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Appropriations Subcommittee Structure:
History of Changes from 1920-2005
Updated March 9, 2005
James V. Saturno
Specialist on the Congress
Government and Finance Division
Congressional Research Service
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The Library of Congress

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Appropriations Subcommittee Structure:
History of Changes from 1920-2005
Summary
This report details the evolution of the House and Senate Appropriations
Committees’ subcommittee structure from the 1920s to the present. In 1920, the
House adopted a change in its rules to consolidate jurisdiction over all appropriations
in the Appropriations Committee. After the enactment of the Budget and Accounting
Act of 1921, the House reorganized its Appropriations Committee by establishing for
the first time a set of subcommittees to consider appropriations bills based on the
administrative organization of the executive branch. The Senate followed suit in
1922, and the two chambers have continued under that basic organizational approach
since that time.
The evolution of the modern Appropriations subcommittee structure can be
divided into four eras. The first era, stretching roughly from the initial reorganization
in the 1920s until the end of the Second World War, was marked by stability. Most
of the changes in Appropriations structure resulted from combining bills (e.g., the
Treasury Department bill with the Post Office Department bill beginning in 1924),
although one new bill (and subcommittee) was created when the appropriations bill
for the Department of Labor was split off from the Departments of State, Justice,
Commerce, and Labor bill in 1939.
The second era, from the end of the Second World War through 1970, saw
multiple changes. During this period, Congress attempted to keep pace with
executive branch reorganization (e.g., creation of subcommittees to consider
appropriations for the new Departments of Defense in 1947 and Transportation in
1967), and changing national priorities (e.g., creation of a separate appropriations
bill, and later subcommittee, for foreign operations).
The third era, from 1971 through 2003, was marked by a renewed stability.
Although this era saw many changes in the overall committee structures of the House
and Senate, the structure of the Appropriations subcommittees in both chambers
remained mostly unchanged until 2003. Since 2003, there have been major changes
in organization involving nearly every subcommittee. In 2003, both the House and
Senate Appropriations Committees merged their subcommittees on Transportation
and Treasury and created a new subcommittee to consider appropriations for the
newly created Department of Homeland Security. In 2005, both chambers undertook
major reorganizations, eliminating three subcommittees in the House and one in the
Senate.
This report will be updated to reflect any changes in Appropriations
subcommittee structure.

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Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Consolidation and Initial Stability, 1920-1946 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Reorganization and Multiple Changes, 1947-1970 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Subcommittee Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Government Corporations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Public Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Deficiencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Department of Defense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Military Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Legislative Branch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Foreign Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Commerce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
General Government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Transportation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Renewed Stability, 1971-2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Major Changes, 2003 and 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

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Appropriations Subcommittee Structure:
History of Changes from 1920-2005
Introduction
Article I, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution provides that “No money shall be
drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.” The
Constitution does not, however, prescribe any specific structure or process for
making appropriations. The committee structure established by Congress assigns a
prominent role to the Appropriations Committees of the House and Senate for both
the development of appropriations legislation and oversight over budget execution.
The Appropriations Committees, in turn, have created a system of subcommittees
designed to facilitate their ability to carry out these tasks. The number and
jurisdictions of these subcommittees has evolved to meet changing needs and
circumstances.
For example, reorganization has been undertaken in order to adjust to a new
executive branch department. Although reorganization of subcommittee jurisdiction
in the House and Senate Appropriations Committees was not formally part of the
legislation creating a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS), it was
frequently discussed as a possible adjunct reform.1 Under such a proposal, the
subcommittee structure of the Appropriations Committees in both the House and
Senate was to be reorganized so that appropriations for the various agencies proposed
to be consolidated into a new DHS could likewise be consolidated.2 After the
legislation establishing the new department was signed into law, the chairman of the
House Appropriations Committee announced that a new subcommittee would indeed
be established in the House.3 This modification of subcommittee structure affected
eight of the existing subcommittees and was one of the most extensive
reorganizations of the Appropriations Committees since the 1920s. Shortly
thereafter, a similar change was made in the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Reorganization can also be undertaken in order to adapt to changes in
congressional priorities. At the start of the 109th Congress, the House and Senate
undertook a second major change in subcommittee structure. This reorganization
1 For example, the concept was endorsed by The Brookings Institution, which stated that
subcommittee reorganization would “institutionalize a broad perspective on homeland
security.” Ivo H. Daalder et. al., Assessing the Department of Homeland Security
(Washington: The Brookings Institution, 2002), p. 51.
2 Although there is no formal requirement that the House and Senate maintain parallel
appropriations structures, the two chambers have historically found it practical to do so.
3 See “Chairman Young Announces Homeland Security Reorganization,” Jan. 29, 2003,
available at [http://www.house.gov/appropriations/news/108_1/04homelandreorg.htm].

