except as 
authorized by the Committee in accordance with the Rules of the House 
and these rules. 
       (C) In the event of the termination of the Committee, Committee 
Staff will be subject to any determination made by the House of 
Representatives with respect to any requests for testimony involving 
classified information received while a member of the Committee Staff. 
       
                       RULE 13.__CLASSIFIED MATERIAL  

       (a) Receipt of Classified Information. 
       (1) Generally. In the case of any information that has been 
classified under established security procedures and submitted to the 
Committee by any source, the Committee shall receive such classified 
information as executive session material. 
       (2) Staff Receipt of Classified Materials. For purposes of 
receiving classified information, the Committee Staff is authorized to 
accept information on behalf of the Committee. 
       (b) Non-Disclosure of Classified Information. Any classified 
information received by the Committee, from any source, shall not be 
disclosed to any person not a member of the Committee or the Committee 
Staff, or otherwise released, except as authorized by the Committee in 
accordance with the Rules of the House and these rules. 
       (c) Exception for Non-Exclusive Materials.  
       (1) Non-Exclusive Materials.  Any materials provided to the 
Committee by the executive branch, if provided in whole or in part for 
the purpose of review by members who are not members of the Committee, 
shall be received or held by the Committee on a non-exclusive basis.  Classified information provided to the Committee shall be considered to 
have been provided on an exclusive basis unless the executive branch 
provides a specific, written statement to the contrary.
       (2) Access for Non-Committee Members.  In the case of materials 
received on a non-exclusive basis, the Chair, in consultation with the 
Ranking Minority Member, may grant non-Committee members access to such 
materials in accordance with the requirements of Rule 14(f)(4), 
notwithstanding paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of Rule 14. 
       
            RULE 14.__PROCEDURES RELATED TO HANDLING OF CLASSIFIED 
                                 INFORMATION 

       (a) Security Measures. 
       (1) Strict Security. The Committee's offices shall operate under 
strict security procedures administered by the Director of Security and 
Registry of the Committee under the direct supervision of the Staff 
Director. 
       (2) U.S. Capitol Police Presence Required. At least one U.S. 
Capitol Police officer shall be on duty at all times outside the 
entrance to Committee offices to control entry of all persons to such 
offices. 
       (3) Identification Required. Before entering the Committee's 
offices all persons shall identify themselves to the U.S. Capitol 
Police officer described in paragraph (2) and to a member of the 
Committee or Committee Staff. 
       (4) Maintenance of Classified Materials. Classified documents 
shall be segregated and maintained in approved security storage 
locations. 
       (5) Examination of Classified Materials. Classified documents in 
the Committee's possession shall be examined in an appropriately secure 
 manner. 
       (6) Prohibition on Removal of Classified Materials. Removal of 
any classified document from the Committee's offices is strictly 
prohibited, except as provided by these rules. 
       (7) Exception. Notwithstanding the prohibition set forth in 
paragraph (6), a classified document, or copy thereof, may be removed 
from the Committee's offices in furtherance of official Committee 
business. Appropriate security procedures shall govern the handling of 
any classified documents removed from the Committee's offices. 
       (b) Access to Classified Information by Members. All members of 
the Committee shall at all times have access to all classified papers 
and other material received by the Committee from any source. 
       (c) Need-to-know. 
       (1) Generally. Committee Staff shall have access to any 
classified information provided to the Committee on a strict 
``need-to-know'' basis, as determined by the Committee, and under the 
Committee's direction by the Staff Director. 
       (2) Appropriate Clearances Required. Committee Staff must have 
the appropriate clearances prior to any access to compartmented 
information. 
       (d) Oath. 
       (1) Requirement. Before any member of the Committee, or the 
Committee Staff, shall have access to classified information, the 
following oath shall be executed: 
       ``I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will not disclose or 
cause to be disclosed any classified information received in the course 
of my service on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, 
except when authorized to do so by the Committee or the House of 
Representatives.'' 
       (2) Copy. A copy of such executed oath shall be retained in the 
files of the Committee. 
       (e) Registry. 
       (1) Generally. The Committee shall maintain a registry that: 
       (A) Provides a brief description of the content of all 
classified documents provided to the Committee by the executive branch 
that remain in the possession of the Committee; and 
       (B) Lists by number all such documents. 
       (2) Designation by the Staff Director. The Staff Director shall 
designate a member of the Committee Staff to be responsible for the 
organization and daily maintenance of such registry. 
       (3) Availability. Such registry shall be available to all 
members of the Committee and Committee Staff. 
       (f) Requests by Members of Other Committees. Pursuant to the 
Rules of the House, members who are not members of the Committee may be 
granted access to such classified transcripts, records, data, charts, 
or files of the Committee, and be admitted on a non-participatory basis 
to classified hearings of the Committee involving discussions of 
classified material in the following manner: 
       (1) Written Notification Required. Members who desire to examine 
classified materials in the possession of the Committee, or to attend 
Committee hearings or briefings on a non-participatory basis, must 
notify the Chief Clerk of the Committee in writing. Such notification 
shall state with specificity the justification for the request and the 
need for access.
       (2) Committee Consideration. The Committee shall consider each 
such request by non-Committee members at the earliest practicable 
opportunity. The Committee shall determine, by record vote, what action 
it deems appropriate in light of all of the circumstances of each 
request. In its determination, the Committee shall consider: 
       (A) The sensitivity to the national defense or the confidential 
conduct of the foreign relations of the United States of the 
information sought; 
       (B) The likelihood of its being directly or indirectly 
disclosed; 
       (C) The jurisdictional interest of the member making the 
request; and 
       (D) Such other concerns, constitutional or otherwise, as may 
affect the public interest of the United States. 
       (3) Committee Action. After consideration of the member's 
request, the Committee may take any action it deems appropriate under 
the circumstances, including but not limited to: 
       (A) Approving the request, in whole or part; 
       (B) Denying the request; 
       (C) Providing the requested information or material in a 
different form than that sought by the member; or 
       (D) Making the requested information or material available to 
all members of the House. 
       (4) Requirements for Access by Non-Committee Members. Prior to 
a non-Committee member being given access to classified information 
pursuant to this subsection, the requesting member shall: 
       (A) Provide the Committee a copy of the oath executed by such 
member pursuant to House Rule XXIII, clause 13; and 
       (B) Agree in writing not to divulge any classified information 
provided to the member, pursuant to this subsection, to any person not 
a member of the Committee or the Committee Staff, except as otherwise 
authorized by the Committee in accordance with the Rules of the House 
and these rules. 
       (5) Consultation Authorized. When considering a member's 
request, the Committee may consult the Director of National 
Intelligence and such other officials it considers necessary. 
       (6) Finality of Committee Decision. 
       (A) Should the member making such a request disagree with the 
Committee's determination with respect to that request, or any part 
thereof, that member must notify the Committee in writing of such 
disagreement. 
       (B) The Committee shall subsequently consider the matter and 
decide, by record vote, what further action or recommendation, if any, 
the Committee will take. 
       (g) Advising the House or Other Committees. Pursuant to Section 
501 of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 413), and to the 
Rules of the House, the Committee shall call to the attention of the 
House, or to any other appropriate committee of the House, those 
matters requiring the attention of the House, or such other committee, 
on the basis of the following provisions: 
       (1) By Request of Committee Member. At the request of any member 
of the Committee to call to the attention of the House, or any other 
committee, executive session material in the Committee's possession, 
the Committee shall meet at the earliest practicable opportunity to 
consider that request. 
       (2) Committee Consideration of Request. The Committee shall 
consider the following factors, among any others it deems appropriate: 
       (A) The effect of the matter in question on the national defense 
or the foreign relations of the United States; 
       (B) Whether the matter in question involves sensitive 
intelligence sources and methods; 
       (C) Whether the matter in question otherwise raises questions 
affecting the national interest; and 
       (D) Whether the matter in question affects matters within the 
jurisdiction of another Committee of the House. 
       (3) Views of Other Committees. In examining such factors, the 
Committee may seek the opinion of members of the Committee appointed 
from standing committees of the House with jurisdiction over the matter 
in question, or submissions from such other committees. 
       (4) Other Advice. The Committee may, during its deliberations on 
such requests, seek the advice of any executive branch official. 
       (h) Reasonable Opportunity to Examine Materials. Before the 
Committee makes any decision regarding any request for access to any 
classified information in its possession, or a proposal to bring any 
matter to the attention of the House or another committee, members of 
the Committee shall have a reasonable opportunity to examine all 
pertinent testimony, documents, or other materials in the Committee's 
possession that may inform their decision on the question. 
       (i) Notification to the House. The Committee may bring a matter 
to the attention of the House when, after consideration of the factors 
set forth in this rule, it considers the matter in question so grave 
that it requires the attention of all members of the House, and time is 
of the essence, or for any reason the Committee finds compelling. 
       (j) Method of Disclosure to the House. 
       (1) Should the Committee decide by record vote that a matter 
requires the attention of the House as described in subsection (i), it 
shall make arrangements to notify the House promptly. 
       (2) In such cases, the Committee shall consider whether: 
       (A) To request an immediate secret session of the House (with 
time equally divided between the Majority and the Minority); or 
       (B) To publicly disclose the matter in question pursuant to 
clause 11(g) of House Rule X. 
       (k) Requirement to Protect Sources and Methods. In bringing a 
matter to the attention of the House, or another committee, the 
Committee, with due regard for the protection of intelligence sources 
and methods, shall take all necessary steps to safeguard materials or 
information relating to the matter in question. 
       (l) Availability of Information to Other Committees. The 
Committee, having determined that a matter shall be brought to the 
attention of another committee, shall ensure that such matter, 
including all classified information related to that matter, is 
promptly made available to the chair and ranking minority member of 
such other committee. 
       (m) Provision of Materials. The Director of Security and 
Registry for the Committee shall provide a copy of these rules, and the 
applicable portions of the Rules of the House of Representatives 
governing the handling of classified information, along with those 
materials determined by the Committee to be made available to such 
other committee of the House or non-Committee member. 
       (n) Ensuring Clearances and Secure Storage. The Director of 
Security and Registry shall ensure that such other committee or 
non-Committee member receiving such classified materials may properly 
store classified materials in a manner consistent with all governing 
rules, regulations, policies, procedures, and statutes. 
       (o) Log. The Director of Security and Registry for the Committee 
shall maintain a written record identifying the particular classified 
document or material provided to such other committee or non-Committee 
member, the reasons agreed upon by the Committee for approving such 
transmission, and the name of the committee or non-Committee member 
receiving such document or material. 
       (p) Miscellaneous Requirements. 
       (1) Staff Director's Additional Authority. The Staff Director is 
further empowered to provide for such additional measures, which he or 
she deems necessary, to protect such classified information authorized 
by the Committee to be provided to such other committee or 
non-Committee member. 
       (2) Notice to Originating Agency. In the event that the 
Committee authorizes the disclosure of classified information provided 
to the Committee by an agency of the executive branch to a 
non-Committee member or to another committee, the Chair may notify the 
providing agency of the Committee's action prior to the transmission of 
such classified information.
       
                       RULE 15.__LEGISLATIVE CALENDAR 

       (a) Generally. The Chief Clerk, under the direction of the Staff 
Director, shall maintain a printed calendar that lists: 
       (1) The legislative measures introduced and referred to the 
Committee; 
       (2) The status of such measures; and 
       (3) Such other matters that the Committee may require. 
       (b) Revisions to the Calendar. The calendar shall be revised 
from time to time to show pertinent changes. 
       (c) Availability. A copy of each such revision shall be 
furnished to each member, upon request. 
       (d) Consultation with Appropriate Government Entities. Unless 
otherwise directed by the Committee, legislative measures referred to 
the Committee may be referred by the Chief Clerk to the appropriate 
department or agency of the Government for reports thereon. 
       
                            RULE 16.__COMMITTEE WEBSITE 

       The Chair shall maintain an official Committee web site 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. 
       
                     RULE 17.__MOTIONS TO GO TO CONFERENCE 
       
       In accordance with clause 2(a) of House Rule XI, the Chair is 
authorized and directed to offer a privileged motion to go to 
conference under clause 1 of House Rule XXII whenever the Chair 
considers it appropriate. 
       
                            RULE 18.__COMMITTEE TRAVEL 

       (a) Authority. The Chair may authorize members and Committee 
Staff to travel on Committee business. 
       (b) Requests. 
       (1) Member Requests. Members requesting authorization for such 
travel shall state the purpose and length of the trip, and shall submit 
such request directly to the Chair. 
       (2) Committee Staff Requests. Committee Staff requesting 
authorization for such travel shall state the purpose and length of the 
trip, and shall submit such request through their supervisors to the 
Staff Director and the Chair. 
       (c) Notification to Members. 
       (1) Generally. Members shall be notified of all foreign travel 
of Committee Staff not accompanying a member. 
       (2) Content. All members are to be advised, prior to the 
commencement of such travel, of its length, nature, and purpose. 
       (d) Trip Reports. 
       (1) Generally. A full report of all issues discussed during any 
travel shall be submitted to the Chief Clerk of the Committee within a 
reasonable period of time following the completion of such trip. 
       (2) Availability of Reports. Such report shall be: 
       (A) Available for review by any member or appropriately cleared 
Committee Staff; and 
       (B) Considered executive session material for purposes of these 
rules. 
       (e) Limitations on Travel. 
       (1) Generally. The Chair is not authorized to permit travel on 
Committee business of Committee Staff who have not satisfied the 
requirements of subsection (d) of this rule. 
       (2) Exception. The Chair may authorize Committee Staff to travel 
on Committee business, notwithstanding the requirements of subsections 
(d) and (e) of this rule, 
       (A) At the specific request of a member of the Committee; or 
       (B) In the event there are circumstances beyond the control of 
the Committee Staff hindering compliance with such requirements. 
       (f) Definitions. For purposes of this rule the term ``reasonable 
period of time'' means: 
       (1) No later than 60 days after returning from a foreign trip; 
and 
       (2) No later than 30 days after returning from a domestic trip. 
       
                        RULE 19.__DISCIPLINARY ACTIONS        (a) Generally. The Committee shall immediately consider whether 
disciplinary action shall be taken in the case of any member of the 
Committee Staff alleged to have failed to conform to any rule of the 
House of Representatives or to these rules. 
       (b) Exception. In the event the House of Representatives is: 
       (1) In a recess period in excess of 3 days; or 
       (2) Has adjourned sine die; the Chair of the full Committee, in 
consultation with the Ranking Minority Member, may take such immediate 
disciplinary actions deemed necessary. 
       (c) Available Actions. Such disciplinary action may include 
immediate dismissal from the Committee Staff. 
       (d) Notice to Members. All members shall be notified as soon as 
practicable, either by facsimile transmission or regular mail, of any 
disciplinary action taken by the Chair pursuant to subsection (b). 
       (e) Reconsideration of Chair's Actions. A majority of the 
members of the full Committee may vote to overturn the decision of the 
Chair to take disciplinary action pursuant to subsection (b). 
       
                     RULE 20.__BROADCASTING COMMITTEE MEETINGS 

       Whenever any hearing or meeting conducted by the Committee is 
open to the public, a majority of the Committee may permit that hearing 
or meeting to be covered, in whole or in part, by television broadcast, 
radio broadcast, and still photography, or by any of such methods of 
coverage, subject to the provisions and in accordance with the spirit 
of the purposes enumerated in the Rules of the House. 
       
            RULE 21.__COMMITTEE RECORDS TRANSFERRED TO THE NATIONAL 
                                  ARCHIVES 

       (a) Generally. The records of the Committee at the National 
Archives and Records Administration shall be made available for public 
use in accordance with the Rules of the House of Representatives. 
       (b) Notice of Withholding. The Chair shall notify the Ranking 
Minority Member of any decision, pursuant to the Rules of the House of 
Representatives, to withhold a record otherwise available, and the 
matter shall be presented to the full Committee for a determination of 
the question of public availability on the written request of any 
member of the Committee. 
       
                          RULE 22.__CHANGES IN RULES 

       (a) Generally. These rules may be modified, amended, or repealed 
by vote of the full Committee. 
       (b) Notice of Proposed Changes. A notice, in writing, of the 
proposed change shall be given to each member at least 48 hours prior 
to any meeting at which action on the proposed rule change is to be 
taken. 

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                  PART III__SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE 


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           Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global 
                                 Warming 

                   EDWARD J. MARKEY, Massachusetts, Chairman
EARL BLUMENAUER, Oregon                     F. JAMES SENSENBRENNER JR., 
JAY INSLEE, Washington                        Wisconsin, Ranking Member 
JOHN B. LARSON, Connecticut                 JOHN B. SHADEGG, Arizona 
STEPHANIE HERSETH SANDLIN,                  JOHN SULLIVAN, Oklahoma 
  South Dakota                              MARSHA BLACKBURN, Tennessee 
EMANUEL CLEAVER, Missouri                   CANDICE S. MILLER, Michigan 
JOHN J. HALL, New York                      SHELLEY MOORE CAPITO, West   
JOHN T. SALAZAR, Colorado                     Virginia 
JACKIE SPEIER, California 

                          (Adopted February 4, 2009) 

                          RULE 1.__GENERAL PROVISIONS.  

       The Rules of the House are the rules of the Select Committee on 
Energy Independence and Global Warming (hereinafter ``Committee'') so 
far as they are applicable. 

                      RULE 2.__TIME AND PLACE OF MEETINGS. 

       (a) Regular Meeting Days. The Committee shall meet on the first 
Tuesday of each month at 10 a.m., for the consideration of any pending 
business, if the House is in session on that day. If the House is not 
in session on that day and the Committee has not met during such month, 
the Committee shall meet at the earliest practicable opportunity when 
the House is again in session. The Chairman may, at his discretion, 
cancel, delay, or defer any meeting required under this section, after 
consultation with the Ranking Minority Member. 
       (b) Additional Meetings. The Chairman may call and convene, as 
he considers necessary, additional meetings of the Committee for the 
consideration of Committee business. The Committee shall meet for such 
purposes pursuant to that call of the Chairman. 
       (c) Vice Chairman; Presiding Member. The Chairman may designate 
a member of the majority party to serve as Vice Chairman of the 
Committee. The Vice Chairman shall preside at any meeting or hearing 
during the temporary absence of the Chairman. If the Chairman and Vice 
Chairman are not present at any meeting or hearing, the most senior 
present member of the majority party shall preside at the meeting or 
hearing. 
       (d) Open Meetings and Hearings. Each meeting and hearing of the 
Committee for the transaction of business shall be open to the public, 
including to radio, television and still photography coverage, 
consistent with the provisions of Rule XI of the Rules of the House. 

                              RULE 3.__AGENDA. 

