[United States Senate Manual, 112th Congress]
[S. Doc. 112-1]
[Non-statutory Standing Orders and Regulations Affecting the Business of the Senate]
[Pages 158-162]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


        82          HOMELAND SECURITY AND INTELLIGENCE OVERSIGHT

                To eliminate certain restrictions on service of a 
            Senator on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. \1\
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                \1\ Omitted portions amended S. Res. 400, 94-2, May 19, 
            1976.
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                Resolved, It is the purpose of titles I through V of 
            this resolution to improve the effectiveness of the Senate 
            Select Committee on Intelligence, especially with regard to 
            its oversight of the Intelligence Community of the United 
            States Government, and to improve the Senate's oversight of 
            homeland security.
                Sec. 101. Homeland security.
                (a) Committee on Homeland Security and Government 
            Affairs.--The Committee on Governmental Affairs is renamed 
            as the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 
            Affairs.
                (b) Jurisdiction.--There shall be referred to the 
            committee all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, 
            memorials, and other matters relating to the following 
            subjects:
                        (1) Department of Homeland Security, except 
                    matters relating to--
                                (A) the Coast Guard, the Transportation 
                            Security Administration, the Federal Law 
                            Enforcement Training Center or the Secret 
                            Service; and
                                (B)(i) the United States Citizenship and 
                            Immigration Service; or
                                (ii) the immigration functions of the 
                            United States Customs and Border Protection 
                            or the United States Immigration and Custom 
                            Enforce

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                            ment or the Directorate of Border and 
                            Transportation Security; and
                                (C) the following functions performed by 
                            any employee of the Department of Homeland 
                            Security--
                                  (i) any customs revenue function 
                            including any function provided for in 
                            section 415 of the Homeland Security Act of 
                            2002 (Public Law 107-296);
                                  (ii) any commercial function or 
                            commercial operation of the Bureau of 
                            Customs and Border Protection or Bureau of 
                            Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 
                            including matters relating to trade 
                            facilitation and trade regulation; or
                                  (iii) any other function related to 
                            clause (i) or (ii) that was exercised by the 
                            United States Customs Service on the day 
                            before the effective date of the Homeland 
                            Security Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-296).
                The jurisdiction of the Committee on Homeland Security 
            and Governmental Affairs in this paragraph shall supersede 
            the jurisdiction of any other committee of the Senate 
            provided in the rules of the Senate: Provided, That the 
            jurisdiction provided under section 101(b)(1) shall not 
            include the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, or 
            functions of the Federal Emergency Management Agency related 
            thereto.
                        (2) Archives of the United States.
                        (3) Budget and accounting measures, other than 
                    appropriations, except as provided in the 
                    Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
                        (4) Census and collection of statistics, 
                    including economic and social statistics.
                        (5) Congressional organization, except for any 
                    part of the matter that amends the rules or orders 
                    of the Senate.
                        (6) Federal Civil Service.
                        (7) Government information.
                        (8) Intergovernmental relations.
                        (9) Municipal affairs of the District of 
                    Columbia, except appropriations therefor.
                        (10) Organization and management of United 
                    States nuclear export policy.
                        (11) Organization and reorganization of the 
                    executive branch of the Government.

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                        (12) Postal Service.
                        (13) Status of officers and employees of the 
                    United States, including their classification, 
                    compensation, and benefits.
                (c) Additional Duties.--The committee shall have the 
            duty of--
                        (1) receiving and examining reports of the 
                    Comptroller General of the United States and of 
                    submitting such recommendations to the Senate as it 
                    deems necessary or desirable in connection with the 
                    subject matter of such reports;
                        (2) studying the efficiency, economy, and 
                    effectiveness of all agencies and departments of the 
                    Government;
                        (3) evaluating the effects of laws enacted to 
                    reorganize the legislative and executive branches of 
                    the Government; and
                        (4) studying the 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.
                (d) Jurisdiction of Budget Committee.--Notwithstanding 
            paragraph (b)(3) of this section, and except as otherwise 
            provided in the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the 
            Committee on the Budget shall have exclusive jurisdiction 
            over measures affecting the congressional budget process, 
            which are--
                        (1) the functions, duties, and powers of the 
                    Budget Committee;
                        (2) the functions, duties, and powers of the 
                    Congressional Budget Office;
                        (3) the process by which Congress annually 
                    establishes the appropriate levels of budget 
                    authority, outlays, revenues, deficits or surpluses, 
                    and public debt--including subdivisions thereof--and 
                    including the establishment of mandatory ceilings on 
                    spending and appropriations, a floor on revenues, 
                    timetables for congressional action on concurrent 
                    resolutions, on the reporting of authorization 
                    bills, and on the enactment of appropriation bills, 
                    and enforcement mechanisms for budgetary limits and 
                    timetables;
                        (4) the limiting of backdoor spending devices;
                        (5) the timetables for Presidential submission 
                    of appropriations and authorization requests;

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                        (6) the definitions of what constitutes 
                    impoundment--such as ``rescissions'' and 
                    ``deferrals'';
                        (7) the process and determination by which 
                    impoundments must be reported to and considered by 
                    Congress;
                        (8) the mechanisms to insure Executive 
                    compliance with the provisions of the Impoundment 
                    Control Act, title X--such as GAO review and 
                    lawsuits; and
                        (9) the provisions which affect the content or 
                    determination of amounts included in or excluded 
                    from the congressional budget or the calculation of 
                    such amounts, including the definition of terms 
                    provided by the Budget Act.
                (e) OMB Nominees.--The Committee on the Budget and the 
            Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 
            shall have joint jurisdiction over the nominations of 
            persons nominated by the President to fill the positions of 
            Director and Deputy Director for Budget within the Office of 
            Management and Budget, and if one committee votes to order 
            reported such a nomination, the other must report within 30 
            calendar days session, or be automatically discharged.

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                Sec. 301. Committee status.
                (a) Homeland Security.--The Committee on Homeland 
            Security and Governmental Affairs shall be treated as the 
            Committee on Governmental Affairs listed under paragraph 2 
            of rule XXV of the Standing Rules of the Senate for purposes 
            of the Standing Rules of the Senate.
                (b) Intelligence.--The Select Committee on Intelligence 
            shall be treated as a committee listed under paragraph 2 of 
            rule XXV of the Standing Rules of the Senate for purposes of 
            the Standing Rules of the Senate.
                Sec. 401. Subcommittee related to intelligence 
            oversight.
                (a) Establishment.--There is established in the Select 
            Committee on Intelligence a Subcommittee on Oversight which 
            shall be in addition to any other subcommittee established 
            by the select Committee.
                (b) Responsibility.--The Subcommittee on Oversight shall 
            be responsible for ongoing oversight of intelligence 
            activities.
                Sec. 402. Subcommittee related to intelligence 
            appropriations.
                (a) Establishment.--There is established in the 
            Committee on Appropriations a Subcommittee on Intelligence.

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            The Committee on Appropriations shall reorganize into 13 
            subcommittees as soon as possible after the convening of the 
            109th Congress.
                (b) Jurisdiction.--The Subcommittee on Intelligence of 
            the Committee on Appropriations shall have jurisdiction over 
            funding for intelligence matters, as determined by the 
            Senate Committee on Appropriations.
                Sec. 501. Effective date.
                This resolution shall take effect on the convening of 
            the 109th Congress.

                                      [S. Res. 445, 108-2, Oct. 9, 2004]