Question

In Congress, what are some disadvantages of relying on a committee to decide the fate of a piece of legislation?

List the four types of congressional committees. If you were a member of Congress, on what types of committees would you like to sit?   

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The 4 major committees of Congress are as follows :

1. STANDING COMMITTEES:

a) it continue from one Congress to the next and is the most important type of committee.

b) they consider and shape the vast majority of proposed laws.

c) Standing committees can be combined or discontinued but most of them have been around for many years.

d) Standing committees also conduct investigations. For example: Senate Banking Committee's investigation of President Bill Clinton's Whitewater investments.

2. SELECT COMMITTEES:

a) These committees are temporarily formed for specific purposes, often to study a particular issue.

b) They usually do not draft legislation. Some, like the select committees to investigate the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, were intended to have limited lives.

c) Others, like the Select Committee on Aging and the Select Committee on Indian Affairs, have existed for a number of years actually produce legislation.

d) Sometimes long-standing select committees eventually become standing committees.

3. JOINT COMMITTEES:

a) These committees have similar purposes as select committees, but they are made up of members from both the House and the Senate.

b) They are set up to conduct business between the houses and to help focus public attention on major issues.

c) Some joint committees handle routine matters, such as supervising the Library of Congress.

4. CONFERENCE COMMITTEES:

a) These committees are specially created when the House and the Senate need to reconcile different versions of the same bill.

b) A conference committee is made up of members from the House and Senate committees that originally considered the bill.

c) Their main aim to is to resolve, if any, which arises during the discussions and amendments of bil.

d) Once the committee agrees on a compromise, the revised bill is returned to both houses of Congress for their approval.

I would like to be a member of the standing committee. It is because this committee of the utmost importance and is continuous in nature. It not only consider and shape sharp majority of bills, but also investigates matters of public importance.

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