       The agenda for each Committee meeting other than a hearing, 
setting out the date, time, place, and all items of business to be 
considered, shall be provided to each member of the Committee at least 
24 hours in advance of such meeting. 

                            RULE 4.__PROCEDURE. 

       (a) Hearings. The date, time, place, and subject matter of any 
hearing of the Committee shall be announced at least one week in 
advance of the commencement of such hearing, unless the Chairman, with 
the concurrence of the Ranking Minority Member, determines in 
accordance with clause 2(g)(3) of Rule XI of the Rules of the House, 
that there is good cause to begin the hearing sooner. In such cases, 
the Chairman shall make the announcement at the earliest possible date. 
       (b) Meetings. The date, time, place, and subject matter of any 
meeting (other than a hearing) scheduled on a Tuesday, Wednesday, or 
Thursday when the House is scheduled to be in session shall be 
announced at least 24 hours (exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays, and legal 
holidays, except when the House is in session on such days) in advance 
of the commencement of such meeting. 
       (c) Motions. Pursuant to clause 1(a)(2) of rule XI of the Rules 
of the House, privileged motions to recess from day to day, or recess 
subject to the call of the Chair (within 24 hours), shall be decided 
without debate. 
       (d)(1) Requirements for Testimony. Each witness who is to appear 
before the Committee shall file with the clerk of the Committee, at 
least two working days in advance of his or her appearance, sufficient 
copies, as determined by the Chairman, of a written statement of his or 
her proposed testimony to provide to members and staff of the 
Committee, the news media, and the general public. Each witness shall, 
to the greatest extent practicable, also provide a copy of such written 
testimony in an electronic format prescribed by the Chairman. Each 
witness shall limit his or her oral presentation to a brief summary of 
the testimony. The Chairman, or the presiding member, may waive the 
requirements of this paragraph or any part thereof. 
       (2) Additional Requirements for Testimony. To the greatest 
extent practicable, the written testimony of each witness appearing in 
a non-governmental capacity shall include a curriculum vitae and a 
disclosure of the amount and source (by agency and program) of any 
federal grant (or sub grant thereof) or contract (or subcontract 
thereof) received during the current fiscal year or either of the two 
preceding fiscal years by the witness or by an entity represented by 
the witness. 
       (A) Questioning Witnesses. The right to question witnesses 
before the Committee shall alternate between majority and minority 
members. Each member shall be limited to 5 minutes in the interrogation 
of witnesses until such time as each member who so desires has had an 
opportunity to question witnesses. No member shall be recognized for a 
second period of 5 minutes to interrogate a witness until each member 
of the Committee present has been recognized once for that purpose. 
While the Committee is operating under the 5-minute rule for the 
interrogation of witnesses, the Chairman shall recognize, in order of 
appearance, members who were not present when the meeting was called to 
order after all members who were present when the meeting was called to 
order have been recognized in the order of seniority on the Committee. 
       (B) Questions for the Record. Subject to the Rules of the House, 
each member may submit to the Chairman additional questions for the 
record, to be answered by the witnesses who have appeared. Each member 
shall provide a copy of the questions in an electronic format to the 
clerk of the Committee no later than ten business days following a 
hearing. The Chairman shall transmit all questions received from 
members of the Committee to the appropriate witness and include the 
transmittal letter and the responses from the witnesses in the hearing 
record. 
       (C) Opening Statements. (1) All written opening statements at 
hearings conducted by the Committee shall be made part of the permanent 
hearing record. 
       (2) The Chairman and Ranking Minority Member (or their 
respective designees) are entitled to deliver a 5 minute opening 
statement prior to the recognition of the first witness for testimony. 
Opening statements by other members of the Committee are subject to the 
discretion of the Chairman. 

            RULE 5.__WAIVER OF AGENDA, NOTICE, AND OPENING STATEMENT 
                              REQUIREMENTS. 
  
       Requirements of rules 3, 4(a)(1), 4(a)(2), and 4(d) may be 
waived for good cause by the Chairman, with the concurrence of the 
Ranking Minority Member. 

                                 RULE 6.__QUORUM. 

       Testimony may be taken and evidence received at any hearing at 
which there are present not fewer than two members of the Committee. A 
majority of the members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum when 
otherwise required by the Rules of the House. For the purposes of 
taking any action other than those specified in the preceding 
sentences, one third of the members of the Committee shall constitute a 
quorum. 

                                  RULE 7.__JOURNAL. 

       The proceedings of the Committee shall be recorded in a journal 
which shall, among other things, show those present at each meeting and 
hearing, and shall include a record of the votes on any question on 
which a record vote is demanded, a description of the motion, order, or 
other proposition voted, and the name of each member voting for and 
each member voting against such motion, order, or proposition, and the 
names of those members voting present. A copy of the journal shall be 
furnished to the Ranking Minority Member and made available to the 
public in a timely fashion. 

                 RULE 8.__COMMITTEE PROFESSIONAL  AND CLERICAL STAFF. 

       (a) Committee staff members are subject to the provisions of 
clause 9 of Rule X, as well as any written personnel policies the 
Committee may from time to time adopt. The Chairman shall determine the 
remuneration of legislative and administrative employees of the 
Committee. 
       (b) The Chairman shall appoint, and may remove, the legislative 
and administrative employees of the Committee not assigned to the 
minority. 
       (c) Minority Professional Staff. Professional staff members 
appointed pursuant to clause 9 of Rule X of the House of 
Representatives, who are assigned to the Ranking Minority Member, and 
not to the Chairman, shall be assigned to such Committee business as 
the Ranking Minority Member considers advisable. 
       (d) Additional Staff Appointments. In addition to the 
professional staff appointed pursuant to clause 9 of Rule X of the 
House of Representatives, the Chairman shall be entitled to make such 
appointments to the clerical staff of the Committee as may be provided 
within the budget approved for such purposes by the Committee. Such 
appointees shall be assigned to such business of the Committee as the 
Chairman considers advisable. 

                       RULE 9.__SUPERVISION, DUTIES OF STAFF. 

       (a) Committee staff members are subject to the provisions of 
clause 9(b) of Rule X. 
       (b) Supervision of Majority Staff. The professional and clerical 
staff of the Committee not assigned to the minority shall be under the 
supervision and direction of the Chairman, who shall establish and 
assign the duties and responsibilities of such staff members and 
delegate such authority as he determines appropriate. 
       (c) Supervision of Minority Staff. The professional and clerical 
staff assigned to the minority shall be under the supervision and 
direction of the Ranking Minority Member, who shall establish and 
assign the duties and responsibilities of such staff members and 
delegate such authority as he determines appropriate. 

                          RULE 10.__COMMITTEE EXPENDITURES. 

       Copies of each monthly report (prepared by the Chairman of the 
Committee on House Administration and showing expenditures made during 
the reporting period and cumulative for the year by the Committee), 
anticipated expenditures for the projected Committee program, and 
detailed information on travel, shall be available to each member. 

                     RULE 11.__BROADCASTING OF COMMITTEE HEARINGS. 

       Any meeting or hearing that is open to the public may be covered 
in whole or in part by radio or television or still photography, 
subject to the requirements of clause 4 of Rule XI of the Rules of the 
House. The coverage of any hearing or other proceeding of the Committee 
by television, radio, or still photography shall be under the direct 
supervision of the Chairman and may be terminated in accordance with 
the Rules of the House. 

                                  RULE 12.__SUBPOENAS. 

       The Committee may authorize and issue a subpoena under clause 
2(m) of Rule XI of the House. 

                         RULE 13.__TRAVEL OF MEMBERS AND STAFF. 

       (a) Approval of Travel. Consistent with the primary expense 
resolution and such additional expense resolutions as may have been 
approved, travel to be reimbursed from funds set aside for the 
Committee for any member or any staff member shall be paid only upon 
the prior authorization of the Chairman. Travel may be authorized by 
the Chairman for any member and any staff member in connection with the 
attendance of hearings conducted by the Committee or any subcommittee 
thereof and meetings, conferences, and investigations which involve 
activities or subject matter under 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 
travel; (2) the dates during which the travel is to be made and the 
date or dates of the event for which the travel is being made; (3) the 
location of the event for which the travel is to be made; and (4) the 
names of members and staff seeking authorization. 
       (b) Approval of Travel by Minority Members and Staff. In the 
case of travel by minority party members and minority party 
professional staff for the purpose set out in paragraph (a), the prior 
approval, not only of the Chairman but also of the Ranking Minority 
Member, shall be required. Such prior authorization shall be given by 
the Chairman only upon the representation by the Ranking Minority 
Member, in writing, setting forth those items enumerated in (1), (2), 
(3), and (4) of paragraph (a). 

                                  RULE 14.__REPORTS. 

       (a) Committee reports. Any report printed by the U.S. Government 
Printing Office that purports to express the views, findings, 
conclusions or recommendations of the Select Committee must be 
approved, in a meeting, by a majority of the members in attendance of 
the Select Committee. Members shall have three days from the time of 
the approval to submit supplemental, minority or additional views, 
which will be included as part of the printed report. 
       (b) Other reports. Any report printed by the U.S. Government 
Printing Office to be published as a Committee print other than a 
document described in paragraph (a) of this Rule: (A) shall include on 
its cover the following statement: ``this document has been printed for 
informational purposes only and does not represent either findings or 
recommendations adopted by this Committee.''; and (B) shall not be 
published following sine die adjournment of Congress, unless approved 
by the Chairman of the Committee after consultation with the Ranking 
Minority Member of the Committee. 

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                         PART IV__CONGRESSIONAL JOINT 
                                  COMMITTEES 

                              Joint Economic Committee 

                  Representative CAROLYN B. MALONEY, New York, Chair
                 Senator CHARLES E. SCHUMER, New York, Vice Chairman
          
          HOUSE					SENATE 

    MAURICE D. HINCHEY, New York     EDWARD M. KENNEDY, 
    BARON P. HILL, Indiana	       Massachusetts
    LORETTA SANCHEZ, California	     JEFF BINGAMAN, New Mexico
    ELIJAH E. CUMMINGS, Maryland     AMY KLOBUCHAR, Minnesota
    VIC SNYDER, Arkansas	     ROBERT P. CASEY, Jr., Pennsylvania
				     JIM WEBB, Virginia

       Minority Members			       Minority Senators

   KEVIN BRADY, Texas                  	SAM BROWNBACK, Kansas
   RON PAUL, Texas          		JIM DeMINT, South Carolina
   MICHAEL C. BURGESS, M.D., Texas	JAMES E. RISCH, Idaho
   JOHN CAMPBELL, California		ROBERT F. BENNETT, Utah

                        (Adopted February 5, 2009) 

                                  RULE 1 

       The rules of the Senate and House, insofar as they are 
applicable, shall govern the committee and its subcommittees.  The 
rules of the Committee, insofar as they are applicable, shall be the 
rules of any subcommittee of the Committee.

                                  RULE 2 

       The meetings of the Committee shall be held at such times and in 
such places as the Chairman may designate, or at such times as a quorum 
of the Committee may request in writing, with adequate advance notice 
provided to all members of the Committee.  Subcommittee meetings shall 
not be held when the full Committee is meeting.  Where the rules 
require a vote of the members of the Committee, polling of members 
either in writing or by telephone shall not be permitted to substitute 
for a vote taken at a Committee meeting, unless the Ranking Minority 
Member assents to a waiver of this requirement.

                                  RULE 3 

       Ten members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum.  A 
majority of the members of a subcommittee shall constitute a quorum of 
such subcommittee.
       
                                  RULE 4

       Written or telegraphic proxies of Committee members will be 
received and recorded on any vote taken by the Committee, except at the 
organization meeting at the beginning of each Congress, or for the 
purpose of creating a quorum.  

                                  RULE 5

       The Chairman may name standing or special subcommittees.  Any 
member of the Committee shall have the privilege of sitting with any 
subcommittee during its hearings or deliberations, but no such member 
who is not a member of the subcommittee shall vote on any matter before 
such subcommittee.

                                  RULE 6

       The chairmanship and vice chairmanship of the Committee shall 
alternate between the House and Senate by Congresses.  The senior 
member of the minority party in the House of Congress opposite to that 
of the Chairman shall be the Ranking Minority Member of the Committee.  
In the event the House and Senate are under different party control, 
the  Chairman and Vice Chairman shall represent the majority party in 
the respective Houses.

                                  RULE 7

       Questions as to the order of business and the procedure of the 
Committee shall in the first instance be decided by the Chairman, 
subject always to an appeal to the Committee.

                                  RULE 8

       All hearings conducted by the Committee or its subcommittees 
shall be open to the public except where the Committee or subcommittee, 
as the case may be, by a majority vote orders an executive session.  
Whenever possible, all public hearings shall include some sessions held 
on the Senate side and some of the House side.  House and Senate 
members shall alternate in order of seating and interrogation.

                                  RULE 9

       So far as practicable all witnesses appearing before the 
Committee shall file advance written statements of their proposed 
testimony, and their oral testimony shall be limited to brief 
summaries.  Brief insertions of additional germane material will be 
received for the record, subject to the approval of the Chairman.

                                  RULE 10

       An accurate stenographic record shall be kept of all testimony 
and each witness provided with a copy thereof.  Witnesses may make 
changes in testimony for the purpose of correcting grammatical errors, 
obvious errors of fact, and errors of transcription.  Brief 
supplemental materials when required to clarify the transcript may be 
inserted in the record subject to the approval of the Chairman.  
Witnesses shall be allowed 3 days within which to correct and return 
the transcript of their testimony.  If not so returned, the clerk may 
close the record whenever necessary.

                                  RULE 11 

       Each member of the Committee shall be provided with a copy of 
the hearings transcript for the purpose of correcting errors of 
transcription and grammar, and clarifying questions or remarks.  If 
another person is authorized by a Committee member to make his 
corrections, the clerk shall be so notified.
       Members who have received unanimous consent to submit written 
questions to witnesses shall be allowed 2 days within which to submit 
these to the executive director for transmission to the witnesses.  The 
record may be held open for a period not to exceed 1week awaiting 
responses by witnesses.

                                   RULE 12

       Testimony received in executive hearings shall not be released 
or included in any report without the approval of a majority of the 
Committee.

                                   RULE 13

       The Chairman shall provide adequate time for questioning of 
witnesses by all members, and the rule of germaneness shall be enforced 
in all hearings.

                                   RULE 14

       None of the hearings of the Committee shall be telecast or 
broadcast, whether directly or through such devices as recordings, 
tapes, motion pictures, or other mechanical means, if in conflict with 
a rule or practice of the House on the side of the Capitol where 
hearings are being held.  If no general rule or practice prevails in 
regard to such telecasts or broadcasts, none of the hearings of the 
Committee shall be telecast or broadcast unless approved by a majority 
of the members of the Committee.
       Telecasts or broadcasts of any such portion of hearings of the 
Committee as may include testimony of a witness, shall not be 
authorized if such witness objects to such telecast or broadcast: 
Provided, That such witness shall be afforded the opportunity to make 
such objection, if any , to the Committee at a time when the 
proceedings are not being telecast or broadcast.  

                                 RULE 15

       No Committee report shall be made public or transmitted to the 
Congress without the approval of a majority of the Committee except 
that when the Congress has adjourned, subcommittees may by majority 
vote and with the express permission of the full Committee submit 
reports to the full Committee and simultaneously release same to the 
public: Provided, That any member of the Committee may make a report  supplementary to or dissenting from the majority report.  Such 
supplementary or dissenting reports should be as brief as possible.  
Factual reports by the Committee staff may be printed for the 
distribution to Committee members and the public only upon 
authorization of the Chairman of the full Committee either with the 
approval of a majority of the Committee or with the consent of the 
Ranking Minority Member.

                                 RULE 16

       No summary of a Committee report, prediction of the contents of 
a report, or statement of conclusions concerning any investigation 
shall be made by a member of the Committee or of the Committee staff 
prior to the issuance of a report of the Committee.

                                 RULE 17

       There shall be kept a complete record of all Committee 
proceedings and actions.  The clerk of the Committee, or a designated 
member of the Committee staff, shall act as recording secretary of all 
proceedings before the Committee and shall prepare and circulate to all 
members of the Committee the minutes of such proceedings.  Minutes 
circulated will be considered approved unless objection is registered 
prior to the next Committee meeting.  The records of the Committee 
shall be open to all members of the Committee. 

                                RULE 18 

       The Committee shall have a professional and clerical staff under 
the supervision of an executive director.  The Committee shall appoint 
and remove the executive director with the approval of not less than 10 
members of the Committee.  Staff operating procedures shall be 
determined by the executive director, with the approval of the Chairman 
of the Committee, and after notification to the Ranking Minority Member 
with respect to basic revisions.  The executive director under the 
general supervision of the Chairman is authorized to deal directly with 
agencies of the Government and with non-Government groups and 
individuals on behalf of the Committee.
       The professional members of the Committee staff shall be 
appointed and removed on the recommendation of the executive director 
with approval by a majority vote of the Committee.  The professional 
staff members, including the executive director, shall be persons 
selected without regard to political affiliations who, as a result of 
training, experience, and attainments, are exceptionally qualified to 
analyze and interpret economic developments and programs.  The clerical 
and temporary staff shall be appointed and removed by the executive 
director with the approval of the Chairman, and after notification to 
the Ranking Minority Member.  The Committee staff shall serve all 
members of the Committee in an objective, non partisan manner.  From 
time to time, upon request the executive director shall designate 
individual members of the staff to assist subcommittees, individual 
Committee members, and the minority members.  The staff, to the extent 
possible, shall be organized along functional lines to permit 
specialization.

                                    RULE 19 

       Attendance at executive sessions shall be limited to members of 
the Committee and of the Committee staff.  Other persons whose presence 
is requested or consented to by the Committee may be admitted to such 
sessions.  

                                  RULE 20 

       Selection of witnesses for Committee hearings shall be made by 
the Committee staff under the direction of the Chairman.  A list of 
proposed witnesses shall be submitted to the members of the Committee 
for review sufficiently in advance of the hearings to permit 
suggestions by the Committee members to receive appropriate 
consideration.  

                                 RULE 21
       The Chairman of the Committee shall have the overall 
responsibility for preparing and carrying out the Committee's program, 
including staff duties, subject to prior approval of each item on the 
program by a majority of the Committee or, alternatively, by the 
Ranking Minority Member.  Prior to and during the transition from one 
Congress to another, the outgoing Committee shall prepare and have 
ready a plan for the consideration of the President's Economic Report 
and the preparation of the Committee's report thereon in order to meet 
the March 1 deadline established by Public Law 304 (79th Cong.), as 
amended.

                                 RULE 22 

       Proposals for amending Committee rules shall be sent to all 
members at least 1 week before final action is taken thereon, unless 
the amendment is made by unanimous consent.  Approval by at least 11 
members of the Committee shall be required to amend these rules. 

