[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 22 (Tuesday, February 6, 2007)]
[House]
[Pages H1237-H1250]
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  PUBLICATION OF THE RULES OF THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS, 110TH 
                                CONGRESS

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the 
gentleman from New York (Mr. Rangel) is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to submit for printing in the 
Congressional

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Record, pursuant to rule XI, clause 2(a) of the Rules of the House, a 
copy of the Rules of the Committee on Ways and Means, which were 
adopted at the organizational meeting of the committee on January 17, 
2007.

  Rules of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, 
                             110th Congress

                                 PART I

                               A. General


                   Rule 1. Application of House Rules

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


                    Rule 2. Meeting Date and Quorums

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


                        Rule 3. Committee Budget

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


               Rule 4. Publication of Committee Documents

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


                        Rule 5. Official Travel

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


       Rule 6. Availability of Committee Records and Publications

       The records of the Committee at the National Archives and 
     Records Administration shall be made available for public use 
     in accordance with Rule VII of the Rules of the House of 
     Representatives. The Chairman shall notify the Ranking 
     Minority Member of any decision, pursuant to clause 3(b)(3) 
     or clause 4(b) of Rule VII, to withhold a record otherwise 
     available, and the matter shall be presented to the Committee 
     for a determination on the written request of any Member of 
     the Committee. The Committee shall, to the maximum extent 
     feasible, make its publications available in electronic form.


                       Rule 7. Committee Website

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

                            B. Subcommittees


              Rule 8. Subcommittee Ratios and Jurisdiction

       All matters referred to the Committee on Ways and Means 
     involving revenue measures, except those revenue measures 
     referred to Subcommittees under paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 
     shall be considered by the full Committee and not in 
     Subcommittee. There shall be six standing Subcommittees as 
     follows: a Subcommittee on Trade; a Subcommittee on 
     Oversight; a Subcommittee on Health; a Subcommittee on Social 
     Security; a Subcommittee on Income Security and Family 
     Support; and a Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures. The 
     ratio of Democrats to Republicans on any Subcommittee of the 
     Committee shall be consistent with the ratio of Democrats to 
     Republicans on the full Committee.
       1. The Subcommittee on Trade shall consist of 15 Members, 9 
     of whom shall be Democrats and 6 of whom shall be 
     Republicans.
       The jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Trade shall include 
     bills and matters referred to the Committee on Ways and Means 
     that relate to customs and customs administration including 
     tariff and import fee structure, classification, valuation of 
     and special rules applying to imports, and special tariff 
     provisions and procedures which relate to customs operation 
     affecting exports and imports; import trade matters, 
     including import impact, industry relief from injurious 
     imports, adjustment assistance and programs to encourage 
     competitive responses to imports, unfair import practices 
     including antidumping and countervailing duty provisions, and 
     import policy which relates to dependence on foreign sources 
     of supply; commodity agreements and reciprocal trade 
     agreements involving multilateral and bilateral trade 
     negotiations and implementation of agreements involving 
     tariff and non-tariff trade barriers to and distortions of 
     international trade; international rules, organizations and 
     institutional aspects of international trade agreements; 
     budget authorizations for the customs revenue functions of 
     the Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. International 
     Trade Commission, and the U.S. Trade Representative; and 
     special trade-related problems involving market access, 
     competitive conditions of specific industries, export policy 
     and promotion, access to materials in short supply, bilateral 
     trade relations including trade with developing

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     countries, operations of multinational corporations, and 
     trade with non-market economies.
       2. The Subcommittee on Oversight shall consist of 13 
     Members, 8 of whom shall be Democrats and 5 of whom shall be 
     Republicans.
       The jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Oversight shall 
     include all matters within the scope of the full Committee's 
     jurisdiction but shall be limited to existing law. Said 
     oversight jurisdiction shall not be exclusive but shall be 
     concurrent with that of the other Subcommittees. With respect 
     to matters involving the Internal Revenue Code and other 
     revenue issues, said concurrent jurisdiction shall be shared 
     with the full Committee. Before undertaking any investigation 
     or hearing, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight 
     shall confer with the Chairman of the full Committee and the 
     Chairman of any other Subcommittee having jurisdiction.
       3. The Subcommittee on Health shall consist of 13 Members, 
     8 of whom shall be Democrats and 5 of whom shall be 
     Republicans.
       The jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Health shall 
     include bills and matters referred to the Committee on Ways 
     and Means that relate to programs providing payments (from 
     any source) for health care, health delivery systems, or 
     health research. More specifically, the jurisdiction of the 
     Subcommittee on Health shall include bills and matters that 
     relate to the health care programs of the Social Security Act 
     (including titles V, XI (Part B), XVIII, and XIX thereof) 
     and, concurrent with the full Committee, tax credit and 
     deduction provisions of the Internal Revenue Code dealing 
     with health insurance premiums and health care costs.
       4. The Subcommittee on Social Security shall consist of 13 
     Members, 8 of whom shall be Democrats and 5 of whom shall be 
     Republicans.
       The jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Social Security 
     shall include bills and matters referred to the Committee on 
     Ways and Means that relate to the Federal Old Age, Survivors' 
     and Disability Insurance System, the Railroad Retirement 
     System, and employment taxes and trust fund operations 
     relating to those systems. More specifically, the 
     jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Social Security shall 
     include bills and matters involving title II of the Social 
     Security Act and Chapter 22 of the Internal Revenue Code (the 
     Railroad Retirement Tax Act), as well as provisions in title 
     VII and title XI of the Act relating to procedure and 
     administration involving the Old Age, Survivors' and 
     Disability Insurance System.
       5. The Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support 
     shall consist of 13 Members, 8 of whom shall be Democrats and 
     5 of whom shall be Republicans.
       The jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Income Security and 
     Family Support shall include bills and matters referred to 
     the Committee on Ways and Means that relate to the public 
     assistance provisions of the Social Security Act, including 
     temporary assistance for needy families, child care, child 
     and family services, child support, foster care, adoption, 
     supplemental security income social services, eligibility of 
     welfare recipients for food stamps, and low-income energy 
     assistance. More specifically, the jurisdiction of the 
     Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support shall 
     include bills and matters relating to titles I, IV, VI, X, 
     XIV, XVI, XVII, XX and related provisions of titles VII and 
     XI of the Social Security Act.
       The jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Income Security and 
     Family Support shall also include bills and matters referred 
     to the Committee on Ways and Means that relate to the 
     Federal-State system of unemployment compensation, and the 
     financing thereof, including the programs for extended and 
     emergency benefits. More specifically, the jurisdiction of 
     the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support shall 
     also include all bills and matters pertaining to the programs 
     of unemployment compensation under titles III, IX and XII of 
     the Social Security Act, Chapters 23 and 23A of the Internal 
     Revenue Code, and the Federal-State Extended Unemployment 
     Compensation Act of 1970, and provisions relating thereto.
       6. The Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures shall 
     consist of 13 Members, 8 of whom shall be Democrats and 5 of 
     whom shall be Republicans.
       The jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Select Revenue 
     Measures shall consist of those revenue measures that, from 
     time to time, shall be referred to it specifically by the 
     Chairman of the full Committee.


              Rule 9. Ex-Officio Members of Subcommittees

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


                     Rule 10. Subcommittee Meetings

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


       Rule 11. Reference of Legislation and Subcommittee Reports

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


          Rule 12. Recommendation for Appointment of Conferees

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

                              C. Hearings


                           Rule 13. Witnesses

       In order to assure the most productive use of the limited 
     time available to question hearing witnesses, a witness who 
     is scheduled to appear before the full Committee or a 
     Subcommittee shall file with the Clerk of the Committee at 
     least 48 hours in advance of his or her appearance a written 
     statement of their proposed testimony. In addition, all 
     witnesses shall comply with formatting requirements as 
     specified by the Committee and the Rules of the House. 
     Failure to comply with the 48-hour rule may result in a 
     witness being denied the opportunity to testify in person. 
     Failure to comply with the formatting requirements may result 
     in a witness' 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

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     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.

