The United States Congress has operated with more than 1,500 standing, special, select, or joint committees over the years.[1]
Most of these committees are now defunct. In some cases, their responsibilities were merged with those of other committees. For others, the committee remained in existence, but its name was changed. However, the bulk of committees were eliminated because they served a single purpose or it was deemed that subject matter no longer merited its own committee.
These lists contain both select and standing committees. When known, the committee's type, years, reason for elimination, and any successor committees are noted. Some committees, such as the myriad "Committee(s) to Investigate," are included in the list alphabetically by the primary subject matter being studied or investigated.
Early select committees were very fluid, serving their established function and then going out of existence. This makes tracking committees difficult, since many committees were known by the date they were created or by a petition or other document that had been referred to them. In a number of instances, the official journal and other congressional publications did not consistently refer to an individual committee by the same title. Though such inconsistencies still appeared during the 20th century, they were less frequent.[2] Therefore, this list does include hundreds of select committees established by Congress during its early years, particularly prior to 1795 and 1816, when a system of permanent standing committees was established in the House of Representatives and the Senate respectively.[3] The majority of these committees were assigned specific legislative bills, but many served merely ceremonial functions.
In the 1st Congress (1789–1791), the House appointed about 220 select committees over the course of two years.[3] By the 3rd Congress (1793–1795), Congress had three permanent standing committees, the House Committee on Elections, the House Committee on Claims, and the Joint Committee on Enrolled Bills, but more than 350 select committees.[4] While the modern committee system is now firmly established in both House and Senate procedure, with the rules of each House establishing a full range of permanent standing committees and assigning jurisdiction of all legislative issues among them, select committees continue to be used to respond to unique and difficult issues as the need arises.[2]
| Committee | Type | Established | Terminated | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alleged Abstraction of Books from the Library of the House | Select | Investigation of rumors that representatives from southern seceding states had stolen books from the House library. | ||
| Alleged Abstraction of a Report from the Clerk's Office | Investigation into the disappearance of a committee report from the Select Committee on Government Contracts | |||
| Accountability of Public Moneys | Select committee expired | |||
| Accounts | Standing | Merged with House Administration | ||
| Admission to the Floor | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| Affairs with Algiers | ||||
| Aging (Permanent Select) | Terminated at the end of the 102nd Congress. Committee not renewed during the 103rd Congress. | |||
| Memorial of the Agricultural Bank of Mississippi | Memorial requesting forgiveness of a debt to the United States. | |||
| Air Accidents | Select committee expired | |||
| Air Services | ||||
| Alabama’s Admission to the Union | ||||
| Alabama Affairs | ||||
| Alcoholic Liquor Traffic | Became a standing committee | |||
| Alcoholic Liquor Traffic | Standing | |||
| Alleged Assault on Senator Sumner | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| Amendment to the Constitution | Amendment related to the Election of President and Vice President Select committee expired | |||
| Amendment related to the Appointment of Members of Congress to office Select committee expired | ||||
| American Colonization Society | Memorial of the American Colonization Society Select committee expired | |||
| American Retail Federation | Special | Select committee expired | ||
| American Ship building | Select | |||
| American Sugar Refining Company | Special | |||
| Anthracite Emergency Program | Program to stabilize the Pennsylvania coal industry.[5] Not authorized to hold hearings and no appropriations were authorized for it. | |||
| Apportionment of Representatives | Select | Bring a Bill for the Apportionment of Representatives Select committee expired | ||
| Apportionment of Representatives under the 4th Census Select committee expired | ||||
| Apportionment of Representatives under the Next Census Select committee expired | ||||
| Apportionment of Representatives under the 6th Census Select committee expired | ||||
| Arkansas Affairs | Select committee expired | |||
| Arkansas Territory | ||||
| Arkansas Territorial Limits | ||||
| Arms Contracts | ||||
| Arms Exports | ||||
| Army Appropriations Inquiry | ||||
| Army Pay | ||||
| Army Regulations | ||||
| Army Supply Contracts | ||||
| Assassinations | Investigation into the Assassinations of President John. F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Select committee expired | |||
| Assault on the President’s Secretary | Select committee expired | |||
| Establishing an Assay Office in the Gold Region | ||||
| Export Control | Select committee expired | |||
| Assent of Congress to an Act of the Virginia Legislature | ||||
| Astronautics and Space Exploration | ||||
| Asylum for the Blind | ||||
| Attorney General's Office | ||||
| Investigate the Incorporation of the Baltic States into the U.S.S.R. | Replaced by the Committee on Communist Aggression | |||
| Bank of the United States | Conduct and Management of the Bank of the United States Select committee expired | |||
| Petition of the Bank of the United States Select committee expired | ||||
| United States Bank Affairs Select committee expired | ||||
| Banking and Currency | Standing | Renamed Banking, Currency, and Housing | ||
| Banking, Currency, and Housing | Renamed Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs | |||
| Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs | Renamed Banking and Financial Services[6] | |||
| Banking and Financial Services | Renamed Financial Services[7] | |||
| Banking Memorials | Select | Memorials of Banking Institutions and Insurance Companies in Charleston, South Carolina, and the Bank of the United States Select committee expired | ||
| Bankrupt Law | Select committee expired | |||
| Bankruptcy | Establishing a Uniform System of Bankruptcy Select committee expired | |||
| Banks of the District of Columbia | Select committee expired | |||
| Benefits for Dependents of Armed Services Veterans | Committee to Investigate and Study Certain Benefits for Surviving Dependents of Deceased Members and Former Members of the Armed Forces Select committee expired | |||
| Berkshire Association | Select committee expired | |||
| Bible Society of Philadelphia | ||||
| Biennial Register | ||||
| Bills of Exchange | ||||
| Bills and Resolutions Introduced in the House | ||||
| Bonus of the National Bank | ||||
| Boundary of the Chickasaw Indians | Committee to review the True Boundary of the Chickasaw Indians, Between the Tennessee and Mississippi Rivers Select committee expired | |||
| Bounty Land Act of 1850 | Select committee expired | |||
| Bounty Lands Commutation | ||||
| Boynton Investigation | ||||
| British Depredations of the Northern Frontier | ||||
| Brownstown Treaty | ||||
| Conduct of Peter J. Bruin | Committee investigated the conduct of Peter J. Bruin, one of the Judges of the Superior Court of the Mississippi Territory | |||
| Budget | Select committee expired | |||
| Census | Standing | Jurisdiction merged into Post Office and Civil Service | ||
| Children, Youth, and Families | Select | |||
| Civil Service | Standing | Jurisdiction merged into Post Office and Civil Service | ||
| Claims | Jurisdiction merged into Judiciary[8] | |||
| Climate Crisis | Select | Terminated | ||
| Coinage, Weights and Measures | Standing | Jurisdiction merged into Banking and Currency | ||
| Commerce and Manufactures | Renamed and split into Commerce and Manufactures[9] | |||
| Commerce | First period. Renamed Interstate and Foreign Commerce | |||
| Conservation of Wildlife Resources | Select | |||
| Communist Aggression | ||||
| Disposition of Executive Papers | Standing | Jurisdiction merged into House Administration | ||
| Disposition of Surplus Property | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| District of Columbia | Standing | Jurisdiction merged into Government Reform | ||
| Economic and Educational Opportunities | Renamed Committee on Education and the Workforce | |||
| Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth | Select | Terminated | ||
| Education | Standing | Merged into Education and Labor | ||
| Education and Labor | Split into Education and Labor 1947–1995: Restored as Economic and Educational Opportunities 1997–2007: Renamed Education and the Workforce Restored in 2007 | |||
| Elections | Jurisdiction merged into House Administration | |||
| Election of the President, Vice President and Representatives in Congress | ||||
| Energy Independence and Global Warming | Select | Terminated | ||
| Engraving | Standing | Jurisdiction merged into Printing | ||
| Enrolled Bills | Jurisdiction merged into House Administration | |||
| Events Surrounding the 2012 Terrorist Attack in Benghazi | Select | [10] | Terminated | |
| Expenditures in the Executive Departments | Standing | Created by the merger of several predecessor expenditure committees Jurisdiction merged into Government Operations | ||
| Expenditures in the Agriculture Department | Jurisdiction merged into Expenditures in the Executive Departments | |||
| Expenditures in the Commerce and Labor Departments | Split between Expenditures in the Commerce Department and Expenditures in the Labor Department | |||
| Expenditures in the Commerce Department | Merged into Expenditures in the Executive Departments | |||
| Expenditures in the Interior Department | ||||
| Expenditures in the Justice Department | ||||
| Expenditures in the Labor Department | ||||
| Expenditures in the Navy Department | ||||
| Expenditures in the Post Office Department | ||||
| Expenditures in the State Department | ||||
| Expenditures in the Treasury Department | ||||
| Expenditures in the War Department | ||||
| Expenditures on Public Buildings | ||||
| Flood Control | Jurisdiction over related subjects previously under Rivers and Harbors, and some issues included from Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River before its termination in 1911. Committee terminated by 1946 Reorg., with its successor being Public Works.[11] | |||
| Freedmen's Affairs | Implementation of 14th and 15th Amendments | |||
| Government Operations | Moved into Government Reform | |||
| Government Reform | Renamed Oversight and Government Reform | |||
| Government Research | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| House Beauty Shop | Moved into House Administration | |||
| House Restaurant | ||||
| Hurricane Katrina | Select committee expired | |||
| Immigration and Naturalization | Standing | Moved into Judiciary | ||
| Indian Affairs | Moved into Public Lands | |||
| Industrial Arts and Expositions | ||||
| Insular Affairs | Cuban affairs moved to Foreign Affairs in 1906 Moved to Public Lands | |||
| Interior and Insular Affairs | Moved to Resources | |||
| Internal Security | Functions transferred to the Judiciary | |||
| International Relations | Renamed Foreign Affairs Restored 1995–2007 Reverted to Foreign Affairs | |||
| Interstate and Foreign Commerce | Renamed Energy and Commerce | |||
| Inquiry into Operation of the U.S. Air Services | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| Invalid Pensions | Standing | Terminated | ||
| Irrigation and Reclamation | Moved to Public Lands | |||
| Irrigation of Arid Lands | Renamed Irrigation and Reclamation | |||
| January 6th attack | Select | Official title: Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States CapitolTerminated | ||
| Katyn Forest Massacre Investigation | Select committee expired | |||
| Labor | Standing | Merged into Education and Labor | ||
| Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River | Committee terminated, with its successor being Rivers and Harbors.[12] | |||
| Library | Some functions moved into House Administration. Now Joint Committee on the Library | |||
| Lobbying Activities | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| Manufactures | Standing | Created from the split of Commerce and Manufactures in 1819, it became inactive during its later years and was eliminated in 1911.[13] | ||
| Memorials | Moved into House Administration | |||
| Merchant Marine and Fisheries | ||||
| Merchant Marine, Radio and Fisheries | Temporary renaming of Merchant Marine and Fisheries | |||
| Mileage | Duties returned to Accounts | |||
| Military Affairs | Moved into Armed Services | |||
| Military Pensions | Renamed Invalid Pensions | |||
| Militia | Moved to Military Affairs | |||
| Mines and Mining | Moved to Public Lands | |||
| Mississippi Levees | Renamed Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River, until 1911.[14] | |||
| Modernization of Congress | Select | Terminated | ||
| Impeachment Trial Investigation | Official title: Select Committee to Investigate in Regard to Alleged Improper Influences on the Impeachment TrialSelect committee expired | |||
| Investigate Commodity Transactions | Select committee expired | |||
| Investigate Conditions Interfering with Interstate Commerce between the States of Illinois and Missouri | ||||
| Investigate Contracts and Expenditures Made by the War Department during the War | ||||
| Investigating Defense Migration | ||||
| Investigate the Disposition of Surplus Property | ||||
| Investigate the Seizure of Montgomery Ward and Company | ||||
| Investigate Foundations and Other Organizations | ||||
| Investigate the Use of Chemicals in Food and Cosmetics | ||||
| Investigate the National Labor Relations Board | ||||
| Investigate the Preparation, Distribution, Sale, Payment, Retirement, Surrender, Cancellation, and Destruction of Government Bonds and Other Securities | ||||
| Investigate the Seizure of Montgomery Ward and Company | ||||
| Investigate Real Estate Bondholders' Reorganizations | ||||
| Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations and Comparable Organizations | ||||
| Lobbying Activities | ||||
| Missing Persons in Southeast Asia | ||||
| Natural Resources | Standing | Renamed Resources 2007: Restored | ||
| Narcotics Abuse and Control | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| Naval Affairs | Standing | Moved into Armed Services | ||
| Niagara Ship Canal | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| Newsprint and Paper Supply | ||||
| Offensive and Undesirable Books, Magazines, and Comic Books | ||||
| Pacific Railroads | Standing | Terminated | ||
| Patents | Moved into Judiciary | |||
| Pensions and Revolutionary War Claims | Renamed Revolutionary Pensions | |||
| Pensions | Terminated | |||
| Population | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| Post Office and Civil Service | Standing | Moved into Government Reform | ||
| Post Office and Post Roads | Moved into Post Office and Civil Service | |||
| Post-War Economic Policy and Planning | Special | |||
| Printing | Standing | Moved into House Administration | ||
| Private Land Claims | Abolished due to diminished legislative activity. | |||
| Professional Sports | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| Public Buildings and Grounds | Standing | Established as a standing Committee, replacing the Select Committee on Public Buildings created in 1819. Jurisdiction over "all the public buildings constructed by the United States" was given by an 1871 resolution.[15] | ||
| Public Expenditures | ||||
| Public Lands | Renamed Interior and Insular Affairs | |||
| Public Works | Created by the 1946 Reorg., which combined the jurisdictions of Public Buildings and Grounds, Rivers and Harbors, Roads, and Flood Control Committees. Its wide jurisdiction remained the same throughout.[16] | |||
| Railways and Canals | Renamed from Roads and Canals. Jurisdiction contracted significantly over time in 1880 responsibility for improvement of navigation of rivers and many railroad related matters moved to Commerce. Dissolved in 1927 with its jurisdiction added to Interstate and Foreign Commerce.[17] | |||
| Reconstruction | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| Records of Committees Relating to Banking and Currency | ||||
| Reform in the Civil Service | Standing | Renamed Civil Service | ||
| Resources | Renamed Natural Resources | |||
| Revisal and Unfinished Business | Unfinished business duties obsolete, remainder renamed Revision of Laws | |||
| Revision of Laws | Moved into Judiciary | |||
| Revolutionary Claims | Moved to War Claims | |||
| Revolutionary Pensions (1825) | Split between Military Pensions and Revolutionary Claims | |||
| Revolutionary Pensions (1831) | Abolished. Jurisdiction referred to Pensions | |||
| Rivers and Harbors | Given jurisdiction over subjects relating to improvements of navigation and responsible for reporting river and harbor bills, previously handled by Commerce. Jurisdiction changed over time, gaining responsibilities of Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River, when terminated in 1911, then losing that subject to the new Flood Control in 1916. After 1920 it lost ability to report appropriations and was limited to reporting authorizations.[18] | |||
