H. Res. 5

In the House of Representatives, U.S.,

January 6, 1999.

Resolved, That the Rules of the House of Representatives of the One Hundred Fifth Congress, including applicable provisions of law or concurrent resolution that constituted

rules of the House at the end of the One Hundred Fifth Congress, are adopted as the Rules of the House of Representatives of the One Hundred Sixth Congress, with amendments

to the standing rules, and with other orders, as follows:

SECTION 1. CHANGES IN STANDING RULES.

Amend the standing rules to read as follows:

RULES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

RULE I.

THE SPEAKER.

Approval of the Journal

1. The Speaker shall take the Chair on every legislative

day precisely at the hour to which the House last adjourned

and immediately call the House to order. Having examined

and approved the Journal of the last day’s proceedings, the

Speaker shall announce to the House his approval thereof.
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The Speaker’s approval of the Journal shall be deemed

agreed to unless a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner demands a vote thereon. If such a vote is decided in

the affirmative, it shall not be subject to a motion to reconsider. If such a vote is decided in the negative, then one motion that the Journal be read shall be privileged, shall be decided without debate, and shall not be subject to a motion to

reconsider.

Preservation of order

2. The Speaker shall preserve order and decorum and,

in case of disturbance or disorderly conduct in the galleries

or in the lobby, may cause the same to be cleared.

Control of Capitol facilities

3. Except as otherwise provided by rule or law, the

Speaker shall have general control of the Hall of the House,

the corridors and passages in the part of the Capitol assigned

to the use of the House, and the disposal of unappropriated

rooms in that part of the Capitol.

Signature of documents

4. The Speaker shall sign all acts and joint resolutions

passed by the two Houses and all writs, warrants, and subpoenas of, or issued by order of, the House. The Speaker may

sign enrolled bills and joint resolutions whether or not the

House is in session.
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Questions of order

5. The Speaker shall decide all questions of order, subject to appeal by a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner. On such an appeal a Member, Delegate, or Resident

Commissioner may not speak more than once without permission of the House.

Form of a question

6. The Speaker shall rise to put a question but may

state it sitting. The Speaker shall put a question in this form:

‘‘Those in favor (of the question), say ‘Aye.’ ’’; and after the

affirmative voice is expressed, ‘‘Those opposed, say ‘No.’ ’’.

After a vote by voice under this clause, the Speaker may use

such voting procedures as may be invoked under rule XX.

Discretion to vote

7. The Speaker is not required to vote in ordinary legislative proceedings, except when his vote would be decisive or

when the House is engaged in voting by ballot.

Speaker pro tempore

8. (a) The Speaker may appoint a Member to perform

the duties of the Chair. Except as specified in paragraph (b),

such an appointment may not extend beyond three legislative

days.

(b)(1) In the case of his illness, the Speaker may appoint a Member to perform the duties of the Chair for a period not exceeding 10 days, subject to the approval of the

House. If the Speaker is absent and has omitted to make
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such an appointment, then the House shall elect a Speaker

pro tempore to act during the absence of the Speaker.

(2) With the approval of the House, the Speaker may

appoint a Member to act as Speaker pro tempore only to sign

enrolled bills and joint resolutions for a specified period of

time.

Term limit

9. A person may not serve as Speaker for more than

four consecutive Congresses (disregarding for this purpose

any service for less than a full session in any Congress).

Designation of travel

10. The Speaker may designate a Member, Delegate,

Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House to

travel on the business of the House within or without the

United States, whether the House is meeting, has recessed,

or has adjourned. Expenses for such travel may be paid from

applicable accounts of the House described in clause 1(i)(1)

of rule X on vouchers approved and signed solely by the

Speaker.

Committee appointment

11. The Speaker shall appoint all select, joint, and conference committees ordered by the House. At any time after

an original appointment, the Speaker may remove Members,

Delegates, or the Resident Commissioner from, or appoint

additional Members, Delegates, or the Resident Commissioner
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to, a select or conference committee. In appointing Members,

Delegates, or the Resident Commissioner to conference committees, the Speaker shall appoint no less than a majority

who generally supported the House position as determined by

the Speaker, shall name those who are primarily responsible

for the legislation, and shall, to the fullest extent feasible, include the principal proponents of the major provisions of the

bill or resolution passed or adopted by the House.

Declaration of recess

12. To suspend the business of the House for a short

time when no question is pending before the House, the

Speaker may declare a recess subject to the call of the Chair.

Other responsibilities

13. The Speaker, in consultation with the Minority

Leader, shall develop through an appropriate entity of the

House a system for drug testing in the House. The system

may provide for the testing of a Member, Delegate, Resident

Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House, and otherwise shall be comparable in scope to the system for drug testing in the executive branch pursuant to Executive Order

12564 (Sept. 15, 1986). The expenses of the system may be

paid from applicable accounts of the House for official expenses.
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RULE II.

OTHER OFFICERS AND OFFICIALS.

Elections

1. There shall be elected at the commencement of each

Congress, to continue in office until their successors are chosen and qualified, a Clerk, a Sergeant-at-Arms, a Chief Administrative Officer, and a Chaplain. Each of these officers

shall take an oath to support the Constitution of the United

States, and for the true and faithful exercise of the duties of

his office to the best of his knowledge and ability, and to

keep the secrets of the House. Each of these officers shall appoint all of the employees of his department provided for by

law. The Clerk, Sergeant-at-Arms, and Chief Administrative

Officer may be removed by the House or by the Speaker.

Clerk

2. (a) At the commencement of the first session of each

Congress, the Clerk shall call the Members, Delegates, and

Resident Commissioner to order and proceed to record their

presence by States in alphabetical order, either by call of the

roll or by use of the electronic voting system. Pending the

election of a Speaker or Speaker pro tempore, the Clerk shall

preserve order and decorum and decide all questions of order,

subject to appeal by a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner.
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(b) At the commencement of every regular session of

Congress, the Clerk shall make and cause to be printed and

delivered to each Member, Delegate, and the Resident Commissioner a list of the reports that any officer or Department

is required to make to Congress, citing the law or resolution

in which the requirement may be contained and placing under

the name of each officer the list of reports he is required to

make.

(c) The Clerk shall—

(1) note all questions of order, with the decisions

thereon, the record of which shall be appended to the

Journal of each session;

(2) enter on the Journal the hour at which the

House adjourns;

(3) complete the printing and distribution of the

Journal to Members, Delegates, and the Resident Commissioner, together with an accurate and complete index,

as soon as possible after the close of a session; and

(4) send a printed copy of the Journal to the executive of and to each branch of the legislature of every

State as may be requested by such State officials.

(d) The Clerk shall attest and affix the seal of the

House to all writs, warrants, and subpoenas issued by order

of the House and certify the passage of all bills and joint resolutions.
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(e) The Clerk shall cause the calendars of the House to

be printed and distributed each legislative day.

(f) The Clerk shall—

(1) retain in the library at the Office of the Clerk

for the use of the Members, Delegates, Resident Commissioner, and officers of the House, and not to be withdrawn therefrom, two copies of all the books and printed

documents deposited there; and

(2) deliver or mail to any Member, Delegate, or the

Resident Commissioner an extra copy, in binding of good

quality, of each document requested by that Member,

Delegate, or Resident Commissioner that has been printed by order of either House of Congress in any Congress

in which the Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner served.

(g) The Clerk shall provide for his temporary absence or

disability by designating an official in the Office of the Clerk

to sign all papers that may require the official signature of

the Clerk and to do all other official acts that the Clerk may

be required to do under the rules and practices of the House,

except such official acts as are provided for by statute. Official acts done by the designated official shall be under the

name of the Clerk. The designation shall be in writing and

shall be laid before the House and entered on the Journal.
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(h) The Clerk may receive messages from the President

and from the Senate at any time when the House is not in

session.

(i)(1) The Clerk shall supervise the staff and manage

the office of a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner

who has died, resigned, or been expelled until a successor is

elected. The Clerk shall perform similar duties in the event

that a vacancy is declared by the House in any congressional

district because of the incapacity of the person representing

such district or other reason. Whenever the Clerk is acting

as a supervisory authority over such staff, he shall have authority to terminate employees and, with the approval of the

Committee on House Administration, may appoint such staff

as is required to operate the office until a successor is elected.

(2) For 60 days following the death of a former Speaker,

the Clerk shall maintain on the House payroll, and shall supervise in the same manner, staff appointed under House

Resolution 1238, Ninety-first Congress (as enacted into permanent law by chapter VIII of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1971) (2 U.S.C. 31b–5).

(j) In addition to any other reports required by the

Speaker or the Committee on House Administration, the

Clerk shall report to the Committee on House Administration

not later than 45 days following the close of each semiannual
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period ending on June 30 or on December 31 on the financial

and operational status of each function under the jurisdiction

of the Clerk. Each report shall include financial statements

and a description or explanation of current operations, the

implementation of new policies and procedures, and future

plans for each function.

(k) The Clerk shall fully cooperate with the appropriate

offices and persons in the performance of reviews and audits

of financial records and administrative operations.

Sergeant-at-Arms

3. (a) The Sergeant-at-Arms shall attend the House during its sittings and maintain order under the direction of the

Speaker or other presiding officer. The Sergeant-at-Arms

shall execute the commands of the House, and all processes

issued by authority thereof, directed to him by the Speaker.

(b) The symbol of the office of the Sergeant-at-Arms

shall be the mace, which shall be borne by him while enforcing order on the floor.

(c) The Sergeant-at-Arms shall enforce strictly the rules

relating to the privileges of the Hall of the House and be responsible to the House for the official conduct of his employees.

(d) The Sergeant-at-Arms may not allow a person to

enter the room over the Hall of the House during its sittings;

and from 15 minutes before the hour of the meeting of the
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House each day until 10 minutes after adjournment, he shall

see that the floor is cleared of all persons except those privileged to remain.

(e) In addition to any other reports required by the

Speaker or the Committee on House Administration, the Sergeant-at-Arms shall report to the Committee on House Administration not later than 45 days following the close of

each semiannual period ending on June 30 or on December

31 on the financial and operational status of each function

under the jurisdiction of the Sergeant-at-Arms. Each report

shall include financial statements and a description or explanation of current operations, the implementation of new policies and procedures, and future plans for each function.

(f) The Sergeant-at-Arms shall fully cooperate with the

appropriate offices and persons in the performance of reviews

and audits of financial records and administrative operations.

Chief Administrative Officer

4. (a) The Chief Administrative Officer shall have operational and financial responsibility for functions as assigned

by the Committee on House Administration and shall be subject to the policy direction and oversight of the Committee on

House Administration.

(b) In addition to any other reports required by the

Committee on House Administration, the Chief Administrative Officer shall report to the Committee on House Adminis-
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tration not later than 45 days following the close of each

semiannual period ending on June 30 or December 31 on the

financial and operational status of each function under the

jurisdiction of the Chief Administrative Officer. Each report

shall include financial statements and a description or explanation of current operations, the implementation of new policies and procedures, and future plans for each function.

(c) The Chief Administrative Officer shall fully cooperate

with the appropriate offices and persons in the performance

of reviews and audits of financial records and administrative

operations.

Chaplain

5. The Chaplain shall offer a prayer at the commencement of each day’s sitting of the House.

Office of Inspector General

6. (a) There is established an Office of Inspector General.

(b) The Inspector General shall be appointed for a Congress by the Speaker, the Majority Leader, and the Minority

Leader, acting jointly.

(c) Subject to the policy direction and oversight of the

Committee on House Administration, the Inspector General

shall only—

(1) conduct periodic audits of the financial and administrative functions of the House and of joint entities;
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(2) inform the officers or other officials who are the

subject of an audit of the results of that audit and suggesting appropriate curative actions;

(3) simultaneously notify the Speaker, the Majority

Leader, the Minority Leader, and the chairman and

ranking minority member of the Committee on House

Administration in the case of any financial irregularity

discovered in the course of carrying out responsibilities

under this clause;

(4) simultaneously submit to the Speaker, the Majority Leader, the Minority Leader, and the chairman

and ranking minority member of the Committee on

House Administration a report of each audit conducted

under this clause; and

(5) report to the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct information involving possible violations by

a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or

employee of the House of any rule of the House or of

any law applicable to the performance of official duties

or the discharge of official responsibilities that may require referral to the appropriate Federal or State authorities under clause 3(a)(3) of rule XI.

Office of the Historian

7. There is established an Office of the Historian of the

House of Representatives. The Speaker shall appoint and set
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the annual rate of pay for employees of the Office of the Historian.

Office of General Counsel

8. There is established an Office of General Counsel for

the purpose of providing legal assistance and representation

to the House. Legal assistance and representation shall be

provided without regard to political affiliation. The Office of

General Counsel shall function pursuant to the direction of

the Speaker, who shall consult with a Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group, which shall include the majority and minority

leaderships. The Speaker shall appoint and set the annual

rate of pay for employees of the Office of General Counsel.

RULE III.

THE MEMBERS, DELEGATES, AND RESIDENT COMMISSIONER

OF PUERTO RICO.

Voting

1. Every Member shall be present within the Hall of the

House during its sittings, unless excused or necessarily prevented, and shall vote on each question put, unless he has a

direct personal or pecuniary interest in the event of such

question.

2. (a) A Member may not authorize any other person to

cast his vote or record his presence in the House or the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
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(b) No other person may cast a Member’s vote or record

a Member’s presence in the House or the Committee of the

Whole House on the state of the Union.

Delegates and the Resident Commissioner

3. (a) Each Delegate and the Resident Commissioner

shall be elected to serve on standing committees in the same

manner as Members of the House and shall possess in such

committees the same powers and privileges as the other members of the committee.

(b) The Delegates and the Resident Commissioner may

be appointed to any select committee and to any conference

committee.

RULE IV.

THE HALL OF THE HOUSE.

Use and admittance

1. The Hall of the House shall be used only for the legislative business of the House and for caucus and conference

meetings of its Members, except when the House agrees to

take part in any ceremonies to be observed therein. The

Speaker may not entertain a motion for the suspension of

this clause.

2. (a) Only the following persons shall be admitted to

the Hall of the House or rooms leading thereto:
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(1) Members of Congress, Members-elect, and contestants in election cases during the pendency of their

cases on the floor.

(2) The Delegates and the Resident Commissioner.

(3) The President and Vice President of the United

States and their private secretaries.

(4) Justices of the Supreme Court.

(5) Elected officers and minority employees nominated as elected officers of the House.

(6) The Parliamentarian.

(7) Staff of committees when business from their

committee is under consideration.

(8) Not more than one person from the staff of a

Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner when that

Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner has an

amendment under consideration (subject to clause 5).

(9) The Architect of the Capitol.

(10) The Librarian of Congress and the assistant in

charge of the Law Library.

(11) The Secretary and Sergeant-at-Arms of the

Senate.

(12) Heads of departments.

(13) Foreign ministers.

(14) Governors of States.
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(15) Former Members, Delegates, and Resident

Commissioners; former Parliamentarians of the House;

and former elected officers and minority employees nominated as elected officers of the House (subject to clause

4).

(16) One attorney to accompany a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner who is the respondent in

an investigation undertaken by the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct when a recommendation of that

committee is under consideration in the House.

(17) Such persons as have, by name, received the

thanks of Congress.

(b) The Speaker may not entertain a unanimous consent

request or a motion to suspend this clause.

3. (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b), all persons

not entitled to the privilege of the floor during the session

shall be excluded at all times from the Hall of the House and

the cloakrooms.

(b) Until 15 minutes of the hour of the meeting of the

House, persons employed in its service, accredited members

of the press entitled to admission to the press gallery, and

other persons on request of a Member, Delegate, or Resident

Commissioner by card or in writing, may be admitted to the

Hall of the House.
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4. (a) Former Members, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners; former Parliamentarians of the House; and

former elected officers and minority employees nominated as

elected officers of the House shall be entitled to the privilege

of admission to the Hall of the House and rooms leading

thereto only if—

(1) they do not have any direct personal or pecuniary interest in any legislative measure pending before

the House or reported by a committee; and

(2) they are not in the employ of, or do not represent, any party or organization for the purpose of influencing, directly or indirectly, the passage, defeat, or

amendment of any legislative measure pending before

the House, reported by a committee, or under consideration in any of its committees or subcommittees.

(b) The Speaker shall promulgate such regulations as

may be necessary to implement this rule and to ensure its enforcement.

5. A person from the staff of a Member, Delegate, or

Resident Commissioner may be admitted to the Hall of the

House or rooms leading thereto under clause 2 only upon

prior notice to the Speaker. Such persons, and persons from

the staff of committees admitted under clause 2, may not engage in efforts in the Hall of the House or rooms leading

thereto to influence Members with regard to the legislation
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being amended. Such persons shall remain at the desk and

are admitted only to advise the Member, Delegate, Resident

Commissioner, or committee responsible for their admission.

A person who violates this clause may be excluded during the

session from the Hall of the House and rooms leading thereto

by the Speaker.

Gallery

6. (a) The Speaker shall set aside a portion of the west

gallery for the use of the President, the members of the Cabinet, justices of the Supreme Court, foreign ministers and

suites, and the members of their respective families. The

Speaker shall set aside another portion of the same gallery

for the accommodation of persons to be admitted on the

cards of Members, Delegates, or the Resident Commissioner.

(b) The Speaker shall set aside the southerly half of the

east gallery for the use of the families of Members of Congress. The Speaker shall control one bench. On the request

of a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or Senator,

the Speaker shall issue a card of admission to his family,

which may include their visitors. No other person shall be admitted to this section.

Prohibition on campaign contributions

7. A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer,

or employee of the House, or any other person entitled to admission to the Hall of the House or rooms leading thereto by
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this rule, may not knowingly distribute a political campaign

contribution in the Hall of the House or rooms leading thereto.

RULE V.

BROADCASTING THE HOUSE.

1. The Speaker shall administer a system subject to his

direction and control for closed-circuit viewing of floor proceedings of the House in the offices of all Members, Delegates, the Resident Commissioner, and committees and in

such other places in the Capitol and the House Office Buildings as he considers appropriate. Such system may include

other telecommunications functions as the Speaker considers

appropriate. Any such telecommunications shall be subject to

rules and regulations issued by the Speaker.

2. (a) The Speaker shall administer a system subject to

his direction and control for complete and unedited audio and

visual broadcasting and recording of the proceedings of the

House. The Speaker shall provide for the distribution of such

broadcasts and recordings to news media, for the storage of

audio and video recordings of the proceedings, and for the

closed-captioning of the proceedings for hearing-impaired persons.

(b) All television and radio broadcasting stations, networks, services, and systems (including cable systems) that

are accredited to the House Radio and Television Cor-
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respondents’ Galleries, and all radio and television correspondents who are so accredited, shall be provided access

to the live coverage of the House.

(c) Coverage made available under this clause, including

any recording thereof—

(1) may not be used for any political purpose;

(2) may not be used in any commercial advertisement; and

(3) may not be broadcast with commercial sponsorship except as part of a bona fide news program or public affairs documentary program.

3. The Speaker may delegate any of his responsibilities

under this rule to such legislative entity as he considers appropriate.

RULE VI.

OFFICIAL REPORTERS AND NEWS MEDIA GALLERIES.

Official reporters

1. Subject to the direction and control of the Speaker,

the Clerk shall appoint, and may remove for cause, the official reporters of the House, including stenographers of committees, and shall supervise the execution of their duties.

News media galleries

2. A portion of the gallery over the Speaker’s chair as

may be necessary to accommodate representatives of the

press wishing to report debates and proceedings shall be set
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aside for their use. Reputable reporters and correspondents

shall be admitted thereto under such regulations as the

Speaker may prescribe from time to time. The Standing

Committee of Correspondents for the Press Gallery, and the

Executive Committee of Correspondents for the Periodical

Press Gallery, shall supervise such galleries, including the

designation of its employees, subject to the direction and control of the Speaker. The Speaker may assign one seat on the

floor to Associated Press reporters and one to United Press

International reporters, and may regulate their occupation.

The Speaker may admit to the floor, under such regulations

as he may prescribe, one additional representative of each

press association.

3. A portion of the gallery as may be necessary to accommodate reporters of news to be disseminated by radio, television, and similar means of transmission, wishing to report

debates and proceedings, shall be set aside for their use. Reputable reporters and correspondents shall be admitted thereto

under such regulations as the Speaker may prescribe. The

Executive Committee of the Radio and Television Correspondents’ Galleries shall supervise such gallery, including

the designation of its employees, subject to the direction and

control of the Speaker. The Speaker may admit to the floor,

under such regulations as he may prescribe, one representative of the National Broadcasting Company, one of the Co-
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lumbia Broadcasting System, and one of the American

Broadcasting Company.

RULE VII.

RECORDS OF THE HOUSE.

Archiving

1. (a) At the end of each Congress, the chairman of each

committee shall transfer to the Clerk any noncurrent records

of such committee, including the subcommittees thereof.

(b) At the end of each Congress, each officer of the

House elected under rule II shall transfer to the Clerk any

noncurrent records made or acquired in the course of the duties of such officer.

2. The Clerk shall deliver the records transferred under

clause 1, together with any other noncurrent records of the

House, to the Archivist of the United States for preservation

at the National Archives and Records Administration.

Records so delivered are the permanent property of the

House and remain subject to this rule and any order of the

House.

Public availability

3. (a) The Clerk shall authorize the Archivist to make

records delivered under clause 2 available for public use, subject to paragraph (b), clause 4, and any order of the House.
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(b)(1) A record shall immediately be made available if it

was previously made available for public use by the House or

a committee or a subcommittee.

(2) An investigative record that contains personal data

relating to a specific living person (the disclosure of which

would be an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy), an

administrative record relating to personnel, or a record relating to a hearing that was closed under clause 2(g)(2) of rule

XI shall be made available if it has been in existence for 50

years.

(3) A record for which a time, schedule, or condition for

availability is specified by order of the House shall be made

available in accordance with that order. Except as otherwise

provided by order of the House, a record of a committee for

which a time, schedule, or condition for availability is specified by order of the committee (entered during the Congress

in which the record is made or acquired by the committee)

shall be made available in accordance with the order of the

committee.

(4) A record (other than a record referred to in subparagraph (1), (2), or (3)) shall be made available if it has been

in existence for 30 years.

4. (a) A record may not be made available for public use

under clause 3 if the Clerk determines that such availability

would be detrimental to the public interest or inconsistent
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with the rights and privileges of the House. The Clerk shall

notify in writing the chairman and ranking minority member

of the Committee on House Administration of any such determination.

(b) A determination of the Clerk under paragraph (a) is

subject to later orders of the House and, in the case of a

record of a committee, later orders of the committee.

5. (a) This rule does not supersede rule VIII or clause

9 of rule X and does not authorize the public disclosure of

any record if such disclosure is prohibited by law or executive

order of the President.

(b) The Committee on House Administration may prescribe guidelines and regulations governing the applicability

and implementation of this rule.

(c) A committee may withdraw from the National Archives and Records Administration any record of the committee delivered to the Archivist under this rule. Such a withdrawal shall be on a temporary basis and for official use of

the committee.

Definition of record

6. In this rule the term ‘‘record’’ means any official, permanent record of the House (other than a record of an individual Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner),

including—
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(a) with respect to a committee, an official, permanent record of the committee (including any record of a

legislative, oversight, or other activity of such committee

or a subcommittee thereof); and

(b) with respect to an officer of the House elected

under rule II, an official, permanent record made or acquired in the course of the duties of such officer.

Withdrawal of papers

7. A memorial or other paper presented to the House

may not be withdrawn from its files without its leave. If withdrawn certified copies thereof shall be left in the office of the

Clerk. When an act passes for the settlement of a claim, the

Clerk may transmit to the officer charged with the settlement

thereof the papers on file in his office relating to such claim.

The Clerk may lend temporarily to an officer or bureau of

the executive departments any papers on file in his office relating to any matter pending before such officer or bureau,

taking proper receipt therefor.

RULE VIII.

RESPONSE TO SUBPOENAS.

1. When a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner,

officer, or employee of the House is properly served with a

subpoena or other judicial order directing appearance as a

witness relating to the official functions of the House or for

the production or disclosure of any document relating to the
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official functions of the House, such Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee shall comply, consistently with the privileges and rights of the House, with the

subpoena or other judicial order as hereinafter provided, unless otherwise determined under this rule.

2. Upon receipt of a properly served subpoena or other

judicial order described in clause 1, a Member, Delegate,

Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House

shall promptly notify the Speaker of its receipt in writing.

Such notification shall promptly be laid before the House by

the Speaker. During a period of recess or adjournment of

longer than three days, notification to the House is not required until the reconvening of the House, when the notification shall promptly be laid before the House by the Speaker.

3. Once notification has been laid before the House, the

Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House shall determine whether the issuance of

the subpoena or other judicial order described in clause 1 is

a proper exercise of jurisdiction by the court, is material and

relevant, and is consistent with the privileges and rights of

the House. Such Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner,

officer, or employee shall notify the Speaker before seeking

judicial determination of these matters.

4. Upon determination whether a subpoena or other judicial order described in clause 1 is a proper exercise of juris-
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diction by the court, is material and relevant, and is consistent with the privileges and rights of the House, the Member,

Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the

House shall immediately notify the Speaker of the determination in writing.

5. The Speaker shall inform the House of a determination whether a subpoena or other judicial order described in

clause 1 is a proper exercise of jurisdiction by the court, is

material and relevant, and is consistent with the privileges

and rights of the House. In so informing the House, the

Speaker shall generally describe the records or information

sought. During a period of recess or adjournment of longer

than three days, such notification is not required until the reconvening of the House, when the notification shall promptly

be laid before the House by the Speaker.

6. (a) Except as specified in paragraph (b) or otherwise

ordered by the House, upon notification to the House that a

subpoena or other judicial order described in clause 1 is a

proper exercise of jurisdiction by the court, is material and

relevant, and is consistent with the privileges and rights of

the House, the Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner,

officer, or employee of the House shall comply with the subpoena or other judicial order by supplying certified copies.

(b) Under no circumstances may minutes or transcripts

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thereto, be disclosed or copied. During a period of recess or

adjournment of longer than three days, the Speaker may authorize compliance or take such other action as he considers

appropriate under the circumstances. Upon the reconvening

of the House, all matters that transpired under this clause

shall promptly be laid before the House by the Speaker.

7. A copy of this rule shall be transmitted by the Clerk

to the court when a subpoena or other judicial order described in clause 1 is issued and served on a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the

House.

8. Nothing in this rule shall be construed to deprive,

condition, or waive the constitutional or legal privileges or

rights applicable or available at any time to a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the

House, or of the House itself, or the right of such Member,

Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee, or of

the House itself, to assert such privileges or rights before a

court in the United States.

RULE IX.

QUESTIONS OF PRIVILEGE.

1. Questions of privilege shall be, first, those affecting

the rights of the House collectively, its safety, dignity, and

the integrity of its proceedings; and second, those affecting

the rights, reputation, and conduct of Members, Delegates, or
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the Resident Commissioner, individually, in their representative capacity only.

