[Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 112th Congress]
[112nd Congress]
[House Document 111-157]
[Rules of the House of Representatives]
[Pages 429-540]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



 

                                 Rule X


Committees and their legislative jurisdictions
                       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 number of standing committees grew over time with 
the creation of the Committee on Science and Astronautics (now Science, 
Space, and Technology), established on July 21, 1958 (p. 14513); the 
Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (now Ethics), 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).


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Natural Resources, Transportation and Infrastructure 
(formerly Public Works and Transportation), Armed Services (National 
Security during the 104th and 105th Congresses), and Science, Space, and 
Technology (Science during the 104th through 109th Congresses) (sec. 
202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464). The 109th Congress established 
the Committee on Homeland Security (sec. 2(a), H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, 
p. 42).
  The 104th Congress reduced the 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 Oversight and 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 

  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, that committee was 
found in former rule XLVIII (current clause 11 of rule X) (H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). 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) and 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 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), and the size and 
ratio of the Committee on Ethics (clause 5(a)(3)(A) of rule X), as well 
as the 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), 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 rereferral of most bills is 
accomplished by unanimous consent (see Procedure, ch. 17, Sec. Sec. 17-
38).


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amended again in the 108th Congress to 
permit the Speaker to refrain from designating a primary committee in 
extraordinary circumstances (sec. 2(i), H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 2003, p. 7; 
see Sec. 816, infra).
  Before the 94th Congress, a bill could not be divided among two or 
more committees, even though it might have contained 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). 
However, the provision was 

  A committee having jurisdiction over 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 subject, the reference could nevertheless be to the 
committee having jurisdiction over 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, in effect 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 timely 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 before 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).


  Clause 4 of rule XII prohibits the receipt 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.


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      (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.

      (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).


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diction 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.
  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 
(CCC)) while transferring jurisdiction over foreign distribution and 
nondomestic production of commodities to the Committee on Foreign 
Affairs (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). Nevertheless, 
the committee has retained limited juris

  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 and stylistic changes were effected when the House 
recodified its rules in the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 
47).

  The committee has had jurisdiction over 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), and, in addition to the Committee 
on Energy and Commerce, amending the Horse Protection Act to prevent the 
shipping, transporting, moving, delivering, or receiving of horses to be 
slaughtered for human consumption (July 13, 2006, p. 14304).

  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). The Committee on Natural 
Resources, and not this committee, has jurisdiction over a bill to 
convey land that is part of a National Forest created from the public 
domain (Mar. 23, 2004, p. 4926). The committee also has exercised 
jurisdiction over 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); to designate an 
agricultural research center (May 14, 1996, p. 11070). 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. 25533).

  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).




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  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.


      (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 (VII, 
1741).

  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. 47). 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. 47).


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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 clause 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 (formerly 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 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 

  Although 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), 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 thereon have been available for three days (clause 
4 of rule XIII).




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, 684), 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, which was later perfected by the Committee Reform 
Amendments of 1974 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470, 
subparagraphs (2), (3), and (4)).


  (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.


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      (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.

      (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, and merchant marine officers and seamen as 
these matters relate to the national security.

      (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.


      (16) Cemeteries administered by the Department of Defense.


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of a redundant undesignated recitation of a 
special oversight function (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).
  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 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. 47). Clerical and stylistic changes were 
effected when the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, 
including the deletion 

  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 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. 35077). 
The 112th Congress added subparagraph (16), a matter formerly within the 
sole jurisdiction of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs (sec. 2(e)(6), 
H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. _).

  The committee has jurisdiction over bills: relating to military 
housing construction (Feb. 21, 1962, p. 2684; Apr. 18, 1967, p. 9981); 
amending 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 military medical facilities 
(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. 32627).


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

  (d) Committee on the Budget.


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levels of budget totals for the United States 
Government.


Sec. 719. 
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 


      (2) Budget process generally.


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

  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(c) 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. 47)).


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tration orders issued under the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 
6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464). Three rereferrals 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 
Oversight and 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. 35572). The chair of the Committee on the Budget inserted in 
the Congressional Record a memorandum of understanding between this 
committee and the Committee on Rules to clarify each Committee's 
jurisdiction over the congressional budget process (Jan. 4, 1995, p. 
617). In the 105th Congress the jurisdictional statement in subparagraph 
(2), 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 Oversight and Government Reform) (H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 
1997, p. 121). Clerical and stylistic changes were effected when the 
House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47). This committee, and not the Committee on Ways and Means, 
has jurisdiction over a bill establishing a rule of sequestration under 
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act (Dec. 15, 2000, p. 
27085). This committee has primary jurisdiction, and the Committee on 
Ways and Means has additional jurisdiction, over a bill taking Social 
Security trust funds off budget (Dec. 15, 2000, p. 27085). This 
committee has primary jurisdiction, and the Committee on Rules has 
additional jurisdiction, over a bill amending the Budget Act to 
establish new legislative points of order and directing that the 
President include a specified matter with the budget (Feb. 13, 2001, p. 
1817).

  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). 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). In the 104th 
Congress, the House 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) 
(now subparagraph (1)); (2) granting the committee jurisdiction over the 
congressional budget process generally in a new subparagraph (3) (now 
subparagraph (2)); and (3) granting the committee jurisdiction over 
special controls over the Federal budget in a new subparagraph (4) (now 
subparagraph (3)), including receiving from the former Committee on 
Government Operations (now Oversight and Government Reform) jurisdiction 
over budgetary treatment of off-budget Federal agencies and measures 
providing exemption from seques

  (e) Committee on Education and the Workforce.

      (1) Child labor.


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Sec. 720. 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.

  This committee was established 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 the Committee on Education 
and the Workforce (H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 1997, p. 121), was redesignated 
the Committee on Education and Labor in the 110th Congress (sec. 212(a), 
H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19), and was redesignated as the Committee 
on Education and the Workforce in the 112th Congress (sec. 2(e)(7), H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. _).


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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. 47).
  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 Natural Resources); 
jurisdiction of the committee over international education matters was 
specifically transferred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs; 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 


  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 the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (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. 
23967), 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 jurisdiction over a bill comprehensively amending the 
Immigration and Nationality Act and including provisions addressing the 
enforcement of labor laws (Sept. 19, 1995, p. 25533). The committee has 
additional jurisdiction (Commerce, now Energy and Commerce, has primary 
jurisdiction) over a developmental disabilities assistance and family 
support bill (Feb. 10, 2000, p. 1023). 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. This committee, and 
not also the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform and House 
Administration, has jurisdiction over a bill amending the Family and 
Medical Leave Act of 1993 to address only private-sector employees (Oct. 
30, 2007, p. 28651).

  (f) Committee on Energy and Commerce.

      (1) Biomedical research and development.



Sec. 721. Energy and 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.


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

      (7) Conservation of energy resources.

      (8) Energy information generally.

      (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.


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.

      (15) Travel and tourism.


