National Transit Systems Security Act (NTSSA)

Committee jurisdiction under House Rule X:

• Coast Guard, including lifesaving service, lighthouses, lightships, ocean derelicts, and the Coast Guard Academy
• Federal management of emergencies and natural disasters
• Flood control and improvement of rivers and harbors
• Inland waterways
• Inspection of merchant marine vessels, lights and signals, lifesaving equipment, and fire protection on such vessels
• Navigation and laws relating thereto, including pilotage
• Registering and licensing of vessels and small boats
• Rules and international arrangements to prevent collisions at sea
• The Capitol Building and the Senate and House Office Buildings
• Construction or maintenance of roads and post roads (other than appropriations therefor)
• Construction or reconstruction, maintenance, and care of buildings and grounds of the Botanic Garden, the Library of Congress, and the Smithsonian Institution
• Merchant marine (except for national security aspects thereof)
• Purchase of sites and construction of post offices, customhouses, Federal courthouses, and Government buildings within the District of Columbia
• Oil and other pollution of navigable waters, including inland, coastal, and ocean waters
• Marine affairs, including coastal zone management, as they relate to oil and other pollution of navigable waters
• Public buildings and occupied or improved grounds of the United States generally
• Public works for the benefit of navigation, including bridges and dams (other than international bridges and dams)
• Related transportation regulatory agencies (except the Transportation Security Administration)
• Roads and the safety thereof
• Transportation, including civil aviation, railroads, water transportation, transportation safety (except automobile safety and transportation security functions of the Department of Homeland Security), transportation infrastructure, transportation labor, and railroad retirement and unemployment (except revenue measures related thereto)
• Water power

Committee jurisdiction under House Rule X:

• Child labor
• Gallaudet University and Howard University and Hospital
• Convict labor and the entry of goods made by convicts into interstate commerce
• Food programs for children in schools
• Labor standards and statistics
• Education or labor generally
• Mediation and arbitration of labor disputes
• Regulation or prevention of importation of foreign laborers under contract
• Workers’ compensation
• Vocational rehabilitation
• Wages and hours of labor
• Welfare of miners
• Work incentive programs
• Organization, administration, and general management of the Department of Education
• Organization, administration, and general management of the Department of Labor

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