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Committee System: Rules Changes in the House, 104th Congress (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date Jan. 24, 1995
Report Number 95-187
Report Type Report
Authors Judy Schneider, Government Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
Summary:

The election of a Republican majority in the House for the first time in 40 years brought extensive change to the committee system. Many of the changes were previously recommended by the Republican members of the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress which reported during the 103d Congress, but on which no action was taken. Others have traditionally been included in the Republican alternative to the Democratic rules package adopted on the opening day of a new Congress. Still others were part of the Contract with America. This fact sheet details changes in the committee system contained in H.Res. 6 , the rules of the House for the 104th Congress.