[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 171 (Tuesday, December 11, 2001)]
[Senate]
[Pages S12865-S12868]
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                  STATEMENTS ON SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS

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  SENATE RESOLUTION 189--TO AMEND THE RULES OF THE SENATE TO IMPROVE 
             LEGISLATIVE EFFICIENCY, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

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

                              S. Res. 189

       Resolved, That rule XXV of the Standing Rules of the Senate 
     is amended to read as follows:

                               ``RULE XXV


                         ``STANDING COMMITTEES

       ``1. The following standing committees shall be appointed 
     at the commencement of each Congress, and shall continue and 
     have the power to act until their successors are appointed, 
     with leave to report by bill or otherwise on matters within 
     their respective jurisdictions:
       ``(a)(1) Committee on National Priorities, to which 
     committee shall be referred all concurrent resolutions on the 
     budget (as defined in section 3(4) of the Congressional 
     Budget Act of 1974) and all other matters required to be 
     referred to committee under titles III and IV of that Act, 
     and messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters 
     relating thereto.
       ``(2) Such committee shall have the duty--
       ``(A) to report the matters required to be reported by 
     committee under titles III and IV of the Congressional Budget 
     Act of 1974;
       ``(B) to make continuing studies of the effect on budget 
     outlays of relevant existing and proposed legislation and to 
     report the results of such studies to the Senate on a 
     recurring basis;
       ``(C) to request and evaluate continuing studies of tax 
     expenditures, to devise methods of coordinating tax 
     expenditures, policies, and programs with direct budget 
     outlays, and to report the results of such studies to the 
     Senate on a recurring basis; and
       ``(D) to review, on a continuing basis, the conduct by the 
     Congressional Budget Office of its functions and duties.
       ``(b)(1) Committee on Agricultural Policy, to which 
     committee shall be referred all proposed legislation, 
     messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating 
     primarily to the following subjects:
       ``1. Agricultural economics and research.
       ``2. Agricultural extension services and experiment 
     stations.
       ``3. Agricultural production, marketing, and stabilization 
     of prices.
       ``4. Agriculture and agricultural commodities.
       ``5. Animal industry and diseases.
       ``6. Crop insurance and soil conservation.
       ``7. Farm credit and farm security.
       ``8. Food from fresh waters.
       ``9. Inspection of livestock, meat, and agricultural 
     products.
       ``10. Pests and pesticides.
       ``11. Plant industry, soils, and agricultural engineering.
       ``12. Rural development, rural electrification, and 
     watersheds.
       ``(2) There shall also be referred to such committee all 
     proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and 
     other matters relating to the appropriation, or to the 
     rescission of the appropriation, of revenue for the support 
     of Government programs, projects, or activities relating 
     primarily to the subjects specified in paragraph (b)(1), 
     except as provided in subparagraph (a).
       ``(c)(1) Committee on Defense Policy, to which committee 
     shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages, 
     petitions, memorials, and other matters relating primarily to 
     the following subjects:
       ``1. Aeronautical and space activities peculiar to or 
     primarily associated with the development of weapons systems 
     or military operations.
       ``2. Common defense.
       ``3. Department of Defense, the Department of the Army, the 
     Department of the Navy, and the Department of the Air Force, 
     generally.
       ``4. Maintenance and operation of the Panama Canal, 
     including administration, sanitation, and government of the 
     Canal Zone.
       ``5. Military research and development.
       ``6. National security aspects of nuclear energy.
       ``7. Naval petroleum reserves, except those in Alaska.
       ``8. Pay, promotion, retirement, and other benefits and 
     privileges of members of the Armed Forces, including overseas 
