United States congressional committee
A committee of the United States Congress is a sub-organization that handles a specific duty (rather than the general duties of Congress, i.e. making "necessary and proper" laws).
The House of Representatives relies more on its committees, as it is larger overall (435 as opposed to 100 members in the Senate). There are 20 standing committees (those that conduct business throughout the session, focusing on a certain, long-lasting issue). In the smaller United States Senate, there are only 16 standing committees.
Together, there are certain joint committees (those that are important enough to warrant members from both chambers), select committees (those that only last for a certain amount of time, for a matter that is currently important), and "other" committees (including Indians' Affairs). Here is a list of committees:
House Committees
- U.S. House Committee on Agriculture
- U.S. House Committee on Appropriations
- U.S. House Committee on Armed Services
- U.S. House Committee on the Budget
- U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce
- U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce
- U.S. House Committee on Financial Services
- U.S. House Committee on Government Reform
- U.S. House Committee on House Administration
- U.S. House Committee on International Relations
- U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary
- U.S. House Committee on Resources
- U.S. House Committee on Rules
- U.S. House Committee on Science
- U.S. House Committee on Small Business
- U.S. House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct
- U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
- U.S. House Committee on Veterans Affairs
- U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means
- Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
- Select Committee on Homeland Security
Senate Committees
- U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
- U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations
- U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services
- U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs
- U.S. Senate Committee on Budget
- U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation
- U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
- U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
- U.S. Senate Committee on Finance
- U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
- U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs
- U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
- U.S. Senate Committee on Judiciary
- U.S. Senate Committee on Rules and Administration
- U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship
- U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs
- U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs (other)
Committees in Both Chambers
- Joint Economic Committee
- Joint Committee on the Library
- Joint Committee on Printing
- Joint Committee on Taxation
Defunct House Standing Committees
The functions of some of these may have been merged into extant committees.
- U.S. House Committee Census
- U.S. House Committee Civil Service
- U.S. House Committee Claims
- U.S. House Committee Invalid Pensions
- U.S. House Committee Judiciary
- U.S. House Committee Merchant Marine and Fisheries
- U.S. House Committee Merchant Marine, Radio and Fisheries
- U.S. House Committee Military Pensions
- U.S. House Committee on a Uniform System of Coinage, Weights and Measures
- U.S. House Committee on Accounts
- U.S. House Committee on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic
- U.S. House Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures
- U.S. House Committee on Commerce and Manufactures
- U.S. House Committee on Commerce
- U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor
- U.S. House Committee on Education
- U.S. House Committee on Elections
- U.S. House Committee on Engraving
- U.S. House Committee on Enrolled Bills
- U.S. House Committee on Expenditures in the Agriculture Department
- U.S. House Committee on Expenditures in the Commerce and Labor Departments
- U.S. House Committee on Expenditures in the Commerce Department
- U.S. House Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Department
- U.S. House Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department
- U.S. House Committee on Expenditures in the Justice Department
- U.S. House Committee on Expenditures in the Labor Department
- U.S. House Committee on Expenditures in the Navy Department
- U.S. House Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department
- U.S. House Committee on Expenditures in the State Department
- U.S. House Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department
- U.S. House Committee on Expenditures in the War Department
- U.S. House Committee on Expenditures on the Public Buildings
- U.S. House Committee on Flood Control
- U.S. House Committee on Freedmen's Affairs
- U.S. House Committee on Government Operations
- U.S. House Committee on House Administration
- U.S. House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization
- U.S. House Committee on Indian Affairs
- U.S. House Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions
- U.S. House Committee on Insular Affairs
- U.S. House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
- U.S. House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
- U.S. House Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation
- U.S. House Committee on Irrigation of Arid Lands
- U.S. House Committee on Labor
- U.S. House Committee on Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River
- U.S. House Committee on Manufactures
- U.S. House Committee on Memorials
- U.S. House Committee on Mileage
- U.S. House Committee on Military Affairs
