    [Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 106th Congress]
    [106th Congress]
    [House Document 105-358]
    [Joint and Select Committees]
    [Pages 909-911]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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                           JOINT AND SELECT COMMITTEES

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                                Joint Committees

    Sec. 1108. Joint Economic Committee.

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

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    Sec. 1109. Joint Committee on Internal Revenue
    Taxation.

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

    Sec. 1110. Joint Committee of Congress on the
    Library.

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

    Sec. 1111. Joint Committee on Printing.

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

    Sec. 1112. Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural
    Ceremonies.

      The  Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies is
    established by concurrent resolution in the second session of the
    Congress occurring before a Presidential inauguration and reestablished
    at the beginning of the next Congress. It is composed of three Members
    of both the Senate and the House. The three House Members are appointed
    by the Speaker and are traditionally the Speaker, the Majority Leader,
    and the Minority Leader. The committee is authorized to make the
    necessary arrangements for the inauguration of the President-elect and
    Vice President-elect. (see, e.g., S. Con. Res. 47, 104th Cong., Aug. 2,
    1996, p. 21405; S. Con. Res. 2, 105th Cong., Jan. 7, 1997, p. ----).

                                Select Committees

    Sec. 1112a. Select committees

      The  103d Congress, and each
    succeeding Congress, did not reestablish Select Committees on Hunger, on
    Children, Youth, and Families, on Narcotics Abuse and Control, or on
    Aging (formerly established in standing rule X). However, the Permanent
    Select Committee on Intelligence has been reestablished by the adoption
    of clause 11 of rule X each Congress.

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    7, 1997, p. ----). The Select Committee filed one report to the House
    (H. Rept. 105-1, H. Res. 31, Jan. 21, 1997, p. ----).
      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.

      In the 105th Congress the House adopted a resolution establishing the
    Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial
    Concerns With the People's Republic of China (H. Res. 463, June 18,
    1998, p. ----). In the 106th Congress the Select Committee was
    reestablished until April 1, 1999, solely for the purpose of completing
    activities directly associated with the declassification and public
    release of its report (sec. 2, H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----). It was
    extended for the same purposes to April 30, 1999 (H. Res. 129, Mar. 24,
    1999, p. ----), to May 14, 1999 (H. Res. 153, Apr. 29, 1999, p. ----),
    and to May 31, 1999 (H. Res. 170, May 13, 1999, p. ----). Section 2 of
    H. Res. 5 gave the select committee the authority to dispose of its
    records consistent with the rules and laws concerning classified
    information (sec. 2(f)(3), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. ----). Pursuant
    to that authority the Select Committee transferred its records to the
    Clerk and instructed the Clerk to grant access to those Records only
    with the approval of the chairman and ranking minority member of the
    former Select Committee (so long as each remains a Member) and,
    thereafter, with the approval of the Permanent Select Committee on
    Intelligence.