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This template is the standard infobox to be used on pages for United States congressional committees, past and present, in both the Senate and House, along with joint committees, intended to contain information about a committee's history, current leadership and structure by party, jurisdiction and oversight authority, subcommittees, meeting place, and links to official external resources.
Notable conference reports have played critical roles in shaping significant legislation. For instance, the conference report for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 was a key document that reconciled differences between the House and Senate versions of the tax reform bill, leading to major changes in the U.S. tax code. [ 12 ]
In politics, a party secretary is a senior official within a political party with responsibility for the organizational and daily political work. In most parties, the party secretary is second in rank to the party leader (or party chairman). In some parties, especially the communist parties, the General Secretary is the leader. [citation needed]
Federal Advisory Committee Act as amended (PDF/details) in the GPO Statute Compilations collection; FACA Database allows search of Committees by agency, Committee name, number, or interest area and search of Committee members by member characteristics or agency. Updated in real time. Current and historic datasets available for download. Federal ...
A nominating committee (or nominations committee) is a group formed for the purpose of nominating candidates for office or the board in an organization. [26] It may consist of members from inside the organization. Sometimes a governance committee takes the role of a nominating committee.
For example, on a single day, May 8, 1996, the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources held an oversight hearing to look into a recent increase in gasoline prices; the Committee on Governmental Affairs held an oversight hearing on the Internal Revenue Service; the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions held an oversight ...
The membership of each committee is adopted at the beginning of each Congress, usually by adoption of a formal resolution. Each committee is assigned its own staff to assist with its legislative, investigative, and research functions. Several committees divide their work into sub units called subcommittees.
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