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'estimony or evidence to be received ould endanger the national security violate clause 2(kж5) of rule XI, or (B) may vote to close the hearing, as provided in clause 2(kx5) of rule XI. No Member may be excluded from nonparticipatory attendance at any hearing of any committee or subcom. mittee, with the exception of the Com. mittee on Standards of Official Conduct, unless the House of Representatives shall by majority vote authorize a particular committee or subcommittee. for purposes of a particular series of hearings on a particular article of legislation or on a particular subject of investigation. to close its hearings to Members by the same procedures designated in this subparagraph for closing hearings to the public: Provided. however. That the committee or subcommittee may by the same procedure vote to close one subsequent day of hearing except that the Committee on Committee Appropriations, the Armed Services, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the subcommittees therein may, by the same procedure, vote to close up to five additional consecutive days of hearings.

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(3) Each committee of the House (except the Committee on Rules) shall make public announcement of the date. place and subject matter of any committee hearing at least one week before the commencement of the hearing. If the committee determines that there is good cause to begin the hearing sooner, it shall make the announcement at the earliest possible date. Any announcement made under this subparagraph shall be promptly published in the Daily Digest and promptly entered into the committee scheduling service of the House Infor. mation Systems.

(4) Each committee shall, insofar as is practicable. require each witness who is to appear before it to file with the committee (in advance of his or her appearance) a written statement of the proposed testimony and to limit the oral presentation at such appear. ance to a brief summary of his or her argument.

(5) No point of order shall lie with respect to any measure reported by any committee on the ground that hearings on such measure were not conducted in accordance with the provisions of this clause: except that a point of order on that ground may be made by any member of the committee which reported the measure if, in the committee, such point of order was (A) timely made and (B) improperly overruled or not properly considered.

(6) The preceding provisions of this paragraph do not apply to the committee hearings which are provided for by clause aж1) of rule X.

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Quorum for taking testimony and certain other action

(hx1) Each committee may fix the number of its members to constitute a quorum for taking testimony and receiving evidence which shall be not less than two.

(2) Each committee (except the Committee on Appropriations. the Committee on the Budget, and the Committee on Ways and Means) may fix the number of its members to constitute a quorum for taking any action other than the reporting of a measure or recommendation which shall be not less than one-third of the members. Prohibition against committee meetings

during joint sessions and joint meetings (1) No committee of the House may sit during a joint session of the House and Senate or during a recess when a joint meeting of the House and Senate is in progress.

Calling and interrogation of witnesses

(1) Whenever any hearing is conducted by any committee upon any measure or matter, the minority party members on the committee shall be entitled, upon request to the chairman by a majority of them before the completion of the hearing. to call witnesses selected by the minority to testify with respect to that measure or matter during at least one day of hear. ing thereon.

(2) Each committee shall apply the five-minute rule in the interrogation of witnesses in any hearing until such time as each member of the committee who so desires has had an opportunity to question each witness. Investigative hearing procedures

(k)(1) The chairman at an investigative hearing shall announce in an opening statement the subject of the investigation.

(2) A copy of the committee rules and this clause shall be made available to each witness.

(3) Witnesses at investigative hear. ings may be accompanied by their own counsel for the purpose of advising them concerning their constitutional rights.

(4) The chairman may punish breaches of order and decorum, and of professional ethics on the part of counsel, by censure and exclusion from the hearings, and the committee may cite the offender to the House for contempt.

(5) Whenever it is asserted that the evidence or testimony at an investigatory hearing may tend to defame, degrade, or incriminate any person.

(A) such testimony or evidence shall be presented in executive ses sion, notwithstanding the provisions of clause 2(g)2) of this rule, if by a majority of those present, there being in attendance the requisite number required under the rules of the committee to be present for the purpose of taking testimony. the committee determines that such evi

dence or testimony may tend to defame, degrade, or incriminate any person, and

(B) the committee shall proceed to receive such testimony in open ses. sion only if a majority of the mem bers of the committee. a majority being present, determine that such evidence or testimony will not tend to defame. degrade. or incriminate any person.

In either case the committee shall afford such person an opportunity vol. untarily to appear as a witness, and receive and dispose of requests from such person to subpoena additional witnesses.