2. (a)(1) A resolution reported as a question of the privileges of the House, or offered from the floor by the Majority

Leader or the Minority Leader as a question of the privileges

of the House, or offered as privileged under clause 1, section

7, article I of the Constitution, shall have precedence of all

other questions except motions to adjourn. A resolution offered from the floor by a Member, Delegate, or Resident

Commissioner other than the Majority Leader or the Minority

Leader as a question of the privileges of the House shall have

precedence of all other questions except motions to adjourn

only at a time or place, designated by the Speaker, in the legislative schedule within two legislative days after the day on

which the proponent announces to the House his intention to

offer the resolution and the form of the resolution. Oral announcement of the form of the resolution may be dispensed

with by unanimous consent.

(2) The time allotted for debate on a resolution offered

from the floor as a question of the privileges of the House

shall be equally divided between (A) the proponent of the resolution, and (B) the Majority Leader, the Minority Leader,

or a designee, as determined by the Speaker.

(b) A question of personal privilege shall have precedence of all other questions except motions to adjourn.
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RULE X.

ORGANIZATION OF COMMITTEES.

Committees and their legislative jurisdictions

1. There shall be in the House the following standing

committees, each of which shall have the jurisdiction and related functions assigned by this clause and clauses 2, 3, and

4. All bills, resolutions, and other matters relating to subjects

within the jurisdiction of the standing committees listed in

this clause shall be referred to those committees, in accordance with clause 2 of rule XII, as follows:

(a) Committee on Agriculture.

(1) Adulteration of seeds, insect pests, and

protection of birds and animals in forest reserves.

(2) Agriculture generally.

(3) Agricultural and industrial chemistry.

(4) Agricultural colleges and experiment stations.

(5) Agricultural economics and research.

(6) Agricultural education extension services.

(7) Agricultural production and marketing and

stabilization of prices of agricultural products, and

commodities (not including distribution outside of

the United States).

(8) Animal industry and diseases of animals.

(9) Commodity exchanges.
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(10) Crop insurance and soil conservation.

(11) Dairy industry.

(12) Entomology and plant quarantine.

(13) Extension of farm credit and farm security.

(14) Inspection of livestock, poultry, meat

products, and seafood and seafood products.

(15) Forestry in general and forest reserves

other than those created from the public domain.

(16) Human nutrition and home economics.

(17) Plant industry, soils, and agricultural engineering.

(18) Rural electrification.

(19) Rural development.

(20) Water conservation related to activities of

the Department of Agriculture.

(b) Committee on Appropriations.

(1) Appropriation of the revenue for the support of the Government.

(2) Rescissions of appropriations contained in

appropriation Acts.

(3) Transfers of unexpended balances.

(4) Bills and joint resolutions reported by

other committees that provide new entitlement authority as defined in section 3(9) of the Congres-
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sional Budget Act of 1974 and referred to the committee under clause 4(a)(2).

(c) Committee on Armed Services.

(1) Ammunition depots; forts; arsenals; and

Army, Navy, and Air Force reservations and establishments.

(2) Common defense generally.

(3) Conservation, development, and use of

naval petroleum and oil shale reserves.

(4) The Department of Defense generally, including the Departments of the Army, Navy, and

Air Force, generally.

(5) Interoceanic canals generally, including

measures relating to the maintenance, operation,

and administration of interoceanic canals.

(6) Merchant Marine Academy and State Maritime Academies.

(7) Military applications of nuclear energy.

(8) Tactical intelligence and intelligence-related

activities of the Department of Defense.

(9) National security aspects of merchant marine, including financial assistance for the construction and operation of vessels, maintenance of the

U.S. shipbuilding and ship repair industrial base,

cabotage, cargo preference, and merchant marine
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officers and seamen as these matters relate to the

national security.

(10) Pay, promotion, retirement, and other

benefits and privileges of members of the armed

forces.

(11) Scientific research and development in

support of the armed services.

(12) Selective service.

(13) Size and composition of the Army, Navy,

Marine Corps, and Air Force.

(14) Soldiers’ and sailors’ homes.

(15) Strategic and critical materials necessary

for the common defense.

(d) Committee on Banking and Financial

Services.

(1) Banks and banking, including deposit insurance and Federal monetary policy.

(2) Bank capital markets activities generally.

(3) Depository institutions securities activities

generally, including activities of any affiliates (except for functional regulation under applicable securities laws not involving safety and soundness).

(4) Economic stabilization, defense production,

renegotiation, and control of the price of commodities, rents, and services.
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(5) Financial aid to commerce and industry

(other than transportation).

(6) International finance.

(7) International financial and monetary organizations.

(8) Money and credit, including currency and

this issuance of notes and redemption thereof; gold

and silver, including the coinage thereof; valuation

and revaluation of the dollar.

(9) Public and private housing.

(10) Urban development.

(e) Committee on the Budget.

(1) Concurrent resolutions on the budget (as

defined in section 3(4) 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.

(2) Budget process generally.

(3) Establishment, extension, and enforcement

of special controls over the Federal budget, including the budgetary treatment of off-budget Federal

agencies and measures providing exemption from

reduction under any order issued under part C of
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the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.

(f) Committee on Commerce.

(1) Biomedical research and development.

(2) Consumer affairs and consumer protection.

(3) Health and health facilities (except health

care supported by payroll deductions).

(4) Interstate energy compacts.

(5) Interstate and foreign commerce generally.

(6) Exploration, production, storage, supply,

marketing, pricing, and regulation of energy resources, including all fossil fuels, solar energy, and

other unconventional or renewable energy resources.

(7) Conservation of energy resources.

(8) Energy information generally.

(9) The generation and marketing of power

(except by federally chartered or Federal regional

power marketing authorities); reliability and interstate transmission of, and ratemaking for, all

power; and siting of generation facilities (except the

installation of interconnections between Government

waterpower projects).

(10) General management of the Department

of Energy and management and all functions of the

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
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(11) National energy policy generally.

(12) Public health and quarantine.

(13) Regulation of the domestic nuclear energy

industry, including regulation of research and development reactors and nuclear regulatory research.

(14) Regulation of interstate and foreign communications.

(15) Securities and exchanges.

(16) Travel and tourism.

The committee shall have the same jurisdiction with respect to regulation of nuclear facilities and of use of nuclear energy as it has with respect to regulation of nonnuclear facilities and of use of nonnuclear energy.

(g) Committee on Education and the

Workforce.

(1) Child labor.

(2) Gallaudet University and Howard University and Hospital.

(3) Convict labor and the entry of goods made

by convicts into interstate commerce.

(4) Food programs for children in schools.

(5) Labor standards and statistics.

(6) Education or labor generally.

(7) Mediation and arbitration of labor disputes.
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(8) Regulation or prevention of importation of

foreign laborers under contract.

(9) Workers’ compensation.

(10) Vocational rehabilitation.

(11) Wages and hours of labor.

(12) Welfare of miners.

(13) Work incentive programs.

(h) Committee on Government Reform.

(1) Federal civil service, including intergovernmental personnel; and the status of officers and employees of the United States, including their compensation, classification, and retirement.

(2) Municipal affairs of the District of Columbia in general (other than appropriations).

(3) Federal paperwork reduction.

(4) Government management and accounting

measures generally.

(5) Holidays and celebrations.

(6) Overall economy, efficiency, and management of government operations and activities, including Federal procurement.

(7) National archives.

(8) Population and demography generally, including the Census.
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(9) Postal service generally, including transportation of the mails.

(10) Public information and records.

(11) Relationship of the Federal Government

to the States and municipalities generally.

(12) Reorganizations in the executive branch of

the Government.

(i) Committee on House Administration.

(1) Appropriations from accounts for committee salaries and expenses (except for the Committee

on Appropriations); House Information Resources;

and allowance and expenses of Members, Delegates,

the Resident Commissioner, officers, and administrative offices of the House.

(2) Auditing and settling of all accounts described in subparagraph (1).

(3) Employment of persons by the House, including staff for Members, Delegates, the Resident

Commissioner, and committees; and reporters of debates, subject to rule VI.

(4) Except as provided in paragraph (q)(11),

the Library of Congress, including management

thereof; the House Library; statuary and pictures;

acceptance or purchase of works of art for the Cap-
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itol; the Botanic Garden; and purchase of books and

manuscripts.

(5) The Smithsonian Institution and the incorporation of similar institutions (except as provided

in paragraph (q)(11)).

(6) Expenditure of accounts described in subparagraph (1).

(7) Franking Commission.

(8) Printing and correction of the Congressional Record.

(9) Accounts of the House generally.

(10) Assignment of office space for Members,

Delegates, the Resident Commissioner, and committees.

(11) Disposition of useless executive papers.

(12) Election of the President, Vice President,

Members, Senators, Delegates, or the Resident

Commissioner; corrupt practices; contested elections; credentials and qualifications; and Federal

elections generally.

(13) Services to the House, including the

House Restaurant, parking facilities, and administration of the House Office Buildings and of the

House wing of the Capitol.
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(14) Travel of Members, Delegates, and the

Resident Commissioner.

(15) Raising, reporting, and use of campaign

contributions for candidates for office of Representative, of Delegate, and of Resident Commissioner.

(16) Compensation, retirement, and other benefits of the Members, Delegates, the Resident Commissioner, officers, and employees of Congress.

(j) Committee on International Relations.

(1) Relations of the United States with foreign

nations generally.

(2) Acquisition of land and buildings for embassies and legations in foreign countries.

(3) Establishment of boundary lines between

the United States and foreign nations.

(4) Export controls, including nonproliferation

of nuclear technology and nuclear hardware.

(5) Foreign loans.

(6) International commodity agreements (other

than those involving sugar), including all agreements for cooperation in the export of nuclear technology and nuclear hardware.

(7) International conferences and congresses.

(8) International education.
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(9) Intervention abroad and declarations of

war.

(10) Diplomatic service.

(11) Measures to foster commercial intercourse

with foreign nations and to safeguard American

business interests abroad.

(12) International economic policy.

(13) Neutrality.

(14) Protection of American citizens abroad

and expatriation.

(15) The American National Red Cross.

(16) Trading with the enemy.

(17) United Nations organizations.

(k) Committee on the Judiciary.

(1) The judiciary and judicial proceedings, civil

and criminal.

(2) Administrative practice and procedure.

(3) Apportionment of Representatives.

(4) Bankruptcy, mutiny, espionage, and counterfeiting.

(5) Civil liberties.

(6) Constitutional amendments.

(7) Federal courts and judges, and local courts

in the Territories and possessions.

(8) Immigration and naturalization.
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(9) Interstate compacts generally.

(10) Claims against the United States.

(11) Meetings of Congress; attendance of

Members, Delegates, and the Resident Commissioner; and their acceptance of incompatible offices.

(12) National penitentiaries.

(13) Patents, the Patent and Trademark Office, copyrights, and trademarks.

(14) Presidential succession.

(15) Protection of trade and commerce against

unlawful restraints and monopolies.

(16) Revision and codification of the Statutes

of the United States.

(17) State and territorial boundary lines.

(18) Subversive activities affecting the internal

security of the United States.

(l) Committee on Resources.

(1) Fisheries and wildlife, including research,

restoration, refuges, and conservation.

(2) Forest reserves and national parks created

from the public domain.

(3) Forfeiture of land grants and alien ownership, including alien ownership of mineral lands.

(4) Geological Survey.

(5) International fishing agreements.
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(6) Interstate compacts relating to apportionment of waters for irrigation purposes.

(7) Irrigation and reclamation, including water

supply for reclamation projects and easements of

public lands for irrigation projects; and acquisition

of private lands when necessary to complete irrigation projects.

(8) Native Americans generally, including the

care and allotment of Native American lands and

general and special measures relating to claims that

are paid out of Native American funds.

(9) Insular possessions of the United States

generally (except those affecting the revenue and

appropriations).

(10) Military parks and battlefields, national

cemeteries administered by the Secretary of the Interior, parks within the District of Columbia, and

the erection of monuments to the memory of individuals.

(11) Mineral land laws and claims and entries

thereunder.

(12) Mineral resources of public lands.

(13) Mining interests generally.

(14) Mining schools and experimental stations.
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(15) Marine affairs, including coastal zone

management (except for measures relating to oil

and other pollution of navigable waters).

(16) Oceanography.

(17) Petroleum conservation on public lands

and conservation of the radium supply in the

United States.

(18) Preservation of prehistoric ruins and objects of interest on the public domain.

(19) Public lands generally, including entry,

easements, and grazing thereon.

(20) Relations of the United States with Native Americans and Native American tribes.

(21) Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline (except ratemaking).

(m) Committee on Rules.

(1) Rules and joint rules (other than those relating to the Code of Official Conduct) and the

order of business of the House.

(2) Recesses and final adjournments of Congress.

(n) Committee on Science.

(1) All energy research, development, and demonstration, and projects therefor, and all federally

owned or operated nonmilitary energy laboratories.
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(2) Astronautical research and development,

including resources, personnel, equipment, and facilities.

(3) Civil aviation research and development.

(4) Environmental research and development.

(5) Marine research.

(6) Commercial application of energy technology.

(7) National Institute of Standards and Technology, standardization of weights and measures,

and the metric system.

(8) National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

(9) National Space Council.

(10) National Science Foundation.

(11) National Weather Service.

(12) Outer space, including exploration and

control thereof.

(13) Science scholarships.

(14) Scientific research, development, and

demonstration, and projects therefor.

(o) Committee on Small Business.

(1) Assistance to and protection of small business, including financial aid, regulatory flexibility,

and paperwork reduction.
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(2) Participation of small-business enterprises

in Federal procurement and Government contracts.

(p) Committee on Standards of Official

Conduct.

The Code of Official Conduct.

(q) Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

(1) Coast Guard, including lifesaving service,

lighthouses, lightships, ocean derelicts, and the

Coast Guard Academy.

(2) Federal management of emergencies and

natural disasters.

(3) Flood control and improvement of rivers

and harbors.

(4) Inland waterways.

(5) Inspection of merchant marine vessels,

lights and signals, lifesaving equipment, and fire

protection on such vessels.

(6) Navigation and laws relating thereto, including pilotage.

(7) Registering and licensing of vessels and

small boats.

(8) Rules and international arrangements to

prevent collisions at sea.
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(9) The Capitol Building and the Senate and

House Office Buildings.

(10) Construction or maintenance of roads and

post roads (other than appropriations therefor).

(11) Construction or reconstruction, maintenance, and care of buildings and grounds of the Botanic Garden, the Library of Congress, and the

Smithsonian Institution.

(12) Merchant marine (except for national security aspects thereof).

(13) Purchase of sites and construction of post

offices, customhouses, Federal courthouses, and

Government buildings within the District of Columbia.

(14) Oil and other pollution of navigable waters, including inland, coastal, and ocean waters.

(15) Marine affairs, including coastal zone

management, as they relate to oil and other pollution of navigable waters.

(16) Public buildings and occupied or improved

grounds of the United States generally.

(17) Public works for the benefit of navigation,

including bridges and dams (other than international bridges and dams).
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(18) Related transportation regulatory agencies.

(19) Roads and the safety thereof.

(20) Transportation, including civil aviation,

railroads, water transportation, transportation safety (except automobile safety), transportation infrastructure, transportation labor, and railroad retirement and unemployment (except revenue measures

related thereto).

(21) Water power.

(r) Committee on Veterans’ Affairs.

(1) Veterans’ measures generally.

(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).

(3) Compensation, vocational rehabilitation,

and education of veterans.

(4) Life insurance issued by the Government

on account of service in the Armed Forces.

(5) Pensions of all the wars of the United

States, general and special.

(6) Readjustment of servicemen to civil life.

(7) Soldiers’ and sailors’ civil relief.
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(8) Veterans’ hospitals, medical care, and

treatment of veterans.

(s) Committee on Ways and Means.

(1) Customs, collection districts, and ports of

entry and delivery.

(2) Reciprocal trade agreements.

(3) Revenue measures generally.

(4) Revenue measures relating to insular possessions.

(5) Bonded debt of the United States, subject

to the last sentence of clause 4(f).

(6) Deposit of public monies.

(7) Transportation of dutiable goods.

(8) Tax exempt foundations and charitable

trusts.

(9) National social security (except health care

and facilities programs that are supported from

general revenues as opposed to payroll deductions

and except work incentive programs).

General oversight responsibilities

2. (a) The various standing committees shall have general oversight responsibilities as provided in paragraph (b) in

order to assist the House in—

(1) its analysis, appraisal, and evaluation of—
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(A) the application, administration, execution,

and effectiveness of Federal laws; and

(B) conditions and circumstances that may indicate the necessity or desirability of enacting new

or additional legislation; and

(2) its formulation, consideration, and enactment of

changes in Federal laws, and of such additional legislation as may be necessary or appropriate.

(b)(1) In order to determine whether laws and programs

addressing subjects within the jurisdiction of a committee are

being implemented and carried out in accordance with the intent of Congress and whether they should be continued, curtailed, or eliminated, each standing committee (other than the

Committee on Appropriations) shall review and study on a

continuing basis—

(A) the application, administration, execution, and

effectiveness of laws and programs addressing subjects

within its jurisdiction;

(B) the organization and operation of Federal agencies and entities having responsibilities for the administration and execution of laws and programs addressing

subjects within its jurisdiction;

(C) any conditions or circumstances that may indicate the necessity or desirability of enacting new or additional legislation addressing subjects within its jurisdic-
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tion (whether or not a bill or resolution has been introduced with respect thereto); and

(D) future research and forecasting on subjects

within its jurisdiction.

(2) Each committee to which subparagraph (1) applies

having more than 20 members shall establish an oversight

subcommittee, or require its subcommittees to conduct oversight in their respective jurisdictions, to assist in carrying out

its responsibilities under this clause. The establishment of an

oversight subcommittee does not limit the responsibility of a

subcommittee with legislative jurisdiction in carrying out its

oversight responsibilities.

(c) Each standing committee shall review and study on

a continuing basis the impact or probable impact of tax policies affecting subjects within its jurisdiction as described in

clauses 1 and 3.

(d)(1) Not later than February 15 of the first session

of a Congress, each standing committee shall, in a meeting

that is open to the public and with a quorum present, adopt

its oversight plan for that Congress. Such plan shall be submitted simultaneously to the Committee on Government Reform and to the Committee on House Administration. In developing its plan each committee shall, to the maximum extent feasible—
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(A) consult with other committees that have jurisdiction over the same or related laws, programs, or agencies within its jurisdiction with the objective of ensuring

maximum coordination and cooperation among committees when conducting reviews of such laws, programs, or

agencies and include in its plan an explanation of steps

that have been or will be taken to ensure such coordination and cooperation;

(B) give priority consideration to including in its

plan the review of those laws, programs, or agencies operating under permanent budget authority or permanent

statutory authority; and

(C) have a view toward ensuring that all significant

laws, programs, or agencies within its jurisdiction are

subject to review every 10 years.

(2) Not later than March 31 in the first session of a

Congress, after consultation with the Speaker, the Majority

Leader, and the Minority Leader, the Committee on Government Reform shall report to the House the oversight plans

submitted by committees together with any recommendations

that it, or the House leadership group described above, may

make to ensure the most effective coordination of oversight

plans and otherwise to achieve the objectives of this clause.

(e) The Speaker, with the approval of the House, may

appoint special ad hoc oversight committees for the purpose
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of reviewing specific matters within the jurisdiction of two or

more standing committees.

Special oversight functions

3. (a) The Committee on Appropriations shall conduct

such studies and examinations of the organization and operation of executive departments and other executive agencies

(including an agency the majority of the stock of which is

owned by the United States) as it considers necessary to assist it in the determination of matters within its jurisdiction.

(b) The Committee on the Budget shall study on a continuing basis the effect on budget outlays of relevant existing

and proposed legislation and report the results of such studies to the House on a recurring basis.

(c) The Committee on Commerce shall review and study

on a continuing basis laws, programs, and Government activities relating to nuclear and other energy and nonmilitary nuclear energy research and development including the disposal

of nuclear waste.

(d) The Committee on Education and the Workforce

shall review, study, and coordinate on a continuing basis

laws, programs, and Government activities relating to domestic educational programs and institutions and programs of

student assistance within the jurisdiction of other committees.
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(e) The Committee on Government Reform shall review

and study on a continuing basis the operation of Government

activities at all levels with a view to determining their economy and efficiency.

(f) The Committee on International Relations shall review and study on a continuing basis laws, programs, and

Government activities relating to customs administration, intelligence activities relating to foreign policy, international financial and monetary organizations, and international fishing

agreements.

(g) The Committee on Armed Services shall review and

study on a continuing basis laws, programs, and Government

activities relating to international arms control and disarmament and the education of military dependents in schools.

(h) The Committee on Resources shall review and study

on a continuing basis laws, programs, and Government activities relating to Native Americans.

(i) The Committee on Rules shall review and study on

a continuing basis the congressional budget process, and the

committee shall report its findings and recommendations to

the House from time to time.

(j) The Committee on Science shall review and study on

a continuing basis laws, programs, and Government activities

relating to nonmilitary research and development.
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(k) The Committee on Small Business shall study and

investigate on a continuing basis the problems of all types of

small business.

Additional functions of committees

4. (a)(1)(A) The Committee on Appropriations shall,

within 30 days after the transmittal of the Budget to Congress each year, hold hearings on the Budget as a whole with

particular reference to—

(i) the basic recommendations and budgetary policies of the President in the presentation of the Budget;

and

(ii) the fiscal, financial, and economic assumptions

used as bases in arriving at total estimated expenditures

and receipts.

(B) In holding hearings under subdivision (A), the committee shall receive testimony from the Secretary of the

Treasury, the Director of the Office of Management and

Budget, the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers,

and such other persons as the committee may desire.

(C) A hearing under 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

record vote that the testimony to be taken at that hearing on

that day may be related to a matter of national security. The

committee may by the same procedure close one subsequent
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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.

(D) A hearing under subdivision (A), or any part thereof, may be held before a joint meeting of the committee and

the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate in accordance

with such procedures as the two committees jointly may determine.

(2) Pursuant to section 401(b)(2) of the Congressional

Budget Act of 1974, when a committee reports a bill or joint

resolution that provides new entitlement authority as defined

in section 3(9) of that Act, and enactment of the bill or joint

resolution, as reported, would cause a breach of the committee’s pertinent allocation of new budget authority under section 302(a) of that Act, the bill or joint resolution may be

referred to the Committee on Appropriations with instructions to report it with recommendations (which may include

an amendment limiting the total amount of new entitlement

authority provided in the bill or joint resolution). If the Committee on Appropriations fails to report a bill or joint resolution so referred within 15 calendar days (not counting any

day on which the House is not in session), the committee

automatically shall be discharged from consideration of the

bill or joint resolution, and the bill or joint resolution shall

be placed on the appropriate calendar.
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(3) In addition, the Committee on Appropriations shall

study on a continuing basis those provisions of law that (on

the first day of the first fiscal year for which the congressional budget process is effective) provide spending authority

or permanent budget authority and shall report to the House

from time to time its recommendations for terminating or

modifying such provisions.

(4) In the manner provided by section 302 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the Committee on Appropriations (after consulting with the Committee on Appropriations

of the Senate) shall subdivide any allocations made to it in

the joint explanatory statement accompanying the conference

report on such concurrent resolution, and promptly report the

subdivisions to the House as soon as practicable after a concurrent resolution on the budget for a fiscal year is agreed

to.

(b) The Committee on the Budget shall—

(1) review on a continuing basis the conduct by the

Congressional Budget Office of its functions and duties;

(2) hold hearings and receive testimony from Members, Senators, Delegates, the Resident Commissioner,

and such appropriate representatives of Federal departments and agencies, the general public, and national organizations as it considers desirable in developing concurrent resolutions on the budget for each fiscal year;
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(3) make all reports required of it by the Congressional Budget Act of 1974;

(4) study on a continuing basis those provisions of

law that exempt Federal agencies or any of their activities or outlays from inclusion in the Budget of the

United States Government, and report to the House

from time to time its recommendations for terminating

or modifying such provisions;

(5) study on a continuing basis proposals designed

to improve and facilitate the congressional budget process, and report to the House from time to time the results of such studies, together with its recommendations;

and

(6) request and evaluate continuing studies of tax

expenditures, devise methods of coordinating tax expenditures, policies, and programs with direct budget outlays,

and report the results of such studies to the House on

a recurring basis.

(c)(1) The Committee on Government Reform shall—

(A) receive and examine reports of the Comptroller

General of the United States and submit to the House

such recommendations as it considers necessary or desirable in connection with the subject matter of the reports;
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(B) evaluate the effects of laws enacted to reorganize the legislative and executive branches of the Government; and

(C) study intergovernmental relationships between

the United States and the States and municipalities and

between the United States and international organizations of which the United States is a member.

(2) In addition to its duties under subparagraph (1), the

Committee on Government Reform may at any time conduct

investigations of any matter without regard to clause 1, 2, 3,

or this clause conferring jurisdiction over the matter to another standing committee. The findings and recommendations

of the committee in such an investigation shall be made available to any other standing committee having jurisdiction over

the matter involved and shall be included in the report of any

such other committee when required by clause 3(c)(4) of rule

XIII.

(d)(1) The Committee on House Administration shall—

(A) examine all bills, amendments, and joint resolutions after passage by the House and, in cooperation

with the Senate, examine all bills and joint resolutions

that have passed both Houses to see that they are correctly enrolled and forthwith present those bills and joint

resolutions that originated in the House to the President

in person after their signature by the Speaker and the
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President of the Senate, and report to the House the

fact and date of their presentment;

(B) provide policy direction for, and oversight of,

the Clerk, Sergeant-at-Arms, Chief Administrative Officer, and Inspector General;

(C) have the function of accepting on behalf of the

House a gift, except as otherwise provided by law, if the

gift does not involve a duty, burden, or condition, or is

not made dependent on some future performance by the

House; and

(D) promulgate regulations to carry out subdivision

(C).

(2) An employing office of the House may enter into a

settlement of a complaint under the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 that provides for the payment of funds

only after receiving the joint approval of the chairman and

ranking minority member of the Committee on House Administration concerning the amount of such payment.

(e)(1) Each standing committee shall, in its consideration of all public bills and public joint resolutions within its

jurisdiction, ensure that appropriations for continuing programs and activities of the Federal Government and the government of the District of Columbia will be made annually to

the maximum extent feasible and consistent with the nature,

requirement, and objective of the programs and activities in-
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volved. In this subparagraph programs and activities of the

Federal Government and the government of the District of

Columbia includes programs and activities of any department,

agency, establishment, wholly owned Government corporation,

or instrumentality of the Federal Government or of the government of the District of Columbia.

(2) Each standing committee shall review from time to

time each continuing program within its jurisdiction for

which appropriations are not made annually to ascertain

whether the program should be modified to provide for annual appropriations.

