Amends rule XXV of the Standing Rules of the Senate to revise current committee structure by designating the following standing committees of the Senate: (1) National Priorities; (2) Agricultural Policy; (3) Defense Policy; (4) Commercial Policy; (5) Economic Policy; (6) Energy Policy; (7) Environmental Policy; (8) Foreign Policy; (9) Governmental Policy; (10) Judicial Policy; (11) Social Policy; (12) Native American Programs; (13) Senior American Programs; (14) Veteran American Programs; and (15) Entrepreneurial American Programs. Maintains the committees on Rules, Ethics, and Intelligence.
Sets forth procedures for making committee assignments. Provides that each standing committee shall be responsible for appropriations legislation.
SRES 131 IS 101st CONGRESS 1st Session S. RES. 131 To amend the rules of the Senate to improve legislative efficiency, and for other purposes. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES May 18 (legislative day, JANUARY 3), 1989 Mrs. KASSEBAUM (for herself, Mr. INOUYE, Mr. DASCHLE, Mr. DODD, Mr. LUGAR, and Mr. MCCAIN) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration RESOLUTION To amend the rules of the Senate to improve legislative efficiency, and for other purposes. Resolved, That rule XXV of the Standing Rules of the Senate is amended to read as follows: `STANDING COMMITTEES `1. The following standing committees shall be appointed at the commencement of each Congress, and shall continue and have the power to act until their successors are appointed, with leave to report by bill or otherwise on matters within their respective jurisdictions: `(a)(1) Committee on National Priorities, to which committee shall be referred all concurrent resolutions on the budget (as defined in section 3(a)(4) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974) and all other matters required to be referred to committee under titles III and IV of that Act, and messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating thereto. `(2) Such committee shall have the duty-- `(A) to report the matters required to be reported by committee under titles III and IV of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974; `(B) to make continuing studies of the effect on budget outlays of relevant existing and proposed legislation and to report the results of such studies to the Senate on a recurring basis; `(C) to request and evaluate continuing studies of tax expenditures, to devise methods of coordinating tax expenditures, policies, and programs with direct budget outlays, and to report the results of such studies to the Senate on a recurring basis; and `(D) to review, on a continuing basis, the conduct by the Congressional Budget Office of its functions and duties. `(b)(1) Committee on Agricultural Policy, to which committee shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating primarily to the following subjects: `1. Agricultural economics and research. `2. Agricultural extension services and experiment stations. `3. Agricultural production, marketing, and stabilization of prices. `4. Agriculture and agricultural commodities. `5. Animal industry and diseases. `6. Crop insurance and soil conservation. `7. Farm credit and farm security. `8. Food from fresh waters. `9. Inspection of livestock, meat, and agricultural products. `10. Pests and pesticides. `11. Plant industry, soils, and agricultural engineering. `12. Rural development, rural electrification, and watersheds. `(2) There shall also be referred to such committee all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the appropriation, or to the rescission of the appropriation, of revenue for the support of Government programs, projects, or activities relating primarily to the subjects specified in paragraph (b)(1), except as provided in subparagraph (a). `(c)(1) Committee on Defense Policy, to which committee shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating primarily to the following subjects: `1. Aeronautical and space activities peculiar to or primarily associated with the development of weapons systems or military operations. `2. Common defense. `3. Department of Defense, the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, and the Department of the Air Force, generally. `4. Maintenance and operation of the Panama Canal, including administration, sanitation, and government of the Canal Zone. `5. Military research and development. `6. National security aspects of nuclear energy. `7. Naval petroleum reserves, except those in Alaska. `8. Pay, promotion, retirement, and other benefits and privileges of members of the Armed Forces, including overseas education of civilian and military dependents. `9. Selective Service system. `10. Strategic and critical materials necessary for the common defense. `(2) There shall also be referred to such committee all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the appropriation, or to the rescission of the appropriation, of revenue for the support of Government programs, projects, or activities relating primarily to the subjects specified in paragraph (c)(1), except as provided in subparagraph (a). `(d)(1) Committee on Commercial Policy, to which committee shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating primarily to the following subjects: `1. Coast Guard. `2. Coastal zone