[Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 108th Congress]
[108th Congress]
[House Document 107-284]
[Joint and Select Committees]
[Pages 949-952]
[From the U.S. Government Printing 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 (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 (the chairman and four members of the 
Committee on Rules and Administration) and six Members of the House. 
House membership consists of the chairman and four members of the 
Committee on House Administration (2 U.S.C. 132b) and the chairman of 
the Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch of the House Committee on 
Appropriations with respect to the financial management, organization, 
budget development and implementation, and program development and 
administration, as well as any other element of the mission of the 
Library of Congress which is subject to the requirements of Federal law 
(2 U.S.C. 132b (note)).





Sec. 1111. Joint Committee on Printing.

  The Joint  Committee 
on Printing is composed of five Members of the Senate 
(the chairman and four members of the Committee on Rules and 
Administration) and five Members of the House (the chairman and four 
members of the Committee on House 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.




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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. 
143; S. Con. Res. 89, 106th Cong., Mar. 14, 2000, p. ----; 
S. Con. Res. 2, 107th Cong., Jan. 3, 2001, 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). The 
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has been reestablished by the 
adoption of clause 11 of rule X each Congress. 


  In the 107th Congress the House established a Select Committee on 
Homeland Security (H. Res. 449, June 19, 2002, p. ----). Its mission was 
to develop recommendations on such matters that relate to the 
establishment of a department of homeland security as may be referred to 
it by the Speaker and on recommendations submitted to it by standing 
committees to which the Speaker referred a bill establishing the 
department and to report its recommendation to the House on such bill. 
It was terminated after final disposition of the specified bill (Nov. 
25, 2002, p. ----). In the 108th Congress the House reestablished a 
Select Committee on Homeland Security (sec. 4, H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 2003, 
p. ----). Its mission is to develop recommendations on such matters that 
relate to the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (P.L. 107-296) as may be 
referred to it by the Speaker; to conduct oversight of laws, programs, 
and Government activities relating to homeland security; to conduct a 
study of the operation and implementation of the rules of the House, 
including rule X, with respect to homeland security; and to report its 
recommendations to the House by bill or otherwise on matters referred to 
it by the Speaker and to report its recommendations on changes to House 
rules to the Committee on Rules by Sept. 30, 2004.

  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. 121). The Select Committee filed 
one report to the House (H. Rept. 105-1, H. Res. 31, Jan. 21, 1997, p. 
393).


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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.
  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


  For a history of select committees in the House, see House Practice, 
ch. 11, Sec. Sec. 12, 13.