Budget Act responsibilities

(f)(1) Each standing committee shall submit to the Committee on the Budget not later than six weeks after the President submits his budget, or at such time as the Committee

on the Budget may request—

(A) 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 that are within its jurisdiction or functions; and

(B) an estimate of the total amounts of new budget

authority, and budget outlays resulting therefrom, to be

provided or authorized in all bills and resolutions within

its jurisdiction that it intends to be effective during that

fiscal year.
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(2) The views and estimates submitted by the Committee

on Ways and Means under subparagraph (1) shall include a

specific recommendation, made after holding public hearings,

as to the appropriate level of the public debt that should be

set forth in the concurrent resolution on the budget and serve

as the basis for an increase or decrease in the statutory limit

on such debt under the procedures provided by rule XXIII.

Election and membership of standing committees

5. (a)(1) The standing committees specified in clause 1

shall be elected by the House within seven calendar days after

the commencement of each Congress, from nominations submitted by the respective party caucus or conference. A resolution proposing to change the composition of a standing committee shall be privileged if offered by direction of the party

caucus or conference concerned.

(2)(A) The Committee on the Budget shall be composed

of members as follows:

(i) Members, Delegates, or the Resident Commissioner who are members of other standing committees,

including five who are members of the Committee on Appropriations and five who are members of the Committee

on Ways and Means;

(ii) one Member from the elected leadership of the

majority party; and
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(iii) one Member from the elected leadership of the

minority party.

(B) Except as permitted by subdivision (C), a member

of the Committee on the Budget other than one from the

elected leadership of a party may not serve on the committee

during more than four Congresses in a period of six successive Congresses (disregarding for this purpose any service for

less than a full session in a Congress).

(C) A member of the Committee on the Budget who

served as either the chairman or the ranking minority member of the committee in the immediately previous Congress

and who did not serve in that respective capacity in an earlier

Congress may serve as either the chairman or the ranking

minority member of the committee during one additional

Congress.

(3)(A) The Committee on Standards of Official Conduct

shall be composed of 10 members, five from the majority

party and five from the minority party.

(B) Except as permitted by subdivision (C), a member

of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct may not

serve on the committee during more than three Congresses in

a period of five successive Congresses (disregarding for this

purpose any service for less than a full session in a Congress).
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(C) A member of the Committee on Standards of Official

Conduct may serve on the committee during a fourth Congress in a period of five successive Congresses only as either

the chairman or the ranking minority member of the committee.

(4)(A) At the beginning of a Congress, the Speaker or

his designee and the Minority Leader or his designee each

shall name 10 Members, Delegates, or the Resident Commissioner from his respective party who are not members of the

Committee on Standards of Official Conduct to be available

to serve on investigative subcommittees of that committee

during that Congress. The lists of Members, Delegates, or the

Resident Commissioner so named shall be announced to the

House.

(B) Whenever the chairman and the ranking minority

member of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct

jointly determine that Members, Delegates, or the Resident

Commissioner named under subdivision (A) should be assigned to serve on an investigative subcommittee of that committee, each of them shall select an equal number of such

Members, Delegates, or Resident Commissioner from his respective party to serve on that subcommittee.

(b)(1) Membership on a standing committee during the

course of a Congress shall be contingent on continuing membership in the party caucus or conference that nominated the
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Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner concerned for

election to such committee. Should a Member, Delegate, or

Resident Commissioner cease to be a member of a particular

party caucus or conference, that Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner shall automatically cease to be a member

of each 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, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner ceases to be a member of that caucus or conference. The Speaker shall notify the chairman of each affected committee that the election of such Member, Delegate,

or Resident Commissioner to the committee is automatically

vacated under this subparagraph.

(2)(A) Except as specified in subdivision (B), a Member,

Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may not serve simultaneously as a member of more than two standing committees

or more than four subcommittees of the standing committees.

(B)(i) Ex officio service by a chairman or ranking minority member of a committee on each of its subcommittees

under a committee rule does not count against the limitation

on subcommittee service.

(ii) Service on an investigative subcommittee of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct under paragraph
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(a)(4) does not count against the limitation on subcommittee

service.

(iii) Any other exception to the limitations in subdivision

(A) must be approved by the House on the recommendation

of the relevant party caucus or conference.

(C) In this subparagraph the term ′′subcommittee′′ includes a panel (other than a special oversight panel of the

Committee on Armed Services), task force, special subcommittee, or other subunit of a standing committee that is

established for a cumulative period longer than six months in

a Congress.

(c)(1) One of the members of each standing committee

shall be elected by the House, on the nomination of the majority party caucus or conference, as chairman thereof. In the

temporary absence of the chairman, the member next in rank

(and so on, as often as the case shall happen) shall act as

chairman. Rank shall be determined by the order members

are named in resolutions electing them to the committee. In

the case of a permanent vacancy in the elected chairmanship

of a committee, the House shall elect another chairman.

(2) A member of a standing committee may not serve as

chairman of the same standing committee, or of the same

subcommittee of a standing committee, during more than

three consecutive Congresses (disregarding for this purpose

any service for less than a full session in a Congress).
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(d)(1) Except as permitted by subparagraph (2), a committee may have not more than five subcommittees.

(2) A committee that maintains a subcommittee on oversight may have not more than six subcommittees. The Committee on Appropriations may have not more than 13 subcommittees. The Committee on Government Reform may

have not more than seven subcommittees.

(e) The House shall fill a vacancy on a standing committee by election on the nomination of the respective party caucus or conference.

Expense resolutions

6. (a) Whenever a committee, commission, or other entity (other than the Committee on Appropriations) is granted

authorization for the payment of its expenses (including staff

salaries) for a Congress, such authorization initially shall be

procured by one primary expense resolution reported by the

Committee on House Administration. A primary expense resolution may include a reserve fund for unanticipated expenses

of committees. An amount from such a reserve fund may be

allocated to a committee only by the approval of the Committee on House Administration. A primary expense resolution

reported to the House may not be considered in the House

unless a printed report thereon was available on the previous

calendar day. For the information of the House, such report

shall—
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(1) state the total amount of the funds to be provided to the committee, commission, or other entity

under the primary expense resolution for all anticipated

activities and programs of the committee, commission, or

other entity; and

(2) to the extent practicable, contain such general

statements regarding the estimated foreseeable expenditures for the respective anticipated activities and programs of the committee, commission, or other entity as

may be appropriate to provide the House with basic estimates of the expenditures contemplated by the primary

expense resolution.

(b) After the date of adoption by the House of a primary

expense resolution for a committee, commission, or other entity for a Congress, authorization for the payment of additional expenses (including staff salaries) in that Congress

may be procured by one or more supplemental expense resolutions reported by the Committee on House Administration,

as necessary. A supplemental expense resolution reported to

the House may not be considered in the House unless a

printed report thereon was available on the previous calendar

day. For the information of the House, such report shall—

(1) state the total amount of additional funds to be

provided to the committee, commission, or other entity
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under the supplemental expense resolution and the purposes for which those additional funds are available; and

(2) state the reasons for the failure to procure the

additional funds for the committee, commission, or other

entity by means of the primary expense resolution.

(c) The preceding provisions of this clause do not apply

to—

(1) a resolution providing for the payment from

committee salary and expense accounts of the House of

sums necessary to pay compensation for staff services

performed for, or to pay other expenses of, a committee,

commission, or other entity at any time after the beginning of an odd-numbered year and before the date of

adoption by the House of the primary expense resolution

described in paragraph (a) for that year; or

(2) a resolution providing each of the standing committees in a Congress additional office equipment, airmail and special-delivery postage stamps, supplies, staff

personnel, or any other specific item for the operation of

the standing committees, and containing an authorization for the payment from committee salary and expense

accounts of the House of the expenses of any of the foregoing items provided by that resolution, subject to and

until enactment of the provisions of the resolution as

permanent law.
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(d) From the funds made available for the appointment

of committee staff by a primary or additional expense resolution, the chairman of each committee shall ensure that sufficient staff is made available to each subcommittee to carry

out its responsibilities under the rules of the committee and

that the minority party is treated fairly in the appointment

of such staff.

(e) Funds authorized for a committee under this clause

and clauses 7 and 8 are for expenses incurred in the activities

of the committee.

Interim funding

7. (a) For the period beginning at noon on January 3

and ending at midnight on March 31 in each odd-numbered

year, such sums as may be necessary shall be paid out of the

committee salary and expense accounts of the House for continuance of necessary investigations and studies by—

(1) each standing and select committee established

by these rules; and

(2) except as specified in paragraph (b), each select

committee established by resolution.

(b) In the case of the first session of a Congress,

amounts shall be made available under this paragraph for a

select committee established by resolution in the preceding

Congress only if—
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(1) a resolution proposing to reestablish such select

committee is introduced in the present Congress; and

(2) the House has not adopted a resolution of the

preceding Congress providing for termination of funding

for investigations and studies by such select committee.

(c) Each committee described in paragraph (a) shall be

entitled for each month during the period specified in paragraph (a) to 9 percent (or such lesser percentage as may be

determined by the Committee on House Administration) of

the total annualized amount made available under expense

resolutions for such committee in the preceding session of

Congress.

(d) Payments under this paragraph shall be made on

vouchers authorized by the committee involved, signed by the

chairman of the committee, except as provided in paragraph

(e), and approved by the Committee on House Administration.

(e) Notwithstanding any provision of law, rule of the

House, or other authority, from noon on January 3 of the

first session of a Congress until the election by the House of

the committee concerned in that Congress, payments under

this paragraph shall be made on vouchers signed by—

(1) the member of the committee who served as

chairman of the committee at the expiration of the preceding Congress; or
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(2) if the chairman is not a Member, Delegate, or

Resident Commissioner in the present Congress, then

the ranking member of the committee as it was constituted at the expiration of the preceding Congress who

is a member of the majority party in the present Congress.

(f)(1) The authority of a committee to incur expenses

under this paragraph shall expire upon adoption by the

House of a primary expense resolution for the committee.

(2) Amounts made available under this paragraph shall

be expended in accordance with regulations prescribed by the

Committee on House Administration.

(3) This clause shall be effective only insofar as it is not

inconsistent with a resolution reported by the Committee on

House Administration and adopted by the House after the

adoption of these rules.

Travel

8. (a) Local currencies owned by the United States shall

be made available to the committee and its employees engaged in carrying out their official duties outside the United

States or its territories or possessions. Appropriated funds,

including those authorized under this clause and clauses 6

and 8, may not be expended for the purpose of defraying expenses of members of a committee or its employees in a country where local currencies are available for this purpose.
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(b) The following conditions shall apply with respect to

travel outside the United States or its territories or possessions:

(1) A member or employee of a committee may not

receive or expend local currencies for subsistence in a

country for a day at a rate in excess of the maximum

per diem set forth in applicable Federal law.

(2) A member or employee shall be reimbursed for

his expenses for a day at the lesser of—

(A) the per diem set forth in applicable Federal law; or

(B) the actual, unreimbursed expenses (other

than for transportation) he incurred during that

day.

(3) Each member or employee of a committee shall

make to the chairman of the committee an itemized report showing the dates each country was visited, the

amount of per diem furnished, the cost of transportation

furnished, and funds expended for any other official purpose and shall summarize in these categories the total

foreign currencies or appropriated funds expended. Each

report shall be filed with the chairman of the committee

not later than 60 days following the completion of travel

for use in complying with reporting requirements in ap-
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plicable Federal law and shall be open for public inspection.

(c)(1) In carrying out the activities of a committee outside the United States in a country where local currencies are

unavailable, a member or employee of a committee may not

receive reimbursement for expenses (other than for transportation) in excess of the maximum per diem set forth in applicable Federal law.

(2) A member or employee shall be reimbursed for his

expenses for a day, at the lesser of—

(A) the per diem set forth in applicable Federal law;

or

(B) the actual unreimbursed expenses (other than

for transportation) he incurred during that day.

(3) A member or employee of a committee may not receive reimbursement for the cost of any transportation in

connection with travel outside the United States unless the

member or employee actually paid for the transportation.

(d) The restrictions respecting travel outside the United

States set forth in paragraph (c) also shall apply to travel

outside the United States by a Member, Delegate, Resident

Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House authorized

under any standing rule.
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Committee staffs

9. (a)(1) Subject to subparagraph (2) and paragraph (f),

each standing committee may appoint, by majority vote, not

more than 30 professional staff members to be compensated

from the funds provided for the appointment of committee

staff by primary and additional expense resolutions. Each

professional staff member appointed under this subparagraph

shall be assigned to the chairman and the ranking minority

member of the committee, as the committee considers advisable.

(2) Subject to paragraph (f) whenever a majority of the

minority party members of a standing committee (other than

the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct or the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence) so request, not

more than 10 persons (or one-third of the total professional

committee staff appointed under this clause, whichever is

fewer) may be selected, by majority vote of the minority party

members, for appointment by the committee as professional

staff members under subparagraph (1). The committee shall

appoint persons so selected whose character and qualifications are acceptable to a majority of the committee. If the

committee determines that the character and qualifications of

a person so selected are unacceptable, a majority of the minority party members may select another person for appointment by the committee to the professional staff until such appointment is made. Each professional staff member appointed
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under this subparagraph shall be assigned to such committee

business as the minority party members of the committee

consider advisable.

(b)(1) The professional staff members of each standing

committee—

(A) may not engage in any work other than committee business during congressional working hours; and

(B) may not be assigned a duty other than one pertaining to committee business.

(2) Subparagraph (1) does not apply to staff designated

by a committee as ‘‘associate’’ or ‘‘shared’’ staff who are not

paid exclusively by the committee, provided that the chairman

certifies that the compensation paid by the committee for any

such staff is commensurate with the work performed for the

committee in accordance with clause 8 of rule XXIV.

(3) The use of any ‘‘associate’’ or ‘‘shared’’ staff by a

committee shall be subject to the review of, and to any terms,

conditions, or limitations established by, the Committee on

House Administration in connection with the reporting of any

primary or additional expense resolution.

(4) This paragraph does not apply to the Committee on

Appropriations.

(c) Each employee on the professional or investigative

staff of a standing committee shall be entitled to pay at a

single gross per annum rate, to be fixed by the chairman and
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that does not exceed the maximum rate of pay as in effect

from time to time under applicable provisions of law.

(d) Subject to appropriations hereby authorized, the

Committee on Appropriations may appoint by majority vote

such staff as it determines to be necessary (in addition to the

clerk of the committee and assistants for the minority). The

staff appointed under this paragraph, other than minority assistants, shall possess such qualifications as the committee

may prescribe.

(e) A committee may not appoint to its staff an expert

or other personnel detailed or assigned from a department or

agency of the Government except with the written permission

of the Committee on House Administration.

(f) If a request for the appointment of a minority professional staff member under paragraph (a) is made when no

vacancy exists for such an appointment, the committee nevertheless may appoint under paragraph (a) a person selected by

the minority and acceptable to the committee. A person so

appointed shall serve as an additional member of the professional staff of the committee until such a vacancy occurs

(other than a vacancy in the position of head of the professional staff, by whatever title designated), at which time that

person is considered as appointed to that vacancy. Such a

person shall be paid from the applicable accounts of the

House described in clause 1(i)(1) of rule X. If such a vacancy
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occurs on the professional staff when seven or more persons

have been so appointed who are eligible to fill that vacancy,

a majority of the minority party members shall designate

which of those persons shall fill the vacancy.

(g) Each staff member appointed pursuant to a request

by minority party members under paragraph (a), and each

staff member appointed to assist minority members of a committee pursuant to an expense resolution described in paragraph (a) of clause 6, shall be accorded equitable treatment

with respect to the fixing of the rate of pay, the assignment

of work facilities, and the accessibility of committee records.

(h) Paragraph (a) may not be construed to authorize the

appointment of additional professional staff members of a

committee pursuant to a request under paragraph (a) by the

minority party members of that committee if 10 or more professional staff members provided for in paragraph (a)(1) who

are satisfactory to a majority of the minority party members

are otherwise assigned to assist the minority party members.

(i) Notwithstanding paragraph (a)(2), a committee may

employ nonpartisan staff, in lieu of or in addition to committee staff designated exclusively for the majority or minority

party, by an affirmative vote of a majority of the members

of the majority party and of a majority of the members of

the minority party.
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Select and joint committees

10. (a) Membership on a select or joint committee appointed by the Speaker under clause 11 of rule I during the

course of a Congress shall be contingent on continuing membership in the party caucus or conference of which the Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner concerned was a

member at the time of appointment. Should a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner cease to be a member of that

caucus or conference, that Member, Delegate, or Resident

Commissioner 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 conference shall notify the Speaker whenever a Member, Delegate, or Resident

Commissioner ceases to be a member of a party caucus or

conference. The Speaker shall notify the chairman of each affected select or joint committee that the appointment of such

Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner to the select or

joint committee is automatically vacated under this paragraph.

(b) Each select or joint committee, other than a conference committee, shall comply with clause 2(a) of rule XI

unless specifically exempted by law.

Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

11. (a)(1) There is established a Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (hereafter in this clause referred to as

the ‘‘select committee’’). The select committee shall be com-
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posed of not more than 16 Members, Delegates, or the Resident Commissioner, of whom not more than nine may be

from the same party. The select committee shall include at

least one Member, Delegate, or the Resident Commissioner

from each of the following committees:

(A) the Committee on Appropriations;

(B) the Committee on Armed Services;

(C) the Committee on International Relations; and

(D) the Committee on the Judiciary.

(2) The Speaker and the Minority Leader shall be ex

officio members of the select committee but shall have no vote

in the select committee and may not be counted for purposes

of determining a quorum thereof.

(3) The Speaker and Minority Leader each may designate a member of his leadership staff to assist him in his

capacity as ex officio member, with the same access to committee meetings, hearings, briefings, and materials as employees of the select committee and subject to the same security

clearance and confidentiality requirements as employees of

the select committee under this clause.

(4)(A) Except as permitted by subdivision (B), a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner, other than the

Speaker or the Minority Leader, may not serve as a member

of the select committee during more than four Congresses in

a period of six successive Congresses (disregarding for this
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purpose any service for less than a full session in a Congress).

(B) A member of the select committee who served as either the chairman or the ranking minority member of the select committee in the immediately previous Congress and who

did not serve in that respective capacity in an earlier Congress may serve as either the chairman or the ranking minority member of the select committee during one additional

Congress.

(b)(1) There shall be referred to the select committee

proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and

other matters relating to the following:

(A) The Central Intelligence Agency, the Director

of Central Intelligence, and the National Foreign Intelligence Program as defined in section 3(6) of the National Security Act of 1947.

(B) Intelligence and intelligence-related activities of

all other departments and agencies of the Government,

including the tactical intelligence and intelligence-related

activities of the Department of Defense.

(C) The organization or reorganization of a department or agency of the Government to the extent that the

organization or reorganization relates to a function or

activity involving intelligence or intelligence-related activities.
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(D) Authorizations for appropriations, both direct

and indirect, for the following:

(i) The Central Intelligence Agency, the Director of Central Intelligence, and the National Foreign Intelligence Program as defined in section 3(6)

of the National Security Act of 1947.

(ii) Intelligence and intelligence-related activities of all other departments and agencies of the

Government, including the tactical intelligence and

intelligence-related activities of the Department of

Defense.

(iii) A department, agency, subdivision, or program that is a successor to an agency or program

named or referred to in (i) or (ii).

(2) Proposed legislation initially reported by the select

committee (other than provisions solely involving matters

specified in subparagraph (1)(A) or subparagraph (1)(D)(i))

containing any matter otherwise within the jurisdiction of a

standing committee shall be referred by the Speaker to that

standing committee. Proposed legislation initially reported by

another committee that contains matter within the jurisdiction of the select committee shall be referred by the Speaker

to the select committee if requested by the chairman of the

select committee.
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(3) Nothing in this clause shall be construed as prohibiting or otherwise restricting the authority of any other committee to study and review an intelligence or intelligence-related activity to the extent that such activity directly affects

a matter otherwise within the jurisdiction of that committee.

(4) Nothing in this clause shall be construed as amending, limiting, or otherwise changing the authority of a standing committee to obtain full and prompt access to the product

of the intelligence and intelligence-related activities of a department or agency of the Government relevant to a matter

otherwise within the jurisdiction of that committee.

(c)(1) For purposes of accountability to the House, the

select committee shall make regular and periodic reports to

the House on the nature and extent of the intelligence and

intelligence-related activities of the various departments and

agencies of the United States. The select committee shall

promptly call to the attention of the House, or to any other

appropriate committee, a matter requiring the attention of

the House or another committee. In making such report, the

select committee shall proceed in a manner consistent with

paragraph (g) to protect national security.

(2) The select committee shall obtain annual reports

from the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State, and the Director

of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Such reports shall re-
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view the intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the

agency or department concerned and the intelligence and intelligence-related activities of foreign countries directed at the

United States or its interests. An unclassified version of each

report may be made available to the public at the discretion

of the select committee. Nothing herein shall be construed as

requiring the public disclosure in such reports of the names

of persons engaged in intelligence or intelligence-related activities for the United States or the divulging of intelligence

methods employed or the sources of information on which the

reports are based or the amount of funds authorized to be

appropriated for intelligence and intelligence-related activities.

(3) Within six weeks after the President submits a budget under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, or

at such time as the Committee on the Budget may request,

the select committee shall submit to the Committee on the

Budget the views and estimates described in section 301(d)

of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 regarding matters

within the jurisdiction of the select committee.

(d)(1) Except as specified in subparagraph (2), clauses

6(a), (b), and (c) and 8(a), (b), and (c) of this rule, and

clauses 1, 2, and 4 of rule XI shall apply to the select committee to the extent not inconsistent with this clause.
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(2) Notwithstanding the requirements of the first sentence of clause 2(g)(2) of rule XI, in the presence of the

number of members required under the rules of the select

committee for the purpose of taking testimony or receiving

evidence, the select committee may vote to close a hearing

whenever a majority of those present determines that the testimony or evidence would endanger the national security.

(e) An employee of the select committee, or a person engaged by contract or otherwise to perform services for or at

the request of the select committee, may not be given access

to any classified information by the select committee unless

such employee or person has—

(1) agreed in writing and under oath to be bound

by the Rules of the House, including the jurisdiction of

the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct and of

the select committee concerning the security of classified

information during and after the period of his employment or contractual agreement with the select committee; and

(2) received an appropriate security clearance, as

determined by the select committee in consultation with

the Director of Central Intelligence, that is commensurate with the sensitivity of the classified information to

which such employee or person will be given access by

the select committee.
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(f) The select committee shall formulate and carry out

such rules and procedures as it considers necessary to prevent the disclosure, without the consent of each person concerned, of information in the possession of the select committee that unduly infringes on the privacy or that violates the

constitutional rights of such person. Nothing herein shall be

construed to prevent the select committee from publicly disclosing classified information in a case in which it determines

that national interest in the disclosure of classified information clearly outweighs any infringement on the privacy of a

person.

(g)(1) The select committee may disclose publicly any information in its possession after a determination by the select

committee that the public interest would be served by such

disclosure. With respect to the disclosure of information for

which this paragraph requires action by the select

committee—

(A) the select committee shall meet to vote on the

matter within five days after a member of the select

committee requests a vote; and

(B) a member of the select committee may not

make such a disclosure before a vote by the select committee on the matter, or after a vote by the select committee on the matter except in accordance with this

paragraph.
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(2)(A) In a case in which the select committee votes to

disclose publicly any information that has been classified

under established security procedures, that has been submitted to it by the executive branch, and that the executive

branch requests be kept secret, the select committee shall notify the President of such vote.

(B) The select committee may disclose publicly such information after the expiration of a five-day period following

the day on which notice of the vote to disclose is transmitted

to the President unless, before the expiration of the five-day

period, the President, personally in writing, notifies the select

committee that he objects to the disclosure of such information, provides his reasons therefor, and certifies that the

threat to the national interest of the United States posed by

the disclosure is of such gravity that it outweighs any public

interest in the disclosure.

(C) If the President, personally in writing, notifies the

select committee of his objections to the disclosure of information as provided in subdivision (B), the select committee

may, by majority vote, refer the question of the disclosure of

such information, with a recommendation thereon, to the

House. The select committee may not publicly disclose such

information without leave of the House.

(D) Whenever the select committee votes to refer the

question of disclosure of any information to the House under
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subdivision (C), the chairman shall, not later than the first

day on which the House is in session following the day on

which the vote occurs, report the matter to the House for its

consideration.

(E) If the chairman of the select committee does not

offer in the House a motion to consider in closed session a

matter reported under subdivision (D) within four calendar

days on which the House is in session after the recommendation described in subdivision (C) is reported, then such a motion shall be privileged when offered by a Member, Delegate,

or Resident Commissioner. In either case such a motion shall

be decided without debate or intervening motion except one

that the House adjourn.

(F) Upon adoption by the House of a motion to resolve

into closed session as described in subdivision (E), the Speaker may declare a recess subject to the call of the Chair. At

the expiration of the recess, the pending question, in closed

session, shall be, ‘‘Shall the House approve the recommendation of the select committee?’’.

(G) Debate on the question described in subdivision (F)

shall be limited to two hours equally divided and controlled

by the chairman and ranking minority member of the select

committee. After such debate the previous question shall be

considered as ordered on the question of approving the recommendation without intervening motion except one motion
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that the House adjourn. The House shall vote on the question in open session but without divulging the information

with respect to which the vote is taken. If the recommendation of the select committee is not approved, then the question is considered as recommitted to the select committee for

further recommendation.

(3)(A) Information in the possession of the select committee relating to the lawful intelligence or intelligence-related activities of a department or agency of the United States

that has been classified under established security procedures,

and that the select committee has determined should not be

disclosed under subparagraph (1) or (2), may not be made

available to any person by a Member, Delegate, Resident

Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House except as

provided in subdivision (B).

(B) The select committee shall, under such regulations

as it may prescribe, make information described in subdivision (A) available to a committee or a Member, Delegate, or

Resident Commissioner, and permit a Member, Delegate, or

Resident Commissioner to attend a hearing of the select committee that is closed to the public. Whenever the select committee makes such information available, it shall keep a written record showing, in the case of particular information,

which committee or which Member, Delegate, or Resident

Commissioner received the information. A Member, Delegate,
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or Resident Commissioner who, and a committee that, receives information under this subdivision may not disclose the

information except in a closed session of the House.

(4) The Committee on Standards of Official Conduct

shall investigate any unauthorized disclosure of intelligence or

intelligence-related information by a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House in violation of subparagraph (3) and report to the House concerning any allegation that it finds to be substantiated.

