Committee assignments are given at the start of each new Congress. Members can request to serve on specific committees. Returning Members usually keep their committee assignments from the previous Congress because they have expertise and seniority. These assignments are approved by the majority and minority parties before being brought before the full Chamber for approval. Many committees, usually standing committees, have smaller subcommittees within them. Like standing committees, subcommittees hold hearings, conduct research, and revise bills.
Subcommittees report bills back to the full committee rather than the House floor. Select committees are temporary committees created with a timeline to complete a specific task, like investigating government activity. Rather than researching and reporting bills to the House floor, they research specific issues or oversee government agencies.
Also unlike other select committees, it considers bills and reports them back to the House floor. Joint committees include Members from both the U.
House of Representatives and the U. Joint committees debate and report on matters concerning the Congress rather than issues of public policy.
Because they consider only matters affecting the Congress, such as organizing the Presidential Inauguration ceremonies, they do not consider legislation or report on legislation to either the U.
House of Representatives or the U. The Committee is a way to move legislation through to the House floor for a vote quickly. The Committee of the Whole is able to debate bills more efficiently than the full U. House of Representatives because it requires a smaller quorum—only members versus the required of the full House. The U. House of Representatives resolves to the Committee of the Whole when the Speaker of the House passes a resolution setting the guidelines for considering the bill before it.
The Committee of the Whole debates the bill, then rises and reports its activities to the U. House of Representatives, which then votes on the legislation.
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