     education of civilian and military dependents.
       ``9. Selective Service system.
       ``10. Strategic and critical materials necessary for the 
     common defense.
       ``(2) There shall also be referred to such committee all 
     proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and 
     other matters relating to the appropriation, or to the 
     rescission of the appropriation, of revenue for the support 
     of Government programs, projects, or activities relating 
     primarily to the subjects specified in paragraph (c)(1), 
     except as provided in subparagraph (a).
       ``(d)(1) Committee on Commercial Policy, to which committee 
     shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages, 
     petitions, memorials, and other matters relating primarily to 
     the following subjects:
       ``1. Coast Guard.
       ``2. Coastal zone management.
       ``3. Communications.
       ``4. Construction and maintenance of highways, and highway 
     safety.
       ``5. Inland waterways, except construction.
       ``6. Interstate commerce.
       ``7. Marine and ocean navigation, safety, and 
     transportation, including navigational aspects of deepwater 
     ports.
       ``8. Marine fisheries.
       ``9. Merchant marine and navigation.
       ``10. Nonmilitary aeronautical and space sciences.
       ``11. Oceans, weather, and atmospheric activities.
       ``12. Regulation of consumer products and services, 
     including testing related to toxic substances, other than 
     pesticides.
       ``13. Regulation of interstate common carriers, including 
     railroads, buses, trucks, vessels, pipelines, and civil 
     aviation.
       ``14. Science, engineering, and technology research and 
     development and policy.
       ``15. Sports.
       ``16. Standards and measurement.
       ``17. Transportation.
       ``18. Transportation and commerce aspects of Outer 
     Continental Shelf lands.
       ``19. Regional economic development.
       ``20. Financial aid to commerce and industry.
       ``21. Public works, bridges, and dams.
       ``(2) There shall also be referred to such committee all 
     proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and 
     other matters relating to the appropriation, or to the 
     rescission of the appropriation, of revenue for the support 
     of Government programs, projects, or activities relating 
     primarily to the subjects specified in paragraph (d)(1), 
     except as provided in subparagraph (a).
       ``(e)(1) Committee on Economic Policy, to which committee 
     shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages, 
     petitions, memorials, and other matters relating primarily to 
     the following subjects:
       ``1. Bonded debt of the United States, except as provided 
     in the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
       ``2. Deposits of public moneys.
       ``3. Revenue measures generally, except as provided in the 
     Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
       ``4. Revenue measures relating to the insular possessions.
       ``5. Banks, banking, and financial institutions.
       ``6. Deposit insurance.
       ``7. Federal monetary policy, including the Federal Reserve 
     System.
       ``8. Issuance and redemption of notes.
       ``9. Money and credit, including currency and coinage.
       ``(2) There shall also be referred to such committee all 
     proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and 
     other matters relating to the appropriation, or to the 
     rescission of the appropriation, of revenue for the support 
     of Government programs, projects, or activities relating 
     primarily to the subjects specified in paragraph (e)(1), 
     except as provided in subparagraph (a).
       ``(f)(1) Committee on Energy Policy, to which committee 
     shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages, 
     petitions, memorials, and other matters relating primarily to 
     the following subjects:
       ``1. Coal production, distribution, and utilization.
       ``2. Energy policy.
       ``3. Energy regulation and conservation.
       ``4. Energy-related aspects of deepwater ports.
       ``5. Energy research and development.
       ``6. Extraction of minerals from oceans and Outer 
     Continental Shelf lands.
       ``7. Hydroelectric power, irrigation, and reclamation.
       ``8. Mining education and research.
       ``9. Mining, mineral lands, mining claims, and mineral 
     conservation.
       ``10. Naval petroleum reserves in Alaska.

