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Committee(s) of Jurisdiction:

House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology

Committee jurisdiction under House Rule X:

  • All energy research, development, and demonstration, and projects therefor, and all federally owned or operated nonmilitary energy laboratories
  • Astronautical research and development, including resources, personnel, equipment, and facilities
  • Civil aviation research and development
  • Environmental research and development
  • Marine research
  • Commercial application of energy technology
  • National Institute of Standards and Technology, standardization of weights and measures, and the metric system
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • National Space Council
  • National Science Foundation
  • National Weather Service
  • Outer space, including exploration and control thereof
  • Science scholarships
  • Scientific research, development, and demonstration, and projects therefor

House Armed Services Committee

Committee jurisdiction under House Rule X:

  • Ammunition depots; forts; arsenals; and Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Space Force reservations and establishments
  • Common defense generally
  • Conservation, development, and use of naval petroleum and oil shale reserves
  • The Department of Defense generally, including the Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, generally
  • Interoceanic canals generally, including measures relating to the maintenance, operation, and administration of interoceanic canals
  • Merchant Marine Academy and State Maritime Academies
  • Military applications of nuclear energy
  • Tactical intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the Department of Defense
  • National security aspects of merchant marine, including financial assistance for the construction and operation of vessels, maintenance of the U.S. shipbuilding and ship repair industrial base, cabotage, cargo preference, and merchant marine officers and seafarers as these matters relate to the national security
  • Pay, promotion, retirement, and other benefits and privileges of members of the armed forces
  • Scientific research and development in support of the armed services
  • Selective service
  • Size and composition of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Space Force
  • Soldiers’ and sailors’ homes
  • Strategic and critical materials necessary for the common defense
  • Cemeteries administered by the Department of Defense

House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

Committee jurisdiction under House Rule X:

  • Federal civil service, including intergovernmental personnel; and the status of officers and employees of the United States, including their compensation, classification, and retirement
  • Municipal affairs of the District of Columbia in general (other than appropriations)
  • Federal paperwork reduction
  • Government management and accounting measures generally
  • Holidays and celebrations
  • Overall economy, efficiency, and management of government operations and activities, including Federal procurement
  • National archives
  • Population and demography generally, including the Census
  • Postal service generally, including transportation of the mails
  • Public information and records
  • Relationship of the Federal Government to the States and municipalities generally
  • Reorganizations in the executive branch of the Government