    [Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 106th Congress]
    [106th Congress]
    [House Document 105-358]
    [Rules of the House of Representatives]
    [Pages 407-510]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    Committees and their legislative jurisdictions
                      Rule X.--ORGANIZATION OF COMMITTEES

    714. Number and jurisdiction of standing
    committees.

      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:

      Under the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812), the
    44 committees of the 79th Congress were consolidated into 19, effective
    January 2, 1947. The total number of standing committees grew over time
    with the creation of the Committee on Science and Astronautics (now
    Science), established on July 21, 1958 (p. 14513); the Committee on
    Standards of Official Conduct, established on April 13, 1967 (p. 9425);
    the Committee on the Budget, established on July 12, 1974, by the
    Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (88 Stat. 297); and the Committee on
    Small Business, established as a standing committee effective January 3,
    1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). The Committee on
    Internal Security was abolished in the 94th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan.
    14, 1975, p. 20) thereby setting the total number of standing committees
    at 22.

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      The 104th Congress reduced the total number to 19 by abolishing the
    Committees on the District of Columbia, Merchant Marine and Fisheries,
    and Post Office and Civil Service (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995,
    p. 464). Matters formerly in the jurisdiction of the Committees on the
    District of Columbia and Post Office and Civil Service were transferred
    to the Committee on Government Reform (formerly Government Reform and
    Oversight); and matters formerly in the jurisdiction of the Committee on
    Merchant Marine and Fisheries were transferred to the Committees on
    Resources (formerly Natural Resources), Transportation and
    Infrastructure (formerly Public Works and Transportation), Armed
    Services (formerly National Security during the 104th and 105th
    Congresses), and Science (formerly Science, Space, and Technology (sec.
    202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464).

      A Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence was established in the
    95th Congress (H. Res. 658, July 14, 1977, pp. 22932-49). Before the
    House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, the Select Committee
    was found in former rule XLVIII (current clause 11 of rule X) (H. Res.
    5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----). A permanent Select Committee on Aging was
    added to clause 6 of this rule effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988,
    93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470) until stricken in the 103d Congress
    (H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 1993, p. 49).

      Although earlier forms of the rule specified the number of Members
    comprising each of the standing committees, those specifications were
    eliminated in the 93d Congress, leaving to the House the authority to
    establish the sizes of committees by the numbers elected to each
    standing committee pursuant to clause 5 of rule X. The rules still
    specify part of the composition of the Committee on the Budget (clause
    5(a)(2) of rule X) as well as the overall size and preferred composition
    of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (clause 11(a) of rule
    X).

      The Speaker refers public bills in accordance with clause 1 of rule X,
    but when the House itself refers a bill it may send it to any committee
    without regard to the rules of jurisdiction (IV, 4375; V, 5527; VII,
    2131) and jurisdiction is thereby conferred (IV, 4362-4364; VII, 2105).
    Motions for change of reference of public bills and resolutions must be
    authorized by the committee claiming jurisdiction (clause 7 of rule XII;
    VII, 2121; Feb. 13, 1918, p. 2070; Jan. 10, 1941, p. 100), must be made
    immediately following the reading of the Journal (VII, 1809, 2119,
    2120), must apply to a single bill and not to a class of bills (VII,
    2125), must apply to a bill erroneously referred (VII, 2125), may be
    amended (VII, 2127), may not be divided (VII, 2125), and may not be
    debated (VII, 2126, 2128), but are not in order on Calendar Wednesday
    (VII, 2117), and are not privileged if the original reference was not
    erroneous (VII, 2125). The re-referral of most bills is accomplished by
    unanimous consent (see Procedure, ch. 17, sec. 17-38).

      Prior to the 94th Congress, a bill could not be divided among two or
    more committees, even though it might contain matters properly within
    the jurisdiction of several committees (IV, 4372). The Committee Reform
    Amendments of 1974 added former clause 5 of rule X (current clause 2 of
    rule XII), permitting the Speaker to refer any matter to more than one
    committee (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). That
    provision was amended in the 104th Congress to require the Speaker to
    designate a primary committee among those to which a matter is initially
    referred (sec. 205, H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 467).

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    subject, the reference could nevertheless be to the committee having
    jurisdiction of the original bill (IV, 4373, 4374); normally, however
    such amended measures are held at the Speaker's table until disposed of
    by the House. The erroneous reference of a public bill under this rule,
    if it remains uncorrected, gives jurisdiction (IV, 4365-4371; VII,
    2108), but such is not the case with a private bill or petition (IV,
    3364, 4382-4389) unless the reference be made by action of the House
    itself (IV, 4390, 4391; VII 2131). A point of order as to the reference
    of a private bill is good when the bill comes up for consideration,
    either in the House or in the Committee of the Whole (IV, 4382-4389;
    VII, 2116, 2132; VIII, 2262) or at any time prior to passage (VII,
    2116). The reference of a bill to a committee involving the same subject
    matter as a bill previously reported confers jurisdiction anew upon the
    committee to consider and report the bill subsequently introduced (VIII,
    2311).
      A committee having jurisdiction of a subject by means of a petition
    (IV, 3365) properly referred (IV, 4361) can report on the subject
    thereof. It has generally been held that a committee may not report a
    bill whereof the subject matter has not been referred to it by the House
    (IV, 4355-4360, 4372; VII, 1029, 2101, 2102). Where a House bill is
    returned from the Senate with a substitute amendment relating to a new
    and different

      Clause 4 of rule XII prohibits the reception or consideration of
    certain private bills relating to claims, pensions, construction of
    bridges, and the correction of military or naval records. In the 104th
    Congress the House adopted a rule to prohibit introduction or
    consideration of any bill or resolution expressing a commemoration by
    designation of a specified period of time (current clause 5 of rule XII,
    former clause 2 of rule XXII) (sec. 216, H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p.
    468).

      (a) Committee on Agriculture.

    Sec. 715. Agriculture.

          (1)  Adulteration of seeds, insect
    pests, and protection of birds and animals in forest reserves.

          (2) Agriculture generally.

          (3) Agricultural and industrial chemistry.

          (4) Agricultural colleges and experiment stations.

          (5) Agricultural economics and research.

          (6) Agricultural education extension services.

          (7) Agricultural production and marketing and stabilization of
    prices of agricultural products, and commodities (not including
    distribution outside of the United States).

          (8) Animal industry and diseases of animals.

          (9) Commodity exchanges.

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          (10) Crop insurance and soil conservation.

          (11) Dairy industry.

          (12) Entomology and plant quarantine.

          (13) Extension of farm credit and farm security.

          (14) Inspection of livestock, poultry, meat products, and seafood
    and seafood products.

          (15) Forestry in general and forest reserves other than those
    created from the public domain.

          (16) Human nutrition and home economics.

          (17) Plant industry, soils, and agricultural engineering.

          (18) Rural electrification.

          (19) Rural development.

          (20) Water conservation related to activities of the Department of
    Agriculture.

      This Committee was established in 1820 (IV, 4149). In 1880 the subject
    of forestry was added to its jurisdiction, and the Committee was
    conferred authority to receive estimates of and to report appropriations
    (IV, 4149). However, on July 1, 1920, authority to report appropriations
    for the Department of Agriculture was transferred to the Committee on
    Appropriations (VII, 1860).

      The basic form of the present jurisdictional statement was made
    effective January 2, 1947, as a part of the Legislative Reorganization
    Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812). Subparagraph (7) was altered by the 93d
    Congress, effective January 3, 1975, to include jurisdiction over
    agricultural commodities (including the Commodity Credit Corporation)
    while transferring jurisdiction over foreign distribution and
    nondomestic production of commodities to the Committee on International
    Relations (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470).
    Nevertheless, the Committee has retained a limited jurisdiction over
    measures to release CCC stocks for such foreign distribution (Sept. 14,
    1989, p. 20428). Previously unstated jurisdictions over commodities
    exchanges and rural development were codified effective January 3, 1975.

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    and stylistic changes were effected when the House recodified its rules
    in the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----).
      The 104th Congress consolidated the Committee's jurisdiction over
    inspection of livestock and meat products to include inspection of
    poultry, seafood, and seafood products, and added subparagraph (20)
    relating to water conservation (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p.
    464). Clerical

      The Committee has had jurisdiction of bills for establishing and
    regulating the Department of Agriculture (IV, 4150), for inspection of
    livestock and meat products, regulation of animal industry, diseases of
    animals (IV, 4154; VII, 1862), adulteration of seeds, insect pests,
    protection of birds and animals in forest reserves (IV, 4157; VII,
    1870), the improvement of the breed of horses, even with the cavalry
    service in view (IV, 4158; VII, 1865).

      The Committee, having charge of the general subject of forestry, has
    reported bills relating to timber, and forest reserves other than those
    created from the public domain (IV, 4160). It has also exercised
    jurisdiction of bills: relating to agricultural colleges and experiment
    stations (IV, 4152), incorporation of agricultural societies (IV, 4159),
    and establishment of a highway commission (IV, 4153); to discourage
    fictitious and gambling transactions in farm products (IV, 4161; VII,
    1861); to regulate the transportation, sale, and handling of dogs and
    cats intended for use in research and the licensing of animal research
    facilities (July 29, 1965, p. 18691); and to designate an agricultural
    research center (May 14, 1996, p. ----). The Committee shares with the
    Committee on the Judiciary jurisdiction over a bill comprehensively
    amending the Immigration and Nationality Act and including food stamp
    eligibility requirements for aliens (Sept. 19, 1995, p. ----).

      The House referred the President's message dealing with the
    refinancing of farm-mortgage indebtedness to the Committee, thus
    conferring jurisdiction (Apr. 4, 1933, p. 1209).

      The Committee has jurisdiction over a bill relating solely to
    executive level positions in the Department of Agriculture (Mar. 2,
    1976, p. 4958) and has jurisdiction over bills to develop land and water
    conservation programs on private and non-Federal lands (June 7, 1976, p.
    16768).

      (b) Committee on Appropriations.

    Sec. 716. Appropriations.

          (1)    Appropriation of the
    revenue for the support of the Government.

          (2) Rescissions of appropriations contained in appropriation Acts.

          (3) Transfers of unexpended balances.

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          (4) Bills and joint resolutions reported by other committees that
    provide new entitlement authority as defined in section 3(9) of the
    Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and referred to the committee under
    clause 4(a)(2).

      This Committee was established in 1865, when all the general
    appropriation bills were confided to its care. In 1885 a portion of the
    bills were distributed to other committees. On July 1, 1920, the
    Committee again was given jurisdiction over all appropriations by an
    amendment to the rules adopted June 1, 1920 (VII, 1741).

    Sec. 717. Responsibilities under Budget Act.

      Effective  July
    12, 1974, special Presidential messages on rescissions and deferrals of
    budget authority submitted pursuant to sections 1012 and 1013 of the
    Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 683-4), as well as rescission
    bills and impoundment resolutions defined in section 1011 (2 U.S.C. 682)
    and required in section 1017 (2 U.S.C. 688) to be referred to the
    appropriate committee, are referred to the Committee on Appropriations
    if the proposed rescissions or deferrals involve funds already
    appropriated or obligated. Also effective July 12, 1974, the
    Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (sec. 404(a)) added to the Committee's
    jurisdiction, and later perfected by the Committee Reform Amendments of
    1974 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470), subparagraphs
    (2), (3), and (4).

      In the 95th Congress this paragraph was amended to correct a
    typographical error (H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 1977, p. 53). Subparagraph (4)
    was amended in the 105th and 106th Congresses to conform to changes made
    by the Budget Enforcement Act of 1997 (sec. 10116, P.L. 105-33; H. Res.
    5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----). When the House recodified its rules in the
    106th Congress, it transferred an undesignated portion of this paragraph
    to clause 3(f)(2) of rule XIII (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----).

      While this Committee has authority to report appropriations, the power
    to report legislation relating thereto belongs to other committees (IV,
    4033; clause 2 of rule XXI), and a general appropriation bill reported
    from this Committee may not contain items of appropriation not
    authorized by law or provisions amending existing law (except
    retrenchments and rescissions of appropriations) (clause 2 of rule XXI),
    and may not contain reappropriations of unexpended balances except
    within agencies (clause 2 of rule XXI). General appropriation bills may
    not be considered in the House until hearings have been available for
    three days (clause 4 of rule XIII).

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    to the House recommendations for terminating or modifying such
    provisions (clause 4(a)(3) of rule X). The requirement of section 139 of
    the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812) that the
    Committees on Appropriations of the House and Senate develop a standard
    appropriation classification schedule was superseded by section 202(a)
    of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 (84 Stat. 1167), which now
    imposes that responsibility upon the Secretary of the Treasury and the
    Office of Management and Budget. The further requirement of section 139
    of the 1946 Act that the Appropriations Committees study existing
    permanent appropriations and recommend which, if any, should be
    discontinued was made the responsibility of all standing committees of
    the House by clauses 4(e) of rule X, through enactment of section 253 of
    the 1970 Act (84 Stat. 1175).

      The authority to conduct studies and examinations of the organization
    and operation of executive departments and agencies was first given to
    this Committee on February 11, 1943 (p. 884); continued by resolution of
    January 9, 1945 (p. 135); and incorporated into permanent law in section
    202(b) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812).
    This authority was first made part of the standing rules on January 3,
    1953 (pp. 17, 24), and is now listed as a special oversight
    responsibility of the Committee in clause 3 of rule X, effective January
    3, 1975 (former clause 2(b)(3) of rule X) (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct.
    8, 1974, p. 34470). The Committee is also authorized and directed to
    hold hearings on the budget as a whole in open session within 30 days of
    its submission (clause 4(a)(1)(A) of rule X), and to study on a
    continuing basis provisions of law providing spending authority or
    permanent budget authority and to report

      (c) Committee on Armed Services.

    Sec. 718. Armed Services.

          (1)  Ammunition depots; forts;
    arsenals; and Army, Navy, and Air Force reservations and establishments.

          (2) Common defense generally.

          (3) Conservation, development, and use of naval petroleum and oil
    shale reserves.

          (4) The Department of Defense generally, including the Departments
    of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, generally.

          (5) Interoceanic canals generally, including measures relating to
    the maintenance, operation, and administration of interoceanic canals.

          (6) Merchant Marine Academy and State Maritime Academies.

          (7) Military applications of nuclear energy.

          (8) Tactical intelligence and intelligence-related activities of
    the Department of Defense.

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    and merchant marine officers and seamen as these matters relate to the
    national security.
          (9) National security aspects of merchant marine, including
    financial assistance for the construction and operation of vessels,
    maintenance of the U.S. shipbuilding and ship repair industrial base,
    cabotage, cargo preference,

          (10) Pay, promotion, retirement, and other benefits and privileges
    of members of the armed forces.

          (11) Scientific research and development in support of the armed
    services.

          (12) Selective service.

          (13) Size and composition of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air
    Force.

          (14) Soldiers' and sailors' homes.

          (15) Strategic and critical materials necessary for the common
    defense.

      This Committee was established January 2, 1947, as a part of the
    Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812), combining the
    Committee on Military Affairs with the Committee on Naval Affairs, both
    of which had been created in 1822 (IV, 4179, 4189) and had had
    jurisdiction over appropriations from 1885 to 1920 (IV, 4179, 4189; VII,
    1741). The Committee was redesignated the Committee on National Security
    in the 104th Congress (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464) and
    was redesignated again the Committee on Armed Services in the 106th
    Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----). Clerical and stylistic
    changes were effected when the House recodified its rules in the 106th
    Congress, including the deletion of a redundant undesignated recitation
    of a special oversight function (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----).

      Much of the present legislative jurisdiction in this paragraph was
    adopted on January 3, 1953 (p. 17), to reflect jurisdiction over the
    Department of Defense, which was created in the National Security Act of
    1947 (61 Stat. 495). In the 95th Congress, when the Joint Committee on
    Atomic Energy was abolished, this Committee gained jurisdiction over
    military applications of nuclear energy (H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 1977, p.
    53). The special oversight function of the Committee in clause 3(g)
    (former clause 3(a)) were assigned by the Committee Reform Amendments of
    1974, effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974,
    p. 34470). The 104th Congress added subparagraph (8) for clarification
    and subparagraphs (5), (6), and (9) to reflect the transfer of those
    matters from the former Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (sec.
    202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464), and later amended subparagraph
    (8) to effect a technical correction (H. Res. 254, Nov. 30, 1995, p. --
    --).

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    title 10 of the United States Code to permit suits against the United
    States for damage to reputation of members of Armed Forces acquitted of
    charges of crimes against civilians in combat zones (July 15, 1970, p.
    24451); for construction of facilities at Walter Reed Medical Center
    (Oct. 3, 1966, p. 24859); to require military commissary, post exchange,
    and medical care privileges for veterans with sufficient service-
    connected disabilities (Feb. 3, 1976, p. 1972); of a private character
    to waive the statutory time limit on the award of the Congressional
    Medal of Honor on individuals (Feb. 22, 1982, p. 1812); including
    authorization of appropriations to the Department of Energy for resource
    applications for naval petroleum and oil shale reserves (May 1, 1978, p.
    11946); and effecting the transfer of military property to a State to be
    designated by the State as a wilderness area (Nov. 15, 1995, p. ----).
      The Committee has jurisdiction over bills: relating to military
    housing construction (Feb. 21, 1962, p. 2684; Apr. 18, 1967, p. 9981);
    amending

      The Committee exercised jurisdiction with the Committee on Interior
    and Insular Affairs (now Resources) over a resolution expressing the
    sense of Congress regarding continued operation of the Hanford Nuclear
    Reactor to produce power for the Bonneville Power Administration (July
    17, 1986, p. 16888).

      (d) Committee on Banking and Financial Services.

    Sec. 719. Banking and Financial Services.

          (1)  Banks and
    banking, including deposit insurance and Federal monetary policy.

          (2) Bank capital markets activities generally.

          (3) Depository institutions securities activities generally,
    including activities of any affiliates (except for functional regulation
    under applicable securities laws not involving safety and soundness).

          (4) Economic stabilization, defense production, renegotiation, and
    control of the price of commodities, rents, and services.

          (5) Financial aid to commerce and industry (other than
    transportation).

          (6) International finance.

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          (7) International financial and monetary organizations.

          (8) Money and credit, including currency and this issuance of
    notes and redemption thereof; gold and silver, including the coinage
    thereof; valuation and revaluation of the dollar.

          (9) Public and private housing.

          (10) Urban development.

      This Committee was established in 1865 as the Committee on Banking and
    Currency (IV, 4082). In the Committee Reform Amendments of 1974,
    effective January 3, 1975, its name was changed to Banking, Currency and
    Housing (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). In the 95th
    Congress its name was changed to Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs (H.
    Res. 5, Jan. 4, 1977, pp. 53-70). In the 104th Congress its name was
    changed to Banking and Financial Services (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan.
    4, 1995, p. 464).

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    Committee on Commerce, and jurisdiction over urban mass transportation
    to what is now the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure (H.
    Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). In the 104th Congress
    subparagraphs (2) and (3) were added (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4,
    1995, p. 464). Clerical and stylistic changes were effected when the
    House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6,
    1999, p. ----).
      The Committee was given much of its present jurisdiction in the
    Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812), by which it
    absorbed the jurisdiction of the former Committee on Coinage, Weights,
    and Measures (created in 1864) (IV, 4090), except jurisdiction over
    matters relating to the standardization of weights and measures and the
    metric system was given to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign
    Commerce and was later transferred to the Committee on Science and
    Astronautics (now Science) in the 85th Congress (H. Res. 580, July 21,
    1958, p. 14513). In the 92d Congress jurisdiction over the impact on the
    economy of tax-exempt foundations and charitable trusts was transferred
    from the Subcommittee on Foundations of the Select Committee on Small
    Business, along with all that subcommittee's files, to this Committee
    (H. Res. 320, Apr. 27, 1971, p. 12081). Prior to the end of the 93d
    Congress, the Committee had legislative jurisdiction over the problems
    of small business under its general jurisdiction over financial aid to
    commerce and industry; but with the adoption of the Committee Reform
    Amendments of 1974, effective January 3, 1975, that jurisdiction was
    transferred to the standing Committee on Small Business, the permanent
    Select Committee on Small Business was abolished, and this Committee was
    specifically given jurisdiction over Federal monetary policy, money and
    credit, urban development, economic stabilization, defense production,
    and renegotiation (the latter matter formerly within the jurisdiction of
    the Committee on Ways and Means), international finance, and
    international financial and monetary organizations (formerly within the
    jurisdiction of the Committee on International Relations), while
    jurisdiction over the Commodity Credit Corporation was transferred to
    the Committee on Agriculture, jurisdiction over export controls and
    international economic policy to the Committee on International
    Relations, jurisdiction over construction of nursing home facilities to
    what is now the

      The Committee has reported on subjects relating to the strengthening
    of public credit, issues of notes, and State taxation and redemption
    thereof (IV, 4084), propositions to maintain the parity of the money of
    the United States (IV, 4089; VII, 1792), the issue of silver
    certificates as currency (IV, 4087, 4088), national banks and current
    deposits of public money (IV, 4083; VII, 1790), the incorporation of an
    international bank (IV, 4086), subjects relating to the Freedman's Bank
    (IV, 4085), and Federal Reserve System, farm loan act, home loan bills,
    stabilization of the dollar, War Finance Corporation, Federal Reserve
    bank buildings (VII, 1793, 1795). The Committee has jurisdiction of
    bills providing consolidation of grant-in-aid programs for urban
    development (Mar. 18, 1970, p. 7887), bills providing for U.S.
    participation in the International Development Association (Mar. 9,
    1960, p. 5046), bills to authorize GSA to acquire land in D.C. for
    transfer to the International Monetary Fund (May 1, 1962, p. 7428),
    bills relating to flood insurance (Dec. 4, 1975, p. 38701), and over an
    executive communication proposing regulations for college housing
    programs (notwithstanding that the requirement for such regulations was
    contained in higher education legislation reported from the Committee on
    Education and Labor) (June 15, 1982, p. 13638).

