    [Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 113th Congress]
    [113rd Congress]
    [House Document 112-161]
    [Rules of the House of Representatives]
    [Pages 432-544]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                     Rule X

    Committees and their legislative jurisdictions
                           organization of committees

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    those committees, in accordance with clause 2 of rule XII, as follows:

    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

      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).

      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 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).

      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).

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      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, however, is
    accomplished by unanimous consent (see Procedure, ch. 17, Sec. Sec. 17-
    38).

      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 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).

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      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.

          (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.

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          (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).

      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 jurisdiction 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 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).

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    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 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

      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).

      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 appropriation measures
    (VII, 1741).

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      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).

      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 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).

      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).

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    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.

          (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.

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          (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.

      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 of a redundant undesignated recitation of a
    special oversight function (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47).

      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. _).

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    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 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 to individuals (Feb. 22, 1982, p. 1812);

      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.

    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 levels of budget totals for the United States Government.

          (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.

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    composition (current clause 5(a)(2) of rule X (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999,
    p. 47)).
      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

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    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 sequestration 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

      (e) Committee on Education and the Workforce.

          (1) Child labor.

    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.

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    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 again as the Committee on
    Education and the Workforce in the 112th Congress (sec. 2(e)(7), H. Res.
    5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. _).
      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.

      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 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).

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    over a bill amending the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to address
    only private-sector employees (Oct. 30, 2007, p. 28651).

      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

      (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.

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

          (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.

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          (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.

      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 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).

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    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 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

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    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 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

      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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    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
    jurisdiction 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-

      (g) Committee on Ethics.

          The Code of Official Conduct.

    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 devolving 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. _).

      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.

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      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).

      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 allowances and franking, casework considerations,
    campaign financing and practices, and involvement with official and
    unofficial organizations.

    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.

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          (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.

          (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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    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 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,

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    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).

      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).

      (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.

          (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.

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          (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).

      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 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).

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    national 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).
      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, inter

      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 exercised 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 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, administration, and general management 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).

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              (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). Subparagraph (2) was amended in the 113th
    Congress to include general management of the department (sec. 2(c), H.
    Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2013, p. _). 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. 60-62. 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).

    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
    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.

      (k) Committee on House Administration.

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    gates, the Resident Commissioner, officers, and administrative offices
    of the House.

    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, Dele

          (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.

          (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.

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          (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.

      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), 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).

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    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).

      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

    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).

      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.

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    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 has jurisdiction over measures relating to the election
    of the President, Vice President, or Members of Congress; corrupt
    practices;

      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.

          (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.

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          (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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      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 subversive 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.
    60-62. In the 109th Congress the House added subparagraph (7) (sec.
    2(a)(2), H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 2005, p. 42).

      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).

      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),
    removal 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 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).

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    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).
      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.

      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.

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          (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 areas 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.

          (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.

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          (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).

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

      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.

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    tions 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. The 113th Congress amended subparagraph (9)
    by changing ``insular possessions'' to ``insular areas'' (sec. 2(c), H.
    Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2013, p. _). 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 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 func

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    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 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,

      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.

    Sec. 732. Oversight and Government Reform.

          (1)  Federal
    civil service, including intergovernmental personnel; and the status of
    officers and employees of the United States, including their
    compensation, classification, and retirement.

          (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.

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          (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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    ing 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).
      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, 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 exclud

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    for administrative law judges (July 31, 1991, p. 20677; June 10, 1999,
    p. 12435).
      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

      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).

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    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).
      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

      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 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).

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      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. 7). A special
    order reported by the Committee on Rules must be agreed to by a majority
    vote of the House (IV, 3169).

      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 motion to rescind a special order is not privileged under the
    rules regulating the order of business (IV, 3173, 3174; V, 5323).

      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.

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          (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.

          (12) Outer space, including exploration and control thereof.

          (13) Science scholarships.

          (14) Scientific research, development, and demonstration, and
    projects therefor.

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    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. _).
      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

      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 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).

      (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.

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          (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).

      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.

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          (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).

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

          (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).

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          (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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    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-
    62.
      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 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), (5)-(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

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      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 Competition 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 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).

      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.

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          (7) Servicemembers' civil relief.

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

      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.

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    payroll deductions and except work incentive programs).

          (9) National social security (except health care and facilities
    programs that are supported from general revenues as opposed to

      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.

      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 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).

      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. 60-62.

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    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).
      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

      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 Infrastructure, 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).

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      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

          (2) its formulation, consideration, and enactment of changes in
    Federal laws, and of such additional legislation as may be necessary or
    appropriate.

      (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;

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    ities for the administration and execution of laws and programs
    addressing subjects within its jurisdiction;
          (B) the organization and operation of Federal agencies and
    entities having responsibil

          (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.

    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 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.

      (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.

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    on House Administration. In developing its plan each committee shall, to
    the maximum extent feasible--
      (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

          (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;

          (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

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          (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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    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 jurisdiction, were originally contained in section 118(b) of
    the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 (84 Stat. 1140) and were 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

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

      (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.

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    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.
      (d) The Committee on Education and the Workforce shall review, study,
    and coordinate on

      (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.

      (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.

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      (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.

      (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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    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, 2005, p. 42). Paragraph (g)(2) was added
    in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(b), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7).
      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

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    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.

    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, 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.

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    of the committee and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate in
    accordance with such procedures as the two committees jointly may
    determine.