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       ``11. Nonmilitary development of nuclear energy.
       ``12. Oil and gas production and distribution.
       ``13. Solar energy systems.
       ``(2) There shall also be referred to such committee all 
     proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and 
     other matters relating to the appropriation, or to the 
     rescission of the appropriation, of revenue for the support 
     of Government programs, projects, or activities relating 
     primarily to the subjects specified in paragraph (f)(1), 
     except as provided in subparagraph (a).
       ``(g)(1) Committee on Environmental Policy, to which 
     committee shall be referred all proposed legislation, 
     messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating 
     primarily to the following subjects:
       ``1. Air pollution.
       ``2. Environmental aspects of Outer Continental Shelf 
     lands.
       ``3. Environmental effects of toxic substances, other than 
     pesticides.
       ``4. Environmental policy.
       ``5. Environmental research and development.
       ``6. Fisheries and wildlife.
       ``7. Flood control and improvements of rivers and harbors, 
     including environmental aspects of deepwater ports.
       ``8. Noise pollution.
       ``9. Nonmilitary environmental regulation and control of 
     nuclear energy.
       ``10. Ocean dumping.
       ``11. Solid waste disposal and recycling.
       ``12. Water pollution.
       ``13. Water resources.
       ``14. Forestry, and forest reserves and wilderness areas.
       ``15. National parks, recreation areas, wild and scenic 
     rivers, historical sites, military parks and battlefields, 
     and on the public domain, preservation of prehistoric ruins 
     and objects of interest.
       ``16. Public lands and forests, including farming and 
     grazing thereon, and mineral extraction therefrom.
       ``(2) There shall also be referred to such committee all 
     proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and 
     other matters relating to the appropriation, or to the 
     rescission of the appropriation, of revenue for the support 
     of Government programs, projects, or activities relating 
     primarily to the subjects specified in paragraph (g)(1), 
     except as provided in subparagraph (a).
       ``(h)(1) Committee on Foreign Policy, to which committee 
     shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages, 
     petitions, memorials, and other matters relating primarily to 
     the following subjects:
       ``1. Acquisition of land and buildings for embassies and 
     legations in foreign countries.
       ``2. Boundaries of the United States.
       ``3. Diplomatic service.
       ``4. Foreign economic, military, technical, and 
     humanitarian assistance.
       ``5. Foreign loans.
       ``6. International activities of the American Red Cross and 
     the International Committee of the Red Cross.
       ``7. International aspects of nuclear energy, including 
     nuclear transfer policy.
       ``8. International conferences and congresses.
       ``9. International law as it relates to foreign policy.
       ``10. International Monetary Fund and other international 
     organizations established primarily for international 
     monetary purposes.
       ``11. Intervention abroad and declarations of war.
       ``12. Measures to foster commercial intercourse with 
     foreign nations and to safeguard American business interests 
     abroad.
       ``13. Trusteeships of the United States, including 
     territorial possessions of the United States.
       ``14. Oceans and international environmental and scientific 
     affairs as they relate to foreign policy.
       ``15. Protection of United States citizens abroad and 
     expatriation.
       ``16. Relations of the United States with foreign nations 
     generally.
       ``17. Treaties and executive agreements.
       ``18. United Nations and its affiliated organizations.
       ``19. World Bank group, the regional development banks, and 
     other international organizations established primarily for 
     development assistance programs.
       ``20. Foreign trade promotion, export, and export controls.
       ``21. Interoceanic canals generally, unless otherwise 
     provided.
       ``22. Customs and ports of entry and delivery.
       ``23. Reciprocal trade agreements.
       ``24. Tariffs and import quotas, and matters related 
     thereto.
       ``25. Organization and management of United States nuclear 
     export policy.
       ``(2) There shall also be referred to such committee all 
     proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and 
     other matters relating to the appropriation, or to the 
     rescission of the appropriation, of revenue for the support 
     of Government programs, projects, or activities relating 
     primarily to the subjects specified in paragraph (h)(1), 
     except as provided in subparagraph (a).
       ``(i)(1) Committee on Governmental Policy, to which 
     committee shall be referred all proposed legislation, 
     messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating 
     primarily to the following subjects:
       ``1. Archives of the United States.
       ``2. Budget and accounting measures, except as provided in 
     the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
       ``3. Census and collection of statistics, including 
