    [Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 105th Congress]
    [105th Congress]
    [House Document 104-272]
    [Joint and Select Committees]
    [Pages 883-884]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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                           JOINT AND SELECT COMMITTEES

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                                Joint Committees

    Sec. 983. Joint Economic Committee.

      The Joint  Economic
    Committee is composed of 10 members of the Senate and 10 members of the
    House. The 10 House members are appointed by the Speaker: six from the
    majority and four from the minority. The committee conducts a continuing
    study of matters relating to the Economic Report made by the President
    and studies means of promoting the national policy on employment as
    outlined in the Employment Act of 1946 (15 U.S.C. 1021). The committee
    is required to file, not later than March 1 of each year, a report with
    the Senate and the House containing its findings and recommendations on
    each of the main recommendations made by the President in the Economic
    Report. It is authorized to hold hearings and make other reports to the
    Congress and to issue a monthly publication on economic conditions (15
    U.S.C. 1024-1025). The Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1978
    (sec. 302, P.L. 95-523) requires the Joint Committee to review and
    analyze the short-term and medium-term goals set forth in the Economic
    Report and to hold hearings on the Report to hear testimony from Members
    of Congress and other groups. Within 30 days after receipt of the Report
    by the Congress, standing committees with legislative jurisdiction and
    joint committees may submit reports to the joint committee with views
    and recommendations on matters within their jurisdiction. On or before
    each March 15, a majority of the members of the joint committee are
    required to submit a report to the Senate and House Budget Committees,
    including findings, recommendations, and appropriate analyses with
    respect to each of the short-term and medium-term goals set forth in the
    Economic Report.

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    Sec. 984. Joint Committee on Internal Revenue
    Taxation.

      The Joint  Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation is composed of five
    members of the Senate and five members of the House. The House members,
    three from the majority and two from the minority, are chosen by the
    Committee on Ways and Means from the membership of that committee. The
    Joint Committee investigates the operation and effects of the Federal
    system of internal revenue taxation. It is authorized to hold hearings
    at times and places it deems advisable, has subpoena powers, and reports
    to the Committee on Ways and Means, and, in its discretion, directly to
    the House (26 U.S.C. 8001-8023).

    Sec. 985. Joint Committee of Congress on the
    Library.

      The Joint  Committee of Congress on the Library is composed of five
    members of the Senate and five members of the House. The Chairman of the
    Committee on House Oversight is a member and four other members of that
    committee are elected by the House. (2 U.S.C. 132b).

    Sec. 986. Joint Committee on Printing.

      The House  elects four
    members of the Committee on House Oversight to serve with the chairman
    of that committee on the Joint Committee on Printing, together with the
    chairman and four other members of the Senate Committee on Rules and
    Administration (44 U.S.C. 101). The committee adopts and employs
    measures necessary to remedy inefficiencies or waste in the public
    printing, binding, and distribution of Government publications. It has
    control of the arrangement and style of the Congressional Record (44
    U.S.C. 901-910). The joint committee is directed to provide for printing
    in the Record the legislative program for the day, together with a list
    of congressional committee meetings and hearings and the place of
    meeting and subject matter; and to cause a brief resume of congressional
    activities for the previous day to be incorporated in the Record,
    together with an index of its contents. Such data is prepared under the
    supervision of the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of
    Representatives, respectively.

    Sec. 986a. Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural
    Ceremonies.

      The  Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies is
    established by concurrent resolution in the second session of the
    Congress occurring before a presidential inauguration and reestablished
    at the beginning of the next Congress. It is composed of three members
    of both the Senate and the House. The three House members are appointed
    by the Speaker and are traditionally the Speaker, the Majority Leader,
    and the Minority Leader. The committee is authorized to make the
    necessary arrangements for the inauguration of the President-elect and
    Vice President-elect. (see, e.g., S. Con. Res. 47, 104th Cong., Aug. 2,
    1996, p. ----; S. Con. Res. 2, 105th Cong., Jan. 7, 1997, p. ----).

                                Select Committees

      The 103d Congress, and each succeeding Congress, did not re-establish
    Select Committees on Hunger, on Children, Youth, and Families, on
    Narcotics Abuse and Control, or on Aging (formerly established in
    standing rule X). However, the Permanent Select Committee on
    Intelligence has been re-established by the adoption of rule XLVIII each
    Congress.

      In the 105th Congress a new subparagraph (3) was added at the end of
    clause 4(e) of rule X to establish a Select Committee on Ethics only to
    resolve an inquiry originally undertaken by the standing Committee on
    Standards of Official Conduct in the 104th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 7,
    1997, p. ----). The Select Committee filed one report to the House (H.
    Rept. 105-1, H. Res. 31, Jan. 21, 1997, p. ----).