                                 RULE 23

       The information contained in any books, papers, or documents 
furnished to the Committee by any individual, partnership, corporation, 
or other legal entity shall, upon the request of the individual, 
partnership, corporation, or other entity furnishing the same, be 
maintained in strict confidence by the members and staff of the 
Committee, except that any such information may be released outside of 
executive session of the Committee if the release thereof is effected 
in a manner which will not reveal the identity of such individual, 
partnership, corporation, or entity: Provided, That the Committee by 
majority vote may authorize the disclosure of the identity of any such 
individual, partnership, corporation, or entity in connection with any 
pending hearing or as a part of a duly authorized report of the 
Committee if such release is deemed essential to the performance of the 
functions of the Committee and is in the public interest.   
       
                  Joint Committee of Congress on the Library

         ROBERT A. BRADY, Representative from Pennsylvania, Chairman
           CHARLES E. SCHUMER, Senator from New York, Vice Chair
          
          HOUSE					SENATE

ZOE LOFGREN, California		       CHRISTOPHER J. DODD, Connecticut 
DEBBIE WASSERMAN SHULTZ,	       RICHARD J. DURBIN, Illinois
  Florida

      Minority Members			       Minority Senators

DANIEL E. LUNGREN, California		ROBERT F. BENNETT, Utah
GREGG HARPER, Mississippi       	THAD COCHRAN, Mississippi

                      (Adopted April 23, 2009)

                  TITLE I.__MEETINGS OF THE COMMITTEE

       1. Regular meetings may be called by the chairman, with the 
concurrence of the vice-chairman, as may be deemed necessary or 
pursuant to the provision of paragraph 3 of rule XXVI of the Standings 
Rules of the Senate. 
       2. Meetings of the committee, including meetings to conduct 
hearings, shall be open to the public, except that a meeting or series 
of meetings by the committee on the same subject for a period of no 
more that 14 calendar days may be closed to the public on a motion made 
and seconded to go into closed session to discuss only whether the 
matters enumerated in subparagraphs (A) through (F) would require the 
meeting to be closed followed immediately by a recorded vote in open 
session by a majority of the members of the committee when it is 
determined that the matters to be discussed or the testimony to be 
taken at such meeting or meetings__ 
       (A) will disclose matters necessary to be kept secret in the 
interests of national defense or the confidential conduct of the 
foreign relations of the United States; 
       (B) will relate solely to matters of the committee staff 
personal or internal staff management or procedures; 
       (C) will tend to charge an individual with a crime or 
misconduct, to disgrace or injure the professional standing of an 
individual, or otherwise to expose an individual to public contempt or 
obloquy, or will represent a clearly unwarranted invasion of privacy of 
an individual; 
       (D) will disclose the identity of any informer or law 
enforcement agent or will disclose any information relating to the 
investigation or prosecution of a criminal offense that is required to 
be kept secret in the interest of effective law enforcement; 
       (E) will disclose information relating to the trade secrets or 
financial or commercial information pertaining specifically to a given 
person if__ 
       (1) an Act of Congress requires the information to kept 
confidential by Government officers and employees; or 
       (2) the information has been obtained by the Government on a 
confidential basis, other than through an application by such person 
for a specific Government financial or other benefit, and is required 
to be kept secret in order to prevent undue injury to the benefit, and 
is required to be kept secret in order to prevent undue injury to the 
competitive position of such person; or 
       (F) may divulge matters required to kept confidential under the 
provisions of law or Government regulation. (Paragraph 5(b) of rule 
XXVI of the Standing Rules of the Senate.) 
       3. Written notices of committee meetings will normally be sent 
by the committee's staff director to all members at least 3 days in 
advance. In addition, the committee staff will email or telephone 
reminders of committee meetings to all members of the committee or to 
the appropriate staff assistants in their offices. 
       4. A copy of the committee's intended agenda enumerating 
separate items of committee business will normally be sent to all 
members of the committee by the staff director at least 1 day in 
advance of all meetings. This does not preclude any member of the 
committee from raising appropriate non-agenda topics. 
       5. Any witness who is to appear before the committee in any 
hearing shall file with the clerk of the committee at least 3 business 
days before the date of his or her appearance, a written statement of 
his or her proposed testimony and an executive summary thereof, in such 
form as the chairman may direct, unless the chairman waived such a 
requirement for good cause.
        
                             TITLE II.__QUORUMS

       1. Pursuant to paragraph 7(a)(1) of rule XXVI of the Standing 
Rules, 4 members of the committee shall constitute a quorum. 
       2. Pursuant to paragraph 7(a)(2) of rule XXVI of the Standing 
Rules, 2 members of the committee shall constitute a quorum for the 
purpose of taking testimony; provided, however, once a quorum is 
established, any one member can continue to take such testimony. 
       3. Under no circumstance may proxies be considered for the 
establishment of a quorum. 
       
                             TITLE III.__VOTING

       1. Voting in the committee on any issue will normally be by 
voice vote. 
       2. If a third of the members present so demand, a recorded vote 
will be taken on any question by rollcall. 
       3. The results of the rollcall votes taken in any meeting upon a 
measure, or any amendment thereto, shall be stated in the committee 
report on that measure unless previously announced by the committee, 
and such report or announcement shall include a tabulation of the votes 
cast in favor and the votes cast in opposition to each measure and 
amendment by each member of the committee. (Paragraph 7(b) and (c) of 
rule XXVI of the Standing Rules.) 
       4. Proxy voting shall be allowed on all measures and matters 
before the committee. However, the vote of the committee to report a 
measure or matters shall require the concurrence of a majority of the 
members of the committee who are physically present at the time of the 
vote. Proxies will be allowed in such cases solely for the purpose of 
recording a member's position on the question and then only in those 
instances when the absentee committee member has been informed of the 
question and has affirmatively requested that he be recorded. 
(Paragraph 7(a)(3) of rule XXVI of the Standing Rules.)
       
           Title IV.__Delegation and Authority to the Chairman and Vice 
                                     Chairman

       1. The chairman and vice chairman are authorized to sign all 
necessary vouchers and routine papers for which the committee's 
approval is required and to decide in the committee's behalf on all 
routine business. 
       2. The chairman is authorized to engage commercial reporters for 
the preparation of transcripts of committee meetings and hearings. 
       3. The chairman is authorized to issue, on behalf of the 
committee, regulations normally promulgated by the committee at the 
beginning of each session. 

                         Joint Committee on Printing 

          CHARLES E. SCHUMER, Senator from New York, Chairman 
       ROBERT A. BRADY, Representative from Pennsylvania, Vice Chairman

          HOUSE					SENATE

MICHAEL E. CAPUANO, Massachusetts	       PATTY MURRAY, Washington
SUSAN A. DAVIS, California		       TOM UDALL, New Mexico     Minority Members		     	           Minority Senators

DANIEL E. LUNGREN, California		       ROBERT F. BENNETT, Utah
KEVIN MCCARTHY, California		       SAXBY CHAMBLISS, Georgia

                        (Adopted April 23, 2009)

                          RULE 1.__COMMITTEE RULES

       (a) The rules of the Senate and House insofar as they are 
applicable, shall govern the Committee. 
       (b) The Committee's rules shall be published in the 
Congressional Record as soon as possible following the Committee's 
organizational meeting in each odd-numbered year. 
       (c) Where these rules require a vote of the members of the 
Committee, polling of members either in writing or by telephone shall 
not be permitted to substitute for a vote taken at a Committee meeting, 
unless the ranking minority member assents to waiver of this 
requirement. 
       (d) Proposals for amending Committee rules shall be sent to all 
members at least one week before final action is taken thereon, unless 
the amendment is made by unanimous consent. 
       
                    RULE 2.__REGULAR COMMITTEE MEETINGS 

        (a) The regular meeting date of the Committee shall be the 
second Wednesday of every month when the House and Senate are in 
session. A regularly scheduled meeting need not be held if there is no 
business to be considered and after appropriate notification is made to 
the ranking minority member. Additional meetings may be called by the 
Chairman, as he may deem necessary or at the request of the majority of 
the members of the Committee. 
       (b) If the Chairman of the Committee is not present at any 
meeting of the Committee, the vice-Chairman or ranking member of the 
majority party on the Committee who is present shall preside at the 
meeting. 
       
                             RULE 3.__QUORUM

       (a) Five members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum, 
which is required for the purpose of closing meetings, promulgating 
Committee orders or changing the rules of the Committee. 
       (b) Three members shall constitute a quorum for purposes of 
taking testimony and receiving evidence. 
       
                             RULE 4.__PROXIES

       (a) Written or telegraphic proxies of Committee members will be 
received and recorded on any vote taken by the Committee, except for 
the purpose of creating a quorum. 
       (b) Proxies will be allowed on any such votes for the purpose of 
recording a member's position on a question only when the absentee 
Committee member has been informed of the question and has 
affirmatively requested that he be recorded. 

                      RULE 5.__OPEN AND CLOSED MEETINGS 

       (a) Each meeting for the transaction of business of the 
Committee shall be open to the public except when the Committee, in 
open session and with a quorum present, determines by roll call vote 
that all or part of the remainder of the meeting on that day shall be 
closed to the public. No such vote shall be required to close a meeting 
that relates solely to internal budget or personnel matters. 
       (b) No person other than members of the Committee, and such 
congressional staff and other representatives as they may authorize, 
shall be present in any business session that has been closed to the 
public. 
       
           RULE 6.__ALTERNATING CHAIRMANSHIP AND VICE-CHAIRMANSHIP BY 
                                     CONGRESSES  

       (a) The Chairmanship and vice-Chairmanship of the Committee 
shall alternate between the House and the Senate by Congresses: The 
senior member of the minority party in the House of Congress opposite 
of that of the Chairman shall be the ranking minority member of the 
Committee. 
       (b) In the event the House and Senate are under different party 
control, the Chairman and vice-Chairman shall represent the majority 
party in their respective Houses. When the Chairman and vice-Chairman 
represent different parties, the vice-Chairman shall also fulfill the 
responsibilities of the ranking minority member as prescribed by these 
rules. 
                       RULE 7.__PARLIAMENTARY QUESTIONS 

       Questions as to the order of business and the procedures of the 
Committee shall in the first instance be decided by the Chairman; 
subject always to an appeal to the Committee. 
       
              RULE 8.__HEARINGS: PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS AND WITNESSES

       (a) The Chairman, in the case of hearings to be conducted by the 
Committee, shall make public announcement of the date, place and 
subject matter of any hearing to be conducted on any measure or matter 
at least one week before the commencement of that hearing unless the 
Committee determines that there is good cause to begin such hearing at 
an earlier date. In the latter event, the Chairman shall make such 
public announcement at the earliest possible date. The staff director 
of the Committee shall promptly notify the Daily Digest of the 
Congressional Record as soon as possible after such public announcement 
is made. 
       (b) So far as practicable, all witnesses appearing before the 
Committee shall file advance written statements of their proposed 
testimony at least 48 hours in advance of their appearance and their 
oral testimony shall be limited to brief summaries. Limited insertions 
or additional germane material will be received for the record, subject 
to the approval of the Chairman. 
       
                         RULE 9.__OFFICIAL HEARING RECORD

       (a) An accurate stenographic record shall be kept of all 
Committee proceedings and actions. Brief supplemental materials when 
required to clarify the transcript may be inserted in the record 
subject to the approval of the Chairman. 
       (b) Each member of the Committee shall be provided with a copy 
of the hearing transcript for the purpose of correcting errors of  
ranscription and grammar, and clarifying questions or remarks. If any 
other person is authorized by a Committee member to make his 
corrections, the staff director shall be so notified. 
       (c) Members who have received unanimous consent to submit 
written questions to witnesses shall be allowed two days within which 
to submit these to the staff director for transmission to the 
witnesses. The record may be held open for a period not to exceed two 
weeks awaiting the responses by witnesses. 
       (d) 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. Testimony received in closed hearings 
shall not be released or included in any report without the approval of 
the Committee. 
       
                    RULE 10.__WITNESSES FOR COMMITTEE HEARINGS 

       (a) Selection of witnesses for Committee hearings shall be made 
by the Committee staff under the direction of the Chairman. A list of 
proposed witnesses shall be submitted to the members of the Committee 
for review sufficiently in advance of the hearings to permit 
suggestions by the Committee members to receive appropriate 
consideration. 
       (b) The Chairman shall provide adequate time for questioning of 
witnesses by all members, including minority members and the rule of 
germaneness shall be enforced in all hearings notified. 
       (c) Whenever a hearing is conducted by the Committee upon any 
measure or matter, the minority on the Committee shall be entitled, 
upon unanimous request to the Chairman before the completion of such 
hearings, to call witnesses selected by the minority to testify with 
respect to the measure or matter during at least one day of hearing 
thereon. 
       
            RULE 11.__CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION FURNISHED TO THE 
                                COMMITTEE 

       The information contained in any books, papers or documents 
furnished to the Committee by any individual, partnership, corporation 
or other legal entity shall, upon the request of the individual, 
partnership, corporation or entity furnishing the same, be maintained 
in strict confidence by the members and staff of the Committee, except 
that any such information may be released outside of executive session 
of the Committee if the release thereof is effected in a manner which 
will not reveal the identity of such individual, partnership, 
corporation or entity in connection with any pending hearing or as a 
part of a duly authorized report of the Committee if such release is 
deemed essential to the performance of the functions of the Committee 
and is in the public interest. 
       
                    RULE 12.__BROADCASTING OF COMMITTEE HEARINGS

       The rule for broadcasting of Committee hearings shall be the 
same as Rule XI, clause 4, of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives. 
       
                           RULE 13.__COMMITTEE REPORTS 

       (a) No Committee report shall be made public or transmitted to 
the Congress without the approval of a majority of the Committee except 
when Congress has adjourned: provided that any member of the Committee 
may make a report supplementary to or dissenting from the majority 
report. Such supplementary or dissenting reports should be as brief as 
possible. 
       (b) Factual reports by the Committee staff may be printed for 
distribution to Committee members and the public only upon 
authorization of the Chairman either with the approval of a majority of 
the Committee or with the consent of the ranking minority member. 
       
                RULE 14.__CONFIDENTIALITY OF COMMITTEE REPORTS 

       No summary of a Committee report, prediction of the contents of 
a report, or statement of conclusions concerning any investigation 
shall be made by a member of the Committee or by any staff member of 
the Committee prior to the issuance of a report of the Committee. 
       
                           RULE 15.__COMMITTEE STAFF 

       (a) The Committee shall have a staff director, selected by the 
Chairman. The staff director shall be an employee of the House of 
Representatives or of the Senate. 
       (b) The Ranking Minority Member may designate an employee of the 
House of Representatives or of the Senate as the minority staff 
director. 
       (c) The staff director, under the general supervision of the 
Chairman, is authorized to deal directly with agencies of the 
Government and with non-Government groups and individuals on behalf of 
the Committee. 
       (d) The Chairman or staff director shall timely notify the 
Ranking Minority Member or the minority staff director of decisions 
made on behalf of the Committee. 
       
                           RULE 16.__COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN 

       The Chairman of the Committee may establish such other 
procedures and take such actions as may be necessary to carry out the 
foregoing rules or to facilitate the effective operation of the 
Committee. Specifically, the Chairman is authorized, during the interim 
periods between meetings of the Committee, to act on all requests 
submitted by any executive department, independent agency, temporary or 
permanent commissions and committees of the Federal Government, the 
Government Printing Office and any other Federal entity, pursuant to 
the requirements of applicable Federal law and regulations. 

                           Joint Committee on Taxation

        CHARLES B. RANGEL, Representative from New York, Chairman
          MAX BAUCUS, Senator from Montana, Vice Chairman

              HOUSE			       	SENATE

FORTNEY PETE STARK, California		JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER IV, West 
SANDER M. LEVIN, Michigan                 Virginia
					KENT CONRAD, North Dakota

         Minority Members		           Minority Senators
          
DAVE CAMP, Michigan			CHUCK GRASSLEY, Iowa
WALLY HERGER, California		ORRIN G. HATCH, Utah

	A description of the Joint Committee on Taxation and the rules 
by which it functions can be found in the United States of America 
Internal Revenue Code, Title 26.  Therefore, the Joint Committee does 
not adopt written rules.

