Congressional Record: January 6, 1999 (House)
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RULES OF THE HOUSE
H. Res. 5
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RULE X.
Organization of Committees.
Committees and their legislative jurisdictions
1. There shall be in the House the following standing
committees, each of which shall have the jurisdiction and
related functions assigned by this clause and clauses 2, 3,
and 4. All bills, resolutions, and other matters relating to
subjects within the jurisdiction of the standing committees
listed in this clause shall be referred to those committees,
in accordance with clause 2 of rule XII, as follows:
(a) Committee on Agriculture.
(1) Adulteration of seeds, insect pests, and protection of
birds and animals in forest reserves.
(2) Agriculture generally.
(3) Agricultural and industrial chemistry.
(4) Agricultural colleges and experiment stations.
(5) Agricultural economics and research.
(6) Agricultural education extension services.
(7) Agricultural production and marketing and stabilization
of prices of agricultural products, and commodities (not
including distribution outside of the United States).
(8) Animal industry and diseases of animals.
(9) Commodity exchanges.
(10) Crop insurance and soil conservation.
(11) Dairy industry.
(12) Entomology and plant quarantine.
(13) Extension of farm credit and farm security.
(14) Inspection of livestock, poultry, meat products, and
seafood and seafood products.
(15) Forestry in general and forest reserves other than
those created from the public domain.
(16) Human nutrition and home economics.
(17) Plant industry, soils, and agricultural engineering.
(18) Rural electrification.
(19) Rural development.
(20) Water conservation related to activities of the
Department of Agriculture.
(b) Committee on Appropriations.
(1) Appropriation of the revenue for the support of the
Government.
(2) Rescissions of appropriations contained in
appropriation Acts.
(3) Transfers of unexpended balances.
(4) Bills and joint resolutions reported by other
committees that provide new entitlement authority as defined
in section 3(9) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and
referred to the committee under clause 4(a)(2).
(c) Committee on Armed Services.
(1) Ammunition depots; forts; arsenals; and Army, Navy, and
Air Force reservations and establishments.
(2) Common defense generally.
(3) Conservation, development, and use of naval petroleum
and oil shale reserves.
(4) The Department of Defense generally, including the
Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, generally.
(5) Interoceanic canals generally, including measures
relating to the maintenance, operation, and administration of
interoceanic canals.
(6) Merchant Marine Academy and State Maritime Academies.
(7) Military applications of nuclear energy.
(8) Tactical intelligence and intelligence-related
activities of the Department of Defense.
(9) National security aspects of merchant marine, including
financial assistance for the construction and operation of
vessels, maintenance of the U.S. shipbuilding and ship repair
industrial base, cabotage, cargo preference, and merchant
marine officers and seamen as these matters relate to the
national security.
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(10) Pay, promotion, retirement, and other benefits and
privileges of members of the armed forces.
(11) Scientific research and development in support of the
armed services.
(12) Selective service.
(13) Size and composition of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps,
and Air Force.
(14) Soldiers' and sailors' homes.
(15) Strategic and critical materials necessary for the
common defense.
(d) Committee on Banking and Financial Services.
(1) Banks and banking, including deposit insurance and
Federal monetary policy.
(2) Bank capital markets activities generally.
(3) Depository institutions securities activities
generally, including activities of any affiliates (except for
functional regulation under applicable securities laws not
involving safety and soundness).
(4) Economic stabilization, defense production,
renegotiation, and control of the price of commodities,
rents, and services.
(5) Financial aid to commerce and industry (other than
transportation).
(6) International finance.
(7) International financial and monetary organizations.
(8) Money and credit, including currency and this issuance
of notes and redemption thereof; gold and silver, including
the coinage thereof; valuation and revaluation of the dollar.
(9) Public and private housing.
(10) Urban development.
(e) Committee on the Budget.
(1) Concurrent resolutions on the budget (as defined in
section 3(4) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974), other
matters required to be referred to the committee under titles
III and IV of that Act, and other measures setting forth
appropriate levels of budget totals for the United States
Government.
(2) Budget process generally.
(3) Establishment, extension, and enforcement of special
controls over the Federal budget, including the budgetary
treatment of off-budget Federal agencies and measures
providing exemption from reduction under any order issued
under part C of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit
Control Act of 1985.
(f) Committee on Commerce.
(1) Biomedical research and development.
(2) Consumer affairs and consumer protection.
(3) Health and health facilities (except health care
supported by payroll deductions).
(4) Interstate energy compacts.
(5) Interstate and foreign commerce generally.
(6) Exploration, production, storage, supply, marketing,
pricing, and regulation of energy resources, including all
fossil fuels, solar energy, and other unconventional or
renewable energy resources.
(7) Conservation of energy resources.
(8) Energy information generally.
(9) The generation and marketing of power (except by
federally chartered or Federal regional power marketing
authorities); reliability and interstate transmission of, and
ratemaking for, all power; and siting of generation
facilities (except the installation of interconnections
between Government waterpower projects).
(10) General management of the Department of Energy and
management and all functions of the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission.
(11) National energy policy generally.
(12) Public health and quarantine.
(13) Regulation of the domestic nuclear energy industry,
including regulation of research and development reactors and
nuclear regulatory research.
(14) Regulation of interstate and foreign communications.
(15) Securities and exchanges.
(16) Travel and tourism.
The committee shall have the same jurisdiction with respect
to regulation of nuclear facilities and of use of nuclear
energy as it has with respect to regulation of nonnuclear
facilities and of use of nonnuclear energy.
(g) Committee on Education and the Workforce.
(1) Child labor.
(2) Gallaudet University and Howard University and
Hospital.
(3) Convict labor and the entry of goods made by convicts
into interstate commerce.
(4) Food programs for children in schools.
(5) Labor standards and statistics.
(6) Education or labor generally.
(7) Mediation and arbitration of labor disputes.
(8) Regulation or prevention of importation of foreign
laborers under contract.
(9) Workers' compensation.
(10) Vocational rehabilitation.
(11) Wages and hours of labor.
(12) Welfare of miners.
(13) Work incentive programs.
(h) Committee on Government Reform.
(1) Federal civil service, including intergovernmental
personnel; and the status of officers and employees of the
United States, including their compensation, classification,
and retirement.
(2) Municipal affairs of the District of Columbia in
general (other than appropriations).
(3) Federal paperwork reduction.
(4) Government management and accounting measures
generally.
(5) Holidays and celebrations.
(6) Overall economy, efficiency, and management of
government operations and activities, including Federal
procurement.
(7) National archives.
(8) Population and demography generally, including the
Census.
(9) Postal service generally, including transportation of
the mails.
(10) Public information and records.
(11) Relationship of the Federal Government to the States
and municipalities generally.
(12) Reorganizations in the executive branch of the
Government.
(i) Committee on House Administration.
(1) Appropriations from accounts for committee salaries and
expenses (except for the Committee on Appropriations); House
Information Resources; and allowance and expenses of Members,
Delegates, the Resident Commissioner, officers, and
administrative offices of the House.
(2) Auditing and settling of all accounts described in
subparagraph (1).
(3) Employment of persons by the House, including staff for
Members, Delegates, the Resident Commissioner, and
committees; and reporters of debates, subject to rule VI.
