[United States Senate Manual, 107th Congress]
[S. Doc. 107-1]
[Non-statutory Standing Orders and Regulations Affecting the Business of the Senate]
[Pages 136-138]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office, www.gpo.gov]
96.1 SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON AGING
Sec. 104. (a)(1) There is established a Special
Committee on Aging (hereafter in this section referred to as
the ``special committee'') which shall consist of
nineteen\2\ members. The members and chairman of the special
committee shall be appointed in the same manner and at the
same time as the members and chairman of a standing
committee of the Senate. After the date on which the
majority and minority members of the special committee are
initially appointed on or after the effective date of Title
I of the Committee System Reorganization Amendments of 1977,
each time a vacancy occurs in the membership of the special
committee, the number of members of the special committee
shall be reduced by one until the number of members of the
special committee consists of nine Senators.
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\1\Omitted portions amended the Standing Rules of the
Senate and various Senate resolutions, were temporary in
nature, or have been executed.
\2\See paragraph 3(b) of rule XXV of the Standing Rules,
Senate Manual section 25.3b for current membership.
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(2)\3\ For purposes of paragraph 1 of rule XXV;
paragraphs 1, 7(a)(1)-(2), 9, and 10(a) of rule XXVI; and
paragraphs 1(a)-(d), and 2 (a) and (d) of rule XXVII of the
Standing Rules of the Senate; and for purposes of section
202 (i) and (j) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of
1946,
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the special committee shall be treated as a standing
committee of the Senate.\4\
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\3\The references in this paragraph were changed as a
result of the adoption of S. Res. 274, 96-1, Nov. 14, 1979;
and further changed as a result of the adoption of S. Res.
389, 96-2, Mar. 25, 1980.
\4\As amended, S. Res. 78, 95-1, Feb. 11, 1977; S. Res.
376, 95-2, Mar. 6, 1978.
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(b)(1) It shall be the duty of the special committee to
conduct a continuing study of any and all matters pertaining
to problems and opportunities of older people, including,
but not limited to, problems and opportunities of
maintaining health, of assuring adequate income, of finding
employment, of engaging in productive and rewarding
activity, of securing proper housing, and, when necessary,
of obtaining care or assistance. No proposed legislation
shall be referred to such committee, and such committee
shall not have power to report by bill, or otherwise have
legislative jurisdiction.
(2) The special committee shall, from time to time (but
not less often than once each year), report to the Senate
the results of the study conducted pursuant to paragraph
(1), together with such recommendation as it considers
appropriate.
(c)(1) For the purposes of this section, the special
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 consultations 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 special committee or any member
thereof may administer oaths to witnesses.
(3) Subpenas authorized by the special committee may be
issued over the signature of the chairman, or any member of
the special committee designated by the chairman, and may be
served by any person designated by the chairman or the
member signing the subpena.
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(d) All records and papers of the temporary Special
Committee on Aging established by Senate Resolution 33,
Eighty-seventh Congress, are transferred to the special
committee.
(e) (Executed.)