management. `3. Communications. `4. Construction and maintenance of highways, and highway safety. `5. Inland waterways, except construction. `6. Interstate commerce. `7. Marine and ocean navigation, safety, and transportation, including navigational aspects of deepwater ports. `8. Marine fisheries. `9. Merchant marine and navigation. `10. Nonmilitary aeronautical and space sciences. `11. Oceans, weather, and atmospheric activities. `12. Regulation of consumer products and services, including testing related to toxic substances, other than pesticides. `13. Regulation of interstate common carriers, including railroads, buses, trucks, vessels, pipelines, and civil aviation. `14. Science, engineering, and technology research and development and policy. `15. Sports. `16. Standards and measurement. `17. Transportation. `18. Transportation and commerce aspects of Outer Continental Shelf lands. `19. Regional economic development. `20. Financial aid to commerce and industry. `21. Public works, bridges, and dams. `(2) There shall also be referred to such committee all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the appropriation, or to the rescission of the appropriation, of revenue for the support of Government programs, projects, or activities relating primarily to the subjects specified in paragraph (d)(1), except as provided in subparagraph (a). `(e)(1) Committee on Economic Policy, to which committee shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating primarily to the following subjects: `1. Bonded debt of the United States, except as provided in the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. `2. Deposits of public moneys. `3. Revenue measures generally, except as provided in the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. `4. Revenue measures relating to the insular possessions. `5. Banks, banking, and financial institutions. `6. Deposit insurance. `7. Federal monetary policy, including the Federal Reserve System. `8. Issuance and redemption of notes. `9. Money and credit, including currency and coinage. `(2) There shall also be referred to such committee all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the appropriation, or to the rescission of the appropriation, of revenue for the support of Government programs, projects, or activities relating primarily to the subjects specified in paragraph (e)(1), except as provided in subparagraph (a). `(f)(1) Committee on Energy Policy, to which committee shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating primarily to the following subjects: `1. Coal production, distribution, and utilization. `2. Energy policy. `3. Energy regulation and conservation. `4. Energy-related aspects of deepwater ports. `5. Energy research and development. `6. Extraction of minerals from oceans and Outer Continental Shelf lands. `7. Hydroelectric power, irrigation, and reclamation. `8. Mining education and research. `9. Mining, mineral lands, mining claims, and mineral conservation. `10. Naval petroleum reserves in Alaska. `11. Nonmilitary development of nuclear energy. `12. Oil and gas production and distribution. `13. Solar energy systems. `(2) There shall also be referred to such committee all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the appropriation, or to the rescission of the appropriation, of revenue for the support of Government programs, projects, or activities relating primarily to the subjects specified in paragraph (f)(1), except as provided in subparagraph (a). `(g)(1) Committee on Environmental Policy, to which committee shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating primarily to the following subjects: `1. Air pollution. `2. Environmental aspects of Outer Continental Shelf lands. `3. Environmental effects of toxic substances, other than pesticides. `4. Environmental policy. `5. Environmental research and development. `6. Fisheries and wildlife. `7. Flood control and improvements of rivers and harbors, including environmental aspects of deepwater ports. `8. Noise pollution. `9. Nonmilitary environmental regulation and control of nuclear energy. `10. Ocean dumping. `11. Solid waste disposal and recycling. `12. Water pollution. `13. Water resources. `14. Forestry, and forest reserves and wilderness areas. `15. National parks, recreation areas, wild and scenic rivers, historical sites, military parks and battlefields, and on the public domain, preservation of prehistoric ruins and objects of interest. `16. Public lands and forests, including farming and grazing thereon, and mineral extraction therefrom. `(2) There shall also be referred to such committee all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the appropriation, or to the rescission of the appropriation, of revenue for the support of Government programs, projects, or activities relating primarily to the subjects specified in paragraph (g)(1), except as provided in subparagraph (a). `(h)(1) Committee on Foreign Policy, to which committee shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating primarily to the following subjects: `1. Acquisition of land and buildings for embassies and legations in foreign countries. `2. Boundaries of the United States. `3. Diplomatic service. `4. Foreign economic, military, technical, and humanitarian assistance. `5. Foreign loans. `6. International activities of the American