| Roads | The committee was disbanded by the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, and its jurisdiction included in those of the new Public Works.[19] | |||
| Roads and Canals | Originated as a select committee in 1815 and reappointed at each succeeding Congress until December 1831, when it became a standing committee in 1869 a motion was approved to change the name to the Railways and Canals[20] | |||
| Science | Renamed Science and Technology | |||
| Science and Astronautics | ||||
| Science and Technology | Renamed Committee on Science, Space and Technology (Restored in 2007) | |||
| Science, Space and Technology | Renamed Committee on Science | |||
| Survivor Benefits | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| Territories | Standing | Moved to Public Lands | ||
| U.S. Shipping Board Operations | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| Un-American Activities | Standing | Also called HUAC or HCUA. Became Internal Security | ||
| Uniform System of Coinage, Weights and Measures | Renamed Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures | |||
| Ventilation and Acoustics | ||||
| Voting Irregularities of August 2, 2007 | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| War Claims | Standing | Moved into Judiciary | ||
| Water Power | Special | |||
| Woman Suffrage | Standing | Implementation of the 19th Amendment | ||
| World War Veterans' Legislation | January 18, 1924 | 1946 | Renamed Veterans' Affairs[21] |
| Committee | Type | Established | Terminated | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Committee of the Whole | Standing | A parliamentary device used by the Senate to consider issues as a body. Used extensively prior to the creation of standing committees in 1816. | ||
| Accounts of James Monroe | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress | ||||
| Aeronautical and Space Sciences | Standing | Replaced by Commerce, Science and Transportation | ||
| Agriculture | Restored in 1863 | |||
| Renamed Agriculture and Forestry | ||||
| Agriculture and Forestry | Renamed Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry | |||
| Agricultural Labor Shortages in the West | Special | |||
| Air Mail and Ocean Mail Contracts | ||||
| Alabama Land Purchase | Select | Official title: Memorial of the State of Alabama to Purchase Certain Public Lands from Within the State Select committee expired | ||
| Alaska Railroad (Special Select) | Special | |||
| Alien Property Custodian's Office | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| Alter and Improve Senate Chamber | ||||
| Amending the Constitution on the Election of the President and Vice President | ||||
| Amendments to the Constitution | Official title: Proposed Amendments to the Constitution Select committee expired | |||
| Official title: Resolution to Amend the Constitution Select committee expired | ||||
| Official title: Certain Amendments Proposed to the Constitution by the Convention held in Washington City Select committee expired | ||||
| American Colonization Society | ||||
| Aquatic Life | Special | Official title: Conservation and Utilization of Aquatic Life | ||
| Armed Strikebreakers | Select | Official title: Investigate Armed Bodies of Men for Private Purposes Pinkerton Detective Force Select committee expired | ||
| Assault on Charles Sumner | ||||
| Atomic Energy | Replaced by the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy | |||
| Atmospheric Telegraph Between Washington and Baltimore | Proposal for a Pneumatic tube delivery system Select committee expired | |||
| Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty | Select committee expired | |||
| Attorney General's Office | Official title: Establishing an Additional Executive Office of the Attorney General | |||
| Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate | Standing | Replaced by Rules and Administration. No mention of committee in 1809. | ||
| Bank Note Circulation | Select | Official title: Committee on the expediency of an amendment to the Constitution in Relation to the Circulation of Bank Notes and other Paper Currency Select committee expired | ||
| Banking and Currency | Standing | Renamed Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs | ||
| Bankruptcy | Select | Official title: Establishing a Uniform System of Bankruptcy Select committee expired | ||
| Official title: Bills to Establish a Uniform System of Bankruptcy throughout the United States Select committee expired | ||||
| Bankruptcy and Receivership | Special | Official title: Special Committee to Investigate Receivership and Bankruptcy Proceedings in the Courts of the United States | ||
| Banks Expedition | Select | Official title: Inquire and Report in Regard to the Chartering of Transport Vessels for the Banks Expedition Select committee expired | ||
| Banks in Which Deposits Have Been Made | Official title: Liquidation of the Balances Due from Banks in Which Deposits Have Been Made | |||
| Banks of the District of Columbia | Select committee expired | |||
| Bribery Attempts Investigation | Special | Official title: to Investigate Attempts at Bribery During the Consideration of the Tariff Bill | ||
| Budget | See Committee on the Budget | |||
| Cabinet Officers on the Floor of the Senate | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| California's Admission to the Union | Stubbs Lists the committee through September 30, 1850, but there is no record of it existing during the 31st Congress. See the Committee of Thirteen for the Settlement of the Slavery Question | |||
| Campaign Expenditures | Special | |||
| Campaign Expenditures | Select | Investigate Campaign Expenditures of Presidential and Vice-Presidential Candidates and Candidates for the United States Senate. | ||
| Campaign Expenditures Investigation | Special | |||
| Campaign Expenditures, 1944 | Official title: Presidential, Vice-Presidential, and Senate Campaign Expenditures in 1944 | |||
| Campaign Expenditures, 1946 | ||||
| Canadian Relations | Select | Became a standing committee | ||
| Merged with Foreign Relations | ||||
| Catlin's Collection of Indian Scenes, Purchase of | ||||
| Censure Charges against Senator McCarthy | Terminated on passage of a motion to censure Senator Joseph McCarthy | |||
| Census | Standing | Preceded by various select committees | ||
| Seventh Census | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| Ninth Census | ||||
| Tenth Census | Replaced by the Committee on the Census | |||
| Centennial of the Constitution and the Discovery of America | Replaced with the Select Committee on the Quadro-Centennial | |||
| Centralization of Heavy Industry in the United States | Special | |||
| Charges Against Benjamin Stark | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| Charges Against Burton K. Wheeler | Investigation into Senator Burton Wheeler for acting as an attorney in cases to which the U.S. was a party.; Select committee expired | |||
| Charges Against Senator Powell Clayton | Select committee expired | |||
| Senator Pomeroy | Charges of election bribes against Senator Samuel C. Pomeroy Select committee expired | |||
| Charges of Corruption Contained in the Daily Times | Charges of corruption against the Senate related to the U.S.-British Oregon boundary dispute that were printed by the Daily Times in Washington, D.C., on 5th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 1846.;[22] [23] Select committee expired | |||
| Cherokee Nation's Complaints of Invasion of their Territory | Select committee expired | |||
| Circulation of Bank Notes in the District of Columbia | Official title: Bill to Prohibit the Issue and Circulation of Bank Notes in the District of Columbia Select committee expired | |||
| Civil Service | Standing | Replaced by Post Office and Civil Service | ||
| Civil Service and Retrenchment | Renamed Civil Service | |||
| Civil Service Commission Examining Division | Select | Official title: Investigate the Examining Division of the Civil Service Commission | ||
| Civil Service Laws | Special | Official title: Special Committee to Investigate Administration and Operation of Civil Service Laws and the Classification Act of 1923 | ||
| Civil Service Operations | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| Civil Service System | Special | |||
| Claims | Standing | Jurisdiction transferred to Judiciary and United States Court of Federal Claims | ||
| Clerical Assistance to Senators | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| Coast and Insular Survey | Standing | |||
| Coast Defenses | ||||
| Coins | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| Coins, Weights and Measures | ||||
