[Deschler's Precedents, Volume 4, Chapters 15 - 17]
[Chapter 17. Committees]
[D. Jurisdiction of Committees]
[Â§ 34. Committee on the Budget]
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                               CHAPTER 17
 
                               Committees
 
                         C. COMMITTEE PROCEDURE
 
Sec. 34. Committee on the Budget

    The Committee on the Budget was established effective July 12, 
1974, by the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (11 H.R. 
7130),(14) and its jurisdiction and composition provided as 
follows:
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14. H.R. 7130 was reported from the Committee on Rules on Nov. 20, 
        1973, H. Rept. No. 93-658. Pub. L. No. 93-344, Sec. 101. 
        Effective Jan. 14, 1975, 121 Cong. Rec. 20-32, 94th Cong. 1st 
        Sess. [H. Res. 5], the membership of the committee was 
        increased from 23 to 25, with 13 rather than 11 members to be 
        elected pursuant to Rule X clause 1(e)(1)(C). The language 
        cited from Rule X clause 1(e) also reflects amendments 
        contained in H. Res. 5, 96th Congress, Jan. 15, 1979.
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        (e)(1) Committee on the Budget, to consist of twenty-five 
    Members as follows:
        (A) five Members who are members of the Committee on 
    Appropriations;
        (B) five Members who are members of the Committee on Ways and 
    Means;
        (C) thirteen Members who are members of other standing 
    committees;
        (D) one Member from the leadership of the majority party; and
        (E) one Member from the leadership of the minority party.
    No member other than the representative from the leadership of the 
    majority party and the representative from the leadership of the 
    minority party, shall serve as a member of the Committee on the 
    Budget during more than three Congresses in any period of five 
    successive Congresses beginning after 1974 (disregarding for this 
    purpose any service performed as a member of such committee for 
    less than a full session in any Congress) except that an incumbent 
    chairman having served on the committee for three Congresses and 
    having served as chairman of the committee for not more than one 
    Congress shall be eligible for reelection to the committee as 
    chairman for one additional Congress. All selections of Members to 
    serve on the committee shall be made without regard to seniority.

        (2) All concurrent resolutions on the budget (as defined in 
    section 3(a)(4) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974) and other 
    matters required to be referred to the committee under titles III 
    and IV of that Act.
        (3) The committee shall have the duty--
        (A) to report the matters required to be reported by it under 
    titles III and IV of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974;
        (B) to make continuing studies of the effect on budget outlays 
    of relevant existing and proposed legislation and to report the 
    results of such studies to the House on a recurring basis;
        (C) to request and evaluate continuing studies of tax 
    expenditures, to

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    devise methods of coordinating tax expenditures, policies, and 
    programs with direct budget outlays, and to report the results of 
    such studies to the House on a recurring basis; and
        (D) to review, on a continuing basis, the conduct by the 
    Congressional Budget Office of its functions and duties.
    Also effective on that date, Rule X clause 3(b) was added relative 
to the special oversight functions of the committee and as later 
perfected by the Committee Reform Amendments of 1974,(15) 
reads as follows:
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15. Pub. L. No. 93-344, Sec. 101(c), incorporated into the rules as 
        Rule X clause 3(b), House Rules and Manual Sec. 693 (1975), by 
        H. Res. 988, 120 Cong. Rec. 34447-70, 93d Cong. 2d Sess., Oct. 
        8, 1974.
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        (b) The Committee on the Budget shall have the function of--
        (1) making continuing studies of the effect on budget outlays 
    of relevant existing and proposed legislation, and reporting the 
    results of such studies to the House on a recurring basis; and
        (2) requesting and evaluating continuing studies of tax 
    expenditures, devising methods of coordinating tax expenditures, 
    policies, and programs with direct budget outlays, and reporting 
    the results of such studies to the House on a recurring basis.

    Rule X clause 4(b), as added by the Congressional Budget Act of 
1974 and as later perfected by the Committee Reform Amendments of of 
1974,(16) reads as follows:
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16. Pub. L. No. 93-344, Sec. 101(c), incorporated into the rules as 
        Rule X clause 4(b)(1), House Rules and Manual Sec. 695 (1975), 
        by H. Res. 988, 120 Cong. Rec. 34447-70, 93d Cong. 2d Sess., 
        Oct. 8, 1974. Paragraph (2), contained in Sec. 301 (d) of the 
        Congressional Budget Act of 1974, paragraph (3), paragraph (4), 
        contained in Sec. 606 of that act, and paragraph (5), contained 
        in Sec. 703 of that act, all were made part of the rules 
        effective Jan. 3, 1975, by H. Res. 988.
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        (b) The Committee on the Budget shall have the duty--
        (1) to review on a continuing basis the conduct by the 
    Congressional Budget Office of its functions and duties;
        (2) to hold hearings, and receive testimony from Members of 
    Congress and such appropriate representatives of Federal 
    departments and agencies, the general public, and national 
    organizations as it deems desirable, in developing the first 
    concurrent resolution on the budget for each fiscal year;
        (3) to make all reports required of it by the Congressional 
    Budget Act of 1974, including the reporting of reconciliation bills 
    and resolutions when so required;
        (4) to study on a continuing basis those provisions of law 
    which exempt Federal agencies or any of their activities or outlays 
    from inclusion in the Budget of the United States Government, and 
    to report to the House from time to time its recommendations for 
    terminating or modifying such provisions; and
        (5) to study on a continuing basis proposals designed to 
    improve and facilitate methods of congressional budget-making, and 
    to report to the House from time to time the results of such

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    study together with its recommendations.

    Pursuant to section 906 of the Congressional Budget Act, the House 
Committee on the Budget reported to the House its recommendations for 
implementation of the budget procedures for fisca] year 1976; 
(17) the House and Senate completed final action on the 
first concurrent resolution on the budget considered under the Act by 
adopting a conference report thereon on May 14, 1975.(18) On 
May 13, 1976, the House and Senate completed final action on the first 
concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1976, the first 
year of full implementation of the Budget Act 
procedures.(19)
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17. H. Rept. No. 94-25, 94th Cong. 1st Sess., Mar. 3, 1975.
18. H. Con. Res. 218, H. Jour. 739-743, 94th Cong. 1st Sess.
19. S. Con. Res. 109, H. Jour. 768, 769, 94th Cong. 2d Sess.
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