- U.S. House Committee on Mines and Mining
- U.S. House Committee on Naval Affairs
- U.S. House Committee on Pacific Railroads
- U.S. House Committee on Patents
- U.S. House Committee on Pensions and Revolutionary War Claims
- U.S. House Committee on Pensions
- U.S. House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service
- U.S. House Committee on Post Office and Post Roads
- U.S. House Committee on Printing
- U.S. House Committee on Private Land Claims
- U.S. House Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds
- U.S. House Committee on Public Expenditures
- U.S. House Committee on Public Lands
- U.S. House Committee on Public Works
- U.S. House Committee on Railways and Canals
- U.S. House Committee on Records of Committees Relating to Banking and Currency
- U.S. House Committee on Reform in the Civil Service
- U.S. House Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business
- U.S. House Committee on Revision of Laws
- U.S. House Committee on Revolutionary Claims
- U.S. House Committee on Revolutionary Pensions
- U.S. House Committee on Rivers and Harbors
- U.S. House Committee on Roads and Canals
- U.S. House Committee on Roads
- U.S. House Committee on Science and Astronautics
- U.S. House Committee on Science and Technology
- U.S. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
- U.S. House Committee on Science
- U.S. House Committee on Territories
- U.S. House Committee on the Disposition of Executive Papers
- U.S. House Committee on the District of Columbia
- U.S. House Committee on the Election of the President, Vice President and Representatives in Congress
- U.S. House Committee on the Library
- U.S. House Committee on the Militia
- U.S. House Committee on the Mississippi Levees
- U.S. House Committee on Ventilation and Acoustics
- U.S. House Committee on Veterans' Affairs
- U.S. House Committee on War Claims
- U.S. House Committee on Woman Suffrage
- U.S. House Committee on World War Veterans' Legislation
Defunct Senate Committees
The functions of some of these may have been merged into extant committees.
- U.S. Senate Committee on on Pensions
- U.S. Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee
- U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry Committee
- U.S. Senate Committee on Audit and Control of Contingent Expenses of the Senate
- U.S. Senate Committee on Banking and Currency Committee
- U.S. Senate Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment
- U.S. Senate Committee on Civil Service
- U.S. Senate Committee on Claims
- U.S. Senate Committee on Coast Defenses
- U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce and Manufactures Committee
- U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce Committee
- U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce Committee
- U.S. Senate Committee on Committee on Expenditures in Executive Departments
- U.S. Senate Committee on Committee on Government Operations
- U.S. Senate Committee on Conservation of National Recources
- U.S. Senate Committee on Education and Labor
- U.S. Senate Committee on Education
- U.S. Senate Committee on Enrolled Bills
- U.S. Senate Committee on Epidemic Diseases
- U.S. Senate Committee on Fisheries Committee
- U.S. Senate Committee on Forest Reservations and the Protection of Game
- U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
- U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Depredations
- U.S. Senate Committee on Industrial Expositions Committee
- U.S. Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
- U.S. Senate Committee on Interoceanic Canals Committee
- U.S. Senate Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee
- U.S. Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce Committee
- U.S. Senate Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands
- U.S. Senate Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation
- U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
- U.S. Senate Committee on Manufactures Committee
- U.S. Senate Committee on Military Affairs
- U.S. Senate Committee on Military Affairs
- U.S. Senate Committee on Mines and Mining
- U.S. Senate Committee on Mississippi River and Its Tributaries Committee
- U.S. Senate Committee on Naval Affairs
- U.S. Senate Committee on Pacific Islands and Puerto Rico
- U.S. Senate Committee on Pacific Islands, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands
- U.S. Senate Committee on Pacific Railroads Committees
- U.S. Senate Committee on Post Office and Civil Service
- U.S. Senate Committee on Post Office and Post Roads
- U.S. Senate Committee on Printing
- U.S. Senate Committee on Private Land Claims
- U.S. Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections
- U.S. Senate Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds
- U.S. Senate Committee on Public Health and National Quarantine
- U.S. Senate Committee on Public Lands and Surveys
- U.S. Senate Committee on Public Lands
- U.S. Senate Committee on Public Works
- U.S. Senate Committee on Railroads Committee
- U.S. Senate Committee on Revolutionary Claims
- U.S. Senate Committee on Roads and Canals
- U.S. Senate Committee on Rules
- U.S. Senate Committee on Standards, Weights, and Measures Committee
- U.S. Senate Committee on Territories and Insular Affairs
- U.S. Senate Committee on Territories and Insular Possessions
- U.S. Senate Committee on Territories
- U.S. Senate Committee on the Census
- U.S. Senate Committee on the District of Columbia
- U.S. Senate Committee on the Geological Survey
- U.S. Senate Committee on the Library
- U.S. Senate Committee on the Militia
- U.S. Senate Committee on the Philippines
- U.S. Senate Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard Committee
- U.S. Senate Committee to Establish a University of the United States