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Foreign Commerce (H. Res. 5, 94th Cong., p. 20). In 
the 96th Congress it was redesignated 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 
as the Committee on Commerce (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 
464). In the 107th Congress it was redesignated again as the Committee 
on Energy and Commerce (sec. 2(d), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 25).
  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 


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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 (now Science, Space, and 
Technology), while the Committee on Energy and Commerce obtained 
jurisdiction over regulation of the domestic nuclear energy industry 
(subpara. (13)) from the Committee on Natural 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. 47). In the 107th Congress the committee's 
jurisdiction over securities and exchanges was transferred to the 
Committee on Financial Services (sec. 2(d), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 
25). The Speaker inserted in the Congressional Record a memorandum of 
understanding between the two committees to clarify the nature of this 
transfer (Jan. 30, 2001, p. 995), the final two paragraphs of which no 
longer provide jurisdictional guidance (Jan. 4, 2005, p. 71).
  In the 74th Congress the jurisdictional statement of the committee was 
amended to include jurisdiction over bills relating to radio, and to 
transfer jurisdiction over water transportation, Coast Guard, lifesaving 
service, lighthouses, lightships, ocean derelicts, Coast and Geodetic 
Survey, and the Panama Canal to 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 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, Space, and Technology) (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. 
(15)), 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, Space, and 
Technology), and jurisdiction over trading with the enemy to the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs (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 

  The committee has the special oversight responsibility under clause 
3(e) 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 
was inadvertently omitted.

  The committee formerly reported the river and harbor appropriation 
bill, but in 1883 the 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 over bills affecting domestic 
and foreign commerce, except such as may affect the revenue (IV, 4097). 
It also has jurisdiction over 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). 
This committee formerly had jurisdiction over bills proposing 
construction of bridges across navigable streams, which now are banned 
under clause 4 of rule XII if private (see Sec. 822, infra; see also 
General Bridge Act, 33 U.S.C. 525, 533).


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diction 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 had jurisdiction over 
a bill to reauthorize the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill 
of Rights Act (ultimately repealed), which was focused on health matters 
rather than job training (June 1, 1981, p. 11028; Nov. 3, 1993, p. 
27274). This committee and, in addition, the Committee on Education and 
the Workforce, have jurisdiction over the Developmental Disabilities 
Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 1999 (which replaced the above-
mentioned Act) as it contained a family support program within the 
jurisdiction of the Committee on Education and the Workforce) (Feb. 10, 
2000, p. 1023). 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 
juris

  (g) Committee on Ethics.


      The Code of Official Conduct.


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ing 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. 47). In the 112th 
Congress it was redesignated as the Committee on Ethics (sec. 2(e)(8), 
H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. _).


Sec. 721b. Ethics.

  In  the 90th Congress the Committee on 
Standards of Official Conduct was established as a standing committee 
(H. Res. 418, Apr. 13, 1967, p. 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. 8776); (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 
devolv


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

  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 the 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'').

  The committee has investigated roll call 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 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 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).


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allowances and franking, casework considerations, 
campaign financing and practices, and involvement with official and 
unofficial organizations.
  The committee has compiled statutory and rule-based ethical standards 
in the House Ethics Manual (110th Cong., 2d Sess.). In the Manual, the 
committee incorporates its advisory opinions issued under clause 3(a)(4) 
of rule XI, 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 



Sec. 721c. 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).


  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 (Ethics) 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).


  For Office of Congressional Ethics, see Sec. 1125h, infra.

  (h) Committee on Financial Services.

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



Sec. 722. Financial Services.

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


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

      (4) Insurance generally.

      (5) International finance.

      (6) International financial and monetary organizations.

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


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      (8) Public and private housing.

      (9) Securities and exchanges.


      (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). In the 107th Congress its name was changed to 
Financial Services (sec. 2(d), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 25).


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107th Congress jurisdiction over securities 
and exchanges was transferred from the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
to this committee (sec. 2(d), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 25). As a 
result of the new jurisdiction of the Committee on Financial Services 
over securities and exchanges, its former jurisdiction over matters 
relating to bank capital markets activities and depository institutions 
securities activities were deleted as redundant (sec. 2(d), H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 3, 2001, p. 25). In the 107th Congress this committee also received 
jurisdiction over insurance generally (sec. 2(d), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 
2001, p. 25). The Speaker inserted in the Congressional Record a 
memorandum of understanding between this committee and the Committee on 
Energy and Commerce to clarify these jurisdictional changes (Jan. 30, 
2001, p. 995), the final two paragraphs of which no longer provide 
jurisdictional guidance (Jan. 4, 2005, p. 71). A technical change to 
subparagraph (6) was effected in the 108th Congress (sec. 2(u), H. Res. 
5, Jan. 7, 2003, p. 7).
  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 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, 
Space, and Technology) 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). Before 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 Foreign Affairs), 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 Foreign Affairs, jurisdiction over 
construction of nursing home facilities to what is now the Committee on 
Energy and 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. 47). In 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 over 
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).

  (i) Committee on Foreign Affairs.



Sec. 723. Foreign Affairs.

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


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


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      (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.

      (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 the 110th 
Congress it was changed back to Foreign Affairs (sec. 213(a), H. Res. 6, 
Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19).


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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 Financial Services); international commodity agreements 
other than those relating to 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 Energy and Commerce); and 
international education (subpara. (8)); while transferring jurisdiction 
over international financial and monetary organizations to the Committee 
on Banking and Currency (now Financial Services), and jurisdiction over 
international fishing agreements to the Committee on Merchant Marine and 
Fisheries (now Natural Resources) (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, 
p. 34470). When the legislative jurisdiction of the Joint Committee on 
Atomic Energy in the House 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. 47).
  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 

  The committee has broad jurisdiction over foreign relations, including 
boundary lines between the United States and foreign nations, bridges 
and dams on international waters (IV, 4166; see also the ``General 
Bridge Act,'' 33 U.S.C. 525, 533), the protection of American citizens 
abroad and expatriation (IV, 4169; VII, 1883), extradition with foreign 
nations, international arbitration, relating to violations of neutrality 
(IV, 4178a), international conferences 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).


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cised 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 committee also has 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 general but not exclusive 
jurisdiction over legislation relating to claims affecting international 
relations (IV, 4168; VII, 1882). Pursuant to its jurisdiction over 
international education, the committee (and not the Committee on 
Education and the Workforce) has exer


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

  (j) Committee on Homeland Security.



Sec. 723a. Homeland 
Security.

      (1) Overall homeland  security policy.


      (2) Organization and administration of the Department of Homeland 
Security.

      (3) Functions of the Department of Homeland Security relating to 
the following:

          (A) Border and port security (except immigration policy and 
non-border enforcement).

          (B) Customs (except customs revenue).

          (C) Integration, analysis, and dissemination of homeland 
security information.

          (D) Domestic preparedness for and collective response to 
terrorism.

          (E) Research and development.


          (F) Transportation security.

  This committee was established in the 109th Congress (sec. 2(a), H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, p. 42). For debate (and material submitted during 
debate) that may edify the reader on the jurisdictional issues 
surrounding the new committee, see January 4, 2005, pp. 60 0962. The 
Speaker announced that the referral of measures in the 108th Congress to 
the Select Committee on Homeland Security would not constitute precedent 
for referral to this committee (Jan. 4, 2005, p. 71).



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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. 23433). In the 108th Congress the House reestablished a 
Select Committee on Homeland Security (sec. 4, H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 2003, 
p. 11). Its mission was 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.



Sec. 723b. Former Select Committees on Homeland 
Security.

  In the  107th Congress the House established a Select Committee on 
Homeland Security (H. Res. 449, June 19, 2002, p. 10722). 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 


  (k) 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).

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

      (4) Except as provided in paragraph (r)(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.


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

      (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.


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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).
  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), 


  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 (now 
Natural 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. 121). 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. 47). In the 107th Congress the committee's 
responsibilities with respect to enrolled bills (which were set forth in 
former clause 4(d)(1)(A) of rule X) were transferred to the Clerk (see 
clause 2(d)(2) of rule II) (sec. 2(b), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 25).



Sec. 725. House facilities.

