Committee of Detail

Examples of Committee of Detail in the following topics:

• Drafting the Final Document

  • The report from the Committee on Detail at the Constitutional Convention constituted the first draft of the United States Constitution.
  • Much of the Committee of Detail's proposal would ultimately be incorporated into the final version of the Constitution without debate.
  • The Convention adjourned from July 26 to August 6 to await the report of the Committee of Detail.
  • Many details recorded by the Committee had never been discussed during the Convention, but the Committee viewed these details as uncontroversial and unlikely to be challenged.
  • The Constitutional Convention adjourned to await the report of the Committee of Detail, which was to produce a first draft of the Constitution.

• The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

  • The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) is a committee which authorizes and organizes the taxonomic classification of viruses.
  • Members of the committee are considered to be world experts on viruses.
  • The committee formed from and is governed by the Virology Division of the International Union of Microbiological Societies.
  • Detailed work such as delimiting the boundaries of species within a family is typically done by study groups, which consist of experts in the families.
  • Describe the purpose and objectives of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

• Making the Most of Committees

  • Bartlett's Quotations includes this anonymous definition of a committee: "A group of the unwilling, chosen from the unfit, to do the unnecessary."
  • Still, when you unavoidably find yourself part of a committee, you may as well try to make yourself and your fellow victims—er, I mean, members—comfortable.
  • A social worker with Child Welfare Services for the State of Washington once showed me how to write agendas which map out meetings in crisp detail.
  • Preparing for committee meetings well takes you a third of the way toward productivity.
  • A two-year college in Washington State has used this template for keeping minutes of committee meetings for at least the last five years:

• Civil Rights

  • The committee was instructed to investigate the status of civil rights in the country and propose measures to strengthen and protect them.
  • After the committee submitted a report of its findings to President Truman, it disbanded in December 1947.
  • The committee produced a report titled To Secure These Rights, which presented a detailed ten-point agenda of civil rights reforms.
  • This committee ensured that defense contractors did not discriminate because of race.
  • The far-reaching effects that the committee had hoped for had little impact on the civil rights of Black Americans in the late 1940s.

• The Committee System

  • Committee membership enables members to develop specialized knowledge of the matters under their jurisdiction.
  • Since 1761, the growing autonomy of committees has fragmented the power of each congressional chamber as a unit.
  • With the growing responsibilities of the Senate, the committees gradually grew to be the key policy-making bodies of the Senate, instead of merely technical aids to the chamber.
  • By 1906, the Senate maintained 66 standing and select committees—eight more committees than members of the majority party.
  • The House relied primarily on the Committee of the Whole to handle the bulk of legislative issues.

• The Staff System

  • Congressional staff are employees of the United States Congress or individual members of Congress.
  • Congressional staff are employees of the United States Congress or individual members of Congress.
  • Each congressional committee has a staff of varying size.
  • Majority and minority members hire their own staff, with the exception of two committees in each house: the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in the House, and the Select Committee on Ethics and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in the Senate.
  • In 2000, House committees had an average of 68 staff, and Senate committees an average of 46.

• Committees

  • Committees draw together people of relevant expertise from various parts of an organization and are often responsible for making decisions.
  • Where there is a large committee, it is common to have smaller committees with more specialized functions - for example, Boards of Directors of large corporations typically have an (ongoing) audit committee, finance committee, compensation committee, etc.
  • Where there is a large committee, it is common to have smaller committees with more specialized functions—for example, Boards of Directors of large corporations typically have an (ongoing) audit committee, finance committee, compensation committee, etc.
  • A committee that is a subset of a larger committee is called a subcommittee.
  • Committees are a necessary aspect of organizations of any significant size (say, more than 15 or 20 people).

• Do What to Make Friends?

  • I've painted a bleak and humorless picture of committees.
  • The quality of the decision made by a committee is a direct function of the average intelligence present for the committee meeting.
  • The accomplishments of a committee are inversely related to the duration of a committee meeting.
  • The accomplishments of a committee are inversely related to the number of times it meets.
  • The aggregate intelligence of any committee for a meeting cannot be higher than the aggregate intelligence that remained at the end of the last meeting of the committee.

• Congressional Campaign Committees

  • The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is the Democratic Hill committee for the United States House of Representatives, working to elect Democrats to that body.
  • The structure of the committee consists, essentially, of the Chairperson, their staff, and other Democratic members of Congress that serve in roles supporting the functions of the committee.
  • Of the four congressional campaign committees, the DCCC, with a staff of 25, has the largest in-house research department.
  • The position of DCCC committee chair was assumed by Rahm Emanuel after the death of the previous chair, Bob Matsui at the end of the 2004 election cycle.
  • Pete Sessions (TX-32) , and an executive committee composed of Republican members of the U.S.

• Conference Committee

  • A conference committee is a committee of Congress appointed by the House and Senate to resolve disagreements on a particular bill.
  • A conference committee is a committee of Congress appointed by the House of Representatives and Senate to resolve disagreements on a particular bill.
  • The conference committee is usually composed of the senior members of the standing committees of each house that originally considered the legislation.
  • The conference committee produces a conference report melding the work of the House and Senate into a final version of the bill.
  • Explain the function of the conference committee in the legislative process