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CHAPTER 17
Committees
C. COMMITTEE PROCEDURE
Sec. 48. Committee on Small Business
The Committee on Small Business was created as a standing committee
effective Jan. 3, 1975, with the adoption of the Committee Reform
Amendments of 1974.(8) Paragraph (1) of its jurisdiction was
transferred from the Committee on Banking and Currency, and paragraph
(2) was transferred mainly from the Committee on the Judiciary:
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8. H. Res. 988, 120 Cong. Rec. 34447-70, 93d Cong. 2d Sess., Oct. 8,
1974, effective Jan. 3, 1975. See Rule X clause 1(s), House
Rules and Manual Sec. 688 (1979).
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(s) Committee on Small Business.
(1) Assistance to and protection of small business, including
financial aid.
(2) Participation of small-business enterprises in Federal
procurement and Government contracts.
In addition to its legislative jurisdiction under the preceding
provisions of this paragraph (and its general oversight function
under clause 2(b)(1)), the committee shall have the special
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oversight function provided for in clause 3(g) with respect to the
problems of small business.
The committee's oversight jurisdiction [Rule X clause 3(g), House
Rules and Manual Sec. 693 (1979)], reads as follows:
(g) The Committee on Small Business shall have the function of
studying and investigating, on a continuing basis, the problems of
all types of small business.
The standing committee was the successor to the permanent Select
Committee on Small Business, which had been incorporated into the rules
as a permanent select committee, but without legislative jurisdiction,
in the 92d Congress; (9) prior to that time, a Select
Committee on Small Business had been created by separate House
resolution in each Congress since 1941.(10)
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9. H. Res. 5, 117 Cong. Rec. 134-144, 92d Cong. 1st Sess., Jan. 22,
1971.
10. See H. Res. 294, 87 Cong. Rec. 9418-28, 77th Cong. 1st Sess., Dec.
4, 1941.
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