        PART II--SELECTED RULES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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


                     Rule VII. Records Of The House

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

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     (other than a record of an individual Member, Delegate, or 
     Resident Commissioner), including--
       (a) with respect to a committee, an official, permanent 
     record of the committee (including any record of a 
     legislative, oversight, or other activity of such committee 
     or a subcommittee thereof);

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                   Rule X. Organization Of Committees

     Committees and their legislative jurisdictions
       1. There shall be in the House the following standing 
     committees, each of which shall have the jurisdiction and 
     related functions assigned by this clause and clauses 2, 3, 
     and 4. All bills, resolutions, and other matters relating to 
     subjects within the jurisdiction of the standing committees 
     listed in this clause shall be referred to those committees, 
     in accordance with clause 2 of rule XII, as follows: * * *
       (t) Committee on Ways and Means.
       (1) Customs revenue, collection districts, and ports of 
     entry and delivery.
       (2) Reciprocal trade agreements.
       (3) Revenue measures generally.
       (4) Revenue measures relating to insular possessions.
       (5) Bonded debt of the United States, subject to the last 
     sentence of clause 4(f).
       (6) Deposit of public monies.
       (7) Transportation of dutiable goods.
       (8) Tax exempt foundations and charitable trusts.
       (9) National social security (except health care and 
     facilities programs that are supported from general revenues 
     as opposed to payroll deductions and except work incentive 
     programs).
     General oversight responsibilities
       2. (a) The various standing committees shall have general 
     oversight responsibilities as provided in paragraph (b) in 
     order to assist the House in--
       (1) its analysis, appraisal, and evaluation 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. * * *
       (f) The Committee on Foreign Affairs shall review and study 
     on a continuing basis laws, programs, and Government 
     activities relating to customs administration, intelligence 
     activities relating to foreign policy, international 
     financial and monetary organizations, and international 
     fishing agreements.

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

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

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

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     Expense resolutions
       6. (a) Whenever a committee, commission, or other entity 
     (other than the Committee on Appropriations) is granted 
     authorization for the payment of its expenses (including 
     staff salaries) for a Congress, such authorization initially 
     shall be procured by one primary expense resolution reported 
     by the Committee on House Administration. A primary expense 
     resolution may include a reserve fund for unanticipated 
     expenses of committees.
       An amount from such a reserve fund may be allocated to a 
     committee only by the approval of the Committee on House 
     Administration. A primary expense resolution reported to the 
     House may not be considered in the House unless a printed 
     report thereon was available on the previous calendar day. 
     For the information of the House, such report shall--
       (1) state the total amount of the funds to be provided to 
     the committee, commission, or other entity under the primary 
     expense resolution for all anticipated activities and 
     programs of the committee, commission, or other entity; and
       (2) to the extent practicable, contain such general 
     statements regarding the estimated foreseeable expenditures 
     for the respective anticipated activities and programs of the 
     committee, commission, or other entity as may be appropriate 
     to provide the House with basic estimates of the expenditures 
     contemplated by the primary expense resolution.
       (b) After the date of adoption by the House of a primary 
     expense resolution for a committee, commission, or other 
     entity for a Congress, authorization for the payment of 
     additional expenses (including staff salaries) in that 
     Congress may be procured by one or more supplemental expense 
     resolutions reported by the Committee on House 
     Administration, as necessary. A supplemental expense 
     resolution reported to the House may not be considered in the 
     House unless a printed report thereon was available on the 
     previous calendar day. For the information of the House, such 
     report shall--
       (1) state the total amount of additional funds to be 
     provided to the committee, commission, or other entity under 
     the supplemental expense resolution and the purposes

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     for which those additional funds are available; and
       (2) state the reasons for the failure to procure the 
     additional funds for the committee, commission, or other 
     entity by means of the primary expense resolution.
       (c) The preceding provisions of this clause do not apply 
     to--
       (1) a resolution providing for the payment from committee 
     salary and expense accounts of the House of sums necessary to 
     pay compensation for staff services performed for, or to pay 
     other expenses of, a committee, commission, or other entity 
     at any time after the beginning of an odd-numbered year and 
     before the date of adoption by the House of the primary 
     expense resolution described in paragraph (a) for that year; 
     or
       (2) a resolution providing each of the standing committees 
     in a Congress additional office equipment, airmail and 
     special-delivery postage stamps, supplies, staff personnel, 
     or any other specific item for the operation of the standing 
     committees, and containing an authorization for the payment 
     from committee salary and expense accounts of the House of 
     the expenses of any of the foregoing items provided by that 
     resolution, subject to and until enactment of the 
     provisions of the resolution as permanent law.
       (d) From the funds made available for the appointment of 
     committee staff by a primary or additional expense 
     resolution, the chairman of each committee shall ensure that 
     sufficient staff is made available to each subcommittee to 
     carry out its responsibilities under the rules of the 
     committee and that the minority party is treated fairly in 
     the appointment of such staff.
       (e) Funds authorized for a committee under this clause and 
     clauses 7 and 8 are for expenses incurred in the activities 
     of the committee.
     Interim funding
       7. (a) For the period beginning at noon on January 3 and 
     ending at midnight on March 31 in each odd-numbered year, 
     such sums as may be necessary shall be paid out of the 
     committee salary and expense accounts of the House for 
     continuance of necessary investigations and studies by--
       (1) each standing and select committee established by these 
     rules; and
       (2) except as specified in paragraph (b), each select 
     committee established by resolution.
       (b) In the case of the first session of a Congress, amounts 
     shall be made available under this paragraph for a select 
     committee established by resolution in the preceding Congress 
     only if--
       (1) a resolution proposing to reestablish such select 
     committee is introduced in the present Congress; and
       (2) the House has not adopted a resolution of the preceding 
     Congress providing for termination of funding for 
     investigations and studies by such select committee.
       (c) Each committee described in paragraph (a) shall be 
     entitled for each month during the period specified in 
     paragraph (a) to 9 percent (or such lesser percentage as may 
     be determined by the Committee on House Administration) of 
     the total annualized amount made available under expense 
     resolutions for such committee in the preceding session of 
     Congress.
       (d) Payments under this paragraph shall be made on vouchers 
     authorized by the committee involved, signed by the chairman 
     of the committee, except as provided in paragraph (e), and 
     approved by the Committee on House Administration.
       (e) Notwithstanding any provision of law, rule of the 
     House, or other authority, from noon on January 3 of the 
     first session of a Congress until the election by the House 
     of the committee concerned in that Congress, payments under 
     this paragraph shall be made on vouchers signed by--
       (1) the member of the committee who served as chairman of 
     the committee at the expiration of the preceding Congress; or
       (2) if the chairman is not a Member, Delegate, or Resident 
     Commissioner in the present Congress, then the ranking member 
     of the committee as it was constituted at the expiration of 
     the preceding Congress who is a member of the majority party 
     in the present Congress.
       (f)(1) The authority of a committee to incur expenses under 
     this paragraph shall expire upon adoption by the House of a 
     primary expense resolution for the committee.
       (2) Amounts made available under this paragraph shall be 
     expended in accordance with regulations prescribed by the 
     Committee on House Administration.
       (3) This clause shall be effective only insofar as it is 
     not inconsistent with a resolution reported by the Committee 
     on House Administration and adopted by the House after the 
     adoption of these rules.
     Travel
       8. (a) Local currencies owned by the United States shall be 
     made available to the committee and its employees engaged in 
     carrying out their official duties outside the United States 
     or its territories or possessions. Appropriated funds, 
     including those authorized under this clause and clauses 6 
     and 8, may not be expended for the purpose of defraying 
     expenses of members of a committee or its employees in a 
     country where local currencies are available for this 
     purpose.
       (b) The following conditions shall apply with respect to 
     travel outside the United States or its territories or 
     possessions:
       (1) A member or employee of a committee may not receive or 
     expend local currencies for subsistence in a country for a 
     day at a rate in excess of the maximum per diem set forth in 
     applicable Federal law.
       (2) A member or employee shall be reimbursed for his 
     expenses for a day at the lesser of--
       (A) the per diem set forth in applicable Federal law; or
       (B) the actual, unreimbursed expenses (other than for 
     transportation) he incurred during that day.
       (3) Each member or employee of a committee shall make to 
     the chairman of the committee an itemized report showing the 
     dates each country was visited, the amount of per diem 
     furnished, the cost of transportation furnished, and funds 
     expended for any other official purpose and shall summarize 
     in these categories the total foreign currencies or 
     appropriated funds expended. Each report shall be filed with 
     the chairman of the committee not later than 60 days 
     following the completion of travel for use in complying with 
     reporting requirements in applicable Federal law and shall be 
     open for public inspection.
       (c)(1) In carrying out the activities of a committee 
     outside the United States in a country where local currencies 
     are unavailable, a member or employee of a committee may not 
     receive reimbursement for expenses (other than for 
     transportation) in excess of the maximum per diem set forth 
     in applicable Federal law.
       (2) A member or employee shall be reimbursed for his 
     expenses for a day, at the lesser of--
       (A) the per diem set forth in applicable Federal law; or
       (B) the actual unreimbursed expenses (other than for 
     transportation) he incurred during that day.
       (3) A member or employee of a committee may not receive 
     reimbursement for the cost of any transportation in 
     connection with travel outside the United States unless the 
     member or employee actually paid for the transportation.
       (d) The restrictions respecting travel outside the United 
     States set forth in paragraph (c) also shall apply to travel 
     outside the United States by a Member, Delegate, Resident 
     Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House authorized 
     under any standing rule.
     Committee staffs
       9. (a)(1) Subject to subparagraph (2) and paragraph (f), 
     each standing committee may appoint, by majority vote, not 
     more than 30 professional staff members to be compensated 
     from the funds provided for the appointment of committee 
     staff by primary and additional expense resolutions. Each 
     professional staff member appointed under this subparagraph 
     shall be assigned to the chairman and the ranking minority 
     member of the committee, as the committee considers 
     advisable.
       (2) Subject to paragraph (f) whenever a majority of the 
     minority party members of a standing committee (other than 
     the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct or the 
     Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence) so request, not 
     more than 10 persons (or one-third of the total professional 
     committee staff appointed under this clause, whichever is 
     fewer) may be selected, by majority vote of the minority 
     party members, for appointment by the committee as 
     professional staff members under subparagraph (1). The 
     committee shall appoint persons so selected whose character 
     and qualifications are acceptable to a majority of the 
     committee. If the committee determines that the character and 
     qualifications of a person so selected are unacceptable, a 
     majority of the minority party members may select another 
     person for appointment by the committee to the professional 
     staff until such appointment is made. Each professional staff 
     member appointed under this subparagraph shall be assigned to 
     such committee business as the minority party members of the 
     committee consider advisable.
       (b)(1) The professional staff members each standing 
     committee--
       (A) may not engage in any work other than committee 
     business during congressional working hours; and
       (B) may not be assigned a duty other than one pertaining to 
     committee business.
       (2)(A) Subparagraph (1) does not apply to staff designated 
     by a committee as ``associate'' or ``shared'' staff who are 
     not paid exclusively by the committee, provided that the 
     chairman certifies that the compensation paid by the 
     committee for any such staff is commensurate with the work 
     performed for the committee in accordance with clause 8 of 
     rule XXIII.
       (B) The use of any ``associate'' or ``shared'' staff by a 
     committee other than the Committee on Appropriations shall be 
     subject to the review of, and to any terms, conditions, or 
     limitations established by, the Committee on House 
     Administration in connection with the reporting of any 
     primary or additional expense resolution.
       (c) Each employee on the professional or investigative 
     staff of a standing committee shall be entitled to pay at a 
     single gross per annum rate, to be fixed by the chairman and 
     that does not exceed the maximum rate of pay as in effect 
     from time to time under applicable provisions of law.
       (d) Subject to appropriations hereby authorized, the 
     Committee on Appropriations may appoint by majority vote such 
     staff as it determines to be necessary (in addition to the 
     clerk of the committee and assistants for the minority). The 
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     paragraph, other than minority assistants, shall possess such 
     qualifications as the committee may prescribe.
       (e) A committee may not appoint to its staff an expert or 
     other personnel detailed or assigned from a department or 
     agency of the Government except with the written permission 
     of the Committee on House Administration.
       (f) If a request for the appointment of a minority 
     professional staff member under paragraph (a) is made when no 
     vacancy exists for such an appointment, the committee 
     nevertheless may appoint under paragraph (a) a person 
     selected by the minority and acceptable to the committee. A 
     person so appointed shall serve as an additional member of 
     the professional staff of the committee until such a vacancy 
     occurs (other than a vacancy in the position of head of the 
     professional staff, by whatever title designated), at which 
     time that person is considered as appointed to that vacancy. 
     Such a person shall be paid from the applicable accounts of 
     the House described in clause 1(i)(1) of rule X. If such a 
     vacancy occurs on the professional staff when seven or more 
     persons have been so appointed who are eligible to fill that 
     vacancy, a majority of the minority party members shall 
     designate which of those persons shall fill the vacancy.
       (g) Each staff member appointed pursuant to a request by 
     minority party members under paragraph ( a), and each staff 
     member appointed to assist minority members of a committee 
     pursuant to an expense resolution described in paragraph (a) 
     of clause 6, shall be accorded equitable treatment with 
     respect to the fixing of the rate of pay, the assignment of 
     work facilities, and the accessibility of committee records.
       (h) Paragraph (a) may not be construed to authorize the 
     appointment of additional professional staff members of a 
     committee pursuant to a request under paragraph (a) by the 
     minority party members of that committee if 10 or more 
     professional staff members provided for in paragraph (a)(1) 
     who are satisfactory to a majority of the minority party 
     members are otherwise assigned to assist the minority party 
     members.
       (i) Notwithstanding paragraph (a)(2), a committee may 
     employ nonpartisan staff, in lieu of or in addition to 
     committee staff designated exclusively for the majority or 
     minority party, by an affirmative vote of a majority of the 
     members of the majority party and of a majority of the 
     members of the minority party.