  The  Committee has jurisdiction 
over measures relating to the House Restaurant (2 U.S.C. 2041), 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), and then 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. 3680), which was not reestablished after the 93d Congress.


  By the Committee Reform Amendments of 1974, effective January 3, 1975, 
the committee obtained jurisdiction over parking facilities of the 
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 (now Ethics) (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).



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  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, and House Information Resources.




Sec. 727. Library.

  Under  the Reorganization Act the 
committee has jurisdiction over 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 over matters relating to printing and correction of the 
Congressional Record, formerly within the jurisdiction of the erstwhile 
Committee on Printing. The House Members of the Joint Committee on 
Printing, provided for by law (44 U.S.C. 101), are elected by resolution 
each Congress.


  The committee has jurisdiction over 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 of the Committee on Election of the President, Vice 
President, and Representatives in Congress (IV, 4303).


  The committee's former responsibility to report on Members' travel was 
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). In the 107th Congress the committee retained the responsibility 
to provide policy direction to and oversight of the Inspector General 
but retained only oversight of the remaining officers (sec. 2(g), H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 25).

  (l) Committee on the Judiciary.



Sec. 729. 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.


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      (5) Civil liberties.

      (6) Constitutional amendments.

      (7) Criminal law enforcement.

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

      (9) Immigration policy and non-border enforcement.

      (10) Interstate compacts generally.

      (11) Claims against the United States.

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

      (13) National penitentiaries.

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

      (15) Presidential succession.

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

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

      (18) State and territorial boundary lines.




Sec. 730. Internal Security.

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



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sive activities affecting the internal 
security of the United States was transferred to this committee 
(subpara. (18), now (19)) (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) (now (8)); and combined former 
subparagraphs (13) and (14) in a new subparagraph (13) (now (14)) (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. 47). In the 109th Congress the House 
established the Committee on Homeland Security with jurisdiction over 
certain functions of the Department of Homeland Security that resulted 
in a conforming change to subparagraph (9) (sec. 2(a)(1), H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 4, 2005, p. 42). For debate (and material submitted during debate) 
that may edify the reader on the jurisdictional issues surrounding the 
creation of the Committee on Homeland Security, see January 4, 2005, pp. 
60 0962. In the 109th Congress the House added subparagraph (7) (sec. 
2(a)(2), H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, p. 42).
  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 Oversight and 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 subver

  Under subparagraph (15) 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. 27819). If the House has voted to impeach, 
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. 28112; Jan. 6, 1999, p. 15).


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moval 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 (VII, 
1768), meeting of Congress and attendance of Members and their 
acceptance of incompatible offices (IV, 4077).
  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 (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 flag (IV, 4055), bankruptcy (IV, 4065), 
re

  The committee also has jurisdiction over joint resolutions proposing 
amendments to the Constitution (IV, 4056; VII, 1779). Although the 
committee has historically exercised jurisdiction over lobbying 
activities, the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (now Ethics) 
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).

  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), establishing an academy of criminal justice (Apr. 5, 
1965, p. 6822), eliminating racketeering in the interstate sale of 
cigarettes (Feb. 9, 1972, p. 3429), providing worker's compensation for 
non-Federal firefighters killed during civil disorder (May 6, 1968, p. 
11798) or to non-Federal policemen and firemen (Dec. 12, 1975, p. 
40204), 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 sole jurisdiction over the Legal 
Services Corporation (Nov. 19, 1975, p. 37288). 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 
Oversight and Government Reform, and not this committee, has 
jurisdiction over pay adjustments for administrative law judges (July 
31, 1991, p. 20677; June 10, 1999, p. 12435). The Committee on Natural 
Resources, and not this committee, has jurisdiction over a bill to 
designate an immigration museum within a facility of the National Park 
Service (July 8, 2004, p. 5348).




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

  (m) Committee on Natural Resources.



Sec. 731. Natural 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.

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

      (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.


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      (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.

      (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); to 
Resources (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464); and back to 
Natural Resources (sec. 214(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19).


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to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs 
in the 90th Congress (H. Res. 241, Oct. 20, 1967).
  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 miners, formerly 
under the jurisdiction of the 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 the jurisdiction of the 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 

  In the 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.

  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 Energy and Commerce, to the Committee on Energy and 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 Energy and 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. 47).



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to lands along the Colorado River forming State boundaries (June 
28, 1967, p. 17738); to designate national forest lands created from the 
public domain as wilderness (May 6, 1969, p. 11459); to include 
additional units in the Missouri River Basin project (Sept. 8, 1959, p. 
18587); to establish a commission on development of Pennsylvania Avenue 
in D.C. as a national historic site (Oct. 21, 1965, p. 27803); to 
authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a feasibility 
investigation of potential water resource development (May 1, 1975, p. 
12764); to establish a commission to consider the creation of a (Hudson) 
River compact (July 21, 1975, p. 23653); to name a building constructed 
as part of a Federal recreation area (June 8, 1988, p. 13803); to 
address the siting on Federal park land of an established national 
memorial (Sept. 24, 1991, p. 23731); (with the Committee on Agriculture) 
to exchange a Federal tree nursery for certain State mining patents 
touching a public domain (western) forest (Sept. 17, 1991, p. 23193); 
and to transfer interest in a National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration fisheries research laboratory (Oct. 1, 2002, p. 18796). 
The Committee on National Security (now Armed Services), and not this 
committee, 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. 32627). 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. 23967). This committee, and not the Committee on Agriculture, 
has jurisdiction over a bill to convey land that is part of a National 
Forest created from the public domain (Mar. 23, 2004, p. 4926). This 
committee, and not the Committee on the Judiciary, has jurisdiction over 
a bill to designate an immigration museum within a facility of the 
National Park Service (July 8, 2004, p. 14755). This committee, and not 
the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, has jurisdiction 
over a bill addressing a federal water project operated by the Bureau of 
Reclamation (June 25, 2007, p. 17128).
  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 created out of the public 
domain (IV, 4197, 4199), including measures relating to criminal 
trespass provisions applying only within national forests created from 
the public domain (July 18, 1977, p. 23434); admission of States (IV, 
4208); preservation of prehistoric ruins and objects of interest on the 
public domain (IV, 4199); and various classes of land claims (IV, 4203). 
The committee also has jurisdiction over the following bills: to dispose 
of proceeds from oil shale on public lands (other than naval oil shale 
reserves) (Aug. 3, 1967, p. 21179); 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); to reinstate a U.S. 
oil and gas lease (Aug. 5, 1959, p. 15190); to address U.S. claims 


  The authority of the committee to report as privileged bills for the 
forfeiture of land grants to railroad and other corporations, preventing 
speculation in the public lands, for the preservation of the public 
lands for the benefit of actual and bona fide settlers, and 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).

  (n) Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.


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the United States, including their 
compensation, classification, and retirement.


Sec. 732. Oversight and Government Reform.

      (1)  Federal 
civil service, including intergovernmental personnel; and the status of 
officers and employees of 


      (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), in 
the 106th Congress to Government Reform (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 
47), and in the 110th Congress to Oversight and Government Reform (sec. 
215(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19). 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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ments 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 was stricken 
from the jurisdictional statement of this committee in the 104th 
Congress (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464), and the 
National Archives (from the 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 (subpara. (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), was transferred to the 
Committee on the Budget. Three rereferrals from this committee 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 this committee 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. 35572). 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. 
121). 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. 47).

