vessels, lights and signals, lifesaving equipment, and fire protection on such vessels. 11. Coast and Geodetic Survey. 12. The Coast Guard, including lifesaving service, lighthouses, lightships, and ocean derelicts. 13. The United States Coast Guard and Merchant Marine Academies. 14. Weather Bureau. 15. Except as provided in paragraph (d), the Panama Canal and interoceanic canals generally. 16. Inland waterways. 17. Fisheries and wildlife, including research, restoration, refuges, and conservation. 18. Bureau of Standards, including standardization of weights and measures and the metric system. (g) Committee on the District of Columbia, to which com- [25.1g] mittee 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. [25.1h] (h) Committee on Finance, to which committee shall be [25.11] referred all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memori als, and other matters relating to the following subjects1: 1. Revenue measures generally. 2. The bonded debt of the United States. 3. The deposit of public moneys. 4. Customs, collection districts, and ports of entry and delivery. 5. Reciprocal trade agreements. 6. Transportation of dutiable goods. 7. Revenue measures relating to the insular possessions. (i) Committee on Foreign Relations, to which committee shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the following subjects: 1. Relations of the United States with foreign nations generally. 2. Treaties. 3. Establishment of boundary lines between the United States and foreign nations. 4. Protection of American citizens abroad and expatriation. 5. Neutrality. 6. International conferences and congresses. 7. The American National Red Cross. 8. Intervention abroad and declarations of war. 1 As amended, Sec. 131(a) of Pub. Law 91-510, 84 Stat. 1163, Oct. 26, 1970. Section 131 of that Act established a standing Committee on Veterans' Affairs and transferred to it as jurisdictional items 1-4 those formerly exercised by the Committee on Finance as items 10-13. 9. Measures relating to the diplomatic service. 10. Acquisition of land and buildings for embassies and legations in foreign countries. 11. Measures to foster commercial intercourse with foreign nations and to safeguard American business interests abroad. 12. United Nations Organization and international financial and monetary organizations. 13. Foreign loans. (j) (1) Committee on Government Operations,' to which [25.1j] 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 and of submitting such recommendations to the Senate as it deems necessary or desirable in connection with the subject matter of such reports; (B) studying the operation of Government activities at all levels with a view to determining its economy and efficiency; (C) evaluating the effects of laws enacted to reorganize the legislative and executive branches of the Government; 1 Name changed from Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments, S. Jour. 127, 82-2, Mar. 3, 1952. [25.1k] (D) studying the intergovernmental relationships between the United States and the States and municipalities, and between the United States and international organizations of which the United States is a member. (k) Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs,' to which committee shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the following subjects: 1. Public lands generally, including entry, easements, and grazing thereon. 2. Mineral resources of the public lands. 3. Forfeiture of land grants and alien ownership, including alien ownership of mineral lands. 4. Forest reserves and national parks created from the public domain. 5. Military parks and battlefields.2 6. Preservation of prehistoric ruins and objects of interest on the public domain. 7. Measures relating generally to the insular possessions of the United States, except those affecting their revenue and appropriations.3 8. Irrigation and reclamation, including water supply for reclamation projects, and easements of public lands for irrigation projects. 9. Interstate compacts relating to apportionment of waters for irrigation purposes. 10. Mining interests generally. 11. Mineral land laws and claims and entries thereunder. 1 Name changed from Committee on Public Lands, S. Jour. 51, 80-2, Jan. 28, 1948. As amended, Sec. 131 of Pub. Law 91-510, 84 Stat. 1164, Oct. 26, 1970. Jurisdiction over national cemeteries transferred to jurisdiction of new standing Committee on Veterans' Affairs, established by same section of that Act. As amended, S. Jour. 157-160, 88-1, Feb. 25, 1963. 12. Geological survey. 13. Mining schools and experimental stations. 14. Petroleum conservation and conservation of the radium supply in the United States. 15. Relations of the United States with the Indians and the Indian tribes. 16. Measures relating to the care, education, and management of Indians, including the care and allotment of Indian lands and general and special measures relating to claims which are paid out of Indian funds. (1) Committee on the Judiciary, to which committee shall [25.11] be referred all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the following subjects: 1. Judicial proceedings, civil and criminal, generally. 2. Constitutional amendments. 3. Federal courts and judges. 4. Local courts in the territories and possessions. 5. Revision and codification of the statutes of the United States. 6. National penitentiaries. 7. Protection of trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies. 8. Holidays and celebrations. 9. Bankruptcy, mutiny, espionage, and counterfeiting. 10. State and territorial boundary lines. 11. Meetings of Congress, attendance of Members, and their acceptance of incompatible offices. 12. Civil liberties. 13. Patents, copyrights, and trademarks. 14. Patent Office. |