(5) Upon the request of a person who is subject to an

investigation described in subparagraph (4), the Committee

on Standards of Official Conduct shall release to such person

at the conclusion of its investigation a summary of its investigation, together with its findings. If, at the conclusion of its

investigation, the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct determines that there has been a significant breach of

confidentiality or unauthorized disclosure by a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the

House, it shall report its findings to the House and recommend appropriate action. Recommendations may include

censure, removal from committee membership, or expulsion

from the House, in the case of a Member, or removal from

office or employment or punishment for contempt, in the case

of an officer or employee.
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(h) The select committee may permit a personal representative of the President, designated by the President to

serve as a liaison to the select committee, to attend any

closed meeting of the select committee.

(i) Subject to the Rules of the House, funds may not be

appropriated for a fiscal year, with the exception of a bill or

joint resolution continuing appropriations, or an amendment

thereto, or a conference report thereon, to, or for use of, a

department or agency of the United States to carry out any

of the following activities, unless the funds shall previously

have been authorized by a bill or joint resolution passed by

the House during the same or preceding fiscal year to carry

out such activity for such fiscal year:

(1) The activities of the Central Intelligence Agency

and the Director of Central Intelligence.

(2) The activities of the Defense Intelligence Agency.

(3) The activities of the National Security Agency.

(4) The intelligence and intelligence-related activities of other agencies and subdivisions of the Department of Defense.

(5) The intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the Department of State.
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(6) The intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, including all

activities of the Intelligence Division.

(j)(1) In this clause the term ‘‘intelligence and intelligence-related activities’’ includes—

(A) the collection, analysis, production, dissemination, or use of information that relates to a foreign country, or a government, political group, party, military

force, movement, or other association in a foreign country, and that relates to the defense, foreign policy, national security, or related policies of the United States

and other activity in support of the collection, analysis,

production, dissemination, or use of such information;

(B) activities taken to counter similar activities directed against the United States;

(C) covert or clandestine activities affecting the relations of the United States with a foreign government,

political group, party, military force, movement, or other

association;

(D) the collection, analysis, production, dissemination, or use of information about activities of persons

within the United States, its territories and possessions,

or nationals of the United States abroad whose political

and related activities pose, or may be considered by a department, agency, bureau, office, division, instrumental-
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ity, or employee of the United States to pose, a threat

to the internal security of the United States; and

(E) covert or clandestine activities directed against

persons described in subdivision (D).

(2) In this clause the term ‘‘department or agency’’ includes any organization, committee, council, establishment, or

office within the Federal Government.

(3) For purposes of this clause, reference to a department, agency, bureau, or subdivision shall include a reference

to any successor department, agency, bureau, or subdivision

to the extent that a successor engages in intelligence or intelligence-related activities now conducted by the department,

agency, bureau, or subdivision referred to in this clause.

(k) Clause 12(a) of rule XXII does not apply to meetings of a conference committee respecting legislation (or any

part thereof) reported by the Permanent Select Committee on

Intelligence.

RULE XI.

PROCEDURES OF COMMITTEES AND UNFINISHED BUSINESS.

In general

1. (a)(1)(A) Except as provided in subdivision (B), the

Rules of the House are the rules of its committees and subcommittees so far as applicable.

(B) A motion to recess from day to day, and a motion

to dispense with the first reading (in full) of a bill or resolu-
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tion, if printed copies are available, each shall be privileged

in committees and subcommittees and shall be decided without debate.

(2) Each subcommittee is a part of its committee and

is subject to the authority and direction of that committee

and to its rules, so far as applicable.

(b)(1) Each committee may conduct at any time such investigations and studies as it considers necessary or appropriate in the exercise of its responsibilities under rule X. Subject to the adoption of expense resolutions as required by

clause 6 of rule X, each committee may incur expenses, including travel expenses, in connection with such investigations and studies.

(2) A proposed investigative or oversight report shall be

considered as read in committee if it has been available to the

members for at least 24 hours (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, or legal holidays except when the House is in session

on such a day).

(3) A report of an investigation or study conducted

jointly by more than one committee may be filed jointly, provided that each of the committees complies independently

with all requirements for approval and filing of the report.

(4) After an adjournment sine die of the last regular session of a Congress, an investigative or oversight report may

be filed with the Clerk at any time, provided that a member
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who gives timely notice of intention to file supplemental, minority, or additional views shall be entitled to not less than

seven calendar days in which to submit such views for inclusion in the report.

(c) Each committee may have printed and bound such

testimony and other data as may be presented at hearings

held by the committee or its subcommittees. All costs of stenographic services and transcripts in connection with a meeting or hearing of a committee shall be paid from the applicable accounts of the House described in clause 1(i)(1) of rule

X.

(d)(1) Each committee shall submit to the House not

later than January 2 of each odd-numbered year a report on

the activities of that committee under this rule and rule X

during the Congress ending at noon on January 3 of such

year.

(2) Such report shall include separate sections summarizing the legislative and oversight activities of that committee during that Congress.

(3) The oversight section of such report shall include a

summary of the oversight plans submitted by the committee

under clause 2(d) of rule X, a summary of the actions taken

and recommendations made with respect to each such plan,

a summary of any additional oversight activities undertaken
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by that committee, and any recommendations made or actions taken thereon.

(4) After an adjournment sine die of the last regular session of a Congress, the chairman of a committee may file an

activities report under subparagraph (1) with the Clerk at

any time and without approval of the committee, provided

that—

(A) a copy of the report has been available to each

member of the committee for at least seven calendar

days; and

(B) the report includes any supplemental, minority,

or additional views submitted by a member of the committee.

Adoption of written rules

2. (a)(1) Each standing committee shall adopt written

rules governing its procedure. Such rules—

(A) shall be adopted in a meeting that is open to

the public unless the committee, in open session and

with a quorum present, determines by record vote that

all or part of the meeting on that day shall be closed to

the public;

(B) may not be inconsistent with the Rules of the

House or with those provisions of law having the force

and effect of Rules of the House; and
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(C) shall in any event incorporate all of the succeeding provisions of this clause to the extent applicable.

(2) Each committee shall submit its rules for publication

in the Congressional Record not later than 30 days after the

committee is elected in each odd-numbered year.

Regular meeting days

(b) Each standing committee shall establish regular

meeting days for the conduct of its business, which shall be

not less frequent than monthly. Each such committee shall

meet for the consideration of a bill or resolution pending before the committee or the transaction of other committee

business on all regular meeting days fixed by the committee

unless otherwise provided by written rule adopted by the committee.

Additional and special meetings

(c)(1) The chairman of each standing committee may

call and convene, as he considers necessary, additional and

special meetings of the committee for the consideration of a

bill or resolution pending before the committee or for the conduct of other committee business, subject to such rules as the

committee may adopt. The committee shall meet for such

purpose under that call of the chairman.

(2) Three or more members of a standing committee

may file in the offices of the committee a written request that

the chairman call a special meeting of the committee. Such
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request shall specify the measure or matter to be considered.

Immediately upon the filing of the request, the clerk of the

committee shall notify the chairman of the filing of the request. If the chairman does not call the requested special

meeting within three calendar days after the filing of the request (to be held within seven calendar days after the filing

of the request) a majority of the members of the committee

may file in the offices of the committee their written notice

that a special meeting of the committee will be held. The

written notice shall specify the date and hour of the special

meeting and the measure or matter to be considered. The

committee shall meet on that date and hour. Immediately

upon the filing of the notice, the clerk of the committee shall

notify all members of the committee that such special meeting will be held and inform them of its date and hour and

the measure or matter to be considered. Only the measure or

matter specified in that notice may be considered at that special meeting.

Temporary absence of chairman

(d) A member of the majority party on each standing

committee or subcommittee thereof shall be designated by the

chairman of the full committee as the vice chairman of the

committee or subcommittee, as the case may be, and shall

preside during the absence of the chairman from any meeting. If the chairman and vice chairman of a committee or
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subcommittee are not present at any meeting of the committee or subcommittee, the ranking majority member who is

present shall preside at that meeting.

Committee records

(e)(1)(A) Each committee shall keep a complete record

of all committee action which shall include—

(i) in the case of a meeting or hearing transcript,

a substantially verbatim account of remarks actually

made during the proceedings, subject only to technical,

grammatical, and typographical corrections authorized

by the person making the remarks involved; and

(ii) a record of the votes on any question on which

a record vote is demanded.

(B)(i) Except as provided in subdivision (B)(ii) and subject to paragraph (k)(7), the result of each such record vote

shall be made available by the committee for inspection by

the public at reasonable times in its offices. Information so

available for public inspection shall include a description of

the amendment, motion, order, or other proposition, the name

of each member voting for and each member voting against

such amendment, motion, order, or proposition, and the

names of those members of the committee present but not

voting.

(ii) The result of any record vote taken in executive session in the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct may
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not be made available for inspection by the public without an

affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the committee.

(2)(A) Except as provided in subdivision (B), all committee hearings, records, data, charts, and files shall be kept

separate and distinct from the congressional office records of

the member serving as its chairman. Such records shall be

the property of the House, and each Member, Delegate, and

the Resident Commissioner shall have access thereto.

(B) A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner,

other than members of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, may not have access to the records of that committee respecting the conduct of a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House without

the specific prior permission of that committee.

(3) Each committee shall include in its rules standards

for availability of records of the committee delivered to the

Archivist of the United States under rule VII. Such standards shall specify procedures for orders of the committee

under clause 3(b)(3) and clause 4(b) of rule VII, including

a requirement that nonavailability of a record for a period

longer than the period otherwise applicable under that rule

shall be approved by vote of the committee.

(4) Each committee shall make its publications available

in electronic form to the maximum extent feasible.
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Prohibition against proxy voting

(f) A vote by a member of a committee or subcommittee

with respect to any measure or matter may not be cast by

proxy.

Open meetings and hearings

(g)(1) Each meeting for the transaction of business, including the markup of legislation, by a standing committee or

subcommittee thereof (other than the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct or its subcommittee) shall be open

to the public, including to radio, television, and still photography coverage, except when the committee or subcommittee,

in open session and with a majority present, determines by

record vote that all or part of the remainder of the meeting

on that day shall be in executive session because disclosure

of matters to be considered would endanger national security,

would compromise sensitive law enforcement information,

would tend to defame, degrade, or incriminate any person, or

otherwise would violate a law or rule of the House. Persons,

other than members of the committee and such noncommittee

Members, Delegates, Resident Commissioner, congressional

staff, or departmental representatives as the committee may

authorize, may not be present at a business or markup session that is held in executive session. This subparagraph does

not apply to open committee hearings, which are governed by

clause 4(a)(1) of rule X or by subparagraph (2).
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(2)(A) Each hearing conducted by a committee or subcommittee (other than the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct or its subcommittees) shall be open to the public, including to radio, television, and still photography coverage, except when the committee or subcommittee, in open

session and with a majority present, determines by record

vote that all or part of the remainder of that hearing on that

day shall be closed to the public because disclosure of testimony, evidence, or other matters to be considered would endanger national security, would compromise sensitive law enforcement information, or would violate a law or rule of the

House.

(B) Notwithstanding the requirements of subdivision

(A), in the presence of the number of members required

under the rules of the committee for the purpose of taking

testimony, a majority of those present may—

(i) agree to close the hearing for the sole purpose

of discussing whether testimony or evidence to be received would endanger national security, would compromise sensitive law enforcement information, or would

violate clause 2(k)(5); or

(ii) agree to close the hearing as provided in clause

2(k)(5).

(C) A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may

not be excluded from nonparticipatory attendance at a hear-
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ing of a committee or subcommittee (other than the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct or its subcommittees)

unless the House by majority vote authorizes a particular

committee or subcommittee, for purposes of a particular series of hearings on a particular article of legislation or on a

particular subject of investigation, to close its hearings to

Members, Delegates, and the Resident Commissioner by the

same procedures specified in this subparagraph for closing

hearings to the public.

(D) The committee or subcommittee may vote by the

same procedure described in this subparagraph to close one

subsequent day of hearing, except that the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Armed Services, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and the subcommittees thereof, may vote by the same procedure to close up to

five additional, consecutive days of hearings.

(3) The chairman of each committee (other than the

Committee on Rules) shall make public announcement of the

date, place, and subject matter of a committee hearing at

least one week before the commencement of the hearing. If

the chairman of the committee, with the concurrence of the

ranking minority member, determines that there is good

cause to begin a hearing sooner, or if the committee so determines by majority vote in the presence of the number of

members required under the rules of the committee for the
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transaction of business, the chairman shall make the announcement at the earliest possible date. An announcement

made under this subparagraph shall be published promptly in

the Daily Digest and made available in electronic form.

(4) Each committee shall, to the greatest extent practicable, require witnesses who appear before it to submit in

advance written statements of proposed testimony and to

limit their initial presentations to the committee to brief summaries thereof. In the case of a witness appearing in a nongovernmental capacity, a written statement of proposed testimony shall include a curriculum vitae and a disclosure of the

amount and source (by agency and program) of each Federal

grant (or subgrant thereof) or contract (or subcontract thereof) received during the current fiscal year or either of the two

previous fiscal years by the witness or by an entity represented by the witness.

(5)(A) Except as provided in subdivision (B), a point of

order does not lie with respect to a measure reported by a

committee on the ground that hearings on such measure were

not conducted in accordance with this clause.

(B) A point of order on the ground described in subdivision (A) may be made by a member of the committee that

reported the measure if such point of order was timely made

and improperly disposed of in the committee.
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(6) This paragraph does not apply to hearings of the

Committee on Appropriations under clause 4(a)(1) of

rule X.

Quorum requirements

(h)(1) A measure or recommendation may not be reported by a committee unless a majority of the committee is

actually present.

(2) Each committee may fix the number of its members

to constitute a quorum for taking testimony and receiving

evidence, which may not be less than two.

(3) Each committee (other than the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on the Budget, and the Committee on Ways and Means) may fix the number of its members

to constitute a quorum for taking any action other than the

reporting of a measure or recommendation, which may not be

less than one-third of the members.

Limitation on committee sittings

(i) A committee may not sit during a joint session of the

House and Senate or during a recess when a joint meeting

of the House and Senate is in progress.

Calling and questioning of witnesses

(j)(1) Whenever a hearing is conducted by a committee

on a measure or matter, the minority members of the committee shall be entitled, upon request to the chairman by a

majority of them before the completion of the hearing, to call
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witnesses selected by the minority to testify with respect to

that measure or matter during at least one day of hearing

thereon.

(2)(A) Subject to subdivisions (B) and (C), each committee shall apply the five-minute rule during the questioning

of witnesses in a hearing until such time as each member of

the committee who so desires has had an opportunity to question each witness.

(B) A committee may adopt a rule or motion permitting

a specified number of its members to question a witness for

longer than five minutes. The time for extended questioning

of a witness under this subdivision shall be equal for the majority party and the minority party and may not exceed one

hour in the aggregate.

(C) A committee may adopt a rule or motion permitting

committee staff for its majority and minority party members

to question a witness for equal specified periods. The time for

extended questioning of a witness under this subdivision shall

be equal for the majority party and the minority party and

may not exceed one hour in the aggregate.

Investigative hearing procedures

(k)(1) The chairman at an investigative hearing shall

announce in an opening statement the subject of the investigation.
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(2) A copy of the committee rules and of this clause

shall be made available to each witness.

(3) Witnesses at investigative hearings may be accompanied by their own counsel for the purpose of advising them

concerning their constitutional rights.

(4) The chairman may punish breaches of order and decorum, and of professional ethics on the part of counsel, by

censure and exclusion from the hearings; and the committee

may cite the offender to the House for contempt.

(5) Whenever it is asserted that the evidence or testimony at an investigative hearing may tend to defame, degrade, or incriminate any person—

(A) notwithstanding paragraph (g)(2), such testimony or evidence shall be presented in executive session

if, in the presence of the number of members required

under the rules of the committee for the purpose of taking testimony, the committee determines by vote of a

majority of those present that such evidence or testimony may tend to defame, degrade, or incriminate any

person; and

(B) the committee shall proceed to receive such testimony in open session only if the committee, a majority

being present, determines that such evidence or testimony will not tend to defame, degrade, or incriminate

any person.
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In either case the committee shall afford such person an opportunity voluntarily to appear as a witness, and receive and

dispose of requests from such person to subpoena additional

witnesses.

(6) Except as provided in subparagraph (5), the chairman shall receive and the committee shall dispose of requests

to subpoena additional witnesses.

(7) Evidence or testimony taken in executive session,

and proceedings conducted in executive session, may be released or used in public sessions only when authorized by the

committee, a majority being present.

(8) In the discretion of the committee, witnesses may

submit brief and pertinent sworn statements in writing for

inclusion in the record. The committee is the sole judge of

the pertinence of testimony and evidence adduced at its hearing.

(9) A witness may obtain a transcript copy of his testimony given at a public session or, if given at an executive

session, when authorized by the committee.

Supplemental, minority, or additional views

(l) If at the time of approval of a measure or matter by

a committee (other than the Committee on Rules) a member

of the committee gives notice of intention to file supplemental, minority, or additional views for inclusion in the report to the House thereon, that member shall be entitled to
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not less than two additional calendar days after the day of

such notice (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays

except when the House is in session on such a day) to file

such views, in writing and signed by that member, with the

clerk of the committee.

Power to sit and act; subpoena power

(m)(1) For the purpose of carrying out any of its functions and duties under this rule and rule X (including any

matters referred to it under clause 2 of rule XII), a committee or subcommittee is authorized (subject to subparagraph

(2)(A))—

(A) to sit and act at such times and places within

the United States, whether the House is in session, has

recessed, or has adjourned, and to hold such hearings as

it considers necessary; and

(B) to require, by subpoena or otherwise, the attendance and testimony of such witnesses and the production of such books, records, correspondence, memoranda, papers, and documents as it considers necessary.

(2) The chairman of the committee, or a member designated by the chairman, may administer oaths to witnesses.

(3)(A)(i) Except as provided in subdivision (A)(ii), a

subpoena may be authorized and issued by a committee or

subcommittee under subparagraph (1)(B) in the conduct of

an investigation or series of investigations or activities only
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when authorized by the committee or subcommittee, a majority being present. The power to authorize and issue subpoenas under subparagraph (1)(B) may be delegated to the

chairman of the committee under such rules and under such

limitations as the committee may prescribe. Authorized subpoenas shall be signed by the chairman of the committee or

by a member designated by the committee.

(ii) In the case of a subcommittee of the Committee on

Standards of Official Conduct, a subpoena may be authorized

and issued only by an affirmative vote of a majority of its

members.

(B) A subpoena duces tecum may specify terms of return other than at a meeting or hearing of the committee or

subcommittee authorizing the subpoena.

(C) Compliance with a subpoena issued by a committee

or subcommittee under subparagraph (1)(B) may be enforced

only as authorized or directed by the House.

Committee on Standards of Official Conduct

3. (a) The Committee on Standards of Official Conduct

has the following functions:

(1) The committee may recommend to the House

from time to time such administrative actions as it may

consider appropriate to establish or enforce standards of

official conduct for Members, Delegates, the Resident

Commissioner, officers, and employees of the House. A
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letter of reproval or other administrative action of the

committee pursuant to an investigation under subparagraph (2) shall only be issued or implemented as a part

of a report required by such subparagraph.

(2) The committee may investigate, subject to paragraph (b), an alleged violation by a Member, Delegate,

Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the

House of the Code of Official Conduct or of a law, rule,

regulation, or other standard of conduct applicable to

the conduct of such Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee in the performance of his

duties or the discharge of his responsibilities. After notice and hearing (unless the right to a hearing is waived

by the Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer or employee), the committee shall report to the

House its findings of fact and recommendations, if any,

for the final disposition of any such investigation and

such action as the committee may consider appropriate

in the circumstances.

(3) The committee may report to the appropriate

Federal or State authorities, either with the approval of

the House or by an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the

members of the committee, any substantial evidence of

a violation by a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House, of a law appli-
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cable to the performance of his duties or the discharge

of his responsibilities that may have been disclosed in a

committee investigation.

(4) The committee may consider the request of a

Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or

employee of the House for an advisory opinion with respect to the general propriety of any current or proposed

conduct of such Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee. With appropriate deletions

to ensure the privacy of the person concerned, the committee may publish such opinion for the guidance of

other Members, Delegates, the Resident Commissioner,

officers, and employees of the House.

(5) The committee may consider the request of a

Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or

employee of the House for a written waiver in exceptional circumstances with respect to clause 4 of rule

XXIV.

(b)(1)(A) Unless approved by an affirmative vote of a

majority of its members, the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct may not report a resolution, report, recommendation, or advisory opinion relating to the official conduct of a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer

or employee of the House, or, except as provided in subparagraph (2), undertake an investigation of such conduct.
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(B)(i) Upon the receipt of information offered as a complaint that is in compliance with this rule and the rules of

the committee, the chairman and ranking minority member

jointly may appoint members to serve as an investigative subcommittee.

(ii) The chairman and ranking minority member of the

committee jointly may gather additional information concerning alleged conduct that is the basis of a complaint or of information offered as a complaint until they have established

an investigative subcommittee or either of them has placed on

the agenda of the committee the issue of whether to establish

an investigative subcommittee.

(2) Except in the case of an investigation undertaken by

the committee on its own initiative, the committee may undertake an investigation relating to the official conduct of an

individual Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer,

or employee of the House only—

(A) upon receipt of information offered as a complaint, in writing and under oath, from a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner and transmitted to the

committee by such Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner; or

(B) upon receipt of information offered as a complaint, in writing and under oath, from a person not a

Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner provided
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that a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner certifies in writing to the committee that he believes the information is submitted in good faith and warrants the

review and consideration of the committee.

If a complaint is not disposed of within the applicable periods

set forth in the rules of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, the chairman and ranking minority member

shall establish jointly an investigative subcommittee and forward the complaint, or any portion thereof, to that subcommittee for its consideration. However, if at any time during those periods either the chairman or ranking minority

member places on the agenda the issue of whether to establish an investigative subcommittee, then an investigative subcommittee may be established only by an affirmative vote of

a majority of the members of the committee.

(3) The committee may not undertake an investigation

of an alleged violation of a law, rule, regulation, or standard

of conduct that was not in effect at the time of the alleged

violation. The committee may not undertake an investigation

of such an alleged violation that occurred before the third

previous Congress unless the committee determines that the

alleged violation is directly related to an alleged violation that

occurred in a more recent Congress.

(4) A member of the committee shall be ineligible to participate as a member of the committee in a committee pro-
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ceeding relating to the member’s official conduct. Whenever

a member of the committee is ineligible to act as a member

of the committee under the preceding sentence, the Speaker

shall designate a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner from the same political party as the ineligible member

to act in any proceeding of the committee relating to that

conduct.

(5) A member of the committee may disqualify himself

from participating in an investigation of the conduct of a

Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House upon the submission in writing and

under oath of an affidavit of disqualification stating that the

member cannot render an impartial and unbiased decision in

the case in which the member seeks to be disqualified. If the

committee approves and accepts such affidavit of disqualification, the chairman shall so notify the Speaker and request

the Speaker to designate a Member, Delegate, or Resident

Commissioner from the same political party as the disqualifying member to act in any proceeding of the committee relating to that case.

(6) Information or testimony received, or the contents of

a complaint or the fact of its filing, may not be publicly disclosed by any committee or staff member unless specifically

authorized in each instance by a vote of the full committee.
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(7) The committee shall have the functions designated in

titles I and V of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, in

sections 7342, 7351, and 7353 of title 5, United States Code,

and in clause 11(g)(4) of rule X.

(c)(1) Notwithstanding clause 2(g)(1) of rule XI, each

meeting of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct

or a subcommittee thereof shall occur in executive session unless the committee or subcommittee, by an affirmative vote

of a majority of its members, opens the meeting to the public.

(2) Notwithstanding clause 2(g)(2) of rule XI, each

hearing of an adjudicatory subcommittee or sanction hearing

of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct shall be

held in open session unless the committee or subcommittee,

in open session by an affirmative vote of a majority of its

members, closes all or part of the remainder of the hearing

on that day to the public.

(d) Before a member, officer, or employee of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, including members

of a subcommittee of the committee selected under clause

5(a)(4) of rule X and shared staff, may have access to information that is confidential under the rules of the committee,

the following oath (or affirmation) shall be executed:

‘‘I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will not disclose, to any person or entity outside the Committee on

Standards of Official Conduct, any information received
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in the course of my service with the committee, except

as authorized by the committee or in accordance with its

rules.’’

Copies of the executed oath shall be retained by the Clerk as

part of the records of the House. This paragraph establishes

a standard of conduct within the meaning of paragraph

(a)(2). Breaches of confidentiality shall be investigated by the

Committee on Standards of Official Conduct and appropriate

action shall be taken.

(e)(1) If a complaint or information offered as a complaint is deemed frivolous by an affirmative vote of a majority

of the members of the Committee on Standards of Official

Conduct, the committee may take such action as it, by an affirmative vote of a majority of its members, considers appropriate in the circumstances.

(2) Complaints filed before the One Hundred Fifth Congress may not be deemed frivolous by the Committee on

Standards of Official Conduct.

Audio and visual coverage of committee proceedings

4. (a) The purpose of this clause is to provide a means,

in conformity with acceptable standards of dignity, propriety,

and decorum, by which committee hearings or committee

meetings that are open to the public may be covered by audio

and visual means—
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(1) for the education, enlightenment, and information of the general public, on the basis of accurate and

impartial news coverage, regarding the operations, procedures, and practices of the House as a legislative and

representative body, and regarding the measures, public

issues, and other matters before the House and its committees, the consideration thereof, and the action taken

thereon; and

(2) for the development of the perspective and understanding of the general public with respect to the role

and function of the House under the Constitution as an

institution of the Federal Government.

(b) In addition, it is the intent of this clause that radio

and television tapes and television film of any coverage under

this clause may not be used, or made available for use, as

partisan political campaign material to promote or oppose the

candidacy of any person for elective public office.

(c) It is, further, the intent of this clause that the general conduct of each meeting (whether of a hearing or otherwise) covered under authority of this clause by audio or visual

means, and the personal behavior of the committee members

and staff, other Government officials and personnel, witnesses, television, radio, and press media personnel, and the

general public at the hearing or other meeting, shall be in

strict conformity with and observance of the acceptable
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standards of dignity, propriety, courtesy, and decorum traditionally observed by the House in its operations, and may not

be such as to—

(1) distort the objects and purposes of the hearing

or other meeting or the activities of committee members

in connection with that hearing or meeting or in connection with the general work of the committee or of the

House; or

(2) cast discredit or dishonor on the House, the

committee, or a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner or bring the House, the committee, or a Member,

Delegate, or Resident Commissioner into disrepute.

(d) The coverage of committee hearings and meetings by

audio and visual means shall be permitted and conducted

only in strict conformity with the purposes, provisions, and

requirements of this clause.

(e) Whenever a hearing or meeting conducted by a committee or subcommittee is open to the public, those proceedings shall be open to coverage by audio and visual means. A

committee or subcommittee chairman may not limit the number of television or still cameras to fewer than two representatives from each medium (except for legitimate space or safety considerations, in which case pool coverage shall be authorized).
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(f) Each committee shall adopt written rules to govern

its implementation of this clause. Such rules shall contain

provisions to the following effect:

(1) If audio or visual coverage of the hearing or

meeting is to be presented to the public as live coverage,

that coverage shall be conducted and presented without

commercial sponsorship.