(6) Except as provided in subparagraph (5), the chairman shall receive and the committee shall dispose of requests to subpoena additional wit

nesses.

(7) No evidence or testimony taken in executive session may be released or used in public sessions without the consent of the committee.

(8) In the discretion of the committee, witnesses may submit brief and pertinent sworn statements in writing for inclusion in the record. The committee is the sole judge of the pertinency of testimony and evidence adduced at its hearing.

(9) A witness may obtain a transcript copy of his testimony given at a public session or, if given at an executive session, when authorized by the committee.

Committee procedures for reporting bills and resolutions

(DXA) It shall be the duty of the chairman of each committee to report or cause to be reported promptly to the House any measure approved by the committee and to take or cause to be taken necessary steps to bring a matter to a vote.

(B) In any event, the report of any committee on a measure which has been approved by the committee shall be filed within seven calendar days (exclusive of days on which the House is not in session) after the day on which there has been filed with the clerk of the committee a written request, signed by a majority of the members of the committee, for the reporting of that measure. Upon the filing of any such request, the clerk of the committee shall transmit immediately to the chairman of the committee notice of the filing of that request. This subdivision does not apply to the reporting of a regular appropriation bill by the Committee on Appropria tions prior to compliance with subdivision (C) and does not apply to a report of the Committee on Rules with respect to the rules, joint rules, or order of business of the House or to the reporting of a resolution of inquiry addressed to the head of an executive department.

(2)A) No measure or recommendation shall be reported from any com.

mittee unless a majority of the committee was actually present. which

11 be deemed the case if the records he committee establish that a ma y of the committee responded on a rollcall vote on that question No point of order shall lie with respect to a measure or recommendation on the ground that it was reported without a majority of the committee actually present unless such point of order was timely made in committee.

(B) With respect to each roll call vote on a motion to report any bill or resolution of a public character. the total number of votes cast for, and the total number of votes cast against the reporting of such bill or resolution shall be included in the committee report

(3) The report of any committee on a measure which has been approved by the committee shall include (A) the oversight findings and recommendations required pursuant to clause 2(b)(1) of rule X separately set out and clearly identified: (B) the statement required by section 308(ax1) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. separately set out and clearly identified. if the measure provides new budget authority (other than continuing appropriations), new spending authority described in section 401(c)2) of such Act. new credit authority, or an increase or decrease in revenues or

expenditures: (C) the estimate and parison prepared by the Director the Congressional Budget Office under section 403 of such Act, separately set out and clearly identified. whenever the Director (if timely submitted prior to the filing of the report) has submitted such estimate and comparison to the committee, and (D) a summary of the oversight findings and recommendations made by the Committee on Government Operations under clause 4(cx2) of rule X separately set out and clearly identified whenever such findings and rec ommendations have been submitted to the legislative committee in a timely fashion to allow an opportunity to consider such findings and recommendations during the committee's deliberations on the measure.

(4) Each report of a committee on each bill or joint resolution of a public character reported by such committee shall contain a detailed analytical statement as to whether the enactment of such bill or joint resolution into law may have an inflationary impact on prices and costs in the oper ation of the national economy.

(5) If. at the time of approval of any measure or matter by any committee. other than the Committee on Rules. any member of the committee gives tice of intention to file supplemen.

minority, or additional views, that ember shall be entitled to not less than three calendar days (excluding Saturdays. Sundays. and legal holi. days) in which to file such views, in writing and signed by that member.

with the clerk of the committee. All such views so filed by one or more members of the committee shall be included within, and shall be a part of. the report filed by the committee with respect to that measure or matter. The report of the committee upon that measure or matter shall be printed in a single volume which

(A) shall include all supplemental. minority, or additional views which have been submitted by the time of the filing of the report, and

B) shall bear upon its cover a recital that any such supplemental. minority, or additional views (and any material submitted under subdiVisions (C) and (D) of subparagraph (3)) are included as part of the report.

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(1) the immediate filing or printing of a committee print unless timely request for the opportunity to file supplemental, minority, or additional views has been made as provided by this subparagraph; or

(i) the filing by any such committee of any supplemental report upon any measure or matter which may be required for the correction of any technical error in a previous report made by that committee upon that measure or matter.

