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A Congressional committee is a legislative sub-organization in the United States Congress that handles a specific duty (rather than the general duties of Congress.)

The House of Representatives relies more on its committees because of its larger size (there are 435 members of the House, as opposed to 100 members in the Senate).

There are two types of committees:

Committees are formed in various configurations:
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Current Committees

Main articles: List of United States House committees and List of United States Senate committees
In the House of Representatives, there are 20 standing committees. In the smaller United States Senate, there are only 17 standing committees.

House of Representatives Senate Joint
(click here for complete list with subcommittees) (click here for complete list with subcommittees)

Defunct Committees

The functions of some of these may have been merged into extant committees.

Defunct House Committees

Defunct Senate Committees

* replaced (1977) by Commerce, Science and Transportation
  • Agriculture and Forestry (established 1884)
    • * replaced (1977) by Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry
  • Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate (established 1807)
    • * replaced (1947) by Rules and Administration
  • Banking and Currency (established 1913)
    • * replaced (1970) by Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
  • Canadian Relations
  • Census
  • Civil Service and Retrenchment
    • * replaced by Civil Service
  • Civil Service
    • * replaced by Post Office and Civil Service
  • Claims
  • Coast and Insular Survey
  • Coast Defenses
  • Commerce (established 1825)
    • * replaced (1947) by Interstate and Foreign Commerce
    * restored (1961)
    * replaced (1977) by Commerce, Science and Transportation
  • Commerce and Manufactures (established 1816)
    • * split (1825) into Commerce and Manufactures
  • Conservation of National Resources
  • Corporations Organized in the District of Columbia
  • Cuban Relations
  • Disarmament (Select)
  • District of Columbia
    • * replaced (1977) by Governmental Affairs
  • Education (established 1869)
    • * replaced (1870) by Education and Labor
  • Education and Labor
    • * replaced (1947) by Rules and Administration
  • * Education and Labor Subcommittee Investigating Violations of Free Speech and the Rights of Labor, also known as the LaFollette Civil Liberties Committee or LaFollette Committee
  • Enrolled Bills
  • Engrossed Bills (established 1810)
  • Epidemic Diseases
  • Establish a University of the United States
  • Expenditures in Executive Departments
    • * now Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
  • Fisheries
  • Forest Reservations and the Protection of Game
  • Geological Survey
  • Governmental Affairs
    • * replaced (2005) by Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
  • Government Operations (established 1952)
    • * replaced (1977) by Governmental Affairs
  • Human Resources (established 1977)
    • * replaced (1979) by Labor and Human Resources
  • Indian Affairs (established 1820)
    • * terminated (1947)
    * restored (1977) as Select Committee on Indian Affairs
    * restablished {1993) as a standing committee: Indian Affairs.
  • Indian Depredations (established 1893)
    • * terminated (1921)
  • Industrial Expositions
  • Interior and Insular Affairs
  • Subcommittee on Internal Security, more commonly known as the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee (SISS), also called Special Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws, or the McCarran Committee (1951–1977)
  • Interoceanic Canals
  • Interstate and Foreign Commerce
    • * now Commerce, Science and Transportation
  • Interstate Commerce
    • * now Commerce, Science and Transportation
  • Investigation of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (1924-)
  • Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands
  • Irrigation and Reclamation
    • * now Energy and Natural Resources
  • Labor and Human Resources (established 1979)
    • * moved (1999) to Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
  • Labor and Public Welfare (established 1947)
    • * moved (1977) to Human Resources
  • Library
    • * now Joint Committee on the Library
  • Manufactures
    • * now Commerce, Science and Transportation
  • Military Affairs
  • Militia
  • Mines and Mining
    • * now Energy and Natural Resources
  • Mississippi River and Its Tributaries
  • Naval Affairs
  • Pacific Islands and Puerto Rico
  • Pacific Islands, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands
  • Pacific Railroads
  • Patents
  • Pensions
  • Philippines
  • Post Office and Civil Service
  • Post Office and Post Roads
  • Printing
  • Private Land Claims
  • Privileges and Elections
  • Public Buildings and Grounds
    • * now Environment and Public Works
  • Public Health and National Quarantine
  • Public Lands
    • * now Energy and Natural Resources
  • Public Lands and Surveys
    • * now Energy and Natural Resources
  • Public Works
    • * now Environment and Public Works
  • Railroads
  • Revision of the Laws
  • Revolutionary Claims
  • Roads and Canals
  • Rules
  • Small Business (Select) (February 20, 1950 - March 25, 1981)
    • * March 25, 1981 became Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship
  • Standards, Weights, and Measures
  • Special Committee to Study and Survey Problems of Small Business Enterprises (October 8, 1940-February 20, 1950)
    • * February 20, 1950 became Senate Select Committee on Small Business
    * March 25, 1981 became Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship
  • Territorial and Insular Affairs
    • * now Energy and Natural Resources
  • Territories
  • Territories and Insular Possessions
  • Transportation Routes to the Seaboard

    • Defunct Joint Committees

    * became Disposition of Executive Papers
  • Economic Report (1946-1956)
  • Enrolled Bills (1789-1876 as Joint committee; 1876-1947 as House committee)
  • * moved into House Administration
  • Ford's Theater Disaster (1894-1897)
  • Housing (1947-1948)
  • Inquire into the Condition of the Late Insurrectionary States (1871-)
  • Internal Revenue Taxation (1926-1975)
    • * renamed (1975) Taxation
  • Investigate Dirigible Disasters (1933)
  • Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack (1945-1946)
  • Labor Management Relations (1947-1949)
  • Muscle Shoals (1926)
  • Organization of Congress (1944-46, 1965-66)
  • Reconstruction (1865-1867)
  • Revision of the Laws (1907-1910)
  • Tennessee Valley Authority (1938-39)
  • Veterans Affairs (1932-33)
  • Washington Metropolitan Problems (1957-60)

    • See also

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    Current United States Congressional committees
    House
    (list)     		Agriculture • Appropriations • Armed Services • Budget • Education and the Workforce • Energy and Commerce • Financial Services • Government Reform • Homeland Security • House Administration • Hurricane Katrina (Select) • Intelligence (Permanent Select) • International Relations • Judiciary • Resources • Rules • Science • Small Business • Standards of Official Conduct • Transportation and Infrastructure • Veterans' Affairs • Ways and Means • (Whole)
    Senate
    (list)     		Aging (Special) • Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry • Appropriations • Armed Services • Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs • Budget • Commerce, Science and Transportation • Energy and Natural Resources • Ethics (Select) • Environment and Public Works • Finance • Foreign Relations • Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions • Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs • Indian Affairs • Intelligence (Select) • Judiciary • Rules and Administration • Small Business and Entrepreneurship • Veterans' Affairs
    Joint (Conference) • Economic • Library • Printing • Taxation  Defunct committees 
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