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‘‘(g)(1) For purposes of accountability to the House, 
the Committee on Intelligence 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 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 com-
mittee. In making such report, the committee shall pro-
ceed in a manner consistent with subparagraph (7) to pro-
tect national security. 
‘‘(2) The Committee on Intelligence shall obtain an-
nual reports from the Director of National Intelligence, 
the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Sec-
retary of Defense, the Secretary of State, and the Director 
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Such reports shall 
review the intelligence and intelligence-related activities of 
the agency or department concerned and the intelligence 
and intelligence-related activities of foreign countries di-
rected 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 committee. Nothing herein shall 
be construed as requiring the public disclosure in such re-
ports of the names of persons engaged in intelligence or 
intelligence-related activities for the United States or the
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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 intel-
ligence 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 Committee on Intelligence 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 committee. 
‘‘(4)(A) Except as specified in subdivision (B), 
clauses 8(a), (b), and (c) and 9(a), (b), and (c) of this 
rule, and clauses 1, 2, and 4 of rule XI shall apply to 
the Committee on Intelligence to the extent not incon-
sistent with this clause. 
‘‘(B) 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 
Committee on Intelligence for the purpose of taking testi-
mony or receiving evidence, the committee may vote to
close a hearing whenever a majority of those present deter-
mines that the testimony or evidence would endanger the 
national security.
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‘‘(5) An employee of the Committee on Intelligence, 
or a person engaged by contract or otherwise to perform 
services for or at the request of the committee, may not 
be given access to any classified information by the com-
mittee unless such employee or person has—
‘‘(A) agreed in writing and under oath to be 
bound by the Rules of the House, including the ju-
risdiction of the Committee on Standards of Official 
Conduct and of the Committee on Intelligence con-
cerning the security of classified information during 
and after the period of his employment or contrac-
tual agreement with the committee; and 
‘‘(B) received an appropriate security clearance, 
as determined by the Committee on Intelligence in 
consultation with the Director of Central Intel-
ligence, that is commensurate with the sensitivity of 
the classified information to which such employee or 
person will be given access by the committee. 
‘‘(6) The Committee on Intelligence 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 committee that unduly infringes on the privacy or 
that violates the constitutional rights of such person. 
Nothing herein shall be construed to prevent the com-