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Standing Committee

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Permanent Population Committee was created in 2004.

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The Committee on Permanent Organization

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*Standing Committees: these are the most important because all bills are referred to a standing committee in Congress. Each committee is an area of specialization that is further divided into subcommittees. These are permanent.

*Joint Committees: These are also permanent. The tasks assigned to them are very diverse.

*House Rules Committee: these are very powerful standing committees in the House. Once a bill has been approved by the appropriate standing committee, it is then sent to this one, which will govern rules on what will happen tot he bill once it is on the floor.

Mainly Standing Committees.

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The US House of Representatives has many committees and subcommittees.

As of 2016 there are 21 more or less permanent committees, 1 temporary (select) committee, and 4 Joint Committees (with members from both the House and the Senate). The permanent committees all have sub-committees associated with them.

  • Agriculture
  • Appropriations
  • Armed Services
  • Budget
  • Education and the Workforce
  • Energy and Commerce
  • Ethics
  • Financial Services
  • Foreign Affairs
  • Homeland Security
  • House Administration
  • Judiciary
  • Natural Resources
  • Oversight and Government Reform
  • Rules
  • Science, Space, and Technology
  • Small Business
  • Transportation and Infrastructure
  • Veterans' Affairs
  • Ways and Means
  • Intelligence
  • Select Committee on Benghazi
  • Joint Economic Committee
  • Joint Committee on the Library
  • Joint Committee on Printing
  • Joint Committee on Taxation
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