[Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 104th Congress] [104th Congress] [House Document 103-342] [Rules of the House of Representatives] [Pages 365-450] [From the U.S. Government Printing Office, www.gpo.gov] Rule X. ESTABLISHMENT AND JURISDICTION OF STANDING COMMITTEES. The Committees and Their Jurisdiction [[Page 366]]
Sec. 669. Number and jurisdiction of standing committees. | 1. There shall be in the House the following standing committees, each of which shall have the jurisdiction and related functions assigned to it by this clause and clauses 2, 3, and 4; and all bills, resolutions, and other matters relating to subjects within the jurisdiction of any standing committee as listed in this clause shall (in accordance with and subject to clause 5) be referred to such committees, as follows: |
Sec. 670. Agriculture. | (1) Adulteration of seeds, insect pests, and protection of birds and animals in forest reserves. |
Sec. 671a. Appropriations. | (1) Appropriation of the revenue for the support of the Government. |
Sec. 671b. Responsibilities under Budget Act. | Effective July 12, 1974, special Presidential messages on rescissions and deferrals of budget authority submitted pursuant to sections 1012 and 1013 of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 683-4), as well as rescission bills and impoundment resolutions defined in section 1011 (2 U.S.C. 682) and required in section 1017 (2 U.S.C. 688) to be referred to the ``appropriate'' committee, are referred to the Committee on Appropriations if the proposed rescissions or deferrals involve funds already appropriated or obligated. Also effective July 12, 1974, the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (sec. 404(a); 88 Stat. 320) gave the Committee jurisdiction later perfected by the Committee Reform Amendments of 1974 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470), over rescissions of appropriations (subpara. (2)), transfers of unexpended balances (subpara. (3)), and the amount of new spending authority to be effective for a fiscal year including measures reported by other committees which exceed the appropriate allocation of new budget authority contained in the most recently agreed to concurrent resolution on the budget for such fiscal year as provided in clause 4(a)(2) of rule X (subpara. (4)). |
Sec. 672. Banking and Financial Services. | (1) Banks and banking, including deposit insurance and Federal monetary policy. |
Sec. 673a. Budget, Composition of. | (A) Members who are members of other standing committees, including five Members who are members of the Committee on Appropriations, and five Members who are members of the Committee on Ways and Means; |
Sec. 673b. Jurisdiction and duties. | (2) All concurrent resolutions on the budget (as defined in section 3 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. |
Sec. 674. Commerce. | (2) Consumer affairs and consumer protection. |
Sec. 675. Economic and Educational Opportunities. | (2) Columbia Institution for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind; Howard University; Freedmen's Hospital. |
Sec. 676. Government Reform and Oversight. | (1) The Federal Civil Service, including intergovernmental personnel; the status of officers and employees of the United States, including their compensation, classification, and retirement. |
Sec. 677a. House Oversight. | (1) Appropriations from accounts for committee salaries and expenses (except for the Committee on Appropriations), House Information Systems, and allowances and expenses of Members, House officers and administrative offices of the House. |
Sec. 677b. House facilities. | The Committee has jurisdiction over measures relating to the House Restaurant, which was first under the jurisdiction of the former Committee on Accounts, then under the supervision of the Architect of the Capitol (H. Res. 590, 76th Cong., Sept. 5, 1940, p. 11552, as made permanent law by P.L. 76-812, 40 U.S.C. 174k), and then under the supervision of the Select Committee on the House Restaurant (H. Res. 472, 91st Cong., July 10, 1969, p. 19080; H. Res. 111, 93d Cong., Feb. 7, 1973), which was not re-established after the 93d Congress. |
Sec. 677c. Enrolled bills. | The Committee has absorbed the Committee on Enrolled Bills which was established in 1789 by a joint rule of the two Houses. This rule lapsed in 1876 with the other joint rules; but in 1880 the rules of the House were amended to recognize the joint committee (IV, 4350, 4416; VII, 2099). The Committee and the Secretary of the Senate make comparisons of bills of their respective Houses for enrollment, and the two cooperate in the interchange of bills for signature. |
Sec. 677d. Library. | Under the Reorganization Act the Committee has jurisdiction of some of the subjects formerly within the jurisdiction of the Joint Committee on the Library, such as matters relating to the Library of Congress and the House Library, statuary and pictures, acceptance or purchase of works of art for the Capitol, the Botanic Gardens, management of the Library of Congress, purchase of books and manuscripts, matters relating to the Smithsonian Institution, and the incorporation of similar institutions. Excepted are measures relating to the construction or reconstruction, maintenance, and care of the buildings and grounds of the Botanic Gardens, the Library of Congress, and the Smithsonian Institution, which fall under the jurisdiction of the Committee on Transportation (now Transportation and Infrastructure). The House Members of the Joint Committee on the Library, provided for by law (2 U.S.C. 132b), are elected by resolution each Congress. |
Sec. 677e. Congressional Record. | The Committee has jurisdiction of matters relating to printing and correction of the Congressional Record, formerly within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Printing. The House Members of the Joint Committee on Printing, provided for by law (44 U.S.C. 1), are elected by resolution each Congress. |
Sec. 678. International Relations. | (1) Relations of the United States with foreign nations generally. |
Sec. 679a. Judiciary. | (1) The judiciary and judicial proceedings, civil and criminal. |