| Commerce | Standing | Transferred to Interstate and Foreign Commerce Restored in 1961 | ||
| Replaced by Commerce, Science and Transportation | ||||
| Commerce and Manufactures | Split into Commerce and Manufactures | |||
| Compensation | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| Compensation of Congress | Official title: Resolution to Amend the Constitution on Compensation of Congress Select committee expired | |||
| United States Senate Select Committee on Compensation of Members of Congress | Official title: Repealing or Modifying a Law on Compensation of Members of Congress Select committee expired | |||
| Compensation of Senate Employees | Select committee expired | |||
| Date as listed in the Congressional Directory, 83rd Congress, 2nd Session. | ||||
| Comptroller William Medill | Official title: Select Committee in Relation to the First Comptroller, William Medill Select committee expired | |||
| Conservation of National Resources | Standing | |||
| Confiscation of Rebel Property | Select | Official title: Committee on S. 151 to Confiscate Property and Free the Slaves of Rebels.[24] Considered various bills related to confiscation of property.;[25] Select committee expired | ||
| Constitution of the State of Alabama | ||||
| Constitution of the State of Arkansas | ||||
| Contribution Investigation | Investigation into use of political contributions to influence the vote of a senator on a particular bill.; Select committee expired | |||
| Corporations Organized in the District of Columbia | Became a standing committee | |||
| Counting the Electoral Vote | United States presidential election of 1876 Select committee expired | |||
| Court Reorganization and Judicial Procedure | Special | |||
| Credentials of the Honorable John M. Niles | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| Crop Insurance | ||||
| Cuban Relations | Standing | Merged with Foreign Relations | ||
| Danger of Steam Vessels | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| Debt Imprisonment Abolition | Official title: Abolishing Imprisonment for Debt Select committee expired | |||
| Debts of the States | Official title: Assumption by the General Government of the Debts of the States | |||
| Depreciation of Foreign Currencies | Official title: Investigation of Depreciation of Foreign Currencies Select committee expired | |||
| Disorder in the Senate of April 17, 1850 | Fight between Senator Foote and Senator Benton Congressional[26] [27] [28] | |||
| Disarmament | Select committee expired | |||
| Disposition of Useless Papers in the Executive Departments | Standing | Byrd first lists it in December 1903. Preceded by the Examination and Disposition of Documents | ||
| Distilled Spirit Tax Bill | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| Distributing Public Revenue Among the States | ||||
| District of Columbia | Standing | Functions transferred to Governmental Affairs | ||
| District of Columbia Public School System | Select | Official title: Investigate the Public School System of the District of Columbia Select committee expired | ||
| District of Columbia Excise Board | Select committee expired | |||
| Dueling | ||||
| Duties on Imports | Official title: Bill (H.R. 338) to Provide for the Payment of Outstanding Treasury Notes, to Authorize and Loan, and t o Regulate and Fix the Duties on Imports Select committee expired | |||
| Education | Standing | Renamed Education and Labor | ||
| Education and Labor | Functions transferred to Labor and Public Welfare | |||
| Education and Labor Subcommittee Investigating Violations of Free Speech and the Rights of Labor | Also known as the La Follette Civil Liberties Committee or La Follette Committee | |||
| Education and Labor Subcommittee on Wartime Health and Education | https://www.archives.gov/legislative/guide/senate/chapter-14.html#ed&l | |||
| Efficiency of the Army Efficiency | Select | Review of a bill numbered S. 4 to promote efficiency of the Army Select committee expired | ||
| Elections of 1878 | Official title: Inquire into Alleged Frauds and Violence in the Elections of 1878 Select committee expired | |||
| Election of William Lorimer | ||||
| Eligibility of James Shields | Special | Official title: Eligibility of the Honorable James Shields to a Seat in the Senate Select committee expired | ||
| Emigrant Route and Telegraphic Line to California | Select | Official title: Protection of the Emigrant Route and a Telegraphic Line from Missouri to California and Oregon Select committee expired | ||
| Emigration of Negroes from the South to North | Official title: Investigate the Causes Which Have Led to the Emigration of Negroes from the Southern to the Northern States | |||
| Employment of a Fiscal Agent | ||||
| Engrossed Bills | Standing | |||
| Enrolled Bills | Preceded by the Enrolled Bills (Joint) Transferred to Rules and Administration | |||
| Epidemic Diseases | Select | Became a standing committee | ||
| Preceded by a select committee Renamed Public Health and National Quarantine | ||||
| Equal Educational Opportunity | Select committee expired | |||
| Establish a University of the United States | Became a standing committee | |||
| Establishing Branches of the Mint | Select committee expired | |||
| Ether Discovery | ||||
| Examination and Disposition of Documents | Replaced by the Disposition of Useless Papers in the Executive Departments | |||
| Examine the Several Branches in Civil Service | Became a standing committee | |||
| Preceded by a select committee | ||||
| Execution without Trial in France | Special | Investigating the conduct of officers of the Army related to punishment of enlisted men during World War I | ||
| Executive Agencies of the Government | Select | Official title: Investigation of Executive Agencies of the Government. Reported the Reorganization Act of 1939. | ||
| Executive Departments Methods | Official title: Methods of Business of the Executive Departments Methods Select committee expired | |||
| Executive Patronage | Select committee expired | |||
| Expedition of John C. Fremont | Select Committee on Publication of the Results of the Exploring Expedition of John C. Fremont Select committee expired | |||
| Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture | Became a standing committee | |||
| Merged with Expenditures in Executive Departments | ||||
| Expenditures in the Department of Commerce | Standing | Formed from Expenditures in the Department of Commerce and Labor Merged with Expenditures in Executive Departments | ||
| Expenditures in the Department of Commerce and Labor | Split into Expenditures in the Department of Commerce and Expenditures in the Department of Labor | |||
| Expenditures in Executive Departments | Official title: Organization, Conduct, and Expenditures of the Executive Departments Replaced by Select Committee on Expenditures in the State Department on July 1, 1908 | |||
| Preceded by several individual select committees Renamed Government Operations | ||||
| Expenditures in the Interior Department | Select | Became a standing committee | ||
| Merged with Expenditures in Executive Departments | ||||
| Expenditures in the Department of Justice | Became a standing committee | |||
| Merged with Expenditures in Executive Departments | ||||
| Expenditures in the Department of Labor | Standing | Formed from Expenditures in the Department of Commerce and Labor Merged with Expenditures in Executive Departments | ||
| Expenditures in the Navy Department | Select | Became a standing committee | ||
| Merged with Expenditures in Executive Departments | ||||
| Expenditures in the Post Office Department | Standing | |||
| Expenditures of Public Money | ||||
| Expenditures in the Department of State | Select | Preceded by Organization, Conduct, and Expenditures of the Executive Departments Became a standing committee | ||
| Merged with Expenditures in Executive Departments | ||||
| Expenditures in the Treasury Department | Became a standing committee | |||
| Merged with Expenditures in Executive Departments | ||||
| Expenditures in the War Department | Became a standing committee | |||
| Merged with Expenditures in Executive Departments | ||||
| Ex-servicemen Bureaus and Agencies | Official title: Investigate Bureaus and Agencies Dealing with the Welfare of Ex-servicemen | |||
| Evidence Affecting Certain members of the Senate | Select committee expired | |||
| Failed National Banks | Renamed Select Committee on National Banks | |||
| Fire Engines, Purchase of | Select committee expired | |||
| Fiscal Affairs of the Government | Special | |||
| Fiscal Corporation of the United States | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| Fisheries | Standing | |||
