Committee Prints

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, 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.

RULE 16. REFERENCE OF LEGISLATION AND COMMITTEE AGENDA.Every bill, resolution, investigation, or other matter referred to the committee or initiated by the committee shall be referred by the chairman of the full committee to the appropriate standing subcommittee within 1 week from the date of its receipt to the committee unless the committee shall order that it be held for the full committee's direct consideration, or order that it be referred to a particular subcommittee.

Referral to a subcommittee shall not be made until 3 days shall have elapsed after written notification of such proposed referral to all subcommittee chairmen, at which time such proposed referral shall be made unless one or more subcommittee chairmen shall have given written notice to the chairman of the full committee and to the chairman of each subcommittee that he intends to question such proposed referral at the next regularly scheduled meeting of the committee, or at a special meeting of the committee called for that purpose at which time referral shall be made by the majority members of the committee. All bills shall be referred under this rule to the subcommittee of proper jurisdiction without regard to whether the author is or is not a member of the subcommittee. A bill, resolution, or other matter referred to a subcommittee in accordance with this rule may be recalled therefrom at any time by a vote of the majority members of

the committee for the committee's direct consideration or for reference to another subcommittee,

Bills, resolutions, or other matters favorably reported by a subcommittee shall automatically be placed upon the agenda of the committee as of the time they are reported and shall be considered by the full committee in the order in which they were reported unless the committee shall by majority vote otherwise direct: Provided, That no bill reported by a subcommittee shall be considered by the full committee unless it has been in the hands of all members at least 48 hours prior to the meeting, together with a comparison with present law and a section-by-section analysis of the proposed change, and a section-bysection justification.

No committee report shall be filed until copies of the proposed report have been available to all members at least 36 hours prior. No material change shall be made in the report distributed to members. unless agreed to by majority vote.

RULE 17. BUDGET COMMITTEE BUDGET AND EXPENSES.-The chairman, in consultation with the majority members of the committee, shall for each session of the Congress prepare a preliminary budget. Such budget shall include necessary amounts for staff personnel under the committee's direction and supervision, and for necessary travel, investigation, and other expenses of the full committee, and, after consultation with the minority membership, shall include necessary amounts for staff personnel under their direction and supervision. The chairman of each standing subcommittee, in consultation with the majority members thereof, shall prepare a supplemental budget to include funds for each additional staff, and for such travel, investigations, etc., as may be required for the work of his subcommittee. Thereafter, the clerk shall combine such proposals into a consolidated committee budget, and shall present the same to the committee for its approval or other action. The chairman shall take whatever action is necessary to have the budget as finally approved by the committee duly authorized by the House. After said budget shall have been adopted, no change shall be made in such budget unless first approved by the committee. Chairmen of the standing subcommittees may authorize necessary travel when authorized in accordance with these rules and investigative expenses within the limits of their portion of the consolidated budget as approved by the House, and the chairman, at the request of the subcommittee chairman, shall execute necessary vouchers therefor.

Once monthly, at the regularly scheduled meeting, the chairman shall submit to the committee, in writing, for its approval, or other action, a full and detailed accounting of all expenditures made during the period since the last such accounting from the amount budgeted to the full committee. Such report shall show the amount and purpose of each expenditure and the budget item to which such expenditure is attributed.

RULE 18. RECOMMENDATION OF RULE FOR APPOINTMENT OF CONFEREES.-Whenever in the legislative process it becomes necessary to appoint conferees, the chairman shall recommend to the Speaker as conferees the names of those members of the subcommittee which handled the legislation in the order of their seniority upon such subcommittee and such other committee members as the chairman may designate.

RULE 19. SCHEDULING AND AUTHENTICATING OF THESE RULES.— These rules shall become effective immediately upon adoption and an authenticated copy containing the signatures of members of this committee who voted for these rules shall be immediately delivered to the Speaker of the House, the chairman of the Committee on House Administration, the chairman of the Committee on Rules, the Clerk of the House of Representatives, the majority leader, and the minority leaders.

Those ad hoc subcommittees in existence upon the adoption of these rules; to wit, the Subcommittee on the Handicapped, De Facto School Segregation, Task Force on International Education, and Subcommittee on the Committee's Centennial, shall remain in existence during the remainder of this session of Congress.

The adoption of these rules shall in no way enlarge or modify the scope of the Committee on Education and Labor.

PARAGRAPH 26 OF RULE XI OF THE RULES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

26. (a) The rules of the House are the rules of its committees so far as applicable, except that a motion to recess from day to day is a motion of high privilege in committees. Committees may adopt additional rules not inconsistent therewith.

(b) Each committee shall keep a complete record of all committee action. Such record shall include a record of the votes on any question on which a record vote is demanded.

(c) All committee hearings, records, data, charts, and files shall be kept separate and distinct from the congressional office records of the Member serving as chairman of the committee; and such records shall be the property of the House and all Members of the House shall have access to such records. Each committee is authorized to have printed and bound testimony and other data presented at hearings held by the committee.

(d) 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 his committee to take or cause to be taken necessary steps to bring the matter to a vote.

(e) No measure or recommendation shall be reported from any committee unless a majority of the committee were actually present. (f) Each committee shall, so far as practicable, require all witnesses appearing before it to file in advance written statements of their proposed testimony, and to limit their oral presentation to brief summaries of their argument. The staff of each committee shall prepare digests of such statements for the use of committee members.

(g) All hearings conducted by standing committees or their subcommittees shall be open to the public, except executive sessions for marking up bills or for voting or where the committee by a majority vote orders an executive session.

(h) 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.

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