Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act and Welfare and Pension Plans Disclosure Act amendments: September 30, 1965, Public Law 89-216. Economic Opportunity Act amendments: 2 Loan Service for Captioned Films for the Deaf amendments:1 Wage standards for persons engaged by Federal contractors: Federal Coal Mine Safety Act amendments: Metallic and nonmetallic mineral industries: Fair Labor Standards Act amendments: September 23, 1966, Public Law 89-601. C. Reports on Labor Legislation of the 89th Congress 146 Amendment to National Council on the Arts (H.R. 4714). Amendments to the Manpower Development and Training Act (H.R. 4257). 170 181 182 291 Amendments to Federal Coal Mine Safety Act (H.R. 3584). Amendments to Labor-Management Relations Act (H.R. 1153). 307 National Technical Institute for the Deaf (H.R. 7031).1 Amendments to Economic Opportunity Act (H.R. 8283).2 606 Metallic and nonmetallic mineral industries (H.R. 8989). 618 National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities (H.R. 9460).1 540 Amendments to section 14(b) Taft-Hartley Act (H.R. 77). 718 Equal Employment opportunity (H.R. 10065). 871 Amendments to Fair Labor Standards Act (H.R. 10518). 948 Services Contracts Act (H.R. 10238). 1034 Amendments to the act providing for a loan service of captioned films for the deaf (H.R. 10768).1 1039 Amendments to Labor-Management Relations Act (H.R. 10774). 1041 Amendments to National Labor Relations Act (H.R. 10027). 1304 Amendments to Federal Employees Compensation Act (H.R. 10721) 1366 Amendments to the Fair Labor Standards Act (H.R. 13712). 1568 Amendments to the Economic Opportunity Act (H.R. 15111).2 1930 Amendments to the Welfare and Pension Plans Disclosure Act (H.R. 11778). 2017 Amendments to the Manpower Development and Training Act (H.R. 16715). 2 Handled by Ad Hoc Subcommittee on the War on Poverty Program. 1 Also listed under Education. Handled by Ad Hoc Subcommittee on the War on Poverty Program. D. Labor Committee Prints During the 89th Congress 1. Multiemployer Association Bargaining and Its Impact on the Collective Bargaining Process. December 1964. 2. The Role and Mission of the Federal-State Employment Service in the American Economy. December 1964. 3. Readings on Public Employment Services. December 1964. 4. Activities and Accomplishments of the Committee on Education and Labor during the 88th Congress. January 1965. 5. Legislation Concerning Education and Training. July 1965. 6. Legislation Concerning Education and Training. December 1965. 7. Activities and Accomplishments of the Committee on Education and Labor During the First Session of the 89th Congress. 8. Active Manpower Policies in Great Britain and Scandinavia. May 1966. APPENDIX United States House of Representatives COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR 89th Congress Paragraph 26(j) of rule XI, Rules of the House of Representatives, provides that a copy of the committee rules and paragraph 26 of rule XI shall be made available to witnesses before the committee. This reprint of the above-mentioned rules is furnished in accordance with that requirement. RULES OF THE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR RULE 1. MEETINGS.-Regular meetings of the Committee on Education and Labor shall be held on the second and fourth Thursdays of each month at 9:45 a.m. while Congress is in session and may also be held at such other times as may be set by the chairman, either on his own motion or at the request of any subcommittee chairman who has been so authorized by his subcommittee. RULE 2. RULES, PROCEDURES.-The rules of the House as far as they are applicable shall be the rules of the committee, and procedure in the committee, where not otherwise provided herein, shall follow the procedure of the House. Committee members may question witnesses only when they have been recognized by the chairman for that purpose, and only for a 5-minute period. The 5-minute period for questioning a witness by any one member can be extended only with the unanimous consent of all members present. RULE 3. JOURNAL; ROLLCALLS. The proceedings of the committee shall be recorded in a journal which shall, among other things, show those present at each meeting and include a record of the votes on any question on which a record vote is demanded. A record vote may be demanded by one-fifth of the members present or, in the apparent absence of a quorum, by any one member. No demand for a rollcall shall be made or entertained save for the purpose of securing a record vote or in the apparent absence of a quorum. RULE 4. SUBCOMMITTEES.-There shall be six standing subcommittees, as follows: The General Subcommittee on Education, the General Subcommittee on Labor, the Special Subcommittee on Education, the Special Subcommittee on Labor, the Select Subcommittee on Education, and the Select Subcommittee on Labor; plus such other special or select subcommittees as the chairman may deem advisable. RULE 5. APPOINTMENTS TO SUBCOMMITTEES.-All members shall be appointed to one or more subcommittees by the chairman, after consultation with the ranking minority member of the committee, with due regard for individual preferences, insofar as practical. Members of subcommittees shall retain seniority on the subcommittees to which they are initially appointed, except with respect to the appointment of subcommittee chairmen. The chairman and ranking minority member are ex officio members of all subcommittees. RULE 6. RATIO OF SUBCOMMITTEES.-The ratio between majority members and minority members on each subcommittee shall reflect, as nearly as possible, the ratio between majority members and minority members in the membership of the House. If RULE 7. SUBCOMMITTEE CHAIRMANSHIP.