(2) The allocation among the television media of the

positions or the number of television cameras permitted

by a committee or subcommittee chairman in a hearing

or meeting room shall be in accordance with fair and equitable procedures devised by the Executive Committee

of the Radio and Television Correspondents’ Galleries.

(3) Television cameras shall be placed so as not to

obstruct in any way the space between a witness giving

evidence or testimony and any member of the committee

or the visibility of that witness and that member to each

other.

(4) Television cameras shall operate from fixed positions but may not be placed in positions that obstruct

unnecessarily the coverage of the hearing or meeting by

the other media.

(5) Equipment necessary for coverage by the television and radio media may not be installed in, or re-
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moved from, the hearing or meeting room while the committee is in session.

(6)(A) Except as provided in subdivision (B), floodlights, spotlights, strobelights, and flashguns may not be

used in providing any method of coverage of the hearing

or meeting.

(B) The television media may install additional

lighting in a hearing or meeting room, without cost to

the Government, in order to raise the ambient lighting

level in a hearing or meeting room to the lowest level

necessary to provide adequate television coverage of a

hearing or meeting at the current state of the art of television coverage.

(7) In the allocation of the number of still photographers permitted by a committee or subcommittee

chairman in a hearing or meeting room, preference shall

be given to photographers from Associated Press Photos

and United Press International Newspictures. If requests are made by more of the media than will be permitted by a committee or subcommittee chairman for

coverage of a hearing or meeting by still photography,

that coverage shall be permitted on the basis of a fair

and equitable pool arrangement devised by the Standing

Committee of Press Photographers.
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(8) Photographers may not position themselves between the witness table and the members of the committee at any time during the course of a hearing or meeting.

(9) Photographers may not place themselves in positions that obstruct unnecessarily the coverage of the

hearing by the other media.

(10) Personnel providing coverage by the television

and radio media shall be currently accredited to the

Radio and Television Correspondents’ Galleries.

(11) Personnel providing coverage by still photography shall be currently accredited to the Press Photographers’ Gallery.

(12) Personnel providing coverage by the television

and radio media and by still photography shall conduct

themselves and their coverage activities in an orderly

and unobtrusive manner.

Pay of witnesses

5. Witnesses appearing before the House or any of its

committees shall be paid the same per diem rate as established, authorized, and regulated by the Committee on House

Administration for Members, Delegates, the Resident Commissioner, and employees of the House, plus actual expenses

of travel to or from the place of examination. Such per diem
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may not be paid when a witness has been summoned at the

place of examination.

Unfinished business of the session

6. All business of the House at the end of one session

shall be resumed at the commencement of the next session of

the same Congress in the same manner as if no adjournment

had taken place.

RULE XII.

RECEIPT AND REFERRAL OF MEASURES AND MATTERS.

Messages

1. Messages received from the Senate, or from the President, shall be entered on the Journal and published in the

Congressional Record of the proceedings of that day.

Referral

2. (a) The Speaker shall refer each bill, resolution, or

other matter that relates to a subject listed under a standing

committee named in clause 1 of rule X in accordance with

the provisions of this clause.

(b) The Speaker shall refer matters under paragraph (a)

in such manner as to ensure to the maximum extent feasible

that each committee that has jurisdiction under clause 1 of

rule X over the subject matter of a provision thereof may

consider such provision and report to the House thereon.

Precedents, rulings, or procedures in effect before the NinetyFourth Congress shall be applied to referrals under this
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clause only to the extent that they will contribute to the

achievement of the objectives of this clause.

(c) In carrying out paragraphs (a) and (b) with respect

to the referral of a matter, the Speaker—

(1) shall designate a committee of primary jurisdiction;

(2) may refer the matter to one or more additional

committees for consideration in sequence, either initially

or after the matter has been reported by the committee

of primary jurisdiction;

(3) may refer portions of the matter reflecting different subjects and jurisdictions to one or more additional committees;

(4) may refer the matter to a special, ad hoc committee appointed by the Speaker with the approval of the

House, and including members of the committees of jurisdiction, for the specific purpose of considering that

matter and reporting to the House thereon;

(5) may subject a referral to appropriate time limitations; and

(6) may make such other provision as may be considered appropriate.

(d) A bill for the payment or adjudication of a private

claim against the Government may not be referred to a committee other than the Committee on International Relations
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or the Committee on the Judiciary, except by unanimous consent.

Petitions, memorials, and private bills

3. If a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner has

a petition, memorial, or private bill to present, he shall endorse his name, deliver it to the Clerk, and may specify the

reference or disposition to be made thereof. Such petition,

memorial, or private bill (except when judged by the Speaker

to be obscene or insulting) shall be entered on the Journal

with the name of the Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner presenting it and shall be printed in the Congressional

Record.

4. A private bill or private resolution (including an omnibus claim or pension bill), or amendment thereto, may not be

received or considered in the House if it authorizes or

directs—

(a) the payment of money for property damages, for

personal injuries or death for which suit may be instituted under the Tort Claims Procedure provided in title

28, United States Code, or for a pension (other than to

carry out a provision of law or treaty stipulation);

(b) the construction of a bridge across a navigable

stream; or

(c) the correction of a military or naval record.
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Prohibition on commemorations

5. (a) A bill or resolution, or an amendment thereto,

may not be introduced or considered in the House if it establishes or expresses a commemoration.

(b) In this clause the term ‘‘commemoration’’ means a

remembrance, celebration, or recognition for any purpose

through the designation of a specified period of time.

Excluded matters

6. A petition, memorial, bill, or resolution excluded

under this rule shall be returned to the Member, Delegate,

or Resident Commissioner from whom it was received. A petition or private bill that has been inappropriately referred

may, by direction of the committee having possession of it,

be properly referred in the manner originally presented. An

erroneous reference of a petition or private bill under this

clause does not confer jurisdiction on a committee to consider

or report it.

Sponsorship

7. (a) All other bills, memorials, petitions, and resolutions, endorsed with the names of Members, Delegates, or the

Resident Commissioner introducing them, may be delivered to

the Speaker to be referred. The titles and references of all

bills, memorials, petitions, resolutions, and other documents

referred under this rule shall be entered on the Journal and

printed in the Congressional Record. An erroneous reference

may be corrected by the House in accordance with rule X on
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any day immediately after the Pledge of Allegiance to the

Flag by unanimous consent or motion. Such a motion shall

be privileged if offered by direction of a committee to which

the bill has been erroneously referred or by direction of a

committee claiming jurisdiction and shall be decided without

debate.

(b)(1) The primary sponsor of a public bill or public resolution may name cosponsors. The name of a cosponsor

added after the initial printing of a bill or resolution shall appear in the next printing of the bill or resolution on the written request of the primary sponsor. Such a request may be

submitted to the Speaker at any time until the last committee

authorized to consider and report the bill or resolution reports it to the House or is discharged from its consideration.

(2) The name of a cosponsor of a bill or resolution may

be deleted by unanimous consent. The Speaker may entertain

such a request only by the Member, Delegate, or Resident

Commissioner whose name is to be deleted or by the primary

sponsor of the bill or resolution, and only until the last committee authorized to consider and report the bill or resolution

reports it to the House or is discharged from its consideration. The Speaker may not entertain a request to delete the

name of the primary sponsor of a bill or resolution. A deletion shall be indicated by date in the next printing of the bill

or resolution.
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(3) The addition or deletion of the name of a cosponsor

of a bill or resolution shall be entered on the Journal and

printed in the Congressional Record of that day.

(4) A bill or resolution shall be reprinted on the written

request of the primary sponsor. Such a request may be submitted to the Speaker only when 20 or more cosponsors have

been added since the last printing of the bill or resolution.

(5) When a bill or resolution is introduced ‘‘by request,’’

those words shall be entered on the Journal and printed in

the Congressional Record.

Executive communications

8. Estimates of appropriations and all other communications from the executive departments intended for the consideration of any committees of the House shall be addressed to

the Speaker for referral as provided in clause 2 of rule XIV.

RULE XIII.

CALENDARS AND COMMITTEE REPORTS.

Calendars

1. (a) All business reported by committees shall be referred to one of the following three calendars:

(1) A Calendar of the Committee of the Whole

House on the state of the Union, to which shall be referred public bills and public resolutions raising revenue,

involving a tax or charge on the people, directly or indirectly making appropriations of money or property or re-
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quiring such appropriations to be made, authorizing payments out of appropriations already made, releasing any

liability to the United States for money or property, or

referring a claim to the Court of Claims.

(2) A House Calendar, to which shall be referred all

public bills and public resolutions not requiring referral

to the Calendar of the Committee of the Whole House

on the state of the Union.

(3) A Private Calendar as provided in clause 5 of

rule XV, to which shall be referred all private bills and

private resolutions.

(b) There is established a Corrections Calendar as provided in clause 6 of rule XV.

(c) There is established a Calendar of Motions to Discharge Committees as provided in clause 2 of rule XV.

Filing and printing of reports

2. (a)(1) Except as provided in subparagraph (2), all reports of committees (other than those filed from the floor as

privileged) shall be delivered to the Clerk for printing and

reference to the proper calendar under the direction of the

Speaker in accordance with clause 1. The title or subject of

each report shall be entered on the Journal and printed in

the Congressional Record.

(2) A bill or resolution reported adversely shall be laid

on the table unless a committee to which the bill or resolution
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was referred requests at the time of the report its referral to

an appropriate calendar under clause 1 or unless, within

three days thereafter, a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner makes such a request.

(b)(1) It shall be the duty of the chairman of each committee to report or cause to be reported promptly to the

House a measure or matter approved by the committee and

to take or cause to be taken steps necessary to bring the

measure or matter to a vote.

(2) In any event, the report of a committee on a measure that has been approved by the committee shall be filed

within seven calendar days (exclusive of days on which the

House is not in session) after the day on which a written request for the filing of the report, signed by a majority of the

members of the committee, has been filed with the clerk of

the committee. The clerk of the committee shall immediately

notify the chairman of the filing of such a request. This subparagraph does not apply to a report of the Committee on

Rules with respect to a rule, joint rule, or order of business

of the House, or to the reporting of a resolution of inquiry

addressed to the head of an executive department.

(c) All supplemental, minority, or additional views filed

under clause 2(l) of rule XI by one or more members of a

committee shall be included in, and shall be a part of, the

report filed by the committee with respect to a measure or
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matter. When time guaranteed by clause 2(l) of rule XI has

expired (or, if sooner, when all separate views have been received), the committee may arrange to file its report with the

Clerk not later than one hour after the expiration of such

time. This clause and provisions of clause 2(l) of rule XI do

not preclude the immediate filing or printing of a committee

report in the absence of a timely request for the opportunity

to file supplemental, minority, or additional views as provided

in clause 2(l) of rule XI.

Content of reports

3. (a)(1) Except as provided in subparagraph (2), the report of a committee on a measure or matter shall be printed

in a single volume that—

(A) shall include all supplemental, minority, or additional views that have been submitted by the time of

the filing of the report; and

(B) shall bear on its cover a recital that any such

supplemental, minority, or additional views (and any material submitted under paragraph (c)(3) or (4)) are included as part of the report.

(2) A committee may file a supplemental report for the

correction of a technical error in its previous report on a

measure or matter.

(b) With respect to each record vote on a motion to report a measure or matter of a public nature, and on any
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amendment offered to the measure or matter, the total number of votes cast for and against, and the names of members

voting for and against, shall be included in the committee report. The preceding sentence does not apply to votes taken

in executive session by the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct.

(c) The report of a committee on a measure that has

been approved by the committee shall include, separately set

out and clearly identified, the following:

(1) Oversight findings and recommendations under

clause 2(b)(1) of rule X.

(2) The statement required by section 308(a) of the

Congressional Budget Act of 1974, except that an estimate of new budget authority shall include, when practicable, a comparison of the total estimated funding level

for the relevant programs to the appropriate levels under

current law.

(3) An estimate and comparison prepared by the

Director of the Congressional Budget Office under section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 if

timely submitted to the committee before the filing of

the report.

(4) A summary of oversight findings and recommendations by the Committee on Government Reform

under clause 4(c)(2) of rule X if such findings and rec-
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ommendations have been submitted to the reporting

committee in time to allow it to consider such findings

and recommendations during its deliberations on the

measure.

(d) Each report of a committee on a public bill or public

joint resolution shall contain the following:

(1) A statement citing the specific powers granted

to Congress in the Constitution to enact the law proposed by the bill or joint resolution.

(2)(A) An estimate by the committee of the costs

that would be incurred in carrying out the bill or joint

resolution in the fiscal year in which it is reported and

in each of the five fiscal years following that fiscal year

(or for the authorized duration of any program authorized by the bill or joint resolution if less than five years);

(B) A comparison of the estimate of costs described

in subdivision (A) made by the committee with any estimate of such costs made by a Government agency and

submitted to such committee; and

(C) When practicable, a comparison of the total estimated funding level for the relevant programs with the

appropriate levels under current law.

(3)(A) In subparagraph (2) the term ‘‘Government

agency’’ includes any department, agency, establishment,

wholly owned Government corporation, or instrumental-
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ity of the Federal Government or the government of the

District of Columbia.

(B) Subparagraph (2) does not apply to the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on House Administration, the Committee on Rules, or the Committee

on Standards of Official Conduct, and does not apply

when a cost estimate and comparison prepared by the

Director of the Congressional Budget Office under section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 has

been included in the report under paragraph (c)(3).

(e)(1) Whenever a committee reports a bill or joint resolution proposing to repeal or amend a statute or part thereof,

it shall include in its report or in an accompanying

document—

(A) the text of a statute or part thereof that is proposed to be repealed; and

(B) a comparative print of any part of the bill or

joint resolution proposing to amend the statute and of

the statute or part thereof proposed to be amended,

showing by appropriate typographical devices the omissions and insertions proposed.

(2) If a committee reports a bill or joint resolution proposing to repeal or amend a statute or part thereof with a

recommendation that the bill or joint resolution be amended,

the comparative print required by subparagraph (1) shall re-
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flect the changes in existing law proposed to be made by the

bill or joint resolution as proposed to be amended.

(f)(1) A report of the Committee on Appropriations on

a general appropriation bill shall include—

(A) a concise statement describing the effect of any

provision of the accompanying bill that directly or indirectly changes the application of existing law; and

(B) a list of all appropriations contained in the bill

for expenditures not previously authorized by law (except

classified intelligence or national security programs,

projects, or activities).

(2) Whenever the Committee on Appropriations reports

a bill or joint resolution including matter specified in clause

1(b)(2) or (3) of rule X, it shall include—

(A) in the bill or joint resolution, separate headings

for ‘‘Rescissions’’ and ‘‘Transfers of Unexpended Balances’’; and

(B) in the report of the committee, a separate section listing such rescissions and transfers.

(g) Whenever the Committee on Rules reports a resolution proposing to repeal or amend a standing rule of the

House, it shall include in its report or in an accompanying

document—

(1) the text of any rule or part thereof that is proposed to be repealed; and
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(2) a comparative print of any part of the resolution proposing to amend the rule and of the rule or part

thereof proposed to be amended, showing by appropriate

typographical devices the omissions and insertions proposed.

(h)(1) It shall not be in order to consider a bill or joint

resolution reported by the Committee on Ways and Means

that proposes to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986

unless—

(A) the report includes a tax complexity analysis

prepared by the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue

Taxation in accordance with section 4022(b) of the Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of

1998; or

(B) the chairman of the Committee on Ways and

Means causes such a tax complexity analysis to be printed in the Congressional Record before consideration of

the bill or joint resolution.

(2) A report from the Committee on Ways and Means

on a bill or joint resolution designated by the Majority Leader, after consultation with the Minority Leader, as major tax

legislation may include a dynamic estimate of the changes in

Federal revenues expected to result from enactment of the

legislation. The Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation shall render a dynamic estimate of such legislation only
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in response to a timely request from the chairman of the

Committee on Ways and Means, after consultation with the

ranking minority member. A dynamic estimate under this

paragraph may be used only for informational purposes.

(3) In this paragraph the term ‘‘dynamic estimate’’

means a projection based in any part on assumptions concerning probable effects of macroeconomic feedback. A dynamic estimate shall include a statement identifying all such

assumptions.

Availability of reports

4. (a)(1) Except as specified in subparagraph (2), it

shall not be in order to consider in the House a measure or

matter reported by a committee until the third calendar day

(excluding Saturdays, Sundays, or legal holidays except when

the House is in session on such a day) on which each report

of a committee on that measure or matter has been available

to Members, Delegates, and the Resident Commissioner.

(2) Subparagraph (1) does not apply to—

(A) a resolution providing a rule, joint rule, or

order of business reported by the Committee on Rules

considered under clause 6;

(B) a resolution providing amounts from the applicable accounts described in clause 1(i)(1) of rule X reported by the Committee on House Administration considered under clause 6 of rule X;
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(C) a resolution presenting a question of the privileges of the House reported by any committee;

(D) a measure for the declaration of war, or the

declaration of a national emergency, by Congress; and

(E) a measure providing for the disapproval of a decision, determination, or action by a Government agency

that would become, or continue to be, effective unless

disapproved or otherwise invalidated by one or both

Houses of Congress. In this subdivision the term ‘‘Government agency’’ includes any department, agency, establishment, wholly owned Government corporation, or

instrumentality of the Federal Government or of the

government of the District of Columbia.

(b) A committee that reports a measure or matter shall

make every reasonable effort to have its hearings thereon (if

any) printed and available for distribution to Members, Delegates, and the Resident Commissioner before the consideration of the measure or matter in the House.

(c) A general appropriation bill reported by the Committee on Appropriations may not be considered in the House

until the third calendar day (excluding Saturdays, Sundays,

and legal holidays except when the House is in session on

such a day) on which printed hearings of the Committee on

Appropriations thereon have been available to Members, Delegates, and the Resident Commissioner.
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Privileged reports, generally

5. (a) The following committees shall have leave to report at any time on the following matters, respectively:

(1) The Committee on Appropriations, on general

appropriation bills and on joint resolutions continuing

appropriations for a fiscal year after September 15 in

the preceding fiscal year.

(2) The Committee on the Budget, on the matters

required to be reported by such committee under titles

III and IV of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.

(3) The Committee on House Administration, on

enrolled bills, on contested elections, on matters referred

to it concerning printing for the use of the House or the

two Houses, on expenditure of the applicable accounts of

the House described in clause 1(i)(1) of rule X, and on

matters relating to preservation and availability of noncurrent records of the House under rule VII.

(4) The Committee on Rules, on rules, joint rules,

and the order of business.

(5) The Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, on resolutions recommending action by the House

with respect to a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House as a result of

an investigation by the committee relating to the official

conduct of such Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee.
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(b) A report filed from the floor as privileged under

paragraph (a) may be called up as a privileged question by

direction of the reporting committee, subject to any requirement concerning its availability to Members, Delegates, and

the Resident Commissioner under clause 4 or concerning the

timing of its consideration under clause 6.

Privileged reports by the Committee on Rules

6. (a) A report by the Committee on Rules on a rule,

joint rule, or the order of business may not be called up for

consideration on the same day it is presented to the House

except—

(1) when so determined by a vote of two-thirds of

the Members voting, a quorum being present;

(2) in the case of a resolution proposing only to

waive a requirement of clause 4 or of clause 8 of rule

XXII concerning the availability of reports; or

(3) during the last three days of a session of Congress.

(b) Pending the consideration of a report by the Committee on Rules on a rule, joint rule, or the order of business,

the Speaker may entertain one motion that the House adjourn. After the result of such a motion is announced, the

Speaker may not entertain any other dilatory motion until

the report shall have been disposed of.

(c) The Committee on Rules may not report—
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(1) a rule or order proposing that business under

clause 7 of rule XV be set aside by a vote of less than

two-thirds of the Members voting, a quorum being

present;

(2) a rule or order that would prevent the motion

to recommit a bill or joint resolution from being made

as provided in clause 2(b) of rule XIX, including a motion to recommit with instructions to report back an

amendment otherwise in order, if offered by the Minority

Leader or a designee, except with respect to a Senate

bill or resolution for which the text of a House-passed

measure has been substituted.

(d) The Committee on Rules shall present to the House

reports concerning rules, joint rules, and the order of business, within three legislative days of the time when they are

ordered. If such a report is not considered immediately, it

shall be referred to the calendar. If such a report on the calendar is not called up by the member of the committee who

filed the report within seven legislative days, any member of

the committee may call it up as a privileged question on the

day after the calendar day on which the member announces

to the House his intention to do so. The Speaker shall recognize a member of the committee who rises for that purpose.

(e) An adverse report by the Committee on Rules on a

resolution proposing a special order of business for the con-
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sideration of a public bill or public joint resolution may be

called up as a privileged question by a Member, Delegate, or

Resident Commissioner on a day when it is in order to consider a motion to discharge committees under clause 2 of rule

XV.

(f) If the House has adopted a resolution making in

order a motion to consider a bill or resolution, and such a

motion has not been offered within seven calendar days thereafter, such a motion shall be privileged if offered by direction

of all reporting committees having initial jurisdiction of the

bill or resolution.

(g) Whenever the Committee on Rules reports a resolution providing for the consideration of a measure, it shall (to

the maximum extent possible) specify in the resolution the

object of any waiver of a point of order against the measure

or against its consideration.

Resolutions of inquiry

7. A report on a resolution of inquiry addressed to the

head of an executive department may be filed from the floor

as privileged. If such a resolution is not reported to the

House within 14 legislative days after its introduction, a motion to discharge a committee from its consideration shall be

privileged.
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RULE XIV.

ORDER AND PRIORITY OF BUSINESS.

1. The daily order of business (unless varied by the application of other rules and except for the disposition of matters of higher precedence) shall be as follows:

First. Prayer by the Chaplain.

Second. Reading and approval of the Journal, unless postponed under clause 9(a) of rule XX.

Third. The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.

Fourth. Correction of reference of public bills.

Fifth. Disposal of business on the Speaker’s table

as provided in clause 2.

Sixth. Unfinished business as provided in

clause 3.

Seventh. The morning hour for the consideration of

bills called up by committees as provided in clause 4.

Eighth. Motions that the House resolve into the

Committee of the Whole House on the state of the

Union subject to clause 5.

Ninth. Orders of the day.

2. Business on the Speaker’s table shall be disposed of

as follows:

(a) Messages from the President shall be referred to

the appropriate committees without debate.
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(b) Communications addressed to the House, including reports and communications from heads of departments and bills, resolutions, and messages from the

Senate, may be referred to the appropriate committees

in the same manner and with the same right of correction as public bills and public resolutions presented by

Members, Delegates, or the Resident Commissioner.

(c) Motions to dispose of Senate amendments on

the Speaker’s table may be entertained as provided in

clauses 1, 2, and 4 of rule XXII.

(d) Senate bills and resolutions substantially the

same as House measures already favorably reported and

not required to be considered in the Committee of the

Whole House on the state of the Union may be disposed

of by motion. Such a motion shall be privileged if offered

by direction of all reporting committees having initial jurisdiction of the House measure.

3. Consideration of unfinished business in which the

House may have been engaged at an adjournment, except

business in the morning hour and proceedings postponed

under clause 9 of rule XX, shall be resumed as soon as the

business on the Speaker’s table is finished, and at the same

time each day thereafter until disposed of. The consideration

of all other unfinished business shall be resumed whenever
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the class of business to which it belongs shall be in order

under the rules.

4. After the unfinished business has been disposed of,

the Speaker shall call each standing committee in regular

order and then select committees. Each committee when

named may call up for consideration a bill or resolution reported by it on a previous day and on the House Calendar.

If the Speaker does not complete the call of the committees

before the House passes to other business, the next call shall

resume at the point it left off, giving preference to the last

bill or resolution under consideration. A committee that has

occupied the call for two days may not call up another bill

or resolution until the other committees have been called in

their turn.

5. After consideration of bills or resolutions under clause

4 for one hour, it shall be in order, pending consideration

thereof, to entertain a motion that the House resolve into the

Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union or,

when authorized by a committee, that the House resolve into

the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union

to consider a particular bill. Such a motion shall be subject

to only one amendment designating another bill. If such a

motion is decided in the negative, another such motion may

not be considered until the matter that was pending when

such motion was offered is disposed of.
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6. All questions relating to the priority of business shall

be decided by a majority without debate.

RULE XV.

BUSINESS IN ORDER ON SPECIAL DAYS.

Suspensions, Mondays and Tuesdays

1. (a) A rule may not be suspended except by a vote of

two-thirds of the Members voting, a quorum being present.

The Speaker may not entertain a motion that the House suspend the rules except on Mondays and Tuesdays and during

the last six days of a session of Congress.

(b) Pending a motion that the House suspend the rules,

the Speaker may entertain one motion that the House adjourn. After the result of such a motion is announced, the

Speaker may not entertain any other motion until the vote

is taken on the suspension.

(c) A motion that the House suspend the rules is debatable for 40 minutes, one-half in favor of the motion and onehalf in opposition thereto.

Discharge motions, second and fourth Mondays

2. (a) Motions to discharge committees shall be in order

on the second and fourth Mondays of a month.

(b)(1) A Member may present to the Clerk a motion in

writing to discharge—
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(A) a committee from consideration of a public bill

or public resolution that has been referred to it for 30

legislative days; or

(B) the Committee on Rules from consideration of

a resolution that has been referred to it for seven legislative days and that proposes a special order of business

for the consideration of a public bill or public resolution

that has been reported by a standing committee or has

been referred to a standing committee for 30 legislative

days.

(2) Only one motion may be presented for a bill or resolution. A Member may not file a motion to discharge the

Committee on Rules from consideration of a resolution providing for the consideration of more than one public bill or

public resolution or admitting or effecting a nongermane

amendment to a public bill or public resolution.

(c) A motion presented under paragraph (b) shall be

placed in the custody of the Clerk, who shall arrange a convenient place for the signatures of Members. A signature may

be withdrawn by a Member in writing at any time before a

motion is entered on the Journal. The Clerk shall make signatures a matter of public record, causing the names of the

Members who have signed a discharge motion during a week

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week and making cumulative lists of such names available

each day for public inspection in an appropriate office of the

House. The Clerk shall devise a means for making such lists

available to offices of the House and to the public in electronic form. When a majority of the total membership of the

House shall have signed the motion, it shall be entered on the

Journal, printed with the signatures thereto in the Record,

and referred to the Calendar of Motions to Discharge Committees.

(d)(1) On the second and fourth Mondays of a month

(except during the last six days of a session of Congress), immediately after the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag, a motion

to discharge that has been on the calendar for at least seven

legislative days shall be privileged if called up by a Member

whose signature appears thereon. When such a motion is

called up, the House shall proceed to its consideration under

this paragraph without intervening motion except one motion

to adjourn. Privileged motions to discharge shall have precedence in the order of their entry on the Journal.