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  In addition to the jurisdiction vested in the Committee by the 
Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812), the Committee 
Reform Amend

  The committee has exercised jurisdiction over bills: waiving 
Reorganization Plans to establish 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. 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. 22085; Oct. 1, 1998, p. 
22933), even if the post office building also houses a courthouse (Sept. 
14, 2000, p. 18054). 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. 23186). This 
committee, and not the Committee on the Judiciary, has jurisdiction over 
a bill authorizing a pay adjustment for administrative law judges (July 
31, 1991, p. 20677; June 10, 1999, p. 12435).




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  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. The committee may authorize the taking of depositions 
pursuant to subpoena (clause 4(c)(3) of rule X). 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). Under section 2954 of title 5, United States Code, an executive 
agency, if so requested by this committee or any seven members thereof, 
shall submit any information requested of it relating to any matter 
within the jurisdiction of the committee.

  (o) 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 paragraph permitting the committee to sit during sessions 
of the House (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). 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).

  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. 14). 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, 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).


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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 (now Ethics) 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 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 


  The jurisdiction of this committee is primarily over propositions to 
make or change the rules (V, 6770, 6776; VII, 2047), to create 
committees (IV, 4322; VII, 2048), and to direct 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). The chair of the 
Committee on the Budget inserted in the Congressional Record a 
memorandum of understanding between this committee and the Committee on 
the Budget to clarify each Committee's jurisdiction over the 
congressional budget process (Jan. 4, 1995, p. 617). The Committee on 
the Budget has primary jurisdiction, and this committee has additional 
jurisdiction, over a bill amending the Budget Act to establish new 
legislative points of order and directing that the President include a 
specified matter in the budget (Feb. 13, 2001, p. 1817).



Sec. 734. Special orders of business.

  Since  1883 the 
Committee on Rules has reported special orders providing times and 
methods for consideration of individual bills or classes of bills, 
thereby enabling the House by majority vote to forward particular 
legislation, instead of being forced to use for this 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 to provide that a subject be made a special order by way of a 
motion to postpone to a day certain (IV, 3164). Before the adoption of 
rules, and consequently before there is a rule as to the order of 
business, the Speaker may recognize a Member to offer for immediate 
consideration a special order providing for the consideration in the 
House of a subsequent resolution to adopt rules for the new Congress (H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 447; H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2007, p. _). 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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tion 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 that 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 mo

  A motion to amend the Rules of the House does not present a question 
of privilege (VIII, 3377, overruling VIII, 3376; see also 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 chair (in the temporary absence of the chair) 
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-
863, infra.

  (p) Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.



Sec. 735. Science, Space, and Technology.

      (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 Energy and 
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(k)). 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 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 (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. 47). The 110th Congress renamed 
the committee as the Committee on Science and Technology (sec. 216(a), 
H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19) and the 112th Congress redesignated it 
the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology (sec. 2(e)(9), H. Res. 
5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. _).


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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 Natural Resources), 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 on Natural 
Resources, and not this committee, has jurisdiction over a bill 
transferring interest in a National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration fisheries research laboratory (Oct. 1, 2002, p. 18796).

  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 

  (q) 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).




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  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 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(l)). 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. 35077). 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. 47).

  (r) 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.

      (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).


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

      (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.

      (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 (except the 
Transportation Security Administration).

      (19) Roads and the safety thereof.

      (20) Transportation, including civil aviation, railroads, water 
transportation, transportation safety (except automobile safety and 
transportation security functions of the Department of Homeland 
Security), transportation infrastructure, transportation labor, and 
railroad retirement and unemployment (except revenue measures related 
thereto).


      (21) Water power.


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in the District of Columbia was transferred 
to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (now Natural 
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; 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 a specific road in a bill providing for 
another specific road or in a general road bill (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
1999, p. 47). In the 109th Congress the House established the Committee 
on Homeland Security (sec. 2(a), H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, p. 42). The 
new committee was given jurisdiction over certain functions of the 
Department of Homeland Security that resulted in two conforming changes 
to this paragraph. For debate (and material submitted during debate) 
that may edify the reader on the jurisdictional issues surrounding the 
creation of that committee, see January 4, 2005, pp. 60 0962.
  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 


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tion 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 Oversight and 
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. 22933) and renaming an existing post office building that 
also housed a courthouse (Sept. 14, 2000, p. 18054). However, this 
committee, and not the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, has 
jurisdiction over a bill redesignating a general-purpose Federal 
building as a post office (Apr. 24, 1997, p. 6291). This committee, and 
not the Committee on Ways and Means, has jurisdiction over a bill 
designating a customs building (Dec. 12, 1995, p. 36165). The Committee 
on Natural 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 Oversight 
and 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. 23186).
  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), 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 Competi

  The committee has shared jurisdiction: with the Committee on Energy 
and Commerce over a bill amending the Solid Waste Disposal Act to 
provide for the cleanup of hazardous waste sites or discharges 
presenting a threat to human health and the environment, including 
navigable waters (Mar. 21, 1984, p. 6186); with the Committee on 
Government Operations (now Oversight and 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).




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  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).

  (s) 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 servicemembers to civil life.

      (7) Servicemembers' civil relief.


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




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  This committee was established January 2, 1947, as a part of the 
Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812), and was vested 
with jurisdiction 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 Natural Resources) in the 90th 
Congress (H. Res. 241, Oct. 20, 1967, p. 29560), a matter now shared 
with the Committee on Armed Services. 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 Servicemembers Civil Relief Act 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. 47). Technical changes to subparagraphs (6) and 
(7) were effected in the 109th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 
2005, p. 44).

  (t) Committee on Ways and Means.



Sec. 741. Ways and Means.

      (1)  Customs revenue, 
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).

  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 Financial Services) (IV, 4020). Its 
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.


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Amendments also transferred 
jurisdiction over general revenue sharing from this committee to the 
Committee on Government Operations (now Oversight and Government 
Reform); however, revenue sharing was stricken from the jurisdictional 
statement of that committee in the 104th Congress (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 
6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464).
  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 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; 
jurisdiction over work incentive programs to the Committee on Education 
and Labor (now Education and the Workforce); and jurisdiction over 
renegotiation to the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs 
(now Financial Services) (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 
34470). The Committee Reform 

  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) 
(formerly 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. 47). In the 109th Congress the House established the Committee 
on Homeland Security (sec. 2(a), H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, p. 42), which 
was given jurisdiction over certain functions of the Department of 
Homeland Security that resulted in a conforming change to this 
paragraph. For debate (and material submitted during debate) that may 
edify the reader on the jurisdictional issues surrounding the creation 
of that committee, see January 4, 2005, pp. 60 0962.

  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 over reported bills 
creating major oil spill and hazardous waste trust funds in the 
Treasury, funded by assessments on all quantities of oil, petrochemical 
feedstocks, and other hazardous substances offered 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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structure, and not this 
committee, has jurisdiction over a bill to designate a customs 
administrative building (Dec. 12, 1995, p. 36165). The Committee on the 
Budget, and not this committee, has jurisdiction over a bill 
establishing a rule of sequestration under the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act (Dec. 15, 2000, p. 27085). The Committee 
on the Budget has primary jurisdiction, and this committee has 
additional jurisdiction, over a bill taking Social Security trust funds 
off budget (Dec. 15, 2000, p. 27085).
  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 compensation 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 Infra

  The committee has exercised jurisdiction, with the Committee on Energy 
and 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 Natural 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--


      (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 
Oversight and 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) review specific problems with Federal rules, regulations, 
statutes, and court decisions that are ambiguous, arbitrary, or 
nonsensical, or that impose severe financial burdens on 
individuals;

      (C) 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;

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

      (E) have a view toward insuring against duplication of Federal 
programs; and

      (F) include proposals to cut or eliminate programs, including 
mandatory spending programs, that are inefficient, duplicative, 
outdated, or more appropriately administered by State or local 
governments.