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       Rule XI. Procedures of Committees and Unfinished Business

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

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     and each member voting against such amendment, motion, order, 
     or proposition, and the names of those members of the 
     committee present but not voting.
       (ii) The result of any record vote taken in executive 
     session in the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct may 
     not be made available for inspection by the public without an 
     affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the 
     committee.
       (2)(A) Except as provided in subdivision (B), all committee 
     hearings, records, data, charts, and files shall be kept 
     separate and distinct from the congressional office records 
     of the member serving as its chairman. Such records shall be 
     the property of the House, and each Member, Delegate, and 
     the Resident Commissioner shall have access thereto.
       (B) A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner, other 
     than members of the Committee on Standards of Official 
     Conduct, may not have access to the records of that committee 
     respecting the conduct of a Member, Delegate, Resident 
     Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House without the 
     specific prior permission of that committee.
       (3) Each committee shall include in its rules standards for 
     availability of records of the committee delivered to the 
     Archivist of the United States under rule VII. Such standards 
     shall specify procedures for orders of the committee under 
     clause 3(b)(3) and clause 4(b) of rule VII, including a 
     requirement that nonavailability of a record for a period 
     longer than the period otherwise applicable under that rule 
     shall be approved by vote of the committee.
       (4) Each committee shall make its publications available in 
     electronic form to the maximum extent feasible.
     Prohibition against proxy voting
       (f) A vote by a member of a committee or subcommittee with 
     respect to any measure or matter may not be cast by proxy.
     Open meetings and hearings
       (g)(1) Each meeting for the transaction of business, 
     including the markup of legislation, by a standing committee 
     or subcommittee thereof (other than the Committee on 
     Standards of Official Conduct or its subcommittee) shall be 
     open to the public, including to radio, television, and still 
     photography coverage, except when the committee or 
     subcommittee, in open session and with a majority present, 
     determines by record vote that all or part of the remainder 
     of the meeting on that day shall be in executive session 
     because disclosure of matters to be considered would endanger 
     national security, would compromise sensitive law enforcement 
     information, would tend to defame, degrade, or incriminate 
     any person, or otherwise would violate a law or rule of the 
     House. Persons, other than members of the committee and such 
     noncommittee Members, Delegates, Resident Commissioner, 
     congressional staff, or departmental representatives as the 
     committee may authorize, may not be present at a business or 
     markup session that is held in executive session. This 
     subparagraph does not apply to open committee hearings, which 
     are governed by clause 4(a)(l) of rule X or by subparagraph 
     (2).
       (2)(A) Each hearing conducted by a committee or 
     subcommittee (other than the Committee on Standards of 
     Official Conduct or its subcommittees) shall be open to the 
     public, including to radio, television, and still photography 
     coverage, except when the committee or subcommittee, in open 
     session and with a majority present, determines by record 
     vote that all or part of the remainder of that hearing on 
     that day shall be closed to the public because disclosure of 
     testimony, evidence, or other matters to be considered would 
     endanger national security, would compromise sensitive law 
     enforcement information, or would violate a law or rule of 
     the House.
       (B) Notwithstanding the requirements of subdivision (A), in 
     the presence of the number of members required under the 
     rules of the committee for the purpose of taking testimony, a 
     majority of those present may--
       (i) agree to close the hearing for the sole purpose of 
     discussing whether testimony or evidence to be received would 
     endanger national security, would compromise sensitive law 
     enforcement information, or would violate clause 2(k)(5); or
       (ii) agree to close the hearing as provided in clause 
     2(k)(5).
       (C) A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may not be 
     excluded from nonparticipatory attendance at a hearing of a 
     committee or subcommittee (other than the Committee on 
     Standards of Official Conduct or its subcommittees) unless 
     the House by majority vote authorizes a particular committee 
     or subcommittee, for purposes of a particular series of 
     hearings on a particular article of legislation or on a 
     particular subject of investigation, to close its hearings to 
     Members, Delegates, and the Resident Commissioner by the same 
     procedures specified in this subparagraph for closing 
     hearings to the public.
       (D) The committee or subcommittee may vote by the same 
     procedure described in this subparagraph to close one 
     subsequent day of hearing, except that the Committee on 
     Appropriations, the Committee on Armed Services, and the 
     Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and the 
     subcommittees thereof, may vote by the same procedure to 
     close up to five additional, consecutive days of hearings.
       (3) The chairman of each committee (other than the 
     Committee on Rules) shall make public announcement of the 
     date, place, and subject matter of a committee hearing at 
     least one week before the commencement of the hearing. If the 
     chairman of the committee, with the concurrence of the 
     ranking minority member, determines that there is good cause 
     to begin a hearing sooner, or if the committee so determines 
     by majority vote in the presence of the number of members 
     required under the rules of the committee for the transaction 
     of business, the chairman shall make the announcement at the 
     earliest possible date. An announcement made under this 
     subparagraph shall be published promptly in the Daily Digest 
     and made available in electronic form.
       (4) Each committee shall, to the greatest extent 
     practicable, require witnesses who appear before it to submit 
     in advance written statements of proposed testimony and to 
     limit their initial presentations to the committee to brief 
     summaries thereof. In the case of a witness appearing in a 
     nongovernmental capacity, a written statement of proposed 
     testimony shall include a curriculum vitae and a disclosure 
     of the amount and source (by agency and program) of each 
     Federal grant (or subgrant thereof) or contract (or 
     subcontract thereof) received during the current fiscal year 
     or either of the two previous fiscal years by the witness or 
     by an entity represented by the witness.
       (5)(A) Except as provided in subdivision (B), a point of 
     order does not lie with respect to a measure reported by a 
     committee on the ground that hearings on such measure were 
     not conducted in accordance with this clause.
       (B) A point of order on the ground described in subdivision 
     (A) may be made by a member of the committee that reported 
     the measure if such point of order was timely made and 
     improperly disposed of in the committee.
       (6) This paragraph does not apply to hearings of the 
     Committee on Appropriations under clause 4(a)(1) of rule X.
     Quorum requirements
       (h)(l) A measure or recommendation may not be reported by a 
     committee unless a majority of the committee is actually 
     present.
       (2) Each committee may fix the number of its members to 
     constitute a quorum for taking testimony and receiving 
     evidence, which may not be less than two.
       (3) Each committee (other than the Committee on 
     Appropriations, the Committee on the Budget, and the 
     Committee on Ways and Means) may fix the number of its 
     members to constitute a quorum for taking any action other 
     than one for which the presence of a majority of the 
     committee is otherwise required, which may not be less 
     than one-third of the members.
       (4)(A) Each committee may adopt a rule authorizing the 
     chairman of a committee or subcommittee--
       (i) to postpone further proceedings when a record vote is 
     ordered on the question of approving a measure or matter or 
     on adopting an amendment; and
       (ii) to resume proceedings on a postponed question at any 
     time after reasonable notice.
       (B) A rule adopted pursuant to this subparagraph shall 
     provide that when proceedings resume on a postponed question, 
     notwithstanding any intervening order for the previous 
     question, an underlying proposition shall remain subject to 
     further debate or amendment to the same extent as when the 
     question was postponed.
     Limitation on committee sittings
       (i) A committee may not sit during a joint session of the 
     House and Senate or during a recess when a joint meeting of 
     the House and Senate is in progress.
     Calling and questioning of witnesses
       (j)(1) Whenever a hearing is conducted by a committee on a 
     measure or matter, the minority members of the committee 
     shall be entitled, upon request to the chairman by a majority 
     of them before the completion of the hearing, to call 
     witnesses selected by the minority to testify with respect to 
     that measure or matter during at least one day of hearing 
     thereon.
       (2)(A) Subject to subdivisions (B) and (C), each committee 
     shall apply the five-minute rule during the questioning of 
     witnesses in a hearing until such time as each member of the 
     committee who so desires has had an opportunity to question 
     each witness.
       (B) A committee may adopt a rule or motion permitting a 
     specified number of its members to question a witness for 
     longer than five minutes. The time for extended questioning 
     of a witness under this subdivision shall be equal for the 
     majority party and the minority party and may not exceed one 
     hour in the aggregate.
       (C) A committee may adopt a rule or motion permitting 
     committee staff for its majority and minority party members 
     to question a witness for equal specified periods. The time 
     for extended questioning of a witness under this subdivision 
     shall be equal for the majority party and the minority party 
     and may not exceed one hour in the aggregate.
     Hearing procedures
       (k)(1) The chairman at a hearing shall announce in an 
     opening statement the subject of hearing.
       (2) A copy of the committee rules and of this clause shall 
     be made available to each witness on request.
       (3) Witnesses at hearings may be accompanied by their own 
     counsel for the purpose of advising them concerning their 
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       (4) The chairman may punish breaches of order and decorum, 
     and of professional ethics on the part of counsel, by censure 
     and exclusion from the hearings; and the committee may cite 
     the offender to the House for contempt.
       (5) Whenever it is asserted that the evidence or testimony 
     at an investigative hearing may tend to defame, degrade, or 
     incriminate any person or it is asserted by a witness that 
     the evidence or testimony that the witness would give at 
     hearing may tend to defame, degrade or incriminate the 
     witness--
       (A) notwithstanding paragraph (g)(2), such testimony or 
     evidence shall be presented in executive session if, in the 
     presence of the number of members required under the rules of 
     the committee for the purpose of taking testimony, the 
     committee determines by vote of a majority of those present 
     that such evidence or testimony may tend to defame, degrade, 
     or incriminate any person; and
       (B) the committee shall proceed to receive such testimony 
     in open session only if the committee, a majority being 
     present, determines that such evidence or testimony will not 
     tend to defame, degrade, or incriminate any person.

     In either case the committee shall afford such person an 
     opportunity voluntarily to appear as a witness, and receive 
     and dispose of requests from such person to subpoena 
     additional witnesses.

       (6) Except as provided in subparagraph (5), the chairman 
     shall receive and the committee shall dispose of requests to 
     subpoena additional witnesses.
       (7) Evidence or testimony taken in executive session, and 
     proceedings conducted in executive session, may be released 
     or used in public sessions only when authorized by the 
     committee, a majority being present.
       (8) In the discretion of the committee, witnesses may 
     submit brief and pertinent sworn statements in writing for 
     inclusion in the record. The committee is the sole judge of 
     the pertinence of testimony and evidence adduced at its 
     hearing.
       (9) A witness may obtain a transcript copy of his testimony 
     given at a public session or, if given at an executive 
     session, when authorized by the committee.
     Supplemental, minority, or additional views
       (1) If at the time of approval of a measure or matter by a 
     committee (other than the Committee on Rules) a member of the 
     committee gives notice of intention to file supplemental, 
     minority, or additional views for inclusion in the report to 
     the House thereon, that member shall be entitled to not less 
     than two additional calendar days after the day of such 
     notice (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays 
     except when the House is in session on such a day) to file 
     such views, in writing and signed by that member, with the 
     clerk of the committee.
     Power to sit and act; subpoena power
       (m)(1) For the purpose of carrying out any of its functions 
     and duties under this rule and rule X (including any matters 
     referred to it under clause 2 of rule XII), a committee or 
     subcommittee is authorized (subject to subparagraph (2)(A))--
       (A) to sit and act at such times and places within the 
     United States, whether the House is in session, has recessed, 
     or has adjourned, and to hold such hearings as it considers 
     necessary; and
       (B) to require, by subpoena or otherwise, the attendance 
     and testimony of such witnesses and the production of such 
     books, records, correspondence, memoranda, papers, and 
     documents as it considers necessary.
       (2) The chairman of the committee, or a member designated 
     by the chairman, may administer oaths to witnesses.
       (3)(A)(i) Except as provided in subdivision (A)(ii), a 
     subpoena may be authorized and issued by a committee or 
     subcommittee under subparagraph (1)(B) in the conduct of an 
     investigation or series of investigations or activities only 
     when authorized by the committee or subcommittee, a majority 
     being present. The power to authorize and issue subpoenas 
     under subparagraph (1)(B) may be delegated to the chairman 
     of the committee under such rules and under such 
     limitations as the committee may prescribe. Authorized 
     subpoenas shall be signed by the chairman of the committee 
     or by a member designated by the committee.
       (ii) In the case of a subcommittee of the Committee on 
     Standards of Official Conduct, a subpoena may be authorized 
     and issued only by an affirmative vote of a majority of its 
     members.
       (B) A subpoena duces tecum may specify terms of return 
     other than at a meeting or hearing of the committee or 
     subcommittee authorizing the subpoena.
       (C) Compliance with a subpoena issued by a committee or 
     subcommittee under subparagraph (1)(B) may be enforced only 
     as authorized or directed by the House.

