A good cool-down for the semester. A full list of rules for the process of committee assignments per party, referrals, jurisdictions, rules for waivers for exclusive committees, as hoc mechanisms, and procedures. Cool stuff for those who are political junkies and want to know more about how the assignment and referral system works. All of this is directly from the House website. Enjoy the summer!In regards to subcommittees: "From a 1950 low of 125 subcommittees of House and Senate standing committees, the number increased to a high of 271 in 1975."
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It is interesting to note that the piece on the committee system makes reference to the number of committees greatly expanding since World War II. Many scholarly works have been done that point to this time as the first great expansion of government in our lives for better or worse. No matter what your political stripes are, with the creation of a meaningful social security system and many other social programs it expanded the number of things government regulated and made the creation of more committees and subsequent subcommittees a necessary feature of America's House of Representatives.
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