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PUBLIC LAW 91-510-OCT. 26, 1970

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(b) Paragraphs 2,3,4, and 5 of Rule X X V of the Standing Rules of the Senate are redesignated as paragraphs 4, 5, 6, and 7 thereof, respectively. (c) Rule X X V of the Standing Rules of the Senate is amended by inserting therein, immediately after paragraph 1, the following new paragraphs: "2. Except as otherwise provided by paragraph 6 of this rule, each of the following 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: "Committee "Aeronautical and Space Sciences "Agriculture and Forestry "Appropriations "Armed Services "Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs "Commerce "Finance "Foreign Relations "Government Operations "Interior and Insular Affairs "Judiciary "Labor and Public Welfare "Public Works

Members 14 13 24 15 15 17 15 15 14 14 15 15 14.

"3. Except as otherwise provided by paragraph 6 of this rule, each of the following 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: "Committee "District of Colmnbia "Post Office and Civil Service "Rules and Administration "Veterans' Affairs

Members 7 9 9 9.".

(d) Paragraph 6 of Rule X X V of the Standing Rules of the Senate (as redesignated) is amended to read as follows: "6. (a) Except as otherwise provided by this paragraph, each Senator shall serve on two and no more of the standing committees named in paragraph 2. Except as otherwise provided by this paragraph, no Senator shall serve on more than one committee included within the following classes: standing committees named in paragraph 3; select and special committees of the Senate; and joint committees of the Congress. " (b) Each Senator who on the day preceding the effective date of section 132 of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 was serving as a member of any standing committee shall be entitled to continue to serve on each such committee of which he was a member on that day as long as his service as a member of such committee remains continuous after that day. Each Senator who (1) on that day was serving as a member of the Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences or the Committee on Government Operations, (2) on that date was entitled, under the proviso contained in the first sentence of paragraph 4 of this rule as such rule existed on that day, to serve on three committees named in that sentence, and (3) on June 30, 1971, is serving on three such committees, of which at least one is the Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences or the Committee on Government Operations, shall be entitled to continue to serve on each of the committees of which he is a member on June 30, 1971, so long as his service as a member of each such committee remains continuous thereafter. Each Senator who, on the day preceding the effective date of section 132 of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970, was a member of

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