     economic and social statistics.
       ``4. Congressional organizations, except for any part of 
     the matter that amends the rules of order of the Senate.
       ``5. Federal Civil Service.
       ``6. Government information.
       ``7. Intergovernmental relations.
       ``8. Municipal affairs of the District of Columbia.
       ``9. Organization and reorganization of the executive 
     branch of the Government.
       ``10. Postal Service.
       ``11. Status of officers of the United States, including 
     their classification, compensation, and benefits.
       ``12. Renegotiation of governmental contracts.
       ``13. Public buildings and improved grounds of the United 
     States generally, including Federal buildings in the District 
     of Columbia.
       ``(2) There shall also be referred to such committee all 
     proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and 
     other matters relating to the appropriation, or to the 
     rescission of the appropriation, of revenue for the support 
     of Government programs, projects, or activities relating 
     primarily to the subjects specified in paragraph (i)(1), 
     except as provided in subparagraph (a).
       ``(j)(1) Committee on Judicial Policy, to which committee 
     shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages, 
     petitions, memorials, and other matters relating primarily to 
     the following subjects:
       ``1. Apportionment of Representatives.
       ``2. Bankruptcy, mutiny, espionage, and counterfeiting.
       ``3. Civil liberties.
       ``4. Constitutional amendments.
       ``5. Federal courts and judges.
       ``6. Holidays and celebrations.
       ``7. Immigration and naturalization.
       ``8. Interstate compacts generally.
       ``9. Judicial proceedings, civil and criminal, generally.
       ``10. Local courts in the territories and possessions.
       ``11. Measures relating to claims against the United 
     States.
       ``12. National penitentiaries.
       ``13. Patent Office.
       ``14. Patents, copyrights, and trademarks.
       ``15. Protection of trade and commerce against unlawful 
     restraints and monopolies.
       ``16. Revisions and codification of the statutes of the 
     United States.
       ``17. State and territorial boundary lines.
       ``(2) There shall also be referred to such committee all 
     proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and 
     other matters relating to the appropriation, or to the 
     rescission of the appropriation, of revenue for the support 
     of Government programs, projects, or activities relating 
     primarily to the subjects specified in paragraph (j)(1), 
     except as provided in subparagraph (a).
       ``(k)(1) Committee on Social Policy, to which committee 
     shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages, 
     petitions, memorials, and other matters relating primarily to 
     the following subjects:
       ``1. Measures relating to education, labor, health, and 
     public welfare.
       ``2. Arts and humanities.
       ``3. Biomedical research and development.
       ``4. Child labor.
       ``5. Domestic activities of the American Red Cross.
       ``6. Equal employment opportunity.
       ``7. Gallaudet College, Howard University, and Saint 
     Elizabeth's Hospital.
       ``8. Handicapped individuals.
       ``9. Labor standards.
       ``10. Mediation and arbitration of labor disputes.
       ``11. Occupational safety and health, including the welfare 
     of miners.
       ``12. Private pension plans.
       ``13. Public health.
       ``14. Railroad retirement program.
       ``15. Regulation of foreign laborers.
       ``16. Student loans.
       ``17. Wages and hours of labor.
       ``18. Food stamp programs.
       ``19. Human nutrition.
       ``20. School nutrition programs.
       ``21. Public housing.
       ``22. Nursing homes including construction.
       ``23. National social security.
       ``24. Public health programs, including health programs 
     under the Social Security Act.
       ``(2) There shall also be referred to such committee all 
     proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and 
     other matters relating to the appropriation, or to the 
     rescission of the appropriation, of revenue for the support 
     of Government programs, projects, or activities relating 
     primarily to the subjects specified in paragraph (k)(1), 
     except as provided in subparagraph (a).
       ``(l)(1) Committee on Native American Programs, to which 
     committee shall be referred all proposed legislation, 
     messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating 
     primarily to Native Americans generally, and Native American 
     Programs.
       ``(2) There shall also be referred to such committee all 
     proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and 
     other matters relating to the appropriation, or to the 
     rescission of the appropriation, of revenue for the support 
     of government programs, projects, or activities relating 
     primarily to the subjects specified in paragraph (l)(1), 
     except as provided in subparagraph (a).
       ``(m)(1) Committee on Senior American Programs, to which 
     committee shall be referred all proposed legislation, 
     messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating 
     primarily to senior Americans generally, and to the Older 
     Americans Act.