      (e) Committee on the Budget.

    Sec. 720.
    Budget.

          (1) Concurrent resolutions on the  budget (as defined in section 3(4) of the Congressional Budget
    Act of 1974), other matters required to be referred to the committee
    under titles III and IV of that Act, and other measures setting forth
    appropriate levels of budget totals for the United States Government.

          (2) Budget process generally.

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    order issued under part C of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit
    Control Act of 1985.

          (3) Establishment, extension, and enforcement of special controls
    over the Federal budget, including the budgetary treatment of off-budget
    Federal agencies and measures providing exemption from reduction under
    any

      This Committee was established in the 93d Congress, effective July 12,
    1974, by section 101 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (88 Stat.
    299). The separate subpoena authority conferred upon the Committee by
    section 101(b) of that Act has been superseded by the general grant of
    subpoena authority to all committees in clause 2(m) of rule XI (H. Res.
    988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). The Committee is also charged
    with the special oversight functions as described in clause 3(b) and
    clause 4(b) of rule X.

      Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this
    paragraph consisted of the committee's legislative jurisdiction (current
    paragraph (d)), its oversight jurisdiction (current clause 4 of rule X),
    and its composition (current clause 5(a)(2) of rule X (H. Res. 5, Jan.
    6, 1999, p. ----).

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    the Budget has secondary jurisdiction over a bill amending title 49 of
    the United States Code and providing off-budget treatment for the
    Highway Trust Fund, the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, the Inland
    Waterways Trust Fund, and the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund (Dec. 6,
    1995, p. ----). In the 105th Congress the jurisdictional statement in
    subparagraph (3), previously confined to the congressional budget
    process, was broadened to encompass also the executive budget process
    formerly included in the jurisdiction of the Committee on Government
    Reform and Oversight (now Government Reform) (H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 1997,
    p. ----). Clerical and stylistic changes were effected when the House
    recodified its rules in the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p.
    ----).

      In the 99th Congress this paragraph was again amended by section
    232(h) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985,
    to confer jurisdiction over Senate joint or concurrent resolutions
    constituting congressional responses to a Presidential sequestration
    order issued pursuant to a report of the Comptroller General under
    section 252(b) of that Act (P.L. 99-177, Dec. 12, 1985). It was again
    amended by the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 to conform subparagraph
    (2) to changes in the congressional budget laws (tit. XIII, P.L. 101-
    508). The 104th Congress amended the paragraph to expand the limited
    legislative jurisdiction of the Committee by: (1) adding other measures
    setting forth appropriate levels of budget totals to subparagraph (2);
    (2) granting the Committee jurisdiction over the congressional budget
    process generally in a new subparagraph (3); and (3) granting the
    Committee jurisdiction over special controls over the Federal budget in
    a new subparagraph (4), including receiving from the former Committee on
    Government Operations (now Government Reform) jurisdiction over
    budgetary treatment of off-budget Federal agencies and measures
    providing exemption from sequestration orders issued under the Balanced
    Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan.
    4, 1995, p. 464). Three re-referrals from the Committee on Government
    Reform to the Committee on the Budget marked this migration of off-
    budget treatment jurisdiction: (1) the Committee on the Budget has
    primary jurisdiction over a bill excluding from the budget the Civil
    Service Retirement and Disability Fund (although the Committee on
    Government Reform retains programmatic jurisdiction over that Fund); (2)
    the Committee on the Budget has primary jurisdiction over a bill
    excluding from the budget the Highway Trust Fund, the Airport and Airway
    Trust Fund, the Inland Waterways Trust Fund, and the Harbor Maintenance
    Trust Fund (although the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
    retains programmatic jurisdiction); and (3) the Committee on

      (f) Committee on Commerce.

          (1) Biomedical research and development.

    Sec. 721. Commerce.

            (2) Consumer affairs and consumer
    protection.

          (3) Health and health facilities (except health care supported by
    payroll deductions).

          (4) Interstate energy compacts.

          (5) Interstate and foreign commerce generally.

          (6) Exploration, production, storage, supply, marketing, pricing,
    and regulation of energy resources, including all fossil fuels, solar
    energy, and other unconventional or renewable energy resources.

          (7) Conservation of energy resources.

          (8) Energy information generally.

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          (9) The generation and marketing of power (except by federally
    chartered or Federal regional power marketing authorities); reliability
    and interstate transmission of, and ratemaking for, all power; and
    siting of generation facilities (except the installation of
    interconnections between Government waterpower projects).

          (10) General management of the Department of Energy and management
    and all functions of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

          (11) National energy policy generally.

          (12) Public health and quarantine.

          (13) Regulation of the domestic nuclear energy industry, including
    regulation of research and development reactors and nuclear regulatory
    research.

          (14) Regulation of interstate and foreign communications.

          (15) Securities and exchanges.

    The committee shall have the same jurisdiction with respect to
    regulation of nuclear facilities and of use of nuclear energy as it has
    with respect to regulation of nonnuclear facilities and of use of
    nonnuclear energy.

          (16) Travel and tourism.

      The Committee dates from 1795 (IV, 4096). Effective January 3, 1975
    (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470), the name of the
    Committee was changed from Interstate and Foreign Commerce to Commerce
    and Health. Effective January 14, 1975, it was redesignated as
    Interstate and Foreign Commerce (H. Res. 5, 94th Cong., p. 20). In the
    96th Congress it was redesignated again as Energy and Commerce and given
    much of its present jurisdiction, effective January 3, 1981 (H. Res.
    549, Mar. 25, 1980, pp. 6405-10; note publication of intercommittee
    memoranda of understanding). In the 104th Congress it was redesignated
    again as the Committee on Commerce (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4,
    1995, p. 464).

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    on National Security (now Armed Services) has jurisdiction over the
    Panama Canal (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464). In the 85th
    Congress matters relating to the Bureau of Standards, standardization of
    weights and measures, and the metric system (conferred on the Committee
    by the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, 60 Stat. 812), were
    transferred to the Committee on Science and Astronautics (now Science)
    (July 21, 1958, p. 14513). In the Committee Reform Amendments of 1974,
    effective January 3, 1975, the Committee obtained specific jurisdiction
    over consumer affairs and consumer protection (subpara. (2)), travel and
    tourism (subpara. (16)), health and health facilities, except health
    care supported by payroll deductions (subpara. (3)) (a matter formerly
    within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Ways and Means), and
    biomedical research and development (subpara. (1)), and was released of
    jurisdiction over civil aeronautics to the Committee on Public Works and
    Transportation (now Transportation and Infrastructure), jurisdiction
    over civil aviation research and development, energy and environmental
    research and development, and the National Weather Service to the
    Committee on Science and Technology (now Science), and jurisdiction over
    trading with the enemy to the Committee on Foreign Affairs (now
    International Relations) (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p.
    34470). In the 95th Congress, when the legislative jurisdiction of the
    Joint Committee on Atomic Energy in the House was transferred to various
    standing committees, this Committee was given the same jurisdiction over
    nuclear energy as it had over nonnuclear energy and facilities (H. Res.
    5, Jan. 4, 1977, pp. 53-70). In the 96th Congress the Committee obtained
    specific jurisdiction over national energy policy generally (subpara.
    (11)), measures relating to exploration, production, storage, supply,
    marketing, pricing, and regulation of energy resources (subpara. (6)),
    measures relating to conservation of energy resources (subpara. (7)),
    measures relating to energy information generally (subpara. (8)),
    measures relating to the generation, marketing, interstate transmission
    of, and ratemaking for power as well as the siting of generation
    facilities, with certain exceptions (subpara. (9)), interstate energy
    compacts (subpara. (4)), and measures relating to general management of
    the Department of Energy and all functions of the Federal Energy
    Regulatory Commission (subpara. (10)) (H. Res. 549, Mar. 25, 1980, pp.
    6405-10). In the 104th Congress the Committee's jurisdiction over inland
    waterways and railroads (including railroad labor, retirement, and
    unemployment) was transferred to the Committee on Transportation and
    Infrastructure, and jurisdiction over measures relating to the
    commercial application of energy technology was transferred to the
    Committee on Science, while the Committee on Commerce obtained exclusive
    jurisdiction over regulation of the domestic nuclear energy industry
    (subpara. (13)) from the former Committee on Natural Resources (now
    Resources) (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464). Clerical and
    stylistic changes were effected when the House recodified its rules in
    the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----).

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      In the 74th Congress the jurisdictional statement of the Committee was
    amended to include jurisdiction over bills relating to radio; to deprive
    the Committee jurisdiction over bills relating to water transportation,
    Coast Guard, lifesaving service, lighthouses, lightships, ocean
    derelicts, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and the Panama Canal; and to vest
    jurisdiction over those subjects in the former Committee on Merchant
    Marine and Fisheries (VII, 1814, 1847), but with the demise of the
    latter Committee in the 104th Congress, the latter subjects now reside
    in the jurisdiction of the Committee on Transportation and
    Infrastructure, except that the Committee

      The Committee has the special oversight responsibility under clause
    3(c) of rule X as well as the general oversight responsibility required
    by clause 2 of rule X. This special oversight responsibility was
    expanded in the 96th Congress to include all energy, effective January
    3, 1981 (H. Res. 549, Mar. 25, 1980, pp. 6405-10). In the 104th Congress
    it was again expanded to include nonmilitary nuclear energy and research
    and development including the disposal of nuclear waste (sec. 202(a), H.
    Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464), though a conforming change in clause 3(c)
    was inadvertently omitted.

      The Committee formerly reported the river and harbor appropriation
    bill, but in 1883 a Committee on Rivers and Harbors was created for that
    role (IV, 4096), and since the 66th Congress such appropriations have
    been reported by the Committee on Appropriations.

      The Committee has general jurisdiction of bills affecting domestic and
    foreign commerce, except such as may affect the revenue (IV, 4097). It
    also has jurisdiction of bills authorizing the construction of marine
    hospitals and the acquisition of sites therefor (IV, 4110; VII, 1816),
    the general subjects of quarantine and the establishment of quarantine
    stations (IV, 4109), health, spread of leprosy and other contagious
    diseases, international congress of hygiene, etc. (IV, 4111), bills
    declaring as to whether or not streams are navigable and for preventing
    or regulating hindrances to navigation (IV, 4101; VII, 1810; Mar. 9,
    1999, p. ----), such as bridges (IV, 4099; VII, 1812) and dams, except
    such bridges and dams as are a part of river improvements (IV, 4100;
    VII, 1810). This Committee formerly had jurisdiction of bills proposing
    construction of bridges across navigable streams which are now banned
    under clause 4 of rule XII (see Sec. 822, infra; see also General Bridge
    Act, 33 U.S.C. 525, 533).

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    requirements on the assets of ``open-end investment companies'' that
    offer their depositors accounts transacted by negotiable instrument
    (Mar. 18, 1981, p. 4610), as well as over a Developmental Disabilities
    Assistance and Bill of Rights Act that focused on health matters rather
    than job training (June 1, 1981, p. 11028; Nov. 3, 1993, p. 27274). In
    the 94th Congress, the Committee gained jurisdiction over bills amending
    the Lead-Based Paint Poisoning Prevention Act and bills dealing with
    nursing home construction as public health matters (June 10, 1975, p.
    18009).

      Before the 104th Congress the Committee considered bills regulating
    railroads in their interstate commerce relations (IV, 414) and exercised
    jurisdiction with the Committees on Education and Labor (now Education
    and the Workforce) and Public Works and Transportation (now
    Transportation and Infrastructure) over bills providing labor
    protections to workers in the transportation industry, including
    railroad employees (Feb. 24, 1993, p. 3577). The Committee considers
    bills relating to commercial travelers as agents of interstate commerce
    and the branding of articles going into such commerce (IV, 4115), the
    prevention of the carriage of indecent and harmful pictures or
    literature (IV, 4116), the adulteration and misbranding of foods and
    drugs (IV, 4112), and protection of game through prohibition of
    interstate transportation (IV, 4117). The Committee has jurisdiction
    over bills imposing safety standards on motor vehicles purchased by the
    U.S. Government (Feb. 16, 1959, p. 2420), bills creating civil remedies
    for false advertising or other violations of commercial ethics (June 4,
    1962, p. 9601), and bills to assist financing of the Arctic Winter Games
    in Alaska (June 7, 1972, p. 19935). The Committee has exercised
    jurisdiction, with the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs
    (now Banking and Financial Services), over a bill to amend the Federal
    Reserve Act to impose reserve

      (g) Committee on Education and the Workforce.

          (1) Child labor.

    Sec. 722. Education and the Workforce.

            (2) Gallaudet
    University and Howard University and Hospital.

          (3) Convict labor and the entry of goods made by convicts into
    interstate commerce.

          (4) Food programs for children in schools.

          (5) Labor standards and statistics.

          (6) Education or labor generally.

          (7) Mediation and arbitration of labor disputes.

          (8) Regulation or prevention of importation of foreign laborers
    under contract.

          (9) Workers' compensation.

          (10) Vocational rehabilitation.

          (11) Wages and hours of labor.

          (12) Welfare of miners.

          (13) Work incentive programs.

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    again the Committee on Education and the Workforce (H. Res. 5, Jan. 7,
    1997, p. ----).
      This Committee was established as the Committee on Education and Labor
    on January 2, 1947, as part of the Legislative Reorganization Act of
    1946 (60 Stat. 812), combining the Committee on Education (created in
    1867) (IV, 4242) and the Committee on Labor (created in 1883) (IV,
    4244). When it was redesignated as the Committee on Economic and
    Educational Opportunities in the 104th Congress, the jurisdictional
    statement remained unchanged except by the combination of labor
    standards and labor statistics in a single subparagraph (5) (sec.
    202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464). In the 105th Congress the
    Committee was redesignated

      By the Committee Reform Amendments of 1974, effective January 3, 1975,
    the Committee gained jurisdiction over food programs for children in
    schools, an expansion of earlier jurisdiction over school-lunch programs
    (subpara. (4)), work incentive programs (subpara. (13)), and Indian
    education, a matter formerly within the specific jurisdiction of the
    Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (now Resources); jurisdiction
    of the Committee over international education matters was specifically
    transferred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs (now International
    Relations); and its special oversight function was inserted in clause
    3(c) of rule X (current clause 3(d) of rule X) (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong.,
    Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). Clerical and stylistic changes were effected
    when the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, including the
    deletion of obsolete references to the Columbia Institution for the
    Deaf, Dumb, and Blind, Freedmen's Hospital, and the United States
    Employees' Compensation Commission and the deletion of a redundant
    undesignated recitation of general and special oversight functions (H.
    Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----).

      The jurisdiction of this Committee over education and vocational
    rehabilitation does not include those subjects as they relate to
    veterans, which fall under the jurisdiction of the Committee on
    Veterans' Affairs.

      The Committee has jurisdiction over bills dealing with juvenile
    delinquency (Jan. 22, 1959, p. 1027), runaway youth (July 12, 1973, p.
    23633; Sept. 10, 1973, p. 28970), human services programs administered
    by HEW (June 21, 1972, p. 21733), education of Indians (Apr. 15, 1975,
    p. 10247; June 10, 1991, p. 14049), including the Native American
    Programs Act (Oct. 30, 1997, p. ----), and compensation for work
    injuries to Federal employees (Apr. 16, 1975, p. 10339); over bills
    amending the Community Services Block Grant Act to continue antipoverty
    programs originally authorized by the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964
    (Nov. 4, 1993, p. 27359); and over an executive communication proposing
    draft legislation to amend the Labor Management Relations Act and the
    Employee Retirement Income Security Act (Mar. 24, 1983, p. 7402). The
    Committee shares with the Committee on the Judiciary original
    jurisdiction over a bill comprehensively amending the Immigration and
    Nationality Act and including provisions addressing the enforcement of
    labor laws (Sept. 19, 1995, p. ----).

      (h) Committee on Government Reform.

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    Sec. 723. Government Reform.

          (1)  Federal civil service,
    including intergovernmental personnel; and the status of officers and
    employees of the United States, including their compensation,
    classification, and retirement.

          (2) Municipal affairs of the District of Columbia in general
    (other than appropriations).

          (3) Federal paperwork reduction.

          (4) Government management and accounting measures generally.

          (5) Holidays and celebrations.

          (6) Overall economy, efficiency, and management of government
    operations and activities, including Federal procurement.

          (7) National archives.

          (8) Population and demography generally, including the Census.

          (9) Postal service generally, including transportation of the
    mails.

          (10) Public information and records.

          (11) Relationship of the Federal Government to the States and
    municipalities generally.

          (12) Reorganizations in the executive branch of the Government.

      In the 82d Congress the name of this Committee was changed from
    Expenditures in the Executive Departments to Government Operations (July
    3, 1952, p. 9217). In the 104th Congress it was changed to Government
    Reform and Oversight (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464), and
    in the 106th Congress it was changed to Government Reform (H. Res. 5,
    Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----). The former Committee on Expenditures in the
    Executive Departments was established December 5, 1927 (VII, 2041), and
    took the place of 11 separate committees on expenditures in the several
    executive departments. The first of these committees was established in
    1816, and others were added as new departments were created (IV, 4315).
    They reported bills relating to the efficiency and integrity of the
    public service (IV, 4320), and creation and abolition of offices (IV,
    4318).

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    former Committee on Post Office and Civil Service) (H. Res. 988, 93d
    Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). In the 104th Congress (sec. 202(a), H.
    Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464), the Committee assumed the jurisdictions
    of the former Committee on the District of Columbia (subparas. (2)) and
    the former Committee on Post Office and Civil Service except that
    relating to the Franking Commission (subparas. (1), (5), (8), and (9));
    and subparagraphs (3) and (10) were added to clarify existing
    jurisdiction. At the same time the Committee's jurisdiction over
    measures relating to off-budget treatment of agencies or programs, which
    had been added by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act
    of 1985 (P.L. 99-177, Dec. 12, 1985), was transferred to the Committee
    on the Budget. Three re-referrals from the Committee on Government
    Reform and Oversight (now Government Reform) to the Committee on the
    Budget marked this migration of off-budget treatment jurisdiction: (1)
    the Committee on the Budget has primary jurisdiction over a bill
    excluding from the budget the Civil Service Retirement and Disability
    Fund (although the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight (now
    Government Reform) retains programmatic jurisdiction over that Fund);
    (2) the Committee on the Budget has primary jurisdiction over a bill
    excluding from the budget the Highway Trust Fund, the Airport and Airway
    Trust Fund, the Inland Waterways Trust Fund, and the Harbor Maintenance
    Trust Fund (although the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
    retains programmatic jurisdiction); and (3) the Committee on the Budget
    has secondary jurisdiction over a bill amending title 49 of the United
    States Code and providing off-budget treatment for the Highway Trust
    Fund, the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, the Inland Waterways Trust
    Fund, and the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund (Dec. 6, 1995, p. ----). The
    Committee was also released from jurisdiction over measures relating to
    exemptions from executive orders sequestering budget authority, which
    had been added by the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 (tit. XIII, P.L.
    101-508). In the 105th Congress any residual jurisdiction over budget
    process was transferred to the Committee on the Budget (H. Res. 5, Jan.
    7, 1997, p. ----). The 104th Congress assigned the Committee its
    responsibilities to coordinate committee oversight plans under clause
    2(d) (sec. 203(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 467). In the 104th
    Congress the Committee was also given the responsibility to consider and
    report recommendations concerning alternatives to commemorative
    legislation, although no such report was made to the House (sec. 216(b),
    H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 468). Clerical and stylistic changes were
    effected when the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress,
    including the deletion of a redundant undesignated recitation of general
    and special oversight functions (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----).
      In addition to the jurisdiction vested in the Committee by the
    Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812), the Committee
    Reform Amendments of 1974, effective January 3, 1975, assigned the
    Committee jurisdiction over measures relating to the overall economy and
    efficiency of Government operations and activities, including Federal
    procurement, intergovernmental relationships, and general revenue
    sharing (the latter from the Committee on Ways and Means), and the
    National Archives (from the

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    24, 1969, p. 35509); providing payment of travel costs for Federal
    employment applicants (Feb. 15, 1967, p. 3466); and a bill to rename an
    existing post office building (Aug. 4, 1995, p. ----; Oct. 1, 1998, p.
    ----). The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and not this
    Committee, has jurisdiction over a measure redesignating a general-
    purpose Federal building as a post office (Apr. 24, 1997, p. 22085). The
    Committee has exercised jurisdiction over countercyclical programs of
    revenue-sharing grants to State and local governments, such as that
    contained in Title II of the Public Works Employment Act of 1976 (Feb.
    1, 1977, p. 3057). The Committee shares jurisdiction over a bill to
    facilitate the reorganization of an agency by instituting a separation
    pay program to encourage eligible employees to voluntarily resign or
    retire (Aug. 2, 1993, p. 18161). The Committee has jurisdiction over a
    bill explicitly waiving the Federal Property and Administrative Services
    Act and directing the Administrator of General Services to convey excess
    real property (Oct. 2, 1998, p. ----). This Committee, and not the
    Committee on the Judiciary, has jurisdiction over a bill authorizing a
    pay adjustment for administrative law judges (June 10, 1999, p. ----;
    July 31, 1999, p. ----).
      The Committee has exercised jurisdiction of bills: establishing the
    Rural Electrification Administration as an independent agency and
    transferring certain functions thereto (Mar. 19, 1959, p. 4692);
    establishing a Commission on Population Growth (Sept. 23, 1969, p.
    26568); establishing a Cabinet Committee on Opportunities for Spanish-
    Speaking Americans (Nov.