Sec. 679b. Internal Security. | (18) Subversive activities affecting the internal security of the United States. |
Sec. 680. National Security. | (1) Ammunition depots; forts; arsenals; Army, Navy, and Air Force reservations and establishments. |
Sec. 681. Resources. | (1) Fisheries and wildlife, including research, restoration, refuges, and conservation. |
Sec. 682a. Rules. | (1) The rules and joint rules (other than rules or joint rules relating to the Code of Official Conduct), and order of business of the House. |
Sec. 682b. Special orders. | Since 1883 the Committee on Rules has reported special orders providing times and methods for consideration of special bills or classes of bills, thereby enabling the House by majority vote to forward particular legislation, instead of being forced to use for the purpose the motion to suspend the rules, which requires a two-thirds vote (IV, 3152; V, 6870; for forms of, IV, 3238-3263). |
Sec. 683. Science. | (1) All energy research, development, and demonstration, and projects therefor, and all federally owned or operated nonmilitary energy laboratories. |
Sec. 684. Small Business. | (1) Assistance to and protection of small business, including financial aid, regulatory flexibility and paperwork reduction. |
Sec. 685. Standards of Official Conduct. | (1) Measures relating to the Code of Official Conduct. |
Sec. 686. Transportation and Infrastructure. | (1) Coast Guard, including lifesaving service, lighthouses, lightships, ocean derelicts, and the Coast Guard Academy. |
Sec. 687. Veterans' Affairs. | (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. |
Sec. 688. Ways and Means. | (1) Customs, collection districts, and ports of entry and delivery. |
Sec. 692a. General oversight. | (1) its analysis, appraisal, and evaluation of (A) the application, administration, execution, and effectiveness of the laws enacted by the Congress, or (B) conditions and circumstances which may indicate the necessity or desirability of enacting new or additional legislation, and |
Sec. 692b. Oversight subcommittees. | (b)(1) Each standing committee (other than the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on the Budget) shall review and study, on a continuing basis, the application, administration, execution, and effectiveness of those laws or parts of laws, the subject matter of which is within the jurisdiction of that committee and the organization and operation of the Federal agencies and entities having responsibilities in or for the administration and execution thereof, in order to determine whether such laws and the programs thereunder are being implemented and carried out in accordance with the intent of the Congress and whether such programs should be continued, curtailed, or eliminated. In addition, each such committee shall review and study any conditions or circumstances which may indicate the necessity or desirability of enacting new or additional legislation within the jurisdiction of that committee (whether or not any bill or resolution has been introduced with respect thereto), and shall on a continuing basis undertake futures research and forecasting on matters within the jurisdiction of that committee. Each such committee having more than twenty members shall establish an oversight subcommittee, or require its subcommittees, if any, to conduct oversight in |
Sec. 693. Special oversight. | 3. (a) The Committee on National Security shall have the function of reviewing and studying, on a continuing basis, all laws, programs, and Government activities dealing with or involving international arms control and disarmament and the education of military dependents in schools. |
Sec. 694a. Appropriations Committee; Budget Hearings | 4. (a)(1)(A) The Committee on Appropriations shall, within thirty days after the transmittal of the Budget to the Congress each year, hold hearings |
Sec. 694b. Procedure for Budget Hearings. | (C) Hearings pursuant to 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 rollcall vote that the testimony to be taken at that hearing on that day may be related to a matter of national security: Provided, however, That 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 from Puerto Rico. |
Sec. 694c. Budget Act; 15day Referral to Appropriations. | - (2) Whenever any bill or resolution which provides new spending authority described in section 401(c)(2)(C) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is reported by a committee of the House and the amount of new budget authority which will be required for the fiscal year involved if such bill or resolution is enacted as so reported exceeds the appropriate allocation of new budget authority reported as described in clause 4(h) in connection with the most recently agreed to concurrent resolution on the budget for such fiscal year, such bill or resolution shall then be referred to the Committee on Appropriations with instructions to report it, with the committee's recommendations and (if the committee deems it desirable) with an amendment limiting the total amount of new spending authority provided in the bill or resolution, within 15 calendar days (not counting any day on which the House is not in session) beginning with the day following the day on which it is so referred. If the Committee on Appropriations fails to report the bill or resolution within such 15-day period, the commit |
Sec. 695. Budget. | (b) The Committee on the Budget shall have the duty-- |
Sec. 696. Government Reform and Oversight. | (c)(1) The Committee on Government Reform and Oversight shall have the general function of-- |
Sec. 697c. Direction of Officers. | (2) providing policy direction for, and oversight of, the Clerk, Sergeant-at-Arms, Chief Administrative Officer, and Inspector General. |
