Important History of Committee of the Whole
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The House did retain one curious relic fr om the British House of mons -the "committee of the whole Hou se" (see Chapter 1 ). This co mmittee is a procedural convenience whereby the entire membership of the l owe r house first considered and amended legi slation before finally reporting it b ac k to the House for final action. Th e device had been creat ed in the British House of Commons in the se venteenth century to permit discussion in secrecy of the king's budget requests, with a chairman presiding other than the Speaker, since the latter was considered an agent of the Crown. The device wa s attractive in the American co lonial assemblies for much the same reason, and it was adopted by the Co ntinental Congresses, the Con gre ss of Co nfederation, and the Co n, stitutional Convention.
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Its impossible to understand the effects of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 without understanding the history of the Committee of the Whole. This history is poorly recorded, but just in this one paragraph most of the important information is there. Nixon's Ghost Bill. Cardboard Box Reform. James D'Angelo
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The House did retain one curious relic from the British House of Com~ mons-the "committee of the whole House" (see Chapter 1 ). This committee is a procedural convenience whereby the entire membership of the lower house first considered and amended legislation before finally reporting it back to the House for final action. The device had been created in the British House of Commons in the seventeenth century to permit discussion in secrecy of the king's budget requests, with a chairman presiding other than the Speaker, since the latter was considered an agent of the Crown. The device was attractive in the American colonial assemblies for much the same reason, and it was adopted by the Continental Congresses, the Congress of Confederation, and the Con, stitutional Convention.
