|
A Congressional committee in the parlance of the United States Congress and politics of the United States is a legislative sub-organization that handles a specific duty (rather than the general duties of Congress, i.e. making "necessary and proper" laws). The Congress of the United States is the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States of America. ...
The Federal Government of the United States was established by the United States Constitution. ...
The necessary and proper clause (also known as the elastic clause) from Section 8 of Article One of the United States Constitution provides a legislative blank check of sorts for Congress, allowing the creation of any law seen as necessary or proper regardless of its mention in the United States...
The House of Representatives relies more on its committees because of its larger size (there are 435 members of the House, as opposed to 100 members in the Senate). The House of Representatives is the larger of two houses that make up the U.S. Congress, the other being the United States Senate. ...
Seal of the Senate The Senate is one of the two houses of the Congress of the United States, the other being the House of Representatives. ...
Current Committees
In the House of Representatives, there are 20 standing committees (those that conduct business throughout the session, focusing on a certain, long-lasting issue). In the smaller United States Senate, there are only 16 standing committees. The House of Representatives is the larger of two houses that make up the U.S. Congress, the other being the United States Senate. ...
A standing committee is a subunit of a political or deliberative body established in a permanent fashion to aid the parent assembly in accomplishing its duties, usually by provided focussed attention on one particular subject matter. ...
Seal of the Senate The Senate is one of the two houses of the Congress of the United States, the other being the House of Representatives. ...
Together, there are certain joint committees (those that are important enough to warrant members from both chambers), select committees (those that only last for a certain amount of time, for a matter that is currently important), and "other" committees (including Indians' Affairs). A Joint Committee of the Parliament of the United Kingdom is a Select Committee consisting of members of both the House of Commons and the House of Lords. ...
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. ...
Most committees also have one or more subcomittees. A Congressional subcommittee in the United States Congress is a subdivision of a standing committee that considers specified matters and reports back to the full committee. ...
| U.S. Congressional Committees |
| | | Download high resolution version (1520x800, 18 KB) Subject: Flag of the United States. ...
The House of Representatives is the larger of two houses that make up the U.S. Congress, the other being the United States Senate. ...
The Committee on Appropriations, or Appropriations Committee (often referred to as simply Appropriations, as in Hes on Appropriations) is a committee of the United States House of Representatives. ...
The U.S. House Committee on Armed Services, commonly known as the House Armed Services Committee, is a standing committee of the United States House of Representatives, the lower house of Congress. ...
The U.S. House Committee on the Budget, commonly known as the House Budget Committee, is a standing committee of the United States House of Representatives, the lower house of Congress. ...
The Committee on Education and the Workforce is a committee of the United States House of Representatives. ...
The U.S. House Commerce Committee on Energy and Commerce residing at 2125 Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, DC is the oldest (208 years) legislative standing committee in the U.S. House of Representatives. ...
House Committee on Financial Services Committee oversees the entire financial services industry, including the securities, insurance, banking, and housing industries. ...
This article needs to be wikified. ...
The U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security is a standing committee of the United States House of Representatives, the lower house of Congress. ...
The United States House Committee on House Administration deals with the general administration matters of the House. ...
The U.S. House Committee on International Relations (also known as the House International Relations Committee, the House Foreign Relations Committee or the House Foreign Affairs Committee), is a standing committee of the United States House of Representatives which is in charge of bills and investigations related to the foreign...
U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, or (more commonly) the House Judiciary Committee, is a standing committee of the United States House of Representatives. ...
The Committee on Rules, or (more commonly) Rules Committee, is a committee of the United States House of Representatives. ...
The Committee on Science is a standing committee of the United States House of Representatives. ...
The Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, often known simply as the Ethics Committee, is one of the committees of the United States House of Representatives. ...
The U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure has jurisdiction over: Aviation Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Railroads Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Highways, Transit, and Pipelines Water Resources and Environment A subcommittee represents each area of jurisdiction. ...
The standing Committee on Veterans Affairs in the United States House of Representatives oversees agencies, reviews current legistation, and recommends new bills or amendments concerning veterans. ...
The Committee on Ways and Means is a committee of the United States House of Representatives. ...
Seal of the Senate The Senate is one of the two houses of the Congress of the United States, the other being the House of Representatives. ...
The Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry is a committee of the United States Senate empowered with legislative oversight of all matters relating to the nations agriculture industry, farming programs, forestry and logging, and legislation relating to nutrition and health. ...
U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations is a standing committee of the United States Senate. ...
The Committee on Armed Services is a committee of the United States Senate empowered with legislative oversight of the nations military, including the Department of Defense, military research and development, nuclear energy (as pertaining to national security), benefits for members of the military, the Selective Service System and other...