Sec. 698. Standards of Official Conduct; additional duties. | (e)(1) The Committee on Standards of Official Conduct is authorized: (A) to recommend to the House from time to time such administrative actions as it may deem appropriate to establish or enforce standards of official conduct for Members, officers, and employees of the House, and any letter of reproval or other administrative action of the committee pursuant to an investigation under subdivision (B) shall only be issued or implemented as a part of a report required by such subdivision; (B) to investigate, subject to subparagraph (2) of this paragraph, any alleged violation, by a Member, officer, or employee of the House, of the Code of Official Conduct or of any law, rule, regulation, or other standard of conduct applicable to the conduct of such Member, officer, or employee in the performance of his duties or the discharge of his responsibilities, and after notice and hearing (unless the right to a hearing is waived by the Member, officer, or employee), shall report to the House its findings of fact and recommendations, if any, upon the final disposition of any such investigation, and such action as the committee may deem appropriate in the circumstances; (C) to report to the appropriate Federal or State authorities, with the approval of the House, any substantial evidence of a violation, by a Member, officer, or employee of the House, of any law applicable to the performance of his duties or the discharge of his |
Sec. 699a. Annual appropriations. | (f)(1) Each standing committee of the House shall, in its consideration of all bills and joint resolutions of a public character within its jurisdiction, insure that appropriations for continuing programs and activities of the Federal Government and the District of Columbia government will be made annually to the maximum extent feasible and consistent with the nature, requirements, and objectives of the programs and activities involved. For the purposes of this paragraph a Government agency includes the organizational units of government listed in clause 7(c) of rule XIII. |
Sec. 699b. Concurrent resolution on Budget. | (g) Each standing committee of the House shall, on or before February 25 of each year, submit to the Committee on the Budget (1) 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 which are within its jurisdiction or functions, and (2) an estimate of the total amounts of new budget authority, and budget outlays resulting therefrom, to be provided or |
Sec. 699c. Reconciliation process. | (i) Each standing committee of the House which is directed in a concurrent resolution on the budget to determine and recommend changes in laws, bills, or resolutions under the reconciliation process shall promptly make such determination and recommendations, and report a reconciliation bill or resolution (or both) to the House or sub |
Sec. 700. Referral procedures. | 5. (a) Each bill, resolution, or other matter which relates to a subject listed under any standing committee named in clause 1 shall be referred by the Speaker in accordance with the provisions of this clause. |
Sec. 701a. Electing committees. | 6. (a)(1) The standing committees specified in clause 1 shall be elected by the House within the seventh calendar day beginning after the commencement of each Congress, from nominations submitted by the re |
Sec. 701b. Party membership as basis for election. | (b)(1) Membership on standing committees during the course of a Congress shall be contingent on continuing membership in the party caucus or conference that nominated Members for election to such committees. Should a Member cease to be a member of a particular party caucus or conference, said Member shall automatically cease to be a member of a 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 ceases to be a member of a party caucus or conference and the Speaker shall notify the chairman of each standing committee on which said Member serves, that in accord with this rule, the Member's election to such committee is automatically vacated. |
Sec. 701c. Committee chairmen. | (c) One of the Members of each standing committee shall be elected by the House, from nominations submitted by the majority party caucus, at the commencement of each Congress, as chairman thereof. No Member may serve as the chairman of the same standing committee, or as the chairman of the same subcommittee thereof, for more than three consecutive Congresses, beginning with the One Hundred Fourth Congress (disregarding for this purpose any service for less than a full session in any Congress). In the temporary absence of |
Sec. 701d. Requirement for subcommittees. | (d) No committee of the House shall have more than five subcommittees (except the Committee on Appropriations, which shall have no more than thirteen; the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, which shall have no more than seven; and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, which shall have no more than six). |
Sec. 701e. Select and conference committees. | (f) The Speaker shall appoint all select and conference committees which shall be ordered by the House from time to time. At any time after an original appointment, the Speaker may remove Members or appoint additional Members to select and conference committees. In appointing members to conference committees the Speaker shall appoint no less than a majority of members who generally supported the House position as determined by the Speaker. The Speaker shall name |
Sec. 701f. Party membership as basis for appointment. | (g) Membership on select and joint committees during the course of a Congress shall be contingent on continuing membership in the party caucus or conference the Member was a member of at the time of his appointment to a select or joint committee. Should a Member cease to be a member of that caucus or conference, said Member 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 con |
Sec. 701g. Delegates and Resident Commissioner. | (h) The Speaker may appoint the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico and Delegates to the House to any select committee and to any conference committee. |
Sec. 702. Aging. | A paragraph (i) of this clause was incorporated into the rules effective January 3, 1975 (H. Res. 988, 93d Cong., Oct. 8, 1974, p. 34470), to provide for a permanent Select Committee on Aging appointed by the Speaker pursuant to paragraph (f). That provision was stricken in the 103d Congress (H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 1993, p. ----). |