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Select or special committee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (144 words) |
 | A select or special committee of the United States Congress is a Congressional committee appointed to perform a special function that is beyond the authority or capacity of a standing committee. |
| A select committee is usually created by a simple resolution, which outlines its duties and powers, and its Members are appointed under the rules of their respective Houses. |
| A select committee expires on completion of its assigned duties unless it's a Permanent Select committee, such as the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. |
| Report of the Special Committee to Investigate (15685 words) |
| The Special Committee was informed that the establishment of new and the expansion of existing settlements continued and that settlement activity accelerated markedly after signature of the Wye River Memorandum in 1998 and in particular subsequent to the unilateral suspension by Israel for six months of its implementation of the Memorandum. |
| The Special Committee's attention was drawn to the extraordinarily complicated situation, in terms of the conflict of laws, that applies in the occupied territories, in particular on the question of jurisdiction, and as the Special Committee understands it giving rise to particular difficulties in Jerusalem. |
| The Special Committee's attention was drawn to a particular form of psychological pressure and uncertainty exercise by the Israeli authorities who refuse to return the bodies of Palestinians killed in bomb attacks and other circumstances to their families so that the death can be acknowledged and the body given a proper burial. |
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