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

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               Rule XIII. Calendars and Committee Reports

     Calendars
       1. (a) All business reported by committees shall be 
     referred to one of the following three calendars:
       (1) A Calendar of the Committee of the Whole House on the 
     state of the Union, to which shall be referred public bills 
     and public resolutions raising revenue, involving a tax or 
     charge on the people, directly or indirectly making 
     appropriations of money or property or requiring such 
     appropriations to be made, authorizing payments out of 
     appropriations already made, releasing any liability to the 
     United States for money or property, or referring a claim to 
     the Court of Claims.
       (2) A House Calendar, to which shall be referred all public 
     bills and public resolutions not requiring referral to the 
     Calendar of the Committee of the Whole House on the state of 
     the Union.
       (3) A Private Calendar as provided in clause 5 of rule XV, 
     to which shall be referred all private bills and private 
     resolutions.
       (b) There is established a Calendar of Motions to Discharge 
     Committees as provided in clause 2 of rule XV.
     Filing and printing of reports
       2. (a)(1) Except as provided in subparagraph (2), all 
     reports of committees (other than those filed from the floor 
     as privileged) shall be delivered to the Clerk for printing 
     and reference to the proper calendar under the direction of 
     the Speaker in accordance with clause 1. The title or subject 
     of each report shall be entered on the Journal and printed in 
     the Congressional Record.
       (2) A bill or resolution reported adversely shall be laid 
     on the table unless a committee to which the bill or 
     resolution was referred requests at the time of the report 
     its referral to an appropriate calendar under clause I or 
     unless, within three days thereafter, a Member, Delegate, or 
     Resident Commissioner makes such a request.
       (b)(1) It shall be the duty of the chairman of each 
     committee to report or cause to be reported promptly to the 
     House a measure or matter approved by the committee and to 
     take or cause to be taken steps necessary to bring the 
     measure or matter to a vote.
       (2) In any event, the report of a committee on a measure 
     that has been approved by the committee shall be filed within 
     seven calendar days (exclusive of days on which the House is 
     not in session) after the day on which a written request for 
     the filing of the report, signed by a majority of the members 
     of the committee, has been filed with the clerk of the 
     committee. The clerk of the committee shall immediately 
     notify the chairman of the filing of such a request. This 
     subparagraph does not apply to a report of the Committee on 
     Rules with respect to a rule, joint rule, or order of 
     business of the House, or to the reporting of a resolution of 
     inquiry addressed to the head of an executive department.
       (c) All supplemental, minority, or additional views filed 
     under clause 2(l) of rule XI by one or more members of a 
     committee shall be included in, and shall be a part of, the 
     report filed by the committee with respect to a measure or 
     matter. When time guaranteed by clause 2(l) of rule XI has 
     expired (or, if sooner, when all separate views have been 
     received), the committee may arrange to file its report with 
     the Clerk not later than one hour after the expiration of 
     such time. This clause and provisions of clause 2(l) of rule 
     XI do not preclude the immediate filing or printing of a 
     committee report in the absence of a timely request for the 
     opportunity to file supplemental, minority, or additional 
     views as provided in clause 2(l) of rule XI.
     Content of reports
       3. (a)(1) Except as provided in subparagraph (2), the 
     report of a committee on a measure or matter shall be printed 
     in a single volume that--
       (A) shall include all supplemental, minority, or additional 
     views that have been submitted by the time of the filing of 
     the report; and
       (B) shall bear on its cover a recital that any such 
     supplemental, minority, or additional views (and any material 
     submitted under paragraph (c)(3) or (4)) are included as part 
     of the report.
       (2) A committee may file a supplemental report for the 
     correction of a technical error in its previous report on a 
     measure or matter. A supplemental report only correcting 
     errors in the depiction of record votes under paragraph (b) 
     may be filed under this subparagraph and shall not be subject 
     to the requirement in clause 4 concerning the availability of 
     reports.
       (b) With respect to each record vote on a motion to report 
     a measure or matter of a public nature, and on any amendment 
     offered to the measure or matter, the total number of votes 
     cast for and against, and the names of members voting for and 
     against, shall be included in the committee report. The 
     preceding sentence does not apply to a report by the 
     Committee on Rules on a rule, joint rule, or the order of 
     business or to votes taken in executive session by the 
     Committee on Standards of Official Conduct.
       (c) The report of a committee on a measure that has been 
     approved by the committee shall include, separately set out 
     and clearly identified, the following:
       (1) Oversight findings and recommendations under clause 
     2(b)(1) of rule X.
       (2) The statement required by section 308(a) of the 
     Congressional Budget Act of 1974, except that an estimate of 
     new budget authority shall include, when practicable, a 
     comparison of the total estimated funding level for the 
     relevant programs to the appropriate levels under current 
     law.
       (3) An estimate and comparison prepared by the Director of 
     the Congressional Budget Office under section 402 of the 
     Congressional Budget Act of 1974 if timely submitted to the 
     committee before the filing of the report.
       (4) A statement of general performance goals and 
     objectives, including outcome-related goals and objectives, 
     for which the measure authorizes funding.
       (d) Each report of a committee on a public bill or public 
     joint resolution shall contain the following:
       (1) A statement citing the specific powers granted to 
     Congress in the Constitution to enact the law proposed by the 
     bill or joint resolution.
       (2)(A) An estimate by the committee of the costs that would 
     be incurred in carrying out the bill or joint resolution in 
     the fiscal year in which it is reported and in each of the 
     five fiscal years following that fiscal year (or for the 
     authorized duration of any program authorized by the bill or 
     joint resolution if less than five years);
       (B) A comparison of the estimate of costs described in 
     subdivision (A) made by the committee with any estimate of 
     such costs made by a Government agency and submitted to such 
     committee; and
       (C) When practicable, a comparison of the total estimated 
     funding level for the relevant programs with the appropriate 
     levels under current law.
       (3)(A) In subparagraph (2) the term ``Government agency'' 
     includes any department, agency, establishment, wholly owned 
     Government corporation, or instrumentality of the Federal 
     Government or the government of the District of Columbia.
       (B) Subparagraph (2) does not apply to the Committee on 
     Appropriations, the Committee on House Administration, the 
     Committee on Rules, or the Committee on Standards of Official 
     Conduct, and does not apply when a cost estimate and 
     comparison prepared by the Director of the Congressional 
     Budget Office under section 402 of the Congressional Budget 
     Act of 1974 has been included in the report under paragraph 
     (c)(3).
       (e)(1) Whenever a committee reports a bill or joint 
     resolution proposing to repeal or amend a statute or part 
     thereof, it shall include in its report or in an accompanying 
     document--
       (A) the text of a statute or part thereof that is proposed 
     to be repealed; and
       (B) a comparative print of any part of the bill or joint 
     resolution proposing to amend the statute and of the statute 
     or part thereof proposed to be amended, showing by 
     appropriate typographical devices the omissions and 
     insertions proposed.
       (2) If a committee reports a bill or joint resolution 
     proposing to repeal or amend a statute or part thereof with a 
     recommendation that the bill or joint resolution be amended, 
     the comparative print required by subparagraph (1) shall 
     reflect the changes in existing law proposed to be made by 
     the bill or joint resolution as proposed to be amended.
       (f)(1) A report of the Committee on Appropriations on a 
     general appropriation bill shall include--
       (A) a concise statement describing the effect of any 
     provision of the accompanying bill that directly or 
     indirectly changes the application of existing law; and
       (B) a list of all appropriations contained in the bill for 
     expenditures not previously authorized by law for the period 
     concerned (except classified intelligence or national 
     security programs, projects, or activities) along with a 
     statement of the last year for which such expenditures were 
     authorized, the level of expenditures authorized for that 
     year, the actual level of appropriations in the bill for such 
     expenditures.
       (2) Whenever the Committee on Appropriations reports a bill 
     or joint resolution including matter specified in clause 1 
     (b)(2) or (3) of rule X, it shall include--
       (A) in the bill or joint resolution, separate headings for 
     ``Rescissions'' and ``Transfers of Unexpended Balances'' and
       (B) in the report of the committee, a separate section 
     listing such rescissions and transfers.
       (g) Whenever the Committee on Rules reports a resolution 
     proposing to repeal or amend a standing rule of the House, it 
     shall include in its report or in an accompanying document--
       (1) the text of any rule or part thereof that is proposed 
     to be repealed; and
       (2) a comparative print of any part of the resolution 
     proposing to amend the rule and