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affected 10 subcommittees in the House, eliminating three, and eight subcommittees
in the Senate, eliminating one.
Consolidation and Initial Stability, 1920-1946
By the end of the First World War the idea that the budgetary process should be
more centralized gained prominence, and ultimately resulted in passage of the Budget
and Accounting Act of 1921.4 In anticipation of the more centralized executive
budget system provided under the act, the House also changed its rules to require that
all appropriations be considered by the Appropriations Committee.5 During the late
19th century, congressional rules had provided that jurisdiction over certain general
appropriations bills to committees other than the House and Senate Appropriations
Committees.6 Notably, the appropriations bills for the District of Columbia, Indian
affairs, Agriculture Department, Army, Navy, Post Office Department, and rivers and
harbors (i.e., public works) were considered by the appropriate legislative
committees.
In addition, the Bureau of the Budget, newly established under the Budget and
Accounting Act, recommended that appropriations bills be reorganized along
administrative lines, with appropriations for salaries and expenses being carried in
the same bill as funding for programs and activities administered by a department.
This arrangement had previously existed only in the Department of Agriculture
appropriations bill. The House Appropriations Committee adopted the bureau’s
concept and reorganized the structure of general appropriations bills and its
subcommittees so extensively that only the structure of the Agriculture bill remained
essentially unchanged.
Prior to this reorganization, appropriations bills (and subcommittees) tended to
be organized along topical lines. For example, the military activities of the War
Department were considered in appropriations bills reported by the Military Affairs
Committee, and the activities of the Corps of Engineers were considered in River and
Harbor appropriations bills reported by the Commerce Committee. The salaries and
contingent expenses for the civilian administration of the department, however, were
carried in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial bill, which was within the
jurisdiction of the Appropriations Committee. A similar division existed for most
departments, and was true even for agencies whose appropriations were wholly
within the jurisdiction of the Appropriations Committee. Funding for the activities
of agencies as disparate as the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Coast Guard,
and the Bureau of Mines were carried in the Sundry Civil bill, which was frequently
4 P.L. 13, 67th Congress, 42 Stat. 20-27.
5 H.Res. 324, 66th Congress. For its consideration by the House see “Change in the Rules
of the House,” Congressional Record, vol. 59, June 1, 1920, pp. 8102-8121.
6 For more on the appropriations process in this era, see Charles H. Stewart, Budget Reform
Politics: The Design of the Appropriations Process in the House of Representatives, 1865-
1921 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989).

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the largest of the general appropriations bills. Nevertheless, their salaries and
expenses were generally funded in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial bill.
After its reorganization, the House Appropriations Committee comprised the
following subcommittees:
1.
Agriculture Department
2.
Commerce and Labor Departments
3.
Deficiencies7
4.
District of Columbia
5.
Independent Offices (including the Executive Office of the President)
6.
Interior Department
7.
Legislative Establishment
8.
Navy Department and the Navy
9.
Post Office Department
10. State and Justice Departments (including the judiciary)
11. Treasury Department
12. War Department and the Army (both military and civil functions8)
By longstanding custom, the House originates all general appropriations bills.9
As a consequence, it is the House that generally decides the content of the bills. By
originating appropriations bills corresponding to its new administratively based
organizational structure, the House created a jurisdictional problem for the Senate,
which retained a system based on topical organization of appropriations bills as well
as multiple committees sharing jurisdiction over general appropriations bills.
Confronted with the difficulty of considering the reorganized appropriations bills
with its now outmoded system, the Senate reorganized its appropriations jurisdiction
and subcommittees in 1922.10
Information available on congressional subcommittees, including those of the
Appropriations Committees, is sparse and unsystematic prior to enactment of the
7 Unlike the other subcommittees, the Deficiencies Subcommittee’s jurisdiction remained
essentially topical. Rather than provide funding for an established group of agencies and
programs in a single annual bill, its jurisdiction frequently involved multiple bills. These
bills provided supplemental appropriations for various unanticipated needs of programs
otherwise funded in regular appropriations. However, the Subcommittee was also
responsible for funding additional items not already provided in regular appropriations bills,
and financed obligations already entered into in advance of appropriations authority (such
as the Lend-Lease program during World War II).
8 Civil functions consisted largely of the work of the Army Corps of Engineers, such as river
and harbor projects, flood control, and maintenance of the Panama Canal.
9 For more on the origination of general appropriations bills, see CRS Report RL31399, The
Origination Clause of the U.S. Constitution: Interpretation and Enforcement, by James V.
Saturno.
10 S.Res. 213, 67th Congress. For its consideration by the Senate, see “Consideration of
Appropriations Bills,” Congressional Record, vol. 62, Mar. 1-Mar. 4, Mar. 6, 1922, pp.
3199-3207, 3279-3291, 3331-3344, 3375-3392, 3400, 3418-3432.

