[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.