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‘‘(G) 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: 
‘‘(i) The activities of the Central Intelligence 
Agency and the Director of Central Intelligence. 
‘‘(ii) The activities of the Defense Intelligence 
Agency. 
‘‘(iii) The activities of the National Security 
Agency. 
‘‘(iv) The intelligence and intelligence-related 
activities of other agencies and subdivisions of the 
Department of Defense. 
‘‘(v) The intelligence and intelligence-related ac-
tivities of the Department of State.
‘‘(vi) The intelligence and intelligence-related 
activities of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in-
cluding all activities of the Intelligence Division.
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‘‘(H)(i) In this clause, the term ‘‘intelligence and in-
telligence-related activities’’ includes—
‘‘(I) the collection, analysis, production, dis-
semination, 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; 
‘‘(II) activities taken to counter similar activi-
ties directed against the United States; 
‘‘(III) covert or clandestine activities affecting 
the relations of the United States with a foreign 
government, political group, party, military force, 
movement, or other association; 
‘‘(IV) the collection, analysis, production, dis-
semination, 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, instrumentality, or employee of the United
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States to pose, a threat to the internal security of 
the United States; and 
‘‘(V) covert or clandestine activities directed 
against persons described in (IV). 
‘‘(ii) In this clause, the term ‘‘department or agency’’ 
includes any organization, committee, council, establish-
ment, or office within the Federal Government. 
‘‘(iii) For purposes of this clause, reference to a de-
partment, agency, bureau, or subdivision shall include a 
reference to any successor department, agency, bureau, or 
subdivision to the extent that a successor engages in intel-
ligence or intelligence-related activities now conducted by 
the department, agency, bureau, or subdivision referred to 
in this clause. 
‘‘(I) Clause 12(a) of rule XXII does not apply to 
meetings of a conference committee respecting legislation 
(or any part thereof) reported by the Committee on Intel-
ligence.’’. 
(c) Clause 5(a) of rule X of the Rules of the House 
of Representatives is amended by adding at the end the 
following new subparagraph: 
‘‘(4)(A) The Committee on Intelligence shall be com-
posed of not more than 18 Members, Delegates, or the 
Resident Commissioner, of whom not more than 10 may 
be from the same party. The committee shall include at
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least one Member, Delegate, or the Resident Commis-
sioner from each of the following committees: 
‘‘(i) The Committee on Armed Services. 
‘‘(ii) The Committee on Homeland Security. 
‘‘(iii) The Committee on International Rela-
tions. 
‘‘(iv) The Committee on the Judiciary. 
The committee shall include the chairman and ranking mi-
nority party member of the Committee on Appropriations 
and the chairman and ranking minority party member of 
the Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on Appro-
priations. 
‘‘(B) The Speaker and the Minority Leader shall be 
ex officio members of the Committee on Intelligence, but 
shall have no vote in the committee and may not be count-
ed for purposes of determining a quorum. 
‘‘(C) 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 committee and subject to the same 
security clearance and confidentiality requirements as em-
ployees of the committee under this clause.’’. 
CONFORMING AMENDMENTS 
SEC. 3. (a)(1) Clause l(b)(1) of rule X of the Rules 
of the House of Representatives is amended by inserting
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‘‘, except for matters within the jurisdiction of the Com-
mittee on Intelligence’’ before the period. 
(2) Clause l(b)(2) of rule X of the Rules of the House 
of Representatives is amended by inserting ‘‘other than 
appropriation Acts reported by the Committee on Intel-
ligence’’ before the period. 
(b) Clause 3(l) of rule X of the Rules of the House 
of Representatives is amended by striking ‘‘Permanent Se-
lect’’ and by striking ‘‘clause 11(b)(1)(A)’’ and inserting 
‘‘clause 1(k)’’. 
(c) Clause 9(a)(2) of rule X of the Rules of the House 
of Representatives is amended by striking ‘‘Permanent Se-
lect’’. 
(d) Clause 11 of rule 10 of the Rules of the House 
of Representatives is repealed. 
(e) Clause 2(g)(2)(D) of rule 11 of the Rules of the 
House of Representatives is amended by striking ‘‘Perma-
nent Select’’. 
EFFECTIVE DATE 
SEC. 4. The amendments made by this resolution 
shall take effect immediately before noon, January 3, 
2005.
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