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[CITE: 22USC276d]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
           CHAPTER 7--INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC.
 
       SUBCHAPTER I--CANADA-UNITED STATES INTERPARLIAMENTARY GROUP
 
Sec. 276d. United States group; appointment; term; meetings

    Not to exceed twenty-four Members of Congress shall be appointed to 
meet jointly and at least annually and when Congress is not in session 
(except that this restriction shall not apply during the first session 
of the Eighty-sixth Congress or to meetings held in the United States) 
with representatives of the House of Commons and Senate of the Canadian 
Parliament for discussion of common problems in the interests of 
relations between the United States and Canada. Of the Members of the 
Congress to be appointed for the purposes of this subchapter 
(hereinafter designated as the United States group) half shall be 
appointed by the Speaker of the House from Members of the House (not 
less than four of whom shall be from the Foreign Affairs Committee), and 
half shall be appointed by the President of the Senate upon 
recommendations of the majority and minority leaders of the Senate from 
Members of the Senate (not less than four of whom shall be from the 
Foreign Relations Committee).
    Such appointments shall be for the period of each meeting of the 
Canada-United States Interparliamentary group except for the four 
members of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the four members of the 
Foreign Relations Committee, whose appointments shall be for the 
duration of each Congress.
    The Chairman or Vice Chairman of the House delegation shall be a 
Member from the Foreign Affairs Committee, and, unless the President of 
the Senate, upon the recommendation of the Majority Leader, determines 
otherwise, the Chairman or Vice Chairman of the Senate delegation shall 
be a Member from the Foreign Relations Committee.

(Pub. L. 86-42, Sec. 1, June 11, 1959, 73 Stat. 72; Pub. L. 95-45, 
Sec. 4(a), June 15, 1977, 91 Stat. 222; Pub. L. 103-437, Sec. 9(a)(3), 
Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4588.)


                               Amendments

    1994--Pub. L. 103-437 substituted ``Foreign Affairs'' for 
``International Relations'' wherever appearing.
    1977--Pub. L. 95-45 substituted ``International Relations 
Committee'' for ``Foreign Affairs Committee'' as the name of the House 
Committee from which not less than four of the House appointees must be 
drawn, inserted requirement that the appointment of the Senate 
appointees by the President of the Senate be made upon the 
recommendations of the majority and minority leaders of the Senate, and 
inserted provision that the Chairman or Vice Chairman of the House 
delegation be a Member from the International Relations Committee, and, 
unless the President of the Senate, upon the recommendation of the 
Majority Leader, determines otherwise, the Chairman or Vice Chairman of 
the Senate delegation be a Member from the Foreign Relations Committee.

                         Change of Name

    Committee on Foreign Affairs of House of Representatives treated as 
referring to Committee on International Relations of House of 
Representatives by section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104-14, set out as a note 
preceding section 21 of Title 2, The Congress.