Red Cross and the International Committee of the Red Cross. `7. International aspects of nuclear energy, including nuclear transfer policy. `8. International conferences and congresses. `9. International law as it relates to foreign policy. `10. International Monetary Fund and other international organizations established primarily for international monetary purposes. `11. Intervention abroad and declarations of war. `12. Measures to foster commercial intercourse with foreign nations and to safeguard American business interests abroad. `13. Trusteeships of the United States, including territorial possessions of the United States. `14. Oceans and international environmental and scientific affairs as they relate to foreign policy. `15. Protection of United States citizens abroad and expatriation. `16. Relations of the United States with foreign nations generally. `17. Treaties and executive agreements. `18. United Nations and its affiliated organizations. `19. World Bank group, the regional development banks, and other international organizations established primarily for development assistance programs. `20. Foreign trade promotion, export, and export controls. `21. Interoceanic canals generally, unless otherwise provided. `22. Customs and ports of entry and delivery. `23. Reciprocal trade agreements. `24. Tariffs and import quotas, and matters related thereto. `25. Organization and management of United States nuclear export policy. `(2) There shall also be referred to such committee all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the appropriation, or to the rescission of the appropriation, of revenue for the support of Government programs, projects, or activities relating primarily to the subjects specified in paragraph (h)(1), except as provided in subparagraph (a). `(i)(1) Committee on Governmental Policy, to which committee shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating primarily to the following subjects: `1. Archives of the United States. `2. Budget and accounting measures, except as provided in the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. `3. Census and collection of statistics, including economic and social statistics. `4. Congressional organizations, except for any part of the matter that amends the rules of order of the Senate. `5. Federal Civil Service. `6. Government information. `7. Intergovernmental relations. `8. Municipal affairs of the District of Columbia. `9. Organization and reorganization of the executive branch of the Government. `10. Postal Service. `11. Status of officers of the United States, including their classification, compensation, and benefits. `12. Renegotiation of governmental contracts. `13. Public buildings and improved grounds of the United States generally, including Federal buildings in the District of Columbia. `(2) There shall also be referred to such committee all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the appropriation, or to the rescission of the appropriation, of revenue for the support of Government programs, projects, or activities relating primarily to the subjects specified in paragraph (i)(1), except as provided in subparagraph (a). `(j)(1) Committee on Judicial Policy, to which committee shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating primarily to the following subjects: `1. Apportionment of Representatives. `2. Bankruptcy, mutiny, espionage, and counterfeiting. `3. Civil liberties. `4. Constitutional amendments. `5. Federal courts and judges. `6. Holidays and celebrations. `7. Immigration and naturalization. `8. Interstate compacts generally. `9. Judicial proceedings, civil and criminal, generally. `10. Local courts in the territories and possessions. `11. Measures relating to claims against the United States. `12. National penitentiaries. `13. Patent Office. `14. Patents, copyrights, and trademarks. `15. Protection of trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies. `16. Revisions and codification of the statutes of the United States. `17. State and territorial boundary lines. `(2) There shall also be referred to such committee all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the appropriation, or to the rescission of the appropriation, of revenue for the support of Government programs, projects, or activities relating primarily to the subjects specified in paragraph (j)(1), except as provided in subparagraph (a). `(k)(1) Committee on Social Policy, to which committee shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating primarily to the following subjects: `1. Measures relating to education, labor, health, and public welfare. `2. Arts and humanities. `3. Biomedical research and development. `4. Child labor. `5. Domestic activities of the American Red Cross. `6. Equal employment opportunity. `7. Gallaudet College, Howard University, and Saint Elizabeth's Hospital. `8. Handicapped individuals. `9. Labor standards. `10. Mediation and arbitration of labor disputes. `11. Occupational safety and health, including the welfare of miners. `12. Private pension plans. `13. Public health. `14. Railroad retirement program. `15. Regulation of foreign laborers. `16. Student loans. `17. Wages and hours of labor. `18. Food stamp programs. `19. Human nutrition. `20. School nutrition programs. `21. Public housing. `22. Nursing homes including