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     of the rule or part thereof proposed to be amended, showing 
     by appropriate typographical devices the omissions and 
     insertions proposed.
       (h)(1) It shall not be in order to consider a bill or joint 
     resolution reported by the Committee on Ways and Means that 
     proposes to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 unless--
       (A) the report includes a tax complexity analysis prepared 
     by the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation in 
     accordance with section 4022(b) of the Internal Revenue 
     Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998; or
       (B) the chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means causes 
     such a tax complexity analysis to be printed in the 
     Congressional Record before consideration of the bill or 
     joint resolution.
       (2)(A) It shall not be in order to consider a bill or joint 
     resolution reported by the Committee on Ways and Means that 
     proposes to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 unless--
       (i) the report includes a macroeconomic impact analysis;
       (ii) the report includes a statement from the Joint 
     Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation explaining why a 
     macroeconomic impact analysis is not calculable; or
       (iii) the chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means 
     causes a macroeconomic impact analysis to be printed in the 
     Congressional Record before consideration of the bill or 
     joint resolution.
       (B) In subdivision (A), the term ``macroeconomic impact 
     analysis'' means--
       (i) an estimate prepared by the Joint Committee on Internal 
     Revenue Taxation of the changes in economic output, 
     employment, capital stock, and tax revenues expected to 
     result from enactment of the proposal; and
       (ii) a statement from the Joint Committee on Internal 
     Revenue Taxation identifying the critical assumptions and the 
     source of data underlying that estimate.
     Availability of reports
       4. (a)(1) Except as specified in subparagraph (2), it shall 
     not be in order to consider in the House a measure or matter 
     reported by a committee until the third calendar day 
     (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, or legal holidays except when 
     the House is in session on such a day) on which each report 
     of a committee on that measure or matter has been available 
     to Members, Delegates, and the Resident Commissioner.
       (2) Subparagraph (1) does not apply to--
       (A) a resolution providing a rule, joint rule, or order of 
     business reported by the Committee on Rules considered under 
     clause 6;
       (B) a resolution providing amounts from the applicable 
     accounts described in clause 1 (i)( 1) of rule X reported by 
     the Committee on House Administration considered under clause 
     6 of rule X;
       (C) a resolution presenting a question of the privileges of 
     the House reported by any committee;
       (D) a measure for the declaration of war, or the 
     declaration of a national emergency, by Congress; and
       (E) a measure providing for the disapproval of a decision, 
     determination, or action by a Government agency that would 
     become, or continue to be, effective unless disapproved 
     or otherwise invalidated by one or both Houses of 
     Congress. In this subdivision the term ``Government 
     agency'' includes any department, agency, establishment, 
     wholly owned Government corporation, or instrumentality of 
     the Federal Government or of the government of the 
     District of Columbia.
       (b) A committee that reports a measure or matter shall make 
     every reasonable effort to have its hearings thereon (if any) 
     printed and available for distribution to Members, Delegates, 
     and the Resident Commissioner before the consideration of the 
     measure or matter in the House.
       (c) A general appropriation bill reported by the Committee 
     on Appropriations may not be considered in the House until 
     the third calendar day (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and 
     legal holidays except when the House is in session on such a 
     day) on which printed hearings of the Committee on 
     Appropriations thereon have been available to Members, 
     Delegates, and the Resident Commissioner.

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                    Rule XVI. Motions and Amendments

     Motions
       1. Every motion entertained by the Speaker shall be reduced 
     to writing on the demand of a Member, Delegate, or Resident 
     Commissioner and, unless it is withdrawn the same day, shall 
     be entered on the Journal with the name of the Member, 
     Delegate, or Resident Commissioner offering it. A dilatory 
     motion may not be entertained by the Speaker.
     Withdrawal
       2. When a motion is entertained, the Speaker shall state it 
     or cause it to be read aloud by the Clerk before it is 
     debated. The motion then shall be in the possession of the 
     House but may be withdrawn at any time before a decision or 
     amendment thereon.
     Question of consideration
       3. When a motion or proposition is entertained, the 
     question, ``Will the House now consider it?'' may not be put 
     unless demanded by a Member, Delegate, or Resident 
     Commissioner.
     Precedence of motions
       4. (a) When a question is under debate, only the following 
     motions may be entertained (which shall have precedence in 
     the following order):
       (1) To adjourn.
       (2) To lay on the table.
       (3) For the previous question.
       (4) To postpone to a day certain.
       (5) To refer.
       (6) To amend.
       (7) To postpone indefinitely.
       (b) A motion to adjourn, to lay on the table, or for the 
     previous question shall be decided without debate. A motion 
     to postpone to a day certain, to refer, or to postpone 
     indefinitely, being decided, may not be allowed again on the 
     same day at the same stage of the question.
       (c)(1) It shall be in order at any time for the Speaker, in 
     his discretion, to entertain a motion--
       (A) that the Speaker be authorized to declare a recess; or
       (B) that when the House adjourns it stand adjourned to a 
     day and time certain.
       (2) Either motion shall be of equal privilege with the 
     motion to adjourn and shall be decided without debate.
     Divisibility
       5. (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b), a question 
     shall be divided on the demand of a Member, Delegate, or 
     Resident Commissioner before the question is put if it 
     includes propositions so distinct in substance that, one 
     being taken away, a substantive proposition remams.
       (b)(1) A motion or resolution to elect members to a 
     standing committee of the House, or to a joint standing 
     committee, is not divisible.
       (2) A resolution or order reported by the Committee on 
     Rules providing a special order of business is not divisible.
       (c) A motion to strike and insert is not divisible, but 
     rejection of a motion to strike does not preclude another 
     motion to amend.
     Amendments
       6. When an amendable proposition is under consideration, a 
     motion to amend and a motion to amend that amendment shall be 
     in order, and it also shall be in order to offer a further 
     amendment by way of substitute for the original motion to 
     amend, to which one amendment may be offered but which may 
     not be voted on until the original amendment is perfected. An 
     amendment may be withdrawn in the House at any time before a 
     decision or amendment thereon. An amendment to the title of a 
     bill or resolution shall not be in order until after its 
     passage or adoption and shall be decided without debate.
     Germaneness
       7. No motion or proposition on a subject different from 
     that under consideration shall be admitted under color of 
     amendment.
     Readings
       8. Bills and joint resolutions are subject to readings as 
     follows:
       (a) A first reading is in full when the bill or joint 
     resolution is first considered.
       (b) A second reading occurs only when the bill or joint 
     resolution is read for amendment in a Committee of the Whole 
     House on the state of the Union under clause 5 of rule XVIII.
       (c) A third reading precedes passage when the Speaker 
     states the question: ``Shall the bill [or joint resolution] 
     be engrossed [ when applicable] and read a third time?'' If 
     that question is decided in the affirmative, then the bill or 
     joint resolution shall be read the final time by title and 
     then the question shall be put on its passage.