| Fishing Bounties and Allowances | Select | Official title: Character and Origin of Fishing Bounties and Allowances Select committee expired | ||
| Five Civilized Tribes of Indians | Became a standing committee | |||
| Florida and Its Admission to the Union | Official title: Division of Florida and Its Admission to the Union | |||
| Ford Theater Disaster | Merged with the Joint Committee on the Ford's Theater Disaster | |||
| Foreign Aid Program | Special | Official title: to Study the Foreign Aid Program | ||
| Select Committee on Forest Reservations | Select | Replaced by Forest Reservations and the Protection of Game | ||
| Select Committee on Forest Reservations in California | Replaced by Select Committee on Forest Reservations | |||
| Forest Reservations and the Protection of Game | Standing | Combined with Committee on Agriculture and Forestry | ||
| Freedman's Savings and Trust Company | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| French Spoliations | Select | |||
| French Spoliations prior to 1800 | ||||
| French Spoliations prior to 1801 | ||||
| French Spoliation claims | ||||
| Fuel Situation in the Middle West | Special | |||
| Fuels in the Areas West of the Mississippi | ||||
| Gasoline and Fuel Oil Shortages | ||||
| Geological Survey | Select | Official title: Select Committee to Investigate the Operations of the Geological Survey Became a standing committee | ||
| Select Committee until December 15, 1899 | ||||
| Georgia and the Creek Indians | Select committee expired | |||
| Government Operations | Standing | Preceded by Expenditures in Executive Departments Replaced by Governmental Affairs | ||
| Government Organization | Select | See also Government Organization Select committee expired | ||
| Government Printing Office | Select committee expired | |||
| Governmental Affairs | Standing | Renamed United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs | ||
| United States Senate Committee on Haiti and Santo Domingo | ||||
| Harpers Ferry Invasion | Select | Official title: Inquire into the Facts of the Recent Invasion and Seizure of the United States Armory at Harpers Ferry Select committee expired | ||
| Senator Heflin's Letter on Intermarriages in New York | Official title: Investigate a Certain Letter Written by Senator J. Thomas Heflin on Intermarriages in New York. Racially-tinged letter written to journalist Sam H. Reading on October 15, 1929. | |||
| Hot Springs (Arkansas) Commission | Special | Official title: Cause of the Omission of the Clause Relating to the Hot Springs of Arkansas in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Bill[29] [30] [31] | ||
| Human Resources | Standing | Preceded by Labor and Public Welfare Renamed Labor and Human Resources | ||
| Illegal Appointments in Civil Service | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| Immigration | Standing | Transferred to Judiciary | ||
| Immigration and Naturalization | Select | Became a standing committee | ||
| Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization https://www.archives.gov/legislative/guide/senate/chapter-13-judiciary-1947-1968.html | ||||
| Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson | Official title: Consider and Report on the Message of the House Respecting the Impeachment of the President Select committee expired | |||
| Impeachment Trial Investigation | Official title: Select Committee to Investigate in Regard to Alleged Improper Influences on the Impeachment Trial Select committee expired | |||
| Impeachment of Robert H. Archbald | Terminated upon conclusion of the impeachment trial Select committee expired | |||
| Impeachment of Harry E. Claiborne | Known as the Impeachment Trial Committee Select committee expired | |||
| Impeachment of Alcee L. Hastings | Known as the Impeachment Trial Committee Select committee expired | |||
| Impeachment of West H. Humphreys | Official title: Message of the House of Representatives in Relation to the Impeachment of West H. Humphreys Select committee expired | |||
| Impeachment of Samuel B. Kent | Known as the Impeachment Trial Committee Select committee expired | |||
| Impeachment of G. Thomas Porteous, Jr. | ||||
| Impeachment of Walter L. Nixon | ||||
| Impeachment of James H. Peck | Select committee expired | |||
| Impeachment of Charles Swayne | ||||
| Incendiary Publications | ||||
| Indian Affairs | Standing | Transferred to Committee on Public Lands | ||
| Restored as a select committee Became a standing committee | ||||
| Indian Contracts Investigation | Select | Indian Contracts Investigation Select committee expired | ||
| Indian Depredations | Standing | Superseded by a select committee | ||
| Irrigation and Reclamation | Official title: Select Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands Became a standing committee | |||
| Preceded by a select committee | ||||
| Indian Territory | Select | Removal of Northern Cheyennes to Indian Territory Official title: Select Committee to Examine into the Circumstances Connected with the Removal of the Northern Cheyennes from the Sioux Reservation to the Indian Territory Select committee expired | ||
| Official title: Select Committee on the Affairs of Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory | ||||
| Indian Title to Certain Lands | Official title: Select Committee on the Extinguishment of Indian Title to Certain Lands Select committee expired | |||
| Indian Traders | Select committee expired | |||
| Indiana Admission to the Union | ||||
| Industrial Expositions | Standing | Select Committee 1899–1909 preceded by Select Committee on International Expositions | ||
| Intelligence Activities | Select | Church Committee Replaced by Select Committee on Intelligence | ||
| Interior and Insular Affairs | Standing | Renamed Energy and Natural Resources | ||
| Interior Department Clerical Force | Select | Official title: Bill S. 282 to Reorganize the Clerical Force in the Department of Interior Select committee expired | ||
| Internal Revenue Bureau | Replaced by Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation | |||
| Subcommittee on Internal Security | Standing | Also known as the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee (SISS) or the McCarran Committee after Senator Pat McCarran of Nevada | ||
| International Copyright Law | Select | |||
| International Expositions | Renamed Select Committee on Industrial Expositions Preceded by Select Committee on the Quadro-Centennial | |||
| Interoceanic Canals | Standing | Transferred to Interstate and Foreign Commerce | ||
| Interstate and Foreign Commerce | Renamed Commerce | |||
| Interstate Commerce | Select | Became a standing committee | ||
| Renamed Interstate and Foreign Commerce | ||||
| United States Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program | Special | Truman Committee | ||
| Investigation and Retrenchment | Standing | |||
| Irrigation and Reclamation | Official title: Select Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands Became a standing committee | |||
| Labor and Human Resources | Renamed Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions | |||
| Labor and Public Welfare | Renamed Human Resources | |||
| Labor-Management Relations | Select | Official title: Improper Activities in Labor and Management;[32] Select committee expired | ||
| Land and Water Policies of the United States | Special | Official title: Special Committee on the Survey of Land and Water Policies of the United States | ||
| Land Commissioners Reports | Select | Official title: Select Committee on the Reports for Land Commissioners | ||
| Law Enforcement Undercover Activities of the Justice Department | ||||
| Library | Standing | Joint Committee from 1806 to 1844 and from 1861 to 1882 Senate Committee from 1883 to 1947 replaced by Joint Committee on the Library | ||
| Lobbying Activities | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| Loss of Original Papers of Mark and Richard Bean | ||||
| Late Presidential Election Louisiana | Standing | United States presidential election of 1876 | ||
| Mail Cover on Senators | Special | Investigating whether mail from Joseph McCarthy was intercepted or reviewed by anyone to determine either the contents or the identify of correspondents. | ||
| Contested Election of 1850 | Standing | Contested election of Stephen R. Mallory by David L. Yulee | ||
| Manufactures | ||||
| Restored in 1864 | ||||
| Marquis de La Fayette | Select | Official title: Resolution Respecting the Marquis de La Fayette visit by the Marquis to the United States.;[33] Select committee expired | ||
| Memorial of A. B. Quinby | Official title: Memorial of A. B. Quinby for his Steam Engine Safety Valve Select committee expired | |||
| American Association for the Promotion of Science | Official title: Select Committee on Professor Mitchell's machine for measuring right ascensions and declination Select committee expired | |||