      The specific subpoena authority conferred upon the Committee in the
    standing rules on February 10, 1947 (p. 942) was superseded by the
    general conferral of subpoena authority on all committees in clause 2(m)
    of rule XI. By the Committee Reform Amendments of 1974, effective
    January 3, 1975, the Committee was given the general function under
    clause 4(c)(1) of examining and reporting upon reports of the
    Comptroller General, evaluating laws reorganizing the legislative and
    executive branches, and studying intergovernmental relationships
    domestically and with international organizations to which the United
    States belongs (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470).

      (i) Committee on House Administration.

    Sec. 724. House Administration.

          (1)  Appropriations from
    accounts for committee salaries and expenses (except for the Committee
    on Appropriations); House Information Resources; and allowance and
    expenses of Members, Delegates, the Resident Commissioner, officers, and
    administrative offices of the House.

          (2) Auditing and settling of all accounts described in
    subparagraph (1).

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    dent Commissioner, and committees; and reporters of debates, subject to
    rule VI.
          (3) Employment of persons by the House, including staff for
    Members, Delegates, the Resi

          (4) Except as provided in paragraph (q)(11), the Library of
    Congress, including management thereof; the House Library; statuary and
    pictures; acceptance or purchase of works of art for the Capitol; the
    Botanic Garden; and purchase of books and manuscripts.

          (5) The Smithsonian Institution and the incorporation of similar
    institutions (except as provided in paragraph (q)(11)).

          (6) Expenditure of accounts described in subparagraph (1).

          (7) Franking Commission.

          (8) Printing and correction of the Congressional Record.

          (9) Accounts of the House generally.

          (10) Assignment of office space for Members, Delegates, the
    Resident Commissioner, and committees.

          (11) Disposition of useless executive papers.

          (12) Election of the President, Vice President, Members, Senators,
    Delegates, or the Resident Commissioner; corrupt practices; contested
    elections; credentials and qualifications; and Federal elections
    generally.

          (13) Services to the House, including the House Restaurant,
    parking facilities, and administration of the House Office Buildings and
    of the House wing of the Capitol.

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          (14) Travel of Members, Delegates, and the Resident Commissioner.

          (15) Raising, reporting, and use of campaign contributions for
    candidates for office of Representative, of Delegate, and of Resident
    Commissioner.

          (16) Compensation, retirement, and other benefits of the Members,
    Delegates, the Resident Commissioner, officers, and employees of
    Congress.

      This Committee was created as the Committee on House Administration on
    January 2, 1947, as a part of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946
    (60 Stat. 812), combining the Committees on Accounts (created in 1803)
    (IV, 4328), Enrolled Bills (created in 1789) (IV, 4350), Disposition of
    Executive Papers (created in 1889) (IV, 4419), Printing (created in
    1846), Elections (created in 1794 and divided into three committees in
    1895) (IV, 4019), Election of President, Vice President, and
    Representatives in Congress (created in 1893) (IV, 4299), and Memorials
    (created January 3, 1929, VII, 2080).

      The Committee was redesignated as the Committee on House Oversight in
    the 104th Congress, obtaining from the former Committee on Post Office
    and Civil Service jurisdiction over the Franking Commission (also known
    as the House Commission on Congressional Mailing Standards) in
    subparagraph (7), while transferring to the Committee on Resources
    jurisdiction over erection of monuments to the memory of individuals
    (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464). References in
    subparagraphs (1) and (2) to the ``contingent fund'' were eliminated
    without changing the Committee's jurisdiction over the accounts that the
    fund comprised. In the 105th Congress subparagraph (1) was amended to
    effect a technical correction (H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 1997, p. ----). In the
    106th Congress the Committee was redesignated House Administration, and
    the House recodified its rules to effect clerical and stylistic changes,
    including the deletion of a redundant undesignated recitation of general
    and special oversight functions (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----).

    Sec. 725. House facilities.

      The  Committee has jurisdiction
    over measures relating to the House Restaurant, which was first under
    the jurisdiction of the former Committee on Accounts, then under the
    supervision of the Architect of the Capitol (H. Res. 590, 76th Cong.,
    Sept. 5, 1940, p. 11552, as made permanent law by P.L. 76-812, 40 U.S.C.
    174k), and then under the supervision of the Select Committee on the
    House Restaurant (H. Res. 472, 91st Cong., July 10, 1969, p. 19080; H.
    Res. 111, 93d Cong., Feb. 7, 1973, p. ----), which was not reestablished
    after the 93d Congress.

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    House, a matter formerly assigned to a select committee (subpara. (13))
    (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). In the 94th Congress
    the Committee was given jurisdiction over campaign contributions to
    candidates for the House, a matter formerly within the jurisdiction of
    the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (subpara. (15)), and over
    compensation, retirement, and other benefits of Members, officers, and
    employees of Congress (subpara. (16)) (H. Res. 5, Jan. 14, 1975, p. 20).
      By the Committee Reform Amendments of 1974, effective January 3, 1975,
    the Committee obtained jurisdiction over parking facilities of the

      The Committee has jurisdiction over resolutions authorizing committees
    to employ additional professional and clerical personnel (Feb. 7, 1966,
    p. 2373). The Committee has supervisory authority over the House barber
    shops, beauty shops, House Information Resources, and the Office of
    Placement and Management (the latter formerly within the jurisdiction of
    the former Joint Committee on Congressional Operations and of the former
    Select Committee on Congressional Operations).

    Sec. 726. Enrolled bills.

      The  Committee has absorbed the
    Committee on Enrolled Bills which was established in 1789 by a joint
    rule of the two Houses. This rule lapsed in 1876 with the other joint
    rules; but in 1880 the Rules of the House were amended to recognize the
    joint committee (IV, 4350, 4416; VII, 2099). The Committee and the
    Secretary of the Senate make comparisons of bills of their respective
    Houses for enrollment, and the two cooperate in the interchange of bills
    for signature.

    Sec. 727. Library.

      Under  the Reorganization Act the
    Committee has jurisdiction of some of the subjects formerly within the
    jurisdiction of the Joint Committee on the Library, such as matters
    relating to the Library of Congress and the House Library, statuary and
    pictures, acceptance or purchase of works of art for the Capitol, the
    Botanic Gardens, management of the Library of Congress, purchase of
    books and manuscripts, matters relating to the Smithsonian Institution,
    and the incorporation of similar institutions. Excepted are measures
    relating to the construction or reconstruction, maintenance, and care of
    the buildings and grounds of the Botanic Gardens, the Library of
    Congress, and the Smithsonian Institution, which fall under the
    jurisdiction of the Committee on Transportation (now Transportation and
    Infrastructure). The House Members of the Joint Committee on the
    Library, provided for by law (2 U.S.C. 132b), are elected by resolution
    each Congress.

    Sec. 728. Congressional Record.

      The  Committee has
    jurisdiction of matters relating to printing and correction of the
    Congressional Record, formerly within the jurisdiction of the Committee
    on Printing. The House Members of the Joint Committee on Printing,
    provided for by law (44 U.S.C. 1), are elected by resolution each
    Congress.

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    of a Committee on Election of the President, Vice President, and
    Representatives in Congress (IV, 4303).
      The Committee has jurisdiction of measures relating to the election of
    the President, Vice President, or Members of Congress; corrupt
    practices; contested elections; credentials and qualifications; Federal
    elections generally, and the electoral count, which formerly was within
    the jurisdiction

      The special oversight function in clause 4(d)(1) of examining enrolled
    bills was assigned to the Committee by the Committee Reform Amendments
    of 1974, effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8,
    1974, p. 34470), but its former responsibility to report on Members'
    travel has been supplanted by the function of providing policy direction
    to and oversight of the Clerk, Sergeant-at-Arms, Chief Administrative
    Officer, and Inspector General (sec. 10, H. Res. 423, Apr. 9, 1992, p.
    9040; sec. 201(e), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 463; see rule II and
    Sec. 752, infra).

      (j) Committee on International Relations.

    Sec. 729. International Relations.

          (1)  Relations of the
    United States with foreign nations generally.

          (2) Acquisition of land and buildings for embassies and legations
    in foreign countries.

          (3) Establishment of boundary lines between the United States and
    foreign nations.

          (4) Export controls, including nonproliferation of nuclear
    technology and nuclear hardware.

          (5) Foreign loans.

          (6) International commodity agreements (other than those involving
    sugar), including all agreements for cooperation in the export of
    nuclear technology and nuclear hardware.

          (7) International conferences and congresses.

          (8) International education.

          (9) Intervention abroad and declarations of war.

          (10) Diplomatic service.

          (11) Measures to foster commercial intercourse with foreign
    nations and to safeguard American business interests abroad.

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          (12) International economic policy.

          (13) Neutrality.

          (14) Protection of American citizens abroad and expatriation.

          (15) The American National Red Cross.

          (16) Trading with the enemy.

          (17) United Nations organizations.

      This Committee was established in 1822 (IV, 4162), and from 1885 to
    1920 had authority to report appropriations. In the 94th Congress the
    name of the Committee was changed from Foreign Affairs to International
    Relations (H. Res. 163, Mar. 19, 1975, p. 7343). In the 96th Congress it
    was changed back to Foreign Affairs (H. Res. 89, Feb. 5, 1979, p. 1848).
    In the 104th Congress the name was again changed to International
    Relations (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464).

      In addition to the jurisdiction vested in the Committee by the
    Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812), the Committee
    Reform Amendments of 1974, effective January 3, 1975, gave the Committee
    jurisdiction over measures relating to: international economic policy
    (subpara. (12)) and export controls (subpara. (4)), matters formerly
    within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Banking and Currency (now
    Banking and Financial Services); international commodity agreements
    other than sugar (subpara. (6)), formerly within the jurisdiction of the
    Committee on Agriculture; trading with the enemy (subpara. (16)),
    formerly within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Interstate and
    Foreign Commerce (now Commerce); and international education (subpara.
    (8)); while transferring jurisdiction over international financial and
    monetary organizations to the Committee on Banking and Currency (now
    Banking and Financial Services), and jurisdiction over international
    fishing agreements to the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
    (now Resources) (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). When
    the legislative jurisdiction in the House of the Joint Committee on
    Atomic Energy was abolished in the 95th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 4,
    1977, pp. 53-70), the Committee was given jurisdiction over
    nonproliferation of nuclear technology and hardware (subpara. (4)), and
    over international agreements on nuclear exports (subpara. (6)).
    Clerical and stylistic changes were effected when the House recodified
    its rules in the 106th Congress, including the deletion of a redundant
    undesignated recitation of general and special oversight functions (H.
    Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----).

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    ferences and congresses (IV, 4177; VII, 1884), the incorporation of the
    American National Red Cross and protection of its insignia (IV, 4173),
    intervention abroad and declarations of war (IV, 4164; VII 1880),
    affairs of the consular service, including acquisition of land and
    buildings for legations in foreign capitals (IV, 4163; VII, 1879),
    creation of courts of the United States in foreign countries (IV, 4167),
    treaty regulations as to protection of fur seals (IV, 4170), matters
    relating to the Philippines (see 60 Stat. 315), and measures
    establishing a District of Columbia corporation to support private
    American organizations engaged in communications with foreign nations
    (June 21, 1971, p. 21062).
      It has a broad jurisdiction over foreign relations, including bills to
    establish boundary lines between the United States and foreign nations,
    to determine naval strengths, and to regulate bridges and dams on
    international waters (IV, 4166; see also the ``General Bridge Act,'' 33
    U.S.C. 525, 533), for the protection of American citizens abroad and
    expatriation (IV, 4169; VII, 1883), for extradition with foreign
    nations, for international arbitration, relating to violations of
    neutrality (IV, 4178a), international con

      The Committee has also considered measures for fostering commercial
    intercourse with foreign nations and for safeguarding American business
    interests abroad (IV, 4175), and even the subjects of commercial
    treaties and reciprocal arrangements (IV, 4174), although in later
    practice the Committee on Ways and Means has considered such matters
    (IV, 4021). The Committee has exercised a general but not exclusive
    jurisdiction over legislation relating to claims having international
    relations (IV, 4168; VII, 1882). Pursuant to its jurisdiction over
    international education, the Committee (and not former Committee on
    Education and Labor) has exercised jurisdiction over bills establishing
    scholarship programs for foreign students (May 10, 1988, p. 10305). The
    Committee has jurisdiction over a communication from the President
    notifying the House, consistent with the War Powers Resolution, of the
    deployment abroad of U.S. armed forces to participate in an embargo
    against another nation (Nov. 4, 1993, p. 27393).

      The special oversight function of the Committee set forth in clause
    3(d) of rule X (current clause 3(f) of rule X) was made effective
    January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470).

      (k) Committee on the Judiciary.

    Sec. 730. Judiciary.

          (1)  The judiciary and judicial
    proceedings, civil and criminal.

          (2) Administrative practice and procedure.

          (3) Apportionment of Representatives.

          (4) Bankruptcy, mutiny, espionage, and counterfeiting.

          (5) Civil liberties.

          (6) Constitutional amendments.

          (7) Federal courts and judges, and local courts in the Territories
    and possessions.

          (8) Immigration and naturalization.

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          (9) Interstate compacts generally.

          (10) Claims against the United States.

          (11) Meetings of Congress; attendance of Members, Delegates, and
    the Resident Commissioner; and their acceptance of incompatible offices.

          (12) National penitentiaries.

          (13) Patents, the Patent and Trademark Office, copyrights, and
    trademarks.

          (14) Presidential succession.

          (15) Protection of trade and commerce against unlawful restraints
    and monopolies.

          (16) Revision and codification of the Statutes of the United
    States.

          (17) State and territorial boundary lines.

    Sec. 731. Internal Security.

          (18)  Subversive activities
    affecting the in-
    ternal security of the United States.

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    subparagraph (13) (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464).
    Clerical and stylistic changes were effected when the House recodified
    its rules in the 106th Congress, including an update of a reference to
    the Patent and Trademark Office (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----).
      This Committee dates from 1813 (IV, 4054). The essential jurisdiction
    defined in the rule was made effective January 2, 1947, as a part of the
    Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812), and combined the
    Committees on Revision of Laws (created 1868, IV, 4293), Patents
    (created in 1837) (IV, 4254), Immigration and Naturalization (created in
    1893) (IV, 4309), Claims (created in 1794) (IV, 4262), and War Claims
    (created in 1883) (IV, 4269). By the Committee Reform Amendments of
    1974, effective January 3, 1975, the Committee's jurisdiction over
    holidays and celebrations was transferred to the former Committee on
    Post Office and Civil Service (now under Government Reform) (H. Res.
    988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). In the 94th Congress the
    Committee on Internal Security was abolished and jurisdiction over
    communist and other subversive activities affecting the internal
    security of the United States was transferred to this Committee
    (subpara. (18)) (H. Res. 5, Jan. 14, 1975, p. 20), though an
    accompanying provision for the transfer of records and staff of the
    Internal Security Committee to the Judiciary Committee was deleted as
    obsolete in the 95th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 1977, pp. 53-70), and
    the specific reference to communism was deleted as unnecessary in the
    104th Congress (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464). The 104th
    Congress also inserted ``the judiciary'' in subparagraph (1); added
    subparagraph (2) for clarification; combined former subparagraphs (6)
    and (9) in a new subparagraph (7); and combined former subparagraphs
    (13) and (14) in a new

      Under subparagraph (14) the Committee has jurisdiction over
    Presidential nominations to fill vacancies in the office of Vice
    President, submitted pursuant to the 25th amendment to the Constitution
    (Oct. 13, 1973, p. 34032; Aug. 20, 1974, p. 29366). The Committee has
    reported Articles of Impeachment of the President (Aug. 20, 1974, pp.
    29219-81; Dec. 17, 1998, p. ----). Where the House has voted
    impeachment, members of the Committee have been appointed as managers on
    the part of the House in presenting the charges to the Senate for trial
    (H. Res. 501, 99th Cong., July 22, 1986, p. 17306; H. Res. 511, 100th
    Cong., Aug. 3, 1988, p. 20223; H. Res. 12, 101st Cong., Jan. 3, 1989, p.
    84; Dec. 19, 1998, p. ----; Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----).

      The Committee on the Judiciary considers charges against judges of the
    Federal courts (IV, 4062), legislative propositions relating to the
    service of the Department of Justice (IV, 4067), bills relating to local
    courts in the District of Columbia, Alaska, and the territories (IV,
    4068), the establishment of a court of patent appeals (IV, 4075),
    relations of labor to courts and corporations (IV, 4072), crimes,
    penalties, extradition (IV, 4069; VII, 1747), construction and
    management of national penitentiaries (IV, 4070), matters relating to
    trusts and corporations (IV, 4057, 4059, 4060; VII, 1764), claims of
    States against the United States (IV, 4080), general legislation
    relating to international and other claims (IV, 4078, 4079, 4081),
    including measures extending the terms of members of the Foreign Claims
    Settlement Commission (Nov. 14, 1991, p. 32130), bills relating to the
    Office of President (IV, 4077), to the flag (IV, 4055), bankruptcy (IV,
    4065), removal of political disabilities (IV, 4058), prohibition of
    traffic in intoxicating liquors (IV, 4061; VII, 1773), mutiny and
    willful destruction of vessels (IV, 4145), counterfeiting (IV, 4071;
    VII, 1753), settlement of State and territorial boundary lines (IV,
    4060; VII, 1768), meeting of Congress and attendance of Members and
    their acceptance of incompatible offices (IV, 4077, VI, 65).

      The Committee also has jurisdiction over joint resolutions proposing
    amendments to the Constitution (IV, 4056; VII, 1779). It also reports on
    important questions of law relating to subjects naturally within the
    jurisdiction of other committees (IV, 4063). Although the Committee has
    historically exercised jurisdiction over lobbying activities, the
    Committee on Standards of Official Conduct was assigned such
    jurisdiction during a brief period (H. Res. 1031, 91st Cong., July 8,
    1970, p. 23141; H. Res. 5, 94th Cong., Jan. 14, 1975, p. 20).

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    lishing an Academy of Criminal Justice (Apr. 5, 1965, p. 6822), to
    eliminate racketeering in the interstate sale of cigarettes (Feb. 9,
    1972, p. 3429), providing workmen's compensation for non-Federal firemen
    killed during civil disorder (May 6, 1968, p. 11798), authorizing the
    Attorney General to consent to a modification of a certain trust on
    behalf of the Library of Congress (Aug. 17, 1959, p. 16051), amending an
    omnibus pension act to increase the amount of pension granted a certain
    class of persons (Feb. 15, 1960, p. 2523), and imposing criminal
    sanctions under the Controlled Substances Act (Nov. 14, 1983, p. 32457).
    The Committee has exclusive jurisdiction over the Legal Services
    Corporation (Nov. 19, 1975, p. 37288) and over the extension of
    workmen's benefits to non-Federal policemen and firemen (Dec. 12, 1975,
    p. 40204). The Committee has exercised jurisdiction, with the Committee
    on Education and Labor (now Education and the Workforce), over bills to
    amend the Walsh-Healey Act regarding hours of work under government
    contracts (May 15, 1985, p. 11946). This Committee, and not the
    Committee on Public Works and Transportation (now Transportation and
    Infrastructure), exercised jurisdiction over a bill extending the
    authority for the Marshal of the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court
    Police to protect the Chief Justice, Associate Justices, officers, and
    employees of the Supreme Court beyond its building and grounds (Nov. 22,
    1993, p. 32074). The Committee on Government Reform, and not this
    Committee, has jurisdiction over pay adjustments for administrative law
    judges (July 31, 1991, p. ----; June 10, 1999, p. ----).
      The Committee also has jurisdiction over bills regulating the
    authority of States to impose taxes on interstate commerce (June 18,
    1959, p. 11317), imposing conflict of interest standards and civil and
    criminal penalties relating thereto on government employees (Feb. 25,
    1960, p. 3484), estab

      The Committee has the general oversight responsibility set forth in
    clause 2(b).

      (l) Committee on Resources.

    Sec. 732. Resources.

          (1)  Fisheries and wildlife,
    including research, restoration, refuges, and conservation.

          (2) Forest reserves and national parks created from the public
    domain.

          (3) Forfeiture of land grants and alien ownership, including alien
    ownership of mineral lands.

          (4) Geological Survey.

          (5) International fishing agreements.

          (6) Interstate compacts relating to apportionment of waters for
    irrigation purposes.

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    easements of public lands for irrigation projects; and acquisition of
    private lands when necessary to complete irrigation projects.
          (7) Irrigation and reclamation, including water supply for
    reclamation projects and

          (8) Native Americans generally, including the care and allotment
    of Native American lands and general and special measures relating to
    claims that are paid out of Native American funds.

          (9) Insular possessions of the United States generally (except
    those affecting the revenue and appropriations).

          (10) Military parks and battlefields, national cemeteries
    administered by the Secretary of the Interior, parks within the District
    of Columbia, and the erection of monuments to the memory of individuals.

          (11) Mineral land laws and claims and entries thereunder.

          (12) Mineral resources of public lands.

          (13) Mining interests generally.

          (14) Mining schools and experimental stations.

          (15) Marine affairs, including coastal zone management (except for
    measures relating to oil and other pollution of navigable waters).

          (16) Oceanography.

          (17) Petroleum conservation on public lands and conservation of
    the radium supply in the United States.

          (18) Preservation of prehistoric ruins and objects of interest on
    the public domain.