  (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 Oversight and 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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tion, 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). Oversight responsibilities are also 
contained in section 190d of title 2, United States Code. On January 14, 
1975, the size of those standing committees required by clause 2(b)(2) 
(formerly 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 a 
requirement that representatives from the Committee on Government 
Operations (now Oversight and 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 the 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 session of a Congress its oversight plans for that Congress, such 
plans to be submitted to the Committees on Government Reform and 
Oversight (now Oversight and Government Reform) and House Oversight (now 
House Administration). The 104th Congress also added paragraph (e) (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. 47). Clause 
2(d)(1)(B) was added in the 107th Congress (sec. 2(e), H. Res. 5, Jan. 
3, 2001, p. 25). Clause 2(d)(1)(E) was added in the 109th Congress (sec. 
2(b), H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, pp. 42, 43) and clause 2(d)(1)(F) was 
added in the 112th Congress (sec. 2(c)(11), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 
_). Paragraph (d) was amended in the 110th Congress to reflect a change 
in committee name (sec. 215(b), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19).

Special oversight functions
  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 jurisdic


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States) as it considers necessary to assist it 
in the determination of matters within its jurisdiction.


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 


  (b) 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.

  (c) 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.

  (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 Energy and 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.


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  (f) The Committee on Foreign Affairs 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)(1) The Committee on Homeland Security shall review and study on a 
continuing basis all Government activities relating to homeland 
security, including the interaction of all departments and agencies with 
the Department of Homeland Security.

  (2) In addition, the committee shall review and study on a primary and 
continuing basis all Government activities, programs, and organizations 
related to homeland security that fall within its primary legislative 
jurisdiction.

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

  (i) The Committee on Oversight and 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.

  (j) 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.

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


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


  (m) The Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence shall review and 
study on a continuing basis laws, programs, and activities of the 
intelligence community and shall review and study on an exclusive basis 
the sources and methods of entities described in clause 11(b)(1)(A).


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2005, p. 42). Paragraph (g)(2) was added in the 111th 
Congress (sec. 2(b), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. _).
  The oversight authority conferred on the Committee on Appropriations 
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 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 
(e) (formerly 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 Energy and 
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 Oversight and Government Reform 
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 Natural Resources 
and Energy and Commerce were adopted to reflect the transfer of 
jurisdiction over nonmilitary nuclear energy from the Committee on 
Natural Resources to the Committee on Energy and Commerce (H. Res. 254, 
Nov. 30, 1995, p. 35077). Paragraph (j) 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 (except for paragraphs (g) and (m)) 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. 49; sec. 202(b), 
H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464; H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 1997, p. 121; H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47; H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19; H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 5, 2011, 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 
Oversight and Government Reform and Appropriations found in clause 2 (H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). The oversight authority of the Permanent 
Select Committee on Intelligence in paragraph (m) was added in the 107th 
Congress (sec. 2(f), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 25). The Committee on 
Homeland Security was established in the 109th Congress and given the 
oversight authority set forth in paragraph (g)(1) (sec. 2(a), H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 4, 


Additional functions of committees
  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 on House Administration, to be chaired by the chair 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 chair 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).



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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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 committee 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, 



  (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 
in

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structions 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 Committee 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. 47).

  (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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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. 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) 
(formerly 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. 47).

  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), 




Sec. 747a. Former Select Intelligence Oversight 
Panel.

  A former  subparagraph (5) added in the 110th Congress established a 
Select Intelligence Oversight Panel of the Committee on Appropriations 
to review budget requests for and execution of intelligence activities 
(H. Res. 35, Jan. 9, 2007, p. 567). It was abolished in the 112th 
Congress (sec. 2(e)(10), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. _).


  (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;


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      (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;

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


      (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) 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. 47).



Sec. 749. Oversight and Government Reform.

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



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

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

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


      (2) In addition to its duties under subparagraph (1), the 
Committee on Oversight and 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.


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  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 effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 
988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470). Paragraph (c)(2) was amended in 
the 107th Congress to delete the requirement that committees include 
oversight findings and recommendations by the Committee on Government 
Reform in their reports as was required under the former clause 3(c)(4) 
of rule XIII (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 24). Clerical and 
stylistic changes were effected when the House recodified its rules in 
the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). Under section 2954 
of title 5, United States Code, an executive agency, if so requested by 
this committee or any seven members thereof, shall submit any 
information requested of it relating to any matter within the 
jurisdiction of the committee.



Sec. 749a. Deposition authority.

  (3)(A)  The Committee 
on Oversight and Government Reform may adopt a rule authorizing and 
regulating the taking of depositions by a member or counsel of the 
committee, including pursuant to subpoena under clause 2(m) of rule XI 
(which hereby is made applicable for such purpose).


  (B) A rule adopted by the committee pursuant to this subparagraph--

      (i) may provide that a deponent be directed to subscribe an oath 
or affirmation before a person authorized by law to administer the same;

      (ii) shall ensure that the minority members and staff of the 
committee are accorded equitable treatment with respect to notice of and 
a reasonable opportunity to participate in any proceeding conducted 
thereunder; and

      (iii) shall, unless waived by the deponent, require the attendance 
of a member of the committee.


  (C) Information secured pursuant to the authority described in 
subdivision (A) shall retain the character of discovery until offered 
for admission in evidence before the committee, at which time any proper 
objection shall be timely.


  This subparagraph was added in the 110th Congress (sec. 502, H. Res. 
6, Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19 (adopted Jan. 5, 2007)). Subdivision (A)(iii) was 
added in the 112th Congress (sec. 2(e)(14), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 
_). Other committees have been granted such authority for specific 
investigations (Dec. 5, 2007, p. _; sec. 4(f), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, 
p. _; May 20, 2010, p. _).



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Sec. 750. House Administration.

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




Sec. 752. Direction of officers.

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


  (B) oversee the management of services provided to the House by the 
Architect of the Capitol, except those services that lie within the 
jurisdiction of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure under 
clause 1(r);



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;


  (D) promulgate regulations to carry out subdivision (C); and

  (E) establish and maintain standards for making documents publicly 
available in electronic form by the House and its committees.




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 chair and 
ranking minority member of the Committee on House Administration 
concerning the amount of such payment.



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visions 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 Financial 
Services and to provide for policy direction and oversight of certain 
administrative officials and elected officers. However, in the 107th 
Congress the House amended clause 4(d)(1) of rule X to remove the 
requirement that the committee provide policy direction to such 
officials and officers except the Inspector General (sec. 2(g), H. Res. 
5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 24). The Committee also provides policy review and 
oversight of the Chief Executive Officer for Visitor Services within the 
Office of the Architect of the Capitol (sec. 6701, P.L. 110-28). 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. 463). 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. 
33434). 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. 121). In the 111th Congress a new 
subparagraph (1)(B) was inserted regarding the Architect of the Capitol 
(and existing subparagraphs (1)(B) and (1)(C) were redesignated) (sec. 
2(c), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. _). In the 112th Congress subparagraph 
(E) was added (sec. 2(c), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, 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. 47). The 107th Congress transferred the committee's 
responsibilities with respect to enrolled bills (formerly paragraph 
(d)(1)(A)) to the Clerk (clause 2(d)(2) of rule II) (sec. 2(b), H. Res. 
5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 25).

  The duty of the committee 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 
pro


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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.


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 



  (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. 
47).