The United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs has jurisdiction over matters related to banks and banking, price controls, deposit insurance, export promotion and controls, federal monetary policy, financial aid to commerce and industry, issuance of redemption of notes, currency and coinage, public and private housing, urban...
The United States Senate Committee on Budget was established in 1974 by the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act. ...
The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation is a standing committee of the United States Senate in charge of all senate matters related to the following subjects: Coast Guard Coastal zone management Communications Highway safety Inland waterways, except construction Interstate commerce Marine and ocean navigation, safety, and transportation Marine...
The United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources has jurisdiction over matters related to energy and nuclear waste policy, territorial policy, native Hawaiian matters, and public lands. ...
The United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works is responsible for dealing with matters related to the environment and infrastructure. ...
The U.S. Senate Committee on Finance (or, less formally, Senate Finance Committee) is a standing committee of the United States Senate. ...
U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations is a standing committee of the United States Senate. ...
The United States Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs has jurisdiction over matters related to the functioning of the government itself, including the National Archives, budget and accounting measures other than appropriations, the Census, the federal civil service, the affairs of the District of Columbia, and the United States Postal Service. ...
The United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions has jurisdiction over matters relating to health, education, labor, and pensions. ...
The U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary (informally Senate Judiciary Committee) is a standing committee of the United States Senate, the upper house of the United States Congress. ...
The United States Senate Committee on Rules and Administration is responsible for dealing with the rules of the Senate, with administration of congressional buildings, and with credentials and qualifications of members of the Senate, including responsibility for dealing with contested elections. ...
The U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship is a standing committee of the United States Senate. ...
The United States Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs is responsible for dealing with matters related to veterans. ...
The United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs is responsible for dealing with matters related to the American Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Alaska Native peoples. ...
The United States Senate Select Committee on Ethics is a select committee charged with dealing with matters related to senatorial ethics. ...
The United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is a select committee of the United States Senate dedicated to overseeing the American Intelligence Community—the agencies and bureaus of the U.S. federal government who provide information and analysis for leaders of the executive and legislative branches. ...
The United States Senate Special Committee on Aging was initially established in 1961 as a temporary committee, and becaming a permanent committee in 1977. ...
The Joint Economic Committee is one of only four joint committees of the U.S. Congress. ...
The Joint Committee on the Library is a joint committee of the U.S. Congress devoted to the affairs and administration of the U.S. Library of Congress, which is both the private library of the federal legislature and Americas national library. ...
Defunct Committees The functions of some of these may have been merged into extant committees.
Defunct House Committees - U.S. House Committee Census
- U.S. House Committee Civil Service
- U.S. House Committee Claims
- U.S. House Committee Invalid Pensions
- U.S. House Committee Judiciary
- U.S. House Committee Merchant Marine and Fisheries
- U.S. House Committee Merchant Marine, Radio and Fisheries
- U.S. House Committee Military Pensions
- U.S. House Committee on a Uniform System of Coinage, Weights and Measures
- U.S. House Committee on Accounts
- U.S. House Committee on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic
- U.S. House Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures
- U.S. House Committee on Commerce and Manufactures
- U.S. House Committee on Commerce
- U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor
- U.S. House Committee on Education
- U.S. House Committee on Elections
- U.S. House Committee on Engraving
- U.S. House Committee on Enrolled Bills
- U.S. House Committee on Expenditures in the Agriculture Department
- U.S. House Committee on Expenditures in the Commerce and Labor Departments
- U.S. House Committee on Expenditures in the Commerce Department
- U.S. House Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Department
- U.S. House Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department
- U.S. House Committee on Expenditures in the Justice Department
- U.S. House Committee on Expenditures in the Labor Department
- U.S. House Committee on Expenditures in the Navy Department
- U.S. House Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department
- U.S. House Committee on Expenditures in the State Department
- U.S. House Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department
- U.S. House Committee on Expenditures in the War Department
- U.S. House Committee on Expenditures on the Public Buildings
- U.S. House Committee on Flood Control
- U.S. House Committee on Freedmen's Affairs
- U.S. House Committee on Government Operations
- U.S. House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization
- U.S. House Committee on Indian Affairs
- U.S. House Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions
- U.S. House Committee on Insular Affairs
- U.S. House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
- U.S. House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
- U.S. House Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation
- U.S. House Committee on Irrigation of Arid Lands
- U.S. House Committee on Labor
- U.S. House Committee on Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River
- U.S. House Committee on Manufactures
- U.S. House Committee on Memorials
- U.S. House Committee on Mileage
- U.S. House Committee on Military Affairs
- U.S. House Committee on Mines and Mining
- U.S. House Committee on Naval Affairs
- U.S. House Committee on Pacific Railroads
- U.S. House Committee on Patents
- U.S. House Committee on Pensions and Revolutionary War Claims
- U.S. House Committee on Pensions
- U.S. House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service
- U.S. House Committee on Post Office and Post Roads
- U.S. House Committee on Printing
- U.S. House Committee on Private Land Claims
- U.S. House Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds
- U.S. House Committee on Public Expenditures
- U.S. House Committee on Public Lands
- U.S. House Committee on Public Works
- U.S. House Committee on Railways and Canals
- U.S. House Select Committee on Reconstruction
- U.S. House Committee on Records of Committees Relating to Banking and Currency
- U.S. House Committee on Reform in the Civil Service
- U.S. House Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business
- U.S. House Committee on Revision of Laws
- U.S. House Committee on Revolutionary Claims
- U.S. House Committee on Revolutionary Pensions
- U.S. House Committee on Rivers and Harbors
- U.S. House Committee on Roads and Canals
- U.S. House Committee on Roads
- U.S. House Committee on Science and Astronautics
- U.S. House Committee on Science and Technology
- U.S. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
- U.S. House Committee on Territories
- U.S. House Committee on the Disposition of Executive Papers
- U.S. House Committee on the District of Columbia
- U.S. House Committee on the Election of the President, Vice President and Representatives in Congress
- U.S. House Committee on the Library - Absorbed into the U.S. Congress Joint Committee on the Library
- U.S. House Committee on the Militia
- U.S. House Committee on the Mississippi Levees
- U.S. House Committee on Ventilation and Acoustics
- U.S. House Committee on War Claims
- U.S. House Committee on Woman Suffrage
- U.S. House Committee on World War Veterans' Legislation
The Joint Committee on the Library is a joint committee of the U.S. Congress devoted to the affairs and administration of the U.S. Library of Congress, which is both the private library of the federal legislature and Americas national library. ...
Defunct Senate Committees The U.S. Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences existed from 1958 to 1977, when it was folded into the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. ...
The Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry is a committee of the United States Senate empowered with legislative oversight of all matters relating to the nations agriculture industry, farming programs, forestry and logging, and legislation relating to nutrition and health. ...
The United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs has jurisdiction over matters related to banks and banking, price controls, deposit insurance, export promotion and controls, federal monetary policy, financial aid to commerce and industry, issuance of redemption of notes, currency and coinage, public and private housing, urban...
The United States Senate Committee on Canadian Relations existed from 1888, when it was created as a select committee, until 1921, and dealt with issues related to U.S. relations with Canada. ...
The United States Senate Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment was created in 1873. ...
The United States Senate Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment was created in 1873. ...
The United States Senate Committee on Claims was among the first standing committees established in the Senate. ...
The United States Senate Committee on Coast and Insular Survey was created in 1899 and terminated in 1921. ...
The United States Senate Committee on Coast Defenses was created in 1885 to deal with the countrys coastal defenses. ...
The United States Senate Committee on Commerce and Manufactures was one of the original standing committees created in the Senate in 1816, but it only lasted nine years, when it was split into the Committee on Commerce and the Committee on Manufactures. ...
The United States Senate Committee on Conservation of National Resources was established in 1909 and terminated in 1921. ...
The United States Senate Committee on Corporations Organized in the District of Columbia was formed as a select committee in 1892, and became a standing committee in 1896. ...
The United States Senate Committee on Cuban Relations was formed following the Spanish-American War, in 1899. ...
The United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs is responsible for dealing with matters related to the American Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Alaska Native peoples. ...
The U.S. Senate Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds was a committee of the United States Senate from 1883 until 1946. ...
The United States Senate Select Committee on the Tenth Census was created in 1878. ...
The United States Senate Committee on the District of Columbia was one of the first standing committees created in the Senate, in 1816. ...
The Joint Committee on the Library is a joint committee of the U.S. Congress devoted to the affairs and administration of the U.S. Library of Congress, which is both the private library of the federal legislature and Americas national library. ...
This committee of the United States Senate was created in 1807. ...
Other Defunct Committees The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) was an investigating committee of the United States House of Representatives. ...
The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War was a United States Congressional investigating committee created to handle issues surrounding the American Civil War. ...
The Joint Committee on Reconstruction was a United States Congressional joint committee created to inquire into the condition of the States which formed the so-called Confederate States of America, and report whether they, or any of them, are entitled to be represented in either house of Congress. ...
See Also |
Feeds |
Contact