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Republican Conference rules are silent on subcommittee size and ratio issues.

Each committee chair determines and provides to other Republican members of the committee the method for selecting subcommittee chairs.

However, a majority of the Republican Members of the full committee can disapprove the selection procedure.

Republican Conference rules changes for the 108th Congress required subcommittee chairs of the Appropriations Committee to receive full conference approval.

Under House rules, subcommittee chairs are limited to six years of service.

Republicans also limit members to a single committee or subcommittee chairmanship ; the chairmanships of the Standards of Official Conduct Committee and the House Administration Committee are exempt, thereby allowing a Member to chair either of these panels and an additional panel.

Finally, Republican Conference rules prohibit a full-committee chair from leading a subcommittee of the committee they head.

Republicans generally leave assignment decisions to the committee leader to determine, although most employ a bidding approach that allows members to select subcommittee slots.