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and by inserting after paragraph (h) the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(i) COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY.— 
‘‘(1) The Department of Homeland Security 
‘‘(2) Homeland security, generally. 
The committee shall have exclusive jurisdiction over the 
matters referred to in subparagraphs (1) and (2).’’. 
SEC. 222. COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE. 
(a) Clause 1 of rule X of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives (as amended by section 301) is further 
amended by redesignating paragraphs (k) through (t) as 
paragraphs (l) through (u), respectively, and by inserting 
after paragraph (j) (as redesignated by such section) the 
following new paragraph: 
‘‘(k) COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE.— 
‘‘(1) The Director of National Intelligence, 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. 
‘‘(2) Intelligence and intelligence-related activi-
ties of all other departments and agencies of the 
Government, including the tactical intelligence and 
intelligence-related activities of the Department of 
Defense. 
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‘‘(3) The organization or reorganization of a de-
partment or agency of the Government to the extent 
that the organization or reorganization relates to a 
function or activity involving intelligence or intel-
ligence-related activities. 
‘‘(4) Authorizations for appropriations, both di-
rect and indirect, for the following: 
‘‘(A) The Director of National Intelligence, 
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 intel-
ligence and intelligence-related activities of the 
Department of Defense. 
‘‘(C) A department, agency, subdivision, or 
program that is a successor to an agency or 
program named or referred to in subdivision 
(A) or (B). 
The committee shall have exclusive jurisdiction over 
the matters referred to in subparagraphs (1) 
through (4).’’. 
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(b) Clause 4 of rule X of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing new paragraph: 
‘‘(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 
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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 
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 
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close a hearing whenever a majority of those present deter-
mines that the testimony or evidence would endanger the 
national security. 
‘‘(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 
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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-
mittee 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. 
‘‘(7)(A) The Committee on Intelligence may disclose 
publicly any information in its possession after a deter-
mination by the committee that the public interest would 
be served by such disclosure. With respect to the disclo-
sure of information for which this subparagraph requires 
action by the committee— 
‘‘(i) the committee shall meet to vote on the 
matter within five days after a member of the com-
mittee requests a vote; and 
‘‘(ii) a member of the committee may not make 
such a disclosure before a vote by the committee on 
the matter, or after a vote by the committee on the 
matter except in accordance with this subparagraph. 
‘‘(B)(i) In a case in which the Committee on Intel-
ligence 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 
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the executive branch requests be kept secret, the com-
mittee shall notify the President of such vote. 
‘‘(ii) The Committee on Intelligence 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, per-
sonally in writing, notifies the committee that he objects 
to the disclosure of such information, provides his reasons 
therefor, and certifies that the threat to the national inter-
est of the United States posed by the disclosure is of such 
gravity that it outweighs any public interest in the disclo-
sure. 
‘‘(iii) If the President, personally in writing, notifies 
the committee of his objections to the disclosure of infor-
mation as provided in clause (ii), the committee may, by 
majority vote, refer the question of the disclosure of such 
information, with a recommendation thereon, to the 
House. The committee may not publicly disclose such in-
formation without leave of the House. 
‘‘(iv) Whenever the committee votes to refer the ques-
tion of disclosure of any information to the House under 
clause (iii), the chairman shall, not later than the first 
day on which the House is in session following the day 
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on which the vote occurs, report the matter to the House 
for its consideration. 
‘‘(v) If the chairman of the committee does not offer 
in the House a motion to consider in closed session a mat-
ter reported under clause (iv) within four calendar days 
on which the House is in session after the recommendation 
described in clause (iii) 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 ex-
cept one that the House adjourn. 
‘‘(vi) Upon adoption by the House of a motion to re-
solve into closed session as described in clause (v), the 
Speaker may declare a recess subject to the call of the 
Chair. At the expiration of the recess, the pending ques-
tion, in closed session, shall be, ‘Shall the House approve 
the recommendation of the committee?’. 
‘‘(vii) Debate on the question described in clause (vi) 
shall be limited to two hours equally divided and controlled 
by the chairman and ranking minority member of the com-
mittee. After such debate the previous question shall be 
considered as ordered on the question of approving the 
recommendation without intervening motion except one 
motion that the House adjourn. The House shall vote on 
the question in open session but without divulging the in-
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formation with respect to which the vote is taken. If the 
recommendation of the committee is not approved, then 
the question is considered as recommitted to the com-
mittee for further recommendation. 
