§104e. Sec. 101. Budget Committee of the House of Representatives. (As Enacted)

CBA, as Enacted (Contents)

Congressional Budget Act of 1974

Section 101, as Enacted

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Sec. 101. (a) Clause 1 of Rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives is amended by redesignating paragraphs (e) through (u) as paragraphs (f) through (v), respectively, and by inserting after paragraph (d) the following new paragraph:

“(e) Committee on the Budget, to consist of twenty-three Members as follows:

“(1) five Members who are members of the Committee on Appropriations;

“(2) five Members who are members of the Committee on Ways and Means;

“(3) eleven Members who are members of other standing committees;

“(4) one Member from the leadership of the majority party; and

“(5) one Member from the leadership of the minority party.

No Member shall serve as a member of the Committee on the Budget during more than two Congresses in any period of five successive Congresses beginning after 1974 (disregarding for this purpose any service performed as a member of such committee for less than a full session in any Congress). All selections of Members to serve on the committee shall be made without regard to seniority.”

(b) Rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new clause:

“6. For carrying out the purposes set forth in clause 5 of Rule XI, the Committee on the Budget or any subcommittee thereof is authorized to sit and act at such times and places within the United States, whether the House is in session, has recessed, or has adjourned, to hold such hearings, to require the attendance of such witnesses and the production of such books or papers or documents or vouchers by subpena or otherwise, and to take such testimony and records, as it deems necessary. Subpenas may be issued over the signature of the chairman of the committee or of any member of the committee designated by him; and may be served by any person designated by such chairman or member. The chairman of the committee, or any member thereof, may administer oaths to witnesses.”

(c) Rule XI of the Rules of the House of Representatives is amended by redesignating clauses 5 through 33 as clauses 6 through 34, respectively, and by inserting after clause 4 the following new clause:

“5. Committee on the Budget

“(a) All concurrent resolutions on the budget (as defined in section 3(a)(4) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974) and other matters required to be referred to the committee under titles III and IV of that Act.

“ (b) The committee shall have the duty—

“(1) to report the matters required to be reported by it under titles III and IV of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974;

“(2) 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 House on a recurring basis;

“(3) 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 House on a recurring basis; and

“(4) to review, on a continuing basis, the conduct by the Congressional Budget Office of its functions and duties.”

 

 

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Counsel Notes
JOINT EXPLANATORY STATEMENT OF CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

The managers on the part of the House and the Senate of the conference of the two Houses on the amendments of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 7130) issued an explanatory statement of the legislation. This was included in a House Budget Committee print in 1975 after the bill’s enactment. It included the following description of this section:

Section 101. House Committee on the Budget

The House bill provided for a 23-member committee: five from the Ways and Means Committee: five from the Appropriations Committee; eleven from other standing committees and one member each from the majority and minority leadership. Selection of Budget Committee members would have been without regard to seniority and no member could serve more than two (plus a portion) or any five consecutive congresses. The House version vested the Budget Committee with authority to meet, hold hearings, and issue subpoenas. The duties of the House Budget Committee would have been to report concurrent resolutions on the budget setting forth those matters required by the bill, and to make continuing studies of the effects of existing and proposed legislation on budget outlays.

The conference substitute is substantially the same as the provision in the House bill, except that the duties of the House Budget Committee are set forth in conformity with Titles III and IV of the bill. The House Budget Committee also is charged with the duty of overseeing the operation of the Congressional Budget Office and evaluating studies or tax expenditures..

[Joint Explanatory Statement on the Committee of Conference on H.R. 7130; (Committee Print), Committee on the Budget, House of Representatives, 93d Congress, 2d Session, Washington D.C. 1975.]

CURRENT SECTION

Section 101. Budget Committee of the House of Representatives.

CLASSIFICATION TO THE U.S. CODE

This section is not classified to the U.S. Code.

Legislative History Notes
Public Laws

The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (Pub. L. 93–344, §101, July 12, 1974, 88 Stat. 298) enacted this section into law. 

Revision of title 31 of the u.s. code

Most of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 was classified to Title 31 of the U.S. Code but has since been transferred either to title 2 (The Congress) or to a revised Title 31. See the following for more information: 

 

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