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CHAPTER 17
Committees
C. COMMITTEE PROCEDURE
Sec. 34. Committee on the Budget
The Committee on the Budget was established effective July 12,
1974, by the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (11 H.R.
7130),(14) and its jurisdiction and composition provided as
follows:
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14. H.R. 7130 was reported from the Committee on Rules on Nov. 20,
1973, H. Rept. No. 93-658. Pub. L. No. 93-344, Sec. 101.
Effective Jan. 14, 1975, 121 Cong. Rec. 20-32, 94th Cong. 1st
Sess. [H. Res. 5], the membership of the committee was
increased from 23 to 25, with 13 rather than 11 members to be
elected pursuant to Rule X clause 1(e)(1)(C). The language
cited from Rule X clause 1(e) also reflects amendments
contained in H. Res. 5, 96th Congress, Jan. 15, 1979.
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(e)(1) Committee on the Budget, to consist of twenty-five
Members as follows:
(A) five Members who are members of the Committee on
Appropriations;
(B) five Members who are members of the Committee on Ways and
Means;
(C) thirteen Members who are members of other standing
committees;
(D) one Member from the leadership of the majority party; and
(E) one Member from the leadership of the minority party.
No member other than the representative from the leadership of the
majority party and the representative from the leadership of the
minority party, shall serve as a member of the Committee on the
Budget during more than three Congresses in any period of five
successive Congresses beginning after 1974 (disregarding for this
purpose any service performed as a member of such committee for
less than a full session in any Congress) except that an incumbent
chairman having served on the committee for three Congresses and
having served as chairman of the committee for not more than one
Congress shall be eligible for reelection to the committee as
chairman for one additional Congress. All selections of Members to
serve on the committee shall be made without regard to seniority.
(2) All concurrent resolutions on the budget (as defined in
section 3(a)(4) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974) and other
matters required to be referred to the committee under titles III
and IV of that Act.
(3) The committee shall have the duty--
(A) to report the matters required to be reported by it under
titles III and IV of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974;
(B) to make continuing studies of the effect on budget outlays
of relevant existing and proposed legislation and to report the
results of such studies to the House on a recurring basis;
(C) to request and evaluate continuing studies of tax
expenditures, to
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devise methods of coordinating tax expenditures, policies, and
programs with direct budget outlays, and to report the results of
such studies to the House on a recurring basis; and
(D) to review, on a continuing basis, the conduct by the
Congressional Budget Office of its functions and duties.
Also effective on that date, Rule X clause 3(b) was added relative
to the special oversight functions of the committee and as later
perfected by the Committee Reform Amendments of 1974,(15)
reads as follows:
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15. Pub. L. No. 93-344, Sec. 101(c), incorporated into the rules as
Rule X clause 3(b), House Rules and Manual Sec. 693 (1975), by
H. Res. 988, 120 Cong. Rec. 34447-70, 93d Cong. 2d Sess., Oct.
8, 1974.
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(b) The Committee on the Budget shall have the function of--
(1) making continuing studies of the effect on budget outlays
of relevant existing and proposed legislation, and reporting the
results of such studies to the House on a recurring basis; and
(2) requesting and evaluating continuing studies of tax
expenditures, devising methods of coordinating tax expenditures,
policies, and programs with direct budget outlays, and reporting
the results of such studies to the House on a recurring basis.
Rule X clause 4(b), as added by the Congressional Budget Act of
1974 and as later perfected by the Committee Reform Amendments of of
1974,(16) reads as follows:
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16. Pub. L. No. 93-344, Sec. 101(c), incorporated into the rules as
Rule X clause 4(b)(1), House Rules and Manual Sec. 695 (1975),
by H. Res. 988, 120 Cong. Rec. 34447-70, 93d Cong. 2d Sess.,
Oct. 8, 1974. Paragraph (2), contained in Sec. 301 (d) of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, paragraph (3), paragraph (4),
contained in Sec. 606 of that act, and paragraph (5), contained
in Sec. 703 of that act, all were made part of the rules
effective Jan. 3, 1975, by H. Res. 988.
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(b) The Committee on the Budget shall have the duty--
(1) to review on a continuing basis the conduct by the
Congressional Budget Office of its functions and duties;
(2) to hold hearings, and receive testimony from Members of
Congress and such appropriate representatives of Federal
departments and agencies, the general public, and national
organizations as it deems desirable, in developing the first
concurrent resolution on the budget for each fiscal year;
(3) to make all reports required of it by the Congressional
Budget Act of 1974, including the reporting of reconciliation bills
and resolutions when so required;
(4) to study on a continuing basis those provisions of law
which exempt Federal agencies or any of their activities or outlays
from inclusion in the Budget of the United States Government, and
to report to the House from time to time its recommendations for
terminating or modifying such provisions; and
(5) to study on a continuing basis proposals designed to
improve and facilitate methods of congressional budget-making, and
to report to the House from time to time the results of such
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study together with its recommendations.
Pursuant to section 906 of the Congressional Budget Act, the House
Committee on the Budget reported to the House its recommendations for
implementation of the budget procedures for fisca] year 1976;
(17) the House and Senate completed final action on the
first concurrent resolution on the budget considered under the Act by
adopting a conference report thereon on May 14, 1975.(18) On
May 13, 1976, the House and Senate completed final action on the first
concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1976, the first
year of full implementation of the Budget Act
procedures.(19)
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17. H. Rept. No. 94-25, 94th Cong. 1st Sess., Mar. 3, 1975.
18. H. Con. Res. 218, H. Jour. 739-743, 94th Cong. 1st Sess.
19. S. Con. Res. 109, H. Jour. 768, 769, 94th Cong. 2d Sess.
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