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[CITE: 44USC102]

 
                 TITLE 44--PUBLIC PRINTING AND DOCUMENTS
 
                 CHAPTER 1--JOINT COMMITTEE ON PRINTING
 
Sec. 102. Joint Committee on Printing: succession; powers during 
        recess
        
    The members of the Joint Committee on Printing who are reelected to 
the succeeding Congress shall continue as members of the committee until 
their successors are chosen. The President of the Senate and the Speaker 
of the House of Representatives shall, on the last day of a Congress, 
appoint members of their respective Houses who have been elected to the 
succeeding Congress to fill vacancies which may then be about to occur 
on the Committee, and the appointees and members of the Committee who 
have been reelected shall continue until their successors are chosen.
    When Congress is not in session, the Joint Committee may exercise 
all its powers and duties as when Congress is in session.

(Pub. L. 90-620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1238.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., Sec. 2 (Mar. 2, 1895, ch. 189, 
Sec. 1, 28 Stat. 962; Mar. 3, 1917, ch. 163, Sec. 6, 39 Stat. 1121).
    Changes are made in phraseology.
