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[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 11 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 11

 Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to limit the total 
  number of committee staff personnel employed during the One Hundred 
Third Congress to one-half of the number employed at the end of the One 
                        Hundred Second Congress.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 5, 1993

   Mr. Bartlett (for himself and Mr. Shays) submitted the following 
        resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Rules

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                               RESOLUTION

 
 Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to limit the total 
  number of committee staff personnel employed during the One Hundred 
Third Congress to one-half of the number employed at the end of the One 
                        Hundred Second Congress.

    Resolved, That clause 5 of rule XI of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives is amended by redesignating paragraphs (a) through (f) 
as paragraphs (b) through (g), respectively, and by inserting at the 
beginning the following new paragraph:
    ``(a)(1) It shall not be in order to consider any primary expense 
resolution until the Committee on House Administration has reported, 
and the House has adopted, a resolution establishing an overall ceiling 
for House committee staff personnel for that year, and any such 
resolution shall be privileged.
    ``(2) In developing any primary expense resolution, the Committee 
on House Administration shall specify in the resolution the number of 
staff positions authorized by the resolution. The committee shall 
verify in the report accompanying any such primary expense resolution 
that the number of staff positions authorized by such resolution is in 
conformity with the overall ceiling on such positions established by 
the House.
    ``(3) In no event shall the total number of additional staff 
positions authorized by all such primary expense resolutions, taken 
together with the number of staff positions authorized by clause 6 of 
this rule (providing for professional and clerical staff), exceed the 
ceiling established by the House for that year.
    ``(4) In allocating staff positions pursuant to the overall ceiling 
established by the House, the committee shall take into account the 
past and anticipated legislative and oversight activities of each 
committee.
    ``(5) In any supplemental expense resolution, and in any amendment 
thereto, the committee shall specify the number of additional staff 
positions, if any, authorized by such resolution, and shall indicate in 
the report accompanying any such resolution whether the additional 
staff positions are in conformity with or exceed the overall ceiling 
established by the House.
    ``(6) It shall not be in order to consider any supplemental expense 
resolution, or any amendment thereto, authorizing additional staff 
positions in excess of the overall ceiling established by the House 
except by a vote of two-thirds of the Members voting, a quorum being 
present.
    ``(7) It shall not be in order to consider any primary or 
supplemental expense resolution for one or more committees unless the 
report on such resolution includes a statement verifying that each such 
committee has adopted and complied with a committee rule entitling the 
minority party on such committee, upon the request of a majority of 
such minority, to not less than one-third of the funds provided for 
committee staff pursuant to each primary or supplemental expense 
resolution.
    ``(8) For the purposes of the One Hundred Third Congress, the 
overall ceiling for committee staff in a resolution reported by the 
committee pursuant to subparagraph (1), or contained in any amendment 
thereto, shall not exceed 50 percent of the total committee staff 
personnel employed at the end of the One Hundred Second Congress.''.

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