    [United States Senate Manual, 104th Congress]
    [S. Doc. 104-1]
    [Non-statutory Standing Orders and Regulations Affecting the Business of the Senate]
    [Pages 141-143]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

         79.16                   SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON AGING

                    Sec. 104. (a)(1) There is established a Special
                Committee on Aging (hereafter in this section referred to as
                the ``special committee'') which shall consist of
                nineteen\2\ members. The members and chairman of the special
                committee shall be appointed in the same manner and at the
                same time as the members and chairman of a standing
                committee of the Senate. After the date on which the
                majority and minority members of the special committee are
                initially appointed on or after the effective date of title
                I of the Committee System Reorganization Amendments of 1977,
                each

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                time a vacancy occurs in the membership of the special
                committee, the number of members of the special committee
                shall be reduced by one until the number of members of the
                special committee consists of nine Senators.
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                    \2\See paragraph 3(b) of rule XXV of the Standing Rules,
                Senate Manual section 25.3b for current membership.
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                    (2)\3\ For purposes of paragraph 1 of rule XXV;
                paragraphs 1, 7(a)(1)-(2), 9, and 10(a) of rule XXVI; and
                paragraphs 1(a)-(d), and 2 (a) and (d) of rule XXVII of the
                Standing Rules of the Senate; and for purposes of section
                202 (i) and (j) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of
                1946, the special committee shall be treated as a standing
                committee of the Senate.\1\
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                    \3\The references in this paragraph were changed as a
                result of the adoption of S. Res. 274, 96-1, Nov. 14, 1979;
                and further changed as a result of the adoption of S. Res.
                389, 96-2, Mar. 25, 1980.
                    \1\As amended, S. Res. 78, 95-1, Feb. 11, 1977; S. Res.
                376, 95-2, Mar. 6, 1978.
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                    (b)(1) It shall be the duty of the special committee to
                conduct a continuing study of any and all matters pertaining
                to problems and opportunities of older people, including,
                but not limited to, problems and opportunities of
                maintaining health, of assuring adequate income, of finding
                employment, of engaging in productive and rewarding
                activity, of securing proper housing, and, when necessary,
                of obtaining care or assistance. No proposed legislation
                shall be referred to such committee, and such committee
                shall not have power to report by bill, or otherwise have
                legislative jurisdiction.
                    (2) The special committee shall, from time to time (but
                not less often than once each year), report to the Senate
                the results of the study conducted pursuant to paragraph
                (1), together with such recommendation as it considers
                appropriate.
                    (c)(1) For the purposes of this section, the special
                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 consultations or organizations
                thereof, in accordance with the provisions of section 202(i)
                of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, and (I) with

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                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 special committee or any member
                thereof may administer oaths to witnesses.
                    (3) Subpenas authorized by the special committee may be
                issued over the signature of the chairman, or any member of
                the special committee designated by the chairman, and may be
                served by any person designated by the chairman or the
                member signing the subpena.
                    (d) All records and papers of the temporary Special
                Committee on Aging established by Senate Resolution 33,
                Eighty-seventh Congress, are transferred to the special
                committee.
                    (e) (Executed.)