Standing subcommittees 1. Agricultural Credit and Rural Electrification. 2. Agricultural Production, Marketing and Stabilization of Prices. 3. Agricultural Research and General Legislation. 4. Soil Conservation and Forestry.. 5. Special subcommittee: Watershed Projects. Jurisdiction COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE 1. Interstate and foreign commerce generally. 2. Regulation of interstate railroads, buses, trucks, and pipelines. 3. Communication by telephone, telegraph, radio, and television. 4. Civil aeronautics, except aeronautical and space activities of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 5. Merchant marine generally. 6. Coast and Geodetic Survey. 7. Coast Guard. 8. U.S. Coast Guard and Merchant Marine Academies. 9. Weather Bureau. 10. Fisheries and wildlife. 11. National Bureau of Standards, including standardization of weights and measures and the metric system. 1. Budget and accounting measures, other than appropriations. 2. Reorganizations in the executive branch of the Government. Such committee shall have the duty of (a) Receiving and examining reports of the Comptroller General of the United States and of submitting such recommendations to the Senate as it deems necessary or desirable in connection with the subject matter of such reports; (b) Studying the operation of Government activities at all levels with a view to determining its economy and efficiency; (c) Evaluating the effects of laws enacted to reorganize the legislative and executive branches of the Government; (d) Studying intergovernmental relationships between the United States and municipalities, and between the United States and international organizations of which the United States is a member. Standing subcommittees 1. Executive Reorganization and Government Research. 2. Intergovernmental Relations. 3. National Security and Internations Operations. 4. Permanent Investigations. Jurisdiction COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS 1. Public lands generally, including entry, easements, and grazing thereon. 2. Mineral resources of the public lands. 3. Measures relating generally to insular possessions of the United States except for those affecting their revenue and appropriations. 4. Interstate compacts relating to apportionment of waters for irrigation purposes. 5. Mining interests generally. 6. Mineral land laws and claims and entries thereunder. 7. Geological survey. 8. Mining schools and experimental stations. 9. Petroleum conservation and conservation of the radium supply in the United States. 10. Other related matters. Standing subcommittees 1. Indian Affairs. 2. Minerals, Materials and Fuels. 3. Parks and Recreation. 4. Public Lands. 5 Territories and Insular Affairs. 6. Water and Power Resources. Special Subcommittees 1. Legislative Oversight. 2. Outer Continental Shelf. Jurisdiction COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE 1. Measures relating to education, labor or public welfare generally. 2. Child labor. 3. Labor statistics. 4. Labor standards. 5. Vocational rehabilitation. 6. Public health and quarantine. Standing Subcommittees 1. Education. 2. Employment, Manpower and Poverty. 3. Health. 4. Labor. 5. Migratory Labor. 6. Railroad Retirement. 7. Veterans' Affairs. Special Subcommittees 1. Aging. 2. Alcoholism and Narcotics. 3. Arts and Humanities. 4. Evaluation and Planning of Social Programs. 5. International Health, Education and Labor Programs. 6. National Science Foundation. Jurisdiction COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS 1. Flood control and improvement of rivers and harbors. 2. Water power. 3. Oil and other pollution of navigable waters. 4. Other related matters. Standing Subcommittees 1. Air and Water Pollution. 2. Economic Development. 3. Flood Control-Rivers and Harbors. 4. Public Buildings and Grounds. 5. Roads. Special Subcommittee 1. Disaster Relief. HOUSE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE Jurisdiction 1. Inspection of livestock and meat products. 2. Animal industry and diseases of animals. 3. Adulteration of seeds, insect pests, and protection of birds and animals in forest reserves. 4. Agricultural colleges and experiment stations. 5. Agricultural economics and research. 6. Agricultural and industrial chemistry. 7. Entomology and plant quarantine. 8. Human nutrition and home economics. 9. Plant industry, soil, and agricultural engineering. 10. Agricultural education extension services. 11. Rural electrification. 12. Agricultural production and marketing and stabilization of prices of agricultural products. 13. Crop insurance and soil conservation. 14. Other related matters. Special Subcommittees 1. Budget and accounting measures, other than appropriations. 