From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
     [Extracted from Senate Document 106-6, Authority and Rules of
     Senate Committees, 1999-2000]


                     COMMITTEE ON VETERANS' AFFAIRS

                              Jurisdiction

                 Rule XXV, Standing Rules of the Senate
    1. The following standing committees shall be appointed at the 
commencement of each Congress, and shall continue and have the power to 
act until their successors are appointed, with leave to report by bill 
or otherwise on matters within their respective jurisdictions:
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    (p) Committee on Veterans' Affairs, to which committee shall be 
referred all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and 
other matters relating to the following subjects:
     1. Compensation of veterans.
     2. Life insurance issued by the Government on account of service in 
the Armed Forces.
     3. National cemeteries.
     4. Pensions of all wars of the United States, general and special.
     5. Readjustment of servicemen to civil life.
     6. Soldiers' and sailors' civil relief.
     7. Veterans' hospitals, medical care and treatment of veterans.
     8. Veterans' measures generally.
     9. Vocational rehabilitation and education of veterans.