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                                APPENDIX

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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:
       (a) Committee on Agriculture.
       (1) Adulteration of seeds, insect pests, and protection of birds 
and animals in forest reserves.
       (2) Agriculture generally.
       (3) Agricultural and industrial chemistry.
       (4) Agricultural colleges and experiment stations.
       (5) Agricultural economics and research.
       (6) Agricultural education extension services.
       (7) Agricultural production and marketing and stabilization of 
prices of agricultural products, and commodities (not including 
distribution outside of the United States).
       (8) Animal industry and diseases of animals.
       (9) Commodity exchanges.
       (10) Crop insurance and soil conservation.
       (11) Dairy industry.
       (12) Entomology and plant quarantine.
       (13) Extension of farm credit and farm security.
       (14) Inspection of livestock, poultry, meat products, and 
seafood and seafood products.
       (15) Forestry in general and forest reserves other than those 
created from the public domain.
       (16) Human nutrition and home economics.
       (17) Plant industry, soils, and agricultural engineering.
       (18) Rural electrification.
       (19) Rural development.
       (20) Water conservation related to activities of the Department 
of Agriculture.
       (b) Committee on Appropriations.
       (1) Appropriation of the revenue for the support of the 
Government.
       (2) Rescissions of appropriations contained in appropriation 
Acts.
       (3) Transfers of unexpended balances.
       (4) Bills and joint resolutions reported by other committees 
that provide new entitlement authority as defined in section 3(9) of 
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and referred to the committee 
under clause 4(a)(2).
       (c) Committee on Armed Services.
       (1) Ammunition depots; forts; arsenals; and Army, Navy, and Air 
Force reservations and establishments.
       (2) Common defense generally.
       (3) Conservation, development, and use of naval petroleum and 
oil shale reserves.
       (4) The Department of Defense generally, including the 
Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, generally.
       (5) Interoceanic canals generally, including measures relating 
to the maintenance, operation, and administration of interoceanic 
canals.
       (6) Merchant Marine Academy and State Maritime Academies.
       (7) Military applications of nuclear energy.
       (8) Tactical intelligence and intelligence-related activities of 
the Department of Defense.
       (9) National security aspects of merchant marine, including 
financial assistance for the construction and operation of vessels, 
maintenance of the U.S. shipbuilding and ship repair industrial base, 
cabotage, cargo preference, and merchant marine officers and seamen as 
these matters relate to the national security.
       (10) Pay, promotion, retirement, and other benefits and 
privileges of members of the armed forces.
       (11) Scientific research and development in support of the armed 
services.
       (12) Selective service.
       (13) Size and composition of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and 
Air Force.
       (14) Soldiers' and sailors' homes.
       (15) Strategic and critical materials necessary for the common 
defense.
       (d) Committee on the Budget.
       (1) Concurrent resolutions on the budget (as defined in section 
3(4) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974), other matters required 
to be referred to the committee under titles III and IV of that Act, 
and other measures setting forth appropriate levels of budget totals 
for the United States Government.
       (2) Budget process generally.
       (3) Establishment, extension, and enforcement of special 
controls over the Federal budget, including the budgetary treatment of 
offbudget Federal agencies and measures providing exemption from 
reduction under any order issued under part C of the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
       (e) Committee on Education and Labor.
       (1) Child labor.
       (2) Gallaudet University and Howard University and Hospital.
       (3) Convict labor and the entry of goods made by convicts into 
interstate commerce.
       (4) Food programs for children in schools.
       (5) Labor standards and statistics.
       (6) Education or labor generally.
       (7) Mediation and arbitration of labor disputes.
       (8) Regulation or prevention of importation of foreign laborers 
under contract.
       (9) Workers' compensation.
       (10) Vocational rehabilitation.
       (11) Wages and hours of labor.
       (12) Welfare of miners.
       (13) Work incentive programs.
       (f) Committee on Energy and Commerce.
       (1) Biomedical research and development.
       (2) Consumer affairs and consumer protection.
       (3) Health and health facilities (except health care supported 
by payroll deductions).
       (4) Interstate energy compacts.
       (5) Interstate and foreign commerce generally.
       (6) Exploration, production, storage, supply, marketing, 
pricing, and regulation of energy resources, including all fossil 
fuels, solar energy, and other unconventional or renewable energy 
resources.
       (7)Conservation of energy resources.
       (8) Energy information generally.
       (9) The generation and marketing of power (except by federally 
chartered or Federal regional power marketing authorities); reliability 
and interstate transmission of, and ratemaking for, all power; and 
siting of generation facilities (except the installation of 
interconnections between Government waterpower projects).
       (10) General management of the Department of Energy and 
management and all functions of the Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission.
       (11) National energy policy generally.
       (12) Public health and quarantine.
       (13) Regulation of the domestic nuclear energy industry, 
including regulation of research and development reactors and nuclear 
regulatory research.
       (14) Regulation of interstate and foreign communications.
       (15) Travel and tourism.
       The committee shall have the same jurisdiction with respect to 
regulation of nuclear facilities and of use of nuclear energy as it has 
with respect to regulation of nonnuclear facilities and of use of 
nonnuclear energy.
       (g) Committee on Financial Services.
       (1) Banks and banking, including deposit insurance and Federal 
monetary policy.
       (2) Economic stabilization, defense production, renegotiation, 
and control of the price of commodities, rents, and services.
       (3) Financial aid to commerce and industry (other than 
transportation).
       (4) Insurance generally.
       (5) International finance.
       (6) International financial and monetary organizations.
       (7) Money and credit, including currency and the issuance of 
notes and redemption thereof; gold and silver, including the coinage 
thereof; valuation and revaluation of the dollar.
       (8) Public and private housing.
       (9) Securities and exchanges.
       (10) Urban development.
       (h) Committee on Foreign Affairs.
       (1) Relations of the United States with foreign nations 
generally.
       (2) Acquisition of land and buildings for embassies and 
legations in foreign countries.
       (3) Establishment of boundary lines between the United States 
and foreign nations.
       (4) Export controls, including nonproliferation of nuclear 
technology and nuclear hardware.
       (5) Foreign loans.
       (6) International commodity
       agreements (other than those involving sugar), including all 
agreements for cooperation in the export of nuclear technology and 
nuclear hardware.
       (7) International conferences and congresses.
       (8) International education.
       (9) Intervention abroad and declarations of war.
       (10) Diplomatic service.
       (11) Measures to foster commercial intercourse with foreign 
nations and to safeguard American business interests abroad.
       (12) International economic policy.
       (13) Neutrality.
       (14) Protection of American citizens abroad and expatriation.
       (15) The American National Red Cross.
       (16) Trading with the enemy.
       (17) United Nations organizations.
       (i) Committee on Homeland Security.
       (1) Overall homeland security policy.
       (2) Organization and administration of the Department of 
Homeland Security.
       (3) Functions of the Department of Homeland Security relating to 
the following:
       (A) Border and port security
       (except immigration policy and non-border enforcement).
       (B) Customs (except customs revenue).
       (C) Integration, analysis, and dissemination of homeland 
security information.
       (D) Domestic preparedness for and collective response to 
terrorism.
       (E) Research and development.
       (F) Transportation security.
       (j) Committee on House Administration.
       (1) Appropriations from accounts for committee salaries and 
expenses (except for the Committee on Appropriations); House 
Information Resources; and allowance and expenses of Members, 
Delegates, the Resident Commissioner, officers, and administrative 
offices of the House.
       (2) Auditing and settling of all accounts described in 
subparagraph (1).
       (3) Employment of persons by the House, including staff for 
Members, Delegates, the Resident Commissioner, and committees; and 
reporters of debates, subject to rule VI.
       (4) Except as provided in paragraph (r)(11), the Library of 
Congress, including management thereof; the House Library; statuary and 
pictures; acceptance or purchase of works of art for the Capitol; the 
Botanic Garden; and purchase of books and manuscripts.
       (5) The Smithsonian Institution and the incorporation of similar 
institutions (except as provided in paragraph (r)(11)).
       (6) Expenditure of accounts described in subparagraph (1).
       (7) Franking Commission.
       (8) Printing and correction of the Congressional Record.
       (9) Accounts of the House generally.
       (10) Assignment of office space for Members, Delegates, the 
Resident Commissioner, and committees.
       (11) Disposition of useless executive papers.
       (12) Election of the President, Vice President, Members, 
Senators, Delegates, or the Resident Commissioner; corrupt practices; 
contested elections; credentials and qualifications; and Federal 
elections generally.
       (13) Services to the House, including the House Restaurant, 
parking facilities, and administration of the House Office Buildings 
and of the House wing of the Capitol.
       (14) Travel of Members, Delegates, and the Resident 
Commissioner.
       (15) Raising, reporting, and use of campaign contributions for 
candidates for office of Representative, of Delegate, and of Resident 
Commissioner.
       (16) Compensation, retirement, and other benefits of the 
Members, Delegates, the Resident Commissioner, officers, and employees 
of Congress.
       (k) Committee on the Judiciary.
       (1) The judiciary and judicial proceedings, civil and criminal.
       (2) Administrative practice and procedure.
       (3) Apportionment of Representatives.
       (4) Bankruptcy, mutiny, espionage, and counterfeiting.
       (5) Civil liberties.
       (6) Constitutional amendments.
       (7) Criminal law enforcement.
       (8) Federal courts and judges, and local courts in the 
Territories and possessions.
       (9) Immigration policy and nonborder enforcement.
       (10) Interstate compacts generally.
       (11) Claims against the United States.
       (12) Meetings of Congress; attendance of Members, Delegates, and 
the Resident Commissioner; and their acceptance of incompatible 
offices.
       (13) National penitentiaries.
       (14) Patents, the Patent and Trademark Office, copyrights, and 
trademarks.
       (15) Presidential succession.
       (16) Protection of trade and commerce against unlawful 
restraints and monopolies.
       (17) Revision and codification of the Statutes of the United 
States.
       (18) State and territorial boundary lines.
       (19) Subversive activities affecting the internal security of 
the United States.
       (l) Committee on Natural Resources.
       (1) Fisheries and wildlife, including research, restoration, 
refuges, and conservation.
       (2) Forest reserves and national parks created from the public 
domain.
       (3) Forfeiture of land grants and alien ownership, including 
alien ownership of mineral lands.
       (4) Geological Survey.
       (5) International fishing agreements.
       (6) Interstate compacts relating to apportionment of waters for 
irrigation purposes.
       (7) Irrigation and reclamation, including water supply for 
reclamation projects and easements of public lands for irrigation 
projects; and acquisition of private lands when necessary to complete 
irrigation projects.
       (8) Native Americans generally, including the care and allotment 
of Native American lands and general and special measures relating to 
claims that are paid out of Native American funds.
       (9) Insular possessions of the United States generally (except 
those affecting the revenue and appropriations).
       (10) Military parks and battlefields, national cemeteries 
administered by the Secretary of the Interior, parks within the 
District of Columbia, and the erection of monuments to the memory of 
individuals.
       (11) Mineral land laws and claims and entries thereunder.
       (12) Mineral resources of public lands.
       (13) Mining interests generally.
       (14) Mining schools and experimental stations.
       (15) Marine affairs, including coastal zone management (except 
for measures relating to oil and other pollution of navigable waters).
       (16) Oceanography.
       (17) Petroleum conservation on public lands and conservation of 
the radium supply in the United States.
       (18) Preservation of prehistoric ruins and objects of interest 
on the public domain.
       (19) Public lands generally, including entry, easements, and 
grazing thereon.
       (20) Relations of the United States with Native Americans and 
Native American tribes.
       (21) Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline (except ratemaking).
       (m) Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
       (1) Federal civil service, including intergovernmental 
personnel; and the status of officers and employees of the United 
States, including their compensation, classification, and retirement.
       (2) Municipal affairs of the District of Columbia in general 
(other than appropriations).
       (3) Federal paperwork reduction.
       (4) Government management and accounting measures generally.
       (5) Holidays and celebrations.
       (6) Overall economy, efficiency, and management of government 
operations and activities, including Federal procurement.
       (7) National archives.
       (8) Population and demography generally, including the Census.
       (9) Postal service generally, including transportation of the 
mails.
       (10) Public information and records.
       (11) Relationship of the Federal Government to the States and 
municipalities generally.
       (12) Reorganizations in the executive branch of the Government.
       (n) Committee on Rules.
       (1) Rules and joint rules (other than those relating to the Code 
of Official Conduct) and the order of business of the House.
       (2) Recesses and final adjournments of Congress.
       (o) Committee on Science and Technology.
       (1) All energy research, development, and demonstration, and 
projects therefor, and all federally owned or operated nonmilitary 
energy laboratories.
       (2) Astronautical research and development, including resources, 
personnel, equipment, and facilities.
       (3) Civil aviation research and development.
       (4) Environmental research and development.
       (5) Marine research.
       (6) Commercial application of energy technology.
       (7) National Institute of Standards and Technology, 
standardization of weights and measures, and the metric system.
       (8) National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
       (9) National Space Council.
       (10) National Science Foundation.
       (11) National Weather Service.
       (12) Outer space, including exploration and control thereof.
       (13) Science scholarships.
       (14) Scientific research, development, and demonstration, and 
projects therefor.
       (p) Committee on Small Business.
       (1) Assistance to and protection of small business, including 
financial aid, regulatory flexibility, and paperwork reduction.
       (2) Participation of small-business enterprises in Federal 
procurement and Government contracts.
       (q) Committee on Standards of Official Conduct.
       The Code of Official Conduct.
       (r) Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
       (1) Coast Guard, including lifesaving service, lighthouses, 
lightships, ocean derelicts, and the Coast Guard Academy.
       (2) Federal management of emergencies and natural disasters.
       (3) Flood control and improvement of rivers and harbors.
       (4) Inland waterways.
       (5) Inspection of merchant marine vessels, lights and signals, 
lifesaving equipment, and fire protection on such vessels.
       (6) Navigation and laws relating thereto, including pilotage.
       (7) Registering and licensing of vessels and small boats.
       (8) Rules and international arrangements to prevent collisions 
at sea.
       (9) The Capitol Building and the Senate and House Office 
Buildings.
       (10) Construction or maintenance of roads and post roads (other 
than appropriations therefor).
       (11) Construction or reconstruction, maintenance, and care of 
buildings and grounds of the Botanic Garden, the Library of Congress, 
and the Smithsonian Institution.
       (12) Merchant marine (except for national security aspects 
thereof).
       (13) Purchase of sites and construction of post offices, 
customhouses,
       Federal courthouses, and Government buildings within the 
District of Columbia.
       (14) Oil and other pollution of navigable waters, including 
inland, coastal, and ocean waters.
       (15) Marine affairs, including coastal zone management, as they 
relate to oil and other pollution of navigable waters.
       (16) Public buildings and occupied or improved grounds of the 
United States generally.
       (17) Public works for the benefit of navigation, including 
bridges and dams (other than international bridges and dams).
       (18) Related transportation regulatory agencies (except the 
Transportation Security Administration).
       (19) Roads and the safety thereof.
       (20) Transportation, including civil aviation, railroads, water 
transportation, transportation safety (except automobile safety and 
transportation security functions of the Department of Homeland 
Security), transportation infrastructure, transportation labor, and 
railroad retirement and unemployment (except revenue measures related 
thereto).
       (21) Water power.
       (s) Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
       (1) Veterans' measures generally.
       (2) Cemeteries of the United States in which veterans of any war 
or conflict are or may be buried, whether in the United States or 
abroad (except cemeteries administered by the Secretary of the 
Interior).
       (3) Compensation, vocational rehabilitation, and education of 
veterans.
       (4) Life insurance issued by the Government on account of 
service in the Armed Forces.
       (5) Pensions of all the wars of the United States, general and 
special.
       (6) Readjustment of servicemembers to civil life.
       (7) Servicemembers' civil relief.
       (8) Veterans' hospitals, medical care, and treatment of 
veterans.
       (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 of__
       (A) the application, administration, execution, and 
effectiveness of Federal laws; and
       (B) conditions and circumstances that may indicate the necessity 
or desirability of enacting new or additional legislation; and
       (2) its formulation, consideration, and enactment of changes in 
Federal laws, and of such additional legislation as may be necessary or 
appropriate.  
       (b)(1) In order to determine whether laws and programs 
addressing subjects within the jurisdiction of a committee are being 
implemented and carried out in accordance with the intent of Congress 
and whether they should be continued, curtailed, or eliminated, each 
standing committee (other than the Committee on Appropriations) shall 
review and study on a continuing basis__
       (A) the application, administration, execution, and 
effectiveness of laws and programs addressing subjects within its 
jurisdiction;
       (B) the organization and operation of Federal agencies and 
entities having responsibilities for the administration and execution 
of laws and programs addressing subjects within its jurisdiction;
       (C) any conditions or circumstances that may indicate the 
necessity or desirability of enacting new or additional legislation 
addressing subjects within its jurisdiction (whether or not a bill or 
resolution has been introduced with respect thereto); and
       (D) future research and forecasting on subjects within its 
jurisdiction.
       (2) Each committee to which subparagraph (1) applies having more 
than 20 members shall establish an oversight subcommittee, or require 
its subcommittees to conduct oversight in their respective 
jurisdictions, to assist in carrying out its responsibilities under 
this clause. The establishment of an oversight subcommittee does not 
limit the responsibility of a subcommittee with legislative 
jurisdiction in carrying out its oversight responsibilities.
       (c) Each standing committee shall review and study on a 
continuing basis the impact or probable impact of tax policies 
affecting subjects within its jurisdiction as described in clauses 1 
and 3.
       (d)(1) Not later than February 15 of the first session of a 
Congress, each standing committee shall, in a meeting that is open to 
the public and with a quorum present, adopt its oversight plan for that 
Congress. Such plan shall be submitted simultaneously to the Committee 
on Oversight and Government Reform and to the Committee on House 
Administration. In developing its plan each committee shall, to the 
maximum extent feasible__
       (A) consult with other committees that have jurisdiction over 
the same or related laws, programs, or agencies within its jurisdiction 
with the objective of ensuring maximum coordination and cooperation 
among committees when conducting reviews of such laws, programs, or 
agencies and include in its plan an explanation of steps that have been 
or will be taken to ensure such coordination and cooperation;
       (B) review specific problems with Federal rules, regulations, 
statutes, and court decisions that are ambiguous, arbitrary, or 
nonsensical, or that impose severe financial burdens on individuals; 
       (C) give priority consideration to including in its plan the 
review of those laws, programs, or agencies operating under permanent 
budget authority or permanent statutory authority;
       (D) have a view toward ensuring that all significant laws, 
programs, or agencies within its jurisdiction are subject to review 
every 10 years; and
       (E) have a view toward insuring against duplication of Federal 
programs.
       (2) Not later than March 31 in the first session of a Congress, 
after consultation with the Speaker, the Majority Leader, and the 
Minority Leader, the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform shall 
report to the House the oversight plans submitted by committees 
together with any recommendations that it, or the House leadership 
group described above, may make to ensure the most effective 
coordination of oversight plans and otherwise to achieve the objectives 
of this clause.
       (e) The Speaker, with the approval of the House, may appoint 
special ad hoc oversight committees for the purpose of reviewing 
specific matters within the jurisdiction of two or more standing 
committees.
Special oversight functions
