[United States Senate Manual, 107th Congress]
[S. Doc. 107-1]
[Non-statutory Standing Orders and Regulations Affecting the Business of the Senate]
[Pages 138-140]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office, www.gpo.gov]
96.2 COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS \5\
Sec. 105. (a)(1) There is established a temporary Select
Committee on Indian Affairs (hereafter in this section
referred to as the ``select committee'') which shall consist
of seven \6\ members, four to be appointed by the President
of the Senate, upon the recommendation of the majority
leader, from among members of the majority party and three
to be appointed by the President of the Senate, upon the
recommendation of the minority leader, from among the
members of the minority party. The select committee shall
select a chairman from among its members.
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\5\ Name changed from ``Select Committee on Indian
Affairs'' by provision of S. Res. 71, 103-1, Feb. 24, 1993.
\6\ See paragraph 3(c) of rule XXV of the Standing
Rules, Senate Manual section 25.3c, for current membership.
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(2) A majority of the members of the committee shall
constitute a quorum thereof for the transaction of business,
except that the select committee may fix a lesser number as
a quorum for the purpose of taking testimony. The select
committee shall adopt rules of procedure not inconsistent
with this section and the rules of the Senate governing
standing committees of the Senate.
(3) Vacancies in the membership of the select committee
shall not affect the authority of the remaining members to
execute the functions of the select committee.
(4) For purposes of paragraph 4 \7\ of rule XXV of the
Standing Rules of the Senate, service of a Senator as a
member or chairman of the select committee shall not be
taken into account.
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\7\ Changed from ``paragraph 6'' as a result of the
adoption of S. Res. 274, 96-1, Nov. 14, 1979.
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(b)(1) All proposed legislation, messages, petitions,
memorials, and other matters relating to Indian affairs
shall be referred to the select committee.
(2) It shall be the duty of the select committee to
conduct a study of any and all matters pertaining to
problems and opportunities of Indians, including but not
limited to, Indian land management and trust
responsibilities, Indian
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education, health, special services, and loan programs, and
Indian claims against the United States.
(3) The select committee shall from time to time report
to the Senate, by bill or otherwise, its recommendations
with respect to matters referred to the select committee or
otherwise within its jurisdiction.
(c)(1) For the purposes of this section, the select
committee is authorized, in its discretion, (A) to make
investigations into any matter within its jurisdiction, (B)
to make expenditures from the contingent fund of the Senate,
(C) to employ personnel, (D) to hold hearings, (E) to sit
and act at any time or place during the sessions, recesses,
and adjourned periods of the Senate, (F) to require, by
subpena or otherwise, the attendance of witnesses and the
production of correspondence, books, papers, and documents,
(G) to take depositions and other testimony, (H) to procure
the services of individual consultants or organizations
thereof, in accordance with the provisions of section 202(i)
of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, and (I) with
the prior consent of the Government department or agency
concerned and the Committee on Rules and Administration, to
use on a reimbursable basis the services of personnel of any
such department or agency.
(2) The chairman of the select committee or any member
thereof may administer oaths to witnesses.
(3) Subpenas authorized by the select committee may be
issued over the signature of the chairman, or any member of
the select committee designated by the chairman, and may be
served by any person designated by the chairman or the
member signing the subpena.
(d) The select committee shall cease to exist on January
2, 1984,\8\ and effective on January 3, 1984, jurisdiction
over the matters specified in subsection (b)(1) and the duty
specified in subsection (b)(2) are transferred to the
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.\9\
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\8\ The Senate, by unanimous consent, Nov. 18, 1983,
provided for the continuation of the select committee with
all of its jurisdictional responsibilities until July 1,
1984. S. Res. 127, agreed to June 6, 1984, established the
Select Committee on Indian Affairs as a permanent committee
of the Senate.
\9\ Name changed from Committee on Human Resources to
Committee on Labor and Human Resources by S. Res. 30, 96-1,
Mar. 7, 1979. Name changed to Committee on Health,
Education, Labor, and Pensions by S. Res. 28, 106-1, Jan.
21, 1999.
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[Sec. 105 of S. Res. 4, 95-1, Feb. 4, 1977; S. Res. 405, 95-
2, Oct. 15, 1978; S. Res. 448, 96-2, Dec. 11, 1980; Cong.
Rec., Nov. 18, 1983; S. Res. 127, 98-2, June 6, 1984.]
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