(6) A measure or matter reported by any committee (except the Committee on Rules in the case of a resolution making in order the consideration of a bill, resolution, or other order of business), shall not be considered in the House until the third calendar day, excluding Saturdays. Sundays, and legal holidays on which the report of that committee upon that measure or matter has been available to the Mem. bers of the House, or as provided by section 305(a)(1) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 in the case of a concurrent resolution on the budget. Provided. however, That it shall always be in order to call up for con. sideration, notwithstanding the provisions of clause 4(b) of rule XI. a report from the Committee on Rules specifically providing for the consideration of a reported measure or matter not. withstanding this restriction. If hearings have been held on any such measure or matter so reported, the committee reporting the measure or matter shall make every reasonable effort to have such hearings printed and avail. able for distribution to the Members of the House prior to the consider. ation of such measure or matter in the House. This subparagraph shall not apply to

(A) any measure for the declara. tion of war, or the declaration of a national emergency, by the Congress: or

(B) any decision, determination, or action by a Government agency which would become or continue to be, effective unless disapproved or

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otherwise invalidated by one or both Houses of Congress.

For the purposes of the preceding sen tence. a Government agency includes any department. agency. establishment wholly owned Government cor poration. or instrumentality of the Federal Government or the govern ment of the District of Columbia

(7) If within seven calendar days after a measure has. by resolution. been made in order for consideration by the House, no motion has been of fered that the House consider that measure. any member of the committee which reported that measure may be recognized in the discretion of the Speaker to offer a motion that the House shall consider that measure. 1 that committee has duly authorized that member to offer that motion Power to sit and act; subpoena power

(m)1) For the purpose of carrying out any of its functions and duties under this rule and rule X (including any matters referred to it under clause 5 of rule X), any committee, or any subcommittee thereof. is authorized (subject to subparagraph (2)A) of this paragraph)

(A) to sit and act at such times and places within the United States. whether the House is in session. has recessed, or has adjourned, and to hold such hearings, and

(B) to require. by subpoena or otherwise, the attendance and testimony of such witnesses and the produc tion of such books. records. corre spondence. memorandums. papers, and documents as it deems neces sary.

The chairman of the committee. or any member designated by such chairman, may administer oaths to any wit

ness.

(2)A) A subpoena may be authorized and issued by a committee or subcommittee under subparagraph (1KB) in the conduct of any investigation or series of investigations or activities. only when authorized by a majority of the members voting, a majority being present. The power to authorize and issue subpoenas under subparagraph (1)(B) may be delegated to the chairman of the committee pursuant to such rules and under such limitations as the committee may prescribe. Authorized subpoenas shall be signed by the chairman of the committee or by any member designated by the committee.

(B) Compliance with any subpoena issued by a committee or subcommittee under subparagraph (1)(B) may be enforced only as authorized or directed by the House.

l'se of committee funds for travel

(n)1) Funds authorized for a com mittee under clause 5 are for expenses incurred in the committee's activities: however, local currencies owned by the United States shall be made avail

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able to the committee and its employ. ees engaged in carrying out their offi cial duties outside the United States. ts territories or possessions. No appropriated funds, including those authorized under clause 5. shall be expended for the purpose of defraying expenses of members of the committee or its employees in any country where local currencies are available for this purpose: and the following conditions shall apply with respect to travel outside the United States or its territories or possessions:

(A) No member or employee of the committee shall receive or expend local currencies for subsistence in any country for any day at a rate in excess of the maximum per diem set forth in applicable Federal law, or if the Member or employee is reimbursed for any expenses for such day, then the lesser of the per diem or the actual. unreimbursed expenses (other than for transportation) incurred by the Member or em. ployee during that day.

(B) Each member or employee of the committee shall make to the chairman of the committee an item. ized report showing the dates each country was visited, the amount of per diem furnished. the cost of transportation furnished, any funds expended for any other official pur pose and shall summarize in these categories the total foreign currencies and/or appropriated funds expended. All such individual reports shall be filed no later than sixty days following the completion of travel with the chairman of the com. mittee for use in complying with reporting requirements in applicable Federal law and shall be open for public inspection.

