Congressional committee
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 House of Representatives relies more on its committees, as it is larger overall (435 as opposed to 100 members in the Senate). 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.
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).
Most committees also have one or more subcomittees.
House Committees
Senate Committees
- Select Committee on Ethics
- Select Committee on Intelligence
- Special Committee on Aging
Committees in Both Chambers
Defunct House Standing Committees
The functions of some of these may have been merged into extant 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 House Administration
- 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 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
- 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 Veterans' Affairs
- U.S. House Committee on War Claims
- U.S. House Committee on Woman Suffrage
- U.S. House Committee on World War Veterans' Legislation
Defunct Senate Committees
The functions of some of these may have been merged into extant committees.
Other Defunct Committees
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