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          (19) Public lands generally, including entry, easements, and
    grazing thereon.

          (20) Relations of the United States with Native Americans and
    Native American tribes.

          (21) Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline (except ratemaking).

      The Committee on Public Lands was created in 1805 (IV, 4194). Its name
    has since been changed to Interior and Insular Affairs (Feb. 2, 1951, p.
    883); to Natural Resources (H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 1993, p. 49); and to
    Resources (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464).

      The core of the jurisdiction reflected in this paragraph was assigned
    to the Committee effective January 2, 1947, as a part of the Legislative
    Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812), which consolidated in this
    Committee the jurisdictions of the former Committees on Mines and Mining
    (created in 1865) (IV, 4223), Insular Affairs (created in 1899) (IV,
    4213), Irrigation and Reclamation (created in 1893) (IV, 4307), Indian
    Affairs (created in 1821) (IV, 4204), and territories (created in 1825)
    (IV, 4208), though vesting the subject of welfare of men working in
    mines, formerly under the jurisdiction of a Committee on Mines and
    Mining, in the Committee on Education and Labor (now Education and the
    Workforce). Until the Reorganization Act, military parks, battlefields,
    and national cemeteries were under jurisdiction of a Committee on
    Military Affairs. Jurisdiction over cemeteries of the United States in
    which veterans may be buried, except those administered by the Secretary
    of the Interior, was transferred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs
    in the 90th Congress (H. Res. 241, Oct. 20, 1967).

      In Committee Reform Amendments of 1974, effective January 3, 1975, the
    Committee gained jurisdiction over parks within the District of
    Columbia, formerly within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Public
    Works and Transportation (now Transportation and Infrastructure)
    (subpara. (10)), and lost specific jurisdiction over Indian education
    and over Hawaii and Alaska, generally (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8,
    1974, p. 34470). By that same resolution, the Committee was given
    special oversight functions in clause 3.

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    mittee on Commerce (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464). At
    the same time, the statements of special oversight functions formerly
    found in this paragraph and in former paragraph (e) of this clause were
    adjusted to reflect the transfer of nonmilitary nuclear energy and
    research and development including disposal of nuclear waste from this
    Committee to the Committee on Commerce, though conforming changes in
    former paragraphs (e) and (h) of clause 3 were inadvertently omitted.
    Clerical and stylistic changes were effected when the House recodified
    its rules in the 106th Congress, (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----).
      The 104th Congress expanded the jurisdiction of the Committee by:
    adding subparagraphs (1), (5), (15), and (16) to reflect the transfer of
    those matters from the former Committee on Merchant Marine and
    Fisheries; inserting the subject of monuments in memory of individuals
    in subparagraph (10) to reflect the transfer of that matter from the
    Committee on House Administration; adding subparagraph (21), an
    exceptional treatment of pipeline jurisdiction otherwise vested in the
    Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure; and deleting the subject
    of regulation of the domestic nuclear energy industry to reflect the
    transfer of that jurisdiction, which this Committee had acquired when
    the 95th Congress abolished the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy (H.
    Res. 5, Jan. 4, 1977, pp. 53-70) and which it shared with the Committee
    on Commerce, to the Com

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    mittee, has jurisdiction over the transfer of military property to a
    State to be designated by the State as a wilderness area (Nov. 15, 1995,
    p. ----). The Committee on Agriculture, and not this Committee, has
    jurisdiction over the designation of an agricultural research center
    (May 14, 1996, p. 11070). The Committee on Education and the Workforce,
    and not this Committee, has jurisdiction over a bill amending the Native
    American Programs Act of 1974 (an Indian education matter) (Oct. 30,
    1997, p. ----).
      The Committee reports on subjects relating to the mineral resources of
    the public lands (IV, 4202), forfeiture of land grants and alien
    ownership (IV, 4201), validation of certain conveyances of erstwhile
    public lands by a railway company (July 11, 1995, p. 18397), public
    lands of Alaska (IV, 4196), forest reserves (IV, 4197), and national
    parks created out of the public domain (IV, 4199; VII, 1925), including
    measures relating to criminal trespass provisions applying only within
    national forests created from the public domain (July 18, 1977, p.
    23434); to admission of States (IV, 4208); to preservation of
    prehistoric ruins and objects of interest on the public domain (IV,
    4199); and sometimes to projects of general legislation relating to
    various classes of land claims (IV, 4203). The Committee also has
    jurisdiction over bills relating to proceeds from disposal of oil shale
    on public lands (other than naval oil shale reserves) (Aug. 3, 1967, p.
    21179); bills to exclude certain lands in the Outer Continental Shelf
    from mineral leasing provisions of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act
    (May 16, 1963, p. 8777); bills reinstating a U.S. oil and gas lease
    (Aug. 5, 1959, p. 15190); bills addressing U.S. claims to lands along
    the Colorado River forming state boundaries (June 28, 1967, p. 17738);
    bills designating national forest lands created from the public domain
    as wilderness (May 6, 1969, p. 11459); bills including additional units
    in the Missouri River Basin project (Sept. 8, 1959, p. 18587); bills
    establishing a commission on development of Pennsylvania Avenue in D.C.
    as a national historic site (Oct. 21, 1965, p. 27803); bills authorizing
    the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a feasibility investigation of
    potential water resource development (May 1, 1975, p. 12764); bills to
    establish a commission to consider the creation of a (Hudson) River
    compact (July 21, 1975, p. 23653); bills to name a building constructed
    as part of a Federal recreation area (June 8, 1988, p. 13803); bills
    addressing the siting on Federal parkland of an established national
    memorial (Sept. 24, 1991, p. 23731); and (with the Committee on
    Agriculture) bills exchanging a Federal tree nursery for certain State
    mining patents touching a western forest (Sept. 17, 1991, p. 23193). The
    Committee on National Security (now Armed Services), and not this Com

      The authority of the Committee to report as privileged bills for the
    forfeiture of land grants to railroad and other corporations, bills
    preventing speculation in the public lands, bills for the preservation
    of the public lands for the benefit of actual and bona fide settlers,
    and bills for the admission of new States was eliminated in the
    Committee Reform Amendments of 1974, effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res.
    988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470).

      (m) Committee on Rules.

    Sec. 733. Rules.

          (1)  Rules and joint rules (other than
    those relating to the Code of Official Conduct) and the order of
    business of the House.

          (2) Recesses and final adjournments of Congress.

      This Committee, which had existed as a select committee from 1789,
    became a standing committee in 1880 (IV, 4321; VII, 2047). The
    jurisdiction defined in this paragraph became effective January 2, 1947,
    as a part of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812).
    Clerical and stylistic changes were effected when the House recodified
    its rules in the 106th Congress, including the deletion of a redundant
    undesignated pararaph permitting the Committee to sit during sessions of
    the House (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----). That undesignated
    paragraph, originally designated as subparagraph (3) (H. Res. 5, Jan. 5,
    1993, p. 49), was derived from section 134(c) of the Legislative
    Reorganization Act of 1946, even though the Committee had authority to
    sit during sessions of the House since 1893 (IV, 4546). Effective
    January 3, 1975, however, the authority for all committees to sit and
    act whether the House is in session or has adjourned rendered this
    provision obsolete (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470).

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    Jan. 28, 1975, p. 1611), and in the 99th through 101st Congresses, 13
    Members were named to the Committee on nominations from the respective
    party caucuses (see, e.g., H. Res. 34, 35, Jan. 30, 1985, pp. 1271,
    1273).
      The Speaker was first made a member of the Committee in 1858 (IV,
    4321), and ceased to be a member on March 19, 1910 (VII, 2047). However,
    the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 deleted from the former rule
    the prohibition against the Speaker serving on the Committee. The size
    of the Committee was increased from 12 to 15 members for the 87th
    Congress (Jan. 31, 1961, p. 1589), and the increase in the Committee's
    size was incorporated as a part of the rules in the 88th Congress (Jan.
    9, 1963, p. ----). Effective January 3, 1975, however, the rules were
    amended to eliminate prescriptions of committee sizes (H. Res. 988, 93d
    Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470), and in the 94th through the 98th
    Congresses 16 Members were named to the Committee on nominations from
    the respective party caucuses (see, e.g., H. Res. 76, Jan. 20, 1975, p.
    803; H. Res. 101,

      The subject of recesses and adjournments was formerly under the
    jurisdiction of the Committee on Ways and Means. In section 402(b) of
    the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-344, July 12, 1974), the
    Committee was given specific authority to report emergency waivers of
    the required reporting date for bills and resolutions authorizing new
    budget authority. That authority was incorporated into this rule,
    effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p.
    34470), but was repealed as obsolete in the 102d Congress (H. Res. 5,
    Jan. 3, 1991, p. 39). Jurisdiction over rules relating to official
    conduct and financial disclosure was transferred to the Committee on
    Standards of Official Conduct on April 3, 1968 (H. Res. 1099, 90th
    Cong.), but in the 95th Congress, jurisdiction over rules relating to
    financial disclosure by Members, officers, and employees of the House
    was returned to this Committee (H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 1977, pp. 53-70).

      The jurisdiction of this Committee is primarily over propositions to
    make or change the rules (V, 6770, 6776; VII, 2047), for the creation of
    committees (IV, 4322; VII, 2048), and directing them to make
    investigations (IV, 4322-4324; VII, 2048). Effective January 3, 1975,
    however, the authority for all committees to conduct investigations and
    studies was made a part of the standing rules (clause 1(b) of rule XI),
    as was the authority to issue subpoenas (clause 2(m) of rule XI) (H.
    Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). The Committee also reports
    resolutions relating to the hour of daily meeting and the days on which
    the House shall sit (IV, 4325), and orders relating to the use of the
    galleries during the electoral count (IV, 4327).

    Sec. 734. Special orders of business.

      Since  1883 the
    Committee on Rules has reported special orders providing times and
    methods for consideration of special bills or classes of bills, thereby
    enabling the House by majority vote to forward particular legislation,
    instead of being forced to use for the purpose the motion to suspend the
    rules, which requires a two-thirds vote (IV, 3152; V, 6870; for forms
    of, IV, 3238-3263).

      Special orders may still be made by suspension of the rules (IV, 3154)
    or by unanimous consent (IV, 3165, 3166; VII, 758); but it is not in
    order, by motion in the House, to provide that a subject be made a
    special order by a motion to postpone to a day certain (IV, 3164). But
    before the adoption of rules, and consequently before there is a rule as
    to the order of business, a Member may offer a special order for
    immediate consideration (V, 4971, 5450). A special order reported by the
    Committee on Rules must be agreed to by a majority vote of the House
    (IV, 3169).

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    A motion to rescind a special order is not privileged under the rules
    regulating the order of business (IV, 3173, 3174; V, 5323).
      It is not in order to move to postpone a special order providing for
    the consideration of a class of bills (V, 4958), but a bill which comes
    before the House by the terms of a special order merely assigning the
    day for its consideration may be postponed by a majority vote (IV, 3177-
    3182).

      A motion to amend the rules of the House does not present a question
    of privilege (VIII, 3377, overruling VIII, 3376; see also rule IX and
    Sec. 706, supra), and it is not in order by raising a question of the
    privileges of the House under rule IX to move to direct the Committee on
    Rules to consider a request to report a special order of business
    (Speaker Albert, June 27, 1974, p. 21599), or to direct the Committee on
    Rules to meet, to elect a temporary chairman (in the temporary absence
    of the chairman) and consider special orders of business (Speaker
    Albert, July 31, 1975, p. 26250).

      For further discussion of the Committee on Rules, see Sec. Sec. 857-
    859, infra.

      (n) Committee on Science.

    Sec. 735. Science.

          (1)  All energy research, development,
    and demonstration, and projects therefor, and all federally owned or
    operated nonmilitary energy laboratories.

          (2) Astronautical research and development, including resources,
    personnel, equipment, and facilities.

          (3) Civil aviation research and development.

          (4) Environmental research and development.

          (5) Marine research.

          (6) Commercial application of energy technology.

          (7) National Institute of Standards and Technology,
    standardization of weights and measures, and the metric system.

          (8) National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

          (9) National Space Council.

          (10) National Science Foundation.

          (11) National Weather Service.

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          (12) Outer space, including exploration and control thereof.

          (13) Science scholarships.

          (14) Scientific research, development, and demonstration, and
    projects therefor.

      The standing Committee on Science and Astronautics was established in
    the 85th Congress and given jurisdiction formerly vested in a Select
    Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration established a few months
    earlier (Mar. 5, 1958, p. 3443), as well as the former jurisdiction of
    the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce (now Commerce) over the
    Bureau of Standards (now the National Institute of Standards and
    Technology) and science scholarships (July 21, 1958, p. 14513). By the
    Committee Reform Amendments of 1974, effective January 3, 1975, the
    Committee was redesignated as the Committee on Science and Technology
    and given additional jurisdiction over civil aviation research and
    development, environmental research and development, nonnuclear energy
    research and development, and the National Weather Service (now part of
    the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) (H. Res. 988, 93d
    Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). At the same time the Committee was given
    the general and special oversight functions set forth in clause 2(b) and
    former clause 3(f) (current clause 3(j)). When the House abolished the
    Joint Committee on Atomic Energy in the 95th Congress, this Committee
    was given jurisdiction over nuclear research and development, as well
    (H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 1977, pp. 53-70). Its jurisdiction over energy
    research and development (now subpara. (1)) was amended in the 96th
    Congress, effective January 3, 1981, to specifically include energy
    demonstration projects and federally owned nonmilitary energy
    laboratories (H. Res. 549, Mar. 25, 1980, pp. 6405-10). In the 100th
    Congress, the Committee was redesignated as the Committee on Science,
    Space, and Technology (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1987, p. 6). In the 103d
    Congress the jurisdictional statement of the Committee was updated to
    reflect the renaming of executive branch entities (H. Res. 5, Jan. 5,
    1993, p. 49). The 104th Congress again renamed the Committee as the
    Committee on Science and expanded its jurisdiction by adding
    subparagraph (5), from the former Committee on Merchant Marine and
    Fisheries, and subparagraph (6), from the Committee on Energy and
    Commerce (now Commerce) (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464).
    Clerical and stylistic changes were effected when the House recodified
    its rules in the 106th Congress, including the deletion of a redundant
    undesignated recitation of general and special oversight functions (H.
    Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----).

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    sources), over bills to test the commercial viability of oil shale
    technologies within the naval oil shale reserves or on other public
    lands (Sept. 26, 1978, p. 31623); and with four other committees over a
    bill coordinating Federal agencies' research into ground water
    contamination, including that done by the Environmental Protection
    Agency (Mar. 15, 1989, p. 4163).

      The Committee has jurisdiction over proposals dealing with U.S.
    participation in the World Science Pan-Pacific Exposition (June 24,
    1959, p. 11810); over a resolution condemning Soviet Union internal
    exile of an individual, and recommending that Government agencies
    including NASA, the National Bureau of Standards and the National
    Science Foundation defer official travel to that country (Jan. 30, 1980,
    p. 1320); with the Committees on Armed Services and Interior and Insular
    Affairs (now Re

      (o) Committee on Small Business.

    Sec. 736. Small Business.

          (1)  Assistance to and
    protection of small business, including financial aid, regulatory
    flexibility, and paperwork reduction.

          (2) Participation of small-business enterprises in Federal
    procurement and Government contracts.

      A Select Committee on Small Business was first established in the 77th
    Congress (H. Res. 294, pp. 9418-28) and was reconstituted each Congress
    thereafter by resolution reported from the Committee on Rules until made
    permanent in the 92d Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 22, 1971, p. 144).

      The Committee Reform Amendments of 1974 established a standing
    Committee on Small Business, effective January 3, 1975, and vested it
    with legislative jurisdiction formerly held by the Committee on Banking
    and Currency (now Banking and Financial Services) (subpara. (1)) and the
    Committee on the Judiciary (subpara. (2)) (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct.
    8, 1974, p. 34470). At the same time the general and special oversight
    functions were set forth in clause 2(b) and in former clause 3(g)
    (current clause 3(k)). The 104th Congress expanded the jurisdiction of
    the Committee over assistance to and protection of small business by
    inserting the references to regulatory flexibility and paperwork
    reduction in subparagraph (1) (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p.
    464; see also Feb. 9, 1995, p. 4328) and later effected a technical
    correction (H. Res. 254, Nov. 30, 1995, p. ----). Clerical and stylistic
    changes were effected when the House recodified its rules in the 106th
    Congress, including the deletion of a redundant undesignated recitation
    of general and special oversight functions (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p.
    ----).

      (p) Committee on Standards of Official Conduct.

    Sec. 737. Standards of Official Conduct.

            The Code of
    Official Conduct.

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    9425). Its precursor was the Select Committee on Standards and Conduct,
    created in the 89th Congress (H. Res. 1013, Oct. 19, 1966, pp. 27713-
    30). At various times in its history, the legislative jurisdiction of
    the Committee has included jurisdiction over measures relating to (1)
    financial disclosure by Members, officers, and employees of the House
    (H. Res. 1099, 90th Cong., Apr. 3, 1968, p. ----); (2) the raising,
    reporting, and use of campaign contributions for candidates for the
    House (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470); and (3) lobbying
    activities (H. Res. 1031, 91st Cong., July 8, 1970, p. 23141). However,
    legislative jurisdiction over measures relating to financial disclosure
    was transferred to the Committee on Rules in the 95th Congress (H. Res.
    5, Jan. 4, 1977, pp. 53-70); legislative jurisdiction over measures
    relating to campaign contributions for candidates for the House was
    transferred to House Administration, and legislative jurisdiction over
    measures relating to lobbying activities was removed from the Committee
    (thereby devolving on the Committee on the Judiciary) in the 94th
    Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 14, 1975, p. 20). Clerical and stylistic
    changes were effected when the House recodified its rules in the 106th
    Congress, including the deletion of a redundant undesignated recitation
    of general and special functions (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----).
      In the 90th Congress the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct
    was established as a standing committee (H. Res. 418, Apr. 13, 1967, p.

      Two rules relating to the official conduct of Members are outside the
    confines of rule XXIV, the ``Code of Official Conduct,'' as follows:
    rule XXV, limitations on use of official funds, and rule XXVI,
    limitations on outside earned income and acceptance of gifts.

      Under clause 5(a) of rule XIII, the Committee is empowered to report
    as privileged resolutions recommending action by the House of
    Representatives with respect to the official conduct of an individual
    Member, officer, or employee of the House.

      In addition to its legislative jurisdiction, the Committee has the
    general oversight responsibility set forth in clause 2(b) and the
    additional functions of conducting the investigations and making the
    reports and recommendations required by clause 5 of rule XIII or by
    resolution of the House (see, e.g., H. Res. 252, 95th Cong., Feb. 9,
    1977, pp. 3966-75, directing investigation of gifts from Korean
    Government; H. Res. 1042, 94th Cong., Feb. 16, 1976, pp. 3158-61,
    directing investigation of unauthorized publication of report of Select
    Committee on Intelligence; and H. Res. 608, 96th Cong., Mar. 27, 1980,
    pp. 6995-98, relating to ``Abscam'').

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    government ethics laws as they apply to Members, officers, and employees
    of the House (H. Res. 5, Jan. 15, 1979, p. 7). In the 102d Congress
    those responsibilities were enlarged to include also the functions
    designated in title V of the Act and the specified sections of title 5,
    United States Code (H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1991, p. 39).
      The Committee has investigated rollcall procedures in the House and
    recommended installation of a modernized voting system (June 19, 1969,
    p. 16629). In the 95th Congress the Committee was authorized by section
    515 of Public Law 95-105 to act as the ``employing agency'' for the
    House of Representatives under the Foreign Gifts and Decorations Act,
    and the Committee promulgated regulations under that statute concerning
    acceptance of foreign gifts and decorations by Members and employees
    (Jan. 23, 1978, p. 452). In the 96th Congress the Committee was assigned
    as additional responsibilities the functions designated in title I of
    the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (P.L. 95-521) relating to the
    administration of

      The Committee has compiled statutory and rule-based ethical standards
    in the House Ethics Manual (102d Cong., 2d Sess.). In the Manual, the
    Committee incorporates its advisory opinions issued under clause 3(a)(4)
    of rule X, together with advisory opinions issued by the former Select
    Committee on Ethics, in its discussions of various ethical issues,
    including gifts, outside income, financial disclosure, staff rights and
    duties, official allowances and franking, casework considerations,
    campaign financing and practices, and involvement with official and
    unofficial organizations.

    Sec. 738. Former Select Committees on
    Ethics.

      In the 95th  Congress, the House established a Select Committee on Ethics
    and granted it exclusive legislative jurisdiction over bills that
    incorporated into permanent law provisions of House rules addressing
    financial ethics of Members, officers, and employees (H. Res. 383, Mar.
    9, 1977, pp. 6811-16). The Select Committee was also granted
    jurisdiction to promulgate implementing regulations and to issue
    advisory opinions. The resolution creating the Select Committee provided
    that it would expire on December 31, 1977, but the Committee and its
    functions ultimately were extended through the completion of its
    official business (H. Res. 871, Oct. 31, 1977, p. 35957). The advisory
    opinions compiled by the former Select Committee on Ethics have been
    incorporated in the House Ethics Manual (102d Cong., 2d Sess.).

      In the 105th Congress a new subparagraph (3) was added at the end of
    former 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. ----).

      (q) Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

    Sec. 739. Transportation and Infrastructure.

          (1)  Coast
    Guard, including lifesaving service, lighthouses, lightships, ocean
    derelicts, and the Coast Guard Academy.

          (2) Federal management of emergencies and natural disasters.