(4) Except as provided in paragraph (q)(11), the Library of
Congress, including management thereof; the House Library;
statuary and pictures; acceptance or purchase of works of art
for the Capitol; the Botanic Garden; and purchase of books
and manuscripts.
(5) The Smithsonian Institution and the incorporation of
similar institutions (except as provided in paragraph
(q)(11)).
(6) Expenditure of accounts described in subparagraph (1).
(7) Franking Commission.
(8) Printing and correction of the Congressional Record.
(9) Accounts of the House generally.
(10) Assignment of office space for Members, Delegates, the
Resident Commissioner, and committees.
(11) Disposition of useless executive papers.
(12) Election of the President, Vice President, Members,
Senators, Delegates, or the Resident Commissioner; corrupt
practices; contested elections; credentials and
qualifications; and Federal elections generally.
(13) Services to the House, including the House Restaurant,
parking facilities, and administration of the House Office
Buildings and of the House wing of the Capitol.
(14) Travel of Members, Delegates, and the Resident
Commissioner.
(15) Raising, reporting, and use of campaign contributions
for candidates for office of Representative, of Delegate, and
of Resident Commissioner.
(16) Compensation, retirement, and other benefits of the
Members, Delegates, the Resident Commissioner, officers, and
employees of Congress.
(j) Committee on International Relations.
(1) Relations of the United States with foreign nations
generally.
(2) Acquisition of land and buildings for embassies and
legations in foreign countries.
(3) Establishment of boundary lines between the United
States and foreign nations.
(4) Export controls, including nonproliferation of nuclear
technology and nuclear hardware.
(5) Foreign loans.
(6) International commodity agreements (other than those
involving sugar), including all agreements for cooperation in
the export of nuclear technology and nuclear hardware.
(7) International conferences and congresses.
(8) International education.
(9) Intervention abroad and declarations of war.
(10) Diplomatic service.
(11) Measures to foster commercial intercourse with foreign
nations and to safeguard American business interests abroad.
(12) International economic policy.
(13) Neutrality.
(14) Protection of American citizens abroad and
expatriation.
(15) The American National Red Cross.
(16) Trading with the enemy.
(17) United Nations organizations.
(k) Committee on the Judiciary.
(1) The judiciary and judicial proceedings, civil and
criminal.
(2) Administrative practice and procedure.
(3) Apportionment of Representatives.
(4) Bankruptcy, mutiny, espionage, and counterfeiting.
(5) Civil liberties.
(6) Constitutional amendments.
(7) Federal courts and judges, and local courts in the
Territories and possessions.
(8) Immigration and naturalization.
(9) Interstate compacts generally.
(10) Claims against the United States.
(11) Meetings of Congress; attendance of Members,
Delegates, and the Resident Commissioner; and their
acceptance of incompatible offices.
(12) National penitentiaries.
(13) Patents, the Patent and Trademark Office, copyrights,
and trademarks.
(14) Presidential succession.
(15) Protection of trade and commerce against unlawful
restraints and monopolies.
(16) Revision and codification of the Statutes of the
United States.
(17) State and territorial boundary lines.
(18) Subversive activities affecting the internal security
of the United States.
(l) Committee on Resources.
(1) Fisheries and wildlife, including research,
restoration, refuges, and conservation.
(2) Forest reserves and national parks created from the
public domain.
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(3) Forfeiture of land grants and alien ownership,
including alien ownership of mineral lands.
(4) Geological Survey.
(5) International fishing agreements.
(6) Interstate compacts relating to apportionment of waters
for irrigation purposes.
(7) Irrigation and reclamation, including water supply for
reclamation projects and easements of public lands for
irrigation projects; and acquisition of private lands when
necessary to complete irrigation projects.
(8) Native Americans generally, including the care and
allotment of Native American lands and general and special
measures relating to claims that are paid out of Native
American funds.
(9) Insular possessions of the United States generally
(except those affecting the revenue and appropriations).
(10) Military parks and battlefields, national cemeteries
administered by the Secretary of the Interior, parks within
the District of Columbia, and the erection of monuments to
the memory of individuals.
(11) Mineral land laws and claims and entries thereunder.
(12) Mineral resources of public lands.
(13) Mining interests generally.
(14) Mining schools and experimental stations.
(15) Marine affairs, including coastal zone management
(except for measures relating to oil and other pollution of
navigable waters).
(16) Oceanography.
(17) Petroleum conservation on public lands and
conservation of the radium supply in the United States.
(18) Preservation of prehistoric ruins and objects of
interest on the public domain.
(19) Public lands generally, including entry, easements,
and grazing thereon.
(20) Relations of the United States with Native Americans
and Native American tribes.
(21) Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline (except ratemaking).
(m) Committee on Rules.
(1) Rules and joint rules (other than those relating to the
Code of Official Conduct) and the order of business of the
House.
(2) Recesses and final adjournments of Congress.
(n) Committee on Science.
(1) All energy research, development, and demonstration,
and projects therefor, and all federally owned or operated
nonmilitary energy laboratories.
(2) Astronautical research and development, including
resources, personnel, equipment, and facilities.
(3) Civil aviation research and development.
(4) Environmental research and development.
(5) Marine research.
(6) Commercial application of energy technology.
(7) National Institute of Standards and Technology,
standardization of weights and measures, and the metric
system.
(8) National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
(9) National Space Council.
(10) National Science Foundation.
(11) National Weather Service.
(12) Outer space, including exploration and control
thereof.
(13) Science scholarships.
(14) Scientific research, development, and demonstration,
and projects therefor.
(o) Committee on Small Business.
(1) Assistance to and protection of small business,
including financial aid, regulatory flexibility, and
paperwork reduction.
(2) Participation of small-business enterprises in Federal
procurement and Government contracts.
(p) Committee on Standards of Official Conduct.
The Code of Official Conduct.
(q) Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
(1) Coast Guard, including lifesaving service, lighthouses,
lightships, ocean derelicts, and the Coast Guard Academy.
(2) Federal management of emergencies and natural
disasters.
(3) Flood control and improvement of rivers and harbors.
(4) Inland waterways.
(5) Inspection of merchant marine vessels, lights and
signals, lifesaving equipment, and fire protection on such
vessels.
(6) Navigation and laws relating thereto, including
pilotage.
(7) Registering and licensing of vessels and small boats.
(8) Rules and international arrangements to prevent
collisions at sea.
(9) The Capitol Building and the Senate and House Office
Buildings.
(10) Construction or maintenance of roads and post roads
(other than appropriations therefor).
(11) Construction or reconstruction, maintenance, and care
of buildings and grounds of the Botanic Garden, the Library
of Congress, and the Smithsonian Institution.
(12) Merchant marine (except for national security aspects
thereof).
(13) Purchase of sites and construction of post offices,
customhouses, Federal courthouses, and Government buildings
within the District of Columbia.
(14) Oil and other pollution of navigable waters, including
inland, coastal, and ocean waters.
(15) Marine affairs, including coastal zone management, as
they relate to oil and other pollution of navigable waters.
(16) Public buildings and occupied or improved grounds of
the United States generally.
(17) Public works for the benefit of navigation, including
bridges and dams (other than international bridges and dams).
(18) Related transportation regulatory agencies.
(19) Roads and the safety thereof.