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       ``(2) There shall also be referred to such committee all 
     proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and 
     other matters relating to the appropriation, or to the 
     rescission of the appropriation, of revenue for the support 
     of Government programs, projects, or activities relating 
     primarily to the subjects specified in paragraph (m)(1), 
     except as provided in subparagraph (a).
       ``(n)(1) Committee on Veteran American Programs, to which 
     committee shall be referred all proposed legislation, 
     messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating 
     primarily to the following subjects:
       ``1. Compensation of veterans.
       ``2. Life insurance issued by the Government on account of 
     service in the Armed Forces.
       ``3. National cemeteries.
       ``4. Pensions of all wars of the United States, general and 
     special.
       ``5. Readjustment of servicemen to civilian life.
       ``6. Soldiers and sailors civil relief.
       ``7. Veterans' hospitals, medical care and treatment of 
     veterans.
       ``8. Veterans' measures generally.
       ``9. Vocational rehabilitation and education of veterans.
       ``(2) There shall also be referred to such committee all 
     proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and 
     other matters relating to the appropriation, or to the 
     rescission of the appropriation, of revenue for the support 
     of Government programs, projects, or activities relating 
     primarily to the subjects specified in paragraph (n)(1), 
     except as provided in subparagraph (a).
       ``(o)(1) Committee on Entrepreneurial American Programs,  
     to which committee shall be referred all proposed 
     legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other 
     matters relating to the Small Business Administration.
       ``(2) Any proposed legislation reported by such committee 
     which relates to matters other than the functions of the 
     Small Business Administration shall, at the request of any 
     standing committee having jurisdiction over the subject 
     matter extraneous to the functions of the Small Business 
     Administration, be considered and reported by such standing 
     committee prior to its consideration by the Senate; and 
     likewise measures reported by other committees directly 
     relating to the Small Business Administration shall, at the 
     request of the Committee on Entrepreneurial American Programs 
     for its consideration of any portions of the measure dealing 
     with the Small Business Administration, be considered and 
     reported by this committee prior to its consideration by the 
     Senate.
       ``(3) There shall also be referred to such committee all 
     proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and 
     other matters relating to the appropriation, or to the 
     rescission of the appropriation, of revenue for the support 
     of Government programs, projects, or activities relating 
     primarily to the subjects specified in paragraphs (o)(1) and 
     (o)(2), except as provided in subparagraph (a).
       ``(p)(1) Committee on Senate Rules, to which committee 
     shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages, 
     petitions, memorials, and other matters relating primarily to 
     the following subjects:
       ``1. Administration of the Senate office buildings and the 
     Senate wing of the Capitol, including the assignment of 
     office space.
       ``2. Congressional organization relative to rules and 
     procedures, and Senate rules and regulations, including floor 
     and gallery rules.
       ``3. Corrupt practices.
       ``4. Credentials and qualifications of members of the 
     Senate, contested elections, and acceptance of incompatible 
     offices.
       ``5. Federal elections generally, including the election of 
     the President, Vice President, and members of Congress.
       ``6. Government Printing Office, and the printing and 
     correction of the Congressional Record, as well as those 
     matters provided under rule XI.
       ``7. Meetings of the Congress and attendance of the 
     members.
       ``8. Payments of money out of the contingent fund of the 
     Senate or creating a charge upon the same (except that any 
     resolution relating to substantive matter within the 
     jurisdiction of any other standing committee of the Senate 
     shall first be referred to such committee).
       ``9. Presidential succession.
       ``10. Purchase of books and manuscripts and erection of 
     monuments to the memory of individuals.
       ``11. Senate Library and statuary, art, and pictures in the 
     Capitol and Senate office buildings.
       ``12. Services to the Senate, including the Senate 
     restaurant.
       ``13. United States Capitol and congressional office 
     buildings, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian 
     Institution (and the incorporation of similar institutions), 
     and the Botanic Gardens.
       ``(2) There shall also be referred to such committee all 
     proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and 
     other matters relating to the appropriation, or to the 
     rescission of the appropriation, of revenue for the support 
     of Government programs, projects, or activities relating 
     primarily to the subjects specified in paragraph (p)(1), 
     except as provided in subparagraph (a).
       ``2. (a) Except as otherwise provided by paragraph 4 of 
     this rule, the Leadership Committee, known as the Committee 
     on National Priorities, shall consist of not less than 28 
     Senators nor more than 33 Senators.
       ``(b) Except as otherwise provided by paragraph 4 of this 
     rule, each of the following standing committees shall consist 
     of not more than the number of Senators set forth in the 
     following table on the line on which the name of that 
     committee appears:

                    ``LEGISLATIVE POLICY COMMITTEES

  ``Committee:                                                  Members
    Agricultural Policy............................................17  
    Defense Policy.................................................17  
    Commercial Policy..............................................17  
    Economic Policy................................................17  
    Energy Policy..................................................17  
    Environmental Policy...........................................17  
    Foreign Policy.................................................17  
    Governmental Policy............................................17  
    Judicial Policy................................................17  
    Social Policy..................................................17  

       ``(c) Except as otherwise provided by paragraph 4 of this 
     rule, each of the following standing committees shall consist 
     of not more than the number of Senators set forth in the 
     following table on the line on which the name of that 
     committee appears:

                    ``LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM COMMITTEES

  ``Committee:                                                  Members
    Native American Programs........................................9  
    Veteran American Programs......................................11  
    Senior American Programs.......................................19  
    Entrepreneurial American Programs..............................19  

       ``(d) Except as otherwise provided by paragraph 4 of this 
     rule, each of the following committees and standing 
     committees shall consist of the number of Senators set forth 
     in the following table on the line on which the name of that 
     committee appears:

                      ``ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEES

  ``Committee:                                                  Members
    Senate Rules...................................................15  
    Senate Ethics...................................................6  
    Senate Intelligence............................................15  

       ``3. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 4, and 
     except as otherwise provided by this paragraph--
       ``(1) each Senator shall serve on no more than two 
     committees listed in subparagraph 2(b).
       ``(2) each Senator serving as either a chairman or a 
     ranking member of any committee listed in subparagraph 2(b) 
     shall serve on the committee listed in subparagraph 2(a).
       ``(3) each Senator serving as either a chairman or a 
     ranking member of any committee listed in subparagraph 2(c) 
     shall also serve on the committee listed in subparagraph 
     2(a).
       ``(4) in addition to those Senators serving on the 
     committee listed in subparagraph 2(a) by virtue of their 
     serving as chairman or ranking member of a committee listed 
     in subparagraph 2(b), not more than 5 Senators shall be 
     appointed by the majority leader of the Senate to serve on 
     the committee listed in subparagraph 2(a) for the purpose of 
     making the overall balance of majority and minority members 
     on the committee the same as the relative balance between the 
     majority and minority members of the Senate.
       ``(5) service by a Senator on any committee listed in 
     subparagraph 2(c) shall not limit the ability of such Senator 
     to serve on any other committee or standing committee.
       ``(b) By agreement entered into by the majority leader and 
     the minority leader, the membership of one or more standing 
     committees may be increased temporarily from time to time by 
     such number or numbers as may be required to accord to the 
     majority party a majority of the membership of all standing 
     committees. Members of the majority party in such numbers as 
     may be required for that purpose may serve as members of 
     three standing committees listed in subparagraph 2(b). No 
     such temporary increase in the membership of any Standing 
     committee under this subparagraph shall be continued in 
     effect after the need therefore has ended. No standing 
     committee may be increased in membership under this 
     subparagraph by more than two members in excess of the number 
     prescribed for that committee by paragraph 2(b).
       ``(c) No Senator shall serve at any one time as chairman of 
     more than one subcommittee of each standing committee of the 
     Senate.
       ``4. Notwithstanding any provision of rule XXIV of the 
     Standing Rules of the Senate, the appointment of committees 
     or standing committees as prescribed by this title shall be 
     on the basis of each Senator's continuous service in the 
     Senate, except that such appointment shall be in accordance 
     with the following limitations:
       ``(a) Only those Senators who on the day preceding the 
     effective date of this title were serving as members of the 
     Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry or who were 
     serving on the Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural 
     Development, and Related Agencies of the Committee on 
     Appropriations may serve on the Committee on Agricultural 
     Policy.
       ``(b) Only those Senators who on the day preceding the 
     effective date of this title were serving as members of the 
     Committee on Armed Services or who were serving on the 
     Subcommittee on Defense or the Subcommittee on Military 
     Construction of the Committee on Appropriations may serve on 
     the Committee on Defense Policy.
       ``(c) Only those Senators who on the day preceding the 
     effective date of this title were serving as members of the 
     Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation or who 
     were serving on the Subcommittee on Transportation and 
     Related Agencies of the Committee on Appropriations may serve 
     on the Committee on Commercial Policy.
       ``(d) Only those Senators who on the day preceding the 
     effective date of this title were