          (3) Flood control and improvement of rivers and harbors.

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          (4) Inland waterways.

          (5) Inspection of merchant marine vessels, lights and signals,
    lifesaving equipment, and fire protection on such vessels.

          (6) Navigation and laws relating thereto, including pilotage.

          (7) Registering and licensing of vessels and small boats.

          (8) Rules and international arrangements to prevent collisions at
    sea.

          (9) The Capitol Building and the Senate and House Office
    Buildings.

          (10) Construction or maintenance of roads and post roads (other
    than appropriations therefor).

          (11) Construction or reconstruction, maintenance, and care of
    buildings and grounds of the Botanic Garden, the Library of Congress,
    and the Smithsonian Institution.

          (12) Merchant marine (except for national security aspects
    thereof).

          (13) Purchase of sites and construction of post offices,
    customhouses, Federal courthouses, and Government buildings within the
    District of Columbia.

          (14) Oil and other pollution of navigable waters, including
    inland, coastal, and ocean waters.

          (15) Marine affairs, including coastal zone management, as they
    relate to oil and other pollution of navigable waters.

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          (16) Public buildings and occupied or improved grounds of the
    United States generally.

          (17) Public works for the benefit of navigation, including bridges
    and dams (other than international bridges and dams).

          (18) Related transportation regulatory agencies.

          (19) Roads and the safety thereof.

          (20) Transportation, including civil aviation, railroads, water
    transportation, transportation safety (except automobile safety),
    transportation infrastructure, transportation labor, and railroad
    retirement and unemployment (except revenue measures related thereto).

          (21) Water power.

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    a specific road in a bill providing for another specific road or in a
    general road bill (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----).
      The Committee was created effective January 2, 1947, as a part of the
    Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812), combining the
    Committees on Flood Control (created in 1916) (VII, 2069), Public
    Buildings and Grounds (created in 1837) (IV, 4231), Rivers and Harbors
    (created in 1883) (IV, 4118)), and Roads (created in 1913) (VII, 2065).
    The authority of the Committee to report as privileged bills authorizing
    the improvement of rivers and harbors was eliminated by the Committee
    Reform Amendments of 1974, effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d
    Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). At the same time the Committee's
    jurisdiction over parks in the District of Columbia was transferred to
    the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (now Resources); and it
    gained jurisdiction over transportation, including civil aviation
    (except railroads, railroad labor, and railroad pensions), over roads
    and the safety thereof, over water transportation subject to the
    jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and over related
    transportation regulatory agencies with certain exceptions. The 104th
    Congress changed the name of the Committee from Public Works and
    Transportation to Transportation and Infrastructure and expanded its
    jurisdiction by: adding subparagraphs (1), (6)-(8), (12), and (15) to
    reflect the transfer of those matters from the former Committee on
    Merchant Marine and Fisheries; adding subparagraph (4) and enlarging
    subparagraph (20) to reflect the transfer of those matters from the
    Committee on Energy and Commerce (now Commerce); and adding subparagraph
    (2) and inserting the reference to inland, coastal, and ocean waters in
    subparagraph (14), as clarifying consolidations of formerly
    fractionalized subjects (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464).
    Clerical and stylistic changes were effected when the House recodified
    its rules in the 106th Congress. The 106th Congress also adopted a
    substantive amendment to this provision deleting the prohibition against
    including a provision for

      The Committee has jurisdiction over proposals establishing Treasury
    revolving funds for the Southeastern and Southwestern Power
    Administrations (July 2, 1959, p. 12629); directing the Secretary of the
    Army to provide school facilities for dependents of Corps of Engineers
    construction workers (June 17, 1968, p. 17429); conveying Corps of
    Engineers flood-control project lands (July 15, 1965, p. 17002) or
    naming reservoirs within such projects (Oct. 3, 1989, p. 22770) or
    allocating or limiting water use therefrom (Feb. 28, 1990, p. 2893);
    directing the Secretary of the Army to renew the license of an American
    Legion Post to use a parcel of land on a Corps of Engineer project (May
    10, 1988, p. 10282); authorizing construction of an annex to the
    National Gallery of Art by the Smithsonian Institution (Apr. 10, 1968,
    p. 9553); addressing the location and development of the J. F. Kennedy
    Center for the Performing Arts (Sept. 15, 1965, p. 23927; Oct. 21, 1965,
    p. 27803); transferring land under the control of the Corps of Engineers
    to Indian tribes (Jan. 29, 1976, p. 1577); amending the Interstate
    Commerce Act to regulate truck transportation (Feb. 24, 1976, p. 4109;
    Mar. 1, 1979, p. 3754); concerning the treatment of a U.S. air freight
    carrier by the Japanese Ministry of Transport pursuant to an
    understanding negotiated under the International Air Transportation
    Competition Act of 1979 (not a Trade Act matter) (July 28, 1988, p.
    19536); and over an executive communication amending Public Law 90-553,
    reported by the Committee, to authorize the transfer, conveyance, lease
    and improvement of, and construction on, certain property in the
    District of Columbia, for use as a headquarters site for an
    international organization, as sites for governments of foreign
    countries (Sept. 10, 1981, p. 20598). The Committee on Government Reform
    and Oversight (now Government Reform), and not this Committee, has
    jurisdiction over a bill renaming an existing post office building (Aug.
    4, 1995, p. 22085; Oct. 1, 1998, p. ----), but this Committee, and not
    the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight (now Government
    Reform), has jurisdiction over a bill redesignating a general-purpose
    Federal building as a post office (Apr. 24, 1997, p. ----). This
    Committee, and not the Committee on Ways and Means, has jurisdiction
    over a bill designating a customs building (Dec. 12, 1995, p. ----). The
    Committee on Resources, and not this Committee, has jurisdiction over a
    bill to validate certain conveyances of erstwhile public lands by a
    railway company (July 11, 1995, p. 18397). The Committee on Government
    Reform, and not this Committee, has jurisdiction over a bill
    transferring real property administered by the Coast Guard where the
    bill explicitly waives the Federal Property and Administrative Services
    Act and directs the Administrator of General Services to convey the
    property (Oct. 2, 1998, p. ----).

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    presenting a threat to human health and the environment, including
    navigable waters (Mar. 21, 1984, p. 6186); with the Committee on
    Government Operations (now Government Reform) over a bill to require the
    Administrator of General Services to convey certain real property (a
    Federal building) to the Museum for the American Indian and providing
    for renovation and alteration of the property (Oct. 28, 1987, p. 29685);
    with the Committee on House Administration over a bill authorizing the
    Smithsonian Institution to construct, expand, and renovate facilities at
    the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York (July 21, 1987, p. 20309), and over
    a bill authorizing appropriations to plan, design, construct, and equip
    museum space for the Smithsonian (July 18, 1991, p. 18830); with several
    other committees over bills to convert from a defense economy by, inter
    alia,  authorizing economic assistance for public works and economic
    development (June 24, 1991, p. 16021; June 11, 1992, p. 14470); and with
    the Committee on Education and Labor (now Education and the Workforce)
    over bills providing labor protections to workers, including airline
    employees, in the transportation industry (June 24, 1991, p. 16020; Feb.
    24, 1993, p. 3577).
      The Committee has shared jurisdiction: with the Committee on Energy
    and Commerce (now Commerce) over a bill amending the Solid Waste
    Disposal Act to provide for the cleanup of hazardous waste sites or
    discharges

      In the 101st Congress, the Committee reported a bill requiring a
    cooling-off period in a labor-management dispute between an airline and
    its unions under the Railway Labor Act (H.R. 1231, Mar. 13, 1989, p.
    4032).

      (r) Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

          (1) Veterans' measures generally.

    Sec. 740. Veterans' Affairs.

          (2)  Cemeteries of the
    United States in which veterans of any war or conflict are or may be
    buried, whether in the United States or abroad (except cemeteries
    administered by the Secretary of the Interior).

          (3) Compensation, vocational rehabilitation, and education of
    veterans.

          (4) Life insurance issued by the Government on account of service
    in the Armed Forces.

          (5) Pensions of all the wars of the United States, general and
    special.

          (6) Readjustment of servicemen to civil life.

          (7) Soldiers' and sailors' civil relief.

          (8) Veterans' hospitals, medical care, and treatment of veterans.

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    diction formerly exercised by the Committees on World War Veterans'
    Legislation (VII, 2077); Invalid Pensions (IV, 4258); and Pensions (IV,
    4260). Jurisdiction over veterans' cemeteries administered by the
    Department of Defense was transferred from the Committee on Interior and
    Insular Affairs (now Resources) in the 90th Congress (H. Res. 241, Oct.
    20, 1967, p. 29560). Vocational rehabilitation, except that pertaining
    to veterans, is under the jurisdiction of the Committee on Education and
    the Workforce. The Committee has jurisdiction over bills to amend the
    Soldiers and Sailors Civil Relief Act of 1940 to permit certain
    declarations of fact in lieu of affidavits (Feb. 4, 1959, p. 1812), and
    over bills to amend the Servicemen's and Veterans' Survivor Benefits Act
    relating to service-connected deaths of retired members of the uniformed
    services (May 18, 1959, p. 8273). Clerical and stylistic changes were
    effected when the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress (H.
    Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----).

      This Committee was established January 2, 1947, as a part of the
    Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812), and was vested
    with juris

      (s) Committee on Ways and Means.

    Sec. 741. Ways and Means.

          (1)  Customs, 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).

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    jurisdiction was also amended on April 5, 1911 (p. 58), and further
    defined in the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812),
    which transferred the subject of recesses and final adjournments from
    this Committee to the Committee on Rules.
      A select Committee on Ways and Means dates from 1789. It was made a
    standing committee in 1802. Originally it considered both revenue and
    appropriations, but in 1865 the appropriation bills were given to the
    Committee on Appropriations and certain other bills to the Committee on
    Banking and Currency (now Banking and Financial Services) (IV, 4020).
    Its

      By the Committee Reform Amendments of 1974, effective January 3, 1975,
    the Committee gained legislative jurisdiction over tax exempt
    foundations and charitable trusts (subpara. (8)), formerly within the
    jurisdiction of the Committee on Banking and Currency (now Banking and
    Financial Services), because of their impact on the economy, while it
    was released from: jurisdiction over health care and facilities programs
    supported from general revenues to the Committee on Energy and Commerce
    (now Commerce); jurisdiction over work incentive programs to the
    Committee on Education and Labor (now Education and the Workforce);
    jurisdiction over general revenue sharing to the Committee on Government
    Operations (now Government Reform); and jurisdiction over renegotiation
    to the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs (now Banking and
    Financial Services) (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470).

      The Committee's jurisdiction over the bonded debt of the United States
    (subpara. (5)) was made subject to the last sentence of clause 4(f)
    (former clause 4(g)) of rule X in the 96th Congress by Public Law 96-78
    (93 Stat. 589). Clerical and stylistic changes were effected when the
    House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6,
    1999, p. ----).

      The revenue jurisdiction of the Committee extends to such subjects as
    transportation of dutiable goods, collection districts, ports of entry
    and delivery (IV, 4026), customs unions, reciprocity treaties (IV,
    4021), revenue relations of the United States with Puerto Rico (IV,
    4025), the revenue bills relating to agricultural products generally,
    excepting oleomargarine (IV, 4022), and tax on cotton and grain futures.
    The Committee formerly had jurisdiction as to seal herds and other
    revenue-producing animals in Alaska but this jurisdiction was changed in
    the 68th Congress to the former Committee on Merchant Marine and
    Fisheries (VII, 1725, 1851). As exemplified by sequential referrals in
    the 96th Congress, the Committee has jurisdiction of reported bills
    creating major oilspill and hazardous waste trust funds in the Treasury,
    funded by assessments on all quantities of oil, petrochemical
    feedstocks, and other hazardous substances sold for sale, where the
    scope and size of the funds and the method of assessment (similar to an
    excise tax) represented the collection of general revenue to fund
    particular Federal activities, a type of financing mechanism over which
    the Ways and Means Committee has traditionally exercised jurisdiction
    (May 20, 1980, p. 11862).

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    tion to individuals with military or Federal service (Apr. 28, 1976, p.
    11590), providing extended and increased unemployment compensation (Apr.
    16, 1975, p. 10346), and over private bills waiving provisions of the
    Tariff Act to require reliquidation of certain imported materials as
    duty-free (July 13, 1982, p. 16014). The Committee on Transportation and
    Infrastructure, and not this Committee, has jurisdiction over a bill to
    designate a customs administrative building (Dec. 12, 1995, p. ----).
      The Committee has jurisdiction over subjects relating to the Treasury
    of the United States and the deposit of the public moneys (IV, 4028),
    but it failed to make good a claim to the subjects of ``national
    finances'' and ``preservation of the Government credit'' (IV, 4023). The
    Committee has jurisdiction over bills providing tax incentives for
    persons investing in Indian property (Feb. 1, 1964, p. 1582), providing
    unemployment compensa

      The Committee has exercised jurisdiction, with the Committee on Energy
    and Commerce (now Commerce), over executive communications reporting on
    inpatient hospital services under title XVIII (medicare) and under title
    XIX (medicaid) of the Social Security Act (Dec. 21, 1982, p. 33261);
    with the Committee on Public Works and Transportation (now
    Transportation and Infrastructure) over executive communications
    proposing draft legislation reauthorizing the Surface Transportation Act
    but also containing a revenue title raising taxes to fund surface
    transportation programs (Mar. 20, 1986, p. 5804); with the former
    Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (succeeded by the Committee
    on Resources) over a bill amending the Fishermen's Protective Act to
    authorize the President to prohibit the importation of any product from
    a country violating an international fishery conservation program (Mar.
    21, 1989, p. 5077); and with three other committees over a bill imposing
    certain international economic sanctions including tariffs (May 27,
    1992, p. 12658).

    General oversight responsibilities
      The Committee in the earlier practice reported resolutions
    distributing the President's annual message (IV, 4030), but since the
    first session of the 64th Congress this practice has been discontinued
    (VIII, 3350).

    742. General oversight.

      2. (a)  The various standing
    committees shall have general oversight responsibilities as provided in
    paragraph (b) in order to assist the House in--

                                                            Rule X, clause 2
    Rule X, clause 2

          (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

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    additional legislation as may be necessary or appropriate.
          (2) its formulation, consideration, and enactment of changes in
    Federal laws, and of such

      (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.

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    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.

    Sec. 743. Oversight subcommittees.

      (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

      (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
    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;

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          (B) 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; and

          (C) have a view toward ensuring that all significant laws,
    programs, or agencies within its jurisdiction are subject to review
    every 10 years.

      (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 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.

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    session of a Congress its oversight plans for that Congress, such plans
    to be submitted to the Committees on Government Reform and Oversight
    (now Government Reform) and House Oversight (now House Administration).
    The Committee on Government Reform is required to report such plans to
    the House by March 31, with recommendations to ensure coordination among
    committees. The 104th Congress also added paragraph (e) to authorize the
    Speaker to appoint special ad hoc oversight committees to review matters
    within the jurisdiction of more than one standing committee (sec.
    203(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 467). The 106th Congress deleted a
    provision added in the 104th Congress making consideration of
    resolutions funding each committee contingent on submission of its
    oversight plans to the committees specified; deleted the exception for
    the Budget Committee from the general oversight responsibilities listed
    in clause 2(b); effected clerical corrections to conform references to a
    renamed committee; and effected clerical and stylistic changes when the
    House recodified its rules (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----).

      Clause 2(a), and the first requirement of clause 2(b)(1) that each
    standing committee shall review the application, etc. of all laws within
    its jurisdiction, was originally contained in section 118(b) of the
    Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 (84 Stat. 1140) and was made part
    of the standing rules on January 22, 1971 (H. Res. 5, p. 144). Effective
    January 3, 1975, general oversight responsibilities set forth in the
    remainder of the clause were incorporated into the rule (H. Res. 988,
    93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). On January 14, 1975, the size of
    those standing committees required by clause 2(b)(2) (former clause
    2(b)(1)) to establish an oversight subcommittee or to require its
    subcommittees to conduct oversight was increased from 15 to more than 20
    (H. Res. 5, 94th Cong., p. 20). In the 100th Congress the requirement
    that representatives from the Committee on Government Operations (now
    Government Reform) meet with other committees at the beginning of each
    Congress to discuss oversight plans and that that Committee report to
    the House its oversight coordination recommendations within 60 days
    after convening of the first session was deleted (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6,
    1987, p. 6). The 104th Congress added the requirement that each standing
    committee adopt by February 15 of the first

                                                            Rule X, clause 3
    Rule X, clause 3
    Special oversight functions

    744. Special oversight.

      3.  (a) The Committee on
    Appropriations shall conduct such studies and examinations of the
    organization and operation of executive departments and other executive
    agencies (including an agency the majority of the stock of which is
    owned by the United States) as it considers necessary to assist it in
    the determination of matters within its jurisdiction.

      (b) The Committee on the Budget shall study on a continuing basis the
    effect on budget outlays of relevant existing and proposed legislation
    and report the results of such studies to the House on a recurring
    basis.

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      (c) The Committee on Commerce shall review and study on a continuing
    basis laws, programs, and Government activities relating to nuclear and
    other energy and nonmilitary nuclear energy research and development
    including the disposal of nuclear waste.

      (d) The Committee on Education and the Workforce shall review, study,
    and coordinate on a continuing basis laws, programs, and Government
    activities relating to domestic educational programs and institutions
    and programs of student assistance within the jurisdiction of other
    committees.

      (e) The Committee on Government Reform shall review and study on a
    continuing basis the operation of Government activities at all levels
    with a view to determining their economy and efficiency.

      (f) The Committee on International Relations 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.

      (g) The Committee on Armed Services shall review and study on a
    continuing basis laws, programs, and Government activities relating to
    international arms control and disarmament and the education of military
    dependents in schools.

      (h) The Committee on Resources shall review and study on a continuing
    basis laws, programs, and Government activities relating to Native
    Americans.

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      (i) The Committee on Rules shall review and study on a continuing
    basis the congressional budget process, and the committee shall report
    its findings and recommendations to the House from time to time.

      (j) The Committee on Science shall review and study on a continuing
    basis laws, programs, and Government activities relating to nonmilitary
    research and development.

      (k) The Committee on Small Business shall study and investigate on a
    continuing basis the problems of all types of small business.

      The oversight authority conferred on the Committee on Appropriations
    in paragraph (a) (former clause 2(b)(3)) was first given that committee
    on February 11, 1943 (p. 884), continued by resolution of January 9,
    1945 (p. 135), and incorporated into permanent law in section 202(b) of
    the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, and made a part of the
    standing rules on January 3, 1953 (pp. 17, 24). The special oversight
    responsibilities of the Committee on the Budget set forth in paragraph
    (b) were made part of the rules effective July 12, 1974 by section
    101(c) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (88 Stat. 300). Paragraph
    (c) (former paragraph (h)) was added on January 4, 1977, upon the
    abolition of the legislative jurisdiction in the House of the Joint
    Committee on Atomic Energy (H. Res. 5, 95th Cong., pp. 53-70). The
    special oversight responsibilities of the Committee on Commerce over
    nuclear energy to all energy programs became effective January 3, 1981
    (H. Res. 549, Mar. 25, 1980, pp. 6405-10). The oversight authority
    conferred on the Committee on Government Operations (now Government
    Reform) in paragraph (e) (former clause 2(b)(2)) was first made
    effective as part of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60
    Stat. 812). In the 104th Congress conforming amendments to the special
    oversight functions of the Committees on Resources and Commerce were
    adopted to reflect the transfer of jurisdiction over nonmilitary nuclear
    energy from the Committee on Resources to the Committee on Commerce (H.
    Res. 254, Nov. 30, 1995, p. ----). Paragraph (i) was added by section
    226 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985
    (P.L. 99-177). The remainder of the clause became effective January 3,
    1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). This clause has
    been amended several times to conform references to renamed committees
    (H. Res. 89, Feb. 5, 1979, p. 1848; H. Res. 549, Mar. 25, 1980, pp.
    6405-10; H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 1993, p. ----; sec. 202(b), H. Res. 6, Jan.
    4, 1995, p. 464; H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 1997, p. ----; H. Res. 5, Jan. 6,
    1999, p. ----). Clerical and stylistic changes were effected when the
    House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, including the transfer
    to this clause of oversight functions of the Committees on Government
    Reform and Appropriations found in clause 2 (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p.
    ----).

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    on House Administration, to be chaired by the chairman of the Committee
    on House Administration and to be composed of members of the Committee
    on House Administration, one-half from the majority party and one-half
    from the minority party. The paragraph was rewritten in the 103d
    Congress to provide that the Speaker, the Majority and Minority Leaders,
    and the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on House
    Administration be informed of tie votes in that subcommittee (H. Res. 5,
    Jan. 5, 1993, p. 49), but the paragraph was deleted entirely in the
    104th Congress (sec. 201(d), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 463).

      Section 9 of the House Administrative Reform Resolution of 1992 (H.
    Res. 423, Apr. 9, 1992, p. 9040) added a paragraph in this clause
    creating a bipartisan Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight of the
    Committee

                                                            Rule X, clause 4
    Rule X, clause 4
    Additional functions of committees

    745. Committee on Appropriations; budget
    hearings.

      4.  (a)(1)(A)The Committee on Appropriations shall, within 30
    days after the transmittal of the Budget to Congress each year, hold
    hearings on the Budget as a whole with particular reference to--

          (i) the basic recommendations and budgetary policies of the
    President in the presentation of the Budget; and

          (ii) the fiscal, financial, and economic assumptions used as bases
    in arriving at total estimated expenditures and receipts.