(20) Transportation, including civil aviation, railroads,
water transportation, transportation safety (except
automobile safety), transportation infrastructure,
transportation labor, and railroad retirement and
unemployment (except revenue measures related thereto).
(21) Water power.
(r) Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
(1) Veterans' measures generally.
(2) Cemeteries of the United States in which veterans of
any war or conflict are or may be buried, whether in the
United States or abroad (except cemeteries administered by
the Secretary of the Interior).
(3) Compensation, vocational rehabilitation, and education
of veterans.
(4) Life insurance issued by the Government on account of
service in the Armed Forces.
(5) Pensions of all the wars of the United States, general
and special.
(6) Readjustment of servicemen to civil life.
(7) Soldiers' and sailors' civil relief.
(8) Veterans' hospitals, medical care, and treatment of
veterans.
(s) Committee on Ways and Means.
(1) Customs, collection districts, and ports of entry and
delivery.
(2) Reciprocal trade agreements.
(3) Revenue measures generally.
(4) Revenue measures relating to insular possessions.
(5) Bonded debt of the United States, subject to the last
sentence of clause 4(f).
(6) Deposit of public monies.
(7) Transportation of dutiable goods.
(8) Tax exempt foundations and charitable trusts.
(9) National social security (except health care and
facilities programs that are supported from general revenues
as opposed to payroll deductions and except work incentive
programs).
General oversight responsibilities
2. (a) The various standing committees shall have general
oversight responsibilities as provided in paragraph (b) in
order to assist the House in--
(1) its analysis, appraisal, and evaluation of--
(A) the application, administration, execution, and
effectiveness of Federal laws; and
(B) conditions and circumstances that may indicate the
necessity or desirability of enacting new or additional
legislation; and
(2) its formulation, consideration, and enactment of
changes in Federal laws, and of such additional legislation
as may be necessary or appropriate.
(b)(1) In order to determine whether laws and programs
addressing subjects within the jurisdiction of a committee
are being implemented and carried out in accordance with the
intent of Congress and whether they should be continued,
curtailed, or eliminated, each standing committee (other than
the Committee on Appropriations) shall review and study on a
continuing basis--
(A) the application, administration, execution, and
effectiveness of laws and programs addressing subjects within
its jurisdiction;
(B) the organization and operation of Federal agencies and
entities having responsibilities for the administration and
execution of laws and programs addressing subjects within its
jurisdiction;
(C) any conditions or circumstances that may indicate the
necessity or desirability of enacting new or additional
legislation addressing subjects within its jurisdiction
(whether or not a bill or resolution has been introduced with
respect thereto); and
(D) future research and forecasting on subjects within its
jurisdiction.
(2) Each committee to which subparagraph (1) applies having
more than 20 members shall establish an oversight
subcommittee, or require its subcommittees to conduct
oversight in their respective jurisdictions, to assist in
carrying out its responsibilities under this clause. The
establishment of an oversight subcommittee does not limit the
responsibility of a subcommittee with legislative
jurisdiction in carrying out its oversight responsibilities.
(c) Each standing committee shall review and study on a
continuing basis the impact or probable impact of tax
policies affecting subjects within its jurisdiction as
described in clauses 1 and 3.
(d)(1) Not later than February 15 of the first session of a
Congress, each standing committee shall, in a meeting that is
open to the public and with a quorum present, adopt its
oversight plan for that Congress. Such plan shall be
submitted simultaneously to the Committee on Government
Reform and to the Committee on House Administration. In
developing its plan each committee shall, to the maximum
extent feasible--
(A) consult with other committees that have jurisdiction
over the same or related laws, programs, or agencies within
its jurisdiction with the objective of ensuring maximum
coordination and cooperation among committees when conducting
reviews of such laws, programs, or agencies and include in
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its plan an explanation of steps that have been or will be
taken to ensure such coordination and cooperation;
(B) give priority consideration to including in its plan
the review of those laws, programs, or agencies operating
under permanent budget authority or permanent statutory
authority; and
(C) have a view toward ensuring that all significant laws,
programs, or agencies within its jurisdiction are subject to
review every 10 years.
(2) Not later than March 31 in the first session of a
Congress, after consultation with the Speaker, the Majority
Leader, and the Minority Leader, the Committee on Government
Reform shall report to the House the oversight plans
submitted by committees together with any recommendations
that it, or the House leadership group described above, may
make to ensure the most effective coordination of oversight
plans and otherwise to achieve the objectives of this clause.
(e) The Speaker, with the approval of the House, may
appoint special ad hoc oversight committees for the purpose
of reviewing specific matters within the jurisdiction of two
or more standing committees.
Special oversight functions
3. (a) The Committee on Appropriations shall conduct such
studies and examinations of the organization and operation of
executive departments and other executive agencies (including
an agency the majority of the stock of which is owned by the
United States) as it considers necessary to assist it in the
determination of matters within its jurisdiction.
(b) The Committee on the Budget shall study on a continuing
basis the effect on budget outlays of relevant existing and
proposed legislation and report the results of such studies
to the House on a recurring basis.
(c) The Committee on Commerce shall review and study on a
continuing basis laws, programs, and Government activities
relating to nuclear and other energy and nonmilitary nuclear
energy research and development including the disposal of
nuclear waste.
(d) The Committee on Education and the Workforce shall
review, study, and coordinate on a continuing basis laws,
programs, and Government activities relating to domestic
educational programs and institutions and programs of student
assistance within the jurisdiction of other committees.
(e) The Committee on Government Reform shall review and
study on a continuing basis the operation of Government
activities at all levels with a view to determining their
economy and efficiency.
(f) The Committee on International Relations shall review
and study on a continuing basis laws, programs, and
Government activities relating to customs administration,
intelligence activities relating to foreign policy,
international financial and monetary organizations, and
international fishing agreements.
(g) The Committee on Armed Services shall review and study
on a continuing basis laws, programs, and Government
activities relating to international arms control and
disarmament and the education of military dependents in
schools.
(h) The Committee on Resources shall review and study on a
continuing basis laws, programs, and Government activities
relating to Native Americans.
(i) The Committee on Rules shall review and study on a
continuing basis the congressional budget process, and the
committee shall report its findings and recommendations to
the House from time to time.
(j) The Committee on Science shall review and study on a
continuing basis laws, programs, and Government activities
relating to nonmilitary research and development.
(k) The Committee on Small Business shall study and
investigate on a continuing basis the problems of all types
of small business.
Additional functions of committees
4. (a)(1)(A) The Committee on Appropriations shall, within
30 days after the transmittal of the Budget to Congress each
year, hold hearings on the Budget as a whole with particular
reference to--
(i) the basic recommendations and budgetary policies of the
President in the presentation of the Budget; and
(ii) the fiscal, financial, and economic assumptions used
as bases in arriving at total estimated expenditures and
receipts.
(B) In holding hearings under subdivision (A), the
committee shall receive testimony from the Secretary of the
Treasury, the Director of the Office of Management and
Budget, the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, and
such other persons as the committee may desire.
(C) A hearing under subdivision (A), or any part thereof,
shall be held in open session, except when the committee, in
open session and with a quorum present, determines by record
vote that the testimony to be taken at that hearing on that
day may be related to a matter of national security. The
committee may by the same procedure close one subsequent day
of hearing. A transcript of all such hearings shall be
printed and a copy thereof furnished to each Member,
Delegate, and the Resident Commissioner.