-The chairmen of the standing subcommittees shall be the ranking members of the majority party. The chairmen of all other subcommittees shall be appointed by the chairman of the committee with due regard for seniority. a subcommittee chairman absents himself (except for official congressional duties and/or illness, these reasons being acceptable to the chairman) for more than three successive meetings of his subcommittee or for more than five meetings thereof during a session, the chairman of the committee shall declare such subcommittee chairmanship vacant. RULE 8. SUBCOMMITTEE MEETINGS IN THE MAIN HEARING ROOM.-Available dates for subcommittee meetings during the session shall be assigned by the chairman to the subcommittees as nearly as practicable in rotation and in accordance with their workloads. RULE 9. SUBCOMMITTEE RULES.-The rules of the committee shall be the rules of its subcommittees. RULE 10. COMMITTEE STAFFS.-The authority of the committee to employ and discharge members of its professional staff and clerical staff, as provided by the rules of the House of Representatives, is hereby delegated to the chairman of the committee, and to the ranking minority member of the committee with regard to minority staff members. In addition, the same authority is further delegated to employ and discharge such additional committee and subcommittee employees as the chairman may deem advisable. RULE 11. SUPERVISION, DUTIES OF COMMITTEE STAFFS.-The professional and clerical staffs of the committee and subcommittees shall be under the general supervisision and direction of the chairman. The chairman, in consultation with the chairmen of subcommittees, shall establish and assign the duties and responsibilities of members of the staffs and delegate such authority as he deems appropriate. Committee members and others desiring assistance not normally rendered in connection with the regularly assigned duties of the staffs relating to committee and subcommittee operations shall make their requests through the chairman and the staffs shall render such assistance as is authorized by the chairman. RULE 12. POWERS, DUTIES OF SUBCOMMITTEES.-Subcommittees are authorized to hold hearings, receive exhibits, hear witnesses, and report to the committee for final action, together with such recommendations as may be agreed upon by the subcommittee. No such meetings or hearings, however, shall be held outside of Washington or during a recess or adjournment of the House without the prior authorization of the chairman. A majority of any subcommittee shall constitute a quorum thereof for business: Provided, however, That any two members shall constitute a quorum for the purpose of taking testimony, and further provided that all members of the subcommittee have been given reasonable notice of the meeting. A bill, resolution, or other matter referred by the chairman to a subcommittee may be recalled therefrom by him or by the committee for the committee's direct consideration or for referral to another subcommittee. RULE 13. BILLS, RESOLUTIONS REPORTED.-Whenever the committee authorizes a favorable report on a bill or resolution, the chairman is authorized to report same to the House or to designate some member of the committee to do so, and he is authorized to use all parliamentary methods to secure passage thereof, without such additional authority being set forth particularly in the motion to report each individual bill or resolution. RULE 14. PROXIES.-Proxies in writing in the form adopted by the committee must be in the hands of the chief clerk of the committee before or during each rollcall in which they are to be voted. In the case of subcommittee rollcalls, proxies must be in the hands of the subcommittee clerk before or during each rollcall. Proxies may not be counted for a quorum. RULE 15. SCOPE OF COMMITTEE WORK.-The scope of the work of the committee and its subcommittees includes all legislative proposals and other matters pertaining to the following: Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938; National Labor Relations Act; Labor-Management Relations Act of 1947; Welfare and Pension Plans Disclosure Act; LaborManagement Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959; Longshoremen and Harbor Worker's Compensation Act; Davis-Bacon Act; Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962; Contract Work Hours Standards Act; Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act of 1963; Federal Employees' Compensation Act; Federal Coal Mine Safety Act; Higher Education Facilities Act of 1963; Library Services and Construction Act; National Arts and Cultural Development Act of 1964; Economic Opportunity Act of 1964; Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Offenses Control Act of 1961; National Defense Education Act of 1958; Vocational Rehabilitation Act; Smith-Hughes Vocational Education Act; Vocational Education Act of 1946; Vocational Education Act of 1963; Public Laws 815 and 874 (81st Cong.); Freedmen's Hospital; Gallaudet College; Howard University; St. Elizabeths Hospital; fair employment practices; equal pay for women; labor statistics; regulation or prevention of importation of foreign laborers under contract; child labor; convict labor; entry of goods made by convicts into interstate commerce; school construction; mediation and arbitration of labor disputes; welfare of miners; industrial safety; impact of Government programs such as compulsory military service on education; fine arts; civilian awards; education programs for the physically handicapped, mentally retarded, deaf, speech-defective, gifted, etc.; juvenile delinquency; youth programs; intercultural activities; scholarships in connection with a Peace Corps; scholarships for underdeveloped areas in Africa, Asia, and Latin America; problems of unemployment; impact of automation; impact of imports and exports on American employment; irregularities in labor and management; and all other legislative proposals affecting either wages or hours of labor, education, or relationships between employers and employees or their representatives, and affecting the safety or health of employees or compensation for their injuries. |