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 submission of the budget by the President, or at such 
time as the Committee on the Budget may request--




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year that are within its jurisdiction or functions; and
      (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 

      (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.


  (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 should be set forth in the concurrent resolution on the 
budget.



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rule XXIII (``Statutory Limit on Public Debt'') (sec. 2(s), H. Res. 
5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 24), which was reinstated in the 108th Congress as 
rule XXVII (sec. 2(t), H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 2003, p. 7), renumbered in the 
110th Congress as rule XXVIII (sec. 301, P.L. 110-81), and repealed in 
the 112th Congress (sec. 2(d)(2), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. _). A 
gender-based reference was eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), 
H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. _).

Election and membership of standing committees
  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 were 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 year 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. 47). 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. 
47), 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. 47). Paragraph (f)(2) 
was amended in the 107th Congress to reflect the repeal of former 




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



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  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 resolutions 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) if offered by direction of the 
respective party caucus (a requirement that 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, ch. 17, Sec. 9. In the 
99th Congress the requirement for 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). 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. 47).



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 from the Committee 
on Appropriations, five from the Committee on Ways and Means, and one 
from the Committee on Rules;

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

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

  (B) Except as permitted by subdivision (C), a member of the Committee 
on the Budget other than one described in subdivision (A)(ii) or 
(A)(iii) 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).


  (C) A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may exceed the 
limitation of subdivision (B) if elected to serve a second consecutive 
Congress as the chair or a second consecutive Congress as the ranking 
minority member.


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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 the 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 a third term on the 
committee to serve one additional term on the committee 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 chair or as ranking minority 
member during a fourth such Congress may serve in either capacity during 
a fifth, so long as not thereby exceeding two consecutive terms as chair 
or as ranking minority member (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 
464). 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. 47). The 
special tenure limitation for the chair and ranking minority member was 
replaced in the 108th Congress with a provision subjecting the chair 
only to the overall tenure limitation that applies to all standing 
committee chairs (sec. 2(e-1), H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 2003, p. 7). This 
provision was replaced in the 111th Congress with an exception to the 
tenure limitation for the second consecutive Congress in which a chair 
or ranking minority member serves (sec. 2(d), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, 
p. _). In the 109th Congress subdivisions (A)(ii) and (A)(iii) were 
amended to address a member designated by the elected leadership as 
opposed to a member of the elected leadership of each party, and a 
conforming change was made to subdivision (B) (sec. 2(c), H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 4, 2005, p. 43).
  This paragraph (formerly 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 chair who 
had served on the committee for three Congresses and as chair for not 
more than one Congress to be eligible for reelection as chair 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 

  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). In the 
99th Congress, the House amended this paragraph to remove any numerical 
limitation on the membership of the committee (H. Res. 7, Jan. 3, 1985, 
p. 393). In the 108th Congress the composition of the committee was 
changed to require inclusion of one member from the Committee on Rules 
(sec. 2(e), H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 2003, p. 7).


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  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. 47).



Sec. 759. Committee on Ethics.

  (3)(A)  The Committee on 
Ethics 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 Ethics 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 Ethics may serve on the committee 
during a fourth Congress in a period of five successive Congresses only 
as either the chair or the ranking minority member of the committee.

  (4)(A) At the beginning of a Congress, the Speaker or a designee and 
the Minority Leader or a designee each shall name 10 Members, Delegates, 
or the Resident Commissioner from the respective party of such 
individual who are not members of the Committee on Ethics 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.


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bers, Delegates, or 
Resident Commissioner from the respective party of such individual to 
serve on that subcommittee.

  (B) Whenever the chair and the ranking minority member of the 
Committee on Ethics 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 Mem


  Before the 93d Congress, the rule that established the size of the 
Committee on Ethics (formerly Standards of Official Conduct) at 12 
members also required that its membership be equally divided between the 
parties. Effective in the 93d Congress, the ratio of the committee was 
codified in the first sentence of subparagraph (3)(A) (formerly 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. 19336; H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, 
p. 47). 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. 19336), but was deleted in the 106th Congress (H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). Subparagraph (4) (formerly clause 6(a)(3)) was 
adopted in the 105th Congress (sec. 1, H. Res. 168, Sept. 18, 1997, p. 
19335). The 106th Congress 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. 47). Gender-based references were 
eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 
_). This subparagraph was amended in the 112th Congress to reflect a 
change in committee name (sec. 2(e)(8), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, 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. 47).


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basis of nomination by that caucus or conference. 
The chair 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 
chair of each affected committee that the election of such Member, 
Delegate, or Resident Commissioner to the committee is automatically 
vacated under this subparagraph.


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 
elected on the 


  (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.

  (B)(i) Ex officio service by a chair 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 
Ethics under paragraph (a)(4) does not count against the limitation on 
subcommittee service.

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


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other subunit of a 
standing committee that is established for a cumulative period longer 
than six months in a Congress.

  (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 

  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 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 Ethics (formerly 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. 19335). A 
technical correction was effected in the 106th and 112th Congresses to 
conform references to a renamed committee (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 
47; H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. _). A technical correction to paragraph 
(b)(2)(B)(iii) was effected in the 109th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 4, 2005, p. 44). Gender-based references were eliminated in the 
111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. _).


  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. 16586; Feb. 1, 2000, p. 401; Sept. 13, 2000, p. 
17832). The Speaker also lays before the House a communication from a 
Member announcing a change in party affiliation (Sept. 13, 2000, p. 
17832). On one occasion there was a delay in laying the latter 
communication before the House, and the House by unanimous consent 
retroactively changed informational voting records from the date on the 
communication (Sept. 13, 2000, p. 17832). Instance where a Member 
submitted his resignation from a committee on grounds of disqualifying 
personal interest (VIII, 3074). The earlier practice was for the 
minority party to handle committee assignments for third-party Members 
(VIII, 2184-2185). In the latter practice, a major party takes that 
responsibility by separate resolution (see, e.g., H. Res. 45, Jan. 24, 
1991, p. 2171).


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chair. Rank 
shall be determined by the order members are named in resolutions 
electing them to the committee. In the case of a vacancy in the elected 
chair of a committee, the House shall elect another chair.


Sec. 761. Committee chairs.

  (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 chair thereof. In the 
absence of the member serving as chair, the member next in rank (and so 
on, as often as the case shall happen) shall act as 



  (2) Except in the case of the Committee on Rules, a member of a 
standing committee may not serve as chair 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 chairs 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). A provision 
addressing temporary and permanent vacancies in chairs was adopted on 
April 5, 1911 (VIII, 2201), and was continued in the Legislative 
Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812), but the 111th Congress 
deleted such references when clarifying the devolution of authority in 
case of absence or vacancy (sec. 2(m), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. _). 
The 104th Congress adopted a limitation on terms for committee and 
subcommittee chairs (sec. 103(b), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 462). The 
109th Congress excepted the Committee on Rules from that limitation 
(sec. 2(c), H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, p. 43). The 111th Congress repealed 
the limitation (sec. 2(d), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. _) and the 112th 
Congress restored it (sec. 2(e)(12), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. _). 
Gender-based references were eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 
2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. _). 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. 47).


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having resigned as chair of 
a committee, could be reinstated in that role (Mar. 3, 2010, p. _). A 
Member may resign the role of acting chair (Mar. 4, 2010, p. _), in 
which case the member third in rank assumes the role of acting chair 
(Mar. 4, 2010, p. _).