      (B) In holding hearings under subdivision (A), the committee shall
    receive testimony from the Secretary of the Treasury, the Director of
    the Office of Management and Budget, the Chairman of the Council of
    Economic Advisers, and such other persons as the committee may desire.

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    mittee may by the same procedure close one subsequent day of hearing. A
    transcript of all such hearings shall be printed and a copy thereof
    furnished to each Member, Delegate, and the Resident Commissioner.

    Sec. 746. Procedure for budget hearings.

      (C)  A hearing under
    subdivision (A), or any part thereof, shall be held in open session,
    except when the committee, in open session and with a quorum present,
    determines by record vote that the testimony to be taken at that hearing
    on that day may be related to a matter of national security. The com

      (D) A hearing under subdivision (A), or any part thereof, may be held
    before a joint meeting of the committee and the Committee on
    Appropriations of the Senate in accordance with such procedures as the
    two committees jointly may determine.

    -  (2) <> Pursuant to section 401(b)(2) of the Congressional
    Budget Act of 1974, when a committee reports a bill or joint resolution
    that provides new entitlement authority as defined in section 3(9) of
    that Act, and enactment of the bill or joint resolution, as reported,
    would cause a breach of the committee's pertinent allocation of new
    budget authority under section 302(a) of that Act, the bill or joint
    resolution may be referred to the Committee on Appropriations with
    instructions to report it with recommendations (which may include an
    amendment limiting the total amount of new entitlement authority
    provided in the bill or joint resolution). If the Com

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    mittee on Appropriations fails to report a bill or joint resolution so
    referred within 15 calendar days (not counting any day on which the
    House is not in session), the committee automatically shall be
    discharged from consideration of the bill or joint resolution, and the
    bill or joint resolution shall be placed on the appropriate calendar.
      This part of clause 4 was originally contained in section 242(c)(1) of
    the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 and was made part of the
    standing rules in the 92d Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 22, 1971, p. 144).
    Paragraph (a)(1)(C), requiring open hearings, was first adopted in the
    93d Congress (H. Res. 259, Mar. 7, 1973, pp. 6713-20) and was amended in
    the 94th Congress to limit the effect of a vote to close a hearing to
    that day and one subsequent day (H. Res. 5, Jan. 14, 1975, p. 20).
    Clerical and stylistic changes were effected when the House recodified
    its rules in the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----).

      (3) In addition, the Committee on Appropriations shall study on a
    continuing basis those provisions of law that (on the first day of the
    first fiscal year for which the congressional budget process is
    effective) provide spending authority or permanent budget authority and
    shall report to the House from time to time its recommendations for
    terminating or modifying such provisions.

      (4) In the manner provided by section 302 of the Congressional Budget
    Act of 1974, the Committee on Appropriations (after consulting with the
    Committee on Appropriations of the Senate) shall subdivide any
    allocations made to it in the joint explanatory statement accompanying
    the conference report on such concurrent resolution, and promptly report
    the subdivisions to the House as soon as practicable after a concurrent
    resolution on the budget for a fiscal year is agreed to.

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    105-33). Subparagraph (3) was also contained in the Congressional Budget
    Act of 1974 in section 402(f), and was likewise incorporated into the
    rules effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974,
    p. 34470). The requirements of subparagraph (4) (former paragraph (h))
    was originally contained in section 302(b) of the Congressional Budget
    Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-344, July 12, 1974) and was incorporated into this
    rule effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p.
    34470). It was amended by the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 (tit. XIII,
    P.L. 101-508) to conform to the enactment of title VI of the Budget Act.
    It was again amended by the Budget Enforcement Act of 1997 (sec. 10118,
    P.L. 105-33) to conform to the subsequent repeal of title VI. Clerical
    and stylistic changes were effected when the House recodified its rules
    in the 106th Congress, including the transfer of former paragraph (h) to
    this paragraph as new subparagraph (4) (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----
    ).

      Subparagraph (2) first became effective on July 12, 1974, by inclusion
    in section 401(b)(2) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (88 Stat.
    317), was incorporated into the rules effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res.
    988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470), was amended in the 95th
    Congress to correct an error in cross-reference (H. Res. 5, Jan. 4,
    1977, pp. 53-70), and was again amended in the 105th Congress to reflect
    the repeal of the collective definition of ``new spending authority''
    and the revision of various remaining parts (Budget Enforcement Act of
    1997 (sec. 10116, P.L.

      (b) The Committee on the Budget shall--

    Sec. 748. Budget.

          (1)  review on a continuing basis the
    conduct by the Congressional Budget Office of its functions and duties;

          (2) hold hearings and receive testimony from Members, Senators,
    Delegates, the Resident Commissioner, and such appropriate
    representatives of Federal departments and agencies, the general public,
    and national organizations as it considers desirable in developing
    concurrent resolutions on the budget for each fiscal year;

          (3) make all reports required of it by the Congressional Budget
    Act of 1974;

          (4) study on a continuing basis those provisions of law that
    exempt Federal agencies or any of their activities or outlays from
    inclusion in the Budget of the United States Government, and report to
    the House from time to time its recommendations for terminating or
    modifying such provisions;

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    sional budget process, and report to the House from time to time the
    results of such studies, together with its recommendations; and
          (5) study on a continuing basis proposals designed to improve and
    facilitate the congres

          (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.

      Paragraph (b)(1) became a part of the rules on July 12, 1974 by
    enactment of section 101(c) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (88
    Stat. 300). Subparagraph (2), contained in section 301(d) of that Act,
    subparagraph (3), subparagraph (4), contained in section 606 of that
    Act, and subparagraph (5), contained in section 703 of that Act, all
    were made part of the rules effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d
    Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). Paragraph (b)(2) was amended in the 99th
    Congress by section 232 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit
    Control Act of 1985 (P.L. 99-177, Dec. 12, 1985) to remove reference to
    the first concurrent resolution on the budget. Before the House
    recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, subparagraph (6) was found
    in former clause 1(d)(5)(C) of rule X (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----
    ).

    Sec. 749. Government Reform.

      (c)(1)  The Committee on
    Government Reform shall--

          (A) receive and examine reports of the Comptroller General of the
    United States and submit to the House such recommendations as it
    considers necessary or desirable in connection with the subject matter
    of the reports;

          (B) evaluate the effects of laws enacted to reorganize the
    legislative and executive branches of the Government; and

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    and international organizations of which the United States is a member.
          (C) study intergovernmental relationships between the United
    States and the States and municipalities and between the United States

          (2) In addition to its duties under subparagraph (1), the
    Committee on Government Reform may at any time conduct investigations of
    any matter without regard to clause 1, 2, 3, or this clause conferring
    jurisdiction over the matter to another standing committee. The findings
    and recommendations of the committee in such an investigation shall be
    made available to any other standing committee having jurisdiction over
    the matter involved and shall be included in the report of any such
    other committee when required by clause 3(c)(4) of rule XIII.

      Paragraph (c)(1) became effective January 2, 1947 as part of the
    Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812). Paragraph (c)(2)
    was made a function of the Committee on Government Operations (now
    Government Reform) effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong.,
    Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). The Committee was renamed in the 104th and
    106th Congresses (sec. 202(b), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464; H. Res.
    5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----). Clerical and stylistic changes were effected
    when the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5,
    Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----).

    Sec. 750. House Administration.

      (d)(1)  The Committee on
    House Administration shall--

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    dent of the Senate, and report to the House the fact and date of their
    presentment;

    Sec. 751. Enrolled bills.

      (A) examine all bills, amendments, and joint resolutions after passage
    by the House and, in cooperation with the Senate, examine all bills and
    joint resolutions that have passed both Houses to see that they
    are  correctly enrolled and forthwith
    present those bills and joint resolutions that originated in the House
    to the President in person after their signature by the Speaker and the
    Presi

    Sec. 752. Direction of officers.

      (B)  provide policy
    direction for, and oversight of, the Clerk, Sergeant-at-Arms, Chief
    Administrative Officer, and Inspector General;

    Sec. 753. Acceptance of gifts.

      (C)  have the function of
    accepting on behalf of the House a gift, except as otherwise provided by
    law, if the gift does not involve a duty, burden, or condition, or is
    not made dependent on some future performance by the House; and

      (D) promulgate regulations to carry out subdivision (C).

    Sec. 754. Approval of certain settlements.

      (2)  An employing
    office of the House may enter into a settlement of a complaint under the
    Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 that provides for the payment
    of funds only after receiving the joint approval of the chairman and
    ranking minority member of the Committee on House Administration
    concerning the amount of such payment.

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    Financial Services and to provide for policy direction and oversight of
    certain administrative officials and elected officers. In the 104th
    Congress the rule was amended (1) to reflect the change in the name of
    the Committee on House Administration to the Committee on House
    Oversight and (2) to reflect the abolishment of the Director of Non-
    legislative and Financial Services (sec. 201, H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995,
    p. ----). Later in the 104th Congress the provision for the acceptance
    of gifts was added as paragraph (d)(3) (H. Res. 250, Nov. 16, 1995, p.
    ----). In the 105th Congress paragraph (d) was redesignated as (d)(1),
    its former subparagraphs (1) through (3) were redesignated as (1)(A)
    through (1)(C), and a new paragraph (d)(2) was added to require approval
    by the Committee for monetary settlements of certain employment claims
    (H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 1997, p. ----). The 104th Congress also prohibited
    the establishment or continuation of any legislative service
    organization (as that term had been understood in the 103d Congress) and
    directed the Committee on House Oversight (now House Administration) to
    take such steps as were necessary to ensure an orderly termination and
    accounting for funds of any legislative service organization in
    existence on January 3, 1995 (sec. 222, H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p.
    469). Clerical and stylistic changes were effected when the House
    recodified its rules in the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p.
    ----).

      The requirements set forth in paragraph (d)(1) were originally the
    responsibility of the Committee on Enrolled Bills created in 1789 (IV,
    4350), and became the responsibility of the Committee on House
    Administration when that Committee was created effective January 2, 1947
    as part of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812).
    The Committee's duty to arrange for memorial services of Members was
    eliminated from the rules effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d
    Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). Former paragraph (d)(3) required the
    Committee to provide a committee scheduling service, which was provided
    through House Information Resources and was made mandatory on all
    committees and subcommittees in the 97th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 5,
    1981, pp. 98-113). The requirement was stricken altogether when two
    provisions were added by section 10 of the House Administrative Reform
    Resolution of 1992 (H. Res. 423, 102d Cong., Apr. 9, 1992, p. 9040) to
    ensure the orderly transfer of functions and entities from elected
    officers to the Director of Non-legislative and

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    Sec. 755. Annual appropriations.

      (e)(1)  Each standing
    committee shall, in its consideration of all public bills and public
    joint resolutions within its jurisdiction, ensure that appropriations
    for continuing programs and activities of the Federal Government and the
    government of the District of Columbia will be made annually to the
    maximum extent feasible and consistent with the nature, requirement, and
    objective of the programs and activities involved. In this subparagraph
    programs and activities of the Federal Government and the government of
    the District of Columbia includes programs and activities of any
    department, agency, establishment, wholly owned Government corporation,
    or instrumentality of the Federal Government or of the government of the
    District of Columbia.

      (2) Each standing committee shall review from time to time each
    continuing program within its jurisdiction for which appropriations are
    not made annually to ascertain whether the program should be modified to
    provide for annual appropriations.

    Budget Act responsibilities
      The provisions of this paragraph derive from section 253(c) of the
    Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 (84 Stat. 1140), and were made
    part of the rules in the 92d Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 22, 1971, p.
    144). Clerical and stylistic changes were effected when the House
    recodified its rules in the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p.
    ----).

    756. Concurrent resolution on Budget.

      (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.

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    should be set forth in the concurrent resolution on the budget and serve
    as the basis for an increase or decrease in the statutory limit on such
    debt under the procedures provided by rule XXIII.

      (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

      The requirements of paragraph (f)(1) were originally contained in
    section 301(c) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-344,
    July 12, 1974), and was incorporated into this rule effective January 3,
    1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). The requirement
    of paragraph (f)(2) that the Committee on Ways and Means include a
    specific recommendation as to the appropriate level of the public debt
    in its views and estimates submitted to the Committee on the Budget was
    added in the 96th Congress by Public Law 96-78 (93 Stat. 589) and was
    originally intended to apply to concurrent resolutions on the budget for
    fiscal years beginning on or after October 1, 1980. However, in the 96th
    Congress the provisions of that public law amending the Rules of the
    House were made applicable to the third concurrent resolution on the
    budget for fiscal year 1980 as well as the first concurrent resolution
    on the budget for fiscal 1981 (H. Res. 642, Apr. 23, 1980, pp. 8789-90).
    The deadline for submitting views and estimates to the Budget Committee
    has changed several times (Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control
    Act of 1985, sec. 232(c), P.L. 99-177; Budget Enforcement Act of 1997,
    sec. 10104, P.L. 105-33; H. Res. 5, 106th Cong., Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----).
    A former paragraph directing standing committees to submit
    reconciliation recommendations to the Budget Committee was deleted in
    the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----), but committees
    are still required to submit such recommendations under section 310 of
    the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. Clerical and stylistic changes
    were effected when the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress
    (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----).

                                                            Rule X, clause 5
    Rule X, clause 5
    Election and membership of standing committees

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    shall be privileged if offered by direction of the party caucus or
    conference concerned.

    757. Electing committees.

      5.  (a)(1) The standing committees
    specified in clause 1 shall be elected by the House within seven
    calendar days after the commencement of each Congress, from nominations
    submitted by the respective party caucus or conference. A resolution
    proposing to change the composition of a standing committee

      The old rule entrusting the appointment of committees to the Speaker
    was adopted in 1789 and amended in 1790 and in 1860 (IV, 4448-4476).
    Committees are now elected on resolution offered from the floor (VIII,
    2171) and it is in order to move the previous question on each
    resolution (VIII, 2174). The resolution is not divisible (clause 5 of
    rule XVI), and is privileged (VIII, 2179, 2183). The requirement that
    nominations to standing committees be submitted by the respective party
    caucuses was made part of the rules effective January 3, 1975, by the
    Committee Reform Amendments of 1974 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8,
    1974, p. 34470). That same resolution also eliminated the designations
    in the rules of the numbers of Members comprising the standing
    committees, thereby permitting the House to establish committee size by
    the numbers of Members elected to each committee pursuant to this
    paragraph. The role of the party caucuses in presenting privileged
    resolutions to the House electing Members to committees is discussed in
    detail in Deschler's Precedents, vol. 4, ch. 17, sec. 9. In the 99th
    Congress the requirement for early election of standing committees
    within the first seven calendar days and the conferral of privileged
    status on resolutions from the party caucuses to change the composition
    of standing committees were added by section 227 of the Balanced Budget
    and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (P.L. 99-177, Dec. 12, 1985).
    Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this
    provision was found in former clause 6 of rule X (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6,
    1999, p. ----).

    Sec. 758. Budget, composition of.

      (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;

          (ii) one Member from the elected leadership of the majority party;
    and

          (iii) one Member from the elected leadership of the minority
    party.

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    than one from the elected leadership of a party may not serve on the
    committee during more than four Congresses in a period of six successive
    Congresses (disregarding for this purpose any service for less than a
    full session in a Congress).
      (B) Except as permitted by subdivision (C), a member of the Committee
    on the Budget other

      (C) A member of the Committee on the Budget who served as either the
    chairman or the ranking minority member of the committee in the
    immediately previous Congress and who did not serve in that respective
    capacity in an earlier Congress may serve as either the chairman or the
    ranking minority member of the committee during one additional Congress.

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    may serve in either capacity during a fifth, so long as he would not
    thereby exceed two consecutive terms as chairman or as ranking minority
    member (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464). Before the House
    recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this provision was found in
    former clause 1(d) of rule X (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----). The
    tenure limitation of clause 5(a)(2)(B) was suspended during the 106th
    Congress (sec. 2(b), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----).
      This paragraph (former clause 1(d) of rule X) was amended in the 96th
    Congress to relax the limitation on Members' service on the Budget
    Committee to three Congresses (from two) in any period of five
    successive Congresses, to exempt representatives from the party
    leaderships from the limitation, and to permit an incumbent chairman who
    had served on the Committee for three Congresses and as chairman for not
    more than one Congress to be eligible for reelection as chairman for one
    additional Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 15, 1979, p. 8). It was again
    amended in the 100th Congress to eliminate as obsolete the words
    ``beginning after 1974'' following ``any period of five successive
    Congresses'' as a measure of permissible terms of service on the
    Committee (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1987, p. 6). It was further amended in the
    101st Congress to permit, in that Congress only, a minority Member who
    had served on the Committee for three terms to run within his party's
    caucus for the position of ranking minority member and thus be able to
    serve on the Committee for one additional Congress, and to permit a
    Member elected as ranking minority member during his third term on the
    Committee to serve one additional term on the Committee should he be
    reelected as the ranking minority member (H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1989, p.
    72). It was again amended in the 102d Congress to extend the waiver of
    the tenure restriction for the ranking minority member of the Committee
    (H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1991, p. 39), but in the 103d Congress that
    provision was stricken as obsolete (H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 1993, p. 49). In
    the 104th Congress the limitation on a Member's service on the Committee
    was relaxed to four Congresses (from three) in any period of six
    successive Congresses, with the exception that a Member who has served
    as chairman or as ranking minority member during a fourth such Congress

      In the 94th Congress the membership of the Committee was increased to
    25 (from 23), with 13 (rather than 11) members elected from committees
    other than Appropriations and Ways and Means (H. Res. 5, Jan. 14, 1975,
    p. 20). The membership was increased again in the 97th Congress to 30,
    with 28 from other standing committees and two from the respective
    leaderships (H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 1981, pp. 98-113), and again in the 98th
    Congress to 31 (unanimous-consent order, Feb. 7, 1983, p. 1791). The
    99th Congress amended this paragraph to remove any numerical limitation
    on the membership of the Committee (H. Res. 7, Jan. 3, 1985, p. 393).

    Sec. 759. Committee on Standards of Official
    Conduct.

      (3)(A)  The Committee on Standards of Official Conduct shall be
    composed of 10 members, five from the majority party and five from the
    minority party.

      (B) Except as permitted by subdivision (C), a member of the Committee
    on Standards of Official Conduct may not serve on the committee during
    more than three Congresses in a period of five successive Congresses
    (disregarding for this purpose any service for less than a full session
    in a Congress).

      (C) A member of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct may
    serve on the committee during a fourth Congress in a period of five
    successive Congresses only as either the chairman or the ranking
    minority member of the committee.

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    Delegates, or the Resident Commissioner from his respective party who
    are not members of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct to be
    available to serve on investigative subcommittees of that committee
    during that Congress. The lists of Members, Delegates, or the Resident
    Commissioner so named shall be announced to the House.
      (4)(A) At the beginning of a Congress, the Speaker or his designee and
    the Minority Leader or his designee each shall name 10 Members,

      (B) Whenever the chairman and the ranking minority member of the
    Committee on Standards of Official Conduct jointly determine that
    Members, Delegates, or the Resident Commissioner named under subdivision
    (A) should be assigned to serve on an investigative subcommittee of that
    committee, each of them shall select an equal number of such Members,
    Delegates, or Resident Commissioner from his respective party to serve
    on that subcommittee.

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      Prior to the 93d Congress, the rule that established the size of the
    Committee on Standards of Official Conduct at 12 members also required
    that six members be elected from the majority and six from the minority
    party. Effective in the 93d Congress, the ratio of the committee was
    codified in the first sentence of subparagraph (3)(A) (former clause
    6(a)(2)) (H. Res. 988, Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). The Ethics Reform Act of
    1989 added a sentence to limit service on the committee (P.L. 101-194,
    Nov. 30, 1989), which was amended in the 105th and 106th Congresses
    (sec. 2, H. Res. 168, Sept. 18, 1997, p. ----; H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999,
    p. ----). A requirement that two members from each party rotate off the
    committee was adopted in the 105th Congress (sec. 2, H. Res. 168, Sept.
    18, 1997, p. ----), but was deleted in the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5,
    Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----). Subparagraph (4) (former clause 6(a)(3)) was
    adopted in the 105th Congress (sec. 1, H. Res. 168, Sept. 18, 1997, p.
    ----). Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this
    provision was found in former clause 6(a) of rule X (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6,
    1999, p. ----). The 106th Congress also formally reduced the size of the
    committee to 10 members, which was the de facto size of the committee in
    the 105th Congress even though the Ethics Reform Act of 1989 required
    each party caucus to nominate seven Members (sec. 803(b), P.L. 101-194,
    Nov. 30, 1989; H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----).

    Sec. 760. Party membership as basis for election.

      (b)(1) Membership on a standing committee during the course of
    a  Congress
    shall be contingent on continuing membership in the party caucus or
    conference that nominated the Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner
    concerned for election to such committee. Should a Member, Delegate, or
    Resident Commissioner cease to be a member of a particular party caucus
    or conference, that Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner shall
    automatically cease to be a member of each standing committee to which
    he was elected on the basis of nomination by that caucus or conference.
    The chairman of the relevant party caucus or conference shall notify the
    Speaker whenever a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner ceases to
    be a member of that caucus or conference. The Speaker shall notify the
    chairman of each affected committee that the election of such Member,
    Delegate, or Resident Commissioner to the committee is automatically
    vacated under this subparagraph.

      (2)(A) Except as specified in subdivision (B), a Member, Delegate, or
    Resident Commissioner may not serve simultaneously as a member of more
    than two standing committees or more than four subcommittees of the
    standing committees.

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      (B)(i) Ex officio service by a chairman or ranking minority member of
    a committee on each of its subcommittees under a committee rule does not
    count against the limitation on subcommittee service.

