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      "date": "2005-02-23",
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      "title": "House Committees: A Framework for Considering Jurisdictional Realignment",
      "summary": "The House has chosen to handle committee jurisdiction in a number of ways. It has chosen to\nconcentrate jurisdiction over an issue in new, existing, and temporary committees. It has chosen to\nkeep jurisdiction over components of an issue distributed among several committees. And, it has\nchosen to vest in one committee jurisdiction over a narrow subject matter that could just as readily\nhave been considered a component of subject matter within another committee's jurisdiction. Rules\nrelating to referral and the Speaker's referral authority have also been changed to deal with\njurisdictional issues. The House's most recent decision to create a standing Committee on\nHomeland Security reflected the several values that can bear on jurisdictional alignment\n( H.Res. 5 , 109th Congress, and an accompanying legislative history of House Rule X\nchanges contained in the resolution).\n  While the House and Senate consolidated and reduced the number of committees in the\nLegislative Reorganization Act of 1946, and for the first time vested each committee with specific\njurisdiction, the House did not adopt wide-ranging committee reorganizations in 1974 or 1994. \nRather, the House on a number of occasions since 1946 has chosen incremental change in committee\njurisdictional realignment.\n  The House is expected to study its committee organization during the 109th Congress.\n  Related CRS reports are as follows:  CRS Report RL32711(pdf) ,  Homeland Security:\n Compendium\nof Recommendations Relevant to House Committee Organization and Analysis of Considerations\nfor the House,  by Michael L. Koempel;  CRS Report RS21901(pdf) ,  House Select Committee\non\nHomeland Security: Possible Questions Raised If the Panel Were to Be Reconstituted as a Standing\nCommittee,  by Judy Schneider;  CRS Report RL31835(pdf) ,  Reorganization of the House\nof\nRepresentatives: Modern Reform Efforts,  by Judy Schneider, Christopher M. Davis, and\nBetsy\nPalmer; and  CRS Report RL31572 ,  Appropriations Subcommittee Structure: History of\nChanges,\n1920-2005 , by James V. Saturno.\n  This report will not be updated.",
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    "Appropriations",
    "Foreign Affairs",
    "National Defense"
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