| Memorial of the Bank of the United States | Select committee expired | |||
| Memorial of Certain Cherokee Claimants | ||||
| Memorial of the Citizens of Georgetown (DC) for the Retrocession of that Part of the District | ||||
| Memorial of Davis Hatch | ||||
| Memorial of Duff Green | Select committee expired | |||
| Memorial of Edward D. Tippett | ||||
| Memorial of Houmas Lands Settlers | Official title: Memorial of Certain Settlers of the Houmas Lands Select committee expired | |||
| Memorials of the Manufacturers Iron | Select committee expired | |||
| Memorial of the Legislature of Arkansas | ||||
| Memorial on Services Rendered by Carlisle P. Patterson | Standing | |||
| Memorial of W.T.G. Morton | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| Memphis Convention | ||||
| Mexican Boundary | Official title: Investigate Irregularities in Running and Marking the Mexican Boundary Select committee expired | |||
| Mexican Boundary Commission | Official title: Appointment of a Scientific Corps Attached to the Mexican Boundary Commission Select committee expired | |||
| Official title: Report to the Secretary of Interior Mexican Boundary Commission | ||||
| Mexican Propaganda | Investigation whether senators received any bribes from foreign governments to influence official actions.; Select committee expired | |||
| Mexican Relations | Select committee expired | |||
| Mexican Claims Commission | Official title: Proceedings of the Board of Commissioners on Claims Against Mexico Select committee expired | |||
| Michigan and Arkansas Admission to the Union | ||||
| Mileage of Members of Congress | Official title: Establish a Uniform Rule for Computation of Mileage of Members of Congress Select committee expired | |||
| Military Affairs | Standing | Merged with Armed Services | ||
| Military Asylum near Washington, D.C. | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| Military Claims Originating in West Virginia | Official title: Appointment of a Commission to Examine and Decide upon Military Claims Originating in the State of Virginia, West of the Blue Ridge Select committee expired | |||
| Militia | Standing | Merged with Military Affairs | ||
| Mines and Mining | Other sources list date established as December 5, 1865.[34] | |||
| Mississippi's Admission to the Union | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| Mississippi Flood Control Project | Official title: Labor Conditions on the Mississippi Flood Control Project Select committee expired | |||
| Mississippi River and Its Tributaries | Standing | |||
| Mississippi River Levees Reconstruction | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| Mississippi River Levee System | Replaced by Mississippi River and Its Tributaries Select committee expired | |||
| Memorial of the Mississippi Territory | Select committee expired | |||
| Merchant Marine | Special | Official title: Investigate Conditions in the Merchant Marine | ||
| Mississippi Election Frauds, 1876 | Select | |||
| Missouri's Admission to the Union | Select committee expired | |||
| Monuments to Deceased Senators | ||||
| Munitions Industry | Also known as the Nye Committee Official name: Special Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry (See Merchants of Death at Senate.gov) | |||
| National Armory and Foundry | ||||
| National Banks | Restored in 1892 as Failed National Banks | |||
| Renamed from Failed National Banks Became a standing committee | ||||
| National Fuels Study | Special | |||
| National Road from Cumberland to Wheeling | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| National Telegraph Company | ||||
| National University | Standing | |||
| National Water Resources | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| Naval Affairs | Standing | Merged with Armed Services | ||
| Naval Supplies | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| Nicaragua Canal | Official title: Construction of the Nicaragua Canal Select committee expired | |||
| Nicaraguan Claims | Select committee expired | |||
| Nine Foot Channel from the Great Lakes to the Gulf | ||||
| Nomination of Amos Kendall | Nomination to be United States Postmaster General | |||
| Nutrition and Human Needs | Transferred to Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry | |||
| Occupation of the Columbia River | Select committee expired | |||
| Official Conduct | Special | |||
| Ohio-Michigan Boundary | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| Old-Age Pension System | Select committee expired | |||
| Omaha Exposition | ||||
| Preservation of Order in the Galleries | Official title: Additional Arrangements for the Preservation of Order in the Galleries Select committee expired | |||
| Ordnance and Gunnery | Renamed Ordnance and War Ships | |||
| Ordnance and Projectiles | Official title: Heavy Ordnance and Projectiles Select committee expired | |||
| Ordnance and War Ships | Select committee expired | |||
| Ordnance Stores | Official title: Investigate all Sales Ordnance Stores by the Government of the United States Select committee expired | |||
| Oregon Railroad | Select committee expired | |||
| Oregon Territory | ||||
| Organization of Congress | Special | Consisted of the Senate members of the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress | ||
| Operated concurrently with the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress | ||||
| Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce | Official title: Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce | |||
| Outrages in Southern States | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| Overland Mail Service | Official title: Examine the Condition of the Overland Mail Service Select committee expired | |||
| Pacific Islands and Puerto Rico | Standing | Renamed Pacific Islands, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands | ||
| Pacific Islands, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands | ||||
| Pacific Railroad (1861–1873) | Select | Became a standing committee in 1863 | ||
| Replaced by Railroads | ||||
| Pacific Railroads | Standing | Separate and distinct from the Committee on the Pacific Railroad | ||
| Pacific Railway Commission | Special | |||
| Patent Office | Select | Replaced by Patents and the Patent Office | ||
| Patents | Standing | Duties moved to United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks https://www.archives.gov/legislative/guide/senate/chapter-13-judiciary-1947-1968.html | ||
| Patents and the Patent Office | Renamed Patents[35] | |||
| Peale's Portrait of Washington | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| Pensacola Navy Yard Surrender | Official title: Inquire into the Circumstances of the Surrender of the Pensacola Navy Yard and Destruction of Public Property at the Norfolk Navy Yard and at the Harpers Ferry Armory Select committee expired | |||
| Pensions | Standing | |||
| Petroleum Resources | Special | |||
| Philippines | Standing | See also: Lodge Committee, a 1902 investigation by the Committee on the Philippines into war crimes committed during the Philippine–American War | ||
| Philippines Economic Condition | Special | Investigate Economic Activities in the Philippines | ||
| Plueropneumonia among Animals | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| Letter from Mr. Poindexter | ||||
| Political Activities, Lobbying, and Campaign Contributions | Special | |||
| Post Office and Civil Service | Standing | Merger of Civil Service and Post Office and Post Roads Succeeded by Governmental Affairs | ||
| Post Office Department | Select | Official title: Investigation of the Post Office Department Select committee expired | ||
| Post Office Leases | Select committee expired | |||
| Post Office and Post Roads | Standing | Replaced by Post Office and Civil Service | ||
| Post-War Economic Policy and Planning | Special | |||
| Potomac River Front | Select | Official title: Investigate the Potomac River Front Improvement Select committee expired | ||
| POW/MIA Affairs | Select committee expired | |||
| Preserve Historical Records of the Senate | Special | |||
| Presidential and Senatorial Campaign Expenditures | ||||
| Presidential Campaign Activities | Select | Watergate Committee Select committee expired | ||
| Presidential Campaign Expenditures | Special | |||
| President's Message Refusing to Furnish a Paper to Senate | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| Printing | Standing | Replaced by Joint Committee on Printing Also listed as a Joint Committee from 1861 to 1883. | ||
| Public Printing Investigation | Select | Official title: Investigate Public Printing.;[36] [37] [38] Select committee expired | ||
