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The House Rules provide that the chairman of a committee presides over its meetings, maintains decorum and ensures that the committee adheres to the House Rules governing committees and generally acts in an administrative role respective to such issues as determining salaries of committee staff, issuing congressional subpoenas for testimony and ...
Members of the Committee on Financial Services sit in the tiers of raised chairs (R), while those testifying and audience members sit below (L). There are two main types of congressional committees in the United States House of Representatives, standing committees and select committees. Committee chairs are selected by whichever party is in the ...
Government reorganizations and operations, including transparency, performance, grants management, and accounting measures generally; The relationship between the federal government to the states and municipalities, including unfunded mandates
The White House Office of Management and Budget stopped "shutdown preparations" overnight in expectation that Congress would pass the short-term funding necessary to keep the government running.
The U.S. Office of Management and Budget, an agency closely controlled by the White House that oversees the federal government, released a Congressionally-mandated report on teleworking in August.
The House has twenty standing committees; the Senate has sixteen. Standing committees meet at least once each month. [9] Almost all standing committee meetings for transacting business must be open to the public unless the committee votes, publicly, to close the meeting. [9] Open committee meetings may be covered by the media. [9]
President-elect Donald Trump is planning a blizzard of more than 25 executive orders and directives on his first day in office on Jan. 20 as he seeks to dramatically reshape U.S. government policy ...
On July 18, 2007, Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR), a member of the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security at that time, requested the classified and more detailed version of the government's continuity-of-operations plan in a letter signed by him and the chairperson of the House Homeland Security Committee, which is supposed to have access to ...