I am most appreciative of the leadership of my colleagues on the Government Operations Committee-Chairman Jack Brooks and Hon. Frank Horton, ranking minority member-and on the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee-Senator John Glenn, Chairman, and Senator William Roth, ranking minority member-for the instrumental roles they played in effecting the establishment of our newest Cabinet department. Special thanks are also due Hon. Edward Boland, Chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies, Hon. Bill Green, the Subcommittee ranking minority member, Budget Committee Chairman Bill Gray and Hon. Delbert Latta, the Committee ranking minority member, for their work to ensure that our veterans' programs are properly funded. These gentlemen have shown time and again that they are true friends of veterans. I deeply appreciate the leadership and cooperation of Senators Alan Cranston and Frank Murkowski, the Chairman and ranking minority member of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, and other members of the Committee who have contributed greatly to the close working relationship the two committees have enjoyed over the years. Finally, I want to thank the staff for their hard work and dedication to our Nation's veterans and their families. The past 2 years have been landmark years for veterans. We strengthened many ongoing programs and developed far-reaching and responsible new ones. As one leading veterans' advocate stated: "Not since the GI Bill of Rights immediately following World War II have I ever seen such a prolific concentration of veterans' legislation addressed and approved by a single Congress." If we proved anything during the 100th Congress, it is this: Congress is listening to veterans and their families, and we are responding. G.V. (SONNY) MONTGOMERY, Chairman. CONTENTS Activities of the subcommittees: Subcommittee on Hospitals and Health Care........ Subcommittee on Compensation, Pension and Insurance. Subcommittee on Education, Training and Employment ACTIVITIES OF THE COMMITTEE ON VETERANS' AFFAIRS FOR THE 100TH CONGRESS DECEMBER 19, 1988.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and Ordered to be printed Mr. MONTGOMERY, from the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, submitted the following REPORT PROVISION OF THE RULES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES APPLICABLE TO COMMITTEE ACTIVITIES JURISDICTION OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON VETERANS' AFFAIRS RULE X HOUSE RULES ON JURISDICTION Rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives established the standing committees of the House and their jurisdiction. Under that rule, all bills, resolutions, and other matters relating to the subjects within the jurisdiction of any standing committee shall be referred to such committee. Rule X.1.(u) establishes the jurisdiction of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs as follows: (1) Veterans' measures generally. (2) Cemeteries of the United States in which veterans of any war or conflict are or may be buried, whether in the United States or abroad, except cemeteries administered by the Secretary of the Interior. (3) Compensation, vocational rehabilitation, and education of vet erans. (4) Life insurance issued by the Government on account of service in the Armed Forces. (5) Pensions of all the wars of the United States, general and special. (6) Readjustment of servicemen to civil life. (7) Soldiers' and sailors' civil relief. (8) Veterans' hospitals, medical care, and treatment of veterans. This committee was established January 2, 1947, as a part of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 812), and was vested with jurisdiction formerly exercised by the Committee on World War Veterans' Legislation (VII, 2077); Invalid Pensions (IV, 4258); and Pensions (IV, 4260). Jurisdiction over veterans' cemeteries administered by the Department of Defense was transferred from the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs on October 20, 1967, by H. Res. 241, 90th Cong. Vocational rehabilitation, except that pertaining to veterans, is under the jurisdiction of the Committee on Education and Labor. The committee has jurisdiction over bills to amend the Soldiers and Sailors Civil Relief Act of 1940 to permit certain declarations of fact in lieu of affidavits (Feb. 4, 1959, p. 1812), and over bills to amend the Servicemen's and Veterans' Survivor Benefits Act re service-connected deaths of retired members of the uniformed services (May 18, 1959, p. 8273). COMMITTEE RULES OF PROCEDURE OF THE 100th Congress ADOPTED JANUARY 29, 1987 Rule I-General Provisions The Rules of the House are the rules of the committee and subcommittees so far as applicable, except that a motion to recess from day to day is a motion of high privilege in committees and subcommittees. Each subcommittee of the committee is a part of the committee, and is subject to the authority and direction of the committee and to its rules so far as applicable. Rule II-Meetings (a) The regular meeting day for the full committee shall be at 10 a.m. on the second Tuesday of each month, and at such other times and in such places as the chairman may designate; however, a regular Tuesday meeting of the committee may be dispensed with by the chairman. (b) The chairman may call and convene, as he considers necessary, additional meetings of the committee for the consideration of any bill or resolution pending before the committee or for the conduct of other committee business. The committee shall meet for such purpose pursuant to the call of the chairman. (c)(1) Each meeting for the transaction of business, including the markup of legislation, of the committee or each subcommittee thereto shall be open to the public except when the committee or subcommittee, in open session and with a quorum present, determines by roll call vote that all or part of the remainder of the meeting on that day shall be closed to the public: Provided, however, That no person other than members of the committee and such congressional staff and such departmental representatives as they may authorize shall be present at any business or markup session which has been closed to the public. This paragraph does not |