       3. (a) The Committee on Appropriations shall conduct such 
studies and examinations of the organization and operation of executive 
departments and other executive agencies (including an agency the 
majority of the stock of which is owned by the United States) as it 
considers necessary to assist it in the determination of matters within 
its jurisdiction.
       (b) The Committee on Armed Services shall review and study on a 
continuing basis laws, programs, and Government activities relating to 
international arms control and disarmament and the education of 
military dependents in schools.
       (c) The Committee on the Budget shall study on a continuing 
basis the effect on budget outlays of relevant existing and proposed 
legislation and report the results of such studies to the House on a 
recurring basis.
       (d) The Committee on Education and Labor shall review, study, 
and coordinate on a continuing basis laws, programs, and Government 
activities relating to domestic educational programs and institutions 
and programs of student assistance within the jurisdiction of other 
committees.
       (e) The Committee on Energy and Commerce shall review and study 
on a continuing basis laws, programs, and Government activities 
relating to nuclear and other energy and nonmilitary nuclear energy 
research and development including the disposal of nuclear waste.
       (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.  
       (g)(1) The Committee on Homeland Security shall review and study 
on a continuing basis all Government activities relating to homeland 
security, including the interaction of all departments and agencies 
with the Department of Homeland Security.
       (2) In addition, the Committee shall review and study on a 
primary and continuing basis all Government activities, programs and 
organizations related to homeland security that fall within its primary 
legislative jurisdiction.
       (h) The Committee on Natural Resources shall review and study on 
a continuing basis laws, programs, and Government activities relating 
to Native Americans.
       (i) The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform shall 
review and study on a continuing basis the operation of Government 
activities at all levels with a view to determining their economy and 
efficiency.
       (j) The Committee on Rules shall review and study on a 
continuing basis the congressional budget process, and the committee 
shall report its findings and recommendations to the House from time to 
time.
       (k)The Committee on Science and Technology shall review and 
study on a continuing basis laws, programs, and Government activities 
relating to nonmilitary research and development.
       (l) The Committee on Small Business shall study and investigate 
on a continuing basis the problems of all types of small business.
       (m) The Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence shall review 
and study on a continuing basis laws, programs, and activities of the 
intelligence community and shall review and study on an exclusive basis 
the sources and methods of entities described in clause 11(b)(1)(A).
Additional functions of committees
       4. (a)(1)(A) The Committee on Appropriations shall, within 30 
days after the transmittal of the Budget to Congress each year, hold 
hearings on the Budget as a whole with particular reference to__
       (i) the basic recommendations and budgetary policies of the 
President in the presentation of the Budget; and
       (ii) the fiscal, financial, and economic assumptions used as 
bases in arriving at total estimated expenditures and receipts.
       (B) In holding hearings under subdivision (A), the committee 
shall receive testimony from the Secretary of the Treasury, the 
Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the Chairman of the 
Council of Economic Advisers, and such other persons as the committee 
may desire.
       (C) A hearing under subdivision (A), or any part thereof, shall 
be held in open session, except when the committee, in open session and 
with a quorum present, determines by record vote that the testimony to 
be taken at that hearing on that day may be related to a matter of 
national security.  The committee may by the same procedure close one 
subsequent day of hearing.  A transcript of all such hearings shall be 
printed and a copy thereof furnished to each Member, Delegate, and the 
Resident Commissioner.
       (D) A hearing under subdivision (A), or any part thereof, may be 
held before a joint meeting of the committee and the Committee on 
Appropriations of the Senate in accordance with such procedures as the 
two committees jointly may determine.
       (2) Pursuant to section 401(b)(2) of the Congressional Budget 
Act of 1974, when a committee reports a bill or joint resolution that 
provides new entitlement authority as defined in section 3(9) of that 
Act, and enactment of the bill or joint resolution, as reported, would 
cause a breach of the committee's pertinent allocation of new budget 
authority under section 302(a) of that Act, the bill or joint 
resolution may be referred to the Committee on Appropriations with 
instructions to report it with recommendations (which may include an 
amendment limiting the total amount of new entitlement authority 
provided in the bill or joint resolution). If the Committee on 
Appropriations fails to report a bill or joint resolution so referred 
within 15 calendar days (not counting any day on which the House is not 
in session), the committee automatically shall be discharged from 
consideration of the bill or joint resolution, and the bill or joint 
resolution shall be placed on the appropriate calendar.
       (3) In addition, the Committee on Appropriations shall study on 
a continuing basis those provisions of law that (on the first day of 
the first fiscal year for which the congressional budget process is 
effective) provide spending authority or permanent budget authority and 
shall report to the House from time to time its recommendations for 
terminating or modifying such provisions.
       (4) In the manner provided by section 302 of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974, the Committee on Appropriations (after consulting 
with the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate) shall subdivide any 
allocations made to it in the joint explanatory statement accompanying 
the conference report on such concurrent resolution, and promptly 
report the subdivisions to the House as soon as practicable after a 
concurrent resolution on the budget for a fiscal year is agreed to.
       (5)(A) There is established a Select Intelligence Oversight 
Panel of the Committee on Appropriations (hereinafter in this paragraph 
referred to as the ``select panel''). The select panel shall be 
composed of not more than 13 Members, Delegates, or the Resident 
Commissioner appointed by the Speaker, of whom not more than eight may 
be from the same political party. The select panel shall include the 
chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Appropriations, 
the chair and ranking minority member of its Subcommittee on Defense, 
six additional members of the Committee on Appropriations, and three 
members of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
       (B) The Speaker shall designate one member of the select panel 
as its chair and one member as its ranking minority member.
       (C) Each member on the select panel shall be treated as though a 
member of the Committee on Appropriations for purposes of the select 
panel.
       (D) The select panel shall review and study on a continuing 
basis budget requests for and execution of intelligence activities; 
make recommendations to relevant subcommittees of the Committee on 
Appropriations; and, on an annual basis, prepare a report to the 
Defense Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations containing 
budgetary and oversight observations and recommendations for use by 
such subcommittee in preparation of the classified annex to the bill 
making appropriations for the Department of Defense.
       (E) Rule XI shall apply to the select panel in the same manner 
as a subcommittee (except for clause 2(m)(1)(B) of that rule).
       (F) A subpoena of the Committee on Appropriations or its 
Subcommittee on Defense may specify terms of return to the select 
panel.
       (b) The Committee on the Budget shall__
       (1) review on a continuing basis the conduct by the 
Congressional Budget Office of its functions and duties;
       (2) hold hearings and receive testimony from Members, Senators, 
Delegates, the Resident Commissioner, and such appropriate 
representatives of Federal departments and agencies, the general 
public, and national organizations as it considers desirable in 
developing concurrent resolutions on the budget for each fiscal year;
       (3) make all reports required of it by the Congressional Budget 
Act of 1974;
       (4) study on a continuing basis those provisions of law that 
exempt Federal agencies or any of their activities or outlays from 
inclusion in the Budget of the United States Government, and report to 
the House from time to time its recommendations for terminating or 
modifying such provisions;
       (5) study on a continuing basis proposals designed to improve 
and facilitate the congressional budget process, and report to the 
House from time to time the results of such studies, together with its 
recommendations; and
       (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.
       (1) The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform shall__
       (A) receive and examine reports of the Comptroller General of 
the United States and submit to the House such recommendations as it 
considers necessary or desirable in connection with the subject matter 
of the reports;
       (B) evaluate the effects of laws enacted to reorganize the 
legislative and executive branches of the Government; and
       (C) study intergovernmental relationships between the United 
States and the States and municipalities and between the United States 
and international organizations of which the United States is a member.
       (2) In addition to its duties under subparagraph (1), the 
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform may at any time conduct 
investigations of any matter without regard to clause 1, 2, 3, or this 
clause conferring jurisdiction over the matter to another standing 
committee. The findings and recommendations of the committee in such an 
investigation shall be made available to any other standing committee 
having jurisdiction over the matter involved.
       (3)(A) The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform may 
adopt a rule authorizing and regulating the taking of depositions by a 
member or counsel of the committee, including pursuant to subpoena 
under clause 2(m) of rule XI (which hereby is made applicable for such 
purpose).
       (B) A rule adopted by the committee pursuant to this 
subparagraph__
       (i) may provide that a deponent be directed to subscribe an oath 
or affirmation before a person authorized by law to administer the 
same; and
       (ii) shall ensure that the minority members and staff of the 
committee are accorded equitable treatment with respect to notice of 
and a reasonable opportunity to participate in any proceeding conducted 
thereunder.
       (C) Information secured pursuant to the authority described in 
subdivision (A) shall retain the character of discovery until offered 
for admission in evidence before the committee, at which time any 
proper objection shall be timely.
       (d)(1) The Committee on House Administration shall__
       (A) provide policy direction for the Inspector General and 
oversight of the Clerk, Sergeant-at-Arms, Chief Administrative Officer, 
and Inspector General;
       (B) oversee the management of services provided to the House by 
the Architect of the Capitol, except those services that lie within the 
jurisdiction of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 
under clause 1(r);
       (C) have the function of accepting on behalf of the House a 
gift, except as otherwise provided by law, if the gift does not involve 
a duty, burden, or condition, or is not made dependent on some future 
performance by the House; and
       (D) promulgate regulations to carry out subdivision (c).
       (2) An employing office of the House may enter into a settlement 
of a complaint under the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 that 
provides for the payment of funds only after receiving the joint 
approval of the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on 
House Administration concerning the amount of such payment.  
       (e)(1) Each standing committee shall, in its consideration of 
all public bills and public joint resolutions within its jurisdiction, 
ensure that appropriations for continuing programs and activities of 
the Federal Government and the government of the District of Columbia 
will be made annually to the maximum extent feasible and consistent 
with the nature, requirement, and objective of the programs and 
activities involved. In this subparagraph programs and activities of 
the Federal Government and the government of the District of Columbia 
includes programs and activities of any department, agency, 
establishment, wholly owned Government corporation, or instrumentality 
of the Federal Government or of the government of the District of 
Columbia.  
       (2) Each standing committee shall review from time to time each 
continuing program within its jurisdiction for which appropriations are 
not made annually to ascertain whether the program should be modified 
to provide for annual appropriations.
Budget Act responsibilities
       (f)(1) Each standing committee shall submit to the Committee on 
the Budget not later than six weeks after the submission of the budget 
by the President, or at such time as the Committee on the Budget may 
request__
       (A) its views and estimates with respect to all matters to be 
set forth in the concurrent resolution on the budget for the ensuing 
fiscal year that are within its jurisdiction or functions; and
       (B) an estimate of the total amounts of new budget authority, 
and budget outlays resulting therefrom, to be provided or authorized in 
all bills and resolutions within its jurisdiction that it intends to be 
effective during that fiscal year.
       (2) The views and estimates submitted by the Committee on Ways 
and Means under subparagraph (1) shall include a specific 
recommendation, made after holding public hearings, as to the 
appropriate level of the public debt that should be set forth in the 
concurrent resolution on the budget.
Election and membership of standing committees
       5. (a)(1) The standing committees specified in clause 1 shall be 
elected by the House within seven calendar days after the commencement 
of each Congress, from nominations submitted by the respective party 
caucus or conference.  A resolution proposing to change the composition 
of a standing committee shall be privileged if offered by direction of 
the party caucus or conference concerned.
       (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 from the Committee 
on Appropriations, five from the Committee on Ways and Means, and one 
from the Committee on Rules;
       (ii) one Member designated by the elected leadership of the 
majority party; and
       (iii) one Member designated by the elected leadership of the 
minority party.
       (B) Except as permitted by subdivision (c), a member of the 
Committee on the Budget other than one described in subdivision (A)(ii) 
or (A)(iii) may not serve on the committee during more than four 
Congresses in a period of six successive Congresses (disregarding for 
this purpose any service for less than a full session in a Congress).
       (C) A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may exceed the 
limitation of subdivision (B) if elected to serve a second consecutive 
Congress as the chair or a second consecutive Congress as the ranking 
minority member.  
       (3)(A) The Committee on Standards of Official Conduct shall be 
composed of 10 members, five from the majority party and five from the 
minority party.
       (B) Except as permitted by subdivision (c), a member of the 
Committee on Standards of Official Conduct may not serve on the 
committee during more than three Congresses in a period of five 
successive Congresses (disregarding for this purpose any service for 
less than a full session in a Congress).
       (C) A member of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct 
may serve on the committee during a fourth Congress in a period of five 
successive Congresses only as either the chair or the ranking minority 
member of the committee.
       (4)(A) At the beginning of a Congress, the Speaker or a designee 
and the Minority Leader or a designee each shall name 10 Members, 
Delegates, or the Resident Commissioner from the respective party of 
such individual who are not members of the Committee on Standards of 
Official Conduct to be available to serve on investigative 
subcommittees of that committee during that Congress. The lists of 
Members, Delegates, or the Resident Commissioner so named shall be 
announced to the House.
       (B) Whenever the chair and the ranking minority member of the 
Committee on Standards of Official Conduct jointly determine that 
Members, Delegates, or the Resident Commissioner named under 
subdivision (A) should be assigned to serve on an investigative 
subcommittee of that committee, each of them shall select an equal 
number of such Members, Delegates, or Resident Commissioner from the 
respective party of such individual to serve on that subcommittee.
       (b)(1) Membership on a standing committee during the course of a 
Congress shall be contingent on continuing membership in the party 
caucus or conference that nominated the Member, Delegate, or Resident 
Commissioner concerned for election to such committee. Should a Member, 
Delegate, or Resident Commissioner cease to be a member of a particular 
party caucus or conference, that Member, Delegate, or Resident 
Commissioner shall automatically cease to be a member of each standing 
committee to which elected on the basis of nomination by that caucus or 
conference. The chair of the relevant party caucus or conference shall 
notify the Speaker whenever a Member, Delegate, or Resident 
Commissioner ceases to be a member of that caucus or conference.  The 
Speaker shall notify the chair of each affected committee that the 
election of such Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner to the 
committee is automatically vacated under this subparagraph.
       (2)(A) Except as specified in subdivision (B), a Member, 
Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may not serve simultaneously as a 
member of more than two standing committees or more than four 
subcommittees of the standing committees.
       (B)(i) Ex officio service by a chair or ranking minority member 
of a committee on each of its subcommittees under a committee rule does 
not count against the limitation on subcommittee service.
       (ii) Service on an investigative subcommittee of the Committee 
on Standards of Official Conduct under paragraph (a)(4) does not count 
against the limitation on subcommittee service.
       (iii) Any other exception to the limitations in subdivision (A) 
may be approved by the House on the recommendation of the relevant 
party caucus or conference.
       (C) In this subparagraph the term ``subcommittee'' includes a 
panel (other than a special oversight panel of the Committee on Armed 
Services), task force, special subcommittee, or other subunit of a 
standing committee that is established for a cumulative period longer 
than six months in a Congress.
       (c) One of the members of each standing committee shall be 
elected by the House, on the nomination of the majority party caucus or 
conference, as chair thereof. In the absence of the member serving as 
chair, the member next in rank (and so on, as often as the case shall 
happen) shall act as chair. Rank shall be determined by the order 
members are named in resolutions electing them to the committee. In the 
case of a vacancy in the elected chair of a committee, the House shall 
elect another chair.
       (d)(1) Except as permitted by subparagraph (2), a committee may 
have not more than five subcommittees.  
       (2) A committee that maintains a subcommittee on oversight may 
have not more than six subcommittees. The Committee on Appropriations 
may have not more than 13 subcommittees.  The Committee on Oversight 
and Government Reform may have not more than seven subcommittees.
       (e) The House shall fill a vacancy on a standing committee by 
election on the nomination of the respective party caucus or 
conference.
Expense resolutions
       6. (a) Whenever a committee, commission, or other entity (other 
than the Committee on Appropriations) is granted authorization for the 
payment of its expenses (including staff salaries) for a Congress, such 
authorization initially shall be procured by one primary expense 
resolution reported by the Committee on House Administration.  A 
primary expense resolution may include a reserve fund for unanticipated 
expenses of committees. An amount from such a reserve fund may be 
allocated to a committee only by the approval of the Committee on House 
Administration.  A primary expense resolution reported to the House may 
not be considered in the House unless a printed report thereon was 
available on the previous calendar day. For the information of the 
House, such report shall__
       (1) state the total amount of the funds to be provided to the 
committee, commission, or other entity under the primary expense 
resolution for all anticipated activities and programs of the 
committee, commission, or other entity; and
       (2) to the extent practicable, contain such general statements 
regarding the estimated foreseeable 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 
chair of each committee shall ensure that sufficient staff is made 
available to each subcommittee to carry out its responsibilities under 
the rules of the committee and that the minority party is treated 
fairly in the appointment of such staff.
       (e) Funds authorized for a committee under this clause and 
clauses 7 and 8 are for expenses incurred in the activities of the 
committee.
Interim funding
       7. (a) For the period beginning at noon on January 3 and ending 
at midnight on March 31 in each odd-numbered year, such sums as may be 
necessary shall be paid out of the committee salary and expense 
accounts of the House for continuance of necessary investigations and 
studies by__
       (1) each standing and select committee established by these 
rules; and
       (2) except as specified in paragraph (b), each select committee 
established by resolution.
       (b) In the case of the first session of a Congress, amounts 
shall be made available for a select committee established by 
resolution in the preceding Congress only if__
       (1) a resolution proposing to reestablish such select committee 
is introduced in the present Congress; and
       (2) the House has not adopted a resolution of the preceding 
Congress providing for termination of funding for investigations and 
studies by such select committee.
       (c) Each committee described in paragraph (a) shall be entitled 
for each month during the period specified in paragraph (a) to 9 
percent (or such lesser percentage as may be determined by the 
Committee on House Administration) of the total annualized amount made 
available under expense resolutions for such committee in the preceding 
session of Congress.
       (d) Payments under this clause shall be made on vouchers 
authorized by the committee involved, signed by the chair of the 
committee, except as provided in paragraph (e), and approved by the 
Committee on House Administration.
       (e) Notwithstanding any provision of law, rule of the House, or 
other authority, from noon on January 3 of the first session of a 
Congress until the election by the House of the committee concerned in 
that Congress, payments under this clause shall be made on vouchers 
signed by the ranking member of the committee as it was constituted at 
the expiration of the preceding Congress who is a member of the 
