United States House of Representatives

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR

89th Congress

Paragraph 26(j) of rul 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

(Adopted on September 22, 1966)

RULE 1. MEETINGS.-Regular meetings of the Committee on Education and Labor shall be held every Thursday at 9:45 a.m. while Congress is in session. Meetings may also be held at such other times as may be set by the chairman, or by written petition of a majority of the committee, duly filed with the clerk of the committee. No meeting of the committee, other than the regularly scheduled meetings, may be held without each member being given prior written notice of at least 24 hours before the meeting unless otherwise specified by the majority of those present. Such meetings shall be called to order and presided over by the chairman, or in the absence of the chairman, by the ranking majority member of the committee present.

RULE 2. RULES, PROCEDURE. 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, the Select Subcommittee on Labor, plus such other special or select subcommittees as the committee shall determine to be appropriate.

The jurisdiction of such subcommittees shall include, but shall not be limited to, the following:

General Subcommittee on Education.-Education through the high school level, and vocational education.

General Subcommittee on Labor.-Wages or hours of labor. Special Subcommittee on Education.-Education beyond the high school level.

Special Subcommittee on Labor.-Relationships between employers and employees and their representatives.

Select Subcommittee on Education.-Special education programs. Select Subcommittee on Labor.-Safety and health of the employees and compensation for their injuries; manpower develop

ment.

The majority members of the committee may provide for the appointment of such other subcommittees as they 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.

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. If 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 subcomImittee 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 professional and clerical staff of the Committee on Education and Labor shall be appointed as follows.

A. Professional and clerical members of subcommittee staff shall be appointed and their remuneration determined by the chairman of that subcommittee within the budget approved for the subcommittee by the full committee;

B. The professional and clerical staff assigned to the minority shall be appointed and their remuneration determined in such manner as the minority members of the committee shall determine within the budget approved for such purposes by the committee;

C. The professional and clerical employees of the committee not assigned to a standing subcommittee or to the minority under the above provisions shall be appointed, and may be removed, and their remuneration determined by the chairman in consultation with and with the approval of the majority members of the committee within the budget approved for such purposes by the committee.

RULE 11. SUPERVISION, DUTIES OF COMMITTEE STAFFS.-The professional and clerical staff of a subcommittee shall be under the general supervision and direction of the chairman of that subcommittee. The professional and clerical staff assigned to the minority shall be under the general supervision and direction of the minority members of the committee who may delegate such authority as they determine appropriate. The professional and clerical staff of the committee not assigned to a subcommittee or to the minority shall be under the general supervision and direction of the staff director, who shall establish and assign the duties and responsibilities of such staff members and delegate such authority as he determines appropriate. The staff director shall be appointed, and may be removed, and his remuneration determined by the majority members of the committee. *Staff members shall not engage in any other work other than committee business and no other duties may be assigned to them.

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 committee chairman or of a majority of a quorum of the subcommittee. 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.

RULE 13. BILLS, RESOLUTIONS REPORTED.-Whenever the committee has ordered a bill or resolution to be reported to the House, the chairman of the committee, the chairman of the subcommittee reporting the bill or resolution to the full committee, or any member authorized by the committee to do so, may report such bill or resolution to the House and take the necessary steps to bring the matter to a vote, without further authority from the committee.

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

*Refers to existing rules of the House.

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.

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