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            Rule XIX. Motions Following the Amendment Stage

     Previous question
       1. (a) There shall be a motion for the previous question, 
     which, being ordered, shall have the effect of cutting off 
     all debate and bringing the House to a direct vote on the 
     immediate question or questions on which it has been ordered. 
     Whenever the previous question has been ordered on an 
     otherwise debatable question on which there has been no 
     debate, it shall be in order to debate that question for 40 
     minutes, equally divided and controlled by a proponent of the 
     question and an opponent. The previous question may be moved 
     and ordered on a single question, on a series of questions 
     allowable under the rules, or on a amendment or amendments, 
     or may embrace all authorized motions or amendments and 
     include the bill or resolution to its passage, adoption, or 
     rejection.
       (b) Incidental questions of order arising during the 
     pendency of a motion for the previous question shall be 
     decided, whether on appeal or otherwise, without debate.
     Recommit
       2. (a) After the previous question has been ordered on 
     passage or adoption of a measure, or pending a motion to that 
     end, it shall be in order to move that the House recommit (or 
     commit, as the case may be) the measure, with or without 
     instructions, to a standing or select committee. For such a 
     motion to recommit, the Speaker shall give preference in 
     recognition to a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner 
     who is opposed to the measure.
       (b) Except as provided in paragraph (c), if a motion that 
     the House recommit a bill or joint resolution on which the 
     previous question has been ordered to passage includes 
     instructions, it shall be debatable for 10 minutes equally 
     divided between the proponent and an opponent.
       (c) On demand of the floor manager for the majority, it 
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     motion for one hour equally divided and controlled by the 
     proponent and an opponent.
     Reconsideration
       3. When a motion has been carried or lost, it shall be in 
     order on the same or succeeding day for a Member on the 
     prevailing side of the question to enter a motion for the 
     reconsideration thereof. The entry of such a motion shall 
     take precedence over all other questions except the 
     consideration of a conference report or a motion to adjourn, 
     and may not be withdrawn after such succeeding day without 
     the consent of the House. Once entered, a motion may be 
     called up for consideration by any Member. During the last 
     six days of a session of Congress, such a motion shall be 
     disposed of when entered.
       4. A bill, petition, memorial, or resolution referred to a 
     committee, or reported therefrom for printing and 
     recommitment, may not be brought back to the House on a 
     motion to reconsider.

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                Rule XXI. Restrictions on Certain Bills

     Reservation of certain points of order
       1. At the time a general appropriation bill is reported, 
     all points of order against provisions therein shall be 
     considered as reserved.
     General appropriation bills and amendments
       2. (a)(1) An appropriation may not be reported in a general 
     appropriation bill, and may not be in order as an amendment 
     thereto, for an expenditure not previously authorized by law, 
     except to continue appropriations for public works and 
     objects that are already in progress.
       (2) A reappropriation of unexpended balances of 
     appropriations may not be reported in a general appropriation 
     bill, and may not be in order as an amendment thereto, except 
     to continue appropriations for public works and objects that 
     are already in progress. This subparagraph does not apply to 
     transfers of unexpended balances within the department or 
     agency for which they were originally appropriated that are 
     reported by the Committee on Appropriations.
       (b) A provision changing existing law may not be reported 
     in a general appropriation bill, including a provision making 
     the availability of funds contingent on the receipt or 
     possession of information not required by existing law for 
     the period of the appropriation, except germane provisions 
     that retrench expenditures by the reduction of amounts of 
     money covered by the bill (which may include those 
     recommended to the Committee on Appropriations by direction 
     of a legislative committee having jurisdiction over the 
     subject matter) and except rescissions of appropriations 
     contained in appropriation Acts.
       (c) An amendment to a general appropriation bill shall not 
     be in order if changing existing law, including an amendment 
     making the availability of funds contingent on the receipt or 
     possession of information not required by existing law for 
     the period of the appropriation. Except as provided in 
     paragraph (d), an amendment proposing a limitation not 
     specifically contained or authorized in existing law for the 
     period of the limitation shall not be in order during 
     consideration of a general appropriation bill.
       (d) After a general appropriation bill has been read for 
     amendment, a motion that the Committee of the Whole House on 
     the state of the Union rise and report the bill to the House 
     with such amendments as may have been adopted shall, if 
     offered by the Majority Leader or a designee, have precedence 
     over motions to amend the bill. If such a motion to rise and 
     report is rejected or not offered, amendments proposing 
     limitations not specifically contained or authorized in 
     existing law for the period of the limitation or proposing 
     germane amendments that retrench expenditures by reductions 
     of amounts of money covered by the bill may be considered.
       (e) A provision other than an appropriation designated an 
     emergency under section 251(b)(2) or section 252(e) of the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, a 
     rescission of budget authority, or a reduction in direct 
     spending or an amount for a designated emergency may not be 
     reported in an appropriation bill or joint resolution 
     containing an emergency designation under section 251(b)(2) 
     or section 252(e) of such Act and may not be in order as an 
     amendment thereto.
       (f) During the reading of an appropriation bill for 
     amendment in the Committee of the Whole House on the state of 
     the Union, it shall be in order to consider en bloc 
     amendments proposing only to transfer appropriations among 
     objects in the bill without increasing the levels of budget 
     authority or outlays in the bill. When considered en bloc 
     under this paragraph, such amendments may amend portions of 
     the bill not yet read for amendment (following disposition of 
     any points of order against such portions) and is not subject 
     to a demand for division of the question in the House or in 
     the Committee of the Whole.
     Transportation obligation limitations
       3. It shall not be in order to consider a bill, joint 
     resolution, amendment, or conference report that would cause 
     obligation limitations to be below the level for any fiscal 
     year set forth in section 8103 of the Transportation Equity 
     Act for the 21st Century, as adjusted, for the highway 
     category or the mass transit category, as applicable.
     Appropriations on legislative bills
       4. A bill or joint resolution carrying an appropriation may 
     not be reported by a committee not having jurisdiction to 
     report appropriations, and an amendment proposing an 
     appropriation shall not be in order during the consideration 
     of a bill or joint resolution reported by a committee not 
     having that jurisdiction. A point of order against an 
     appropriation in such a bill, joint resolution, or amendment 
     thereto may be raised at any time during pendency of that 
     measure for amendment.
     Tax and tariff measures and amendments
       5. (a)(1) A bill or joint resolution carrying a tax or 
     tariff measure may not be reported by a committee not having 
     jurisdiction to report tax or tariff measures, and an 
     amendment in the House or proposed by the Senate carrying a 
     tax or tariff measure shall not be in order during the 
     consideration of bill or joint resolution reported by a 
     committee not having that jurisdiction. A point of order 
     against a tax or tariff measure in such a bill, joint 
     resolution, or amendment thereto may be raised at any time 
     during pendency of that measure for amendment.
       (2) For purposes of paragraph (1), a tax or tariff measure 
     includes an amendment proposing a limitation on funds in a 
     general appropriation bill for the administration of a tax or 
     tariff.
     Passage of tax rate increases
       (b) A bill or joint resolution, amendment, or conference 
     report carrying a Federal income tax rate increase may not be 
     considered as passed or agreed to unless so determined by a 
     vote of not less than three-fifths of the Members voting, a 
     quorum being present. In this paragraph the term ``Federal 
     income tax rate increase'' means any amendment to subsection 
     (a), (b), (c), (d), or (e) of section 1, or to section 11(b) 