(D) A hearing under subdivision (A), or any part thereof,
may be held before a joint meeting of the committee and the
Committee on Appropriations of the Senate in accordance with
such procedures as the two committees jointly may determine.
(2) Pursuant to section 401(b)(2) of the Congressional
Budget Act of 1974, when a committee reports a bill or joint
resolution that provides new entitlement authority as defined
in section 3(9) of that Act, and enactment of the bill or
joint resolution, as reported, would cause a breach of the
committee's pertinent allocation of new budget authority
under section 302(a) of that Act, the bill or joint
resolution may be referred to the Committee on
Appropriations with instructions to report it with
recommendations (which may include an amendment limiting
the total amount of new entitlement authority provided in
the bill or joint resolution). If the Committee on
Appropriations fails to report a bill or joint resolution
so referred within 15 calendar days (not counting any day
on which the House is not in session), the committee
automatically shall be discharged from consideration of
the bill or joint resolution, and the bill or joint
resolution shall be placed on the appropriate calendar.
(3) In addition, the Committee on Appropriations shall
study on a continuing basis those provisions of law that (on
the first day of the first fiscal year for which the
congressional budget process is effective) provide spending
authority or permanent budget authority and shall report to
the House from time to time its recommendations for
terminating or modifying such provisions.
(4) In the manner provided by section 302 of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the Committee on
Appropriations (after consulting with the Committee on
Appropriations of the Senate) shall subdivide any allocations
made to it in the joint explanatory statement accompanying
the conference report on such concurrent resolution, and
promptly report the subdivisions to the House as soon as
practicable after a concurrent resolution on the budget for a
fiscal year is agreed to.
(b) The Committee on the Budget shall--
(1) review on a continuing basis the conduct by the
Congressional Budget Office of its functions and duties;
(2) hold hearings and receive testimony from Members,
Senators, Delegates, the Resident Commissioner, and such
appropriate representatives of Federal departments and
agencies, the general public, and national organizations as
it considers desirable in developing concurrent resolutions
on the budget for each fiscal year;
(3) make all reports required of it by the Congressional
Budget Act of 1974;
(4) study on a continuing basis those provisions of law
that exempt Federal agencies or any of their activities or
outlays from inclusion in the Budget of the United States
Government, and report to the House from time to time its
recommendations for terminating or modifying such provisions;
(5) study on a continuing basis proposals designed to
improve and facilitate the congressional budget process, and
report to the House from time to time the results of such
studies, together with its recommendations; and
(6) request and evaluate continuing studies of tax
expenditures, devise methods of coordinating tax
expenditures, policies, and programs with direct budget
outlays, and report the results of such studies to the House
on a recurring basis.
(c)(1) The Committee on Government Reform shall--
(A) receive and examine reports of the Comptroller General
of the United States and submit to the House such
recommendations as it considers necessary or desirable in
connection with the subject matter of the reports;
(B) evaluate the effects of laws enacted to reorganize the
legislative and executive branches of the Government; and
(C) study 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.
(2) In addition to its duties under subparagraph (1), the
Committee on Government Reform may at any time conduct
investigations of any matter without regard to clause 1, 2,
3, or this clause conferring jurisdiction over the matter to
another standing committee. The findings and recommendations
of the committee in such an investigation shall be made
available to any other standing committee having jurisdiction
over the matter involved and shall be included in the report
of any such other committee when required by clause 3(c)(4)
of rule XIII.
(d)(1) The Committee on House Administration shall--
(A) examine all bills, amendments, and joint resolutions
after passage by the House and, in cooperation with the
Senate, examine all bills and joint resolutions that have
passed both Houses to see that they are correctly enrolled
and forthwith present those bills and joint resolutions that
originated in the House to the President in person after
their signature by the Speaker and the President of the
Senate, and report to the House the fact and date of their
presentment;
(B) provide policy direction for, and oversight of, the
Clerk, Sergeant-at-Arms, Chief Administrative Officer, and
Inspector General;
(C) have the function of accepting on behalf of the House a
gift, except as otherwise provided by law, if the gift does
not involve a duty, burden, or condition, or is not made
dependent on some future performance by the House; and
(D) promulgate regulations to carry out subdivision (C).
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(2) An employing office of the House may enter into a
settlement of a complaint under the Congressional
Accountability Act of 1995 that provides for the payment of
funds only after receiving the joint approval of the chairman
and ranking minority member of the Committee on House
Administration concerning the amount of such payment.
(e)(1) Each standing committee shall, in its consideration
of all public bills and public joint resolutions within its
jurisdiction, ensure that appropriations for continuing
programs and activities of the Federal Government and the
government of the District of Columbia will be made annually
to the maximum extent feasible and consistent with the
nature, requirement, and objective of the programs and
activities involved. In this subparagraph programs and
activities of the Federal Government and the government of
the District of Columbia includes programs and activities of
any department, agency, establishment, wholly owned
Government corporation, or instrumentality of the Federal
Government or of the government of the District of Columbia.
(2) Each standing committee shall review from time to time
each continuing program within its jurisdiction for which
appropriations are not made annually to ascertain whether the
program should be modified to provide for annual
appropriations.
Budget Act responsibilities
(f)(1) Each standing committee shall submit to the
Committee on the Budget not later than six weeks after the
President submits his budget, or at such time as the
Committee on the Budget may request--
(A) its views and estimates with respect to all matters to
be set forth in the concurrent resolution on the budget for
the ensuing fiscal year that are within its jurisdiction or
functions; and
(B) an estimate of the total amounts of new budget
authority, and budget outlays resulting therefrom, to be
provided or authorized in all bills and resolutions within
its jurisdiction that it intends to be effective during that
fiscal year.
(2) The views and estimates submitted by the Committee on
Ways and Means under subparagraph (1) shall include a
specific recommendation, made after holding public hearings,
as to the appropriate level of the public debt that should be
set forth in the concurrent resolution on the budget and
serve as the basis for an increase or decrease in the
statutory limit on such debt under the procedures provided by
rule XXIII.
Election and membership of standing committees
5. (a)(1) The standing committees specified in clause 1
shall be elected by the House within seven calendar days
after the commencement of each Congress, from nominations
submitted by the respective party caucus or conference. A
resolution proposing to change the composition of a standing
committee shall be privileged if offered by direction of the
party caucus or conference concerned.
(2)(A) The Committee on the Budget shall be composed of
members as follows:
(i) Members, Delegates, or the Resident Commissioner who
are members of other standing committees, including five who
are members of the Committee on Appropriations and five who
are members of the Committee on Ways and Means;
(ii) one Member from the elected leadership of the majority
party; and
(iii) one Member from the elected leadership of the
minority party.
(B) Except as permitted by subdivision (C), a member of the
Committee on the Budget other than one from the elected
leadership of a party may not serve on the committee during
more than four Congresses in a period of six successive
Congresses (disregarding for this purpose any service for
less than a full session in a Congress).
(C) A member of the Committee on the Budget who served as
either the chairman or the ranking minority member of the
committee in the immediately previous Congress and who did
not serve in that respective capacity in an earlier Congress
may serve as either the chairman or the ranking minority
member of the committee during one additional Congress.