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     serving as members of the Committee on Finance or the 
     Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs may serve on 
     the Committee on Economic Policy.
       ``(e) Only those Senators who on the day preceding the 
     effective date of this title were serving as members of the 
     Committee on Energy and Natural Resources or who were serving 
     on the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development of the 
     Committee on Appropriations, may serve on the Committee on 
     Energy Policy.
       ``(f) Only those Senators who on the day preceding the 
     effective date of this title were serving as members of the 
     Committee on Environment and Public Works or who were serving 
     on the Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies of the 
     Committee on Appropriations may serve on the Committee on 
     Environmental Policy.
       ``(g) Only those Senators who on the day preceding the 
     effective date of this title were serving as members of the 
     Committee on Foreign Relations or who were serving on the 
     Subcommittee on Foreign Operations of the Committee on 
     Appropriations may serve on the Committee on Foreign Policy.
       ``(h) Only those Senators who on the day preceding the 
     effective date of this title were serving as members of the 
     Committee on Governmental Affairs or who were serving on the 
     Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and General 
     Government or the Subcommittee on the District of Columbia or 
     on the Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies of the 
     Committee on Appropriations may serve on the Committee on 
     Governmental Policy.
       ``(i) Only those Senators who on the day preceding the 
     effective date of this title were serving as members of the 
     Committee on the Judiciary or who were serving on the 
     Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the Judiciary, and 
     Related Agencies of the Committee on Appropriations may serve 
     on the Committee on Judicial Policy.
       ``(j) Only those Senators who on the day preceding the 
     effective date of this title were serving as members of the 
     Committee on Labor and Human Resources or who were serving on 
     the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, 
     Education, and Related Agencies of the Committee on 
     Appropriations, may serve on the Committee on Social Policy.
       ``(k) Only those Senators who on the day preceding the 
     effective date of this title were serving as members of the 
     Committee on Rules and Administration or who were serving on 
     the Subcommittee on Legislative Branch of the Committee on 
     Appropriations may serve on the Committee on Senate Policy.
       ``(l) Only those Senators who on the day preceding the 
     effective date of this title were serving as members of the 
     Select Committee on Indian Affairs may serve on the Committee 
     on Native American Programs.
       ``(m) Only those Senators who on the day preceding the 
     effective date of this title were serving as members of the 
     Committee on Veterans' Affairs may serve on the Committee on 
     Veteran Programs.
       ``(n) Only those Senators who on the day preceding the 
     effective date of this title were serving as members of the 
     Special Committee on Aging may serve on the Committee on 
     Senior American Programs.
       ``(o) Only those Senators who on the day preceding the 
     effective date of this title were serving as members of the 
     Committee on Small Business may serve on the Committee on 
     Senior American Programs.
       ``5. Upon the effective date of this title, the Select 
     Committee on Ethics shall become the Committee on Senate 
     Ethics, and the Select Committee on Intelligence shall become 
     the Committee on Intelligence Oversight. However, the 
     membership, functions, and duties of such committees shall 
     remain unchanged.''.
       Sec. 2. Paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 7 of rule XVI of the 
     Standing Rules of the Senate are repealed, and paragraphs 5 
     and 8 are renumbered as paragraphs ``1'' and ``2'', 
     respectively.
       Sec. 3. Subparagraph (b) of paragraph 4 of rule XVII of the 
     Standing Rules of the Senate is amended by striking out 
     ``(except the Committee on Appropriations)''.
       Sec. 4. Rule XXVI of the Standing Rules of the Senate is 
     amended--
       (a) by striking out ``(except the Committee on 
     Appropriations)'' in each instance where it appears,
       (b) by striking out ``(except the Committee on 
     Appropriations and the Committee on the Budget)'' in each 
     instance where it appears, and inserting in lieu thereof the 
     following ``(except the Committee on National Priorities)'',
       (c) by striking out ``The prohibition contained in the 
     preceding sentence shall not apply to the Committee on 
     Appropriations or the Committee on the Budget.'' in 
     subparagraph 5(a) and inserting in lieu thereof ``The 
     prohibition contained in the preceding sentence shall not 
     apply to the Committee on National Priorities.'',
       (d) by striking out the last sentence of subparagraph 
     10(b), and
       (e) by striking out ``(except those by the Committee on 
     Appropriations)'' in subparagraph 11(b).
       Sec. 5. The provisions of this resolution shall take effect 
     on the first day of the first Congress following the date of 
     its adoption by the Senate.