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Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946.11 From available hearings and other
committee documents, it appears that during this era the Appropriations Committees
continued the practice of having each subcommittee (other than the Deficiencies
Subcommittee) be responsible for drafting one of the regular appropriations bills.12
Data on appropriations bills may also generally be used to identify subcommittee
structure.
One conclusion that may be drawn from the appropriations bills considered in
this period is that the subcommittee structure of the Appropriations Committees was
relatively stable. Other than name changes, the salient changes in appropriations bill
structure (and, presumably, subcommittee structure as well) between 1922 and 1946
seem to have been limited to the following:
! combination of the bills for the Treasury and Post Office
Departments beginning in the 68th Congress (1924);13
! combination of the Commerce and Labor Departments bill with the
State and Justice Departments bill beginning in the 68th Congress
(1924);14
! separation of the War Department and Army bill into two bills, one
for the Military Establishment and the other for War Department
Civil Functions, beginning in the 75th Congress (1937);15
11 P.L. 601, 79th Congress, 60 Stat. 812-852.
12 In addition, there appear to have been occasional subcommittees established for special
purposes, such as a House Appropriations Subcommittee on Permanent Appropriations (73rd
Congress), which was responsible for recommending the repeal of various permanent
appropriations.
13 In the 68th Congress, the Senate subcommittee maintained subunits for separate
consideration of Treasury and Post Office items respectively, although a single bill was
considered.
14 In the 68th Congress, the Senate subcommittee maintained subunits for separate
consideration of State and Justice and Commerce and Labor items respectively, although a
single bill was considered.
15 However, from available congressional documents it does not appear that this division was
reflected in a similar change in the subcommittee structure. During the debate on the civil
functions bill, Rep. J. Buell Snyder simply remarked that Rep. James P. Buchanan, the
chairman of the Appropriations Committee, had directed that the estimates for the War
Department be handled in two separate measures (Congressional Record, vol. 81, June 15,
1937, p. 5733). In the 80th Congress (for which there is reliable information on
Appropriations subcommittee structure), there was a single subcommittee and separate
military establishment and civil function bills.

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! separation of the Labor Department (and the Federal Security
Agency16) from the Departments of State, Justice, Commerce, and
Labor bill beginning in the 76th Congress (1939);17 and
! inclusion of the Judiciary in the Legislative Branch bill during the
78th Congress (1943-1944).
Reorganization and Multiple Changes, 1947-1970
One of the chief aims of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 was to
bring about a modernization of Congress’s committee system, including its
subcommittees. As a result, unlike the earlier period, information on subcommittee
structure since 1946 is more readily available. In the 80th Congress (1947-1948), the
Appropriations Committees in both chambers had the following structure:
1.
Agriculture
2.
Deficiencies
3.
District of Columbia
4.
Government Corporations
5.
Independent Offices
6.
Interior Department
7.
Legislative
8.
State, Justice, and Commerce Departments and the Judiciary
9.
Treasury Department and Post Office
10. Labor Department and Federal Security Agency
11. War Department
12. Navy Department
The idea of modernizing congressional committee structure and operations
embodied in the Legislative Reorganization Act was paralleled by an interest in
developing a more modern federal administrative apparatus to supplant the one that
had grown in fits and starts to meet the challenges of the Depression and World War
II. Because appropriations bills continued to be written along organizational lines,
these changes in the executive branch had an impact on appropriations subcommittee
structure. Four changes in party control in the House between 1947 and 1955 also
contributed to an environment well disposed to multiple changes in appropriations
subcommittee jurisdiction. This evolution saw the number of subcommittees
16 The Federal Security Agency was established by Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1939,
grouping the Office of Education, Public Health Service, Social Security Board, U.S.
Employment Service, Civilian Conservation Corps, and National Youth Administration.
The agency was abolished by Reorganization Plan No. 7 of 1953, and its functions
transferred to the newly created Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
17 This change in bill structure, however, reflected a change in the subcommittee structure
of the House only. The Senate maintained a single subcommittee for consideration of
separate appropriations bills for the Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce and
Department of Labor-Federal Security Agency until the 80th Congress (1947).

