15 U.S.C. § 1024 — Joint Economic Committee

Page 1272 TITLE 15—COMMERCE AND TRADE § 1024 EX. ORD. NO. 12835. ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL ECONOMIC COUNCIL Ex. Ord. No. 12835, Jan. 25, 1993, 58 F.R. 6189, as amended by Ex. Ord. No. 13286, § 27, Feb. 28, 2003, 68 F.R. 10625; Ex. Ord. No. 13499, Feb. 5, 2009, 74 F.R. 6979; Ex. Ord. No. 13569, § 2, Apr. 5, 2011, 76 F.R. 19891, provided: By the authority vested in me as President of the United States by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including sections 105, 107, and 301 of title 3, United States Code, it is hereby or- dered as follows: SECTION 1. Establishment. There is established the Na- tional Economic Council (‘‘the Council’’). SEC. 2. Membership. The Council shall comprise the: (a) President, who shall serve as Chairman of the Council; (b) Vice President; (c) Secretary of State; (d) Secretary of the Treasury; (e) Secretary of Agriculture; (f) Secretary of Commerce; (g) Secretary of Labor; (h) Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; (i) Secretary of Transportation; (j) Secretary of Energy; (k) Secretary of Homeland Security; (l) Secretary of Health and Human Services; (m) Secretary of Education; (n) Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Liaison; (o) Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality; (p) Assistant to the President and Chief Technology Officer; (q) Administrator of the Small Business Administration[;] (r) Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; (s) Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers; (t) Director of the Office of Management and Budg- et; (u) United States Trade Representative; (v) Assistant to the President for Economic Policy; (w) Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy; (x) National Security Adviser; (y) Assistant to the President for Science and Tech- nology Policy; and (z) Such other officials of executive departments and agencies as the President may, from time to time, designate. SEC. 3. Meetings of the Council. The President, or upon his direction, the Assistant to the President for Eco- nomic Policy (‘‘the Assistant’’), may convene meetings of the Council. The President shall preside over the meetings of the Council, provided that in his absence the Vice President, and in his absence the Assistant, will preside. SEC. 4. Functions. (a) The principal functions of the Council are: (1) to coordinate the economic policy-mak- ing process with respect to domestic and international economic issues; (2) to coordinate economic policy ad- vice to the President; (3) to ensure that economic pol- icy decisions and programs are consistent with the President’s stated goals, and to ensure that those goals are being effectively pursued; and (4) to monitor imple- mentation of the President’s economic policy agenda. The Assistant may take such actions, including draft- ing a Charter, as may be necessary or appropriate to implement such functions. (b) All executive departments and agencies, whether or not represented on the Council, shall coordinate eco- nomic policy through the Council. (c) In performing the foregoing functions, the Assist- ant will, when appropriate, work in conjunction with the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and the Assistant to the President for National Security. (d) The Secretary of the Treasury will continue to be the senior economic official in the executive branch and the President’s chief economic spokesperson. The Director of the Office of Management and Budget, as the President’s principal budget spokesperson, will con- tinue to be the senior budget official in the executive branch. The Council of Economic Advisers will con- tinue its traditional analytic, forecasting and advisory functions. SEC. 5. Administration. (a) The Council may function through established or ad hoc committees, task forces or interagency groups. (b) The Council shall have a staff to be headed by the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy. The Council shall have such staff and other assistance as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this order. (c) All executive departments and agencies shall co- operate with the Council and provide such assistance, information, and advice to the Council as the Council may request, to the extent permitted by law. § 1024. Joint Economic Committee (a) Composition There is established a Joint Economic Com- mittee, to be composed of ten Members of the Senate, to be appointed by the President of the Senate, and ten Members of the House of Rep- resentatives, to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives. In each case, the majority party shall be represented by six Mem- bers and the minority party shall be represented by four Members. (b) Functions It shall be the function of the joint com- mittee— (1) to make a continuing study of matters relating to the Economic Report; (2) to study means of coordinating programs in order to further the policy of this chapter; and (3) as a guide to the several committees of the Congress dealing with legislation relating to the Economic Report, not later than March 1 of each year (beginning with the year 1947) to file a report with the Senate and the House of Representatives containing its findings and recommendations with respect to each of the main recommendations made by the President in the Economic Report, and from time to time to make such other reports and rec- ommendations to the Senate and House of Representatives as it deems advisable. (c) Vacancies; selection of chairman and vice chairman Vacancies in the membership of the joint com- mittee shall not affect the power of the remain- ing members to execute the functions of the joint committee, and shall be filled in the same manner as in the case of the original selection. The joint committee shall select a chairman and a vice chairman from among its members. (d) Hearings; employment and compensation of personnel; cost of stenographic services; uti- lization of Government services and private research agencies The joint committee, or any duly authorized subcommittee thereof, is authorized to hold such hearings as it deems advisable, and, within the limitations of its appropriations, the joint committee is empowered to appoint and fix the compensation of such experts, consultants, tech- nicians, and clerical and stenographic assist- ants, to procure such printing and binding, and Page 1273 TITLE 15—COMMERCE AND TRADE § 1025 1 See References in Text note below. to make such