(3)(A) The Committee on Standards of Official Conduct shall
be composed of 10 members, five from the majority party and
five from the minority party.
(B) Except as permitted by subdivision (C), a member of the
Committee on Standards of Official Conduct may not serve on
the committee during more than three Congresses in a period
of five successive Congresses (disregarding for this purpose
any service for less than a full session in a Congress).
(C) A member of the Committee on Standards of Official
Conduct may serve on the committee during a fourth Congress
in a period of five successive Congresses only as either the
chairman or the ranking minority member of the committee.
(4)(A) At the beginning of a Congress, the Speaker or his
designee and the Minority Leader or his designee each shall
name 10 Members, Delegates, or the Resident Commissioner from
his respective party who are not members of the Committee on
Standards of Official Conduct to be available to serve on
investigative subcommittees of that committee during that
Congress. The lists of Members, Delegates, or the Resident
Commissioner so named shall be announced to the House.
(B) Whenever the chairman and the ranking minority member
of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct jointly
determine that Members, Delegates, or the Resident
Commissioner named under subdivision (A) should be assigned
to serve on an investigative subcommittee of that committee,
each of them shall select an equal number of such Members,
Delegates, or Resident Commissioner from his respective party
to serve on that subcommittee.
(b)(1) Membership on a standing committee during the course
of a Congress shall be contingent on continuing membership in
the party caucus or conference that nominated the Member,
Delegate, or Resident Commissioner concerned for election to
such committee. Should a Member, Delegate, or Resident
Commissioner cease to be a member of a particular party
caucus or conference, that Member, Delegate, or Resident
Commissioner shall automatically cease to be a member of each
standing committee to which he was elected on the basis of
nomination by that caucus or conference. The chairman of the
relevant party caucus or conference shall notify the Speaker
whenever a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner ceases
to be a member of that caucus or conference. The Speaker
shall notify the chairman of each affected committee that the
election of such Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner
to the committee is automatically vacated under this
subparagraph.
(2)(A) Except as specified in subdivision (B), a Member,
Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may not serve
simultaneously as a member of more than two standing
committees or more than four subcommittees of the standing
committees.
(B)(i) Ex officio service by a chairman or ranking minority
member of a committee on each of its subcommittees under a
committee rule does not count against the limitation on
subcommittee service.
(ii) Service on an investigative subcommittee of the
Committee on Standards of Official Conduct under paragraph
(a)(4) does not count against the limitation on subcommittee
service.
(iii) Any other exception to the limitations in subdivision
(A) must be approved by the House on the recommendation of
the relevant party caucus or conference.
(C) In this subparagraph the term "subcommittee" includes a
panel (other than a special oversight panel of the Committee
on Armed Services), task force, special subcommittee, or
other subunit of a standing committee that is established for
a cumulative period longer than six months in a Congress.
(c)(1) One of the members of each standing committee shall
be elected by the House, on the nomination of the majority
party caucus or conference, as chairman thereof. In the
temporary absence of the chairman, the member next in rank
(and so on, as often as the case shall happen) shall act as
chairman. Rank shall be determined by the order members are
named in resolutions electing them to the committee. In the
case of a permanent vacancy in the elected chairmanship of a
committee, the House shall elect another chairman.
(2) A member of a standing committee may not serve as
chairman of the same standing committee, or of the same
subcommittee of a standing committee, during more than three
consecutive Congresses (disregarding for this purpose any
service for less than a full session in a Congress).
(d)(1) Except as permitted by subparagraph (2), a committee
may have not more than five subcommittees.
(2) A committee that maintains a subcommittee on oversight
may have not more than six subcommittees. The Committee on
Appropriations may have not more than 13 subcommittees. The
Committee on Government Reform may have not more than seven
subcommittees.
(e) The House shall fill a vacancy on a standing committee
by election on the nomination of the respective party caucus
or conference.
Expense resolutions
6. (a) Whenever a committee, commission, or other entity
(other than the Committee on Appropriations) is granted
authorization for the payment of its expenses (including
staff salaries) for a Congress, such authorization initially
shall be procured by one primary expense resolution reported
by the Committee on House Administration. A primary expense
resolution may include a reserve fund for unanticipated
expenses of committees. An amount from such a reserve fund
may be allocated to a committee only by the approval of the
Committee on House Administration. A primary expense
resolution reported to the House may not be considered in the
House unless a printed report thereon was available on the
previous calendar day. For the information of the House, such
report shall--
(1) state the total amount of the funds to be provided to
the committee, commission, or other entity under the primary
expense resolution for all anticipated activities and
programs of the committee, commission, or other entity; and
(2) to the extent practicable, contain such general
statements regarding the estimated foreseeable expenditures
for the respective anticipated activities and programs of the
committee, commission, or other entity as may be appropriate
to provide the House with basic estimates of the expenditures
contemplated by the primary expense resolution.
(b) After the date of adoption by the House of a primary
expense resolution for a committee, commission, or other
entity for a
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Congress, authorization for the payment of additional
expenses (including staff salaries) in that Congress may be
procured by one or more supplemental expense resolutions
reported by the Committee on House Administration, as
necessary. A supplemental expense resolution reported to the
House may not be considered in the House unless a printed
report thereon was available on the previous calendar day.
For the information of the House, such report shall--
(1) state the total amount of additional funds to be
provided to the committee, commission, or other entity under
the supplemental expense resolution and the purposes for
which those additional funds are available; and
(2) state the reasons for the failure to procure the
additional funds for the committee, commission, or other
entity by means of the primary expense resolution.
(c) The preceding provisions of this clause do not apply
to--
(1) a resolution providing for the payment from committee
salary and expense accounts of the House of sums necessary to
pay compensation for staff services performed for, or to pay
other expenses of, a committee, commission, or other entity
at any time after the beginning of an odd-numbered year and
before the date of adoption by the House of the primary
expense resolution described in paragraph (a) for that year;
or
(2) a resolution providing each of the standing committees
in a Congress additional office equipment, airmail and
special-delivery postage stamps, supplies, staff personnel,
or any other specific item for the operation of the standing
committees, and containing an authorization for the payment
from committee salary and expense accounts of the House of
the expenses of any of the foregoing items provided by that
resolution, subject to and until enactment of the provisions
of the resolution as permanent law.
(d) From the funds made available for the appointment of
committee staff by a primary or additional expense
resolution, the chairman of each committee shall ensure that
sufficient staff is made available to each subcommittee to
carry out its responsibilities under the rules of the
committee and that the minority party is treated fairly in
the appointment of such staff.
(e) Funds authorized for a committee under this clause and
clauses 7 and 8 are for expenses incurred in the activities
of the committee.
Interim funding
7. (a) For the period beginning at noon on January 3 and
ending at midnight on March 31 in each odd-numbered year,
such sums as may be necessary shall be paid out of the
committee salary and expense accounts of the House for
continuance of necessary investigations and studies by--
(1) each standing and select committee established by these
rules; and
(2) except as specified in paragraph (b), each select
committee established by resolution.
(b) In the case of the first session of a Congress, amounts
shall be made available under this paragraph for a select
committee established by resolution in the preceding Congress
only if--
(1) a resolution proposing to reestablish such select
committee is introduced in the present Congress; and
(2) the House has not adopted a resolution of the preceding
Congress providing for termination of funding for
investigations and studies by such select committee.
