Both houses, scrutinise legislation/executive e.g Katrina
Permanent! Divided into subcommittees with some being more prestigious as others
Set in proportion to balance in the House/Senate
Chaired by the majority party
E.g. budger
House Rules committee
Decide the timetabling of legislation in the House of Reps
Jan 2024 - Biden Democrat and Republican controlled House Rules Committee
December 2023 passed a resolution to authorise an impeachment inquiry into Biden
Conference commitee
Aims to reconcile differences with legislation - bills pass through both houses so there might be two differnt versions of the same bill
Members from Senate and House
Temporary and ad hoc
Select committees
Special, ad hoc for a particular issue
Investigative committees
Occurs when a policy area does not align with any standing committess/likely to be time consuming and prevent standing committees for fulfilling other functions
Few permanent ones -> Aging, ethincs, Indian affairs
