9. Resolution Establishing a Select Committee on Intelligence Partial text of S. Res. 400, 94th Congress, approved May 19, 1976 A RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING A SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE solved, That it is the purpose of this resolution to establish a select committee of the Senate, to be known as the Select mittee on Intelligence, to oversee and make continuing studies he intelligence activities and programs of the United States ernment, and to submit to the Senate appropriate proposals for lation and report to the Senate concerning such intelligence acies and programs. In carrying out this purpose, the Select Comee on Intelligence shall make every effort to assure that the ropriate departments and agencies of the United States provide rmed and timely intelligence necessary for the executive and slative branches to make sound decisions affecting the security vital interests of the Nation. It is further the purpose of this olution to provide vigilant legislative oversight over the intelence activities of the United States to assure that such activities in conformity with the Constitution and laws of the United tes. SEC. 2. (a)(1) There is hereby established a select committee to known as the Select Committee on Intelligence (hereinafter in is resolution referred to as the "select committee"). The select mmittee shall be composed of fifteen members appointed as fol vs: (A) two members from the Committee on Appropriations; (B) two members from the Committee on Armed Services; (C) two members from the Committee on Foreign Relations; and (D) two members from the Committee on the Judiciary; and (E) seven members to be appointed from the Senate at large. (2) Members appointed from each committee named in clauses A) through (D) of paragraph (1) shall be evenly divided between he two major political parties and shall be appointed by the Presient pro tempore of the Senate upon the recommendations of the ajority and minority leaders of the Senate. Four of the members ppointed under clause (E) of paragraph (1) shall be appointed by he President pro tempore of the Senate upon the recommendation f the majority leader of the Senate and three shall be appointed by the President pro tempore of the Senate upon the recommendaion of the minority leader of the Senate. (3) The majority leader of the Senate and the minority leader of the Senate shall be ex officio members of the select committee but shall have no vote in the committee and shall not be counted for purposes of determining a quorum. SEC. 4. (a) The select committee, for the purposes of accountability to the Senate, shall make regular and periodic reports to the Senate on the nature and extent of the intelligence activities of the various departments and agencies of the United States. Such committee shall promptly call to the attention of the Senate or to any other appropriate committee or committees of the Senate any matters requiring the attention of the Senate or such other committee or committees. In making such reports, the select committee shall proceed in a manner consistent with section 8(c)(2) to protect national security. * 10. Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Partial text of House Rule XLVIII [H. Res. 658], adopted July 14, 1977; as amended by H. Res. 5, adopted January 15, 1979; H. Res. 70, adopted January 25, 1979; H. Res. 89, adopted February 5, 1979; H. Res. 165, adopted March 29, 1979; H. Res. 58, adopted March 1, 1983; H. Res. 33, adopted January 30, 1985; H. Res. 5, adopted January 6, 1987; H. Res. 5, adopted January 3, 1989; H. Res. 268, adopted November 14, 1989, H. Res. 5, adopted January 3, 1991; H. Res. 6, adopted January 4, 1995 RULE XLVIII 1 PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE 1. (a) There is hereby established a permanent select committee to be known as the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (hereinafter in this rule referred to as the "select committee"). The select committee shall be composed of not more than sixteen Members, of whom not more than nine may be from the same party. The select committee shall include at least one Member from: (1) the Committee on Appropriations; (3) the Committee on International Relations; and (b)(1) The Speaker of the House and the minority leader of the House shall be ex officio members of the select committee, but shall have no vote in the committee and shall not be counted for purposes of determining a quorum. (2) The Speaker and the minority leader each may designate a member of their leadership staff to assist them in their capacity as ex officio members, with the same access to committee meetings, hearings, briefings, and materials as if employees of the select committee, and subject to the same security clearance and confidentiality requirements as employees of the select committee under this rule. (c) No Member of the House other than the Speaker and the minority leader may serve on the select committee during more than four Congresses in any period of six successive Congresses (disregarding for this purpose any service for less than a full session in any congress), except that the incumbent chairman or ranking minority member having served on the select committee for four Congresses and having served as chairman or ranking minority member for not more than one Congress shall be eligible for reappointment to the select committee as chairman or ranking minority member for one additional Congress. 2. (a) There shall be referred to the select committee all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the following: 1 For full text of Rule XLVIII, see House Document No. 103–342, beginning at page 806. lated policies of the United States, and other activity which is in support of such activities; (2) activities taken to counter similar activities directed against the United States; (3) covert or clandestine activities affecting the relations of the United States with any foreign government, political group, party, military force, movement, or other association; (4) the collection, analysis, production, dissemination, or use of information about activities of persons within the United States, its territories and possessions, or nationals of the United States abroad whose political and related activities pose, or may be considered by any department, agency, bureau, of fice, division, instrumentality, or employee of the United States to pose, a threat to the internal security of the United States, and covert or clandestine activities directed against such persons. (b) As used in this rule, the term "department or agency" includes any organization, committee, council, establishment, or office within the Federal Government. (c) For purposes of this rule, reference to any department, agency, bureau, or subdivision shall include a reference to any successor department, agency, bureau, or subdivision to the extent that such successor engages in intelligence or intelligence-related activities now conducted by the department, agency, bureau, or subdivision referred to in this rule. * > any other appropriate committee or committees of the matters requiring the attention of the House or such nittee or committees. In making such reports, the select shall proceed in a manner consistent with clause 7 to cional security. select committee shall obtain an annual report from the f the Central Intelligence Agency, the Secretary of DeSecretary of State, and the Director of the Federal Bunvestigation. Such reports shall review the intelligence igence-related activities of the agency or department cond the intelligence and intelligence-related activities of fortries directed at the United States or its interest. An unversion of each report may be made available to the pube discretion of the select committee. Nothing herein shall rued as requiring the public disclosure in such reports of es of individuals engaged in intelligence or intelligence-reivities for the United States or the divulging of intelligence employed or the sources of information on which such ree based or the amount of funds authorized to be approfor intelligence and intelligence-related activities. or before March 15 of each year, the select committee shall to the Committee on the Budget of the House the views and es described in section 301(c) of the Congressional Budget 19742 regarding matters within the jurisdiction of the select tee. ubject to the rules of the House, no funds shall be approd for any fiscal year, with the exception of a continuing bill olution continuing appropriations, or amendment thereto, or ence report thereon, to, or for use of, any department or y of the United States to carry out any of the following activiunless such funds shall have been previously authorized by a r joint resolution passed by the House during the same or preg fiscal year to carry out such activity for such fiscal year: (a) The activities of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Director of Central Intelligence. (b) The activities of the Defense Intelligence Agency. (c) The activities of the National Security Agency. (d) The intelligence and intelligence-related activities of other agencies and subdivisions of the Department of Defense. (e) The intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the Department of State. (f) The intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, including all activities of the Intelligence Division. 0. (a) As used in this rule, the term "intelligence and intelence-related activities" includes (1) the collection, analysis, proction, dissemination, or use of information which relates to any eign country, or any government, political group, party, military ce, movement or other association in such foreign country, and ich relates to the defense, foreign policy, national security, or re Public Law 93–344. For text, see 88 Stat. 297. |