Volume 73
Public Law 86–1
Fixing the representation of the majority and minority membership of the Joint Economic Committee.
Approved February 17, 1959
Statutory text
AN ACT
Fixing the representation of the majority and minority membership of the Joint Economic Committee.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 5(a) of the Employment Act of 1946, as amended (60 Stat. 23, Public Law 304, Seventh-ninth Congress), is amended to read as follows:
“(a) There is established a Joint Economic Committee, to be composed of eight Members of the Senate, to be appointed by the President of the Senate, and eight Members of the House of Representatives, to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives. In each case, the majority party shall be represented by five Members and the minority party shall be represented by three Members.”
Approved February 17, 1959.