construction. `23. National social security. `24. Public health programs, including health programs under the Social Security Act. `(2) There shall also be referred to such committee all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the appropriation, or to the rescission of the appropriation, of revenue for the support of Government programs, projects, or activities relating primarily to the subjects specified in paragraph (k)(1), except as provided in subparagraph (a). `(l)(1) Committee on Native American Programs, to which committee shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating primarily to Native Americans generally, and Native American Programs. `(2) There shall also be referred to such committee all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the appropriation, or to the rescission of the appropriation, of revenue for the support of government programs, projects, or activities relating primarily to the subjects specified in paragraph (l)(1), except as provided in subparagraph (a). `(m)(1) Committee on Senior American Programs, to which committee shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating primarily to senior Americans generally, and to the Older Americans Act. `(2) There shall also be referred to such committee all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the appropriation, or to the rescission of the appropriation, of revenue for the support of Government programs, projects, or activities relating primarily to the subjects specified in paragraph (m)(1), except as provided in subparagraph (a). `(n)(1) Committee on Veteran American Programs, to which committee shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating primarily to the following subjects: `1. Compensation of veterans. `2. Life insurance issued by the Government on account of service in the Armed Forces. `3. National cemeteries. `4. Pensions of all wars of the United States, general and special. `5. Readjustment of servicemen to civilian life. `6. Soldiers and sailors civil relief. `7. Veterans' hospitals, medical care and treatment of veterans. `8. Veterans' measures generally. `9. Vocational rehabilitation and education of veterans. `(2) There shall also be referred to such committee all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the appropriation, or to the rescission of the appropriation, of revenue for the support of Government programs, projects, or activities relating primarily to the subjects specified in paragraph (n)(1), except as provided in subparagraph (a). `(o)(1) Committee on Entrepreneurial American Programs, to which committee shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the Small Business Administration. `(2) Any proposed legislation reported by such committee which relates to matters other than the functions of the Small Business Administration shall, at the request of any standing committee having jurisdiction over the subject matter extraneous to the functions of the Small Business Administration, be considered and reported by such standing committee prior to its consideration by the Senate; and likewise measures reported by other committees directly relating to the Small Business Administration shall, at the request of the Committee on Entrepreneurial American Programs for its consideration of any portions of the measure dealing with the Small Business Administration, be considered and reported by this committee prior to its consideration by the Senate. `(3) There shall also be referred to such committee all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the appropriation, or to the rescission of the appropriation, of revenue for the support of Government programs, projects, or activities relating primarily to the subjects specified in paragraphs (o)(1) and (o)(2), except as provided in subparagraph (a). `(p)(1) Committee on Senate Rules, to which committee shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating primarily to the following subjects: `1. Administration of the Senate office buildings and the Senate wing of the Capitol, including the assignment of office space. `2. Congressional organization relative to rules and procedures, and Senate rules and regulations, including floor and gallery rules. `3. Corrupt practices. `4. Credentials and qualifications of members of the Senate, contested elections, and acceptance of incompatible offices. `5. Federal elections generally, including the election of the President, Vice President, and members of Congress. `6. Government Printing Office, and the printing and correction of the Congressional Record, as well as those matters provided under rule XI. `7. Meetings of the Congress and attendance of the members. `8. Payments of money out of the contingent fund of the Senate or creating a charge upon the same (except that any resolution relating to substantive matter within the jurisdiction of any other standing committee of the Senate shall first be referred to such committee). `9. Presidential succession. `10. Purchase of books and manuscripts and erection of monuments to the memory of individuals. `11. Senate Library and statuary, art, and pictures in the Capitol and Senate office buildings. `12. Services to the Senate, including the Senate restaurant. `13. United States Capitol and congressional office