Senate Committee System

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Congress--Committees--Rules and practice.

United States.

Government productivity.

Jurisdiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Contained In:

ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] [publisher not identified] 1976

Summary:

Also includes "Advantages of Some Duplication and Ambiguity in Senate Committee Jurisdictions" by Lewis A. Dexter (pages 171-186)

Appendices (pages 187-210) include texts of Senate rules on committee assignments and chairmanships, and summaries of legislative proposals on the committee system pending in the 94th Congress (pages 205-210)

Includes index (pages 211-224)

Staff report, prepared with CRS assistance, for the Temporary Select Committee to Study the Senate Committee System reviewing Senate committee jurisdictions, sizes, memberships, and reorganization proposals. Includes: history and problems of the Senate committee system; review of committee and subcommittee jurisdictions; scope of jurisdictional overlaps in major policy areas (pages 103-149); and, summary of alternative committee organization proposals

Notes:

CRS Report

Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed June 2010). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC

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Other Format:

Microfiche version Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Senate Committee System. 76-S962-4

Publisher Number:

CRS-1976-CRS-0045

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license