(2) When a motion to discharge is called up, the bill or

resolution to which it relates shall be read by title only. The

motion is debatable for 20 minutes, one-half in favor of the

motion and one-half in opposition thereto.

(e)(1) If a motion prevails to discharge the Committee

on Rules from consideration of a resolution, the House shall
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immediately consider the resolution, pending which the

Speaker may entertain one motion that the House adjourn.

After the result of such a motion to adjourn is announced,

the Speaker may not entertain any other dilatory motion

until the resolution has been disposed of. If the resolution is

adopted, the House shall immediately proceed to its execution.

(2) If a motion prevails to discharge a standing committee from consideration of a public bill or public resolution, a

motion that the House proceed to the immediate consideration of such bill or resolution shall be privileged if offered

by a Member whose signature appeared on the motion to discharge. The motion to proceed is not debatable. If the motion

to proceed is adopted, the bill or resolution shall be considered immediately under the general rules of the House. If unfinished before adjournment of the day on which it is called

up, the bill or resolution shall remain the unfinished business

until it is disposed of. If the motion to proceed is rejected,

the bill or resolution shall be referred to the appropriate calendar, where it shall have the same status as if the committee from which it was discharged had duly reported it to the

House.

(f)(1) When a motion to discharge originated under this

clause has once been acted on by the House, it shall not be

in order to entertain during the same session of Congress—
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(A) a motion to discharge a committee from consideration of that bill or resolution or of any other bill or

resolution that, by relating in substance to or dealing

with the same subject matter, is substantially the same;

or

(B) a motion to discharge the Committee on Rules

from consideration of a resolution providing a special

order of business for the consideration of that bill or resolution or of any other bill or resolution that, by relating

in substance to or dealing with the same subject matter,

is substantially the same.

(2) A motion to discharge on the Calendar of Motions

to Discharge Committees that is rendered out of order under

subparagraph (1) shall be stricken from that calendar.

Adverse report by the Committee on Rules, second and

fourth Mondays

3. An adverse report by the Committee on Rules on a

resolution proposing a special order of business for the consideration of a public bill or public joint resolution may be

called up under clause 6(e) of rule XIII as a privileged question by a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner on a

day when it is in order to consider a motion to discharge

committees under clause 2.
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District of Columbia business, second and fourth Mondays

4. The second and fourth Mondays of a month shall be

set apart for the consideration of such District of Columbia

business as may be called up by the Committee on Government Reform after the disposition of motions to discharge

committees and after the disposal of such business on the

Speaker’s table as requires reference only.

Private Calendar, first and third Tuesdays

5. (a) On the first Tuesday of a month, the Speaker

shall direct the Clerk to call the bills and resolutions on the

Private Calendar after disposal of such business on the

Speaker’s table as requires reference only. If two or more

Members, Delegates, or the Resident Commissioner object to

the consideration of a bill or resolution so called, it shall be

recommitted to the committee that reported it. No other business shall be in order before completion of the call of the Private Calendar on this day unless two-thirds of the Members

voting, a quorum being present, agree to a motion that the

House dispense with the call.

(b)(1) On the third Tuesday of a month, after the disposal of such business on the Speaker’s table as requires reference only, the Speaker may direct the Clerk to call the bills

and resolutions on the Private Calendar. Preference shall be

given to omnibus bills containing the texts of bills or resolutions that have previously been objected to on a call of the
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Private Calendar. If two or more Members, Delegates, or the

Resident Commissioner object to the consideration of a bill or

resolution so called (other than an omnibus bill), it shall be

recommitted to the committee that reported it. Two-thirds of

the Members voting, a quorum being present, may adopt a

motion that the House dispense with the call on this day.

(2) Omnibus bills shall be read for amendment by paragraph. No amendment shall be in order except to strike or

to reduce amounts of money or to provide limitations. An

item or matter stricken from an omnibus bill may not thereafter during the same session of Congress be included in an

omnibus bill. Upon passage such an omnibus bill shall be resolved into the several bills and resolutions of which it is composed. The several bills and resolutions, with any amendments adopted by the House, shall be engrossed, when necessary, and otherwise considered as passed severally by the

House as distinct bills and resolutions.

(c) The Speaker may not entertain a reservation of the

right to object to the consideration of a bill or resolution

under this clause. A bill or resolution considered under this

clause shall be considered in the House as in the Committee

of the Whole. A motion to dispense with the call of the Private Calendar under this clause shall be privileged. Debate on

such a motion shall be limited to five minutes in support and

five minutes in opposition.
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Corrections Calendar, second and fourth Tuesdays

6. (a) After a bill has been favorably reported and placed

on either the Union or House Calendar, the Speaker, after

consultation with the Minority Leader, may direct the Clerk

also to place the bill on the ‘‘Corrections Calendar.’’ At any

time on the second and fourth Tuesdays of a month, the

Speaker may direct the Clerk to call a bill that has been

on the Corrections Calendar for three legislative days.

(b) A bill called from the Corrections Calendar shall be

considered in the House, is debatable for one hour equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority

member of the primary committee of jurisdiction, and shall

not be subject to amendment except those recommended by

the primary committee of jurisdiction or offered by the chairman of the primary committee or a designee. The previous

question shall be considered as ordered on the bill and any

amendments thereto to final passage without intervening motion except one motion to recommit with or without instructions.

(c) The approval of three-fifths of the Members voting,

a quorum being present, shall be required to pass a bill called

from the Corrections Calendar. The rejection of a bill so

called, or the sustaining of a point of order against it or

against its consideration, does not cause its removal from the

Calendar to which it was originally referred.
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Calendar Call of Committees, Wednesdays

7. (a) On Wednesday of each week, business shall not

be in order before completion of the call of the committees

(except as provided by clause 4 of rule XIV) unless two-thirds

of the Members voting, a quorum being present, agree to a

motion that the House dispense with the call. Such a motion

shall be privileged. Debate on such a motion shall be limited

to five minutes in support and five minutes in opposition.

(b) A bill or resolution on either the House or the Union

Calendar, except bills or resolutions that are privileged under

the Rules of the House, may be called under this clause. A

bill or resolution called up from the Union Calendar shall be

considered in the Committee of the Whole House on the state

of the Union without motion, subject to clause 3 of rule XVI.

General debate on a measure considered under this clause

shall be confined to the measure and may not exceed two

hours equally divided between a proponent and an opponent.

(c) When a committee has occupied the call under this

clause on one Wednesday, it shall not be in order on a succeeding Wednesday to consider unfinished business previously

called up by that committee until the other committees have

been called in their turn unless—

(1) the previous question has been ordered on such

unfinished business; or

(2) the House adopts a motion to dispense with the

call under paragraph (a).
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(d) If any committee has not been called under this

clause during a session of a Congress, then at the next session of that Congress the call shall resume where it left off

at the end of the preceding session.

(e) This rule does not apply during the last two weeks

of a session of Congress.

(f) The Speaker may not entertain a motion for a recess

on a Wednesday except during the last two weeks of a session

of Congress.

RULE XVI.

MOTIONS AND AMENDMENTS.

Motions

1. Every motion entertained by the Speaker shall be reduced to writing on the demand of a Member, Delegate, or

Resident Commissioner and, unless it is withdrawn the same

day, shall be entered on the Journal with the name of the

Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner offering it. A

dilatory motion may not be entertained by the Speaker.

Withdrawal

2. When a motion is entertained, the Speaker shall state

it or cause it to be read aloud by the Clerk before it is debated. The motion then shall be in the possession of the

House but may be withdrawn at any time before a decision

or amendment thereon.
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Question of consideration

3. When a motion or proposition is entertained, the

question, ‘‘Will the House now consider it?’’ may not be put

unless demanded by a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner.

Precedence of motions

4. (a) When a question is under debate, only the following motions may be entertained (which shall have precedence

in the following order):

(1) To adjourn.

(2) To lay on the table.

(3) For the previous question.

(4) To postpone to a day certain.

(5) To refer.

(6) To amend.

(7) To postpone indefinitely.

(b) A motion to adjourn, to lay on the table, or for the

previous question shall be decided without debate. A motion

to postpone to a day certain, to refer, or to postpone indefinitely, being decided, may not be allowed again on the same

day at the same stage of the question.

(c)(1) It shall be in order at any time for the Speaker,

in his discretion, to entertain a motion—

(A) that the Speaker be authorized to declare a recess; or
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(B) that when the House adjourns it stand adjourned to a day and time certain.

(2) Either motion shall be of equal privilege with the

motion to adjourn and shall be decided without debate.

Divisibility

5. (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b), a question

shall be divided on the demand of a Member, Delegate, or

Resident Commissioner before the question is put if it includes propositions so distinct in substance that, one being

taken away, a substantive proposition remains.

(b)(1) A motion or resolution to elect members to a

standing committee of the House, or to a joint standing committee, is not divisible.

(2) A resolution or order reported by the Committee on

Rules providing a special order of business is not divisible.

(c) A motion to strike and insert is not divisible, but rejection of a motion to strike does not preclude another motion

to amend.

Amendments

6. When an amendable proposition is under consideration, a motion to amend and a motion to amend that

amendment shall be in order, and it also shall be in order to

offer a further amendment by way of substitute for the original motion to amend, to which one amendment may be offered but which may not be voted on until the original
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amendment is perfected. An amendment may be withdrawn

in the House at any time before a decision or amendment

thereon. An amendment to the title of a bill or resolution

shall not be in order until after its passage or adoption and

shall be decided without debate.

Germaneness

7. No motion or proposition on a subject different from

that under consideration shall be admitted under color of

amendment.

Readings

8. Bills and joint resolutions are subject to readings as

follows:

(a) A first reading is in full when the bill or joint

resolution is first considered.

(b) A second reading occurs only when the bill or

joint resolution is read for amendment in a Committee

of the Whole House on the state of the Union under

clause 5 of rule XVIII.

(c) A third reading precedes passage when the

Speaker states the question: ‘‘Shall the bill [or joint resolution] be engrossed [when applicable] and read a third

time?’’ If that question is decided in the affirmative,

then the bill or joint resolution shall be read the final

time by title and then the question shall be put on its

passage.
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RULE XVII.

DECORUM AND DEBATE.

Decorum

1. (a) A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner

who desires to speak or deliver a matter to the House shall

rise and respectfully address himself to ‘‘Mr. Speaker’’ and,

on being recognized, may address the House from any place

on the floor. When invited by the Chair, a Member, Delegate,

or Resident Commissioner may speak from the Clerk’s desk.

(b)(1) Remarks in debate shall be confined to the question under debate, avoiding personality.

(2)(A) Except as provided in subdivision (B), debate

may not include characterizations of Senate action or inaction, references to individual Members of the Senate, or

quotations from Senate proceedings.

(B) Debate may include references to actions taken by

the Senate or by committees thereof that are a matter of

public record; references to the pendency or sponsorship in

the Senate of bills, resolutions, and amendments; factual descriptions relating to Senate action or inaction concerning a

measure then under debate in the House; and quotations

from Senate proceedings on a measure then under debate in

the House that are relevant to the making of legislative history establishing the meaning of that measure.
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Recognition

2. When two or more Members, Delegates, or the Resident Commissioner rise at once, the Speaker shall name the

Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner who is first to

speak. A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may

not occupy more than one hour in debate on a question in

the House or in the Committee of the Whole House on the

state of the Union except as otherwise provided in this rule.

Managing Debate

3. (a) The Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner

who calls up a measure may open and close debate thereon.

When general debate extends beyond one day, that Member,

Delegate, or Resident Commissioner shall be entitled to one

hour to close without regard to the time used in opening.

(b) Except as provided in paragraph (a), a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may not speak more than

once to the same question without leave of the House.

(c) A manager of a measure who opposes an amendment

thereto is entitled to close controlled debate thereon.

Call to order

4. (a) If a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner,

in speaking or otherwise, transgresses the Rules of the

House, the Speaker shall, or a Member, Delegate, or Resident

Commissioner may, call to order the offending Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner, who shall immediately sit

down unless permitted on motion of another Member, Dele-
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gate, or the Resident Commissioner to explain. If a Member,

Delegate, or Resident Commissioner is called to order, the

Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner making the call

to order shall indicate the words excepted to, which shall be

taken down in writing at the Clerk’s desk and read aloud to

the House.

(b) The Speaker shall decide the validity of a call to

order. The House, if appealed to, shall decide the question

without debate. If the decision is in favor of the Member,

Delegate, or Resident Commissioner called to order, the

Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner shall be at liberty to proceed, but not otherwise. If the case requires it, an

offending Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner shall

be liable to censure or such other punishment as the House

may consider proper. A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may not be held to answer a call to order, and may

not be subject to the censure of the House therefor, if further

debate or other business has intervened.

Comportment

5. When the Speaker is putting a question or addressing

the House, a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner

may not walk out of or across the Hall. When a Member,

Delegate, or Resident Commissioner is speaking, a Member,

Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may not pass between

the person speaking and the Chair. During the session of the
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House, a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may

not wear a hat or remain by the Clerk’s desk during the call

of the roll or the counting of ballots. A person may not smoke

or use any personal, electronic office equipment, including

cellular phones and computers, on the floor of the House.

The Sergeant-at-Arms is charged with the strict enforcement

of this clause.

Exhibits

6. When the use of an exhibit in debate is objected to

by a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner, its use

shall be decided without debate by a vote of the House.

Galleries

7. During a session of the House, it shall not be in order

for a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner to introduce to or to bring to the attention of the House an occupant

in the galleries of the House. The Speaker may not entertain

a request for the suspension of this rule by unanimous consent or otherwise.

Congressional Record

8. (a) The Congressional Record shall be a substantially

verbatim account of remarks made during the proceedings of

the House, subject only to technical, grammatical, and typographical corrections authorized by the Member, Delegate, or

Resident Commissioner making the remarks.
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(b) Unparliamentary remarks may be deleted only by

permission or order of the House.

(c) This clause establishes a standard of conduct within

the meaning of clause 3(a)(2) of rule XI.

Secret sessions

9. When confidential communications are received from

the President, or when the Speaker or a Member, Delegate,

or Resident Commissioner informs the House that he has

communications that he believes ought to be kept secret for

the present, the House shall be cleared of all persons except

the Members, Delegates, Resident Commissioner, and officers

of the House for the reading of such communications, and debates and proceedings thereon, unless otherwise ordered by

the House.

RULE XVIII.

THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE HOUSE ON THE STATE OF

THE UNION.

Resolving into the Committee of the Whole

1. Whenever the House resolves into the Committee of

the Whole House on the state of the Union, the Speaker shall

leave the chair after appointing a Chairman to preside. In

case of disturbance or disorderly conduct in the galleries or

lobby, the Chairman may cause the same to be cleared.

2. (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) and in clause

7 of rule XV, the House resolves into the Committee of the
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Whole House on the state of the Union by motion. When

such a motion is entertained, the Speaker shall put the question without debate: ‘‘Shall the House resolve itself into the

Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for

consideration of this matter?’’, naming it.

(b) After the House has adopted a resolution reported

by the Committee on Rules providing a special order of business for the consideration of a measure in the Committee of

the Whole House on the state of the Union, the Speaker may

at any time, when no question is pending before the House,

declare the House resolved into the Committee of the Whole

for the consideration of that measure without intervening motion, unless the special order of business provides otherwise.

Measures requiring initial consideration in the Committee of the Whole

3. All bills, resolutions, or Senate amendments (as provided in clause 3 of rule XXII) involving a tax or charge on

the people, raising revenue, directly or indirectly making appropriations of money or property or requiring such appropriations to be made, authorizing payments out of appropriations already made, releasing any liability to the United

States for money or property, or referring a claim to the

Court of Claims, shall be first considered in the Committee

of the Whole House on the state of the Union. A bill, resolu-
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tion, or Senate amendment that fails to comply with this

clause is subject to a point of order against its consideration.

Order of business

4. (a) Subject to subparagraph (b) business on the calendar of the Committee of the Whole House on the state of

the Union may be taken up in regular order, or in such order

as the Committee may determine, unless the measure to be

considered was determined by the House at the time of resolving into the Committee of the Whole.

(b) Motions to resolve into the Committee of the Whole

for consideration of bills and joint resolutions making general

appropriations have precedence under this clause.

Reading for amendment

5. (a) Before general debate commences on a measure

in the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the

Union, it shall be read in full. When general debate is concluded or closed by order of the House, the measure under

consideration shall be read for amendment. A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner who offers an amendment

shall be allowed five minutes to explain it, after which the

Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner who shall first

obtain the floor shall be allowed five minutes to speak in opposition to it. There shall be no further debate thereon, but

the same privilege of debate shall be allowed in favor of and

against any amendment that may be offered to an amend-
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ment. An amendment, or an amendment to an amendment,

may be withdrawn by its proponent only by the unanimous

consent of the Committee of the Whole.

(b) When a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner offers an amendment in the Committee of the Whole

House on the state of the Union, the Clerk shall promptly

transmit five copies of the amendment to the majority committee table and five copies to the minority committee table.

The Clerk also shall deliver at least one copy of the amendment to the majority cloakroom and at least one copy to the

minority cloakroom.

Quorum and voting

6. (a) A quorum of a Committee of the Whole House on

the state of the Union is 100 Members. The first time that

a Committee of the Whole finds itself without a quorum during a day, the Chairman shall invoke the procedure for a

quorum call set forth in clause 2 of rule XX, unless he elects

to invoke an alternate procedure set forth in clause 3 or

clause 4(a) of rule XX. If a quorum appears, the Committee

of the Whole shall continue its business. If a quorum does

not appear, the Committee of the Whole shall rise, and the

Chairman shall report the names of absentees to the House.

(b)(1) The Chairman may refuse to entertain a point of

order that a quorum is not present during general debate.
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(2) After a quorum has once been established on a day,

the Chairman may entertain a point of order that a quorum

is not present only when the Committee of the Whole House

on the state of the Union is operating under the five-minute

rule and the Chairman has put the pending proposition to a

vote.

(3) Upon sustaining a point of order that a quorum is

not present, the Chairman may announce that, following a

regular quorum call under paragraph (a), the minimum time

for electronic voting on the pending question shall be five

minutes.

(c) When ordering a quorum call in the Committee of

the Whole House on the state of the Union, the Chairman

may announce an intention to declare that a quorum is constituted at any time during the quorum call when he determines that a quorum has appeared. If the Chairman interrupts the quorum call by declaring that a quorum is constituted, proceedings under the quorum call shall be considered as vacated, and the Committee of the Whole shall continue its sitting and resume its business.

(d) A quorum is not required in the Committee of the

Whole House on the state of the Union for adoption of a motion that the Committee rise.
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(e) In the Committee of the Whole House on the state

of the Union, the Chairman shall order a recorded vote on

a request supported by at least 25 Members.

(f) In the Committee of the Whole House on the state

of the Union, the Chairman may reduce to five minutes the

minimum time for electronic voting without any intervening

business or debate on any or all pending amendments after

a record vote has been taken on the first pending amendment.

Dispensing with the reading of an amendment

7. It shall be in order in the Committee of the Whole

House on the state of the Union to move that the Committee

of the Whole dispense with the reading of an amendment that

has been printed in the bill or resolution as reported by a

committee, or an amendment that a Member, Delegate, or

Resident Commissioner has caused to be printed in the Congressional Record. Such a motion shall be decided without debate.

Closing debate

8. (a) Subject to paragraph (b) at any time after the

Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union has

begun five-minute debate on amendments to any portion of

a bill or resolution, it shall be in order to move that the Committee of the Whole close all debate on that portion of the

bill or resolution or on the pending amendments only. Such
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a motion shall be decided without debate. The adoption of

such a motion does not preclude further amendment, to be

decided without debate.

(b) If the Committee of the Whole House on the state

of the Union closes debate on any portion of a bill or resolution before there has been debate on an amendment that a

Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner has caused to

be printed in the Congressional Record at least one day before its consideration, the Member, Delegate, or Resident

Commissioner who caused the amendment to be printed in

the Record shall be allowed five minutes to explain it, after

which the Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner who

shall first obtain the floor shall be allowed five minutes to

speak in opposition to it. There shall be no further debate

thereon.

(c) Material submitted for printing in the Congressional

Record under this rule shall indicate the full text of the proposed amendment, the name of the Member, Delegate, or

Resident Commissioner proposing it, the number of the bill

or resolution to which it will be offered, and the point in the

bill or resolution or amendment thereto where the amendment

is intended to be offered. The amendment shall appear in a

portion of the Record designated for that purpose. Amendments to a specified measure submitted for printing in that

portion of the Record shall be numbered in the order printed.
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Striking the enacting clause

9. A motion that the Committee of the Whole House on

the state of the Union rise and report a bill or resolution to

the House with the recommendation that the enacting or resolving clause be stricken shall have precedence of a motion

to amend, and, if carried in the House, shall constitute a rejection of the bill or resolution. Whenever a bill or resolution

is reported from the Committee of the Whole with such adverse recommendation and the recommendation is rejected by

the House, the bill or resolution shall stand recommitted to

the Committee of the Whole without further action by the

House. Before the question of concurrence is submitted, it

shall be in order to move that the House refer the bill or resolution to a committee, with or without instructions. If a bill

or resolution is so referred, then when it is again reported to

the House it shall be referred to the Committee of the Whole

without debate.

Concurrent resolution on the budget

10. (a) At the conclusion of general debate in the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union on a

concurrent resolution on the budget under section 305(a) of

the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the concurrent resolution shall be considered as read for amendment.

(b) It shall not be in order in the House or in the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to consider an amendment to a concurrent resolution on the budget,
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or an amendment thereto, unless the concurrent resolution,

as amended by such amendment or amendments—

(1) would be mathematically consistent except as

limited by paragraph (c); and

(2) would contain all the matter set forth in paragraphs (1) through (5) of section 301(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.

(c)(1) Except as specified in subparagraph (2), it shall

not be in order in the House or in the Committee of the

Whole House on the state of the Union to consider an

amendment to a concurrent resolution on the budget, or an

amendment thereto, that proposes to change the amount of

the appropriate level of the public debt set forth in the concurrent resolution, as reported.

(2) Amendments to achieve mathematical consistency

under section 305(a)(5) of the Congressional Budget Act of

1974, if offered by direction of the Committee on the Budget,

may propose to adjust the amount of the appropriate level of

the public debt set forth in the concurrent resolution, as reported, to reflect changes made in other figures contained in

the concurrent resolution.

Unfunded mandates

11. (a) In the Committee of the Whole House on the

state of the Union, an amendment proposing only to strike

an unfunded mandate from the portion of the bill then open
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to amendment, if otherwise in order, may be precluded from

consideration only by specific terms of a special order of the

House.

(b) In this clause the term ‘‘unfunded mandate’’ means

a Federal intergovernmental mandate the direct costs of

which exceed the threshold otherwise specified for a reported

bill or joint resolution in section 424(a)(1) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.

Applicability of Rules of the House

12. The Rules of the House are the rules of the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union so far as

applicable.

RULE XIX.

MOTIONS FOLLOWING THE AMENDMENT STAGE.

Previous question

1. (a) There shall be a motion for the previous question,

which, being ordered, shall have the effect of cutting off all

debate and bringing the House to a direct vote on the immediate question or questions on which it has been ordered.

Whenever the previous question has been ordered on an otherwise debatable question on which there has been no debate,

it shall be in order to debate that question for 40 minutes,

equally divided and controlled by a proponent of the question

and an opponent. The previous question may be moved and

ordered on a single question, on a series of questions allow-
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able under the rules, or on an amendment or amendments,

or may embrace all authorized motions or amendments and

include the bill or resolution to its passage, adoption, or rejection.

(b) Incidental questions of order arising during the

pendency of a motion for the previous question shall be decided, whether on appeal or otherwise, without debate.

Recommit

2. (a) After the previous question has been ordered on

passage or adoption of a measure, or pending a motion to

that end, it shall be in order to move that the House recommit (or commit, as the case may be) the measure, with or

without instructions, to a standing or select committee. For

such a motion to recommit, the Speaker shall give preference

in recognition to a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner who is opposed to the measure.

(b) Except as provided in paragraph (c), if a motion that

the House recommit a bill or joint resolution on which the

previous question has been ordered to passage includes instructions, it shall be debatable for 10 minutes equally divided between the proponent and an opponent.

(c) On demand of the floor manager for the majority, it

shall be in order to debate the motion for one hour equally

divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent.
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Reconsideration

3. When a motion has been carried or lost, it shall be

in order on the same or succeeding day for a Member on the

prevailing side of the question to enter a motion for the reconsideration thereof. The entry of such a motion shall take

precedence over all other questions except the consideration

of a conference report or a motion to adjourn, and may not

be withdrawn after such succeeding day without the consent

of the House. Once entered, a motion may be called up for

consideration by any Member. During the last six days of a

session of Congress, such a motion shall be disposed of when

entered.

4. A bill, petition, memorial, or resolution referred to a

committee, or reported therefrom for printing and recommitment, may not be brought back to the House on a motion

to reconsider.

RULE XX.

VOTING AND QUORUM CALLS.

1. (a) The House shall divide after the Speaker has put

a question to a vote by voice as provided in clause 6 of rule

I if the Speaker is in doubt or division is demanded. Those

in favor of the question shall first rise from their seats to be

counted, and then those opposed.

(b) If a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner

requests a recorded vote, and that request is supported by at

least one-fifth of a quorum, the vote shall be taken by elec-
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tronic device unless the Speaker invokes another procedure

for recording votes provided in this rule. A recorded vote

taken in the House under this paragraph shall be considered

a vote by the yeas and nays.

(c) In case of a tie vote, a question shall be lost.

2. (a) Unless the Speaker directs otherwise, the Clerk

shall conduct a record vote or quorum call by electronic device. In such a case the Clerk shall enter on the Journal and

publish in the Congressional Record, in alphabetical order in

each category, the names of Members recorded as voting in

the affirmative, the names of Members recorded as voting in

the negative, and the names of Members answering present

as if they had been called in the manner provided in clause

3. Except as otherwise permitted under clause 9 or 10 of this

rule or under clause 6 of rule XVIII, the minimum time for

a record vote or quorum call by electronic device shall be 15

minutes.

(b) When the electronic voting system is inoperable or is

not used, the Speaker or Chairman may direct the Clerk to

conduct a record vote or quorum call as provided in clause

3 or 4.

3. The Speaker may direct the Clerk to conduct a record

vote or quorum call by call of the roll. In such a case the

Clerk shall call the names of Members, alphabetically by surname. When two or more have the same surname, the name
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of the State (and, if necessary to distinguish among Members

from the same State, the given names of the Members) shall

be added. After the roll has been called once, the Clerk shall

call the names of those not recorded, alphabetically by surname. Members appearing after the second call, but before

the result is announced, may vote or announce a pair.