      (ii) Service on an investigative subcommittee of the Committee on
    Standards of Official Conduct under paragraph (a)(4) does not count
    against the limitation on subcommittee service.

      (iii) Any other exception to the limitations in subdivision (A) must
    be approved by the House on the recommendation of the relevant party
    caucus or conference.

      (C) In this subparagraph the term ``subcommittee'' includes a panel
    (other than a special oversight panel of the Committee on Armed
    Services), task force, special subcommittee, or other subunit of a
    standing committee that is established for a cumulative period longer
    than six months in a Congress.

      The requirement that membership on standing committees be contingent
    on continuing membership in a party caucus or conference, along with the
    mechanism for the automatic vacating of a Member's election to committee
    should his party relationship cease, was added to the rules in the 98th
    Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1983, p. 34). The limitation on full
    committee and subcommittee assignments was added in the 104th Congress
    (sec. 204, H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 467; see H. Res. 11, Jan. 4,
    1995, p. 549). The exception for special service on an investigative
    subcommittee of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct from the
    limitation on subcommittee service was added in the 105th Congress (sec.
    1, H. Res. 168, Sept. 18, 1997, p. ----). A technical correction was
    effected in the 106th Congress to conform references to a renamed
    committee (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----).

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      The Speaker lays before the House communications relative to the
    removal of a Member from committee pursuant to this clause (see, e.g.,
    Sept. 11, 1984, p. 24790; Feb. 22, 1989, p. 2500; May 10, 1995, p.
    12396; July 19, 1999, p. ----). The earlier practice was, and the most
    recent practice is, for the minority party to handle committee
    assignments for third-party Members (VIII, 2184-2185; H. Res. 11, Jan.
    4, 1995, p. 549). During the 102d and 103d Congresses, the majority
    leadership took that responsibility by separate resolution for a Member
    who had joined neither major party caucus (see H. Res. 45, Jan. 24,
    1991, p. 2171); however, during the 104th through 106th Congresses, when
    control of the House shifted, the minority leadership retained
    responsibility for the committee assignments of such third-party Member.

    Sec. 761. Committee chairmen.

      (c)(1)  One of the members of
    each standing committee shall be elected by the House, on the nomination
    of the majority party caucus or conference, as chairman thereof. In the
    temporary absence of the chairman, the member next in rank (and so on,
    as often as the case shall happen) shall act as chairman. Rank shall be
    determined by the order members are named in resolutions electing them
    to the committee. In the case of a permanent vacancy in the elected
    chairmanship of a committee, the House shall elect another chairman.

      (2) A member of a standing committee may not serve as chairman of the
    same standing committee, or of the same subcommittee of a standing
    committee, during more than three consecutive Congresses (disregarding
    for this purpose any service for less than a full session in a
    Congress).

      The requirement that nominations for chairmen be submitted by the
    majority party caucus was made part of the rules effective January 3,
    1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). The sentence
    addressing temporary and permanent vacancies in chairmanships was first
    adopted on April 5, 1911 (VIII, 2201), and was continued in the
    Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812). The 104th
    Congress added the sentence setting term limits for committee and
    subcommittee chairmen (sec. 103(b), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 462).
    Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this
    provision was found in former clause 6(c) of rule X (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6,
    1999, p. ----).

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    mittee until otherwise ordered by the House (H. Res. 396, Mar. 23, 1994,
    p. 6093).

      In the 102d Congress a resolution included as a matter properly
    incidental to its election of the chairman of a standing committee a
    proviso that his powers and duties be exercised by the vice chairman
    until otherwise ordered by the House (H. Res. 43, Jan. 24, 1991, p.
    2169; Feb. 6, 1991, p. 3198). In the 103d Congress a privileged
    resolution, offered at the direction of the Democratic Caucus,
    authorized a named acting chairman to exercise the powers and duties of
    a chairman of a standing com

    Sec. 762. Requirement for subcommittees.

      (d)(1)  Except as
    permitted by subparagraph (2), a committee may have not more than five
    subcommittees.

      (2) A committee that maintains a subcommittee on oversight may have
    not more than six subcommittees. The Committee on Appropriations may
    have not more than 13 subcommittees. The Committee on Government Reform
    may have not more than seven subcommittees.

      This paragraph was adopted in the 104th Congress (sec. 101(b), H. Res.
    6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 462), replacing a requirement that all standing
    committees having more than 20 members (except the Committee on the
    Budget) establish at least four subcommittees (H. Res. 5, Jan. 14, 1975,
    p. 20). In the 106th Congress the paragraph was amended to delete the
    Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure from the list of
    exceptions to the general rule and to add a new exception for committees
    that maintain a subcommittee on oversight (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p.
    ----). Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this
    provision was found in former clause 6(d) of rule X (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6,
    1999, p. ----). Notwithstanding clause 5(d) the Committee on Government
    Reform was permitted to have not more than eight subcommittees during
    the 106th Congress (sec. 2(d), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----).

      (e) The House shall fill a vacancy on a standing committee by election
    on the nomination of the respective party caucus or conference.

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    and part of the 82d Congresses until July 3, 1952 (p. 9217) when it was
    modified so that Members elected to serve on the Committees on the
    District of Columbia, Government Operations, Un-American Activities, or
    House Administration could be elected to serve on not more than two
    standing committees. It was restored to its original form by amendment
    on January 13, 1953 (p. 368) so that there was no limitation in House
    rules on the number of committees to which a Member may be elected until
    the 104th Congress added paragraph (b)(2) (see Sec. 760, supra). Party
    caucuses or conferences have also placed restrictions on committee
    assignments. The role of the respective party caucus or conference in
    making nominations to fill vacancies in standing committees was made
    part of the rule in the 98th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1983, p. 34).
    Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this
    provision was found in former clause 6(e) of rule X (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6,
    1999, p. ----).
      This paragraph was first adopted in the 62d Congress (VIII, 2178). At
    the beginning of the 80th Congress it was amended to prevent a Member
    from serving on more than one standing committee, except that Members
    elected to serve on the Committees on District of Columbia or Un-
    American Activities (renamed the Committee on Internal Security and
    jurisdiction redefined on Feb. 19, 1969, p. 3723) could be elected to
    serve on not more than two standing committees, and that Members of the
    majority party, serving on the Committee on Expenditures in the
    Executive Departments (changed to Committee on Government Operations
    July 3, 1952, p. 9217) or House Administration could be elected to serve
    on not more than two standing committees. This limitation was continued
    through the 80th, 81st,

    Expense resolutions
      Form of resolution electing a Member to a committee and fixing his
    rank thereon (Jan. 23, 1947, p. 536; H. Res. 157, May 25, 1995, p.
    14424). The House by unanimous consent fixed the relative rank of two
    Members on a committee where an error had been made on the original
    appointment (Jan. 20, 1947, p. 481). The House has filled a vacancy on a
    standing committee (H. Res. 43, Jan. 24, 1991, p. 2169) with a Member
    subsequently designated by his party caucus as ``temporary'' (in order
    to avoid caucus limitations on committee assignments) (Feb. 5, 1991, p.
    2814).

                                                            Rule X, clause 6
    Rule X, clause 6

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    available on the previous calendar day. For the information of the
    House, such report shall--

    Sec. 763. Primary expense resolution.

      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

          (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.

    Sec. 765.
    Additional 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--

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    mental expense resolution and the purposes for which those additional
    funds are available; and
          (1) state the total amount of additional funds to be provided to
    the committee, commission, or other entity under the supple

          (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--

    Sec. 766. Exception for certain initial
    funding.

          (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

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          (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.

      Paragraphs (a)-(c) of this clause were contained originally in section
    110(b) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 (84 Stat. 1140) and
    was added to the rules in the 92d Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 22, 1971, p.
    144). Effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974,
    p. 34470), the authority of all committees to incur expenses, including
    travel expenses, was made contingent upon adoption by the House of
    resolutions reported pursuant to this clause (clause 1(b) of rule XI).
    The clause was amended in the 95th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 1977,
    pp. 53-70) to extend its applicability to all committees, commissions,
    and entities rather than just to standing committees. Paragraphs (a)-(c)
    were amended in the 104th Congress to institute biennial funding of
    committee expenses and to require that all committee staff salaries and
    expenses (including statutory staff) be authorized by expense resolution
    (sec. 101(c), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 462). In the 105th Congress
    paragraph (a) was amended to permit a primary expense resolution to
    include a reserve fund for unanticipated expenses of committees (H. Res.
    5, Jan. 7, 1997, p. ----). A technical correction to paragraphs (a) and
    (b) was effected in the 106th Congress to conform references to a
    renamed committee (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----). Before the House
    recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this provision was found in
    former clause 5 of rule XI (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----).

      The Committee on Appropriations is not covered by this clause, but is
    reimbursed by funds in appropriation acts for expenses of examinations
    of estimates of appropriations in the field (31 U.S.C. 22a). An
    exemption from this clause for the Committee on the Budget was effective
    from the enactment of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 through the
    103d Congress.

      Based on the exception stated in paragraph (c), a resolution
    establishing a task force of members of a standing committee and
    providing for the payment of its expenses from the contingent fund of
    the House (now referred to as ``applicable accounts of the House
    described in clause 1(i)(1) of rule X'') was held not to be subject to a
    point of order under clause 5(a) for lack of report language detailing
    the funding provided, since the resolution was called up at the
    beginning of the session prior to consideration of a primary expense
    resolution for all committees for that calendar year (Feb. 5, 1992, p.
    1621).

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    and that the minority party is treated fairly in the appointment of such
    staff.

    Sec. 767. Funds for committee staffs; expense
    resolutions.

      (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

      Paragraph (d) was adopted in the 104th Congress (sec. 101(c)(4), H.
    Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 462). A preceding form of the paragraph, first
    adopted in the 94th Congress, authorized the chairman and ranking
    minority member of a subcommittee each to appoint one staff member to
    the subcommittee (H. Res. 5, Jan. 14, 1975, p. 20). As adopted in the
    93d Congress to take effect on the first day of the 94th Congress, the
    paragraph had required that each standing committee, upon request of a
    majority of its minority members, devote one-third of its staffing funds
    to the needs of the minority (H. Res. 988, Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). As
    originally adopted in the 92d Congress, the paragraph had required that
    the minority be accorded fair consideration in the appointment of
    committee staff (H. Res. 5, Jan. 22, 1971, p. 144). Before the House
    recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this provision was found in
    former clause 5(d) of rule X (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----).

      (e) Funds authorized for a committee under this clause and clauses 7
    and 8 are for expenses incurred in the activities of the committee.

      Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this
    provision was found in former clause 2(n)(1) of rule XI (H. Res. 5, Jan.
    6, 1999, p. ----).

                                                            Rule X, clause 7
    Rule X, clause 7
    Interim funding

    768. 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.

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    this paragraph for a select committee established by resolution in the
    preceding Congress only if--
      (b) In the case of the first session of a Congress, amounts shall be
    made available under

          (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.

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      (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.

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    provision was found in former clause 5(f) of rule XI (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6,
    1999, p. ----).
      This clause (former clause 5(f) of rule XI) was originally adopted in
    the 99th Congress to provide automatic interim funding for committees at
    the beginning of a Congress (H. Res. 7, Jan. 3, 1985, p. 393).
    Resolutions providing such interim funding had been routinely adopted at
    the convening of Congress before the adoption of this standing
    authority. In the 100th Congress, the provision was amended to make the
    automatic committee funding mechanism applicable to the first three
    months of the second session of a Congress, as well as the first
    session, and to authorize the Committee on House Administration to
    establish interim funding for any committee at a percentage lower than 9
    percent of the total annualized amount (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1987, p. 6).
    In the 104th and 106th Congresses technical corrections were effected to
    conform references to a renamed committee (sec. 202(b), H. Res. 6, Jan.
    4, 1995, p. 464; H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----). Before the House
    recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this

      At its organization the 104th Congress suspended the operation of
    paragraph (f) in favor of special provisions for interim funding in
    light of its abolishment of three standing committees, its reduction in
    the overall number of committee staff, and its institution of biennial
    primary expense resolutions (sec. 101(c)(3), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p.
    462).

                                                            Rule X, clause 8
    Rule X, clause 8
    Travel

    769. Committee 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--

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              (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.

    Sec. 770. Travel reports.

          (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

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          (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.

      Prior to the adoption of this clause (former clause 2(n) of rule XI)
    and of clause 1(b) of rule XI under the Committee Reform Amendments of
    1974, effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974,
    p. 34470), each committee was given separate authority to incur expenses
    in connection with their investigations and studies, and certain
    committees were authorized to use local currencies for foreign committee
    travel, in resolutions reported from the Committee on Rules in each
    Congress. This clause was amended in the 95th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan.
    4, 1977, pp. 53-70) to clarify the availability of local currencies for
    travel outside the United States and its territories and possessions, to
    require reports within 60 days for use in complying with statutory
    reporting requirements, and to authorize the Committee on House
    Administration to recommend in expense resolutions expenses for foreign
    as well as domestic travel. This clause was further amended on March 2,
    1977 (H. Res. 287, 95th Cong., pp. 5933-53) to limit all travel expenses
    to the maximum per diem rate or actual, unreimbursed expenses, whichever
    is less. Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress,
    this provision was found in former clause 2(n) of rule XI, except that
    the ``lame duck'' travel prohibitions formerly found in clause 2(n)(5)
    of rule XI and clause 8 of rule I were transferred to rule XXV (H. Res.
    5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----).

      Under section 502(b) of the Mutual Security Act of 1954 (22 U.S.C.
    1754), foreign local currencies owned or purchased by the United States
    may be used for foreign travel expenses by members or employees of
    standing or select committees when authorized by the chairman thereof,
    and by other Members or employees when authorized by the Speaker.
    Consolidated committee reports prepared on a quarterly basis, and
    individual reports required within 30 days after the travel involved,
    must be forwarded to the Clerk of the House and published in the
    Congressional Record.

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    Committee staffs
                                                            Rule X, clause 9
    Rule X, clause 9

    [[Page 489]]

    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.

    771. Thirty professional staff.

      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.

    Sec. 773. Minority.

      (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.

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      This clause (former clause 6 of rule XI) had its origins in section
    202 of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812), which
    allocated up to four nonpartisan professionals to each committee other
    than Appropriations and specifically provided for clerical staff, and
    which was incorporated into the rules on January 3, 1953 (p. 24).
    Section 302(b) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 (84 Stat.
    1140), which increased the authorized maximum for professional staff
    from four to six and added the concept of minority staffing, was
    incorporated into the rules in the 92d Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 22,
    1971, p. 144). In the 93d Congress the maximum was increased from six to
    18, the minority entitlement within that number was increased from two
    to six, a requirement that professional staff be appointed without
    regard to political affiliation was eliminated, and prohibitions against
    consideration of race, creed, sex, or age in the appointment of staff
    were added (H. Res. 988, Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). An exemption for the
    Committee on the Budget was included in section 901 of the Congressional
    Budget Act of 1974 (88 Stat. 330), was later omitted under the Committee
    Reform Amendments of 1974 (H. Res. 988, Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470), and was
    reinserted by the 94th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 14, 1975, p. 20). The
    requirement added in 1975 that staff positions made available to
    subcommittee chairmen and ranking minority members pursuant to former
    provisions of clause 5 of rule XI be provided from staff positions
    available under this clause unless provided in a primary or additional
    expense resolution was eliminated in the 104th Congress (sec. 101(c)(5),
    H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 462). The 98th Congress added the Permanent
    Select Committee on Intelligence to the exception for the Committee on
    Standards of Official Conduct (H. Res. 58, Mar. 1, 1983, p. 3241). The
    101st Congress added an exemption for the Committee on Rules (H. Res. 5,
    Jan. 3, 1989, p. 72). The Ethics Reform Act of 1989 struck the
    antidiscrimination provisions as redundant (P.L. 101-194, Nov. 30,
    1989). The 104th Congress eliminated the former distinction between
    professional and clerical staff, set the authorized maximum for
    committee staff under expense resolutions at 30, eliminated subcommittee
    entitlement to staff, and set the entitlement of the full committee
    minority within that number at one-third (sec. 101(c)(5), H. Res. 6,
    Jan. 4, 1995, p. 462). The 104th Congress also mandated that the total
    number of staff of House committees be at least one-third less than the
    corresponding total in the 103d Congress (sec. 101(a), H. Res. 6, Jan.
    4, 1995, p. 462). Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th
    Congress, this provision was found in former clause 6 of rule XI (H.
    Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----).

      Additional staff of committees are authorized by the Committee on
    House Administration and agreed to by the House. There is no legal power
    to fill a vacancy in the clerkship of a committee after one Congress has
    expired and before the next House has been organized (IV, 4539). An
    assault upon the clerk of a committee within the walls of the Capitol
    was held to be a breach of privilege (II, 1629). The pay of clerks has
    been the subject of several decisions (IV, 4536-4538).

    Sec. 774. Consultants and training.

      Committees  may, with the
    approval of the Committee on House Administration, procure the temporary
    or intermittent services of consultants and obtain specialized training
    for professional staff, subject to expense resolutions, under the
    Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970, sections 303 and 304 (2 U.S.C.
    72a(i) and (j)).

    Sec. 775. Staff duties.

      (b)(1)  The professional staff
    members of 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.

    Sec. 776. ``Associate'' or ``shared'' staff.

      (2) 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 XXIV.

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      (3) The use of any ``associate'' or ``shared'' staff by a committee
    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.

      (4) This paragraph does not apply to the Committee on Appropriations.

      The Ethics Reform Act of 1989 prescribed that staff work be confined
    to committee business during congressional working hours but maintained
    exceptions for the Committees on the Budget and Rules (P.L. 101-194,
    Nov. 30, 1989). The 104th Congress eliminated exceptions by committee in
    favor of exceptions for ``associate'' or ``shared'' staff (sec.
    101(c)(5), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 462), and later also effected a
    technical correction (H. Res. 254, Nov. 30, 1995, p. ----). A technical
    correction also was effected in the 106th Congress to conform references
    to a renamed committee (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----). Before the
    House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this provision was
    found in former clause 6 of rule XI (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----).

    Sec. 777. Pay.

      (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.

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      This provision (former clause 6(c) of rule XI) was derived from
    section 477(c) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 (84 Stat.
    1140) and was incorporated into the rules in the 92d Congress (H. Res.
    5, Jan. 22, 1971, p. 144). Under the Committee Reform Amendments of
    1974, effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974,
    p. 34470), the maximum salary was set at level V of the Executive
    Schedule, rather than at the highest rate of basic pay under section
    5332(a) of Title V, U.S. Code as specified in the 1970 Reorganization
    Act, and effective in the 95th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 1977, pp.
    53-70), the authority for two professional staff to be paid at level IV
    of the Executive Schedule was added to the clause. Under section 311 of
    the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1988 (2 U.S.C. 60a-2a), the
    maximum salary for staff members is now set by pay order of the Speaker.
    At the beginning of the 101st Congress, references to particular levels
    of the executive schedule were deleted (H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1989, p. 72).
    In the 104th Congress this paragraph was amended to reflect the
    elimination of the former distinction between ``professional'' and
    ``clerical'' staff (sec. 101(c)(5), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 462).
    Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this
    provision was found in former clause 6 of rule XI (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6,
    1999, p. ----).

    Sec. 778. Staff, Committee on Appropriations.

      (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 staff appointed under this paragraph, other than minority
    assistants, shall possess such qualifications as the committee may
    prescribe.

      This paragraph (former clause 6(d) of rule XI) derives from section
    202(b) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812),
    which was incorporated into the rules on January 3, 1953 (p. 24). The
    exemption was extended to the Committee on the Budget by section 901 of
    the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (88 Stat. 330). The reference to
    that committee was inadvertently omitted by the 93d Congress (H. Res.
    988, Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470) and reinserted by the 94th Congress (H.
    Res. 5, Jan. 14, 1975, p. 20). The 104th Congress deleted the exemption
    for the Committee on the Budget (sec. 101(c)(5), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4,
    1995, p. 462). Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th
    Congress, this provision was found in former clause 6(d) of rule X (H.
    Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----).

    Sec. 779. Detailed employees.

      (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.

      This paragraph was contained in section 202(f) of the Legislative
    Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812) and was incorporated into the
    rules on January 3, 1953 (p. 24). In the 104th and 106th Congresses it
    was amended to conform references to a renamed committee (sec. 202(b),
    H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464; H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----).

    [[Page 493]]

    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.
      (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

      (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.

    [[Page 494]]

      (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.

      Paragraphs (f)-(h) (former clause 6(f)-(h) of rule XI) are derived
    from section 302(c) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 (84
    Stat. 1140) and were incorporated into the rules in the 92d Congress (H.
    Res. 5, Jan. 22, 1971, p. 144). Effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988,
    93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470), conforming changes were made in
    paragraphs (f) and (h) to reflect increased minority professional and
    clerical staff permitted to committees under paragraphs (a) and (b) of
    this clause. In the 104th Congress paragraphs (f)-(h) were amended to
    reflect the elimination of the former distinction between
    ``professional'' and ``clerical'' staff (sec. 101(c)(5), H. Res. 6, Jan.
    4, 1995, p. 462). The 104th Congress also mandated that the total number
    of staff of House committees be at least one-third less than the
    corresponding total in the 103d Congress (sec. 101(a), H. Res. 6, Jan.
    4, 1995, p. 462). In the 105th Congress paragraph (f) was amended to
    update an archaic reference to the ``contingent fund'' (H. Res. 5, Jan.
    7, 1997, p. ----). Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th
    Congress, this provision was found in former clause 6 of rule XI (H.
    Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----).

    Sec. 780. Nonpartisan staff.

