1178
Services, termination. Exception. Clerical staff.
Infra,
Services, termination. Exception,
Ante, p. 1177.
Selection between eligible members.
PUBLIC LAW 91-510-OCT. 26, 1970
[84 STAT.
" (C) shall not be assigned any duties other than those pertaining to committee business. "(4) Services of the professional staif members of each standing committee may be terminated by majority vote of the committee. "(5) The foregoing provisions of this paragraph do not apply to the Committee on Appropriations. "(b)(1) The clerical staff of each standing committee shall consist of not more than six clerks, to be attached to the office of the chairman, to the ranking minority party member, and to the professional staff, as the committee considers advisable. Subject to subparagraph (2) o i this paragraph and paragraph (f) of this clause, the clerical staff shall be appointed by majority vote of the committee. Except as provided by subparagraph (2) of this paragraph, the clerical staff shall handle committee correspondence and stenographic work both for the committee staff and for the chairman and the ranking minority party member on matters related to committee work. "(2) Subject to paragraph (f) of this clause, whenever a majority of the minority party members of a standing committee (except the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct) so request, one person may be selected, by majority vote of the minority party members, for appointment by the committee to a position on the clerical staff from among the number of clerks authorized by subparagraph (1) of this paragraph. The committee shall appoint to that position any person so selected whose character and qualifications are acceptable to a majority of the committee. If the committee determines that the character and qualifications of any person so selected q,re unacceptable to the committee, a majority of the minority party members may select other persons for appointment by the committee to that position on the clerical staff until such appointment is made. Each clerk appointed under this subparagraph shall handle committee correspondence and stenographic work for the minority party members of the committee and lor any members of the professional staff appointed under subparagraph (2) of paragraph (a) of this clause on matters related to committee work. "(3) Services of the clerical staff members of each standing committee may be terminated by majority vote of the committee. "(4) The foregoing provisions of this paragraph do not apply to the Committee on Appropriations.". (c) Clause 29 of JRule X I of the Eules of the House of Representatives, as amended by this Act, is further amended by adding at the end of such clause the following new paragraphs: "(f) If a request for the appointment of a minority professional staff member under paragraph (a), or a minority clerical staff member under paragraph (b), of this clause, is made when no vacancy exists to which that appointment may be made, the committee nevertheless shall appoint, under paragraph (a) or paragraph (b), as applicable, the person selected by the minority and acceptable to the committee. The person so appointed shall serve as an additional member of the professional staff or the clerical staff, as the case may be, of the committee, and shall be paid from the contingent fund^ until such time as such a vacancy (other than a vacancy in the position of head of the professional staff, by whatever title designated) occurs, at which time that person shall be deemed to have been appointed to that vacancy. If such vacancy occurs on the professional staff when two persons have been so appointed who are eligible to fill that vacancy, a majority of the minority party members shall designate which of those persons shall fill that vacancy.
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