    [United States Senate Manual, 113th Congress]
    [S. Doc. 113-1]
    [Non-statutory Standing Orders and Regulations Affecting the Business of the Senate]
    [Pages 166-170]
    [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.

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                    (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
                                Enforcement 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.

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                            (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.
                            (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;

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                            (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;
                            (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.

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                    (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.
                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]