  In the 102d Congress a resolution included as a matter properly 
incidental to its election of the chair of a standing committee a 
proviso that his powers and duties be exercised by the vice chair 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 
chair to exercise the powers and duties of a chair of a standing 
committee until otherwise ordered by the House (H. Res. 396, Mar. 23, 
1994, p. 6093). Upon the resignation of a chair, the acting chair 
assumes that role without further action of the House (Mar. 3, 2010, p. 
_). The Chair has refused to respond to a parliamentary inquiry seeking 
hypothetical guidance on how a Member, 



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 Oversight and 
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. 
47). In the 110th Congress it was amended to reflect a change in the 
name of a committee (sec. 215(e), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19). 
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. 47).


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to have not more 
than six during the 108th and 109th Congresses and not more than seven 
during the 110th through 112th Congresses (sec. 3(b), H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 
2003, p. 11; sec. 3(b), H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, p. 44; sec. 511(b), H. 
Res. 6, Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19 (adopted Jan. 5, 2007); sec. 3(a)(1), H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. _; sec. 3(k), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. _). 
In the 108th Congress the Committee on Appropriations reorganized its 
subcommittees to reflect the creation of the new Department on Homeland 
Security (P.L 107-296) by creating a new subcommittee on Homeland 
Security and combining the subcommittees on Transportation and Treasury, 
Postal Service and General Government. That committee reduced the number 
of its subcommittees to 10 in the 109th Congress, and increased it to 12 
in the 110th Congress. In each case, the committee's reorganization was 
in compliance with this clause.

  Notwithstanding clause 5(d), the Committee on Oversight and Government 
Reform was permitted to have not more than eight subcommittees during 
the 106th and 107th Congresses (sec. 2(d), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 
47; sec. 3(c), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 26); the Committee on Foreign 
Affairs was permitted to have not more than six during the 107th and 
108th Congresses and not more than seven during the 109th through 112th 
Congresses (sec. 3(c), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 26; sec. 3(b), H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 7, 2003, p. 11; sec. 3(b), H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, p. 44; 
sec. 511(b), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19 (adopted Jan. 5, 2007); sec. 
3(b), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. _; sec. 3(k), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, 
p. _); the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure was permitted 
to have not more than six during the 107th through 112th Congresses 
(sec. 3(c), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 26; sec. 3(b), H. Res. 5, Jan. 
7, 2003, p. 11; sec. 3(b), H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, p. 44; sec. 511(b), 
H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19 (adopted Jan. 5, 2007); sec. 3(b), H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. _; sec. 3(k), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. _); 
and the Committee on Armed Services was permitted 


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

  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, 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. 47).



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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 the party caucus as ``temporary'' (in order 
to avoid caucus limitations on committee assignments) (Feb. 5, 1991, p. 
2814).

Expense resolutions
  Form of resolution electing a Member to a committee and fixing 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 



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


      (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


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mittee, commission, 
or other entity as may be appropriate to provide the House with basic 
estimates of the expenditures contemplated by the primary expense 
resolution.
      (2) to the extent practicable, contain such general statements 
regarding the estimated foreseeable expenditures for the respective 
anticipated activities and programs of the com



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--


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

      (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.


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  (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



      (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.


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to permit a primary 
expense resolution to include a reserve fund for unanticipated expenses 
of committees (H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 1997, p. 121). 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. 47). 
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. 47).
  Paragraphs (a)-(c) of this clause were contained originally in section 
110(b) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 (84 Stat. 1140) and 
were 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 

  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. 1108). 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(k)(1) of rule X'') was held not to be subject to a 
point of order under clause 5(a) of rule XI (now clause 6(a) of this 
rule) for lack of report language detailing the funding provided, 
because the resolution was called up at the beginning of the session 
before consideration of a primary expense resolution for all committees 
for that calendar year (Feb. 5, 1992, p. 1621).




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



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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. 47). A gender-based 
reference was eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 6, 2009, p. _).

  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 chair 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 
adopted in the 92d Congress, the paragraph required that the minority be 
accorded fair consideration in the appointment of committee staff (H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 22, 1971, p. 144). 


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


Interim funding
  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. 47).



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.

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

      (1) a resolution proposing to reestablish such select committee is 
introduced in the present Congress; and


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      (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 clause shall be made on vouchers authorized by 
the committee involved, signed by the chair of the committee, except as 
provided in paragraph (e), and approved by the Committee on House 
Administration.

  (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 clause shall be made on vouchers signed by 
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 
clause shall expire upon adoption by the House of a primary expense 
resolution for the committee.

  (2) Amounts made available under this clause shall be expended in 
accordance with regulations prescribed by the Committee on House 
Administration.


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ported by the Committee on House 
Administration and adopted by the House after the adoption of these 
rules.

  (3) This clause shall be effective only insofar as it is not 
inconsistent with a resolution re

  This clause (formerly 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. 47). Clerical corrections 
were effected in the 107th Congress (sec. 2(x), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, 
p. 24). Paragraph (e) was simplified and a gender-based reference was 
eliminated in the 111th Congress (secs. 2(l), 2(m), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 
2009, p. _). Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th 
Congress, this provision was found in former clause 5(f) of rule XI (H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).


Travel
  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). The House by unanimous consent has agreed to a resolution 
providing funding for interim expenses of a new select committee (Feb. 
13, 2003, p. 3793) and a new standing committee (Jan. 4, 2005, p. 71).


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ees in a country where local currencies are available for 
this purpose.


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 clause 6, may not be expended for the 
purpose of defraying expenses of members of a committee or its 
employ


  (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 the expenses of 
such individual for a day at the lesser of--

          (A) the per diem set forth in applicable Federal law; or

          (B) the actual, unreimbursed expenses (other than for 
transportation) incurred during that day.


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Sec. 770. Travel reports.

      (3)  Each member or employee of 
a committee shall make to the chair 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 chair 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 the expenses of such 
individual for a day, at the lesser of--

      (A) the per diem set forth in applicable Federal law; or

      (B) the actual unreimbursed expenses (other than for 
transportation) 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.


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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 
former rule XXV (redesignated as rule XXIV in the 107th Congress) (H. 
Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). Clerical corrections were effected and 
gender-based references were eliminated in the 111th Congress (secs. 
2(l), 2(m), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. _).
  Before the adoption of this clause (formerly 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 its 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 


Committee staffs
  Under section 502(b) of the Mutual Security Act of 1954 (22 U.S.C. 
1754(b)), 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 chair 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.



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. Each professional 
staff <> member appointed under this 
subparagraph shall be assigned to the chair and the ranking minority 
member of the committee, as the committee considers advisable.



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lect 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.



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 Ethics or the Permanent Se



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Jan. 14, 1975, p. 20). 
The requirement added in 1975 that staff positions made available to 
subcommittee chairs 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 
Ethics (formerly 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). A gender-based reference was eliminated in the 111th 
Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. _). Subparagraph (2) 
was amended in the 112th Congress to reflect a change in committee name 
(sec. 2(e)(8), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, 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. 47).
  This clause (formerly 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, 

  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--



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      (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)(A) 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 chair 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 XXIII.



  (B) The use of any ``associate'' or ``shared'' staff by a committee 
other than the Committee on Appropriations 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.


  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). Technical corrections were 
effected in the 104th Congress (H. Res. 254, Nov. 30, 1995, p. 35077); 
in the 106th Congress, which conformed references to a renamed committee 
(H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47); in the 107th Congress, which conformed 
references to a redesignated rule (sec. 2(s), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, 
p. 24); and in the 108th Congress, which confined the exception for the 
Committee on Appropriations to subparagraph (B), rather than to the 
entire paragraph (sec. 2(f), H. Res. 5, Jan. 7, 2003, p. 7). A gender-
based reference was eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 
5, Jan. 6, 2009, 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. 47).