expenditures, as it deems nec- essary and advisable. The cost of stenographic services to report hearings of the joint com- mittee, or any subcommittee thereof, shall not exceed 25 cents per hundred words. The joint committee is authorized to utilize the services, information, and facilities of the departments and establishments of the Government, and also of private research agencies. (e) Appropriations To enable the joint committee to exercise its powers, functions, and duties under this chapter, there are authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year such sums as may be necessary, to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate on vouchers signed by the chairman or vice chair- man, except that vouchers shall not be required for the disbursement of salaries of employees paid at an annual rate. (f) Service as attorney or expert for committee Service of one individual, until the completion of the investigation authorized by Senate Con- current Resolution 26, Eighty-first Congress, as an attorney or expert for the joint committee, in any business or professional field, on a part- time basis, with or without compensation, shall not be considered as service or employment bringing such individual within the provisions of section 281, 283, or 284 of title 18,1 or of any other Federal law imposing restrictions, require- ments, or penalties in relation to the employ- ment of persons, the performance of services, or the payment or receipt of compensation in con- nection with any claim, proceeding, or matter involving the United States. (Feb. 20, 1946, ch. 33, § 11, formerly § 5, 60 Stat. 25; Aug. 2, 1946, ch. 753, title II, § 225, 60 Stat. 838; Feb. 2, 1948, ch. 42, 62 Stat. 16; Oct. 6, 1949, ch. 627, §§ 1, 2, 63 Stat. 721; June 18, 1956, ch. 399, § 2, 70 Stat. 290; Pub. L. 86–1, Feb. 17, 1959, 73 Stat. 3; Pub. L. 88–661, Oct. 13, 1964, 78 Stat. 1093; Pub. L. 90–2, Jan. 25, 1967, 81 Stat. 4; Pub. L. 93–554, title I, ch. III, Dec. 27, 1974, 88 Stat. 1776; renum- bered § 11, Pub. L. 95–523, § 104, Oct. 27, 1978, 92 Stat. 1893.) Editorial Notes REFERENCES IN TEXT Sections 281 and 283 of title 18, referred to in subsec. (f), were repealed by Pub. L. 87–849, § 2, Oct. 23, 1962, 76 Stat. 1126, except as they may apply to retired officers of the armed forces of the United States, and were sup- planted by sections 203 and 205 of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure. Section 284 of title 18, referred to in subsec. (f), was repealed by Pub. L. 87–849, § 2, Oct. 23, 1962, 76 Stat. 1126, and was supplanted by section 207 of title 18. AMENDMENTS 1974—Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 93–554 inserted exception re- lating to requirement of vouchers for the disbursement of salaries of employees paid at an annual rate. 1967—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 90–2 substituted ‘‘ten’’, ‘‘six’’, and ‘‘four’’ for ‘‘eight’’, ‘‘five’’, and ‘‘three’’, re- spectively. 1964—Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 88–661 authorized appropria- tions for such sums as may be necessary for each fiscal year and eliminated provisions which limited the au- thorization to a maximum of $125,000 yearly. 1959—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 86–1 added one additional Senator and one Representative to the Committee, and substituted provisions requiring the majority party to be represented by five Members and the minority party to be represented by three Members for provisions which required representation to reflect as nearly as may be feasible the relative membership of the major- ity and minority parties. 1956—Subsec. (a). Act June 19, 1956, substituted ‘‘Joint Economic Committee’’ for ‘‘Joint Committee on the Economic Report’’. 1949—Subsec. (e). Act Oct. 6, 1949, § 1, substituted ‘‘$125,000’’ for ‘‘$50,000’’. Subsec. (f). Act Oct. 6, 1949, § 2, added subsec. (f). 1948—Subsec. (b)(3). Act Feb. 2, 1948, substituted ‘‘March 1’’ for ‘‘February 1’’. 1946—Subsec. (b)(3). Act Aug. 2, 1946, substituted ‘‘February 1’’ for ‘‘May 1’’. Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1974 AMENDMENT Pub. L. 93–554 provided that the amendment made by Pub. L. 93–554 is effective Jan. 1, 1975. EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1946 AMENDMENT Amendment by act Aug. 2, 1946, effective Aug. 2, 1946, see section 245 of that act, set out as a note under sec- tion 4301 of Title 2, The Congress. SENATE MEMBERS OF JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE FOR 107TH CONGRESS Pub. L. 107–20, title II, § 2806, July 24, 2001, 115 Stat. 185, provided: ‘‘That notwithstanding any other provi- sion of law, and specifically section 5(a) of the Employ- ment Act of 1946 (15 U.S.C. 1024(a)), the Members of the Senate to be appointed by the President of the Senate shall for the duration of the One Hundred Seventh Con- gress, be represented by six Members of the majority party and five Members of the minority party.’’ Similar provisions were contained in Pub. L. 107–3, Mar. 13, 2001, 115 Stat. 5. AGENCY CONTRIBUTIONS FOR EMPLOYEES OF JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE Pub. L. 106–554, § 1(a)(2) [title I, § 7], Dec. 21, 2000, 114 Stat. 2763, 2763A–98, provided that: ‘‘(a) Agency contributions for employees whose sala- ries are disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate from the appropriations account ‘Joint Economic Com- mittee’ under the heading ‘JOINT ITEMS’ shall be paid from the Senate appropriations account for ‘Salaries, Officers and Employees’. ‘‘(b) This section shall apply to pay periods beginning on or after October 1, 2000.’’ § 1025. Printing of monthly publication by Joint Economic Committee entitled ‘‘Economic In- dicators’’; distribution The Joint Economic Committee is authorized to issue a monthly publication entitled ‘‘Eco- nomic Indicators’’, and a sufficient quantity shall be printed to furnish one copy to each Member of Congress; the Secretary and the Ser- geant at Arms of the Senate; the Clerk, Ser- geant at Arms, and Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives; two copies to the libraries of the Senate and House, and the Congressional Library; seven hundred copies to the Joint Economic Committee; and the re- quired number of copies to the Superintendent of Documents for distribution to depository li- braries; and the Superintendent of Documents is authorized to have copies printed for sale to the public. (June 23, 1949, ch. 237, 63 Stat. 264; Pub. L. 104–186, title II, § 217, Aug. 20, 1996, 110 Stat. 1747.)