[Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 104th Congress] [104th Congress] [House Document 103-342] [Joint and Select Committees] [Pages 855-865] [From the U.S. Government Printing Office, www.gpo.gov] [[Page 855]] ======================================================================== JOINT AND SELECT COMMITTEES SERVICES TO MEMBERS HOUSE OFFICES ======================================================================== [[Page 857]] EARLY ORGANIZATION OF THE HOUSE JOINT AND SELECT COMMITTEES __________ Joint Committees
Sec. 983. Joint Economic Committee. | The Joint Economic Committee is composed of 10 members of the Senate and 10 members of the House. The 10 Representatives are appointed by the Speaker: six from the majority and four from the minority. The committee conducts a continuing study of matters relating to the Economic Report made by the President and studies means of promoting the national policy on employment as outlined in the Employment Act of 1946 (15 U.S.C. 1021). The committee is required to file, not later than March 1 of each year, a report with the Senate and the House containing its findings and recommendations on each of the main recommendations made by the President in the Economic Report. It is authorized to hold hearings and make other reports to the Congress and to issue a monthly publication on economic conditions (15 U.S.C. 1024-1025). The Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1978 (sec. 302, P.L. 95-523) requires the Joint Committee to review and analyze the short-term and medium-term goals set forth in the Economic Report and to hold hearings on the Report to hear testimony from Members of Congress and other groups. Within 30 days after receipt of the Report by the Congress, standing committees with legislative jurisdiction and joint committees may submit reports to the joint committee with views and recommendations on matters within their jurisdiction. On or before each March 15, a majority of the members of the joint committee are required to submit a report to the Senate and House Budget Committees, including findings, recommendations, and appropriate analyses with respect to each of the short-term and medium-term goals set forth in the Economic Report. |
Sec. 984. Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation. | The Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation is composed of five members of the Senate and five members of the House. The House members, three from the majority and two from the minority, are chosen by the Committee on Ways and Means from the membership of that committee. The Joint Committee investigates the operation and effects of the Federal system of internal revenue taxation. It is authorized to hold hearings at times and places it deems advisable, has subpoena powers, and reports |
Sec. 985. Joint Committee of Congress on the Library. | The Joint Committee of Congress on the Library is composed of five members of the Senate and five members of the House. The Chairman of the Committee on House Oversight is a member and four other members of that committee are elected by House resolution. The committee considers proposals concerning the management and expansion of the Library of Congress, the development and maintenance of the Botanic Gardens, the receipt of gifts for the benefit of the Library, and certain matters relating to placing of statues and other works of art in the Capitol (2 U.S.C. 132b). |
Sec. 986. Joint Committee on Printing. | The House elects four members of the Committee on House Oversight to serve with the chairman of that committee on the Joint Committee on Printing, together with the chairman and four other members of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration (44 U.S.C. 101). A member of the joint committee who is reelected to the succeeding Congress continues to serve until a successor is chosen, and a projected vacancy may be filled on the last day of a Congress by appointment (44 U.S.C. 102). The committee adopts and employs measures necessary to remedy inefficiencies or waste in the public printing, binding, and distribution of Government publications. It has control of the arrangement and style of the Congressional Record (44 U.S.C. 901-910). The Joint Committee on Printing is authorized and directed to provide for printing in the Daily Record the legislative program for the day, together with a list of congressional committee meetings and hearings, and the place of meeting and subject matter; and to cause a brief resume of congressional activities for the previous day to be incorporated in the Record, together with an index of its contents. Such data shall be prepared under the supervision of the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives, respectively. |
Sec. 996b. Office of Floor Assistants. | At its organization the 104th Congress established an office to assist the Speaker in the management of legislative activity on the floor of the House in the following terms: |
Sec. 997. December caucuses. | (a)(1) The majority leader or minority leader of the House of Representatives after consultation with the Speaker may at any time during any even-numbered year call a caucus or conference, to begin on or after the first day of December and conclude on or before the twentieth day of December in such year and to be attended by all incumbent Members of his or her political party who have been reelected to the ensuing Congress and all other Members-elect of such party, for the purpose of taking all steps necessary to achieve the prompt organization of the Members and Members-elect of such party for the ensuing Congress. |