(2) In carrying out the committee's activities outside of the United States in any country where local currencies are unavailable. a member or employ. ee of the committee may not receive reunbursement for expenses (other than for transportation) in excess of the maximum per diem set forth in applicable Federal law, or if the member or employee is reimbursed for any expenses for such day. then the lesser of the per diem or the actual unreimbursed expenses (other than for transportation) incurred. by the member or employee during any day.

(3) A member or employee of a com. mittee may not receive reimbursement for the cost of any transportation in connection with travel outside of the United States unless the member or employee has actually paid for the transportation.

(4) The restrictions respecting travel outside of the United States set forth in subparagraphs (2) and (3) shall also apply to travel outside of the United States by Members, officers, and employees of the House authorized under clause 8 of rule I. clause 1(b) of this rule, or any other provision of these

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Rules of the House of Representatives.

(5) No local currencies owned by the United States may be made available under this paragraph for the use outside of the United States for defraying the expenses of a member of any com. mittee after

(A) the date of the general election of Members in which the Member has not been elected to the succeeding Congress; or

(B) in the case of a Member who is not a candidate in such general election, the earlier of the date of such general election or the adjournment sine die of the last regular session of the Congress.

Broadcasting of Committee Hearings

3. (a) It is the purpose of this clause to provide a means, in conformity with acceptable standards of dignity, propriety, and decorum, by which committee hearings, or committee meetings, which are open to the public may be covered. by television broadcast, radio broadcast, and still photography, or by any of such methods of coverage

(1) for the education. enlightenment, and information of the general public, on the basis of accurate and impartial news coverage, regarding the operations, procedures, and practices of the House as a legislative and representative body and regarding the measures, public issues, and other matters before the House and its committees, the consideration thereof, and the action taken thereon; and

(2) for the development of the per spective and understanding of the general public with respect to the role and function of the House under the Constitution of the United States as an organ of the Federal Government.

(b) In addition, it is the intent of this clause that radio and television tapes and television film of any cover. age under this clause shall not be used, or made available for use. as par tisan political campaign material to promote or oppose the candidacy of any person for elective public office.

(c) It is, further, the intent of this clause that the general conduct of each meeting (whether of a hearing or otherwise) covered, under authority of this clause. by television broadcast. radio broadcast, and still photography, or by any of such methods of coverage, and the personal behavior of the committee members and staff, other Government officials and personnel. witnesses, television, radio, and press media personnel, and the general public at the hearing or other meeting shall be in strict conformity with and observance of the acceptable standards of dignity, p:opriety, courtesy. and decorum trad tiɔnally observed by the House in its operations and shall not be such as to

(1) distort the objects and pur poses of the hearing or other meeting or the activities of committee members in connection with that hearing or meeting or in connection with the general work of the committee or of the House: or

(2) cast discredit or dishonor on the House. the committee, or any Member or bring the House. the committee. or any Member into disrepute.

(d) The coverage of committee hearings and meetings by television broadcast, radio broadcast, or still photogra phy is a privilege made available by the House and shall be permitted and conducted only in strict conformity with the purposes, provisions. and requirements of this clause.

(e) Whenever any hearing or meeting conducted by any committee of the House is open to the public. that committee may permit, by majority vote of the committee, that hearing or meeting to be covered. in whole or in part. by television broadcast, radio broadcast, and still photography, or by any of such methods of coverage, but only under such written rules as the committee may adopt in accordance with the purposes. provisions, and requirements of this clause: Provided, however. Each committee or subcommittee chairman shall determine. in his discretion. the number of televi stor. and still cameras permitted in a hearing or meeting room.

(1) The written rules which may be adopted by a committee under para. graph (e) of this clause shall contain provisions to the following effect:

(1) If the television or radio cover. age of the hearing or meeting is to be presented to the public as live coverage, that coverage shall be conducted and presented without commercial sponsorship.

(2) No witness served with a subpoena by the committee shall be required against his or her will to be photographed at any hearing or to give evidence or testimony while the broadcasting of that hearing. by radio or television, is being conducted. At the request of any such wit. ness who does not wish to be subjected to radio, television, or still photography coverage. all lenses shall be covered and all microphones used for coverage turned off. This subparagraph IS supplementary to clause 2(k)(5) of this rule, relating to the protection of the rights of witncsses.