| Private Claims Commission | Establishing a Private Claims Commission Select committee expired | |||
| Private Land Claims | Standing | Merged with Committee on Claims | ||
| Privileges and Elections | Transferred to Rules and Administration | |||
| Propaganda Affecting Taxation and Soldiers' Bonus | Select | Investigate whether "the profiteers of the war are now contributing to defeat the soldiers' adjusted compensation bill by money or influence."; Select committee expired | ||
| Propaganda or Money Alleged Used by Foreign Governments | Special | |||
| Protection of Life and Health in Passenger Ships | Select | See also Select Committee on Sickness on Emigrant Ships Select committee expired | ||
| Public Buildings | Select committee expired[39] | |||
| Public Buildings and Grounds | Standing | Public Buildings, 1838–1855 joint committee 1856–1883 Transferred to Public Works.[40] | ||
| Public Distress | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| Public Expenditures | Standing | |||
| Public Health and National Quarantine | Preceded by Epidemic Diseases | |||
| Public Lands | Renamed Public Lands and Surveys | |||
| Restored in 1947 Renamed Interior and Insular Affairs | ||||
| Public Lands and Surveys | Renamed Public Lands | |||
| Public Works | Renamed Environment and Public Works | |||
| Publication of the Treaty of Washington | Select | Official title: Investigate How and by Whom the Treaty of Washington was Made Public Select committee expired | ||
| Purchasing Boyd Reilly's Gas Apparatus | Select committee expired | |||
| Quadrocentennial | Renamed Select Committee on International Expositions | |||
| Railroads | Standing | Preceded by the Committee on the Pacific Railroad | ||
| Readjustment of Service Pay | Special | |||
| Reconstruction and Production | Select | Housing shortage after World War I.; Select committee expired | ||
| Reconstruction Finance Corporation | Select committee expired | |||
| Reduction of Congressional Salaries | ||||
| Reforestation | ||||
| Remodeling the Senate Chamber | Special | Official title: Reconstruction of Senate Roof and Skylights and Remodeling of Senate Chamber | ||
| Removal of Political Disabilities | Select | 14th Amendment | ||
| Representative Reform | Select committee expired | |||
| Retired List for the Army and the Navy | ||||
| Retrenchment | Standing | |||
| Revenue Collections in North Carolina | Special | |||
| Revision of the Laws | Standing | |||
| Revolutionary Claims | Merged with Claims | |||
| Revolutionary Officers | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| Rivers and Harbors Convention in Chicago | Official title: Memorial of the Chicago Convention on the Rivers and Harbors of the United States Select committee expired | |||
| Roads and Canals | Became a standing committee | |||
| Letter of Mr. Ruggles | Select committee expired | |||
| Rules | Standing | Official title: Select Committee to Revise the Rules of the Senate Became a standing committee | ||
| Renamed Rules and Administration | ||||
| Sale of Arms to French Agents | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| Sale of Public Lands | Official title: Sale of Public Lands and the Means of preventing Their Monopoly Select committee expired | |||
| Violation of the Injunction of Secrecy | Select committee expired | |||
| Secret and Confidential Government Documents | Special | To propose guidelines for handling classified documents submitted to the Senate | ||
| Security and Cooperation in Europe | Senate committee terminated. See also the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe | |||
| Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition | Select | Iran-Contra Committee Select committee expired | ||
| Seminole War | Select committee expired | |||
| Senate Administrative Services | Official title: State of the Administrative Service of the Senate Select committee expired | |||
| Senate Committee System (Temporary Select) | ||||
| Senate Reception Room | Special | |||
| Senatorial Campaign Expenditures | . Byrd lists a similar committee from January 5, 1942, to January 6, 1943. | |||
| Senatorial Campaign of 1930 | Select | Related to Senator James Thomas Heflin’s charges of fraud Select committee expired | ||
| Senatorial Elections | Select committee expired | |||
| Settlement of the Slavery Question | Known as the Committee of Thirteen.[41] Not listed in Stubbs.; Select committee expired | |||
| Shiloh National Park | Official title: Investigate Abuses at Shiloh National Park Select committee expired | |||
| Ship Purchase Lobby | Special | |||
| Sickness on Emigrant Ships | Select | Official title: Consider the Causes and Extent of Sickness on Emigrant Ships Select committee expired | ||
| Silver | Special | Also known as the Special Silver Committee | ||
| Sioux and Crow Indians | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| Slave Trade | ||||
| Slavery and the Treatment of Freedmen | ||||
| Small Business | Became a standing committee, Small Business and Entrepreneurship | |||
| Smithsonian Institution | Select committee expired | |||
| Space and Astronautics | Special | Replaced by the Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences | ||
| Standards and Conduct | Select | Transferred to Committee on Ethics | ||
| Standards, Weights, and Measures | Became a standing committee | |||
| Preceded by a select committee | ||||
| Small Business Enterprises(Special) | Special | Also known as Special Committee to Study Problems of American Small Business Replaced by Small Business | ||
| Steel Producing Capacity of the United States | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| Tariff Bill of 1828 | Special | Official title: Repealing the First Section of the Tariff Bill of 1828 | ||
| Tariff Commission | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| Tariff Regulation | ||||
| Tariff Bill | ||||
| Taxation of Government Securities and Salaries | Special | |||
| Telepost | Select | Proposal to use the St. Louis to Chicago telepost by the U.S. Post Office Department. | ||
| Tennessee Centennial Exposition | Select | |||
| Termination National Emergency | Special | |||
| Territories | Standing | Renamed Territories and Insular Possessions | ||
| Territories and Insular Possessions | Renamed Territorial and Insular Affairs | |||
| Territorial and Insular Affairs | Replaced by Interior and Insular Affairs | |||
| Third Degree Ordeal | ||||
| Thirteen on the Disturbed Condition of the Country | Select | Also known as the ‘’’Committee of Thirteen’’’ Select committee expired | ||
| Traffic with Rebels in Texas | Official title: Investigate Alleged Traffic with Rebels in Texas Select committee expired | |||
| Transportation and Sale of Meat Products | Select committee expired | |||
| Transportation Routes to the Seaboard | Became a standing committee | |||
| Treasury Department Account Discrepancies | Official title: Investigate the Books and Accounts of the Treasury Department in Relation to the Discrepancies and Alternations of the Official Report Select committee expired | |||
| Treasury Printing Bureau | Official title: Examine the Management of the Treasury Printing Bureau Select committee expired | |||
| Trespassers upon Indian Lands | Select committee expired | |||
| Unemployment and Relief | ||||
| Unemployment Insurance | Standing | |||
| Unemployment Problems | Special | |||
| Vaccination | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| Ventilation and Acoustics | ||||
| Veterans Bureau Investigation | ||||
| Virgin Islands | Official title: Investigate the Government of the Virgin Islands Select committee expired | |||
| Wages and Prices of Commodities | Official title: Investigate Wages and Prices of Commodities Select committee expired | |||
| War Finance Corporation Loans | Official title: Investigate Certain Loans Made by the War Finance Corporation Select committee expired | |||
| Washington City Centennial | Select committee expired | |||
| Washington City Charter | Official title: Modifying the Charter of the City of Washington June 5, 1840 Select committee expired | |||
| Washington Railway and Electrical Company | Special | Investigation of the causes of a strike | ||
| Weights and Measures | Select | Select committee expired | ||
| Whitewater Committee | Special | Official title: Investigate Whitewater Development Corporation and Related Matters | ||
| Wildlife Resources | Stubbs lists committee as terminating on January 21, 1931. | |||
| Woman Suffrage | Select | Became a standing committee in 1909 | ||
| Wool Production | Special | Official title: Investigate the Production, Transportation, and Marketing of Wool | ||
| Year 2000 Technology Problem | [42] |
| Committee | Type | Established | Terminated | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alcohol in the Arts | Select | ||||
