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Public Health Service Commissioned Corps whistleblowing under the Military Whistleblower Protection Act

Committee(s) of Jurisdiction:

House Committee on Energy and Commerce

Committee jurisdiction under House Rule X:

  • Biomedical research and development
  • Consumer affairs and consumer protection
  • Health and health facilities (except health care supported by payroll deductions)
  • Interstate energy compacts. (5) Interstate and foreign commerce generally
  • Exploration, production, storage, supply, marketing, pricing, and regulation of energy resources, including all fossil fuels, solar energy, and other unconventional or renewable energy resources
  • Conservation of energy resources
  • Energy information generally
  • The generation and marketing of power (except by federally chartered or Federal regional power marketing authorities); reliability and interstate transmission of, and ratemaking for, all power; and siting of generation facilities (except the installation of interconnections between Government waterpower projects)
  • General management of the Department of Energy and management and all functions of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
  • National energy policy generally
  • Public health and quarantine
  • Regulation of the domestic nuclear energy industry, including regulation of research and development reactors and nuclear regulatory research
  • Regulation of interstate and foreign communications
  • Travel and tourism.
  • The committee shall have the same jurisdiction with respect to regulation of nuclear facilities and of use of nuclear energy as it has with respect to regulation of nonnuclear facilities and of use of nonnuclear energy.

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