(c) Each committee described in paragraph (a) shall be
entitled for each month during the period specified in
paragraph (a) to 9 percent (or such lesser percentage as may
be determined by the Committee on House Administration) of
the total annualized amount made available under expense
resolutions for such committee in the preceding session of
Congress.
(d) Payments under this paragraph shall be made on vouchers
authorized by the committee involved, signed by the chairman
of the committee, except as provided in paragraph (e), and
approved by the Committee on House Administration.
(e) Notwithstanding any provision of law, rule of the
House, or other authority, from noon on January 3 of the
first session of a Congress until the election by the House
of the committee concerned in that Congress, payments under
this paragraph shall be made on vouchers signed by--
(1) the member of the committee who served as chairman of
the committee at the expiration of the preceding Congress; or
(2) if the chairman is not a Member, Delegate, or Resident
Commissioner in the present Congress, then the ranking member
of the committee as it was constituted at the expiration of
the preceding Congress who is a member of the majority party
in the present Congress.
(f)(1) The authority of a committee to incur expenses under
this paragraph shall expire upon adoption by the House of a
primary expense resolution for the committee.
(2) Amounts made available under this paragraph shall be
expended in accordance with regulations prescribed by the
Committee on House Administration.
(3) This clause shall be effective only insofar as it is
not inconsistent with a resolution reported by the Committee
on House Administration and adopted by the House after the
adoption of these rules.
Travel
8. (a) Local currencies owned by the United States shall be
made available to the committee and its employees engaged in
carrying out their official duties outside the United States
or its territories or possessions. Appropriated funds,
including those authorized under this clause and clauses 6
and 8, may not be expended for the purpose of defraying
expenses of members of a committee or its employees in a
country where local currencies are available for this
purpose.
(b) The following conditions shall apply with respect to
travel outside the United States or its territories or
possessions:
(1) A member or employee of a committee may not receive or
expend local currencies for subsistence in a country for a
day at a rate in excess of the maximum per diem set forth in
applicable Federal law.
(2) A member or employee shall be reimbursed for his
expenses for a day at the lesser of--
(A) the per diem set forth in applicable Federal law; or
(B) the actual, unreimbursed expenses (other than for
transportation) he incurred during that day.
(3) Each member or employee of a committee shall make to
the chairman of the committee an itemized report showing the
dates each country was visited, the amount of per diem
furnished, the cost of transportation furnished, and funds
expended for any other official purpose and shall summarize
in these categories the total foreign currencies or
appropriated funds expended. Each report shall be filed with
the chairman of the committee not later than 60 days
following the completion of travel for use in complying with
reporting requirements in applicable Federal law and shall be
open for public inspection.
(c)(1) In carrying out the activities of a committee
outside the United States in a country where local currencies
are unavailable, a member or employee of a committee may not
receive reimbursement for expenses (other than for
transportation) in excess of the maximum per diem set forth
in applicable Federal law.
(2) A member or employee shall be reimbursed for his
expenses for a day, at the lesser of--
(A) the per diem set forth in applicable Federal law; or
(B) the actual unreimbursed expenses (other than for
transportation) he incurred during that day.
(3) A member or employee of a committee may not receive
reimbursement for the cost of any transportation in
connection with travel outside the United States unless the
member or employee actually paid for the transportation.
(d) The restrictions respecting travel outside the United
States set forth in paragraph (c) also shall apply to travel
outside the United States by a Member, Delegate, Resident
Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House authorized
under any standing rule.
Committee staffs
9. (a)(1) Subject to subparagraph (2) and paragraph (f),
each standing committee may appoint, by majority vote, not
more than 30 professional staff members to be compensated
from the funds provided for the appointment of committee
staff by primary and additional expense resolutions. Each
professional staff member appointed under this subparagraph
shall be assigned to the chairman and the ranking minority
member of the committee, as the committee considers
advisable.
(2) Subject to paragraph (f) whenever a majority of the
minority party members of a standing committee (other than
the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct or the
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence) so request, not
more than 10 persons (or one-third of the total professional
committee staff appointed under this clause, whichever is
fewer) may be selected, by majority vote of the minority
party members, for appointment by the committee as
professional staff members under subparagraph (1). The
committee shall appoint persons so selected whose character
and qualifications are acceptable to a majority of the
committee. If the committee determines that the character and
qualifications of a person so selected are unacceptable, a
majority of the minority party members may select another
person for appointment by the committee to the professional
staff until such appointment is made. Each professional staff
member appointed under this subparagraph shall be assigned to
such committee business as the minority party members of the
committee consider advisable.
(b)(1) The professional staff members of each standing
committee--
(A) may not engage in any work other than committee
business during congressional working hours; and
(B) may not be assigned a duty other than one pertaining to
committee business.
(2) Subparagraph (1) does not apply to staff designated by
a committee as ``associate'' or ``shared'' staff who are not
paid exclusively by the committee, provided that the chairman
certifies that the compensation paid by the committee for any
such staff is commensurate with the work performed for the
committee in accordance with clause 8 of rule XXIV.
(3) The use of any ``associate'' or ``shared'' staff by a
committee shall be subject to the review of, and to any
terms, conditions, or limitations established by, the
Committee on House Administration in connection with the
reporting of any primary or additional expense resolution.
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(4) This paragraph does not apply to the Committee on
Appropriations.
(c) Each employee on the professional or investigative
staff of a standing committee shall be entitled to pay at a
single gross per annum rate, to be fixed by the chairman and
that does not exceed the maximum rate of pay as in effect
from time to time under applicable provisions of law.
(d) Subject to appropriations hereby authorized, the
Committee on Appropriations may appoint by majority vote such
staff as it determines to be necessary (in addition to the
clerk of the committee and assistants for the minority). The
staff appointed under this paragraph, other than minority
assistants, shall possess such qualifications as the
committee may prescribe.
(e) A committee may not appoint to its staff an expert or
other personnel detailed or assigned from a department or
agency of the Government except with the written permission
of the Committee on House Administration.
(f) If a request for the appointment of a minority
professional staff member under paragraph (a) is made when no
vacancy exists for such an appointment, the committee
nevertheless may appoint under paragraph (a) a person
selected by the minority and acceptable to the committee. A
person so appointed shall serve as an additional member of
the professional staff of the committee until such a vacancy
occurs (other than a vacancy in the position of head of the
professional staff, by whatever title designated), at which
time that person is considered as appointed to that vacancy.
Such a person shall be paid from the applicable accounts of
the House described in clause 1(i)(1) of rule X. If such a
vacancy occurs on the professional staff when seven or more
persons have been so appointed who are eligible to fill that
vacancy, a majority of the minority party members shall
designate which of those persons shall fill the vacancy.
(g) Each staff member appointed pursuant to a request by
minority party members under paragraph (a), and each staff
member appointed to assist minority members of a committee
pursuant to an expense resolution described in paragraph (a)
of clause 6, shall be accorded equitable treatment with
respect to the fixing of the rate of pay, the assignment of
work facilities, and the accessibility of committee records.
