[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 115 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S4960]
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  SA 2642. Mr. LEE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2025 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. EX OFFICIO MEMBERS OF SELECT COMMITTEE ON 
                   INTELLIGENCE OF THE SENATE.

       (a) Membership.--Section 2(a)(3) of Senate Resolution 400 
     (94th Congress), agreed to May 19, 1976, is amended to read 
     as follows:
       ``(3) Each Member of the Senate (if not already a member of 
     the select committee) shall be an ex officio member of the 
     select committee but shall have no vote in the select 
     committee and shall not be counted for purposes of 
     determining a quorum.''.
       (b) Conforming Amendment.--Rule XXV of the Standing Rules 
     of the Senate is amended--
       (1) in paragraph 3(b), in the item relating to the Select 
     Committee on Intelligence, by striking ``19'' and inserting 
     ``100''; and
       (2) in paragraph 4(a)(2), by striking ``each Senator'' and 
     all that follows, and inserting ``a Senator may not serve on 
     both the Special Committee on Aging and the Joint Economic 
     Committee.''.
       (c) Rulemaking.--This section is enacted--
       (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate 
     and as such it is deemed a part of the rules of the Senate 
     and it supersedes other rules only to the extent that it is 
     inconsistent with such rules; and
       (2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of 
     the Senate to change the rules (so far as relating to the 
     procedure of the Senate) at any time, in the same manner, and 
     to the same extent as in the case of any other rule of the 
     Senate.
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