House Rules

House Armed Services Committee members new and old today adopted the rules that will govern the panel's activities during the 113th Congress.

The rules contain three changes, committee Chairman Buck McKeon (R-CA) said this morning. "First, the proposed rules include one change made by the new rules of the House, which now require the committee to submit two activity reports per Congress instead of four," he said.

The new rules also update the jurisdiction of certain subcommittees, according to McKeon, who said:

For three subcommittees, the proposed rules would add jurisdiction over sustainment accounts associated with weapons systems for which each subcommittee already oversees procurement. This change would apply to the subcommittees on tactical air and land forces, seapower and projection forces and strategic forces. Readiness jurisdiction remains unchanged from the previous Congress and retains jurisdiction of overall readiness to include weapon sustainment.

The last subcommittee modification would be to the subcommittee on intelligence, emerging threats and capabilities, which was formerly known as the subcommittee on emergent threats and capabilities. The jurisdiction of the subcommittee remains relatively unchanged except for the addition of intelligence policy, including coordination of military intelligence programs, national intelligence programs excluding the national intelligence space programs and DOD elements that are part of the intelligence community.

View the full text of the committee's new rules.