A bill to establish a Joint Committee on National Security.

Summary

Establishes a Joint Committee on National Security in the Congress. States that the purpose of this Act is to enable the Congress to more effectively carry out its constitutional responsibility in the formulation of foreign, domestic, and military policies of the United States and to provide the Congress with an improved means for formulating legislation. Sets forth the membership composition of such Committee and states its functions, including: (1) to make a study of the foreign, domestic, and military policies of the United States to determine whether such policies are being appropriately integrated in furtherance of the national security; (2) to make a study of the recommendations and activities of the National Security Council relating to such policies; and (3) to make a study of Government practices and recommendations with respect to the classification and declassification of documents. Authorizes the Committee to make expenditures, employ personnel, hold hearings, and subpena witnesses and documents.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 14 January 1975

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