majority party in the present Congress.  
       (f)(1) The authority of a committee to incur expenses under this 
clause shall expire upon adoption by the House of a primary expense 
resolution for the committee.
       (2) Amounts made available under this clause shall be expended 
in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Committee on House 
Administration.
       (3) This clause shall be effective only insofar as it is not 
inconsistent with a resolution reported by the Committee on House 
Administration and adopted by the House after the adoption of these 
rules.
Travel
       8.(a) Local currencies owned by the United States shall be made 
available to the committee and its employees engaged in carrying out 
their official duties outside the United States or its territories or 
possessions. Appropriated funds, including those authorized under this 
clause and clause 6, 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 the expenses of 
such individual 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) incurred during that day.
       (3) Each member or employee of a committee shall make to the 
chair 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 chair 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 the expenses of 
such individual 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) 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 chair 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 chair 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 chair and that does not exceed the 
maximum rate of pay as in effect from time to time under applicable 
provisions of law.
       (d) Subject to appropriations hereby authorized, the Committee 
on Appropriations may appoint by majority vote such staff as it 
determines to be necessary (in addition to the clerk of the committee 
and assistants for the minority). The staff appointed under this 
paragraph, other than minority assistants, shall possess such 
qualifications as the committee may prescribe.
       (e) A committee may not appoint to its staff an expert or other 
personnel detailed or assigned from a department or agency of the 
Government except with the written permission of the Committee on House 
Administration.
       (f) If a request for the appointment of a minority professional 
staff member under paragraph (a) is made when no vacancy exists for 
such an appointment, the committee nevertheless may appoint under 
paragraph (a) a person selected by the minority and acceptable to the 
committee. A person so appointed shall serve as an additional member of 
the professional staff of the committee until such a vacancy occurs 
(other than a vacancy in the position of head of the professional 
staff, by whatever title designated), at which time that person is 
considered as appointed to that vacancy. Such a person shall be paid 
from the applicable accounts of the House described in clause 1(j)(1) 
of rule X. If such a vacancy occurs on the professional staff when 
seven or more persons have been so appointed who are eligible to fill 
that vacancy, a majority of the minority party members shall designate 
which of those persons shall fill the vacancy.
       (g) Each staff member appointed pursuant to a request by 
minority party members under paragraph (a), and each staff member 
appointed to assist minority members of a committee pursuant to an 
expense resolution described in clause 6(a), shall be accorded 
equitable treatment with respect to the fixing of the rate of pay, the 
assignment of work facilities, and the accessibility of committee 
records.
       (h) Paragraph (a) may not be construed to authorize the 
appointment of additional professional staff members of a committee 
pursuant to a request under paragraph (a) by the minority party members 
of that committee if 10 or more professional staff members provided for 
in paragraph (a)(1) who are satisfactory to a majority of the minority 
party members are otherwise assigned to assist the minority party 
members.
       (i) Notwithstanding paragraph (a)(2), a committee may employ 
nonpartisan staff, in lieu of or in addition to committee staff 
designated exclusively for the majority or minority party, by an 
affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the majority party 
and of a majority of the members of the minority party.
Select and joint committees
       10. (a) Membership on a select or joint committee appointed by 
the Speaker under clause 11 of rule I during the course of a Congress 
shall be contingent on continuing membership in the party caucus or 
conference of which the Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner 
concerned was a member at the time of appointment.  Should a Member, 
Delegate, or Resident Commissioner cease to be a member of that caucus 
or conference, that Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner shall 
automatically cease to be a member of any select or joint committee to 
which assigned. The chair of the relevant party caucus or conference 
shall notify the Speaker whenever a Member, Delegate, or Resident 
Commissioner ceases to be a member of a party caucus or conference.  
The Speaker shall notify the chair of each affected select or joint 
committee that the appointment of such Member, Delegate, or Resident 
Commissioner to the select or joint committee is automatically vacated 
under this paragraph.
       (b) Each select or joint committee, other than a conference 
committee, shall comply with clause 2(a) of rule XI unless specifically 
exempted by law.
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
       11. (a)(1) There is established a Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence (hereafter in this clause referred to as the ``select 
committee'').  The select committee shall be composed of not more than 
22 Members, Delegates, or the Resident Commissioner, of whom not more 
than 13 may be from the same party. The select committee shall include 
at least one Member, Delegate, or the Resident Commissioner from each 
of the following committees:
       (A) the Committee on Appropriations;
       (B) the Committee on Armed Services;
       (C) the Committee on Foreign Affairs; and
       (D) the Committee on the Judiciary.
       (2) The Speaker and the Minority Leader shall be ex officio 
members of the select committee but shall have no vote in the select 
committee and may not be counted for purposes of determining a quorum 
thereof.
       (3) The Speaker and Minority Leader each may designate a 
respective leadership staff member to assist in the capacity of the 
Speaker or Minority Leader as ex officio member, with the same access 
to committee meetings, hearings, briefings, and materials as employees 
of the select committee and subject to the same security clearance and 
confidentiality requirements as employees of the select committee under 
this clause.
       (4)(A) Except as permitted by subdivision (B), a Member, 
Delegate, or Resident Commissioner, other than the Speaker or the 
Minority Leader, may not serve as a member of the select committee 
during more than four Congresses in a period of six successive 
Congresses (disregarding for this purpose any service for less than a 
full session in a Congress).
       (B) In the case of a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner 
appointed to serve as the chair or the ranking minority member of the 
select committee, tenure on the select committee shall not be limited.
       (b)(1) There shall be referred to the select committee proposed 
legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating 
to the following:
       (A) The Central Intelligence Agency, the Director of National 
Intelligence, and the National Intelligence Program as defined in 
section 3(6) of the National Security Act of 1947.
       (B) Intelligence and intelligence-related activities of all 
other departments and agencies of the Government, including the 
tactical intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the 
Department of Defense.
       (C) The organization or reorganization of a department or agency 
of the Government to the extent that the organization or reorganization 
relates to a function or activity involving intelligence or 
intelligence-related activities.
       (D) Authorizations for appropriations, both direct and indirect, 
for the following:
       (i) The Central Intelligence Agency, the Director of National 
Intelligence, and the National Intelligence Program as defined in 
section 3(6) of the National Security Act of 1947.
       (ii) Intelligence and intelligence-related activities of all 
other departments and agencies of the Government, including the 
tactical intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the 
Department of Defense.
       (iii) A department, agency, subdivision, or program that is a 
successor to an agency or program named or referred to in (i) or (ii).
       (2) Proposed legislation initially reported by the select 
committee (other than provisions solely involving matters specified in 
subparagraph (1)(A) or subparagraph (1)(D)(i)) containing any matter 
otherwise within the jurisdiction of a standing committee shall be 
referred by the Speaker to that standing committee. Proposed 
legislation initially reported by another committee that contains 
matter within the jurisdiction of the select committee shall be 
referred by the Speaker to the select committee if requested by the 
chair of the select committee.
       (3) Nothing in this clause shall be construed as prohibiting or 
otherwise restricting the authority of any other committee to study and 
review an intelligence or intelligence-related activity to the extent 
that such activity directly affects a matter otherwise within the 
jurisdiction of that committee.
       (4) Nothing in this clause shall be construed as amending, 
limiting, or otherwise changing the authority of a standing committee 
to obtain full and prompt access to the product of the intelligence and 
intelligence-related activities of a department or agency of the 
Government relevant to a matter otherwise within the jurisdiction of 
that committee.
       (c)(1) For purposes of accountability to the House, the select 
committee shall make regular and periodic reports to the House on the 
nature and extent of the intelligence and intelligence-related 
activities of the various departments and agencies of the United 
States. The select committee shall promptly call to the attention of 
the House, or to any other appropriate committee, a matter requiring 
the attention of the House or another committee.  In making such 
report, the select committee shall proceed in a manner consistent with 
paragraph (g) to protect national security.
       (2) The select committee shall obtain annual reports from the 
Director of National Intelligence, the Director of the Central 
Intelligence Agency, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State, 
and the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Such reports 
shall review the intelligence and intelligence-related activities of 
the agency or department concerned and the intelligence and 
intelligence-related activities of foreign countries directed at the 
United States or its interests. An unclassified version of each report 
may be made available to the public at the discretion of the select 
committee. Nothing herein shall be construed as requiring the public 
disclosure in such reports of the names of persons engaged in 
intelligence or intelligence-related activities for the United States 
or the divulging of intelligence methods employed or the sources of 
information on which the reports are based or the amount of funds 
authorized to be appropriated for intelligence and intelligence-related 
activities.
       (3) Within six weeks after the President submits a budget under 
section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, or at such time as the 
Committee on the Budget may request, the select committee shall submit 
to the Committee on the Budget the views and estimates described in 
section 301(d) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 regarding 
matters within the jurisdiction of the select committee.
       (d)(1) Except as specified in subparagraph (2), clauses 8(a), 
(b), and (c) and 9(a), (b), and (c) of this rule, and clauses 1, 2, and 
4 of rule XI shall apply to the select committee to the extent not 
inconsistent with this clause.
       (2) Notwithstanding the requirements of the first sentence of 
clause 2(g)(2) of rule XI, in the presence of the number of members 
required under the rules of the select committee for the purpose of 
taking testimony or receiving evidence, the select committee may vote 
to close a hearing whenever a majority of those present determines that 
the testimony or evidence would endanger the national security.
       (e) An employee of the select committee, or a person engaged by 
contract or otherwise to perform services for or at the request of the 
select committee, may not be given access to any classified information 
by the select committee unless such employee or person has__
       (1) agreed in writing and under oath to be bound by the Rules of 
the House, including the jurisdiction of the Committee on Standards of 
Official Conduct and of the select committee concerning the security of 
classified information during and after the period of the employment or 
contractual agreement of such employee or person with the select 
committee; and
       (2) received an appropriate security clearance, as determined by 
the select committee in consultation with the Director of National 
Intelligence, that is commensurate with the sensitivity of the 
classified information to which such employee or person will be given 
access by the select committee.
       (f) The select committee shall formulate and carry out such 
rules and procedures as it considers necessary to prevent the 
disclosure, without the consent of each person concerned, of 
information in the possession of the select committee that unduly 
infringes on the privacy or that violates the constitutional rights of 
such person. Nothing herein shall be construed to prevent the select 
committee from publicly disclosing classified information in a case in 
which it determines that national interest in the disclosure of 
classified information clearly outweighs any infringement on the 
privacy of a person.
       (g)(1) The select committee may disclose publicly any 
information in its possession after a determination by the select 
committee that the public interest would be served by such disclosure. 
With respect to the disclosure of information for which this paragraph 
requires action by the select committee__
       (A) the select committee shall meet to vote on the matter within 
five days after a member of the select committee requests a vote; and 
       (B) a member of the select committee may not make such a 
disclosure before a vote by the select committee on the matter, or 
after a vote by the select committee on the matter except in accordance 
with this paragraph.
       (2)(A) In a case in which the select committee votes to disclose 
publicly any information that has been classified under established 
security procedures, that has been submitted to it by the executive 
branch, and that the executive branch requests be kept secret, the 
select committee shall notify the President of such vote.
       (B) The select committee may disclose publicly such information 
after the expiration of a five-day period following the day on which 
notice of the vote to disclose is transmitted to the President unless, 
before the expiration of the five-day period, the President, personally 
in writing, notifies the select committee that the President objects to 
the disclosure of such information, provides reasons therefor, and 
certifies that the threat to the national interest of the United States 
posed by the disclosure is of such gravity that it outweighs any public 
interest in the disclosure.
       (C) If the President, personally in writing, notifies the select 
committee of objections to the disclosure of information as provided in 
subdivision (B), the select committee may, by majority vote, refer the 
question of the disclosure of such information, with a recommendation 
thereon, to the House.
       The select committee may not publicly disclose such information 
without leave of the House.
       (D) Whenever the select committee votes to refer the question of 
disclosure of any information to the House under subdivision (C), the 
chair shall, not later than the first day on which the House is in 
session following the day on which the vote occurs, report the matter 
to the House for its consideration.
       (E) If the chair of the select committee does not offer in the 
House a motion to consider in closed session a matter reported under 
subdivision (D) within four calendar days on which the House is in 
session after the recommendation described in subdivision (C) is 
reported, then such a motion shall be privileged when offered by a 
Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner.  In either case such a 
motion shall be decided without debate or intervening motion except one 
that the House adjourn.
       (F) Upon adoption by the House of a motion to resolve into 
closed session as described in subdivision (E), the Speaker may declare 
a recess subject to the call of the Chair. At the expiration of the 
recess, the pending question, in closed session, shall be, ``Shall the 
House approve the recommendation of the select committee'''.
       (G) Debate on the question described in subdivision (F) shall be 
limited to two hours equally divided and controlled by the chair and 
ranking minority member of the select committee.  After such debate the 
previous question shall be considered as ordered on the question of 
approving the recommendation without intervening motion except one 
motion that the House adjourn. The House shall vote on the question in 
open session but without divulging the information with respect to 
which the vote is taken. If the recommendation of the select committee 
is not approved, then the question is considered as recommitted to the 
select committee for further recommendation. 
       (3)(A) Information in the possession of the select committee 
relating to the lawful intelligence or intelligence-related activities 
of a department or agency of the United States that has been classified 
under established security procedures, and that the select committee 
has determined should not be disclosed under subparagraph (1) or (2), 
may not be made available to any person by a Member, Delegate, Resident 
Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House except as provided in 
subdivision (B).
       (B) The select committee shall, under such regulations as it may 
prescribe, make information described in subdivision (A) available to a 
committee or a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner, and permit a 
 Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner to attend a hearing of the 
select committee that is closed to the public. Whenever the select 
committee makes such information available, it shall keep a written 
record showing, in the case of particular information, which committee 
or which Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner received the 
information.  A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner who, and a 
committee that, receives information under this subdivision may not 
disclose the information except in a closed session of the House.
       (4) The Committee on Standards of Official Conduct shall 
investigate any unauthorized disclosure of intelligence or 
intelligence-related information by a Member, Delegate, Resident 
Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House in violation of 
subparagraph (3) and report to the House concerning any allegation that 
it finds to be substantiated.
       (5) Upon the request of a person who is subject to an 
investigation described in subparagraph (4), the Committee on Standards 
of Official Conduct shall release to such person at the conclusion of 
its investigation a summary of its investigation, together with its 
findings.  If, at the conclusion of its investigation, the Committee on 
Standards of Official Conduct determines that there has been a 
significant breach of confidentiality or unauthorized disclosure by a 
Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the 
House, it shall report its findings to the House and recommend 
appropriate action. Recommendations may include censure, removal from 
committee membership, or expulsion from the House, in the case of a 
Member, or removal from office or employment or punishment for 
contempt, in the case of an officer or employee.
       (h) The select committee may permit a personal representative of 
the President, designated by the President to serve as a liaison to the 
select committee, to attend any closed meeting of the select committee.
       (i) Subject to the Rules of the House, funds may not be 
appropriated for a fiscal year, with the exception of a bill or joint 
resolution continuing appropriations, or an amendment thereto, or a 
conference report thereon, to, or for use of, a department or agency of 
the United States to carry out any of the following activities, unless 
the funds shall previously have been authorized by a bill or joint 
resolution passed by the House during the same or preceding fiscal year 
to carry out such activity for such fiscal year:
       (1) The activities of the Director of National Intelligence and 
the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
       (2) The activities of the Central Intelligence Agency.
       (3) The activities of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
       (4) The activities of the National Security Agency.
       (5) The intelligence and intelligence-related activities of 
other agencies and subdivisions of the Department of Defense.
       (6) The intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the 
Department of State.
       (7) The intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the 
Federal Bureau of Investigation.
       (8) The intelligence and intelligence-related activities of all 
other departments and agencies of the executive branch.
       (j)(1) In this clause the term ``intelligence and 
intelligence-related activities'' includes__
       (A) the collection, analysis, production, dissemination, or use 
of information that relates to a foreign country, or a government, 
political group, party, military force, movement, or other association 
in a foreign country, and that relates to the defense, foreign policy, 
national security, or related policies of the United States and other 
activity in support of the collection, analysis, production, 
dissemination, or use of such information;
       (B) activities taken to counter similar activities directed 
against the United States;
       (C) covert or clandestine activities affecting the relations of 
the United States with a foreign government, political group, party, 
military force, movement, or other association;
       (D) the collection, analysis, production, dissemination, or use 
of information about activities of persons within the United States, 
its territories and possessions, or nationals of the United States 
abroad whose political and related activities pose, or may be 
considered by a department, agency, bureau, office, division, 
instrumentality, or employee of the United States to pose, a threat to 
the internal security of the United States; and
       (E) covert or clandestine activities directed against persons 
described in subdivision (D).
       (2) In this clause the term ``department or agency'' includes 
any organization, committee, council, establishment, or office within 
the Federal Government.
       (3) For purposes of this clause, reference to a department, 
agency, bureau, or subdivision shall include a reference to any 
successor department, agency, bureau, or subdivision to the extent that 
a successor engages in intelligence or intelligence-related activities 
now conducted by the department, agency, bureau, or subdivision 
referred to in this clause.
       (k) Clause 12(a) of rule XXII does not apply to meetings of a 
conference committee respecting legislation (or any part thereof) 
reported by the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