2. Reorganization in the executive branch of the Government. Such committee shall have the duty of: (a) Receiving and examining reports of the Comptroller General of the United States and of submitting such recommendations to the House as it deems necessary or desirable in connection with the subject matter of such reports; (b) Studying the operation of Government activities at all levels with a view to determining its economy and efficiency; (0) Evaluating the effects of laws enacted to reorganize the legislative and executive branches of the Government; (d) Studying intergovernmental relationships between the United States and the States and municipalities, and between the United States and international organizations of which the United States is a member. Standing Subcommittees 1. Conservation and Natural Resources. 2. Executive and Legislative Reorganization. 3. Foreign Operations and Government Information. 4. Government Activities. 5. Intergovernmental relations. 6. Legal and monetary affairs. 7. Military operations. 8. Special studies. Jurisdiction COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS 1. Irrigation, reclamation, and other water resources development programs of the Department of the Interior. 2. Saline water research and development program. 3. Water resources research program. 4. Development, utilization, and conservation of oil, gas, helium, geothermal steam, and associated resources of the public and other Federal lands. Standing subcommittees: 1. Indian Affairs. 2. Irrigation and Reclamation. 3. Mines and Mining. 3. Interstate oil compacts and petroleum and natural gas, except on the public lands. 4. Public health and quarantine. 5. Regulation of interstate and foreign communications. 6. Regulation of interstate and foreign transportation, except transportation by water not subject to the jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission. 7. Regulaion of interstate transmission of power, except the installation of connections between Government water power projects. 8. Securities and exchanges. 9. Weather Bureau. Standing subcommittees 1. Commerce and Finance. 2. Communications and Power. 3. Public Health and Welfare. 4. Transportation and Aeronautics. Special subcommittee 1. Investigations. Jurisdiction COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES 1. Merchant marine generally. 2. Measures relating to the regulation of common carriers by water and to the inspection of merchant marine vessels, lights and signals, lifesaving equipment, and fire protection on such vessels. 3. U.S. Coast Guard and Merchant Marine Academies. 4. Coast and Geodetic Survey. 5. Fisheries and wildlife, including research, restoration, refuges, and con servation. 6. Oceanography. Standing subcommittees 1. Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey and Navigation. 2. Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation. 3. Merchant Marine. 4. Oceanography. 5. Panama Canal. Special subcommittee Marine Education and Training. Jurisdiction COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS 1. Flood control and improvement of rivers and harbors. 2. Water power. 3. Oil and other pollution of navigable waters. Standing subcommittees 1. Flood Control. 2. Public Buildings and Grounds. 3. Rivers and Harbors. 4. Roads. 5. Watershed Development. Special subcommittees 1. Economic Development. 2. Federal-Aid Highway Program. Ad hoc subcommittee 1. Appalachia. Jurisdiction COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND ASTRONAUTICS 1. Astronautical research and development, including resources, personnel, equipment, and facilities. 2. Bureau of Standards, standardization of weights and measures the metric system. 3. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 4. National Science Foundation. 5. National Aeronautics and Space Council. 6. Outer Space, including exploration and control thereof. 7. Science scholarships. 8. Scientific research and development. Standing subcommittees 1. Advanced Research and Technology. 2. Manned Space Flight. 3. NASA Oversight. 4. National Bureau of Standards. 5. Science, Research and Development. 6. Space Sciences and Application. Makes continuing studies of activities of the Atomic Energy Commission and problems relating to the development, use, and control of atomic energy. The committee is responsible for acting on the authorization requests for all of the Atomic Energy Commission's programs, including construction projects and operating costs for all research and development efforts. The Commission keeps the committee fully and currently informed on all Commission activities; the Department of Defense keeps the committee fully and currently informed on all matters in Department of Defense relating to development, utilization, or application of atomic energy. Any Government agency, at its direction, furnishes information requested by the committee regarding activities or responsibilities of that agency in the field of atomic energy. The committee is authorized to sit and act at places and times it deems advisable, has subpena powers, and may report directly to the Congress by bill, or otherwise. Standing subcommittees 1. Agreements for Cooperation. 2. Communities. 3. Legislation. 4. Military Applications. 5. Raw Materials. 6. Research, Development, and Radiation. 7. Security. |