Talk:United States Congressional committee

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Someone do the whole <table><td><th></th></td></table> magic and make a chart (I can't do it outside of FrontPage...) of the committees... frankly, they look somewhat ugly right now. ugen64 00:11, Feb 21, 2004 (UTC)

Just did that. How does it look? - sebmol 21:00, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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[edit] Old committees

In the House Rules Manual it gives some of the history of committees that I was considering adding. Should articles be put up under the name of former committees since abolished or should this information go under the present committees and redirects placed under the former names? PedanticallySpeaking 18:39, May 26, 2005 (UTC)

  • Renamed committee names, I think, should be mentioned in articles using their current names with redirects placed under the former names. There is currently a category, Category:U.S. Congressional historic committees, for some more info.—Mark Adler (markles) 13:26, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Conference Committee

Should the Conference Committee be mentioned here? - TopAce 12:48, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

  • Yes! Tell us what you know. If you can, put a link to it in Template:USCongressCommittees. (If you can't, put a note here and someone else will do it. —Mark Adler (markles) 13:26, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
    • I added the Conference Committee into this article. I must fix the link to its full article though. - TopAce 14:49, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Other?

What is this type of committee listed--"Other", next to Standing and Select? Can someone define this because I don't know what it means and am inclined to delete it. Unschool 22:27, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Qualification for membership

Are committee members all congressmen or can others join a committee as well? S Sepp 15:23, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

  • In the Senate, they are all senators. In the House, they are all members or non-voting delegates/resident commissioners. Committees do, however, have paid staff who are not themselves congressmen. —Markles 16:42, 10 June 2006 (UTC)