‘‘(C)(i) Information in the possession of the Com-
mittee on Intelligence relating to the lawful intelligence 
or intelligence-related activities of a department or agency 
of the United States that has been classified under estab-
lished security procedures, and that the committee has de-
termined should not be disclosed under subdivision (A) or 
(B), may not be made available to any person by a Mem-
ber, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or em-
ployee of the House except as provided in clause (ii). 
‘‘(ii) The Committee on Intelligence shall, under such 
regulations as it may prescribe, make information de-
scribed in clause (i) available to a committee or a Member, 
Delegate, or Resident Commissioner, and permit a Mem-
ber, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner to attend a hear-
ing of the committee that is closed to the public. Whenever 
the 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, or Resident Commissioner who, and a 
committee that, receives information under this clause 
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may not disclose the information except in a closed session 
of the House. 
‘‘(D) The Committee on Standards of Official Con-
duct shall investigate any unauthorized disclosure of intel-
ligence or intelligence-related information by a Member, 
Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of 
the House in violation of subdivision (C) and report to 
the House concerning any allegation that it finds to be 
substantiated. 
‘‘(E) Upon the request of a person who is subject to 
an investigation described in subdivision (D), the Com-
mittee on Standards of Official Conduct shall release to 
such person at the conclusion of its investigation a sum-
mary 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 unauthor-
ized disclosure by a Member, Delegate, Resident Commis-
sioner, officer, or employee of the House, it shall report 
its findings to the House and recommend appropriate ac-
tion. Recommendations may include censure, removal 
from committee membership, or expulsion from the House, 
in the case of a Member, or removal from office or employ-
ment or punishment for contempt, in the case of an officer 
or employee. 
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‘‘(F) The Committee on Intelligence may permit a 
personal representative of the President, designated by the 
President to serve as a liaison to the committee, to attend 
any closed meeting of the committee. 
‘‘(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. 
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‘‘(vi) The intelligence and intelligence-related 
activities of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in-
cluding all activities of the Intelligence Division. 
‘‘(vii) The activities of the Director of National 
Intelligence. 
‘‘(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 
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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 
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: 
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‘‘(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 
least one Member, Delegate, or the Resident Commis-
sioner from each of the following committees: 
‘‘(i) The Committee on Appropriations. 
‘‘(ii) The Committee on Armed Services. 
‘‘(iii) The Committee on International Rela-
tions. 
‘‘(iv) The Committee on the Judiciary. 
‘‘(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.’’. 
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SEC. 223. SUBCOMMITTEE LIMITATION ON COMMITTEE ON 
APPROPRIATIONS. 
The second sentence of clause 5(d)(2) of rule X of 
the Rules of the House of Representatives is amended by 
striking ‘‘13’’ and inserting ‘‘14 (of which one is a Sub-
committee on Intelligence)’’. 
SEC. 224. MEMBERSHIP ON COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIA-
TIONS. 
Clause 5 of rule X of the Rules of the House of Rep-
resentatives is amended by adding at the end the following 
new paragraph: 
‘‘(f) One-third of the members of the Committee on 
Intelligence (but if such number is not an even-number 
divisible by three, then the next highest even-number that 
is divisible by three) shall be members of the Committee 
on Appropriations, of whom not more than one-half shall 
be from the same party.’’. 
SEC. 225. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS. 
(a) 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)’’. 
(b) Clause 9(a)(2) of rule X of the Rules of the House 
of Representatives is amended by striking ‘‘Permanent Se-
lect’’. 
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(c) Clause 11 of rule 10 of the Rules of the House 
of Representatives is repealed. 
(d) Clause 2(g)(2)(D) of rule 11 of the Rules of the 
House of Representatives is amended by striking ‘‘Perma-
nent Select’’. 
CHAPTER 2—HOMELAND SECURITY 
OVERSIGHT REFORM IN THE SENATE 
Subchapter A—Homeland Security 
SEC. 231. HOMELAND SECURITY. 
(a) COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY AND GOV-
ERNMENT AFFAIRS.—The Committee on Governmental 
Affairs is renamed as the Committee on Homeland Secu-
rity and Governmental Affairs. 
(b) JURISDICTION.—There shall be referred to the 
committee all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, 
memorials, and other matters relating to the following 
subjects: 
(1) Department of Homeland Security, except 
matters relating to the Coast Guard, the Transpor-
tation Security Administration, the Federal Law En-
forcement Training Center, and the revenue func-
tions of the Customs Service. 
