    [United States Senate Manual, 104th Congress]
    [S. Doc. 104-1]
    [Non-statutory Standing Orders and Regulations Affecting the Business of the Senate]
    [Pages 143-145]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

         79.17                 COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS\1\

                    Sec. 105. (a)(1) There is established a temporary Select
                Committee on Indian Affairs (hereafter in this section
                referred to as the ``select committee'') which shall consist
                of seven\2\ members, four to be appointed by the President
                of the Senate, upon the recommendation of the majority
                leader, from among members of the majority party and three
                to be appointed by the President of the Senate, upon the
                recommendation of the minority leader, from among the
                members of the minority party. The select committee shall
                select a chairman from among its members.
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                    \1\Name changed from ``Select Committee on Indian
                Affairs'' by provision of S. Res. 71, 103-1, Feb. 24, 1993.
                    \2\See paragraph 3(c) of rule XXV of the Standing Rules,
                Senate Manual section 25.3c, for current membership.
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                    (2) A majority of the members of the committee shall
                constitute a quorum thereof for the transaction of business,
                except that the select committee may fix a lesser number as
                a quorum for the purpose of taking testimony. The select
                committee shall adopt rules of procedure not inconsistent
                with this section and the rules of the Senate governing
                standing committees of the Senate.
                    (3) Vacancies in the membership of the select committee
                shall not affect the authority of the remaining members to
                execute the functions of the select committee.

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                    (4) For purposes of paragraph 4\3\ of rule XXV of the
                Standing Rules of the Senate, service of a Senator as a
                member or chairman of the select committee shall not be
                taken into account.
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                    \3\Changed from ``paragraph 6'' as a result of the
                adoption of S. Res. 274, 96-1, Nov. 14, 1979.
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                    (b)(1) All proposed legislation, messages, petitions,
                memorials, and other matters relating to Indian affairs
                shall be referred to the select committee.
                    (2) It shall be the duty of the select committee to
                conduct a study of any and all matters pertaining to
                problems and opportunities of Indians, including but not
                limited to, Indian land management and trust
                responsibilities, Indian education, health, special
                services, and loan programs, and Indian claims against the
                United States.
                    (3) The select committee shall from time to time report
                to the Senate, by bill or otherwise, its recommendations
                with respect to matters referred to the select committee or
                otherwise within its jurisdiction.
                    (c)(1) For the purposes of this section, the select
                committee is authorized, in its discretion, (A) to make
                investigations into any matter within its jurisdiction, (B)
                to make expenditures from the contingent fund of the Senate,
                (C) to employ personnel, (D) to hold hearings, (E) to sit
                and act at any time or place during the sessions, recesses,
                and adjourned periods of the Senate, (F) to require, by
                subpena or otherwise, the attendance of witnesses and the
                production of correspondence, books, papers, and documents,
                (G) to take depositions and other testimony, (H) to procure
                the services of individual consultants or organizations
                thereof, in accordance with the provisions of section 202(i)
                of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, and (I) with
                the prior consent of the Government department or agency
                concerned and the Committee on Rules and Administration, to
                use on a reimbursable basis the services of personnel of any
                such department or agency.
                    (2) The chairman of the select committee or any member
                thereof may administer oaths to witnesses.
                    (3) Subpenas authorized by the select committee may be
                issued over the signature of the chairman, or any member of
                the select committee designated by the chairman, and may be
                served by any person designated by the chairman or the
                member signing the subpena.

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                    (d) The select committee shall cease to exist on January
                2, 1984,\1\ and effective on January 3, 1984, jurisdiction
                over the matters specified in subsection (b)(1) and the duty
                specified in subsection (b)(2) are transferred to the
                Committee on Labor and Human Resources.\1\
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                    \1\The Senate, by unanimous consent, Nov. 18, 1983,
                provided for the continuation of the select committee with
                all of its jurisdictional responsibilities until July 1,
                1984. S. Res. 127, agreed to June 6, 1984, established the
                Select Committee on Indian Affairs as a permanent committee
                of the Senate.
                    \1\Name changed from Committee on Human Resources by S.
                Res. 30, 96-1, Mar. 7, 1979.
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                [Sec. 105 of S. Res. 4, 95-1, Feb. 4, 1977; S. Res. 405, 95-
                2, Oct. 15, 1978; S. Res. 448, 96-2, Dec. 11, 1980; Cong.
                Rec., Nov. 18, 1983; S. Res. 127, 98-2, June 6, 1984.]