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fluctuate between a low of 1018 and a high of 15.19 Despite this fluctuation, during
this era it appears that the Appropriations Committees generally continued the
practice of having each subcommittee be responsible for drafting one of the regular
appropriations bills.20
Subcommittee Development
Appropriations Subcommittees that were created, abolished, or reorganized
from the 80th Congress until 1970 are as follows:
Government Corporations. A subcommittee (and appropriations bill)
specifically pertaining to government corporations operated in both the House and
Senate only during the 80th Congress (1947-1948).
Public Works. Jurisdiction over Army civil functions was transferred to the
Deficiencies Subcommittees in both the House and Senate for the 81st Congress
(1949-1950). The Senate subsequently transferred jurisdiction over deficiencies to
the full committee, and a separate subcommittee for Army civil functions was
established, in the 82nd Congress and continuing through the 83rd (1951-1954). The
House continued to operate a Deficiencies and Army Civil Functions Subcommittee
in the 82nd Congress (1951-1952), but transferred jurisdiction over deficiencies to the
full committee, and created a subcommittee combining Army civil functions with
military construction in the 83rd Congress (1953-1954). A Public Works
Subcommittee (including the Army civil functions as well as the Atomic Energy
Commission, Bureau of Reclamation, and power marketing administrations) was
established by both the House and Senate Appropriations Committees beginning in
the 84th Congress (1955). The Senate maintained separate subunits within the Public
Works Subcommittee to consider matters related to the Atomic Energy Commission
and Tennessee Valley Authority and related to the Bureau of Reclamation and
Department of the Interior power marketing associations. These subunits operated
between the 84th and 90th Congresses (1955-1968). A single bill continued to be
reported from the subcommittee during this period.
Deficiencies. A separate subcommittee to consider deficiencies was
discontinued in the Senate after the 81st Congress, and in the House after the 82nd
Congress. Jurisdiction over deficiencies and supplementals was subsequently
exercised by the full committee. A Deficiencies Subcommittee was reestablished by
the House Appropriations Committee for the 86th through 88th Congresses (1959-
1964), after which the jurisdiction was again exercised by the full committee. The
18 In House during the 81st and 82nd Congresses (1949-1952), and in the Senate during the
81st through 83rd Congresses (1949-1942).
19 In House during the 86th and 87th Congresses (1959-1962).
20 There were exceptions to this, for example, in cases when the Senate committee did not
immediately alter its appropriations subcommittee structure to mirror that of the House. In
addition, in 1950, a single omnibus appropriations bill was considered comprising titles
recommended by the subcommittees.

