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PUBLIC LAW 91-510-OCT. 26, 1970

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TITLE IV—CONGKESS AS AN INSTITUTION PART 1—JOINT COMMITTEE ON CONGRESSIONAL OPERATIONS ESTABLISHMENT OF JOINT COMMITTEE ON CONGRESSIONAL OPERATIONS

SEC. 401. (a) There is hereby created a Joint Committee on Congressional Operations (hereafter in this Part referred to as the "Joint Committee"). (b) The Joint Committee shall be composed of ten members as Membership. follows: (1) five Members of the Senate, appointed by the President pro tempore of the Senate, three from the majority party and two from the minority party; and (2) five Members of the House of Representatives appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, three from the majority party and two from the minority party. (c) Vacancies in the membership of the Joint Committee shall not vacancies. affect the power of the remaining members to execute the functions of the Joint Committee and shall be filled in the same manner as in the case of the original appointment. (d) The Joint Committee shall select a chairman and a vice chair- chairman and man from among its members at the beginning of each Congress. The le'iecUiTn.'"^"' vice chairman shall act in the place and stead of the chairman in the absence of the chairman. The chairmanship and the vice chairmanship shall alternate between the Senate and the House of Representatives with each Congress. The chairman during each even-numbered Congress shall be selected by the Members of the House of Representatives on the Joint Committee from among their number and the chairman during each odd-numbered Congress shall be selected by the Members of the Senate on the Joint Committee from among their number. The vice chairman during each Congress shall be chosen in the same manner from that House of Congress other than the House of Congress of which the chairman is a Member. DUTIES OF JOINT COMMITTEE

SEC. 402. (a) The Joint Committee shall— (1) make a continuing study of the organization and operation of the Congress of the United States and shall recommend improvements in such organization and operation with a view toward strengthening Congress, simplifying its operations, improving its relationships with other branches of the United States Government, and enabling it better to meet its responsibilities under the Constitution of the United States; and (2) identify any court proceeding or action which, in the opinion of the Joint Committee, is of vital interest to the Congress, or to either House of the Congress, as a constitutionally established institution of the Federal Government and call such proceeding or action to the attention of that House of the Congress which is specifically concerned or to both Houses of the Congress if both Houses are concerned. (b) The Joint Committee shall exercise all functions vested in it by section 406 of this Part. (c) The Joint Committee shall report, from time to time, to the Senate and the House of Representatives their recommendations with respect to matters within the jurisdiction of the Joint Committee.

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