S.Amdt. 196

SA 196. Mr. LEE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him
to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2024
for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. __. EX OFFICIO MEMBERS OF SELECT COMMITTEE ON
INTELLIGENCE OF THE SENATE.

(a) In General.--
(1) Membership.--Section 2(a)(3) of Senate Resolution 400
(94th Congress), agreed to May 19, 1976, is amended to read
as follows:
``(3) Each Member of the Senate (if not already a member of
the select committee) shall be an ex officio member of the
select committee but shall have no vote in the select
committee and shall not be counted for purposes of
determining a quorum.''.

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(2) Conforming amendment.--Rule XXV of the Standing Rules
of the Senate is amended--
(A) in paragraph 3 (b), in the item relating to the Select
Committee on Intelligence, by striking ``19'' and inserting
``100''; and
(B) in paragraph 4 (a)(2), by striking ``each Senator'' and
all that follows, and inserting ``a Senator may not serve on
both the Special Committee on Aging and the Joint Economic
Committee.''.
(b) Rulemaking.--Subsection (a) is enacted--
(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate
and as such it is deemed a part of the rules of the Senate
and it supersedes other rules only to the extent that it is
inconsistent with such rules; and
(2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of
the Senate to change the rules (so far as relating to the
procedure of the Senate) at any time, in the same manner, and
to the same extent as in the case of any other rule of the
Senate.
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