     or 55(b), of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, that imposes 
     a new percentage as a rate of tax and thereby increases the 
     amount of tax imposed by any such section.
     Consideration of retroactive tax rate increases
       (c) It shall not be in order to consider a bill, joint 
     resolution, amendment, or conference report carrying a 
     retroactive Federal income tax rate increase. In this 
     paragraph--
       (1) the term ``Federal income tax rate increase'' means any 
     amendment to subsection (a), (b), (c), (d), or (e) of section 
     1, or to section 11(b) or 55(b), of the Internal Revenue Code 
     of 1986, that imposes a new percentage as a rate of tax and 
     thereby increases the amount of tax imposed by any such 
     section; and
       (2) a Federal income tax rate increase is retroactive if it 
     applies to a period beginning before the enactment of the 
     provision.
     Designation of public works
       6. It shall not be in order to consider a bill, joint 
     resolution, amendment, or conference report that provides for 
     the designation or redesignation of a public work in honor of 
     an individual then serving as a Member, Delegate, Resident 
     Commissioner, or Senator.
     Reconciliation
       7. It shall not be in order to consider a concurrent 
     resolution on the budget, or an amendment thereto, or a 
     conference report thereon that contains reconciliation 
     directives under section 310 of the Congressional Budget Act 
     of 1974 that specify changes in law reducing the surplus or 
     increasing the deficit for either the period comprising the 
     current fiscal year and the five fiscal years beginning with 
     the fiscal year that ends in the following calendar year. In 
     determining whether reconciliation directives specify changes 
     in law reducing the surplus or increasing the deficit, the 
     sum of the directives for each reconciliation bill (under 
     section 310 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974) 
     envisioned by that measure shall be evaluated.
     Applying points of order under Budget Act to bills and joint 
         resolutions considered under special rules
       8. With respect to measures considered pursuant to a 
     special order of business, points of order under title III of 
     the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 shall operate without 
     regard to whether the measure concerned has been reported 
     from committee. Such points of order shall operate with 
     respect to (as the case may be)--
       (a) the form of a measure recommended by the reporting 
     committee where the statute uses the term ``as reported'' (in 
     the case of a measure that has been so reported);
       (b) the form of the measure made in order as an original 
     bill or joint resolution for the purpose of amendment; or
       (c) the form of the measure on which the previous question 
     is ordered directly to passage.
     Point of order against congressional earmarks
       9. (a) It shall not be in order to consider--
       (l) a bill or joint resolution reported by a committee 
     unless the report includes a list of congressional earmarks, 
     limited tax benefits, and limited tariff benefits in the bill 
     or in the report (and the name of any Member, Delegate, or 
     Resident Commissioner who submitted a request to the 
     committee for each respective item included in such list) or 
     a statement that the proposition contains no congressional 
     earmarks, limited tax benefits, or limited tariff benefits;
       (2) a bill or joint resolution not reported by a committee 
     unless the chairman of each committee of initial referral has 
     caused a list of congressional earmarks, limited tax 
     benefits, and limited tariff benefits in the bill (and the 
     name of any Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner who 
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     request to the committee for each respective item included in 
     such list) or a statement that the proposition contains no 
     congressional earmarks, limited tax benefits, or limited 
     tariff benefits to be printed in the Congressional Record 
     prior to its consideration;
       (3) an amendment to a bill or joint resolution to be 
     offered at the outset of its consideration for amendment by a 
     member of a committee of initial referral as designated in a 
     report of the Committee on Rules to accompany a resolution 
     prescribing a special order of business unless the proponent 
     has caused a list of congressional earmarks, limited tax 
     benefits, and limited tariff benefits in the amendment (and 
     the name of any Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner 
     who submitted a request to the proponent for each respective 
     item included in such list) or a statement that the 
     proposition contains no congressional earmarks, limited tax 
     benefits, or limited tariff benefits to be printed in the 
     Congressional Record prior to its consideration; or
       (4) a conference report to accompany a bill or joint 
     resolution unless the joint explanatory statement prepared by 
     the managers on the part of the House and the managers on the 
     part of the Senate includes a list of congressional earmarks, 
     limited tax benefits, and limited tariff benefits in the 
     conference report or joint statement (and the name of any 
     Member, Delegate, Resident commissioner, or Senator who 
     submitted a request to the House or Senate committees of 
     jurisdiction for each respective item included in such list) 
     or a statement that the proposition contains no congressional 
     earmarks, limited tax benefits, or limited tariff benefits.
       (b) It shall not be in order to consider a rule or order 
     that waives the application of paragraph (a). As disposition 
     of a point of order under this paragraph, the Chair shall put 
     the question of consideration with respect to the rule or 
     order that waives the application of paragraph (a). The 
     question of consideration shall be debatable for 10 minutes 
     by the Member initiating the point of order and for 10 
     minutes by an opponent, but shall otherwise be decided 
     without intervening motion except one that the House adjourn.
       (c) In order to be cognizable by the Chair, a point of 
     order raised under paragraph (a) may be based only on the 
     failure or a report, submission to the Congressional Record, 
     or joint explanatory statement to include a list required by 
     paragraph (a) or a statement that the proposition contains no 
     congressional earmarks, limited tax benefits, or limited 
     tariff benefits.
       (d) For the purpose of this clause, the term 
     ``congressional earmark'' means a provision or report 
     language included primarily at the request of a Member, 
     Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or Senator providing, 
     authorizing or recommending a specific amount of 
     discretionary budget authority, credit authority, or other 
     spending authority for a contract, loan, loan guarantee, 
     grant, loan authority, or other expenditure with or to any 
     entity, or targeted to a specific State, locality or 
     Congressional district, other than through a statutory or 
     administrative formula-driven or competitive award process.
       (e) For the purpose of this clause, the term ``limited tax 
     benefit'' means--
       (1) any revenue-losing provision that--
       (A) provides a Federal tax deduction, credit, exclusion, or 
     preference to 10 or fewer beneficiaries under the Internal 
     Revenue Code of 1986, and
       (B) contains eligibility criteria that are not uniform in 
     application with respect to potential beneficiaries of such 
     provision; or
       (2) any Federal tax provision which provides one 
     beneficiary temporary or permanent transition relief from a 
     change to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
       (f) For the purpose of this clause, the term ``limited 
     tariff benefit'' means a provision modifying the Harmonized 
     Tariff Schedule of the United States in a manner that 
     benefits 10 or fewer entities.
       10. It shall not be in order to consider any bill, joint 
     resolution, amendment, or conference report if the provisions 
     of such measure affecting direct spending and revenues have 
     the net effect of increasing the deficit or reducing the 
     surplus for either the period comprising the current fiscal 
     year and the five fiscal years beginning with the fiscal year 
     that ends in the following calendar year or the period 
     comprising the current fiscal year and the ten fiscal years 
     beginning with the fiscal year that ends in the following 
     calendar year. The effect of such measure on the deficit or 
     surplus shall be determined on the basis of estimates made by 
     the Committee on the Budget relative to--
       (a) the most recent baseline estimates supplied by the 
     Congressional Budget Office consistent with section 257 of 
     the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 
     used in considering a concurrent resolution on the budget; or
       (b) after the beginning of a new calendar year and before 
     consideration of a concurrent resolution on the budget, the 
     most recent baseline estimates supplied by the Congressional 
     Budget Office consistent with section 257 of the Balanced 
     Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.


