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1. A select committee is a committee consisting of 15 main members from different parties. It's job is to keep the Government in check and to monitor their many departments. A select committee can monitor Government, ensuring they are held accountable for their actions. It can also embarrass the Government by scrutinizing them, often via reports which suggest appropriate changes that should be taken and the Government must consider this advice.
2. They are panels set up for some specific purpose and, most often, for a limited time. The Speaker of the House or the president of the senate appoints the members of theses special committees, with the advice of the majority and minority leaders.
Most select committes are formed to investigate a current matter.
Congress can pass a vetoed bill with a two-thirds majority vote in both houses.
To advise the president and serve as acting president
The extension of voting rights to all white males.
give the bill its second reading
People say that the Vice President is "only a heartbeat away" from the presidency because the vice president is first in the order of succession. If the President's heart should stop beating, the Vice President takes over the office.
If the president dies or otherwise become incapacitated, the vice-president becomes president.
the influence and experience of recent vice presidents
Transferred to the vice president but not the office itself. ( gradpoint
The President nominates a new Vice President.
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