buildings, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution (and the incorporation of similar institutions), and the Botanic Gardens. `(2) There shall also be referred to such committee all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the appropriation, or to the rescission of the appropriation, of revenue for the support of Government programs, projects, or activities relating primarily to the subjects specified in paragraph (p)(1), except as provided in subparagraph (a). `2. (a) Except as otherwise provided by paragrpah 4 of this rule, the Leadership Committee, known as the Committee on National Priorities, shall consist of not less than 28 Senators nor more than 33 Senators. `(b) Except as otherwise provided by paragraph 4 of this rule, each of the following standing committees shall consist of not more than the number of Senators set forth in the following table on the line on which the name of that committee appears: `LEGISLATIVE POLICY COMMITTEES `Committee: --Members Agricultural Policy --17 Defense Policy --17 Commercial Policy --17 Economic Policy --17 Energy Policy --17 Environmental Policy --17 Foreign Policy --17 Governmental Policy --17 Judicial Policy --17 Social Policy --17 `(c) Except as otherwise provided by paragraph 4 of this rule, each of the following standing committees shall consist of not more than the number of Senators set forth in the following table on the line on which the name of that committee appears: `LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM COMMITTEES `Committee: --Members Native American Programs --9 Veteran American Programs --11 Senior American Programs --19 Entrepreneurial American Programs --19 `(d) Except as otherwise provided by paragraph 4 of this rule, each of the following committees and standing committees shall consist of the number of Senators set forth in the following table on the line on which the name of that committee appears: `ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEES `Committee: --Members Senate Rules --15 Senate Ethics --6 Senate Intelligence --15 `3. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 4, and except as otherwise provided by this paragraph-- `(1) each Senator shall serve on no more than two committees listed in subparagraph 2(b). `(2) each Senator serving as either a chairman or a ranking member of any committee listed in subparagraph 2(b) shall not serve on any other committee listed in subparagraph 2(b) but shall serve on the committee listed in subparagraph 2(a). `(3) each Senator serving as either a chairman or a ranking member of any committee listed in subparagraph 2(c) shall also serve on the committee listed in subparagraph 2(a). `(4) in addition to those Senators serving on the committee listed in subparagraph 2(a) by virtue of their serving as chairman or ranking member of a committee listed in subparagraph 2(b), not more than 5 Senators shall be appointed by the majority leader of the Senate to serve on the committee listed in subparagraph 2(a) for the purpose of making the overal balance of majority and minority members on the committee the same as the relative balance between the majority and minority members of the Senate. `(5) service by a Senator on any committee listed in subparagraph 2(c) shall not limit the ability of such Senator to serve on any other committee or standing committee. `(b) By agreement entered into by the majority leader and the minority leader, the membership of one or more standing committees may be increased temporarily from time to time by such number or numbers as may be required to accord to the majority party a majority of the membership of all standing committees. Members of the majority party in such numbers as may be required for that purpose may serve as members of three standing committees listed in subparagraph 2(b). No such temporary increase in the membership of any Standing committee under this subparagraph shall be continued in effect after the need therefore has ended. No standing committee may be increased in membership under this subparagraph by more than two members in excess of the number prescribed for that committee by paragraph 2(b). `(c) No Senator shall serve at any one time as chairman of more than one subcommittee of each standing committee of the Senate. `4. Notwithstanding any provision of rule XXIV of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the appointment of committees or standing committees as prescribed by this title shall be on the basis of each Senator's continuous service in the Senate, except that such appointment shall be in accordance with the following limitations: `(a) Only those Senators who on the day preceding the effective date of this title were serving as members of the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry or who were serving on the Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies of the Committee on Appropriations may serve on the Committee on Agricultural Policy. `(b) Only those Senators who on the day preceding the effective date of this title were serving as members of the Committee on Armed Services or who were serving on the Subcommittee on Defense or the Subcommittee on Military Construction of the Committee on Appropriations may serve on the Committee on Defense Policy. `(c) Only those Senators who on the day preceding the effective date of this title