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single gross per annum rate, to be fixed by the chair and that 
does not exceed the maximum rate of pay as in effect from time to time 
under applicable provisions of law.



Sec. 777. Pay.

  (c)  Each employee on the professional or 
investigative staff of a standing committee shall be entitled to pay at 
a 



  This provision (formerly 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 law (5 U.S.C. 
5332(a)(1)), 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). A gender-based 
reference was eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, 
Jan. 6, 2009, 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. 47).




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.



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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 
XI (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).

  This paragraph (formerly 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. 




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. 47).


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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 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(k)(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 

  (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 clause 6(a), 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.


  (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.


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to paragraph (f) were effected in the 109th and 
112th Congresses (sec. 2(a), H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, p. 42; sec. 
2(e)(8), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. _).

  Paragraphs (f)-(h) (formerly 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. 121). 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. 47). A clerical correction was effected in the 
107th Congress (sec. 2(x), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 24), and 
conforming changes 




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) (formerly 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. 47).


Select and joint committees


Sec. 781. Former 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) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 
1945, was deleted; that clause required committees to report 
semiannually to the Clerk on the names, professions, and salaries of 
committee employees.



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gate, 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 assigned. The chair 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 chair 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.



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, Dele



  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). Gender-based references were eliminated in 
the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. _). 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. 47).




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. 
47). 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).


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lect committee on aging. That provision was stricken in the 103d 
Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 1993, p. 49).

Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence


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 
se




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 20 Members, 
Delegates, or the Resident Commissioner, of whom not more than 12 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 Foreign Affairs; and

      (D) the Committee on the Judiciary.

  (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 and 
may not be counted for purposes of determining a quorum thereof.


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  (3) The Speaker and Minority Leader each may designate a respective 
leadership staff member to assist in the capacity of the Speaker or 
Minority Leader 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) In the case of a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner 
appointed to serve as the chair or the ranking minority member of the 
select committee, tenure on the select committee shall not be limited.

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

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

      (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.


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

          (i) The Central Intelligence Agency, the Director of National 
Intelligence, and the National 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).

  (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 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 chair of the select committee.


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  (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.

  (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 consistent with paragraph (g) to 
protect national security.


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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.
  (2) The select committee shall obtain annual reports from the Director 
of National Intelligence, 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 

  (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.


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  (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 Ethics and of 
the select committee concerning the security of classified information 
during and after the period of the employment or contractual agreement 
of such employee or person with the select committee; and

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


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sure of classified information clearly 
outweighs any infringement on the privacy of a person.
  (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 disclo

  (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.

  (2)(A) In a case in which the select committee votes to disclose 
publicly any information that has been classified under established 
security 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.


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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.
  (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 the President objects to the 
disclosure of such information, provides reasons therefor, and certifies 
that the 

  (C) If the President, personally in writing, notifies the select 
committee of 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.

  (D) Whenever the select committee votes to refer the question of 
disclosure of any information to the House under subdivision (C), the 
chair 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 chair 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.


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division (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?''.
  (F) Upon adoption by the House of a motion to resolve into closed 
session as described in sub

  (G) Debate on the question described in subdivision (F) shall be 
limited to two hours equally divided and controlled by the chair 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).


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tion 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.
  (B) The select committee shall, under such regulations as it may 
prescribe, make informa

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


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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.
  (5) Upon the request of a person who is subject to an investigation 
described in subparagraph (4), the Committee on Ethics 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 Ethics 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 

  (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.

  (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 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:

      (1) The activities of the Director of National Intelligence and 
the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

      (2) The activities of the Central Intelligence Agency.

      (3) The activities of the Defense Intelligence Agency.


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      (4) The activities of the National Security Agency.

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

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

      (7) The intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the 
Federal Bureau of Investigation.

      (8) The intelligence and intelligence-related activities of all 
other departments and agencies of the executive branch.

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

      (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 the collection, analysis, production, 
dissemination, or use of such information;

      (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;


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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
      (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 

      (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.

  (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.


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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); (7) to limit the size of the panel to 16, with no 
more than nine members from the same party; to set the tenure limitation 
at four Congresses within a period of six Congresses, with exceptions 
for ongoing service as chair or ranking minority member; to make the 
Speaker (rather than the Majority Leader) an ex officio member of the 
panel (as opposed to former free access to its meetings and 
information); and to conform references to renamed committees (sec. 221, 
H. Res. 6, 104th Cong., Jan. 4, 1995, p. 469); (8) to make certain 
conforming changes (Budget Enforcement Act of 1997, sec. 10104, P.L. 
105-33; H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47); (9) to increase the size of the 
committee to not more than 18 members, of whom not more than 10 shall be 
of the same political party (sec. 2(h), H. Res. 5, 107th Cong., Jan. 3, 
2001, p. 25); (10) to make a clerical correction in a cross reference 
(sec. 2(x), H. Res. 5, 107th Cong., Jan. 3, 2001, p. 26); (11) to remove 
the tenure limitation for the chair and ranking minority member (sec. 
2(e-1), H. Res. 5, 108th Cong., Jan. 7, 2003, p. 7); (12) to increase 
the size of the committee to not more than 21 members, of whom not more 
than 12 shall be of the same political party (H. Res. 51, 109th Cong., 
Jan. 26, 2005, p. 826); (13) to conform references to a renamed 
committee (sec. 213(c), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19); (14) to conform 
jurisdictional statements to changes in the intelligence community (sec. 
504, H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 2007, p. 19 (adopted Jan. 5, 2007)); (15) to 
eliminate gender-based references (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, 
p. _); (16) to increase the size of the committee to not more than 22 
members, of whom not more than 13 shall be of the same political party 
(H. Res. 97, 111th Cong., Jan. 28, 2009, p. _); (17) to conform 
references to a renamed committee and to reduce the size of the 
committee to not more than 20 members, of whom not more than 12 shall be 
of the same political party (secs. 2(e)(8), 2(e)(11), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 
2011, 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. 47). By order of the House, the size of the committee 
was increased for the 107th Congress to not more than 20 members, of 
whom not more than 11 shall be of the same political party (Jan. 6, 
2001, p. 25). The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 
2004 (P.L. 108-458) reorganized the intelligence community.


Sec. 786. Membership, 
administration, jurisdiction.

  This clause (formerly 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 committee from 13 to 14 
members (H. Res. 70, 96th Cong., Jan. 25, 1979, p. 1023); (2) to conform 
references to a renamed 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 



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the requisite number under the 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); (3) paragraph 
(d) (formerly clause 4) was amended to provide the 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); (4) paragraph (b)(1) (formerly clause 
2(a)) was amended to clarify jurisdiction over the National Foreign 
Intelligence Program and the tactical intelligence and intelligence-
related activities of the Department of Defense and paragraph (a)(3) 
(formerly clause 1(b)) was added to clarify staffing arrangements for 
the Speaker and the Minority Leader as ex officio members (sec. 221, H. 
Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 469).
  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 committee (H. Res. 
5, Jan. 15, 1979, pp. 7-16); (2) paragraph (d) (formerly 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 committee to vote to go 
into executive session if a majority of the members present, there being 
in attendance 

  The resolution creating the 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 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 committee has shared 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 and Foreign Affairs 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 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 (formerly rule XXIX) (Feb. 25, 
1980, p. 3618).


 end segment .007 segment .008 -- rule XI

  In the 107th Congress the committee was given oversight authority 
described in clause 3(m) of rule X (sec. 2(f), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, 
p. 25).