                              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(j)(1) of 
rule X.
       (d)(1) Each committee shall submit to the House not later than 
January 2 of each odd-numbered year a report on the activities of that 
committee under this rule and rule X during the Congress ending at noon 
on January 3 of such year.
       (2) Such report shall include separate sections summarizing the 
legislative and oversight activities of that committee during that 
Congress.
       (3) The oversight section of such report shall include a summary 
of the oversight plans submitted by the committee under clause 2(d) of 
rule X, a summary of the actions taken and recommendations made with 
respect to each such plan, a summary of any additional oversight 
activities undertaken by that committee, and any recommendations made 
or actions taken thereon. That section shall also delineate any 
hearings held pursuant to clauses 2(n), (o), or (p) of this rule.
       (4) After an adjournment sine die of the last regular session of 
a Congress, the chair 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 chair be 
directed to offer a motion under clause 1 of rule XXII whenever the 
chair 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 chair of each standing committee may call and 
convene, as the chair 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 chair.
       (2) Three or more members of a standing committee may file in 
the offices of the committee a written request that the chair 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 chair of the 
filing of the request. If the chair 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 chair
       (d) A member of the majority party on each standing committee or 
subcommittee thereof shall be designated by the chair of the full 
committee as the vice chair of the committee or subcommittee, as the 
case may be, and shall preside during the absence of the chair from any 
meeting. If the chair and vice chair 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 chair. 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 subcommittees) shall be open to the public, including to radio, 
television, and still photography coverage, except when the committee 
or subcommittee, in open session and with a majority present, 
determines by record vote that all or part of the remainder of the 
meeting on that day shall be in executive session because disclosure of 
matters to be considered would endanger national security, would 
compromise sensitive law enforcement information, would tend to defame, 
degrade, or incriminate any person, or otherwise would violate a law or 
rule of the House. Persons, other than members of the committee and 
such noncommittee Members, Delegates, Resident Commissioner, 
congressional staff, or departmental representatives as the committee 
may authorize, may not be present at a business or markup session that 
is held in executive session. This subparagraph does not apply to open 
committee hearings, which are governed by clause 4(a)(1) of rule X or 
by subparagraph (2).  
       (2)(A) Each hearing conducted by a committee or subcommittee 
(other than the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct or its 
subcommittees) shall be open to the public, including to radio, 
television, and still photography coverage, except when the committee 
or subcommittee, in open session and with a majority present, 
determines by record vote that all or part of the remainder of that 
hearing on that day shall be closed to the public because disclosure of 
testimony, evidence, or other matters to be considered would endanger 
national security, would compromise sensitive law enforcement 
information, or would violate a law or rule of the House.
       (B) Notwithstanding the requirements of subdivision (A), in the 
presence of the number of members required under the rules of the 
committee for the purpose of taking testimony, a majority of those 
present may__
       (i) agree to close the hearing for the sole purpose of 
discussing whether testimony or evidence to be received would endanger 
national security, would compromise sensitive law enforcement 
information, or would violate clause 2(k)(5); or
       (ii) agree to close the hearing as provided in clause 2(k)(5).
       (C) A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may not be 
excluded from nonparticipatory attendance at a hearing of a committee 
or subcommittee (other than the Committee on Standards of Official 
Conduct or its subcommittees) unless the House by majority vote 
authorizes a particular committee or subcommittee, for purposes of a 
particular series of hearings on a particular article of legislation or 
on a particular subject of investigation, to close its hearings to 
Members, Delegates, and the Resident Commissioner by the same 
procedures specified in this subparagraph for closing hearings to the 
public.
       (D) The committee or subcommittee may vote by the same procedure 
 described in this subparagraph to close one subsequent day of hearing, 
except that the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Armed 
Services, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and the 
subcommittees thereof, may vote by the same procedure to close up to 
five additional, consecutive days of hearings.
       (3) The chair 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 chair 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 chair 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 chair 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 chair 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 chair at a hearing shall announce in an opening 
statement the subject of the hearing.
       (2) A copy of the committee rules and of this clause shall be 
made available to each witness on request.
       (3) Witnesses at hearings may be accompanied by their own 
counsel for the purpose of advising them concerning their 
constitutional rights.
       (4) The chair may punish breaches of order and decorum, and of 
professional ethics on the part of counsel, by censure and exclusion 
from the hearings; and the committee may cite the offender to the House 
for contempt.
       (5) Whenever it is asserted by a member of the committee that 
the evidence or testimony at a hearing may tend to defame, degrade, or 
incriminate any person, or it is asserted by a witness that the 
evidence or testimony that the witness would give at a hearing may tend 
to defame, degrade, or incriminate the witness__
       (A) notwithstanding paragraph (g)(2), such testimony or evidence 
shall be presented in executive session if, in the presence of the 
number of members required under the rules of the committee for the 
purpose of taking testimony, the committee determines by vote of a 
majority of those present that such evidence or testimony may tend to 
defame, degrade, or incriminate any person; and
       (B) the committee shall proceed to receive such testimony in 
open session only if the committee, a majority being present, 
determines that such evidence or testimony will not tend to defame, 
degrade, or incriminate any person.
       In either case the committee shall afford such person an 
opportunity voluntarily to appear as a witness, and receive and dispose 
of requests from such person to subpoena additional witnesses.
       (6) Except as provided in subparagraph (5), the chair 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 the testimony of 
such witness given at a public session or, if given at an executive 
session, when authorized by the committee.
Supplemental, minority, or additional views
       (l) If at the time of approval of a measure or matter by a 
committee (other than the Committee on Rules) a member of the committee 
gives notice of intention to file supplemental, minority, or additional 
views for inclusion in the report to the House thereon, that member 
shall be entitled to not less than two additional calendar days after 
the day of such notice (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal 
holidays except when the House is in session on such a day) to file 
such views, in writing and signed by that member, with the clerk of the 
committee.
Power to sit and act; subpoena power 
       (m)(1) For the purpose of carrying out any of its functions and 
duties under this rule and rule X (including any matters referred to it 
under clause 2 of rule XII), a committee or subcommittee is authorized 
(subject to subparagraph (3)(A))__
       (A) to sit and act at such times and places within the United 
States, whether the House is in session, has recessed, or has 
adjourned, and to hold such hearings as it considers necessary; and 
       (B) to require, by subpoena or otherwise, the attendance and 
testimony of such witnesses and the production of such books, records, 
correspondence, memoranda, papers, and documents as it considers 
necessary.
       (2) The chair of the committee, or a member designated by the 
chair, 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 chair 
of the committee under such rules and under such limitations as the 
committee may prescribe. Authorized subpoenas shall be signed by the 
chair 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.
       (n)(1) Each standing committee, or a subcommittee thereof, shall 
hold at least one hearing during each 120-day period following the 
establishment of the committee on the topic of waste, fraud, abuse, or 
mismanagement in Government programs which that committee may 
authorize.
       (2) A hearing described in subparagraph (1) shall include a 
focus on the most egregious instances of waste, fraud, abuse, or 
mismanagement as documented by any report the committee has received 
from a Federal Office of the Inspector General or the Comptroller 
General of the United States.
       (o) Each committee, or a subcommittee thereof, shall hold at 
least one hearing in any session in which the committee has received 
disclaimers of agency financial statements from auditors of any Federal 
agency that the committee may authorize to hear testimony on such 
disclaimers from representatives of any such agency.
       (p) Each standing committee, or a subcommittee thereof, shall 
hold at least one hearing on issues raised by reports issued by the 
Comptroller General of the United States indicating that Federal 
programs or operations that the committee may authorize are at high 
risk for waste, fraud, and mismanagement, known as the ``high-risk 
list'' or the ``high-risk series.''
Committee on Standards of Official Conduct
       3. (a) The Committee on Standards of Official Conduct has the 
following functions:
       (1) The committee may recommend to the House from time to time 
such administrative actions as it may consider appropriate to establish 
or enforce standards of official conduct for Members, Delegates, the 
Resident Commissioner, officers, and employees of the House. A letter 
of reproval or other administrative action of the committee pursuant to 
an investigation under subparagraph (2) shall only be issued or 
implemented as a part of a report required by such subparagraph.
       (2) The committee may investigate, subject to paragraph (b), an 
alleged violation by a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, 
officer, or employee of the House of the Code of Official Conduct or of 
a law, rule, regulation, or other standard of conduct applicable to the 
conduct of such Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or 
employee in the performance of the duties or the discharge of the 
responsibilities of such individual. After notice and hearing (unless 
the right to a hearing is waived by the Member, Delegate, Resident 
Commissioner, officer, or employee), the committee shall report to the 
House its findings of fact and recommendations, if any, for the final 
disposition of any such investigation and such action as the committee 
may consider appropriate in the circumstances.
       (3) The committee may report to the appropriate Federal or State 
authorities, either with the approval of the House or by an affirmative 
vote of two-thirds of the members of the committee, any substantial 
evidence of a violation by a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, 
officer, or employee of the House, of a law applicable to the 
performance of the duties or the discharge of the responsibilities of 
such individual that may have been disclosed in a committee 
investigation.
       (4) The committee may consider the request of a Member, 
Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House for 
an advisory opinion with respect to the general propriety of any 
current or proposed conduct of such Member, Delegate, Resident 
Commissioner, officer, or employee. With appropriate deletions to 
ensure the privacy of the person concerned, the committee may publish 
such opinion for the guidance of other Members, Delegates, the Resident 
Commissioner, officers, and employees of the House.
       (5) The committee may consider the request of a Member, 
Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House for 
a written waiver in exceptional circumstances with respect to clause 4 
of rule XXIII.
       (6)(A) The committee shall offer annual ethics training to each 
Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, and employee of the 
House. Such training shall__
       (i) involve the classes of employees for whom the committee 
determines such training to be appropriate; and
       (ii) include such knowledge of the Code of Official Conduct and 
related House rules as may be determined appropriate by the committee.  
       (B)(i) A new officer or employee of the House shall receive 
training under this paragraph not later than 60 days after beginning 
service to the House.
       (ii) Not later than January 31 of each year, each officer and 
employee of the House shall file a certification with the committee 
that the officer or employee attended ethics training in the last year 
as established by this subparagraph.
       (b)(1)(A) Unless approved by an affirmative vote of a majority 
of its members, the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct may not 
report a resolution, report, recommendation, or advisory opinion 
relating to the official conduct of a Member, Delegate, Resident 
Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House, or, except as provided 
in subparagraph (2), undertake an investigation of such conduct.  
       (B)(i) Upon the receipt of information offered as a complaint 
that is in compliance with this rule and the rules of the committee, 
the chair and ranking minority member jointly may appoint members to 
serve as an investigative subcommittee.
       (ii) The chair and ranking minority member of the committee 
jointly may gather additional information concerning alleged conduct 
that is the basis of a complaint or of information offered as a 
complaint until they have established an investigative subcommittee or 
either of them has placed on the agenda of the committee the issue of 
whether to establish an investigative subcommittee.
       (2) Except in the case of an investigation undertaken by the 
committee on its own initiative, the committee may undertake an 
investigation relating to the official conduct of an individual Member, 
Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House 
only__
       (A) upon receipt of information offered as a complaint, in 
writing and under oath, from a Member, Delegate, or Resident 
Commissioner and transmitted to the committee by such Member, Delegate, 
or Resident Commissioner;
       (B) upon receipt of information offered as a complaint, in 
writing and under oath, from a person not a Member, Delegate, or 
Resident Commissioner provided that a Member, Delegate, or Resident 
Commissioner certifies in writing to the committee that such Member, 
Delegate, or Resident Commissioner believes the information is 
submitted in good faith and warrants the review and consideration of 
the  committee; or
       (C) upon receipt of a report regarding a referral from the board 
of the Office of Congressional Ethics.
       If a complaint is not disposed of within the applicable periods 
set forth in the rules of the Committee on Standards of Official 
Conduct, the chair and ranking minority member shall establish jointly 
an investigative subcommittee and forward the complaint, or any portion 
thereof, to that subcommittee for its consideration. However, if at any 
time during those periods either the chair or ranking minority member 
places on the agenda the issue of whether to establish an investigative 
subcommittee, then an investigative subcommittee may be established 
only by an affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the 
committee.
       (3) The committee may not undertake an investigation of an 
alleged violation of a law, rule, regulation, or standard of conduct 
that was not in effect at the time of the alleged violation.  The 
committee may not undertake an investigation of such an alleged 
violation that occurred before the third previous Congress unless the 
 committee determines that the alleged violation is directly related to 
an alleged violation that occurred in a more recent Congress.
       (4) A member of the committee shall be ineligible to participate 
as a member of the committee in a committee proceeding relating to the 
member's official conduct. Whenever a member of the committee is 
ineligible to act as a member of the committee under the preceding 
sentence, the Speaker shall designate a Member, Delegate, or Resident 
Commissioner from the same political party as the ineligible member to 
act in any proceeding of the committee relating to that conduct.
       (5) A member of the committee may seek disqualification from 
participating in an investigation of the conduct of a Member, Delegate, 
Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House upon the 
submission in writing and under oath of an affidavit of 
disqualification stating that the member cannot render an impartial and 
unbiased decision in the case in which the member seeks to be 
disqualified. If the committee approves and accepts such affidavit of 
disqualification, the chair shall so notify the Speaker and request the 
Speaker to designate a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner from 
the same political party as the disqualifying member to act in any 
proceeding of the committee relating to that case.
       (6) Information or testimony received, or the contents of a 
complaint or the fact of its filing, may not be publicly disclosed by 
any committee or staff member unless specifically authorized in each 
instance by a vote of the full committee.
       (7) The committee shall have the functions designated in titles 
I and V of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, in sections 7342, 
7351, and 7353 of title 5, United States Code, and in clause 11(g)(4) 
of rule X.
       (8)(A) Except as provided by subdivisions (B), (C), and (D), not 
later than 45 calendar days or 5 legislative days, whichever is later, 
after receipt of a written report and any findings and supporting 
documentation regarding a referral from the board of the Office of 
Congressional Ethics or of a referral of the matter from the board 
pursuant to a request under paragraph (r), the chair of the Committee 
on Standards of Official Conduct shall make public the written report 
and findings of the board unless the chair and ranking member, acting 
jointly, decide or the committee votes to withhold such information for 
not more than one additional period of the same duration, in which case 
the chair shall__
       (i) upon the termination of such additional period, make public 
the written report and findings; and 
       (ii) upon the day of such decision or vote, make a public 
statement that the committee has voted to extend the matter relating to 
the referral made by the board of the Office of Congressional Ethics 
regarding the Member, officer, or employee of the House who is the 
subject of the applicable referral.
       At least one calendar day before the committee makes public any 
written report and findings of the board, the chair shall notify such 
board and the applicable Member, officer, or employee of that fact and 
transmit to such individual a copy of the statement on the committee's 
disposition of, and any committee report on, the matter.  
       (B)(i) Notwithstanding subdivision (A)(i), if the committee 
votes to dismiss a matter which is the subject of a referral from the 
board of the Office of Congressional Ethics, the committee is not 
required to make public the written report and findings described in 
such subdivision unless the committee's vote is inconsistent with the 
recommendation of the board. For purposes of the previous sentence, a 
vote by the committee to dismiss a matter is not inconsistent with a 
report from the board respecting the matter as unresolved due to a tie 
vote.
       (ii) Notwithstanding subdivision (A)(ii), if the board transmits 
a report respecting any matter with a recommendation to dismiss or as 
unresolved due to a tie vote, and the committee votes to extend the 
matter for an additional period as provided in subdivision (A), the 
committee is not required to make a public statement that the committee 
has voted to extend the matter.
       (iii) Except as provided by subdivision (E), if the committee 
establishes an investigative subcommittee respecting any such matter, 
then the report and findings of the board shall not be made public 
until the conclusion of the investigative subcommittee process and the 
committee shall issue a public statement of the establishment of an 
investigative subcommittee, which statement shall include the name of 
the applicable Member, officer, or employee, and shall set forth the 
alleged violation. If any such investigative subcommittee does not 
conclude its review within one year after the board transmits a report 
respecting any matter, then the committee shall make public the report 
and upon the expiration of the Congress in which the report is made 
public, the committee shall make public any findings.
       (C)(i) If, after receipt of a written report and any findings 
and supporting documentation regarding a referral from the board of the 
Office of Congressional Ethics or of a referral of the matter from the 
board pursuant to a request under paragraph (r), the committee agrees 
to a request from an appropriate law enforcement or regulatory 
authority to defer taking action on the matter__
       (I) notwithstanding subdivision (A)(i), the committee is not 
required to make public the written report and findings described in 
such subdivision, except that if the recommendation of the board with 
respect to the report is that the matter requires further review, the 
committee shall make public the written report but not the findings; 
and 
       (II) before the end of the first day (excluding Saturdays, 
Sundays, and public holidays) after the day that the committee agrees 
to the request, the committee shall make a public statement that it is 
deferring taking action on the matter at the request of such authority.
       (ii) If, upon the expiration of the oneyear period that begins 
on the date the committee makes the public statement described in item 
(i)(II), the committee has not acted on the matter, the committee shall 
make a new public statement that it is still deferring taking action on 
the matter, and shall make a new statement upon the expiration of each 
succeeding one-year period during which the committee has not acted on 
the matter.
       (D) The committee may not receive any referral from the board of 
the Office of Congressional Ethics within 60 days before a Federal, 
State, or local election in which the subject of the referral is a 
candidate. The committee may delay any reporting requirement under this 
subparagraph that falls within that 60-day period until the end of such 
period and in that case, for purposes of subdivision (A), days within 
the 60-day period shall not be counted.
       (E) If, at the close of any applicable period for a reporting 
requirement under this subparagraph with respect to a referral from the 
board of the Office of Congressional Ethics, the vote of the committee 
is a tie or the committee fails to act, the report and the findings of 
the board shall be made public by the committee, along with a public 
statement by the chair explaining the status of the matter.
       (c)(1) Notwithstanding clause 2(g)(1) of rule XI, each meeting 
of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct or a subcommittee 
thereof shall occur in executive session unless the committee or 
subcommittee, by an affirmative vote of a majority of its members, 
opens the meeting to the public.
       (2) Notwithstanding clause 2(g)(2) of rule XI, each hearing of 
an adjudicatory subcommittee or sanction hearing of the Committee on 
Standards of Official Conduct shall be held in open session unless the 
committee or subcommittee, in open session by an affirmative vote of a 
majority of its members, closes all or part of the remainder of the 
hearing on that day to the public.
       (d) Before a member, officer, or employee of the Committee on 
Standards of Official Conduct, including members of a subcommittee of 
the committee selected under clause 5(a)(4) of rule X and shared staff, 
may have access to information that is confidential under the rules of 
the committee, the following oath (or affirmation) shall be executed:
       ``I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will not disclose, to 
any person or entity outside the Committee on Standards of Official 
Conduct, any information received in the course of my service with the 
committee, except as authorized by the committee or in accordance with 
its rules.'' 
Copies of the executed oath shall be retained by the Clerk as part of 
the records of the House. This paragraph establishes a standard of 
conduct within the meaning of paragraph (a)(2).  Breaches of 
confidentiality shall be investigated by the Committee on Standards of 
Official Conduct and appropriate action shall be taken.
       (e)(1) If a complaint or information offered as a complaint is 
deemed frivolous by an affirmative vote of a majority of the members of 
the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, the committee may take 
such action as it, by an affirmative vote of a majority of its members, 
considers appropriate in the circumstances.
       (2) Complaints filed before the One Hundred Fifth Congress may 
not be deemed frivolous by the Committee on Standards of Official 
Conduct. 
Committee agendas
       (f) The committee shall adopt rules providing that the chair 
shall establish the agenda for meetings of the committee, but shall not 
preclude the ranking minority member from placing any item on the 
agenda.
Committee staff
       (g)(1) The committee shall adopt rules providing that__
       (A) the staff be assembled and retained as a professional, 
nonpartisan staff;
       (B) each member of the staff shall be professional and 
demonstrably qualified for the position for which hired;
       (C) the staff as a whole and each member of the staff shall 
perform all official duties in a nonpartisan manner;
       (D) no member of the staff shall engage in any partisan 
political activity directly affecting any congressional or presidential 
election;
       (E) no member of the staff or outside counsel may accept public 
speaking engagements or write for publication on any subject that is in 
any way related to the employment or duties with the committee of such 
individual without specific prior approval from the chair and ranking 
minority member; and 
       (F) no member of the staff or outside counsel may make public, 
unless approved by an affirmative vote of a majority of the members of 
the committee, any information, document, or other material that is 
confidential, derived from executive session, or classified and that is 
obtained during the course of employment with the committee.
       (2) Only subdivisions (C), (E), and (F) of subparagraph (1) 
shall apply to shared staff.
       (3)(A) All staff members shall be appointed by an affirmative 
vote of a majority of the members of the committee.  Such vote shall 
occur at the first meeting of the membership of the committee during 
each Congress and as necessary during the Congress.  
       (B) Subject to the approval of the Committee on House 
Administration, the committee may retain counsel not employed by the 
House of Representatives whenever the committee determines, by an 
affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the committee, that 
the retention of outside counsel is necessary and appropriate.
       (C) If the committee determines that it is necessary to retain 
staff members for the purpose of a particular investigation or other 
proceeding, then such staff shall be retained only for the duration of 
that particular investigation or proceeding.
       (D) Outside counsel may be dismissed before the end of a 
contract between the committee and such counsel only by an affirmative 
vote of a majority of the members of the committee.
       (4) In addition to any other staff provided for by law, rule, or 
other authority, with respect to the committee, the chair and ranking 
minority member each may appoint one individual as a shared staff 
member from the respective personal staff of the chair or ranking 
minority member to perform service for the committee. Such shared staff 
may assist the chair or ranking minority member on any subcommittee on 
which the chair or ranking minority member serves.
Meetings and hearings
       (h)(1) The committee shall adopt rules providing that__
       (A) all meetings or hearings of the committee or any 
subcommittee thereof, other than any hearing held by an adjudicatory 
subcommittee or any sanction hearing held by the committee, shall occur 
in executive session unless the committee or subcommittee by an 
affirmative vote of a majority of its members opens the meeting or 
hearing to the public; and
       (B) any hearing held by an adjudicatory subcommittee or any 
sanction hearing held by the committee shall be open to the public 
unless the committee or subcommittee by an affirmative vote of a 
majority of its members closes the hearing to the public.
Public disclosure
       (i) The committee shall adopt rules providing that, unless 
otherwise determined by a vote of the committee, only the chair or 
ranking minority member, after consultation with each other, may make 
public statements regarding matters before the committee or any 
subcommittee thereof.
Requirements to constitute a complaint
       (j) The committee shall adopt rules regarding complaints to 
provide that whenever information offered as a complaint is submitted 
to the committee, the chair and ranking minority member shall have 14 
calendar days or five legislative days, whichever is sooner, to 
determine whether the information meets the requirements of the rules 
of the committee for what constitutes a complaint.
Duties of chair and ranking minority member regarding properly filed 
complaints 
       (k)(1) The committee shall adopt rules providing that whenever 
the chair and ranking minority member jointly determine that 
information submitted to the committee meets the requirements of the 
rules of the committee for what constitutes a complaint, they shall 
have 45 calendar days or five legislative days, whichever is later, 
after that determination (unless the committee by an affirmative vote 
of a majority of its members votes otherwise) to__
       (A) recommend to the committee that it dispose of the complaint, 
or any portion thereof, in any manner that does not require action by 
the House, which may include dismissal of the complaint or resolution 
of the complaint by a letter to the Member, officer, or employee of the 
House against whom the complaint is made;
       (B) establish an investigative subcommittee; or
       (C) request that the committee extend the applicable 45-calendar 
day or five-legislative day period by one additional 45-calendar day 
period when they determine more time is necessary in order to make a 
recommendation under subdivision (A).
       (2) The committee shall adopt rules providing that if the chair 
and ranking minority member jointly determine that information 
submitted to the committee meets the requirements of the rules of the 
committee for what constitutes a complaint, and the complaint is not 
disposed of within the applicable time periods under subparagraph (1), 
then they shall establish an investigative subcommittee and forward the 
complaint, or any portion thereof, to that subcommittee for its 
consideration. However, if, at any time during those periods, either 
the chair or ranking minority member places on the agenda the issue of 
whether to establish an investigative subcommittee, then an 
investigative subcommittee may be established only by an affirmative 
vote of a majority of the members of the committee.
Duties of chair and ranking minority member regarding information not 
constituting a complaint
       (l) The committee shall adopt rules providing that whenever the 
chair and ranking minority member jointly determine that information 
submitted to the committee does not meet the requirements of the rules 
of the committee for what constitutes a complaint, they may__
       (1) return the information to the complainant with a statement 
that it fails to meet the requirements of the rules of the committee 
for what constitutes a complaint; or
       (2) recommend to the committee that it authorize the 
establishment of an investigative subcommittee.
Investigative and adjudicatory subcommittees
       (m) The committee shall adopt rules providing that__
       (1)(A) an investigative subcommittee shall be composed of four 
Members (with equal representation from the majority and minority 
parties) whenever such a subcommittee is established pursuant to the 
rules of the committee;
       (B) an adjudicatory subcommittee shall be composed of the 
members of the committee who did not serve on the pertinent 
investigative subcommittee (with equal representation from the majority 
and minority parties) whenever such a subcommittee is established 
pursuant to the rules of the committee; and
       (C) notwithstanding any other provision of this clause, the 
chair and ranking minority member of the committee may consult with an 
investigative subcommittee either on their own initiative or on the 
initiative of the subcommittee, shall have access to information before 
a subcommittee with which they so consult, and shall not thereby be 
precluded from serving as full, voting members of any adjudicatory 
subcommittee;
       (2) at the time of appointment, the chair shall designate one 
member of a subcommittee to serve as chair and the ranking minority 
member shall designate one member of the subcommittee to serve as the 
ranking minority member; and
       (3) the chair and ranking minority member of the committee may 
serve as members of an investigative subcommittee, but may not serve as 
non-voting, ex officio members.
Standard of proof for adoption of statement of alleged violation 
       (n) The committee shall adopt rules to provide that an 
investigative subcommittee may adopt a statement of alleged violation 
only if it determines by an affirmative vote of a majority of the 
members of the subcommittee that there is substantial reason to believe 
that a violation of the Code of Official Conduct, or of a law, rule, 
regulation, or other standard of conduct applicable to the performance 
of official duties or the discharge of official responsibilities by a 
Member, officer, or employee of the House of Representatives, has 
occurred.
Subcommittee powers
       (o)(1) The committee shall adopt rules providing that an 
investigative subcommittee or an adjudicatory subcommittee may 
authorize and issue subpoenas only when authorized by an affirmative 
vote of a majority of the members of the subcommittee.  (2) The 
committee shall adopt rules providing that an investigative 
subcommittee may, upon an affirmative vote of a majority of its 
members, expand the scope of its investigation approved by an 
affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the committee.
       (3) The committee shall adopt rules to provide that__
       (A) an investigative subcommittee may, upon an affirmative vote 
of a majority of its members, amend its statement of alleged violation 
anytime before the statement of alleged violation is transmitted to the 
committee; and
       (B) if an investigative subcommittee amends its statement of 
alleged violation, the respondent shall be notified in writing and 
shall have 30 calendar days from the date of that notification to file 
an answer to the amended statement of alleged violation.
Due process rights of respondents
       (p) The committee shall adopt rules to provide that__
       (1) not less than 10 calendar days before a scheduled vote by an 
investigative subcommittee on a statement of alleged violation, the 
subcommittee shall provide the respondent with a copy of the statement 
of alleged violation it intends to adopt together with all evidence it 
intends to use to prove those charges which it intends to adopt, 
including documentary evidence, witness testimony, memoranda of witness 
interviews, and physical evidence, unless the subcommittee by an 
affirmative vote of a majority of its members decides to withhold 
certain evidence in order to protect a witness; but if such evidence is 
withheld, the subcommittee shall inform the respondent that evidence is 
being withheld and of the count to which such evidence relates;
       (2) neither the respondent nor the counsel of the respondent 
shall, directly or indirectly, contact the subcommittee or any member 
thereof during the period of time set forth in paragraph (1) except for 
the sole purpose of settlement discussions where counsel for the 
respondent and the subcommittee are present;
       (3) if, at any time after the issuance of a statement of alleged 
violation, the committee or any subcommittee thereof determines that it 
intends to use evidence not provided to a respondent under paragraph 
(1) to prove the charges contained in the statement of alleged 
violation (or any amendment thereof), such evidence shall be made 
immediately available to the respondent, and it may be used in any 
further proceeding under the rules of the committee;
       (4) evidence provided pursuant to paragraph (1) or (3) shall be 
made available to the respondent and the counsel of the respondent only 
after each agrees, in writing, that no document, information, or other 
materials obtained pursuant to that paragraph shall be made public 
until__
       (A) such time as a statement of alleged violation is made public 
by the committee if the respondent has waived the adjudicatory hearing; 
or
       (B) the commencement of an adjudicatory hearing if the 
respondent has not waived an adjudicatory hearing; 
but the failure of respondent and the counsel of the respondent to so 
agree in writing, and their consequent failure to receive the evidence, 
shall not preclude the issuance of a statement of alleged violation at 
the end of the period referred to in paragraph (1); 
       (5) a respondent shall receive written notice whenever__
       (A) the chair and ranking minority member determine that 
information the committee has received constitutes a complaint; 
       (B) a complaint or allegation is transmitted to an investigative 
subcommittee;
       (C) an investigative subcommittee votes to authorize its first 
subpoena or to take testimony under oath, whichever occurs first; or 
       (D) an investigative subcommittee votes to expand the scope of 
its investigation;
       (6) whenever an investigative subcommittee adopts a statement of 
alleged violation and a respondent enters into an agreement with that 
 subcommittee to settle a complaint on which that statement is based, 
that agreement, unless the respondent requests otherwise, shall be in 
writing and signed by the respondent and respondent's counsel, the 
chair and ranking minority member of the subcommittee, and the outside 
counsel, if any;
       (7) statements or information derived solely from a respondent 
or the counsel of a respondent during any settlement discussions 
between the committee or a subcommittee thereof and the respondent 
shall not be included in any report of the subcommittee or the 
committee or otherwise publicly disclosed without the consent of the 
respondent; and
       (8) whenever a motion to establish an investigative subcommittee 
does not prevail, the committee shall promptly send a letter to the 
respondent informing the respondent of such vote.
Committee reporting requirements
       (q) The committee shall adopt rules to provide that__
       (1) whenever an investigative subcommittee does not adopt a 
statement of alleged violation and transmits a report to that effect to 
the committee, the committee may by an affirmative vote of a majority 
of its members transmit such report to the House of Representatives; 
       (2) whenever an investigative subcommittee adopts a statement of 
alleged violation, the respondent admits to the violations set forth in 
such statement, the respondent waives the right to an adjudicatory 
hearing, and the respondent's waiver is approved by the committee__ 
       (A) the subcommittee shall prepare a report for transmittal to 
the committee, a final draft of which shall be provided to the 
respondent not less than 15 calendar days before the subcommittee votes 
on whether to adopt the report;
       (B) the respondent may submit views in writing regarding the 
final draft to the subcommittee within seven calendar days of receipt 
of that draft; 
       (C) the subcommittee shall transmit a report to the committee 
regarding the statement of alleged violation together with any views 
submitted by the respondent pursuant to subdivision (B), and the 
committee shall make the report together with the respondent's views 
available to the public before the commencement of any sanction 
hearing; and 
       (D) the committee shall by an affirmative vote of a majority of 
its members issue a report and transmit such report to the House of 
Representatives, together with the respondent's views previously 
submitted pursuant to subdivision (B) and any additional views 
respondent may submit for attachment to the final report; and 
       (3) members of the committee shall have not less than 72 hours 
to review any report transmitted to the committee by an investigative 
 subcommittee before both the commencement of a sanction hearing and 
the committee vote on whether to adopt the report.
       (r) Upon receipt of any written notification from the board of 
the Office of Congressional Ethics that the board is undertaking a 
review of any alleged conduct of any Member, officer, or employee of 
the House and if the committee is investigating such matter, the 
committee may at any time so notify the board and request that the 
board cease its review and refer the matter to the committee for its 
 consideration.  If at the end of the applicable time period (including 
any permissible extension) the committee has not reached a final 
resolution of the matter or has not referred the matter to the 
appropriate Federal or State authorities, the committee shall so notify 
the board of the Office of Congressional Ethics in writing. The 
committee may not request the same matter from the board more than one 
time.
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 chair 
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 chair 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 chair 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 chair 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.
Unfinished business of the session
       6. All business of the House at the end of one session shall be 
resumed at the commencement of the next session of the same Congress in 
the same manner as if no adjournment had taken place.
       
