    [Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 107th Congress]
    [107th Congress]
    [House Document 106-320]
    [Joint and Select Committees]
    [Pages 921-925]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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                           JOINT AND SELECT COMMITTEES

                                  HOUSE OFFICES

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                         EARLY ORGANIZATION OF THE HOUSE

                           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 (15 U.S.C. 1024(a)). The 10 Senate
    Members are appointed by the President of the Senate: Five from the
    majority and five from the minority (for the duration of the 107th
    Congress so long as the majority and minority have equal representation)
    (P.L. 107-3). 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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    ings 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. 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 hear

    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. ----; S.
    Con. Res. 89, 106th Cong., Mar. 14, 2000, p. ----; S. Con. Res. 2, 107th
    Cong., Jan. 3, 2001, p. ----).

                                Select Committees

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    Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has been reestablished by the
    adoption of clause 11 of rule X each Congress.

    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

      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. ----).

      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. ----). The House 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.

      For a history of select committees in the House, see House Practice,
    p. 238.