  Mr. McCAIN. Madam President, for many years I have spoken at length, 
both on and off of the Senate floor, about the need to curb pork barrel 
spending and reduce overall government waste. Around this time each 
year, I often engage in lengthy debates over the latest excesses in the 
appropriations bills, which, almost invariably, are stuffed to the 
gills with earmarks and pet projects.
  It was noted last week that H.R. 3338, this year's $317 billion 
Department of Defense Appropriations bill, was the most expensive 
appropriations bill to ever pass the United States Senate. Unlike some 
of my colleagues, I do not believe this is something for which we 
deserve praise. Bills like H.R. 3338, before it was modified due to the 
efforts of other Republican Senators who share my concern, are prime 
examples of how we are failing the American taxpayers who foot the bill 
for our excesses.
  Time and again, I have called my colleagues' attention to the harmful 
practice of earmarking, of putting parochial interests before national 
ones, and of funding projects in an ad hoc manner devoid of a unifying 
policy or goal.
  Last week, Secretary Rumsfeld, after briefing a group of Senators 
about the war effort, was asked what the Senate could do to help. One 
of several requests by the Secretary was that we in Senate stop funding 
projects the military did not ask for or need. As my colleague from 
Arizona, Senator Kyl, recounted last Friday night during debate on the 
DoD appropriations bill, the reaction to this statement was ``other 
than that, what can we do?"
  Today I offer an answer. It is premised on the recognition that part 
of the problem lies in the current structure of the Senate, which 
delegates to separate committees the functions of authorization and 
appropriating funds. Currently, there are no effective restrictions on 
funding projects that have not been considered by a single committee 
with technical expertise and broad policy perspective. I should mention 
that I do not necessarily think these are the authorizing committees.
  To help provide a unified, uniform policy basis for our spending of 
taxpayers' money, I am introducing a resolution today to reorganize the 
committees of the United States Senate with the hope of helping to 
eliminate spending on unauthorized and unconsidered pet projects.
  Under this Resolution most of the existing committees would be 
dissolved and reconstituted as policy, administrative, or leadership 
committees. The Resolution would merge the functions of the authorizing 
and appropriations committees by having members of the existing 
appropriations subcommittees serve with current members of the existing 
authorizing committee on newly created ``policy committees'' that 
correspond to the issues they currently cover.
  This resolution is not a new idea. It was introduced during four 
previous Congresses by one of our former colleagues, Nancy Kassebaum. I 
was a proud cosponsor of this legislation then, and I find it 
particularly timely now. This is a sound proposal for real reform, and 
I hope that my colleagues will join me in supporting it.

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