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Senate Subcommittee on Deficiencies was reestablished for the second session of the
87th Congress, and met through the 91st Congress (1962-1970).
Department of Defense. The War and Navy Departments were consolidated
to create a National Military Establishment (later the Department of Defense) in
1947,21 and their respective appropriations subcommittees were combined to create
an Armed Services Subcommittee beginning in the 81st Congress (1949). Renamed
the Department of Defense Subcommittee in the 84th Congress (1955), the House
Subcommittee maintained three separate subunits for consideration of Army, Navy,
and Air Force matters during the 84th and 85th Congresses (1955-1959), and the
Senate maintained a separate subunit for intelligence activities between the 91st and
94th Congresses (1969-1976). During these years, there continued to be a single
Department of Defense appropriations bill.
Military Construction. Military construction was considered as a part of the
Defense Appropriations bill prior to the 83rd Congress. Between the 83rd Congress
and the first session of the 85th Congress (1953-1957), appropriations for military
construction were carried primarily in deficiency and supplemental appropriations
measures. In the 83rd Congress (1953-1954), the House operated a Civil Functions
and Military Construction Subcommittee, but it is otherwise not clear whether
military construction matters were considered by a subcommittee in this period. A
separate Military Construction Subcommittee was created by the House
Appropriations Committee beginning in the second session of the 85th Congress
(1958), and a separate bill for military construction matters was considered for the
first time that same year. The Senate Appropriations Committee established a
separate subunit for military construction within the Defense Subcommittee in the
86th Congress (1959-1960), and then a separate subcommittee beginning in the 87th
Congress (1961).
Legislative Branch. The House and Senate Appropriations Committees
established a subcommittee to consider both legislative and judiciary matters in the
83rd Congress (1953-1954). The two chambers subsequently returned to the former
practice of a separate Legislative Subcommittee, with judiciary matters being
considered by the same subcommittee as the Departments of State, Justice, and
Commerce, beginning in the 84th Congress (1955).
Foreign Operations. A separate bill to fund foreign aid programs (then
called the Mutual Security bill) was considered beginning in the 83rd Congress
(1953), with jurisdiction exercised by the full committee in both the House and
Senate. A separate subcommittee was established by the House Appropriations
Committee beginning in the 84th Congress (1955). Foreign operations jurisdiction
continued to be exercised at the full committee level by the Senate Appropriations
Committee until the 91st Congress (1969).
Commerce. Jurisdiction over Commerce Department appropriations was
exercised by a separate subcommittee in the 84th through 86th Congresses (1955-
1960). The subcommittee’s jurisdiction was combined with the General Government
21 P.L. 253, 80th Congress, 61 Stat. 495-510.

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Subcommittee for the first session of the 87th Congress (1961). Since the second
session of the 87th Congress (1962), jurisdiction has been exercised by a
subcommittee with jurisdiction over the State, Justice, and Commerce Departments
and the judiciary.
General Government. In the House, a separate subcommittee was
established for general government matters (including the Executive Office of the
President) in the 84th through 86th Congress (1955-1960). In the Senate, jurisdiction
over general government matters was exercised by a Subcommittee on Independent
Offices and General Government Matters beginning in the 84th Congress, although
separate appropriations bills for independent offices and general government matters
were considered. In both the House and Senate jurisdiction over general government
matters was combined with the Commerce Department Subcommittee in the first
session of the 87th Congress (1961). Jurisdiction over general government matters
was subsequently combined with the Treasury Department and Post Office
Subcommittee in both chambers beginning in the second session of the 87th Congress
(1962).
Transportation. A separate subcommittee was established to consider
appropriations for the newly created Transportation Department by both the House
and Senate Appropriations Committees beginning in the 90th Congress (1967).
Renewed Stability, 1971-2002
With the creation of the Transportation Subcommittee by the House
Appropriations Committee in 1967, the total number of appropriations
subcommittees in the House stabilized at 13. The last subcommittee added in the
Senate was the Foreign Operations Subcommittee in 1969, bringing the total in that
body to 14. Since the elimination of a separate Senate Subcommittee on Deficiencies
at the end of the 91st Congress (1969-1970), the two chambers have maintained
parallel appropriations subcommittee structures.
There were no additions, and few major changes, in the subcommittee structure
of either the House or Senate Appropriations Committees between 1971 and 2003.
The changes that did occur involved primarily changes in subcommittee names to
reflect changes in agency and departmental status. For example, the title of the
Independent Offices bill has evolved with the creation of the Departments of Housing
and Urban Development in 1965, and Veterans’ Affairs in 1988; the Public Works
bill became known as the Energy and Water bill after the creation of the Department
of Energy in 1977; and the title of the Departments of Labor and Health Education
and Welfare was modified to reflect the creation of a separate Department of
Education in 1979. However, these changes did not represent major shifts in
appropriations subcommittee jurisdictions.