4. (a) The Speaker may direct a record vote or quorum

call to be conducted by tellers. In such a case the tellers

named by the Speaker shall record the names of the Members

voting on each side of the question or record their presence,

as the case may be, which the Clerk shall enter on the Journal and publish in the Congressional Record. Absentees shall

be noted, but the doors may not be closed except when ordered by the Speaker. The minimum time for a record vote

or quorum call by tellers shall be 15 minutes.

(b) On the demand of a Member, or at the suggestion

of the Speaker, the names of Members sufficient to make a

quorum in the Hall of the House who do not vote shall be

noted by the Clerk, entered on the Journal, reported to the

Speaker with the names of the Members voting, and be

counted and announced in determining the presence of a

quorum to do business.

5. (a) In the absence of a quorum, a majority comprising

at least 15 Members, which may include the Speaker, may

compel the attendance of absent Members.
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(b) Subject to clause 7(b) a majority of those present

may order the Sergeant-at-Arms to send officers appointed by

him to arrest those Members for whom no sufficient excuse

is made and shall secure and retain their attendance. The

House shall determine on what condition they shall be discharged. Unless the House otherwise directs, the Members

who voluntarily appear shall be admitted immediately to the

Hall of the House and shall report their names to the Clerk

to be entered on the Journal as present.

6. (a) When a quorum fails to vote on a question, a

quorum is not present, and objection is made for that cause

(unless the House shall adjourn)—

(1) there shall be a call of the House;

(2) the Sergeant-at-Arms shall proceed forthwith to

bring in absent Members; and

(3) the yeas and nays on the pending question shall

at the same time be considered as ordered.

(b) The Clerk shall record Members by the yeas and

nays on the pending question, using such procedure as the

Speaker may invoke under clause 2, 3, or 4. Each Member

arrested under this clause shall be brought by the Sergeantat-Arms before the House, whereupon he shall be noted as

present, discharged from arrest, and given an opportunity to

vote; and his vote shall be recorded. If those voting on the

question and those who are present and decline to vote to-
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gether make a majority of the House, the Speaker shall declare that a quorum is constituted, and the pending question

shall be decided as the requisite majority of those voting shall

have determined. Thereupon further proceedings under the

call shall be considered as dispensed with.

(c) At any time after Members have had the requisite

opportunity to respond by the yeas and nays, but before a result has been announced, the Speaker may entertain a motion

that the House adjourn if seconded by a majority of those

present, to be ascertained by actual count by the Speaker. If

the House adjourns on such a motion, all proceedings under

this clause shall be considered as vacated.

7. (a) The Speaker may not entertain a point of order

that a quorum is not present unless a question has been put

to a vote.

(b) Subject to paragraph (c) the Speaker may recognize

a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner to move a

call of the House at any time. When a quorum is established

pursuant to a call of the House, further proceedings under

the call shall be considered as dispensed with unless the

Speaker recognizes for a motion to compel attendance of

Members under clause 5(b).

(c) A call of the House shall not be in order after the

previous question is ordered unless the Speaker determines by

actual count that a quorum is not present.
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Postponement of proceedings

8. (a)(1) When a recorded vote is ordered, or the yeas

and nays are ordered, or a vote is objected to under clause

6 on any of the questions specified in subparagraph (2), the

Speaker may postpone further proceedings on that question

to a designated place in the legislative schedule on that legislative day (in the case of the question of agreeing to the

Speaker’s approval of the Journal) or within two legislative

days (in the case of any other question).

(2) The questions described in the subparagraph (1) are

as follows:

(A) The question of passing a bill or joint resolution.

(B) The question of adopting a resolution or concurrent resolution.

(C) The question of agreeing to a motion to instruct

managers on the part of the House (except that proceedings may not resume on such a motion under clause 7(c)

of rule XXII if the managers have filed a report in the

House).

(D) The question of agreeing to a conference report.

(E) The question of agreeing to a motion to recommit a bill considered under clause 6 of rule XV.
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(F) The question of ordering the previous question

on a question described in subdivision (A), (B), (C), (D),

or (E).

(G) The question of agreeing to an amendment to

a bill considered under clause 6 of rule XV.

(H) The question of agreeing to a motion to suspend the rules.

(b) At the time designated by the Speaker for further

proceedings on questions postponed under paragraph (a), the

Speaker shall resume proceedings on each postponed question

in the order in which it was considered.

(c) The Speaker may reduce to five minutes the minimum time for electronic voting on a question postponed

under this clause, or on a question incidental thereto, that

follows another electronic vote without intervening business,

so long as the minimum time for electronic voting on the first

in any series of questions is 15 minutes.

(d) If the House adjourns on a legislative day designated

for further proceedings on questions postponed under this

clause without disposing of such questions, then on the next

legislative day the unfinished business is the disposition of

such questions in the order in which they were considered.

Five-minute votes

9. The Speaker may reduce to five minutes the minimum

time for electronic voting—
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(a) after a record vote on a motion for the previous

question, on any underlying question that follows without intervening business, or on a question incidental

thereto;

(b) after a record vote on an amendment reported

from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of

the Union, on any subsequent amendment to that bill or

resolution reported from the Committee of the Whole, or

on a question incidental thereto;

(c) after a record vote on a motion to recommit a

bill, resolution, or conference report, on the question of

passage or adoption, as the case may be, of such bill,

resolution, or conference report, or on a question incidental thereto, if the question of passage or adoption follows without intervening business the vote on the motion

to recommit; or

(d) as provided in clause 6(b)(3) of rule XVIII,

clause 6(f) of rule XVIII, or clause 8 of this rule.

Automatic yeas and nays

10. The yeas and nays shall be considered as ordered

when the Speaker puts the question on passage of a bill or

joint resolution, or on adoption of a conference report, making general appropriations, or increasing Federal income tax

rates (within the meaning of clause 5 of rule XXI), or on
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final adoption of a concurrent resolution on the budget or

conference report thereon.

Ballot votes

11. In a case of ballot for election, a majority of the

votes shall be necessary to an election. When there is not

such a majority on the first ballot, the process shall be repeated until a majority is obtained. In all balloting blanks

shall be rejected, may not be counted in the enumeration of

votes, and may not be reported by the tellers.

RULE XXI.

RESTRICTIONS ON CERTAIN BILLS.

Reservation of certain points of order

1. At the time a general appropriation bill is reported,

all points of order against provisions therein shall be considered as reserved.

General appropriation bills and amendments

2. (a)(1) An appropriation may not be reported in a general appropriation bill, and may not be in order as an amendment thereto, for an expenditure not previously authorized by

law, except to continue appropriations for public works and

objects that are already in progress.

(2) A reappropriation of unexpended balances of appropriations may not be reported in a general appropriation bill,

and may not be in order as an amendment thereto, except to

continue appropriations for public works and objects that are
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already in progress. This subparagraph does not apply to

transfers of unexpended balances within the department or

agency for which they were originally appropriated that are

reported by the Committee on Appropriations.

(b) A provision changing existing law may not be reported in a general appropriation bill, including a provision

making the availability of funds contingent on the receipt or

possession of information not required by existing law for the

period of the appropriation, except germane provisions that

retrench expenditures by the reduction of amounts of money

covered by the bill (which may include those recommended to

the Committee on Appropriations by direction of a legislative

committee having jurisdiction over the subject matter) and

except rescissions of appropriations contained in appropriation Acts.

(c) An amendment to a general appropriation bill shall

not be in order if changing existing law, including an amendment making the availability of funds contingent on the receipt or possession of information not required by existing

law for the period of the appropriation. Except as provided

in paragraph (d), an amendment proposing a limitation not

specifically contained or authorized in existing law for the period of the limitation shall not be in order during consideration of a general appropriation bill.
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(d) After a general appropriation bill has been read for

amendment, a motion that the Committee of the Whole

House on the state of the Union rise and report the bill to

the House with such amendments as may have been adopted

shall, if offered by the Majority Leader or a designee, have

precedence over motions to amend the bill. If such a motion

to rise and report is rejected or not offered, amendments proposing limitations not specifically contained or authorized in

existing law for the period of the limitation or proposing germane amendments that retrench expenditures by reductions

of amounts of money covered by the bill may be considered.

(e) A provision other than an appropriation designated

an emergency under section 251(b)(2) or section 252(e) of

the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, a

rescission of budget authority, or a reduction in direct spending or an amount for a designated emergency may not be reported in an appropriation bill or joint resolution containing

an emergency designation under section 251(b)(2) or section

252(e) of such Act and may not be in order as an amendment thereto.

(f) During the reading of an appropriation bill for

amendment in the Committee of the Whole House on the

state of the Union, it shall be in order to consider en bloc

amendments proposing only to transfer appropriations among

objects in the bill without increasing the levels of budget au-
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thority or outlays in the bill. When considered en bloc under

this paragraph, such amendments may amend portions of the

bill not yet read for amendment (following disposition of any

points of order against such portions) and is not subject to

a demand for division of the question in the House or in the

Committee of the Whole.

Transportation obligation limitations

3. It shall not be in order to consider a bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report that would cause obligation limitations to be below the level for any fiscal year set

forth in section 8103 of the Transportation Equity Act for

the 21st Century, as adjusted, for the highway category or

the mass transit category, as applicable.

Appropriations on legislative bills

4. A bill or joint resolution carrying an appropriation

may not be reported by a committee not having jurisdiction

to report appropriations, and an amendment proposing an

appropriation shall not be in order during the consideration

of a bill or joint resolution reported by a committee not having that jurisdiction. A point of order against an appropriation in such a bill, joint resolution, or amendment thereto

may be raised at any time during pendency of that measure

for amendment.
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Tax and tariff measures and amendments

5. (a) A bill or joint resolution carrying a tax or tariff

measure may not be reported by a committee not having jurisdiction to report tax or tariff measures, and an amendment

in the House or proposed by the Senate carrying a tax or tariff measure shall not be in order during the consideration of

a bill or joint resolution reported by a committee not having

that jurisdiction. A point of order against a tax or tariff

measure in such a bill, joint resolution, or amendment thereto

may be raised at any time during pendency of that measure

for amendment.

Passage of tax rate increases

(b) A bill or joint resolution, amendment, or conference

report carrying a Federal income tax rate increase may not

be considered as passed or agreed to unless so determined by

a vote of not less than three-fifths of the Members voting, a

quorum being present. In this paragraph the term ‘‘Federal

income tax rate increase’’ means any amendment to subsection (a), (b), (c), (d), or (e) of section 1, or to section

11(b) or 55(b), of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, that

imposes a new percentage as a rate of tax and thereby increases the amount of tax imposed by any such section.

Consideration of retroactive tax rate increases

(c) It shall not be in order to consider a bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report carrying a retroactive

Federal income tax rate increase. In this paragraph—
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(1) the term ‘‘Federal income tax rate increase’’

means any amendment to subsection (a), (b), (c), (d), or

(e) of section 1, or to section 11(b) or 55(b), of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, that imposes a new percentage as a rate of tax and thereby increases the

amount of tax imposed by any such section; and

(2) a Federal income tax rate increase is retroactive

if it applies to a period beginning before the enactment

of the provision.

RULE XXII.

HOUSE AND SENATE RELATIONS.

Senate amendments

1. A motion to disagree to Senate amendments to a

House bill or resolution and to request or agree to a conference with the Senate, or a motion to insist on House

amendments to a Senate bill or resolution and to request or

agree to a conference with the Senate, shall be privileged in

the discretion of the Speaker if offered by direction of the

primary committee and of all reporting committees that had

initial referral of the bill or resolution.

2. A motion to dispose of House bills with Senate

amendments not requiring consideration in the Committee of

the Whole House on the state of the Union shall be privileged.
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3. Except as permitted by clause 1, before the stage of

disagreement, a Senate amendment to a House bill or resolution shall be subject to the point of order that it must first

be considered in the Committee of the Whole House on the

state of the Union if, originating in the House, it would be

subject to such a point under clause 3 of rule XVIII.

4. When the stage of disagreement has been reached on

a bill or resolution with House or Senate amendments, a motion to dispose of any amendment shall be privileged.

5. (a) Managers on the part of the House may not agree

to a Senate amendment described in paragraph (b) unless

specific authority to agree to the amendment first is given by

the House by a separate vote with respect thereto. If specific

authority is not granted, the Senate amendment shall be reported in disagreement by the conference committee back to

the two Houses for disposition by separate motion.

(b) The managers on the part of the House may not

agree to a Senate amendment described in paragraph (a)

that—

(1) would violate clause 2(a)(1) or (c) of rule XXI

if originating in the House; or

(2) proposes an appropriation on a bill other than

a general appropriation bill.

6. A Senate amendment carrying a tax or tariff measure

in violation of clause 5(a) of rule XXI may not be agreed to.
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Conference reports; amendments reported in disagreement

7. (a) The presentation of a conference report shall be

in order at any time except during a reading of the Journal

or the conduct of a record vote, a vote by division, or a

quorum call.

(b)(1) Subject to subparagraph (2) the time allotted for

debate on a motion to instruct managers on the part of the

House shall be equally divided between the majority and minority parties.

(2) If the proponent of a motion to instruct managers

on the part of the House and the Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner of the other party identified under subparagraph (1) both support the motion, one-third of the time

for debate thereon shall be allotted to a Member, Delegate,

or Resident Commissioner who opposes the motion on demand of that Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner.

(c)(1) A motion to instruct managers on the part of the

House, or a motion to discharge all managers on the part of

the House and to appoint new conferees, shall be privileged—

(A) after a conference committee has been appointed for 20 calendar days without making a report;

and

(B) on the first legislative day after the calendar

day on which the Member, Delegate, or Resident Com-
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missioner offering the motion announces to the House

his intention to do so and the form of the motion.

(2) The Speaker may designate a time in the legislative

schedule on that legislative day for consideration of a motion

described in subparagraph (1).

(3) During the last six days of a session of Congress, the

period of time specified in subparagraph (1)(A) shall be 36

hours.

(d) Each conference report to the House shall be printed

as a report of the House. Each such report shall be accompanied by a joint explanatory statement prepared jointly by

the managers on the part of the House and the managers on

the part of the Senate. The joint explanatory statement shall

be sufficiently detailed and explicit to inform the House of

the effects of the report on the matters committed to conference.

8. (a)(1) Except as specified in subparagraph (2), it

shall not be in order to consider a conference report until—

(A) the third calendar day (excluding Saturdays,

Sundays, or legal holidays except when the House is in

session on such a day) on which the conference report

and the accompanying joint explanatory statement have

been available to Members, Delegates, and the Resident

Commissioner in the Congressional Record; and
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(B) copies of the conference report and the accompanying joint explanatory statement have been available

to Members, Delegates, and the Resident Commissioner

for at least two hours.

(2) Subparagraph (1)(A) does not apply during the last

six days of a session of Congress.

(b)(1) Except as specified in subparagraph (2), it shall

not be in order to consider a motion to dispose of a Senate

amendment reported in disagreement by a conference committee until—

(A) the third calendar day (excluding Saturdays,

Sundays, or legal holidays except when the House is in

session on such a day) on which the report in disagreement and any accompanying statement have been available to Members, Delegates, and the Resident Commissioner in the Congressional Record; and

(B) copies of the report in disagreement and any

accompanying statement, together with the text of the

Senate amendment, have been available to Members,

Delegates, and the Resident Commissioner for at least

two hours.

(2) Subparagraph (1)(A) does not apply during the last

six days of a session of Congress.

(3) During consideration of a Senate amendment reported in disagreement by a conference committee on a gen-
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eral appropriation bill, a motion to insist on disagreement to

the Senate amendment shall be preferential to any other motion to dispose of that amendment if the original motion offered by the floor manager proposes to change existing law

and the motion to insist is offered before debate on the original motion by the chairman of the committee having jurisdiction of the subject matter of the amendment or a designee.

Such a preferential motion shall be separately debatable for

one hour equally divided between its proponent and the proponent of the original motion. The previous question shall be

considered as ordered on the preferential motion to its adoption without intervening motion.

(c) A conference report or a Senate amendment reported

in disagreement by a conference committee that has been

available as provided in paragraph (a) or (b) shall be considered as read when called up.

(d)(1) Subject to subparagraph (2), the time allotted for

debate on a conference report or on a motion to dispose of

a Senate amendment reported in disagreement by a conference committee shall be equally divided between the majority and minority parties.

(2) If the floor manager for the majority and the floor

manager for the minority both support the conference report

or motion, one-third of the time for debate thereon shall be

allotted to a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner
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who opposes the conference report or motion on demand of

that Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner.

(e) Under clause 6(a)(2) of rule XIII, a resolution proposing only to waive a requirement of this clause concerning

the availability of reports to Members, Delegates, and the

Resident Commissioner may be considered by the House on

the same day it is reported by the Committee on Rules.

9. Whenever a disagreement to an amendment has been

committed to a conference committee, the managers on the

part of the House may propose a substitute that is a germane

modification of the matter in disagreement. The introduction

of any language presenting specific additional matter not

committed to the conference committee by either House does

not constitute a germane modification of the matter in disagreement. Moreover, a conference report may not include

matter not committed to the conference committee by either

House and may not include a modification of specific matter

committed to the conference committee by either or both

Houses if that modification is beyond the scope of that specific matter as committed to the conference committee.

10. (a)(1) A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may raise a point of order against nongermane matter,

as specified in subparagraph (2), before the commencement

of debate on—

(A) a conference report;
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(B) a motion that the House recede from its disagreement to a Senate amendment reported in disagreement by a conference committee and concur therein,

with or without amendment; or

(C) a motion that the House recede from its disagreement to a Senate amendment on which the stage

of disagreement has been reached and concur therein,

with or without amendment.

(2) A point of order against nongermane matter is one

asserting that a proposition described in subparagraph (1)

contains specified matter that would violate clause 7 of rule

XVI if it were offered in the House as an amendment to the

underlying measure in the form it was passed by the House.

(b) If a point of order under paragraph (a) is sustained,

a motion that the House reject the nongermane matter identified by the point of order shall be privileged. Such a motion

is debatable for 40 minutes, one-half in favor of the motion

and one-half in opposition thereto.

(c) After disposition of a point of order under paragraph

(a) or a motion to reject under paragraph (b), any further

points of order under paragraph (a) not covered by a previous

point of order, and any consequent motions to reject under

paragraph (b), shall be likewise disposed of.

(d)(1) If a motion to reject under paragraph (b) is

adopted, then after disposition of all points of order under
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paragraph (a) and any consequent motions to reject under

paragraph (b), the conference report or motion, as the case

may be, shall be considered as rejected and the matter remaining in disagreement shall be disposed of under subparagraph (2) or (3), as the case may be.

(2) After the House has adopted one or more motions

to reject nongermane matter contained in a conference report

under the preceding provisions of this clause—

(A) if the conference report accompanied a House

measure amended by the Senate, the pending question

shall be whether the House shall recede and concur in

the Senate amendment with an amendment consisting of

so much of the conference report as was not rejected;

and

(B) if the conference report accompanied a Senate

measure amended by the House, the pending question

shall be whether the House shall insist further on the

House amendment.

(3) After the House has adopted one or more motions

to reject nongermane matter contained in a motion that the

House recede and concur in a Senate amendment, with or

without amendment, the following motions shall be privileged

and shall have precedence in the order stated:
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(A) A motion that the House recede and concur in

the Senate amendment with an amendment in writing

then available on the floor.

(B) A motion that the House insist on its disagreement to the Senate amendment and request a further

conference with the Senate.

(C) A motion that the House insist on its disagreement to the Senate amendment.

(e) If, on a division of the question on a motion described in paragraph (a)(1)(B) or (C), the House agrees to

recede, then a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner

may raise a point of order against nongermane matter, as

specified in paragraph (a)(2), before the commencement of

debate on concurring in the Senate amendment, with or without amendment. A point of order under this paragraph shall

be disposed of according to the preceding provisions of this

clause in the same manner as a point of order under paragraph (a).

11. It shall not be in order to consider a conference report to accompany a bill or joint resolution that proposes to

amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 unless—

(a) the joint explanatory statement of the managers

includes a tax complexity analysis prepared by the Joint

Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation in accordance
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with section 4022(b) of the Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998; or

(b) the chairman of the Committee on Ways and

Means causes such a tax complexity analysis to be printed in the Congressional Record before consideration of

the conference report.

12. (a)(1) Subject to subparagraph (2), a meeting of

each conference committee shall be open to the public.

(2) In open session of the House, a motion that managers on the part of the House be permitted to close to the

public a meeting or meetings of their conference committee

shall be privileged, shall be decided without debate, and shall

be decided by a record vote.

(b) A point of order that a conference committee failed

to comply with paragraph (a) may be raised immediately

after the conference report is read or considered as read. If

such a point of order is sustained, the conference report shall

be considered as rejected, the House shall be considered to

have insisted on its amendments or on disagreement to the

Senate amendments, as the case may be, and to have requested a further conference with the Senate, and the Speaker may appoint new conferees without intervening motion.
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RULE XXIII.

STATUTORY LIMIT ON PUBLIC DEBT.

1. Upon adoption by Congress of a concurrent resolution

on the budget under section 301 or 304 of the Congressional

Budget Act of 1974 that sets forth, as the appropriate level

of the public debt for the period to which the concurrent resolution relates, an amount that is different from the amount

of the statutory limit on the public debt that otherwise would

be in effect for that period, the Clerk shall prepare an engrossment of a joint resolution increasing or decreasing, as

the case may be, the statutory limit on the public debt in the

form prescribed in clause 2. Upon engrossment of the joint

resolution, the vote by which the concurrent resolution on the

budget was finally agreed to in the House shall also be considered as a vote on passage of the joint resolution in the

House, and the joint resolution shall be considered as passed

by the House and duly certified and examined. The engrossed

copy shall be signed by the Clerk and transmitted to the Senate for further legislative action.

2. The matter after the resolving clause in a joint resolution described in clause 1 shall be as follows: ‘‘That subsection (b) of section 3101 of title 31, United States Code,

is amended by striking out the dollar limitation contained in

such subsection and inserting in lieu thereof ‘$ ’.’’, with

the blank being filled with a dollar limitation equal to the ap-
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propriate level of the public debt set forth pursuant to section

301(a)(5) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 in the

relevant concurrent resolution described in clause 1. If an

adopted concurrent resolution under clause 1 sets forth different appropriate levels of the public debt for separate periods, only one engrossed joint resolution shall be prepared

under clause 1; and the blank referred to in the preceding

sentence shall be filled with the limitation that is to apply for

each period.

3. (a) The report of the Committee on the Budget on

a concurrent resolution described in clause 1 and the joint explanatory statement of the managers on a conference report

to accompany such a concurrent resolution each shall contain

a clear statement of the effect the eventual enactment of a

joint resolution engrossed under this rule would have on the

statutory limit on the public debt.

(b) It shall not be in order for the House to consider a

concurrent resolution described in clause 1, or a conference

report thereon, unless the report of the Committee on the

Budget or the joint explanatory statement of the managers

complies with paragraph (a).

4. Nothing in this rule shall be construed as limiting or

otherwise affecting—

(a) the power of the House or the Senate to consider and pass bills or joint resolutions, without regard
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to the procedures under clause 1, that would change the

statutory limit on the public debt; or

(b) the rights of Members, Delegates, the Resident

Commissioner, or committees with respect to the introduction, consideration, and reporting of such bills or

joint resolutions.

5. In this rule the term ‘‘statutory limit on the public

debt’’ means the maximum face amount of obligations issued

under authority of chapter 31 of title 31, United States Code,

and obligations guaranteed as to principal and interest by the

United States (except such guaranteed obligations as may be

held by the Secretary of the Treasury), as determined under

section 3101(b) of such title after the application of section

3101(a) of such title, that may be outstanding at any one

time.

RULE XXIV.

CODE OF OFFICIAL CONDUCT.

There is hereby established by and for the House the following code of conduct, to be known as the ‘‘Code of Official

Conduct’’:

1. A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House shall conduct himself at

all times in a manner that shall reflect creditably on the

House.
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2. A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House shall adhere to the spirit

and the letter of the Rules of the House and to the rules

of duly constituted committees thereof.

3. A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House may not receive compensation and may not permit compensation to accrue to

his beneficial interest from any source, the receipt of

which would occur by virtue of influence improperly exerted from his position in Congress.

4. A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House may not accept gifts except as provided by clause 5 of rule XXVI.

5. A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House may not accept an honorarium for a speech, a writing for publication, or other

similar activity, except as otherwise provided under rule

XXVI.

6. A Member, Delegate, or Resident

Commissioner—

(a) shall keep his campaign funds separate

from his personal funds;

(b) may not convert campaign funds to personal use in excess of an amount representing reim-
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bursement for legitimate and verifiable campaign

expenditures; and

(c) may not expend funds from his campaign

account that are not attributable to bona fide campaign or political purposes.

7. A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner

shall treat as campaign contributions all proceeds from

testimonial dinners or other fund-raising events.

8. (a) A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner,

or officer of the House may not retain an employee who

does not perform duties for the offices of the employing

authority commensurate with the compensation he receives.

(b) In the case of a committee employee who works

under the direct supervision of a member of the committee other than a chairman, the chairman may require

that such member affirm in writing that the employee

has complied with clause 8(a) (subject to clause 7 of rule

X) as evidence of compliance by the chairman with this

clause and with clause 7 of rule X.

9. A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House may not discharge and

may not refuse to hire an individual, or otherwise discriminate against an individual with respect to compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employ-
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ment, because of the race, color, religion, sex (including

marital or parental status), disability, age, or national

origin of such individual, but may take into consideration the domicile or political affiliation of such individual.

10. A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner

who has been convicted by a court of record for the commission of a crime for which a sentence of two or more

years’ imprisonment may be imposed should refrain from

participation in the business of each committee of which

he is a member, and a Member should refrain from voting on any question at a meeting of the House or of the

Committee of the Whole House on the state of the

Union, unless or until judicial or executive proceedings

result in reinstatement of the presumption of his innocence or until he is reelected to the House after the date

of such conviction.

11. A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner

may not authorize or otherwise allow an individual,

group, or organization not under the direction and control of the House to use the words ‘‘Congress of the

United States,’’ ‘‘House of Representatives,’’ or ‘‘Official

Business,’’ or any combination of words thereof, on any

letterhead or envelope.
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12. (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b), an employee of the House who is required to file a report

under rule XXVII may not participate personally and

substantially as an employee of the House in a contact

with an agency of the executive or judicial branches of

Government with respect to nonlegislative matters affecting any nongovernmental person in which the employee

has a significant financial interest.

(b) Paragraph (a) does not apply if an employee

first advises his employing authority of a significant financial interest described in paragraph (a) and obtains

from his employing authority a written waiver stating

that the participation of the employee in the activity described in paragraph (a) is necessary. A copy of each

such waiver shall be filed with the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct.

