Senate committees monitor on-going governmental operations, identify issues suitable for legislative review, gather and evaluate information, and recommend courses of action to the Senate. During each two-year Congress thousands of bills and resolutions are referred to Senate committees.

Terms in this set (4)

• Standing Committees. Standing committees deal with issues of permanent legislative concern.
• Conference committees. For a bill to become law both houses must approve identical versions.
• Select committees. Deals with temporary issues, investigation.
• Joint committees.

There are three main types of committees: standing, select or special, and joint. (Party committees, task forces, and congressional Member organizations—informal groups—are not addressed here.) Standing committees are permanent panels identified as such in chamber rules (House Rule X, Senate Rule XXV).

There are five different types of committees—standing committees, subcommittees, select committees, joint committees, and the Committee of the Whole.

The Committee on Rules, or more commonly, the Rules Committee, is a committee of the United States House of Representatives. It is responsible for the rules under which bills will be presented to the House of Representatives, unlike other committees, which often deal with a specific area of policy.

The key committees in the House are Standing, Select, Joint, and Conference Committees. 3. List 4 important powers of a committee chairperson.

2) What is the usual role of select committees in the House and the Senate? To investigate a current matter. Joint committees are usually permanent, conference committees are temporary, joint bodies.

select or special committee – A committee established by the Senate for a limited time period to perform a particular study or investigation. These committees might be given or denied authority to report legislation to the Senate.

The Senate maintains three types of committees. These include standing, select or special, and joint committees.

Standing committees are permanent committees whose jurisdiction is identified in the House Rules. 2. Select committees are created by a resolution to conduct investigations or consider measures, usually on a specific topic, and are not renewed on a permanent basis.

– Select or special committees are typically temporary panels set up to investigate a specific issue. – Standing committees review and modify bills and decide if they should be reported to the floor for a vote. Subcommittees then do much of the work of reviewing a bill.

standing committees review and modify bills and decide if they should be reported to the floor for a vote. Subcommittees then do much of the work of reviewing a bill. Joint committees coordinate the efforts of both houses on key issues, while select committees conduct special investigations.

How can being assigned to the “right” committee help a member’s career? – Can increase a lawmaker’s chances for reelection because it puts a congressperson in position to act on bills that are important to their constituents. – Can mean the lawmaker will be able to influence national policies.

Article I, Section 5, of the United States Constitution provides that “Each House [of Congress] may determine the Rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member.” Since 1789, the Senate has expelled only fifteen of its entire membership.

Censure is a formal, and public, group condemnation of an individual, often a group member, whose actions run counter to the group’s acceptable standards for individual behavior. Members of Congress who have been censured are required to give up any committee chairs they hold.

The United States Constitution (Article 1, Section 5) gives the House of Representatives the power to expel any member by a two-thirds vote. Expulsion of a Representative is rare: only five members of the House have been expelled in its history.