      (D) A hearing under subdivision (A), or any part thereof, may be held
    before a joint meeting

    -  (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
    instructions 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.

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      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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    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), 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-

    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;

          (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;

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

          (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--

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

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

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          (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.

      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--

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

          (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. 32250; sec. 4(f), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6,
    2009, p. 10; May 20, 2010, p. _).

    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;

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      (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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    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. 7). 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
    provisions 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

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    tality 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 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 instrumen-

      (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--

          (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
    year that are within its jurisdiction or functions; and

          (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.

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    graph (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.

      (2) The views and estimates submitted by the Committee on Ways and
    Means under subpara

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    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 Committee on
    the Budget 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 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. 7).

    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.

      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:

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    Committee on Appropriations, five from the Committee on Ways and Means,
    and one from the Committee on Rules;
          (i) Members, Delegates, or the Resident Commissioner who are
    members of other standing committees, including five from the

          (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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    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. 7). 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 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 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).

      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.

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    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).
      (B) Except as permitted by subdivision (C), a member of the Committee
    on Ethics may not

      (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.

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

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    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. 7). 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).

      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

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    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 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

      (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.

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

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    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. 7).
      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

      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). On some occasions, the majority party takes that
    responsibility by separate resolution (see, e.g., H. Res. 45, Jan. 24,
    1991, p. 2171).

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    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 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.

      (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. 9).
    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. 7) 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. 7). 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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      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, 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. _).

    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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    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. 9;
    sec. 3(k), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. _; sec. 3(f), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3,
    2013, 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.

      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 113th
    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. 9; sec. 3(k), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011,
    p. _; sec. 3(f), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2013, p. _); the Committee on
    Transportation and Infrastructure was permitted to have not more than
    six during the 107th through 113th 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. 9; sec. 3(k), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. _; sec. 3(f), H. Res. 5,
    Jan. 3, 2013, p. _); and the Committee on Armed Services was permitted
    to have not more than six during the 108th and 109th Congresses and not
    more than seven during the 110th through 113th Congresses (sec. 3(b), H.
    Res. 5, Jan. 7, 2003, p. 11; sec. 3(b), H. Res. 5,

      (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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    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
    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

    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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    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 committee, commission, or
    other entity as may be appropriate to provide the House with basic

    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.

      (c) The preceding provisions of this clause do not apply to--

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    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

    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

          (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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      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 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).

      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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      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). 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.
    7).

      (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

          (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.

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    the Committee on House Administration) of the total annualized amount
    made available under expense resolutions for such committee in the
    preceding session of Congress.
      (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

      (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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      (3) This clause shall be effective only insofar as it is not
    inconsistent with a resolution reported by the Committee on House
    Administration and adopted by the House after the adoption of these
    rules.

      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. 7). 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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    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 employees
    in a country where local currencies are available for this purpose.

      (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.

    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.

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    ber 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.
      (c)(1) In carrying out the activities of a committee outside the
    United States in a country where local currencies are unavailable, a mem

      (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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    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. 7).
      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 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

    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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    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 Select Committee on
    Intelligence) so request, not more than 10 persons (or one-third of the
    total professional committee staff appointed under

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    tional 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. 7). 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, 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 addi

      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--

          (A) may not engage in any work other than committee business
    during congressional working hours; and

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          (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. 7). 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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    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 single gross per annum rate, to be fixed by the chair and that does
    not exceed the maximum

      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. 7). 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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    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. 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

    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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      (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 of the minority party members shall designate which of those
    persons shall fill the vacancy.

      (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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      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 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. _).

    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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    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, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner
    concerned was a member at the time of appointment. Should a Member,
    Delegate, or Resident Commissioner

      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. 7). 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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    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
    select committee on aging. That provision was stricken in the 103d
    Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 1993, p. 49).

    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.

      (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.

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    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).
      (4)(A) Except as permitted by subdivision (B), a Member, Delegate, or
    Resident Commissioner,

      (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.

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

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

              (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.

      (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.

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    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.
      (4) Nothing in this clause shall be construed as amending, limiting,
    or otherwise changing the authority of a standing committee to obtain
    full

      (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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    sons 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 the discretion of the select committee.
    Nothing herein shall be construed as requiring the public disclosure in
    such reports of the names of per

      (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.

      (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.

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    committee, may not be given access to any classified information by the
    select committee unless such employee or person has--
      (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

          (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.

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

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    termination 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--
      (g)(1) The select committee may disclose publicly any information in
    its possession after a de

          (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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      (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 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.

      (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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    sion, 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 subdivision (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 ses

      (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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    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 information described in subdivision (A) available to a
    committee or a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner, and permit a
    Member, Delegate,

      (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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    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 findings to the House and recommend
    appropriate action. Recommendations may include censure, removal from
    committee membership,

      (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.

          (4) The activities of the National Security Agency.

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          (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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    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 United States abroad
    whose political and related activities pose, or may be considered by a
    department, agency, bureau, office, division,

          (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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    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. 7); (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.
    1946); (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 could be of the same political party
    (Jan. 6, 2001, p. 25), and for the 113th Congress to not more than 21
    members (Feb. 13, 2013, p. _). 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 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

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    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 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.

      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 electronic surveillance of foreign intelligence (Nov. 4,
    1977, p. 37070) and 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 has 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).

      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).