[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.]