(3) The allocation among the television media of the positions of the number of television cameras permitted by a committee or subcom. Imittee chairman in a hearing or meeting room shall be in accordance with fair and equitable procedures devised by the Executive Committee of the Radio and Television

Correspondents Galleries.

(4) Television cameras shall be placed so as not to obstruct in any V the space between any witness

ng evidence or testimony and any .nber of the committee or the visiDility of that Witness and that member to each other.

(5) Television cameras shall operate from fixed positions but shall not be placed in positions which obstruct unnecessarily the coverage of the hearing or meeting by the other media.

(6) Equipment necessary for coverage by the television and radio media shall not be installed in, or removed from, the hearing or meeting room while the committee is in session.

(7) Floodlights, spotlights, strobelights. and flashguns shall not be used in providing any method of cov. erage of the hearing or meeting. except that the television media may install additional lighting in the hearing or meeting room. without cost to the Government, in order to raise the ambient lighting level in the hearing or meeting room to the lowest level necessary to provide adequate television coverage of the hearing or meeting at the then current state of the art of television coverage.

(8) In the allocation of the number still photographers permitted by a amittee or subcommittee chair. in in a hearing or meeting room, preference shall be given to photog raphers from Associated Press Photos and United Press Interna. tional Newspictures. If requests are made by more of the media than will be permitted by a committee or subcommittee chairman for coverage of the hearing or meeting by still photography. that coverage shall be made on the basis of a fair and equitable pool arrangement devised by the Standing Committee of Press Photographers.

(9) Photographers shall not position themselves, at any time during the course of the hearing or meeting. between the witness table and the members of the committee.

(10) Photographers shall not place themselves in positions which obstruct unnecessarily the coverage of the hearing by the other media.

(11) Personnel providing coverage by the television and radio media shall be then currently accredited to the Radio and Television Corre. spondents Galleries.

(12) Personnel providing coverage by still photography shall be then currently accredited to the Press Photographers Gallery.

(13) Personnel providing coverage

the television and radio media and by still photography shall conduct themselves and their coverage activities in an orderly and unobtrusive manner.

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(b) It shall always be in order to call up for consideration a report from the Committee on Rules on a rule. joint rule, or the order of business (except it shall not be called up for consider. ation on the same day it is presented to the House, unless so determined by a vote of not less than two-thirds of the Members voting. but this provision shall not apply during the last three days of the session), and, pending the consideration thereof. the Speaker may entertain one motion that the House adjourn; but after the result is announced the Speaker shall not entertain any other dilatory motion until the report shall have been fully disposed of. The Committee on Rules shall not report any rule or order which provides that business under clause 7 of rule XXIV shall be set aside by a vote of less than two-thirds of the Members present; nor shall it report any rule or order which would prevent the motion to recommit from being made as provided in clause 4 of rule XVI.

(c) The Committee on Rules shall present to the House reports concerning rules. joint rules, and order of business, within three legislative days of the time when the bill or resolution involved is ordered reported by the committee. If any such rule or order is not considered immediately, it shall be referred to the calendar and, if not called up by the Member making the report within seven legislative days thereafter, any member of the Rules Committee may call it up as a question

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(d) Whenever the Committee Rules reports a resolution repealing or amending any of the Rules of the House of Representatives or part thereof it shall include in its report or in an accompanying document

(1) the text of any part of the Rules of the House of Representatives which is proposed to be repealed: and

(2) a comparative print of any part of the resolution making such an amendment and any part of the Rules of the House of Representatives to be amended. showing by an appropriate typographical device the omissions and insertions proposed to be made.

Committee Expenses

committee. 5. (a) Whenever any commission or other entity (except the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on the Budget) is to be granted authorization for the pay. ment, from the contingent fund of the House. of its expenses in any year. other than those expenses to be paid from appropriations provided by stat ute, such authorization initially shall be procured by one primary expense resolution for the committee, commis sion or other entity providing funds for the payment of the expenses of the committee, commission or other entity for that year from the contingent fund of the House. Any such pri mary expense resolution reported to the House shall not be considered in the House unless a printed report on that resolution has been available to the Members of the House for at least one calendar day prior to the consideration of that resolution in the House. Such report shall, for the information of the House

(1) state the total amount of the funds to be provided to the commit tee. commission or other entity under the primary expense resolution for all anticipated activities and