§1024 Joint Economic Committee

Summary

Creates a 20-member Joint Economic Committee: ten Senators chosen by the President of the Senate and ten Representatives chosen by the Speaker of the House. Each party gets six members from the majority and four from the minority. The committee must study the President’s Economic Report, look for ways to coordinate related programs, and by March 1 each year (starting in 1947) send a report to both Houses with findings and recommendations about each main recommendation in the President’s Economic Report. It may also issue other reports when useful. Vacancies do not stop the committee and are filled the same way as the originals. The members pick a chair and a vice chair. The committee or its subcommittees may hold hearings, hire experts and staff, pay for printing and other needs as money allows, and use government departments or private research agencies. Stenographic costs for hearings are limited to 25 cents per 100 words. Congress may appropriate whatever sums are needed each fiscal year; the Secretary of the Senate pays bills on vouchers signed by the chair or vice chair, except annual salaries need no voucher. One person serving as an attorney or expert under Senate Concurrent Resolution 26, Eighty‑first Congress, on a part‑time basis, is not treated as covered by sections 281, 283, or 284 of title 18 or other federal laws that would restrict employment or payment in matters involving the United States.