[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. ----).