Congress: Comittees Flashcards
What is a congressional committee?
-a group of members of Congress with goal to develop a specific part.
What are the purposes are having Committees in Congress?
- Division of Labor: Develop expertise in a specific area
- Write Legislation
- Investigation: part of oversight ( enumerated power)
What are the powers of a Committees in Congress?
- Collect Information- in depth research to write laws
- Draft Legislation- ability to write laws and be there when it’s written
- Quasi Judicial- Similar to power of federal courts
- Agenda Setting- Last words for on which a bill goes beyond a vote.
What are the Types of Committees in Congress?
- Standing vs Select
- -> Standing- Is permeant because it deals with part of law that congress always revisits
- ->Select- Temporary committee dissolves after job is finished
- Legislation vs. non-legislation
- -> Legislation has the power to write laws and non-legislation does not.
- Intra-Chamber vs. Inter Chamber
- ->Intra Chamber has both Senator and Representatives
- ->Inter Chamber main part is the conference committee
What is the Conference Committee?
- Type is the inter chamber congress
- Appointed to have a compromise between the Senate and the House version of a bill.
What are Sub Committees?
- Committees with a committee, a group parts off from the committee
- Found in the House of Reps and sometimes in Senate
What is a Chair?
- Is the person in charge of a committee
- Gatekeeping
What is the importance of Congress Committee in the law making process?
-Can investigate before making a law
-Ability to write laws and be present when written to have influence
Can determine the status of bill through revise, revoke, or ignoring the bill.
-A bill must have committee approval before reaching the floor
-Gatekeeping: decide which bills die in committee or move to floor.
