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PUBLIC LAW 91-510-OCT. 26, 1970

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(d) Nothing in the amendments made by subsections (a) and (B) of this section shall be construed— (1) to require a reduction in— (A) the number of staff members authorized, prior to January 1, 1971, to be employed by any committee of the Senate, by statute or by annual or permanent resolution, or (B) the number of such staff members on such date assigned to, or authorized to be selected for appointment by or with the approval of, the minority members of any such committee; or (2) to authorize the selection for appointment of staff members by the minority members of a committee in any case in which two or more professional staff members or one or more clerical staff members, as the case may be, who are satisfactory to a majority of such minority members, are otherwise assigned to assist such minority members. (e) The additional professional staff members authorized to be employed by a committee by the amendment made by subsection (a) of this section shall be in addition to any other additional staff members authorized, prior to January 1, 1971, to be employed by any such committee. INCREASE I N PROFESSIONAL STAFFS OF H O U S E STANDING COMMITTEE S; H O U S E M I N O R I T Y PROFESSIONAL A N D CLERICAL STAFFS; FAIR T R E A T M E N T FOR H O U S E M I N O R I T Y STAFFS

SEC. 302. (a) This section is enacted as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the House of Representatives, subject to and with full recognition of the power of the House of Representatives to enact or change any Rule of the House at any time in its exercise of its constitutional right to determine the rules of its proceedings. (b) Paragraphs (a) and (b) of clause 29 of Rule X I of the Rules of the House of Representatives are amended to read as follows: P°^^' P* ^'*'*0" "(a)(1) Subject to subparagraph (2) of this paragraph and paragraph (f) of this clause, each standing committee may appoint, by majority vote of the committee, not more than six professional staff members. Each professional staff member appointed under this subparagraph shall be assigned to the chairman and the ranking minority party member of such committee, as the committee considers advisable. "(2) Subject to paragraph (f) of this clause, whenever a majority of the minority party members of a standing committee (except the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct) so request, not more than two persons may be selected, by majority vote of the minority party members, for appointment by the committee as professional staff members from among the number authorized by subparagraph (1) of this paragraph. The committee shall appoint any persons so selected whose character and qualifications are acceptable to a majority of the committee. If the committee determines that the character and qualifications of any person so selected are unacceptable to the committee, a majoriy of the minority party mem'bers may select other persons for appointment by the committee to the professional staff until such appointment is made. Each professional staff member appointed under this subparagraph shall be assigned to such committee business as the minority party members of the committee consider advisable. "(3) The professional staff members of each standing committee— Appointments, " (A) shall be appointed on a permanent basis, without regard c o n d i t i o n s. to political affiliation, and solely on the basis of fitness to perform the duties of their respective positions; " (B) shall not engage in any work other than committee business; and

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