(2) Archives of the United States. 
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(3) Budget and accounting measures, other 
than appropriations, except as provided in the Con-
gressional Budget Act of 1974. 
(4) Census and collection of statistics, including 
economic and social statistics. 
(5) Congressional organization, except for any 
part of the matter that amends the rules or orders 
of the Senate. 
(6) Federal Civil Service. 
(7) Government information. 
(8) Intergovernmental relations. 
(9) Municipal affairs of the District of Colum-
bia, except appropriations therefor. 
(10) Organization and management of United 
States nuclear export policy. 
(11) Organization and reorganization of the ex-
ecutive branch of the Government. 
(12) Postal Service. 
(13) Status of officers and employees of the 
United States, including their classification, com-
pensation, and benefits. 
(c) ADDITIONAL DUTIES.—The committee shall have 
the duty of— 
(1) receiving and examining reports of the 
Comptroller General of the United States and of 
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submitting such recommendations to the Senate as 
it deems necessary or desirable in connection with 
the subject matter of such reports; 
(2) studying the efficiency, economy, and effec-
tiveness of all agencies and departments of the Gov-
ernment; 
(3) evaluating the effects of laws enacted to re-
organize the legislative and executive branches of the 
Government; and 
(4) studying the intergovernmental relation-
ships 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. 
(d) JURISDICTION OF SENATE COMMITTEES.—The 
jurisdiction of the Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs provided in subsection (b)(1) shall 
supersede the jurisdiction of any other committee of the 
Senate provided in the rules of the Senate. 
Subchapter B—Intelligence Oversight 
Reform 
SEC. 241. INTELLIGENCE OVERSIGHT. 
(a) COMMITTEE
ON ARMED SERVICES MEMBER-
SHIP.—Section 2(a)(3) of Senate Resolution 400, agreed 
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to May 19, 1976 (94th Congress) (referred to in this sec-
tion as ‘‘S. Res. 400’’) is amended by— 
(1) inserting ‘‘(A)’’ after ‘‘(3)’’; and 
(2) inserting at the end the following: 
‘‘(B) The Chairman and Ranking Member 
of the Committee on Armed Services (if not al-
ready a member of the select Committee) shall 
be ex officio members of the select Committee 
but shall have no vote in the Committee and 
shall not be counted for purposes of deter-
mining a quorum.’’. 
(b) NUMBER OF MEMBERS.—Section 2(a) of S. Res. 
400 is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘not to ex-
ceed’’ before ‘‘fifteen members’’; 
(2) in paragraph (1)(E), by inserting ‘‘not to 
exceed’’ before ‘‘seven’’; and 
(3) in paragraph (2), by striking the second 
sentence and inserting ‘‘Of any members appointed 
under paragraph (1)(E), the majority leader shall 
appoint the majority members and the minority 
leader shall appoint the minority members, with the 
majority having a one vote margin.’’. 
(c) ELIMINATION OF TERM LIMITS.—Section 2 of 
Senate Resolution 400, 94th Congress, agreed to May 19, 
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1976, is amended by striking subsection (b) and by redes-
ignating subsection (c) as subsection (b). 
(d) APPOINTMENT OF CHAIRMAN AND VICE CHAIR-
MAN.—Section 2(b) of S. Res. 400, as redesignated by 
subsection (c) of this section, is amended by striking the 
first sentence and inserting the following: ‘‘At the begin-
ning of each Congress, the Majority Leader of the Senate 
shall select a chairman of the select Committee and the 
Minority Leader shall select a vice chairman for the select 
Committee.’’. 
(e) SUBCOMMITTEES.—Section 2 of S. Res. 400, as 
amended by subsections (a) through (d), is amended by 
adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(c) The select Committee may be organized into sub-
committees. Each subcommittee shall have a chairman 
and a vice chairman who are selected by the Chairman 
and Vice Chairman of the select Committee, respectively.’’. 
(f) REPORTS.—Section 4(a) of S. Res. 400 is amend-
ed by inserting ‘‘, but not less than quarterly,’’ after ‘‘peri-
odic’’. 
(g) STAFF.—Section 15 of S. Res. 400 is amended 
to read as follows: 
‘‘SEC. 15. (a) The select Committee shall hire or ap-
point one employee for each member of the select Com-
mittee to serve as such Member’s designated representa-
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