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In the 1st Congress (1789–1791), the House appointed roughly six hundred select committees over the course of two years. [3] By the 3rd Congress (1793–95), Congress had three permanent standing committees, the House Committee on Elections, the House Committee on Claims, and the Joint Committee on Enrolled Bills, but more than three hundred fifty select committees. [4]
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 ...
A select committee may be permanent or temporary (all current select committees in the House and Senate are considered permanent committees). Instead of select, the Senate sometimes uses the term special committee (as in the Special Committee on Aging).
United States House Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth; United States House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming; United States Senate Select Committee on Ethics
Members of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol meet on Capitol Hill on July 27, 2021. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)
The committee was preceded by the Select Committee on Intelligence between 1975 and 1977. House Resolution 658 established the permanent select committee , which gave it status equal to a standing committee on July 14, 1977.
On April 23, 2020, the House officially voted 212–182 along party lines, to approve the committee's creation. [ 8 ] After Republicans gained a majority of the House of Representatives at the start of the 118th Congress , the House voted to continue the committee, now dubbed Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, was approved as part ...
For purpose of seniority on joint committees, total time in Congress—Senate and House—is counted.Most joint committees rotate their chair and vice chair position between each chamber's majority at the end of a congressional term (two years), except for Taxation, which starts each term led by the House and rotates to the Senate at the end of each term's session (one calendar year).