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  2. Committee - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. United States congressional committee - Wikipedia

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    These early committees generally consisted of three members for routine business and five members for more important issues. The largest committee established during the 1st Congress had eleven members, and was created to determine salaries of the president and vice president. Also in the first session, the entire membership of the Senate was ...

  4. Structure of the United States Congress - Wikipedia

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    Some committees manage other committees. Congresspersons have various privileges to help the presidents serve the national interest and are paid a salary and have pensions. Congress formed a Library of Congress to help assist investigations and developed a Government Accountability Office to help it analyze complex and varied federal expenditures.

  5. Governing body - Wikipedia

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    The most formal is a government, a body whose sole responsibility and authority is to make binding decisions in a taken geopolitical system (such as a state) by establishing laws. Other types of governing include an organization (such as a corporation recognized as a legal entity by a government), a socio-political group (chiefdom, tribe ...

  6. United States federal executive departments - Wikipedia

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    Department of Business, proposed by President Barack Obama as a consolidation of the U.S. Department of Commerce's core business and trade functions, the Small Business Administration, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the Export-Import Bank, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, and the U.S. Trade and Development Agency [37] [38]

  7. Federal Advisory Committee Act - Wikipedia

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    In March, 2012 the Government Accountability Office issued a report on FACA groups in DOT and DOE. In this report, they state: "Advisory groups—those established under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) and other groups not subject to the act—can play an important role in the development of policy and government regulations.

  8. Council of governments - Wikipedia

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    CoGs may either be distinct from—or encompass—regional Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) and Rural Transportation Planning Organizations (RTPOs). [7] [8] MPOs are multi-governmental urban transportation planning entities that arose out of the requirements of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1962, which made federal financing for urban transportation projects contingent upon the ...

  9. Cabinet of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Department of Business, proposed by President Barack Obama as a consolidation of the U.S. Department of Commerce's core business and trade functions, the Small Business Administration, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the Export-Import Bank, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, and the U.S. Trade and Development Agency. [38 ...