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Chapter 12:2
Committees in Congress
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Role of committees
• screen bills placed before Congress
• hold public hearings so that government officials and private citizens can offer opinions and/or expert testimony
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Types of Committees
• standing committees• select committees• joint committees• conference committees
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Standing committees
• have jurisdiction over bills of a certain type
• are often divided into smaller subcommittees
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Select committees
• conduct studies and investigations rather than consider legislation
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Joint committees• staffed by an equal number of
members from both the House and Senate
• give full congressional overview of a complex subject-report on findings to the Congress and the public
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Conference committees
• adjust differences between the House and Senate versions of bills-produce a version of the bill that is acceptable in both houses
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Appropriate
• to provide the money necessary to enact legislation-failure to provide such funds can effectively kill a bill
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House Rules Committee• organizes the flow of legislation
from committees to the House floor
• provides rules for the bill:-when it will be considered-how long the debate may last-how to divide debate time
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Committee assignment(s)
Republican and Democratic parties both have a Steering Committee:
• help make assignments• try to assign members based on
the expertise they could bring to the proceedings
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Chairpersons• usually achieve and/or maintain
position based on seniority• schedule meetings• draw-up agendas• decide which bills will be heard• decides who goes on fact-finding
trips
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Recent reforms of committee procedures
• chairpersons now elected by secret ballot
• no member is allowed to chair more than one committee
• a majority of a committee can call special meetings
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New committee procedures(continued)
• committee members who disagree with the chairperson can have time to present their views and call witnesses
• all meetings are to be open to the public*
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Subcommittees
• are increasingly more independent• now draft major laws• play a major role in managing
bills on the floor of the House and Senate