      (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.

      Section 202(a) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat.
    812), which was incorporated into the rules on January 3, 1953 (p. 24),
    required committee professional staffs to be appointed on a permanent
    basis without regard to political affiliation. The concept of minority
    staffing was added by section 302(b) of the Legislative Reorganization
    Act of 1970. Under the Committee Reform Amendments of 1974, effective
    January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470),
    paragraph (i) (former clause 6(i) of rule XI) was added to permit
    committees to employ nonpartisan staff upon an affirmative vote of the
    majority of the members of each party. In the 104th Congress it was
    amended to reflect the elimination of the former distinction between
    ``professional'' and ``clerical'' staff (sec. 101(c)(5), H. Res. 6, Jan.
    4, 1995, p. 462). Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th
    Congress, this provision was found in former clause 6(i) of rule XI (H.
    Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----).

    [[Page 495]]

    of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1945, was deleted; that clause
    required committees to report semiannually to the Clerk, for printing in
    the Congressional Record, on the names, professions and salaries of
    committee employees.

    Sec. 781. Reports on staff.

      Effective  in the 95th Congress
    (H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 1977, pp. 53-70), former clause 6(j) of rule XI,
    which was added on January 3, 1953 (p. 24) and which was contained in
    section 134(b)

                                                           Rule X, clause 10
    Rule X, clause 10
    Select and joint committees

    782. Party membership as basis for
    appointment.

      10. (a)  Membership on a select or joint committee appointed by
    the Speaker under clause 11 of rule I during the course of a Congress
    shall be contingent on continuing membership in the party caucus or
    conference of which the Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner
    concerned was a member at the time of appointment. Should a Member,
    Delegate, or Resident Commissioner cease to be a member of that caucus
    or conference, that Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner shall
    automatically cease to be a member of any select or joint committee to
    which he is assigned. The chairman of the relevant party caucus or
    conference shall notify the Speaker whenever a Member, Delegate, or
    Resident Commissioner ceases to be a member of a party caucus or
    conference. The Speaker shall notify the chairman of each affected
    select or joint committee that the appointment of such Member, Delegate,
    or Resident Commissioner to the select or joint committee is
    automatically vacated under this paragraph.

    [[Page 496]]

      This party membership requirement for select and joint committees,
    analogous to clause 5(b), was added in the 98th Congress (H. Res. 5,
    1983, Jan. 3, 1983, p. 34). Before the House recodified its rules in the
    106th Congress, this provision was found in former clause 6(g) of rule X
    (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----).

    Sec. 783. Select and joint committee compliance.

      (b)  Each
    select or joint committee, other than a conference committee, shall
    comply with clause 2(a) of rule XI unless specifically exempted by law.

      Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, paragraph
    (b) was found in clause 2(a) of rule XI (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. --
    --). The extension of clause 2(a) requirements to select and joint
    committees was added to clause 2(a) when that rule was rewritten by the
    Committee Reform Amendments of 1974 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8,
    1974, p. 34470).

    Sec. 784. Aging.

      A  paragraph (i) of former clause 6 of rule
    X was incorporated into the rules effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res.
    988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470), to provide for a permanent
    Select Committee on Aging. That provision was stricken in the 103d
    Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 1993, p. 49).

                                                           Rule X, clause 11
    Rule X, clause 11
    Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

    785. Permanent Select Committee on
    Intelligence.

      11. (a)(1) There is  established a Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
    (hereafter in this clause referred to as the ``select committee''). The
    select committee shall be composed of not more than 16 Members,
    Delegates, or the Resident Commissioner, of whom not more than nine may
    be from the same party. The select committee shall include at least one
    Member, Delegate, or the Resident Commissioner from each of the
    following committees:

          (A) the Committee on Appropriations;

          (B) the Committee on Armed Services;

          (C) the Committee on International Relations; and

          (D) the Committee on the Judiciary.

    [[Page 497]]

    and may not be counted for purposes of determining a quorum thereof.
      (2) The Speaker and the Minority Leader shall be ex officio members of
    the select committee but shall have no vote in the select committee

      (3) The Speaker and Minority Leader each may designate a member of his
    leadership staff to assist him in his capacity as ex officio member,
    with the same access to committee meetings, hearings, briefings, and
    materials as employees of the select committee and subject to the same
    security clearance and confidentiality requirements as employees of the
    select committee under this clause.

      (4)(A) Except as permitted by subdivision (B), a Member, Delegate, or
    Resident Commissioner, other than the Speaker or the Minority Leader,
    may not serve as a member of the select committee during more than four
    Congresses in a period of six successive Congresses (disregarding for
    this purpose any service for less than a full session in a Congress).

      (B) A member of the select committee who served as either the chairman
    or the ranking minority member of the select committee in the
    immediately previous Congress and who did not serve in that respective
    capacity in an earlier Congress may serve as either the chairman or the
    ranking minority member of the select committee during one additional
    Congress.

      (b)(1) There shall be referred to the select committee proposed
    legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating
    to the following:

    [[Page 498]]

    tional Foreign Intelligence Program as defined in section 3(6) of the
    National Security Act of 1947.
          (A) The Central Intelligence Agency, the Director of Central
    Intelligence, and the Na

          (B) Intelligence and intelligence-related activities of all other
    departments and agencies of the Government, including the tactical
    intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the Department of
    Defense.

          (C) The organization or reorganization of a department or agency
    of the Government to the extent that the organization or reorganization
    relates to a function or activity involving intelligence or
    intelligence-related activities.

          (D) Authorizations for appropriations, both direct and indirect,
    for the following:

              (i) The Central Intelligence Agency, the Director of Central
    Intelligence, and the National Foreign Intelligence Program as defined
    in section 3(6) of the National Security Act of 1947.

              (ii) Intelligence and intelligence-related activities of all
    other departments and agencies of the Government, including the tactical
    intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the Department of
    Defense.

              (iii) A department, agency, subdivision, or program that is a
    successor to an agency or program named or referred to in (i) or (ii).

    [[Page 499]]

    standing committee shall be referred by the Speaker to that standing
    committee. Proposed legislation initially reported by another committee
    that contains matter within the jurisdiction of the select committee
    shall be referred by the Speaker to the select committee if requested by
    the chairman of the select committee.
      (2) Proposed legislation initially reported by the select committee
    (other than provisions solely involving matters specified in
    subparagraph (1)(A) or subparagraph (1)(D)(i)) containing any matter
    otherwise within the jurisdiction of a

      (3) Nothing in this clause shall be construed as prohibiting or
    otherwise restricting the authority of any other committee to study and
    review an intelligence or intelligence-related activity to the extent
    that such activity directly affects a matter otherwise within the
    jurisdiction of that committee.

      (4) Nothing in this clause shall be construed as amending, limiting,
    or otherwise changing the authority of a standing committee to obtain
    full and prompt access to the product of the intelligence and
    intelligence-related activities of a department or agency of the
    Government relevant to a matter otherwise within the jurisdiction of
    that committee.

    [[Page 500]]

    sistent with paragraph (g) to protect national security.
      (c)(1) For purposes of accountability to the House, the select
    committee shall make regular and periodic reports to the House on the
    nature and extent of the intelligence and intelligence-related
    activities of the various departments and agencies of the United States.
    The select committee shall promptly call to the attention of the House,
    or to any other appropriate committee, a matter requiring the attention
    of the House or another committee. In making such report, the select
    committee shall proceed in a manner con

      (2) The select committee shall obtain annual reports from the Director
    of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Secretary of Defense, the
    Secretary of State, and the Director of the Federal Bureau of
    Investigation. Such reports shall review the intelligence and
    intelligence-related activities of the agency or department concerned
    and the intelligence and intelligence-related activities of foreign
    countries directed at the United States or its interests. An
    unclassified version of each report may be made available to the public
    at the discretion of the select committee. Nothing herein shall be
    construed as requiring the public disclosure in such reports of the
    names of persons engaged in intelligence or intelligence-related
    activities for the United States or the divulging of intelligence
    methods employed or the sources of information on which the reports are
    based or the amount of funds authorized to be appropriated for
    intelligence and intelligence-related activities.

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      (3) Within six weeks after the President submits a budget under
    section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, or at such time as the
    Committee on the Budget may request, the select committee shall submit
    to the Committee on the Budget the views and estimates described in
    section 301(d) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 regarding matters
    within the jurisdiction of the select committee.

      (d)(1) Except as specified in subparagraph (2), clauses 8(a), (b), and
    (c) and 9(a), (b), and (c) of this rule, and clauses 1, 2, and 4 of rule
    XI shall apply to the select committee to the extent not inconsistent
    with this clause.

      (2) Notwithstanding the requirements of the first sentence of clause
    2(g)(2) of rule XI, in the presence of the number of members required
    under the rules of the select committee for the purpose of taking
    testimony or receiving evidence, the select committee may vote to close
    a hearing whenever a majority of those present determines that the
    testimony or evidence would endanger the national security.

      (e) An employee of the select committee, or a person engaged by
    contract or otherwise to perform services for or at the request of the
    select committee, may not be given access to any classified information
    by the select committee unless such employee or person has--

          (1) agreed in writing and under oath to be bound by the Rules of
    the House, including the jurisdiction of the Committee on Standards of
    Official Conduct and of the select committee concerning the security of
    classified information during and after the period of his employment or
    contractual agreement with the select committee; and

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    such employee or person will be given access by the select committee.
          (2) received an appropriate security clearance, as determined by
    the select committee in consultation with the Director of Central
    Intelligence, that is commensurate with the sensitivity of the
    classified information to which

      (f) The select committee shall formulate and carry out such rules and
    procedures as it considers necessary to prevent the disclosure, without
    the consent of each person concerned, of information in the possession
    of the select committee that unduly infringes on the privacy or that
    violates the constitutional rights of such person. Nothing herein shall
    be construed to prevent the select committee from publicly disclosing
    classified information in a case in which it determines that national
    interest in the disclosure of classified information clearly outweighs
    any infringement on the privacy of a person.

      (g)(1) The select committee may disclose publicly any information in
    its possession after a determination by the select committee that the
    public interest would be served by such disclosure. With respect to the
    disclosure of information for which this paragraph requires action by
    the select committee--

          (A) the select committee shall meet to vote on the matter within
    five days after a member of the select committee requests a vote; and

          (B) a member of the select committee may not make such a
    disclosure before a vote by the select committee on the matter, or after
    a vote by the select committee on the matter except in accordance with
    this paragraph.

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    procedures, that has been submitted to it by the executive branch, and
    that the executive branch requests be kept secret, the select committee
    shall notify the President of such vote.
      (2)(A) In a case in which the select committee votes to disclose
    publicly any information that has been classified under established
    security

      (B) The select committee may disclose publicly such information after
    the expiration of a five-day period following the day on which notice of
    the vote to disclose is transmitted to the President unless, before the
    expiration of the five-day period, the President, personally in writing,
    notifies the select committee that he objects to the disclosure of such
    information, provides his reasons therefor, and certifies that the
    threat to the national interest of the United States posed by the
    disclosure is of such gravity that it outweighs any public interest in
    the disclosure.

      (C) If the President, personally in writing, notifies the select
    committee of his objections to the disclosure of information as provided
    in subdivision (B), the select committee may, by majority vote, refer
    the question of the disclosure of such information, with a
    recommendation thereon, to the House. The select committee may not
    publicly disclose such information without leave of the House.

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      (D) Whenever the select committee votes to refer the question of
    disclosure of any information to the House under subdivision (C), the
    chairman shall, not later than the first day on which the House is in
    session following the day on which the vote occurs, report the matter to
    the House for its consideration.

      (E) If the chairman of the select committee does not offer in the
    House a motion to consider in closed session a matter reported under
    subdivision (D) within four calendar days on which the House is in
    session after the recommendation described in subdivision (C) is
    reported, then such a motion shall be privileged when offered by a
    Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner. In either case such a motion
    shall be decided without debate or intervening motion except one that
    the House adjourn.

      (F) Upon adoption by the House of a motion to resolve into closed
    session as described in subdivision (E), the Speaker may declare a
    recess subject to the call of the Chair. At the expiration of the
    recess, the pending question, in closed session, shall be, ``Shall the
    House approve the recommendation of the select committee?''.

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      (G) Debate on the question described in subdivision (F) shall be
    limited to two hours equally divided and controlled by the chairman and
    ranking minority member of the select committee. After such debate the
    previous question shall be considered as ordered on the question of
    approving the recommendation without intervening motion except one
    motion that the House adjourn. The House shall vote on the question in
    open session but without divulging the information with respect to which
    the vote is taken. If the recommendation of the select committee is not
    approved, then the question is considered as recommitted to the select
    committee for further recommendation.

      (3)(A) Information in the possession of the select committee relating
    to the lawful intelligence or intelligence-related activities of a
    department or agency of the United States that has been classified under
    established security procedures, and that the select committee has
    determined should not be disclosed under subparagraph (1) or (2), may
    not be made available to any person by a Member, Delegate, Resident
    Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House except as provided in
    subdivision (B).

      (B) The select committee shall, under such regulations as it may
    prescribe, make information described in subdivision (A) available to a
    committee or a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner, and permit a
    Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner to attend a hearing of the
    select committee that is closed to the public. Whenever the select
    committee makes such information available, it shall keep a written
    record showing, in the case of particular information, which committee
    or which Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner received the
    information. A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner who, and a
    committee that, receives information under this subdivision may not
    disclose the information except in a closed session of the House.

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    in violation of subparagraph (3) and report to the House concerning any
    allegation that it finds to be substantiated.
      (4) The Committee on Standards of Official Conduct shall investigate
    any unauthorized disclosure of intelligence or intelligence-related
    information by a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or
    employee of the House

      (5) Upon the request of a person who is subject to an investigation
    described in subparagraph (4), the Committee on Standards of Official
    Conduct shall release to such person at the conclusion of its
    investigation a summary of its investigation, together with its
    findings. If, at the conclusion of its investigation, the Committee on
    Standards of Official Conduct determines that there has been a
    significant breach of confidentiality or unauthorized disclosure by a
    Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the
    House, it shall report its findings to the House and recommend
    appropriate action. Recommendations may include censure, removal from
    committee membership, or expulsion from the House, in the case of a
    Member, or removal from office or employment or punishment for contempt,
    in the case of an officer or employee.

      (h) The select committee may permit a personal representative of the
    President, designated by the President to serve as a liaison to the
    select committee, to attend any closed meeting of the select committee.

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    to carry out any of the following activities, unless the funds shall
    previously have been authorized by a bill or joint resolution passed by
    the House during the same or preceding fiscal year to carry out such
    activity for such fiscal year:
      (i) Subject to the Rules of the House, funds may not be appropriated
    for a fiscal year, with the exception of a bill or joint resolution
    continuing appropriations, or an amendment thereto, or a conference
    report thereon, to, or for use of, a department or agency of the United
    States

          (1) The activities of the Central Intelligence Agency and the
    Director of Central Intelligence.

          (2) The activities of the Defense Intelligence Agency.

          (3) The activities of the National Security Agency.

          (4) The intelligence and intelligence-related activities of other
    agencies and subdivisions of the Department of Defense.

          (5) The intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the
    Department of State.

          (6) The intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the
    Federal Bureau of Investigation, including all activities of the
    Intelligence Division.

      (j)(1) In this clause the term ``intelligence and intelligence-related
    activities'' includes--

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    the collection, analysis, production, dissemination, or use of such
    information;
          (A) the collection, analysis, production, dissemination, or use of
    information that relates to a foreign country, or a government,
    political group, party, military force, movement, or other association
    in a foreign country, and that relates to the defense, foreign policy,
    national security, or related policies of the United States and other
    activity in support of

          (B) activities taken to counter similar activities directed
    against the United States;

          (C) covert or clandestine activities affecting the relations of
    the United States with a foreign government, political group, party,
    military force, movement, or other association;

          (D) the collection, analysis, production, dissemination, or use of
    information about activities of persons within the United States, its
    territories and possessions, or nationals of the United States abroad
    whose political and related activities pose, or may be considered by a
    department, agency, bureau, office, division, instrumentality, or
    employee of the United States to pose, a threat to the internal security
    of the United States; and

          (E) covert or clandestine activities directed against persons
    described in subdivision (D).

      (2) In this clause the term ``department or agency'' includes any
    organization, committee, council, establishment, or office within the
    Federal Government.

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      (3) For purposes of this clause, reference to a department, agency,
    bureau, or subdivision shall include a reference to any successor
    department, agency, bureau, or subdivision to the extent that a
    successor engages in intelligence or intelligence-related activities now
    conducted by the department, agency, bureau, or subdivision referred to
    in this clause.

      (k) Clause 12(a) of rule XXII does not apply to meetings of a
    conference committee respecting legislation (or any part thereof)
    reported by the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

    Sec. 786.

      This clause (former rule XLVIII) was  adopted in
    the 95th Congress (H. Res. 658, July 14, 1977, pp. 22932-49) and has had
    several technical amendments: (1) to change the size of the Select
    Committee from 13 to 14 members (H. Res. 70, 96th Cong., Jan. 25, 1979,
    p. 1023); (2) to reflect a change in the name of a committee (H. Res.
    89, 96th Cong., Feb. 5, 1979, p. 1848); (3) to change the size to not
    more than 16 members (H. Res. 33, 99th Cong., Jan. 30, 1985, p. 1271);
    (4) to change the size to not more than 17 members and to change the
    cross-reference in clause 7(c)(1) to include paragraph (a) or (b) (H.
    Res. 5, 100th Cong., Jan. 6, 1987, p. 6); (5) to change the size to not
    more than 19 members (H. Res. 5, 101st Cong., Jan. 3, 1989, p. 73) and
    to permit the Speaker to attend meetings and have access to information
    (H. Res. 268, Nov. 14, 1989, p. 28789); (6) to strike obsolete language
    relating to tenure restrictions in clause 1 and relating to the
    requirement for authorizations of appropriations in clause 9 (H. Res. 5,
    102d Cong., Jan. 3, 1991, p. 39); and (7) to make certain conforming
    changes (Budget Enforcement Act of 1997, sec. 10104, P.L. 105-33; H.
    Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----). Before the House recodified its rules in
    the 106th Congress, this provision was found in former rule XLVIII (H.
    Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----).

      More substantive amendments have been adopted as follows: (1) clause 4
    was amended to make former clause 6(c) of rule XI (current clause 9(c)
    of rule X) applicable to salaries of the staff of the Select Committee
    (H. Res. 5, Jan. 15, 1979, pp. 7-16); (2) paragraph (d) (former clause
    4) was amended to make an exception to the provisions of clause 2(g)(2)
    of rule XI (requiring a majority of the membership of a committee be
    present in order to vote to close a hearing) to allow the Select
    Committee to vote to go into executive session if a majority of the
    members present, there being in attendance the requisite number under
    the Select Committee rules for the purpose of taking testimony,
    determine that it is necessary to do so for national security reasons
    (but in no event to be determined by less than two members) (H. Res.
    165, Mar. 29, 1979, p. 6820); and (3) paragraph (d) (former clause 4)
    was amended to provide the Select Committee with permanent professional
    and clerical staff as provided by former clauses 6(a) and (b) of rule XI
    (current clauses 9(a) and (b) of rule X) (H. Res. 58, Mar. 1, 1983, p.
    3241).

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    (rather than the Majority Leader) an ex officio member of the panel (as
    opposed to his former free access to its meetings and information); (4)
    to clarify jurisdiction over the National Foreign Intelligence Program
    and the tactical intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the
    Department of Defense; (5) to clarify staffing arrangements for the
    Speaker and the Minority Leader as ex officio members; and (6) to
    conform references to renamed committees (sec. 221, H. Res. 6, Jan. 4,
    1995, p. 469).
      In the 104th Congress the rule was amended in several different
    respects: (1) to limit the size of the panel to 16, with no more than
    nine members from the same party; (2) to set the tenure limitation at
    four Congresses within a period of six Congresses, with exceptions for
    ongoing service as chairman or ranking minority member; (3) to make the
    Speaker

      The resolution creating the Select Committee directed the committee to
    make a study with respect to intelligence and intelligence-related
    activities of the U.S. and to report thereon, together with appropriate
    recommendations, not later than the close of the 95th Congress (sec. 3,
    H. Res. 658; see H. Rept. 95-1795, Oct. 14, 1978), and transferred to
    the Select Committee all records, files, documents, and other materials
    of the Select Committee on Intelligence of the 94th Congress in the
    possession, custody, or control of the Clerk of the House.

      The Select Committee has concurrent jurisdiction with the Committee on
    the Judiciary over bills concerning electronic surveillance of foreign
    intelligence (Nov. 4, 1977, p. 37070); concurrent jurisdiction with the
    Committees on Science, Space, and Technology (now Science) and Foreign
    Affairs (now International Relations) over a bill establishing a
    satellite monitoring commission (Mar. 15, 1988, p. 3847); and sole
    jurisdiction over a resolution of inquiry directing the Secretary of
    Defense to furnish to the House documents and information on Cuban or
    other foreign military or paramilitary presence in Panama or the Canal
    Zone (Apr. 6, 1978, p. 9105).

      Paragraph (g)(2) places restrictions on the Select Committee only with
    respect to the public disclosure of classified information in the
    possession of that committee, and does not prevent the House from
    determining to release any matter properly presented to it in secret
    session pursuant to clause 9 of rule XVII (former rule XXIX) (Feb. 25,
    1980, p. 3618).

      For a discussion of the role of the Permanent Select Committee on
    Intelligence in regulating access to the classified records of the
    former Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/
    Commercial Concerns With the People's Republic of China, see Sec. 1112a,
    infra.