(h) Paragraph (a) may not be construed to authorize the
appointment of additional professional staff members of a
committee pursuant to a request under paragraph (a) by the
minority party members of that committee if 10 or more
professional staff members provided for in paragraph (a)(1)
who are satisfactory to a majority of the minority party
members are otherwise assigned to assist the minority party
members.
(i) Notwithstanding paragraph (a)(2), a committee may
employ nonpartisan staff, in lieu of or in addition to
committee staff designated exclusively for the majority or
minority party, by an affirmative vote of a majority of the
members of the majority party and of a majority of the
members of the minority party.
Select and joint committees
10. (a) Membership on a select or joint committee appointed
by the Speaker under clause 11 of rule I during the course of
a Congress shall be contingent on continuing membership in
the party caucus or conference of which the Member, Delegate,
or Resident Commissioner concerned was a member at the time
of appointment. Should a Member, Delegate, or Resident
Commissioner cease to be a member of that caucus or
conference, that Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner
shall automatically cease to be a member of any select or
joint committee to which he is assigned. The chairman of the
relevant party caucus or conference shall notify the Speaker
whenever a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner ceases
to be a member of a party caucus or conference. The Speaker
shall notify the chairman of each affected select or joint
committee that the appointment of such Member, Delegate, or
Resident Commissioner to the select or joint committee is
automatically vacated under this paragraph.
(b) Each select or joint committee, other than a conference
committee, shall comply with clause 2(a) of rule XI unless
specifically exempted by law.
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
11. (a)(1) There is established a Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence (hereafter in this clause referred
to as the ``select committee''). The select committee shall
be composed of not more than 16 Members, Delegates, or the
Resident Commissioner, of whom not more than nine may be from
the same party. The select committee shall include at least
one Member, Delegate, or the Resident Commissioner from each
of the following committees:
(A) the Committee on Appropriations;
(B) the Committee on Armed Services;
(C) the Committee on International Relations; and
(D) the Committee on the Judiciary.
(2) The Speaker and the Minority Leader shall be ex officio
members of the select committee but shall have no vote in the
select committee and may not be counted for purposes of
determining a quorum thereof.
(3) The Speaker and Minority Leader each may designate a
member of his leadership staff to assist him in his capacity
as ex officio member, with the same access to committee
meetings, hearings, briefings, and materials as employees of
the select committee and subject to the same security
clearance and confidentiality requirements as employees of
the select committee under this clause.
(4)(A) Except as permitted by subdivision (B), a Member,
Delegate, or Resident Commissioner, other than the Speaker or
the Minority Leader, may not serve as a member of the select
committee during more than four Congresses in a period of six
successive Congresses (disregarding for this purpose any
service for less than a full session in a Congress).
(B) A member of the select committee who served as either
the chairman or the ranking minority member of the select
committee in the immediately previous Congress and who did
not serve in that respective capacity in an earlier Congress
may serve as either the chairman or the ranking minority
member of the select committee during one additional
Congress.
(b)(1) There shall be referred to the select committee
proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and
other matters relating to the following:
(A) The Central Intelligence Agency, the Director of
Central Intelligence, and the National Foreign Intelligence
Program as defined in section 3(6) of the National Security
Act of 1947.
(B) Intelligence and intelligence-related activities of all
other departments and agencies of the Government, including
the tactical intelligence and intelligence-related activities
of the Department of Defense.
(C) The organization or reorganization of a department or
agency of the Government to the extent that the organization
or reorganization relates to a function or activity involving
intelligence or intelligence-related activities.
(D) Authorizations for appropriations, both direct and
indirect, for the following:
(i) The Central Intelligence Agency, the Director of
Central Intelligence, and the National Foreign Intelligence
Program as defined in section 3(6) of the National Security
Act of 1947.
(ii) Intelligence and intelligence-related activities of
all other departments and agencies of the Government,
including the tactical intelligence and intelligence-related
activities of the Department of Defense.
(iii) A department, agency, subdivision, or program that is
a successor to an agency or program named or referred to in
(i) or (ii).
(2) Proposed legislation initially reported by the select
committee (other than provisions solely involving matters
specified in subparagraph (1)(A) or subparagraph (1)(D)(i))
containing any matter otherwise within the jurisdiction of a
standing committee shall be referred by the Speaker to that
standing committee. Proposed legislation initially reported
by another committee that contains matter within the
jurisdiction of the select committee shall be referred by the
Speaker to the select committee if requested by the chairman
of the select committee.
(3) Nothing in this clause shall be construed as
prohibiting or otherwise restricting the authority of any
other committee to study and review an intelligence or
intelligence-related activity to the extent that such
activity directly affects a matter otherwise within the
jurisdiction of that committee.
(4) Nothing in this clause shall be construed as amending,
limiting, or otherwise changing the authority of a standing
committee to obtain full and prompt access to the product of
the intelligence and intelligence-related activities of a
department or agency of the Government relevant to a matter
otherwise within the jurisdiction of that committee.
(c)(1) For purposes of accountability to the House, the
select committee shall make regular and periodic reports to
the House on the nature and extent of the intelligence and
intelligence-related activities of the various departments
and agencies of the United States. The select committee shall
promptly call to the attention of the House, or to any other
appropriate committee, a matter requiring the attention of
the House or another committee. In making such report, the
select committee shall proceed in a manner consistent with
paragraph (g) to protect national security.
(2) The select committee shall obtain annual reports from
the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, the
Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State, and the
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Such reports
shall review the intelligence and intelligence-related
activities of the agency or department concerned and the
intelligence and intelligence-related activities of foreign
countries directed at the United States or its interests. An
unclassified version of each report may be made available to
the public at the discretion of the select committee. Nothing
herein shall be construed as requiring the public disclosure
in such reports of the names of persons engaged in
intelligence or intelligence-related activities for the
United States or the divulging of intelligence methods
employed or the sources of information on which the reports
are based or the amount of funds authorized to be
appropriated for intelligence and intelligence-related
activities.
(3) Within six weeks after the President submits a budget
under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, or at
such time as the Committee on the Budget may request, the
select committee shall submit to the Committee on the Budget
the views and estimates described in section 301(d) of the
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Congressional Budget Act of 1974 regarding matters within the
jurisdiction of the select committee.
(d)(1) Except as specified in subparagraph (2), clauses
6(a), (b), and (c) and 8(a), (b), and (c) of this rule, and
clauses 1, 2, and 4 of rule XI shall apply to the select
committee to the extent not inconsistent with this clause.
(2) Notwithstanding the requirements of the first sentence
of clause 2(g)(2) of rule XI, in the presence of the number
of members required under the rules of the select committee
for the purpose of taking testimony or receiving evidence,
the select committee may vote to close a hearing whenever a
majority of those present determines that the testimony or
evidence would endanger the national security.
(e) An employee of the select committee, or a person
engaged by contract or otherwise to perform services for or
at the request of the select committee, may not be given
access to any classified information by the select committee
unless such employee or person has--
(1) agreed in writing and under oath to be bound by the
Rules of the House, including the jurisdiction of the
Committee on Standards of Official Conduct and of the select
committee concerning the security of classified information
during and after the period of his employment or contractual
agreement with the select committee; and
(2) received an appropriate security clearance, as
determined by the select committee in consultation with the
Director of Central Intelligence, that is commensurate with
the sensitivity of the classified information to which such
employee or person will be given access by the select
committee.