13. Before a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House may have access to classified information, the following oath (or affirmation) shall be executed:

‘‘I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will not

disclose any classified information received in the

course of my service with the House of Representatives, except as authorized by the House of Representatives or in accordance with its Rules.’’
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Copies of the executed oath (or affirmation) shall be retained by the Clerk as part of the records of the House.

14. (a) In this Code of Official Conduct, the term

‘‘officer or employee of the House’’ means an individual

whose compensation is disbursed by the Chief Administrative Officer.

(b) An individual whose services are compensated

by the House pursuant to a consultant contract shall be

considered an employee of the House for purposes of

clauses 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, and 13 of this rule.

RULE XXV.

LIMITATIONS ON USE OF OFFICIAL FUNDS.

Limitations on use of official and unofficial accounts

1. A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may

not maintain, or have maintained for his use, an unofficial

office account. Funds may not be paid into an unofficial office account.

2. Notwithstanding any other provision of this rule, if an

amount from the Official Expenses Allowance of a Member,

Delegate, or Resident Commissioner is paid into the House

Recording Studio revolving fund for telecommunications satellite services, the Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may accept reimbursement from nonpolitical entities in

that amount for transmission to the Clerk for credit to the

Official Expenses Allowance.
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3. In this rule the term ‘‘unofficial office account’’

means an account or repository in which funds are received

for the purpose of defraying otherwise unreimbursed expenses

allowable under section 162(a) of the Internal Revenue Code

of 1986 as ordinary and necessary in the operation of a congressional office, and includes a newsletter fund referred to

in section 527(g) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.

Limitations on use of the frank

4. A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner shall

mail franked mail under section 3210(d) of title 39, United

States Code at the most economical rate of postage practicable.

5. Before making a mass mailing, a Member, Delegate,

or Resident Commissioner shall submit a sample or description of the mail matter involved to the House Commission on

Congressional Mailing Standards for an advisory opinion as

to whether the proposed mailing is in compliance with applicable provisions of law, rule, or regulation.

6. A mass mailing that is otherwise frankable by a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner under the provisions

of section 3210(e) of title 39, United States Code, is not

frankable unless the cost of preparing and printing it is defrayed exclusively from funds made available in an appropriation Act.
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7. A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may

not send a mass mailing outside the congressional district

from which he was elected.

8. In the case of a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner, a mass mailing is not frankable under section

3210 of title 39, United States Code, when it is postmarked

less than 60 days before the date of a primary or general

election (whether regular, special, or runoff) in which he is

a candidate for public office. If the mail matter is of a type

that is not customarily postmarked, the date on which it

would have been postmarked, if it were of a type customarily

postmarked, applies.

9. In this rule the term ‘‘mass mailing’’ means, with respect to a session of Congress, a mailing of newsletters or

other pieces of mail with substantially identical content

(whether such pieces of mail are deposited singly or in bulk,

or at the same time or different times), totaling more than

500 pieces of mail in that session, except that such term does

not include a mailing—

(a) of matter in direct response to a communication

from a person to whom the matter is mailed;

(b) from a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner to other Members, Delegates, the Resident Commissioner, or Senators, or to Federal, State, or local government officials; or
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(c) of a news release to the communications media.

Prohibition on use of funds by Members not elected to succeeding Congress

10. Funds from the applicable accounts described in

clause 1(i)(1) of rule X, including funds from committee expense resolutions, and funds in any local currencies owned by

the United States may not be made available for travel by a

Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or Senator after

the date of a general election in which he was not elected to

the succeeding Congress or, in the case of a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner who is not a candidate in a

general election, after the earlier of the date of such general

election or the adjournment sine die of the last regular session of the Congress.

RULE XXVI.

LIMITATIONS ON OUTSIDE EARNED INCOME AND

ACCEPTANCE OF GIFTS.

Outside earned income; honoraria

1. (a) Except as provided by paragraph (b), a Member,

Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the

House may not—

(1) have outside earned income attributable to a

calendar year that exceeds 15 percent of the annual rate

of basic pay for level II of the Executive Schedule under
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section 5313 of title 5, United States Code, as of January 1 of that calendar year; or

(2) receive any honorarium, except that an officer

or employee of the House who is paid at a rate less than

120 percent of the minimum rate of basic pay for GS15 of the General Schedule may receive an honorarium

unless the subject matter is directly related to the official duties of the individual, the payment is made because of the status of the individual with the House, or

the person offering the honorarium has interests that

may be substantially affected by the performance or nonperformance of the official duties of the individual.

(b) In the case of an individual who becomes a Member,

Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the

House, such individual may not have outside earned income

attributable to the portion of a calendar year that occurs

after such individual becomes a Member, Delegate, Resident

Commissioner, officer, or employee that exceeds 15 percent

of the annual rate of basic pay for level II of the Executive

Schedule under section 5313 of title 5, United States Code,

as of January 1 of that calendar year multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days the individual is a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee during that calendar year and the denominator of which is 365.
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(c) A payment in lieu of an honorarium that is made to

a charitable organization on behalf of a Member, Delegate,

Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House

may not be received by that Member, Delegate, Resident

Commissioner, officer, or employee. Such a payment may not

exceed $2,000 or be made to a charitable organization from

which the Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer,

or employee or a parent, sibling, spouse, child, or dependent

relative of the Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee, derives a financial benefit.

2. A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer,

or employee of the House may not—

(a) receive compensation for affiliating with or

being employed by a firm, partnership, association, corporation, or other entity that provides professional services involving a fiduciary relationship;

(b) permit his name to be used by such a firm,

partnership, association, corporation, or other entity;

(c) receive compensation for practicing a profession

that involves a fiduciary relationship;

(d) serve for compensation as an officer or member

of the board of an association, corporation, or other entity; or
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(e) receive compensation for teaching, without the

prior notification and approval of the Committee on

Standards of Official Conduct.

Copyright royalties

3. (a) A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House may not receive an advance

payment on copyright royalties. This paragraph does not prohibit a literary agent, researcher, or other individual (other

than an individual employed by the House or a relative of a

Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee) working on behalf of a Member, Delegate, Resident

Commissioner, officer, or employee with respect to a publication from receiving an advance payment of a copyright royalty directly from a publisher and solely for the benefit of

that literary agent, researcher, or other individual.

(b) A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer,

or employee of the House may not receive copyright royalties

under a contract entered into on or after January 1, 1996,

unless that contract is first approved by the Committee on

Standards of Official Conduct as complying with the requirement of clause 4(d)(1)(E) (that royalties are received from an

established publisher under usual and customary contractual

terms).
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Definitions

4. (a)(1) In this rule, except as provided in subparagraph (2), the term ‘‘officer or employee of the House’’

means an individual (other than a Member, Delegate, or

Resident Commissioner) whose pay is disbursed by the Chief

Administrative Officer, who is paid at a rate equal to or

greater than 120 percent of the minimum rate of basic pay

for GS-15 of the General Schedule, and who is so employed

for more than 90 days in a calendar year; and

(2) when used with respect to an honorarium, the term

‘‘officer or employee of the House’’ means an individual

(other than a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner)

whose salary is disbursed by the Chief Administrative Officer.

(b) In this rule the term ‘‘honorarium’’ means a payment of money or a thing of value for an appearance, speech,

or article (including a series of appearances, speeches, or articles) by a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer,

or employee of the House, excluding any actual and necessary

travel expenses incurred by that Member, Delegate, Resident

Commissioner, officer, or employee (and one relative) to the

extent that such expenses are paid or reimbursed by any

other person. The amount otherwise determined shall be reduced by the amount of any such expenses to the extent that

such expenses are not so paid or reimbursed.

(c) In this rule the term ‘‘travel expenses’’ means, with

respect to a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, offi-
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cer or, employee of the House, or a relative of such Member,

Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee, the

cost of transportation, and the cost of lodging and meals

while away from his residence or principal place of employment.

(d)(1) In this rule the term ‘‘outside earned income’’

means, with respect to a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House, wages, salaries,

fees, and other amounts received or to be received as compensation for personal services actually rendered, but does

not include —

(A) the salary of a Member, Delegate, Resident

Commissioner, officer, or employee;

(B) any compensation derived by a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the

House for personal services actually rendered before the

adoption of this rule or before he became a Member,

Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee;

(C) any amount paid by, or on behalf of, a Member,

Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of

the House to a tax-qualified pension, profit-sharing, or

stock bonus plan and received by him from such a plan;

(D) in the case of a Member, Delegate, Resident

Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House engaged

in a trade or business in which he or his family holds
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a controlling interest and in which both personal services

and capital are income-producing factors, any amount

received by the Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee, so long as the personal services actually rendered by him in the trade or business do

not generate a significant amount of income; or

(E) copyright royalties received from established

publishers under usual and customary contractual terms;

and

(2) outside earned income shall be determined without

regard to community property law.

(e) In this rule the term ‘‘charitable organization’’

means an organization described in section 170(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.

Gifts

5. (a)(1) A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner,

officer, or employee of the House may not knowingly accept

a gift except as provided in this clause.

(2)(A) In this clause the term ‘‘gift’’ means a gratuity,

favor, discount, entertainment, hospitality, loan, forbearance,

or other item having monetary value. The term includes gifts

of services, training, transportation, lodging, and meals,

whether provided in kind, by purchase of a ticket, payment

in advance, or reimbursement after the expense has been incurred.
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(B)(i) A gift to a family member of a Member, Delegate,

Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House, or

a gift to any other individual based on that individual’s relationship with the Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner,

officer, or employee, shall be considered a gift to the Member,

Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee if it is

given with the knowledge and acquiescence of the Member,

Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee and

the Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or

employee has reason to believe the gift was given because of

his official position.

(ii) If food or refreshment is provided at the same time

and place to both a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House and the spouse or

dependent thereof, only the food or refreshment provided to

the Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or

employee shall be treated as a gift for purposes of this clause.

(3) The restrictions in subparagraph (1) do not apply to

the following:

(A) Anything for which the Member, Delegate,

Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the

House pays the market value, or does not use and

promptly returns to the donor.

(B) A contribution, as defined in section 301(8) of

the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C.
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431 et seq.) that is lawfully made under that Act, a lawful contribution for election to a State or local government office, or attendance at a fundraising event sponsored by a political organization described in section

527(e) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.

(C) A gift from a relative as described in section

109(16) of title I of the Ethics in Government Act of

1978 (2 U.S.C. App. 109(16)).

(D)(i) Anything provided by an individual on the

basis of a personal friendship unless the Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the

House has reason to believe that, under the circumstances, the gift was provided because of his official

position and not because of the personal friendship.

(ii) In determining whether a gift is provided on the

basis of personal friendship, the Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House

shall consider the circumstances under which the gift

was offered, such as:

(I) The history of his relationship with the individual giving the gift, including any previous exchange of gifts between them.

(II) Whether to his actual knowledge the individual who gave the gift personally paid for the gift
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or sought a tax deduction or business reimbursement for the gift.

(III) Whether to his actual knowledge the individual who gave the gift also gave the same or similar gifts to other Members, Delegates, the Resident

Commissioners, officers, or employees of the House.

(E) Except as provided in paragraph (c)(3), a contribution or other payment to a legal expense fund established for the benefit of a Member, Delegate, Resident

Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House that is

otherwise lawfully made in accordance with the restrictions and disclosure requirements of the Committee on

Standards of Official Conduct.

(F) A gift from another Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House or

Senate.

(G) Food, refreshments, lodging, transportation,

and other benefits—

(i) resulting from the outside business or employment activities of the Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the

House (or other outside activities that are not connected to his duties as an officeholder), or of his

spouse, if such benefits have not been offered or enhanced because of his official position and are cus-
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tomarily provided to others in similar circumstances;

(ii) customarily provided by a prospective employer in connection with bona fide employment discussions; or

(iii) provided by a political organization described in section 527(e) of the Internal Revenue

Code of 1986 in connection with a fundraising or

campaign event sponsored by such organization.

(H) Pension and other benefits resulting from continued participation in an employee welfare and benefits

plan maintained by a former employer.

(I) Informational materials that are sent to the office of the Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner,

officer, or employee of the House in the form of books,

articles, periodicals, other written materials, audiotapes,

videotapes, or other forms of communication.

(J) Awards or prizes that are given to competitors

in contests or events open to the public, including random drawings.

(K) Honorary degrees (and associated travel, food,

refreshments, and entertainment) and other bona fide,

nonmonetary awards presented in recognition of public

service (and associated food, refreshments, and enter-
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tainment provided in the presentation of such degrees

and awards).

(L) Training (including food and refreshments furnished to all attendees as an integral part of the training) if such training is in the interest of the House.

(M) Bequests, inheritances, and other transfers at

death.

(N) An item, the receipt of which is authorized by

the Foreign Gifts and Decorations Act, the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act, or any other statute.

(O) Anything that is paid for by the Federal Government, by a State or local government, or secured by

the Government under a Government contract.

(P) A gift of personal hospitality (as defined in section 109(14) of the Ethics in Government Act) of an individual other than a registered lobbyist or agent of a

foreign principal.

(Q) Free attendance at a widely attended event permitted under subparagraph (4).

(R) Opportunities and benefits that are—

(i) available to the public or to a class consisting of all Federal employees, whether or not restricted on the basis of geographic consideration;
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(ii) offered to members of a group or class in

which membership is unrelated to congressional employment;

(iii) offered to members of an organization,

such as an employees’ association or congressional

credit union, in which membership is related to congressional employment and similar opportunities are

available to large segments of the public through organizations of similar size;

(iv) offered to a group or class that is not defined in a manner that specifically discriminates

among Government employees on the basis of

branch of Government or type of responsibility, or

on a basis that favors those of higher rank or rate

of pay;

(v) in the form of loans from banks and other

financial institutions on terms generally available to

the public; or

(vi) in the form of reduced membership or

other fees for participation in organization activities

offered to all Government employees by professional

organizations if the only restrictions on membership

relate to professional qualifications.
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(S) A plaque, trophy, or other item that is substantially commemorative in nature and that is intended for

presentation.

(T) Anything for which, in an unusual case, a waiver is granted by the Committee on Standards of Official

Conduct.

(U) Food or refreshments of a nominal value offered other than as a part of a meal.

(V) Donations of products from the district or State

that the Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner

represents that are intended primarily for promotional

purposes, such as display or free distribution, and are of

minimal value to any single recipient.

(W) An item of nominal value such as a greeting

card, baseball cap, or a T-shirt.

(4)(A) A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House may accept an offer of free

attendance at a widely attended convention, conference, symposium, forum, panel discussion, dinner, viewing, reception,

or similar event, provided by the sponsor of the event, if—

(i) the Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner,

officer, or employee of the House participates in the

event as a speaker or a panel participant, by presenting

information related to Congress or matters before Con-
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gress, or by performing a ceremonial function appropriate to his official position; or

(ii) attendance at the event is appropriate to the

performance of the official duties or representative function of the Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner,

officer, or employee of the House.

(B) A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House who attends an event described

in subdivision (A) may accept a sponsor’s unsolicited offer of

free attendance at the event for an accompanying individual.

(C) A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House, or the spouse or dependent

thereof, may accept a sponsor’s unsolicited offer of free attendance at a charity event, except that reimbursement for

transportation and lodging may not be accepted in connection

with the event.

(D) In this paragraph the term ‘‘free attendance’’ may

include waiver of all or part of a conference or other fee, the

provision of local transportation, or the provision of food, refreshments, entertainment, and instructional materials furnished to all attendees as an integral part of the event. The

term does not include entertainment collateral to the event,

nor does it include food or refreshments taken other than in

a group setting with all or substantially all other attendees.
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(5) A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer,

or employee of the House may not accept a gift the value of

which exceeds $250 on the basis of the personal friendship

exception in subparagraph (3)(D) unless the Committee on

Standards of Official Conduct issues a written determination

that such exception applies. A determination under this subparagraph is not required for gifts given on the basis of the

family relationship exception in subparagraph (3)(C).

(6) When it is not practicable to return a tangible item

because it is perishable, the item may, at the discretion of the

recipient, be given to an appropriate charity or destroyed.

(b)(1)(A) A reimbursement (including payment in kind)

to a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or

employee of the House from a private source other than a

registered lobbyist or agent of a foreign principal for necessary transportation, lodging, and related expenses for travel

to a meeting, speaking engagement, factfinding trip, or similar event in connection with his duties as an officeholder shall

be considered as a reimbursement to the House and not a

gift prohibited by this clause, if the Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee—

(i) in the case of an employee, receives advance authorization, from the Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or officer under whose direct supervision the

employee works, to accept reimbursement; and
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(ii) discloses the expenses reimbursed or to be reimbursed and the authorization to the Clerk within 30 days

after the travel is completed.

(B) For purposes of subdivision (A), events, the activities of which are substantially recreational in nature, are not

considered to be in connection with the duties of a Member,

Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the

House as an officeholder.

(2) Each advance authorization to accept reimbursement

shall be signed by the Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or officer of the House under whose direct supervision

the employee works and shall include—

(A) the name of the employee;

(B) the name of the person who will make the reimbursement;

(C) the time, place, and purpose of the travel; and

(D) a determination that the travel is in connection

with the duties of the employee as an officeholder and

would not create the appearance that the employee is

using public office for private gain.

(3) Each disclosure made under subparagraph (1)(A) of

expenses reimbursed or to be reimbursed shall be signed by

the Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or officer (in

the case of travel by that Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or officer) or by the Member, Delegate, Resident
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Commissioner, or officer under whose direct supervision the

employee works (in the case of travel by an employee) and

shall include—

(A) a good faith estimate of total transportation expenses reimbursed or to be reimbursed;

(B) a good faith estimate of total lodging expenses

reimbursed or to be reimbursed;

(C) a good faith estimate of total meal expenses reimbursed or to be reimbursed;

(D) a good faith estimate of the total of other expenses reimbursed or to be reimbursed;

(E) a determination that all such expenses are necessary transportation, lodging, and related expenses as

defined in subparagraph (4); and

(F) in the case of a reimbursement to a Member,

Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or officer, a determination that the travel was in connection with his duties as an officeholder and would not create the appearance that the Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or officer is using public office for private gain.

(4) In this paragraph the term ‘‘necessary transportation, lodging, and related expenses’’—

(A) includes reasonable expenses that are necessary

for travel for a period not exceeding four days within the

United States or seven days exclusive of travel time out-
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side of the United States unless approved in advance by

the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct;

(B) is limited to reasonable expenditures for transportation, lodging, conference fees and materials, and

food and refreshments, including reimbursement for necessary transportation, whether or not such transportation occurs within the periods described in subdivision

(A);

(C) does not include expenditures for recreational

activities, nor does it include entertainment other than

that provided to all attendees as an integral part of the

event, except for activities or entertainment otherwise

permissible under this clause; and

(D) may include travel expenses incurred on behalf

of either the spouse or a child of the Member, Delegate,

Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee.

(5) The Clerk shall make available to the public all advance authorizations and disclosures of reimbursement filed

under subparagraph (1) as soon as possible after they are received.

(c) A gift prohibited by paragraph (a)(1) includes the

following:

(1) Anything provided by a registered lobbyist or an

agent of a foreign principal to an entity that is main-
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tained or controlled by a Member, Delegate, Resident

Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House.

(2) A charitable contribution (as defined in section

170(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986) made by

a registered lobbyist or an agent of a foreign principal

on the basis of a designation, recommendation, or other

specification of a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House (not including

a mass mailing or other solicitation directed to a broad

category of persons or entities), other than a charitable

contribution permitted by paragraph (d).

(3) A contribution or other payment by a registered

lobbyist or an agent of a foreign principal to a legal expense fund established for the benefit of a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of

the House.

(4) A financial contribution or expenditure made by

a registered lobbyist or an agent of a foreign principal

relating to a conference, retreat, or similar event, sponsored by or affiliated with an official congressional organization, for or on behalf of Members, Delegates, the

Resident Commissioner, officers, or employees of the

House.

(d)(1) A charitable contribution (as defined in section

170(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986) made by a reg-
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istered lobbyist or an agent of a foreign principal in lieu of

an honorarium to a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House are not considered

a gift under this clause if it is reported as provided in subparagraph (2).

(2) A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer,

or employee who designates or recommends a contribution to

a charitable organization in lieu of an honorarium described

in subparagraph (1) shall report within 30 days after such

designation or recommendation to the Clerk—

(A) the name and address of the registered lobbyist

who is making the contribution in lieu of an honorarium;

(B) the date and amount of the contribution; and

(C) the name and address of the charitable organization designated or recommended by the Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner.

The Clerk shall make public information received under this

subparagraph as soon as possible after it is received.

(e) In this clause—

(1) the term ‘‘registered lobbyist’’ means a lobbyist

registered under the Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act

or any successor statute; and

(2) the term ‘‘agent of a foreign principal’’ means

an agent of a foreign principal registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
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(f) All the provisions of this clause shall be interpreted

and enforced solely by the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct. The Committee on Standards of Official Conduct is authorized to issue guidance on any matter contained

in this clause.

Claims against the Government

6. A person may not be an officer or employee of the

House, or continue in its employment, if he acts as an agent

for the prosecution of a claim against the Government or if

he is interested in such claim, except as an original claimant

or in the proper discharge of official duties.

RULE XXVII.

FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE.

1. The Clerk shall send a copy of each report filed with

the Clerk under title I of the Ethics in Government Act of

1978 within the seven-day period beginning on the date on

which the report is filed to the Committee on Standards of

Official Conduct. By August 1 of each year, the Clerk shall

compile all such reports sent to him by Members within the

period beginning on January 1 and ending on June 15 of

each year and have them printed as a House document,

which shall be made available to the public.

2. For the purposes of this rule, the provisions of title

I of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 shall be considered Rules of the House as they pertain to Members, Dele-
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gates, the Resident Commissioner, officers, and employees of

the House.

RULE XXVIII.

GENERAL PROVISIONS.

1. The provisions of law that constituted the Rules of

the House at the end of the previous Congress shall govern

the House in all cases to which they are applicable, and the

rules of parliamentary practice comprised by Jefferson’s

Manual shall govern the House in all cases to which they are

applicable and in which they are not inconsistent with the

Rules and orders of the House.

2. In these rules words importing the masculine gender

include the feminine as well.

SEC. 2. SEPARATE ORDERS.

(a) BUDGET ENFORCEMENT.—(1) Pending the adoption

by the Congress of a concurrent resolution on the budget for

fiscal year 1999—

(A) the chairman of the Committee on the Budget,

when elected, shall publish in the Congressional Record

budget totals contemplated by section 301 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and allocations contemplated by section 302(a) of that Act for each of the

fiscal years 1999 through 2003;

(B) those totals and levels shall be effective in the

House as though established under a concurrent resolu-
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tion on the budget and sections 301 and 302 of that

Act; and

(C) the publication of those totals and levels shall

be considered as the completion of Congressional action

on a concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year

1999.

(2) Pending the adoption by the Congress of a concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2000, a provision

in a bill or joint resolution, or in an amendment thereto or

a conference report thereon, that establishes prospectively for

a Federal office or position a specified or minimum level of

compensation to be funded by annual discretionary appropriations shall not be considered as providing new entitlement authority within the meaning of the Congressional Budget Act

of 1974.

(3) In the case of a reported bill or joint resolution considered pursuant to a special order of business, a point of

order under section 303 of the Congressional Budget Act of

1974 shall be determined on the basis of the text made in

order as an original bill or joint resolution for the purpose

of amendment or to the text on which the previous question

is ordered directly to passage, as the case may be.

(b) TENURE ON BUDGET COMMITTEE.—Notwithstanding clause 5(a)(2)(B) of rule X, during the One Hundred
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Sixth Congress tenure on the Committee on the Budget shall

not be limited.

(c) STANDARDS COMMITTEE RULES.—Each provision of

House Resolution 168 of the One Hundred Fifth Congress

that was not executed as a change in the standing rules is

hereby reaffirmed for the One Hundred Sixth Congress.

(d) CENSUS SUBCOMMITTEE.—Notwithstanding clause

5(d) of rule X, during the One Hundred Sixth Congress the

Committee on Government Reform may have not more than

eight subcommittees.

(e) EXPLANATORY MATERIAL RELATING TO CODIFICATION OF RULES.—Upon the adoption of this resolution, the

Majority Leader and the Minority Leader or their designees

may submit for inclusion in the Congressional Record as part

of the debate hereon such extraneous and tabular matter as

they may consider to constitute legislative history concerning

the codification of the standing rules.

(f) CONTINUATION OF SELECT COMMITTEE.—

(1) IN GENERAL.—Solely for the purpose of completing activities directly associated with the declassification and public release of its report, the Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial

Concerns With the People’s Republic of China (hereafter

referred to as the ‘‘Select Committee’’), created by

House Resolution 463, One Hundred Fifth Congress,
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agreed to June 18, 1998 (hereafter referred to as the

‘‘Authorizing Resolution’’), may sit and act during the

One Hundred Sixth Congress at any time prior to April

1, 1999, as it may deem appropriate, without regard to

whether or not the House of Representatives is in session at the time.

(2) CONTINUATION OF POWERS AND JURISDICTION.—Solely for the purpose described in paragraph

(1), the Select Committee’s jurisdiction, and all other

powers, authorities, responsibilities, and procedures of

the Select Committee and of other Committees of the

House of Representatives, shall remain as set forth in

the Authorizing Resolution, except as follows:

(A) Section 10 of the Authorizing Resolution

shall not be continued.

(B) Sections 8 and 9 of the Authorizing Resolution shall apply only to the enforcement of requests for information which are issued prior to

January 3, 1999, and to issuing and enforcing requests for information directly related to the declassification and public release of the Select Committee’s report.

(3) DISPOSITION OF RECORDS.—In addition to the

powers and authorities extended under paragraph (2),

upon the termination of the Select Committee, all
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records of the Select Committee shall be transferred to

other committees of the House of Representatives, stored

by the Clerk of the House of Representatives, or otherwise disposed of as the Select Committee may direct,

consistent with applicable rules and laws concerning

classified information.

(4) NO ADDITIONAL FUNDS.—Funds for the Select

Committee for carrying out activities under this subsection during the One Hundred Sixth Congress shall be

derived solely from amounts provided pursuant to the

Authorizing Resolution which remain unobligated and

unexpended as of the end of the One Hundred Fifth

Congress.

(g) NUMBERING OF BILLS.—In the One Hundred Sixth

Congress, the first 10 numbers for bills (H.R. 1 through

H.R. 10) shall be reserved for assignment by the Speaker to

such bills as he may designate when introduced before March

1, 1999.

SEC. 3. SPECIAL ORDER OF BUSINESS.

Upon the adoption of this resolution it shall be in order

to consider in the House a resolution amending clause 5 of

rule XXVI, if offered by the Majority Leader or his designee.

The resolution shall be considered as read for amendment.

The previous question shall be considered as ordered on the

resolution to final adoption without intervening motion or de-
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mand for division of the question except one hour of debate

equally divided and controlled by the Majority Leader and the

Minority Leader or their designees.

Attest:

Clerk.