Rule XXII. House And Senate Relations

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


               Rule XXVII. Statutory Limit on Public Debt

       1. Upon adoption by Congress of a concurrent resolution on 
     the budget under section 301 or 304 of the Congressional 
     Budget Act of 1974 that sets forth, as the appropriate level 
     of the public debt for the period to which the concurrent 
     resolution relates, an amount that is different from the 
     amount of the statutory limit on the public debt that 
     otherwise would be in effect for that period, the Clerk shall 
     prepare an engrossment of a joint resolution increasing or 
     decreasing, as the case may be, the statutory limit on the 
     public debt in the form prescribed in clause 2. Upon 
     engrossment of the joint resolution, the vote by which the 
     concurrent resolution on the budget was finally agreed to in 
     the House shall also be considered as a vote on passage of 
     the joint resolution in the House, and the joint resolution 
     shall be considered as passed by the House and duly certified 
     and examined. The engrossed copy shall be signed by the Clerk 
     and transmitted to the Senate for further legislative action.
       2. The matter after the resolving clause in a joint 
     resolution described in clause 1 shall be as follows: ``That 
     subsection (b) of section 3101 of title 31, United States 
     Code, is amended by striking out the dollar limitation 
     contained in such subsection and inserting in lieu thereof 
     `$__'.'', with the blank being filled with a dollar 
     limitation equal to the appropriate level of the public debt 
     set forth pursuant to section 301(a)(5) of the Congressional 
     Budget Act of 1974 in the relevant concurrent resolution 
     described in clause 1. If an adopted concurrent resolution 
     under clause 1 sets forth different appropriate levels of the 
     public debt for separate periods, only one engrossed joint 
     resolution shall be prepared under clause 1; and the blank 
     referred to in the preceding sentence shall be filled with 
     the limitation that is to apply for each period.
       3. (a) The report of the Committee on the Budget on a 
     concurrent resolution described in clause 1 and the joint 
     explanatory statement of the managers on a conference report 
     to accompany such a concurrent resolution each shall contain 
     a clear statement of the effect the eventual enactment of a 
     joint resolution engrossed under this rule would have on the 
     statutory limit on the public debt.
       (b) It shall not be in order for the House to consider a 
     concurrent resolution described in clause 1, or a conference 
     report thereon, unless the report of the Committee on the 
     Budget or the joint explanatory statement of the managers 
     complies with paragraph a).
       4. Nothing in this rule shall be construed as limiting or 
     otherwise affecting--
       (a) the power of the House or the Senate to consider and 
     pass bills or joint resolutions,

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     without regard to the procedures under clause 1, that would 
     change the statutory limit on the public debt; or
       (b) the rights of Members, Delegates, the Resident 
     Commissioner, or committees with respect to the introduction, 
     consideration, and reporting of such bills or joint 
     resolutions.
       5. In this rule the term ``statutory limit on the public 
     debt'' means the maximum face amount of obligations issued 
     under authority of chapter 31 of title 31, United States 
     Code, and obligations guaranteed as to principal and interest 
     by the United States (except such guaranteed obligations as 
     may be held by the Secretary of the Treasury), as determined 
     under section 3101(b) of such title after the application of 
     section 3101(a) of such title, that may be outstanding at 
     anyone time.

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