Congressional Committes
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Permanent committees that handle bills in specific subject areas. Membership is drawn from both the House and Senate to work on common policy areas. Formed when the Senate and House pass a different version of the same bill. Temporary committee created for a specific purpose |
Congress receives over 9,000 bills in 2-year's time and each bill goes to a committee, which ultimately has the power of life and death of a bill. Think of congressional committees as specialist in certain fields. Here is more about committees.