IV 
118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 11 
Establishing the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between 
the United States and the Chinese Communist Party. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 9, 2023 
Mr. MCCARTHY submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on Rules 
RESOLUTION 
Establishing the Select Committee on the Strategic Competi-
tion Between the United States and the Chinese Com-
munist Party. 
Resolved, 
SECTION 1. SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE STRATEGIC COM-
PETITION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES 
AND THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT; COMPOSITION.— 
(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is hereby estab-
lished in the House of Representatives a Select Com-
mittee on the Strategic Competition Between the 
United States and the Chinese Communist Party 
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(hereinafter in this section referred to as the ‘‘Select 
Committee’’). 
(2) COMPOSITION.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Select Committee 
shall be composed of not more than 16 Mem-
bers, Delegates, or the Resident Commissioner 
appointed by the Speaker, not more than 7 of 
whom shall be appointed after consultation with 
the minority leader. The Speaker shall des-
ignate one member of the Select Committee as 
its chair. A vacancy in the membership of the 
Select Committee shall be filled in the same 
manner as the original appointment. 
(B) EX OFFICIO MEMBERS.—The Speaker 
and the minority leader shall be ex officio mem-
bers of the Select Committee but shall have no 
vote in the Select Committee and may not be 
counted for purposes of determining a quorum. 
(C) DESIGNATION OF LEADERSHIP STAFF 
MEMBER.—The Speaker and the minority lead-
er each may designate a leadership staff mem-
ber to assist in their capacity as ex officio mem-
bers, with the same access to Select Committee 
meetings, hearings, briefings, and materials as 
employees of the Select Committee and subject 
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to the same security clearance and confiden-
tiality requirements as staff of the Select Com-
mittee. 
(b) JURISDICTION; FUNCTIONS.— 
(1) LEGISLATIVE
JURISDICTION.—The Select 
Committee shall not have legislative jurisdiction and 
shall have no authority to take legislative action on 
any bill or resolution. 
(2) INVESTIGATIVE
JURISDICTION.—The sole 
authority of the Select Committee shall be to inves-
tigate and submit policy recommendations on the 
status of the Chinese Communist Party’s economic, 
technological, and security progress and its competi-
tion with the United States. The Select Committee 
may, at its discretion, hold public hearings in con-
nection with any aspect of its investigative functions. 
(c) PROCEDURE.— 
(1) Notwithstanding clause 3(m) of rule X of 
the Rules of the House of Representatives, the Se-
lect Committee is authorized to study the sources 
and methods of entities described in clause 
11(b)(1)(A) of rule X insofar as such study is re-
lated to the matters described in subsection (b)(2). 
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regulations issued by the Committee on House Ad-
ministration. 
(2)(A) Staff of employing entities of the House 
or a joint committee may be detailed to the Select 
Committee to carry out this resolution and shall be 
deemed to be staff of the Select Committee. 
(B) The Select Committee may request the 
head of any Federal agency to detail, on a nonreim-
bursable basis, any of the personnel of the agency to 
the Select Committee. 
(3) Section 202(i) of the Legislative Reorga-
nization Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 4301(i)) shall apply 
with respect to the Select Committee in the same 
manner as such section applies with respect to a 
standing committee, except that the selection of any 
consultant or organization under such section shall 
be subject to approval by the Speaker. 
(e) REPORTING.—The Select Committee may report 
to the House or any committee from time to time the re-
sults of its investigations and studies, together with such 
detailed findings, policy recommendations, and legislative 
proposals as it may deem advisable. All such reports shall 
be submitted to the House by December 31, 2024. All pol-
icy recommendations shall be submitted to the relevant 
standing committees not later than December 31, 2023. 
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The Select Committee shall submit all legislative proposals 
to the relevant standing committees not later than 30 days 
after their adoption by the Select Committee. 
(f) PUBLICATION.— 
(1) The Select Committee shall ensure that re-
ports and proposals prepared in accordance with this 
subsection shall, upon completion, be made available 
to the general public in widely accessible formats not 
later than 30 calendar days following the respective 
dates for completion set forth in subsection (e). 
(2) Any report issued by the Select Committee 
shall be issued in unclassified form but may include 
a classified annex, a law enforcement-sensitive 
annex, or both. 
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