[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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (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, [[Page 137]] the special committee shall be treated as a standing committee of the Senate.\4\ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (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. [[Page 138]] (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.)