PUBLIC LAWS--CH. 753-AUG. 2 , 1946 Committee on Civil Service. Committee on the District of Columbia. Committee on Ex- penditures In the Ex- ecutive Departments. messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the following subjects: "1. Banking and currency generally. "2. Financial aid to commerce and industry, other than matters relating to such aid which are specifically assigned to other com- mittees under this rule. "3. Deposit insurance. "4. Public and private housing. "5. Federal Reserve System. "6. Gold and silver, including the coinage thereof. "7. Issuance of notes and redemption thereof. "8. Valuation and revaluation of the dollar. "9. Control of prices of commodities, rents, or services. "(e) Committee on Civil Service, to consist of thirteen Senators, to which committee shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the following subjects: "1. The Federal civil service generally. "2. The status of officers and employees of the United States, includ- ing their compensation, classification, and retirement. "3. The postal service generally, including the railway mail service, and measures relating to ocean mail and pneumatic-tube service; but excluding post roads. "4. Postal-savings banks. "5. Census and the collection of statistics generally. "6. The National Archives. "(f) Committee on the District of Columbia, to consist of thirteen Senators, to which committee shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the following subjects: "1. All measures relating to the municipal affairs of the District of Columbia in general, other than appropriations therefor, including- "2. Public health and safety, sanitation, and quarantine regulations. "3. Regulation of sale of intoxicating liquors. "4. Adulteration of food and drugs. "5. Taxes and tax sales. "6. Insurance, executors, administrators, wills, and divorce. "7. Municipal and juvenile courts. "8. Incorporation and organization of societies. "9. Municipal code and amendments to the criminal and corporation laws. "(g) (1) Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Depart- ments, to consist of thirteen Senators, to which committee shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the following subjects: "(A) Budget and accounting measures, other than appropriations. "(B) Reorganizations in the executive branch of the Government. "(2) Such committee shall have the duty of- "(A) receiving and examining reports of the Comptroller General of the United States an of submitting such recommen- dations to the Senate as it deems necessary or desirable in con- nection with the subject matter of such reports; "(B) studying the operation of Government activities at all levels with a view t o determining its economy and efficiency; "(C) evaluating the effects of laws enacted to reorganize the legislative and executive branches of the Government; "(D) studying intergovernmental relationships between the United States and the States and municipalities, and between the [60 STAT.
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