Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 84 Part 1.djvu/1207

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PUBLIC'LAW 91-510-OCT. 26, 1970

(d) Section 139(a) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 190f (a)) is repealed.

1149 Repeal. so Stat. 833.

M O T I O N S FOR CONSIDERATION BY THE H O U S E OF M E A S U R E S PREVIOUSLY MADE I N ORDER BY RESOLUTION FOR CONSIDERATION

SEC. 109. Clause 27(d) of Rule X I of the Rules of the House of Representatives, as amended by sections 105(b), 107(b), and 108(b) of this Act, is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following subparagraph: "(5) If, within seven calendar days after a measure has, by resolution, been made in order for consideration by the House, no motion has been offered that the House consider that measure, the Speaker may, in his discretion, recognize any member of the committee which reported that measure to offer a motion that the House shall consider that measure, if that committee has duly authorized that member to offer that motion.". COMMITTEE F U N D S A N D S E N A T E APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE X C E P T I O N

SEC. 110. (a) Section 133 of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 190a), as amended by sections 102 to 108, inclusive, of ^o Stat. 83i. this Act, is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsections: " (g) Each standing committee of the Senate which, in any year Expenditure aubeginning on or after January 1, 1971, requires authorization for the luuon!""" '^^^°" expenditure of funds in excess of the amount specified by section 134 (a) of this Act shall offer one annual authorization resolution to pro- 2 USC i90b. cure such authorization. Each such annual authorization resolution shall include a specification of the amount of all such funds sought by such committee for expenditure by all subcommittees thereof during that year and the amount so sought for each such subcommittee. The annual authorization resolution of any such committee of the Senate for each year beginning on or after January 1, 1971, shall be offered not later than January 31 of that year, except that, whenever the designation of members of standing committees of the Senate occurs during the first session of any Congress at a date later than January 20, such resolution may be offered by any standing committee of the Senate at any time within thirty days after the date on which a majority of the members of such committee have been designated during that session. After the date on which an annual authorization resolution has been supplemental auoffered by any such committee in any year, or the last date on which lutloT. such committee pursuant to the preceding sentence may offer such a resolution, whichever date occurs earlier, such committee in any year may procure authorization for the expenditure of funds in excess of the amount specified by section 134(a) of this Act only by offering a supplemental authorization resolution. Each such supplemental authorization resolution shall specify with particularit;^ the purpose for which such authorization is sought, and shall contain an explicit statement of the reason why authorization for the expenditures described therein could not have been sought at the time of, or within the period provided for, the submission by such committee of an annual authorization resolution for that year. The minority shall receive fair consideration in the appointment of staff personnel pursuant to any such annual or supplemental resolution. " (h) Except as otherwise specifically provided by this section, the Exception. foregoing provisions of this section do not apply to the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate.".

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