(f) The select committee shall formulate and carry out such
rules and procedures as it considers necessary to prevent the
disclosure, without the consent of each person concerned, of
information in the possession of the select committee that
unduly infringes on the privacy or that violates the
constitutional rights of such person. Nothing herein shall be
construed to prevent the select committee from
publicly disclosing classified information in a case in
which it determines that national interest in the
disclosure of classified information clearly outweighs any
infringement on the privacy of a person.
(g)(1) The select committee may disclose publicly any
information in its possession after a determination by the
select committee that the public interest would be served by
such disclosure. With respect to the disclosure of
information for which this paragraph requires action by the
select committee--
(A) the select committee shall meet to vote on the matter
within five days after a member of the select committee
requests a vote; and
(B) a member of the select committee may not make such a
disclosure before a vote by the select committee on the
matter, or after a vote by the select committee on the matter
except in accordance with this paragraph.
(2)(A) In a case in which the select committee votes to
disclose publicly any information that has been classified
under established security procedures, that has been
submitted to it by the executive branch, and that the
executive branch requests be kept secret, the select
committee shall notify the President of such vote.
(B) The select committee may disclose publicly such
information after the expiration of a five-day period
following the day on which notice of the vote to disclose is
transmitted to the President unless, before the expiration of
the five-day period, the President, personally in writing,
notifies the select committee that he objects to the
disclosure of such information, provides his reasons
therefor, and certifies that the threat to the national
interest of the United States posed by the disclosure is of
such gravity that it outweighs any public interest in the
disclosure.
(C) If the President, personally in writing, notifies the
select committee of his objections to the disclosure of
information as provided in subdivision (B), the select
committee may, by majority vote, refer the question of the
disclosure of such information, with a recommendation
thereon, to the House. The select committee may not publicly
disclose such information without leave of the House.
(D) Whenever the select committee votes to refer the
question of disclosure of any information to the House under
subdivision (C), the chairman shall, not later than the first
day on which the House is in session following the day on
which the vote occurs, report the matter to the House for its
consideration.
(E) If the chairman of the select committee does not offer
in the House a motion to consider in closed session a matter
reported under subdivision (D) within four calendar days on
which the House is in session after the recommendation
described in subdivision (C) is reported, then such a motion
shall be privileged when offered by a Member, Delegate, or
Resident Commissioner. In either case such a motion shall be
decided without debate or intervening motion except one that
the House adjourn.
(F) Upon adoption by the House of a motion to resolve into
closed session as described in subdivision (E), the Speaker
may declare a recess subject to the call of the Chair. At the
expiration of the recess, the pending question, in closed
session, shall be, ``Shall the House approve the
recommendation of the select committee?''.
(G) Debate on the question described in subdivision (F)
shall be limited to two hours equally divided and controlled
by the chairman and ranking minority member of the select
committee. After such debate the previous question shall be
considered as ordered on the question of approving the
recommendation without intervening motion except one motion
that the House adjourn. The House shall vote on the question
in open session but without divulging the information with
respect to which the vote is taken. If the recommendation of
the select committee is not approved, then the question is
considered as recommitted to the select committee for further
recommendation.
(3)(A) Information in the possession of the select
committee relating to the lawful intelligence or
intelligence-related activities of a department or agency of
the United States that has been classified under established
security procedures, and that the select committee has
determined should not be disclosed under subparagraph (1) or
(2), may not be made available to any person by a Member,
Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the
House except as provided in subdivision (B).
(B) The select committee shall, under such regulations as
it may prescribe, make information described in subdivision
(A) available to a committee or a Member, Delegate, or
Resident Commissioner, and permit a Member, Delegate, or
Resident Commissioner to attend a hearing of the select
committee that is closed to the public. Whenever the select
committee makes such information available, it shall keep a
written record showing, in the case of particular
information, which committee or which Member, Delegate, or
Resident Commissioner received the information. A Member,
Delegate, or Resident Commissioner who, and a committee that,
receives information under this subdivision may not disclose
the information except in a closed session of the House.
(4) The Committee on Standards of Official Conduct shall
investigate any unauthorized disclosure of intelligence or
intelligence-related information by a Member, Delegate,
Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House in
violation of subparagraph (3) and report to the House
concerning any allegation that it finds to be substantiated.
(5) Upon the request of a person who is subject to an
investigation described in subparagraph (4), the Committee on
Standards of Official Conduct shall release to such person at
the conclusion of its investigation a summary of its
investigation, together with its findings. If, at the
conclusion of its investigation, the Committee on Standards
of Official Conduct determines that there has been a
significant breach of confidentiality or unauthorized
disclosure by a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner,
officer, or employee of the House, it shall report its
findings to the House and recommend appropriate action.
Recommendations may include censure, removal from committee
membership, or expulsion from the House, in the case of a
Member, or removal from office or employment or punishment
for contempt, in the case of an officer or employee.
(h) The select committee may permit a personal
representative of the President, designated by the President
to serve as a liaison to the select committee, to attend any
closed meeting of the select committee.
(i) Subject to the Rules of the House, funds may not be
appropriated for a fiscal year, with the exception of a bill
or joint resolution continuing appropriations, or an
amendment thereto, or a conference report thereon, to, or for
use of, a department or agency of the United States to carry
out any of the following activities, unless the funds shall
previously have been authorized by a bill or joint resolution
passed by the House during the same or preceding fiscal year
to carry out such activity for such fiscal year:
(1) The activities of the Central Intelligence Agency and
the Director of Central Intelligence.
(2) The activities of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
(3) The activities of the National Security Agency.
(4) The intelligence and intelligence-related activities of
other agencies and subdivisions of the Department of Defense.
(5) The intelligence and intelligence-related activities of
the Department of State.
(6) The intelligence and intelligence-related activities of
the Federal Bureau of Investigation, including all activities
of the Intelligence Division.
(j)(1) In this clause the term ``intelligence and
intelligence-related activities'' includes--
(A) the collection, analysis, production, dissemination, or
use of information that relates to a foreign country, or a
government, political group, party, military force, movement,
or other association in a foreign country, and that relates
to the defense, foreign policy, national security, or related
policies of the United States and other activity in support
of the collection, analysis, production, dissemination, or
use of such information;
(B) activities taken to counter similar activities directed
against the United States;
(C) covert or clandestine activities affecting the
relations of the United States with a foreign government,
political group, party, military force, movement, or other
association;
(D) the collection, analysis, production, dissemination, or
use of information about activities of persons within the
United States, its territories and possessions, or nationals
of the United States abroad whose political and related
activities pose, or may
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be considered by a department, agency, bureau, office,
division, instrumentality, or employee of the United States
to pose, a threat to the internal security of the United
States; and
(E) covert or clandestine activities directed against
persons described in subdivision (D).
(2) In this clause the term ``department or agency''
includes any organization, committee, council, establishment,
or office within the Federal Government.
(3) For purposes of this clause, reference to a department,
agency, bureau, or subdivision shall include a reference to
any successor department, agency, bureau, or subdivision to
the extent that a successor engages in intelligence or
intelligence-related activities now conducted by the
department, agency, bureau, or subdivision referred to in
this clause.
(k) Clause 12(a) of rule XXII does not apply to meetings of
a conference committee respecting legislation (or any part
thereof) reported by the Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence.
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