                                  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) 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 (other than those 
filed as privileged) 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 chair 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 chair of the filing of such a request.  This subparagraph 
does not apply to a report of the Committee on Rules with respect to a 
rule, joint rule, or order of business of the House, or to the 
reporting of a resolution of inquiry addressed to the head of an 
executive department.
       (c) All supplemental, minority, or additional views filed under 
clause 2(l) of rule XI by one or more members of a committee shall be 
included in, and shall be a part of, the report filed by the committee 
with respect to a measure or matter. When time guaranteed by clause 
2(l) of rule XI has expired (or, if sooner, when all separate views 
have been received), the committee may arrange to file its report with 
the Clerk not later than one hour after the expiration of such time. 
This clause and provisions of clause 2(l) of rule XI do not preclude 
the immediate filing or printing of a committee report in the absence 
of a timely request for the opportunity to file supplemental, minority, 
or additional views as provided in clause 2(l) of rule XI.
Content of reports
       3. (a)(1) Except as provided in subparagraph (2), the report of 
a committee on a measure or matter shall be printed in a single volume 
that__
       (A) shall include all supplemental, minority, or additional 
views that have been submitted by the time of the filing of the report; 
and
       (B) shall bear on its cover a recital that any such 
supplemental, minority, or additional views (and any material submitted 
under paragraph (c)(3)) are included as part of the report.  
       (2) A committee may file a supplemental report for the 
correction of a technical error in its previous report on a measure or 
matter. A supplemental report only correcting errors in the depiction 
of record votes under paragraph (b) may be filed under this 
subparagraph and shall not be subject to the requirement in clause 4 or 
clause 6 concerning the availability of reports.  
       (b) With respect to each record vote on a motion to report a 
measure or matter of a public nature, and on any amendment offered to 
the measure or matter, the total number of votes cast for and against, 
and the names of members voting for and against, shall be included in 
the committee report. The preceding sentence does not apply to a report 
by the Committee on Rules on a rule, joint rule, or the order of 
business or to votes taken in executive session by the Committee on 
Standards of Official Conduct.
       (c) The report of a committee on a measure that has been 
approved by the committee shall include, separately set out and clearly 
identified, the following:
       (1) Oversight findings and recommendations under clause 2(b)(1) 
of rule X.
       (2) The statement required by section 308(a) of the 
Congressional Bud get 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 currently authorized by law for the period concerned 
(excepting classified intelligence or national security programs, 
projects, or activities), along with a statement of the last year for 
which such expenditures were authorized, the level of expenditures 
authorized for that year, the actual level of expenditures for that 
year, and the level of appropriations in the bill for such 
expenditures.
       (2) Whenever the Committee on Appropriations reports a bill or 
joint resolution including matter specified in clause 1(b)(2) or (3) of 
rule X, it shall include__
       (A) in the bill or joint resolution, separate headings for 
``Rescissions'' and ``Transfers of Unexpended Balances''; and
       (B) in the report of the committee, a separate section listing 
such rescissions and transfers.
       (g) Whenever the Committee on Rules reports a resolution 
proposing to repeal or amend a standing rule of the House, it shall 
include in its report or in an accompanying document__
       (1) the text of any rule or part thereof that is proposed to be 
repealed; and
       (2) a comparative print of any part of the resolution proposing 
to amend the rule and of the rule or part thereof proposed to be 
amended, showing by appropriate typographical devices the omissions and 
insertions proposed.  
       (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 chair 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 chair 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(j)(1) of rule X reported by the Committee on 
House Administration considered under clause 6 of rule X;
       (C) a resolution presenting a question of the privileges of the 
House reported by any committee;
       (D) a measure for the declaration of war, or the declaration of 
a national emergency, by Congress; and
       (E) a measure providing for the disapproval of a decision, 
determination, or action by a Government agency that would become, or 
continue to be, effective unless disapproved or otherwise invalidated 
by one or both Houses of Congress. In this subdivision the term 
``Government agency'' includes any department, agency, establishment, 
wholly owned Government corporation, or instrumentality of the Federal 
Government or of the government of the District of Columbia.
       (b) A committee that reports a measure or matter shall make 
every reasonable effort to have its hearings thereon (if any) printed 
and available for distribution to Members, Delegates, and the Resident 
Commissioner before the consideration of the measure or matter in the 
House.
       (c) A general appropriation bill reported by the Committee on 
Appropriations may not be considered in the House until the third 
calendar day (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays except 
when the House is in session on such a day) on which printed hearings 
of the Committee on Appropriations thereon have been available to 
Members, Delegates, and the Resident Commissioner.
Privileged reports, generally
       5. (a) The following committees shall have leave to report at 
any time on the following matters, respectively:
       (1) The Committee on Appropriations, on general appropriation 
bills and on joint resolutions continuing appropriations for a fiscal 
year after September 15 in the preceding fiscal year.
       (2) The Committee on the Budget, on the matters required to be 
reported by such committee under titles III and IV of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974.
       (3) The Committee on House Administration, on enrolled bills, on 
contested elections, on matters referred to it concerning printing for 
the use of the House or the two Houses, on expenditure of the 
applicable accounts of the House described in clause 1(j)(1) of rule X, 
and on matters relating to preservation and availability of noncurrent 
records of the House under rule VII.
       (4) The Committee on Rules, on rules, joint rules, and the order 
of business.
       (5) The Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, on 
resolutions recommending action by the House with respect to a Member, 
Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House as a 
result of an investigation by the committee relating to the official 
conduct of such Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or 
employee.
       (b) A report filed from the floor as privileged under paragraph 
(a) may be called up as a privileged question by direction of the 
reporting committee, subject to any requirement concerning its 
availability to Members, Delegates, and the Resident Commissioner under 
clause 4 or concerning the timing of its consideration under clause 6.
Privileged reports by the Committee on Rules
       6. (a) A report by the Committee on Rules on a rule, joint rule, 
or the order of business may not be called up for consideration on the 
same day it is presented to the House except__
       (1) when so determined by a vote of two-thirds of the Members 
voting, a quorum being present;
       (2) in the case of a resolution proposing only to waive a 
requirement of clause 4 or of clause 8 of rule XXII concerning the 
availability of reports; or
       (3) during the last three days of a session of Congress.
       (b) Pending the consideration of a report by the Committee on 
Rules on a rule, joint rule, or the order of business, the Speaker may 
entertain one motion that the House adjourn but may not entertain any 
other dilatory motion until the report shall have been disposed of.
       (c) The Committee on Rules may not report a rule or order that 
would prevent the motion to recommit a bill or joint resolution from 
being made as provided in clause 2(b) of rule XIX, including a motion 
to recommit with instructions to report back an amendment otherwise in 
order, if offered by the Minority Leader or a designee, except with 
respect to a Senate bill or resolution for which the text of a 
House-passed measure has been substituted.
       (d) The Committee on Rules shall present to the House reports 
concerning rules, joint rules, and the order of business, within three 
legislative days of the time when they are ordered.  If such a report 
is not considered immediately, it shall be referred to the calendar. If 
such a report on the calendar is not called up by the member of the 
committee who filed the report within seven legislative days, any 
member of the committee may call it up as a privileged question on the 
day after the calendar day on which the member announces to the House 
an intention to do so. The Speaker shall recognize a member of the 
committee who rises for that purpose.
       (e) An adverse report by the Committee on Rules on a resolution 
proposing a special order of business for the consideration of a public 
bill or public joint resolution may be called up as a privileged 
question by a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner on a day when 
it is in order to consider a motion to discharge committees under 
clause 2 of rule XV.
       (f) If the House has adopted a resolution making in order a 
motion to consider a bill or resolution, and such a motion has not been 
offered within seven calendar days thereafter, such a motion shall be 
privileged if offered by direction of all reporting committees having 
initial jurisdiction of the bill or resolution. 
       (g) Whenever the Committee on Rules reports a resolution 
providing for the consideration of a measure, it shall (to the maximum 
extent possible) specify in the resolution the object of any waiver of 
a point of order against the measure or against its consideration.
Resolutions of inquiry
       7. A report on a resolution of inquiry addressed to the head of 
an executive department may be filed from the floor as privileged. If 
such a resolution is not reported to the House within 14 legislative 
days after its introduction, a motion to discharge a committee from its 
consideration shall be privileged.
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