were serving as members of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation or who were serving on the Subcommittee on Transportation and Related Agencies of the Committee on Appropriations may serve on the Committee on Commercial Policy. `(d) Only those Senators who on the day preceding the effective date of this title were serving as members of the Committee on Finance or the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs may serve on the Committee on Economic Policy. `(e) Only those Senators who on the day preceding the effective date of this title were serving as members of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources or who were serving on the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development of the Committee on Appropriations, may serve on the Committee on Energy Policy. `(f) Only those Senators who on the day preceding the effective date of this title were serving as members of the Committee on Environment and Public Works or who were serving on the Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies of the Committee on Appropriations may serve on the Committee on Environmental Policy. `(g) Only those Senators who on the day preceding the effective date of this title were serving as members of the Committee on Foreign Relations or who were serving on the Subcommittee on Foreign Operations of the Committee on Appropriations may serve on the Committee on Foreign Policy. `(h) Only those Senators who on the day preceding the effective date of this title were serving as members of the Committee on Governmental Affairs or who were serving on the Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government or the Subcommittee on the District of Columbia or on the Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies of the Committee on Appropriations may serve on the Committee on Governmental Policy. `(i) Only those Senators who on the day preceding the effective date of this title were serving as members of the Committee on the Judiciary or who were serving on the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies of the Committee on Appropriations may serve on the Committee on Judicial Policy. `(j) Only those Senators who on the day preceding the effective date of this title were serving as members of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources or who were serving on the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies of the Committee on Appropriations, may serve on the Committee on Social Policy. `(k) Only those Senators who on the day preceding the effective date of this title were serving as members of the Committee on Rules and Administration or who were serving on the Subcommittee on Legislative Branch of the Committee on Appropriations may serve on the Committee on Senate Policy. `(l) Only those Senators who on the day preceding the effective date of this title were serving as members of the Select Committee on Indian Affairs may serve on the Committee on Native American Programs. `(m) Only those Senators who on the day preceding the effective date of this title were serving as members of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs may serve on the Committee on Veteran Programs. `(n) Only those Senators who on the day preceding the effective date of this title were serving as members of the Special Committee on Aging may serve on the Committee on Senior American Programs. `(o) Only those Senators who on the day preceding the effective date of this title were serving as members of the Committee on Small Business may serve on the Committee on Senior American Programs. `5. Upon the effective date of this title, the Select Committee on Ethics shall become the Committee on Senate Ethics, and the Select Committee on Intelligence shall become the Committee on Intelligence Oversight. However, the membership, functions, and duties of such committees shall remain unchanged.'. SEC. 2. Paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 7 of rule XVI of the Standing Rules of the Senate are repealed, and paragraphs 5 and 8 are renumbered as paragraphs `1' and `2,' respectively. SEC. 3. Subparagraph (b) of paragraph 4 of rule XVII of the Standing Rules of the Senate is amended by striking out `(except the Committee on Appropriations)'. SEC. 4. Rule XXVI of the Standing Rules of the Senate is amended-- (a) by striking out `(except the Committee on Appropriations)' in each instance where it appears, (b) by striking out `(except the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on the Budget)' in each instance where it appears, and inserting in lieu thereof the following `(except the Committee on National Priorities)', (c) by striking out `The prohibition contained in the preceding sentence shall not apply to the Committee on Appropriations or the Committee on the Budget.' in subparagraph 5(a) and inserting in lieu thereof `The prohibition contained in the preceding sentence shall not apply to the Committee on National Priorities.', (d) by striking out the last sentence of subparagraph 10(b), and (e) by striking out `(except those by the Committee on Appropriations)' in subparagraph 11(b). SEC. 5. The provisions of this resolution shall take effect on the first day of the first Congress following the date of enactment.
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