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Major Changes, 2003 and 2005
In response to the establishment of a Department of Homeland Security, in
January 2003, the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee announced that
a new appropriations subcommittee would be created. This new subcommittee,
consolidating appropriations jurisdiction from eight existing subcommittees over the
various entities comprising the new department, was the first major reorganization
of appropriations subcommittee structure in either chamber in over 30 years. The
new subcommittee was formally established when the committee organized for the
108th Congress in February 2003. In order to keep the number of appropriations
subcommittees at 13, the committee also merged the subcommittees responsible for
Department of Transportation appropriations with that responsible for Treasury,
Postal Service, and General Government appropriations. The Senate Appropriations
Committee made a similar change when it organized in March 2003.
At the beginning of the 109th Congress, the House Appropriations Committee
undertook another substantial reorganization, reducing the number of subcommittees
from 13 to 10. This reduction was achieved by eliminating the Subcommittees on
the Legislative Branch, District of Columbia, and the Departments of Veterans
Affairs, Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies. The
jurisdiction over the Legislative Branch appropriations bill was retained by the full
committee, and the following major changes were made in subcommittee
organization:
! creation of a new subcommittee on Military Quality of Life and
Veterans Affairs, combining the previous jurisdiction of the Military
Construction subcommittee with jurisdiction over the Department of
Veterans Affairs as well as those portions of the Department of
Defense concerning the Defense Health Program and military
facilities sustainment and housing accounts;
! jurisdiction over the Department Housing and Urban Development,
the federal judiciary, and the District of Columbia transferred to the
former Transportation, and Treasury Subcommittee;
! jurisdiction over the federal judiciary transferred from the former
Subcommittee on the Departments of Commerce, Justice, State, and
the Judiciary, while that subcommittee would gain jurisdiction over
NASA, the National Science Foundation, and the Office of Science
and Technology Policy (all formerly exercised by the VA-HUD
subcommittee) becoming the Subcommittee on Science, State,
Justice and Commerce;
! jurisdiction over other agencies formerly exercised by the VA-HUD
Subcommittee shifted to the Interior Subcommittee (the
Environmental Protection Agency) and Labor-HHS Subcommittee
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! jurisdiction over Weatherization Assistance Grants exercised by the
Labor-HHS Subcommittee, and energy related accounts exercised by
the Interior Subcommittee transferred to the Energy and Water
Development Subcommittee.
This reorganization left the House with the following subcommittees:
1.
Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug
Administration, and Related Agencies;
2.
Subcommittee on Defense;
3.
Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies;
4.
Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related
Programs;
5.
Subcommittee on Homeland Security;
6.
Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies;
7.
Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and
Related Agencies;
8.
Subcommittee on Military Quality of Life and Veterans Affairs and
Related Agencies;
9.
Subcommittee on Science, State, Justice and Commerce, and Related
Agencies;
10. Subcommittee on Transportation, Treasury, and Housing and Urban
Development, the Judiciary, District of Columbia.
The Senate Appropriations Committee subsequently adopted a reorganization
plan as well, eliminating the Subcommittee on Veterans Affairs, Housing and Urban
Development, and Independent Agencies and making the following major changes:
! jurisdiction over Veterans Affairs transferred to the Subcommittee
on Military Construction;
! jurisdiction over the Department of Housing and Urban
Development and the federal judiciary transferred to the former
Subcommittee on Transportation, Treasury and General
Government;
! jurisdiction over NASA, the National Science Foundation, and the
Office of Science and Technology Policy transferred to the former
Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the Judiciary;
! jurisdiction over AmeriCorps transferred to the Subcommittee on
Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related
Agencies;
! jurisdiction over the Environmental Protection Agency transferred
to the Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies;
! jurisdiction over energy related accounts formerly exercised by the
Interior Subcommittee transferred to the Subcommittee on Energy
and Water Development;

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! jurisdiction over the State Department transferred to the former
Subcommittee on Foreign Operations.
This reorganization left the Senate with the following subcommittees:
1.
Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies;
2.
Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice and Science;
3.
Subcommittee on Defense;
4.
Subcommittee on the District of Columbia;
5.
Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development;
6.
Subcommittee on Homeland Security;
7.
Subcommittee on Interior, and Related Agencies;
8.
Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and
Related Agencies;
9.
Subcommittee on Legislative Branch;
10. Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs;
11. Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations, and Related Programs;
12. Subcommittee on Transportation, Treasury, The Judiciary, and Housing
and Urban Development.

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