General Oversight Responsibilities (Rule X, clause 2) --
Requires each standing committee (except Appropriations and Budget) to review on a continuing basis the laws, programs and agencies under its jurisdiction to determine whether they should be continued, curtailed or terminated.

Special Oversight Functions (Rule X, clause 3) --
Special oversight functions are assigned to committees on National Security, Budget, Education and the Workforce, International Relations, Resources, Science, Small Business, Commerce, and Rules.

Additional Functions of Committees (Rule X, clause 4) --
Additional review requirements for Committees on Appropriations, Budget, and Government Reform (clauses 4(a)-(c)); investigative authority and procedures of Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (clause 4(e)); each standing committee should review from time to time those programs within its jurisdiction for which appropriations are not made annually (clause 4(f)(2)).

Investigative Authority (Rule XI, clause l(b)) --
Each committee is authorized at any time to conduct such investigations and studies as it may consider necessary or appropriate in the exercise of its responsibilities under Rule X.

Committee Activity Reports (Rule XI, clause l(d)) --
Each committee shall submit to the House not later than January 2nd of each odd-numbered year a report on its legislative and oversight activities under Rules X and XI. (Note: Minority may exercise right to file views)

Committee Meetings (Rule XI, clause 2(b) & (c)) --
Committees must establish a regular meeting day (at least once a month); the chairman may call additional meetings; three or more members of a committee may file a written request for a special meeting, and, if the chairman does not call the meeting within 3 calendar days to be held within 7 calendar days, a majority of the committee members may file written notice that the special meeting will be called.

Committee Records (Rule XI, clause 2(e)) --
Committees shall keep complete records and files; all committee hearings, records, data, charts and files shall be kept separate from the chairman's congressional office files, "and such records shall be the property of the House and all Members of the House shall have access thereto," except for the records of the Standards Committee.

Open Meetings and Hearings (Rule XI, clause 2(g)) --
Meetings shall be open unless a majority votes (by rollcall) to close a meeting (a majority being present); hearings shall be open unless a majority votes (by rollcall) to close them for national security or personal privacy reasons. No House Member may be excluded from nonparticipatorv attendance at any committee or subcommittee hearing (except for Standards Committee). Committee hearings must be publicly announced at least one week in advance (unless "committee determines there is good cause to begin sooner"); and witnesses should be required to present advance copies of their written statements.

Committee Quorums (Rule XI, clause 2(h)) --
Each committee may fix the quorum for taking testimony which shall not be less than two, and may fix a quorum at one-third of the members for taking any other action other than reporting measures, issuing subpoenas, or releasing executive session materials (which requires a majority).

Minority Right to Call Witnesses (Rule XI, clause 2(j)) --
Whenever a hearing is conducted on any measure or matter the minority may, upon the written request of a majority of the minority members before the completion of the hearing, insist on its right to call witnesses selected by the minority "during at least one day of hearing" on the measure or matter.

Investigative Hearing Procedures (Rule XI, clause 2(k)) --
This clause enumerates the duties of the chairman and rights of witnesses in connection with investigative hearings, including procedures for taking potentially defamatory testimony in executive session. No evidence taken in executive session may be released or used in public sessions without a vote of the committee.

Committee Reports (Rule XI, clause 2(1)) --
Committee reports must contain oversight findings if timely submitted by Gov. Reform Committee. Members may have two days in which to file supplemental, minority or additional views "on any measure or matter."

Power to Sit and Act and Subpoena Authority (Rule XI, clause 2(m)) --
Committees are authorized to sit and act at any time in carrying out their functions under Rules X and XI, and to require testimony or materials "by subpoenas or otherwise." A subpoena may be authorized and issued by a committee or subcommittee in the conduct of any investigation or series of investigations "only when authorized by a majority of the members voting, a majority being present." The power to authorize and issue subpoenas may be delegated to the chairman of the full committee pursuant to such rules and limitations as the committee may prescribe. Compliance with subpoenas may be enforced "only as authorized or enforced by the House."

Broadcasting Committee Hearings and Meetings (Rule XI, clause 3) --
Whenever a committee meeting or hearing is open to the public, it must also be open to coverage by radio, TV and still photography, except, that a witness who is under subpoena may bar such coverage of his testimony on request.

Committee Staff Rights (Rule XI, clause 6(g) --
Each statutory and investigative staff member "shall be accorded equitable treatment with respect to the fixing of his or her rate of pay, the assignment to him or her of work facilities, and the accessibility to him or her of work facilities and the accessibility to him or her of committee records."

Resolutions of Inquiry (Rule XXII, clause 5) --
All resolutions of inquiry addressed to the heads of executive departments shall be reported to the House within 14 legislative days after presentation. Resolutions of inquiry are simple House resolutions directing agency heads (or "requesting" the President) to produce certain factual information (no advice or opinions.)