| Amending the Constitution on Presidential and Vice Presidential Elections | Standing | ||||
| American Shipbuilding | Select | ||||
| Armor Plant Costs | Special | ||||
| Atomic Energy | Standing | Preceded by the Senate Special Committee on Atomic Energy. | |||
| United States Congressional Joint Committee on Arrangements for the Bicentennial | Standing | ||||
| Aviation Policy Board | Standing | https://www.archives.gov/legislative/guide/house/chapter-23-joint-aviation-policy-board.html | |||
| Banking and Currency | Standing | ||||
| Budget Control | Standing | ||||
| Centennial of the Laying of the Capitol Cornerstone, Celebrate the | Standing | ||||
| Centennial of the Telegraph, Commemorate the | Standing | 78th Congress. https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/128.html#128.3 | |||
| Charities and Reformatory Institutions in the District of Columbia, Investigate | Standing | ||||
| United States Congressional Joint Committee on Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Dedication of | Standing | ||||
| Chinese Immigration, Investigate | Standing | ||||
| Civil Service Retirement Act | Standing | 69th Congress. https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/128.html#128.3 | |||
| Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States, Inquire into the | Standing | Investigation of the Ku Klux Klan. https://www.archives.gov/legislative/guide/house/chapter-23-overview-of-committees.html#CivilWar | |||
| Condition of the States which Formed the So-Called Confederate States, Inquire into the | Standing | American Civil War. https://www.archives.gov/legislative/guide/house/chapter-23-overview-of-committees.html#CivilWar | |||
| Conditions in Alaska, Investigation of | Standing | ||||
| Conditions of Indian Tribes | Special | Committee expired after releasing report. | |||
| Conduct of the War | Standing | American Civil War. https://www.archives.gov/legislative/guide/house/chapter-23-overview-of-committees.html#CivilWar | |||
| Congressional Operations | Standing | Functions transferred to the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration | |||
| Congressional Salaries, Investigate | Standing | ||||
| Construction of a Building for a Museum of History and Technology for the Smithsonian | Standing | ||||
| Control of Aircraft for Seacoast Defense, Investigate | Standing | ||||
| Defense Production | Standing | ||||
| Deficit Reduction | Select | ||||
| Determine what Employment may be Furnished Federal Prisoners | Standing | ||||
| Dirigible Disasters, Investigate | Standing | ||||
| Disposition of (Useless) Executive Papers | Standing | Renamed the Joint Committee on Disposition of Executive Papers. | |||
| Joint Committee on Disposition of Executive Papers | Standing | ||||
| District of Columbia, to Inquire into the Affairs of the | Standing | ||||
| District of Columbia Public Parks | Standing | ||||
| Economic Report | Standing | Renamed the Joint Economic Committee. | |||
| Enrolled Bills | Standing | Divided into the House Committee on Enrolled Bills and the Senate Committee on Enrolled Bills. | |||
| Eradication of the Mediterranean Fruit Fly | Standing | ||||
| Fiscal Relations between the District of Columbia and the United States (1915) | |||||
| Fiscal Relations between the District of Columbia and the United States (1922) | |||||
| Federal Aid in Construction of Post Roads | Standing | ||||
| Federal Reserve System | Standing | ||||
| Ford's Theater Disaster | Standing | Preceded by the Senate Select Committee on the Ford Theater Disaster. | |||
| Foreign Economic Cooperation | Standing | ||||
| Forestry | Standing | ||||
| General Parcel Post, to Investigate | Standing | ||||
| Government for the District of Columbia, to Frame a Form of | Standing | ||||
| Government Organization | Standing | ||||
| Harriman Geographic Code System | Standing | ||||
| Hawaii | Standing | ||||
| Housing | Standing | ||||
| High Cost of Living | Standing | 66th Congress. https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/128.html#128.3 | |||
| Immigration and Nationality Policy | Standing | ||||
| Inaugurating Washington's Statue, Making Arrangement for | Standing | ||||
| Inaugural Ceremonies | align=center colspan=3 | see note | Convened every four years after the quadrennial presidential election. http://inaugural.senate.gov/ | ||
| Interior Department and Forestry Service, to Investigate the | Standing | ||||
| Internal Revenue Taxation | Standing | Renamed the Joint Committee on Taxation | |||
| Interstate Commerce | Standing | ||||
| Interstate and Foreign Commerce | Standing | ||||
| Labor Management Relations | Standing | ||||
| Code of Laws for the District of Columbia (1832) | Preceded by the Joint Committee to Prepare a Code of Laws for the District of Columbia (1828) | ||||
| Code of Laws for the District of Columbia, to Prepare a (1828) | |||||
| Legislative Budget | Standing | ||||
| Muscle Shoals | Standing | ||||
| Navajo-Hopi Indian Administration | Standing | ||||
| Naval Affairs | Standing | ||||
| Naval Personnel | Standing | ||||
| Northern Pacific Railroad Land Grants, Investigation of | Standing | ||||
| Ordnance | Select | ||||
| Organization of Congress (1946) | Special | Adoption of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 | |||
| Organization of Congress (1965) | Special | Adoption of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 | |||
| Organization of Congress (1991) | Special | Comprehensive reorganization bills never reached the House or Senate floor during the 103rd Congress, but most recommendations were implemented through the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 in the 104th Congress.[43] | |||
| Pacific Coast Naval Bases | Standing | ||||
| Pacific Islands, to Study | Standing | ||||
| Pearl Harbor Attack, Investigation of the | Standing | ||||
| Phosphate Resource of the United States, to Investigate | Standing | ||||
| Police and Preservation of the Capital | Standing | ||||
| Postage on 2nd Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mail | Standing | ||||
| Postal Salaries | Standing | ||||
| Postal Service | Standing | ||||
| Railroad Retirement Legislation | Standing | ||||
| Safety of Roofs over Senate and House Wings of the Capitol, Investigate | Standing | ||||
| Readjustment of Service Pay | Special | ||||
| Reclassification of Salaries | Standing | ||||
| Reconstruction | Standing | Succeeded by the House Select Committee on Reconstruction | |||
| Revision of the Laws | Standing | Separate from House and Senate committees of the same name | |||
| Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures | Standing | ||||
| Reorganization | Standing | ||||
| Reorganization of the Administrative Branch of the Government | Standing | ||||
| Reorganization of the Army | Standing | ||||
| Reorganize the Civil Service in the Departments | Standing | ||||
| Repairs and Furnishings of the Executive Mansion, to Examine the Accounts for | Standing | ||||
| Retrenchment | Standing | ||||
| Revise and Equalize the Pay of the Employees of Each House | Standing | ||||
| Rural Credits | Standing | 64th Congress. https://web.archive.org/web/20070729024933/http://www.fccouncil.com/default.aspx?pageid=14 | |||
| Salaries of Officers and Employees of the Senate and the House, to Investigate the | Standing | ||||
| San Francisco Disaster | Standing | ||||
| Scientific Bureaus | Standing | ||||
| Second Class Mail Matter | Standing | ||||
| Second Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Rail Mail Service | Standing | ||||
| Selective Service Deferments | Standing | ||||
| Senate Chamber and Hall of the House of Representatives | Standing | ||||
| Smithsonian Bequest | Standing | ||||
| State, War and Navy Department Building | Standing | ||||
| System of Shortime Rural Credits, to Investigate | Standing | ||||
| Tax Evasion and Avoidance | Standing | 75th Congress. https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/128.html#128.3 | |||
| Temporary National Economic Committee | The TNEC was established by a joint resolution of Congress (52 Stat. 705) to study monopolies and concentration of economic power. https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/144.html | ||||
| Tennessee Valley Authority | Standing | ||||
| Transfer of the Indian Bureau | Standing | ||||
| Veterans' Affairs | Standing | Restored as House Committee on Veterans' Affairs in 1947 and Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs in 1970. | |||
| Washington (DC) Metropolitan Problems | |||||
| Washington Aqueduct Tunnel, to Investigate Work on the | Standing |
Adopting the Rules of the House of Representatives for the One Hundred Fourth Congress.
Adopting the Rules of the House of Representatives for the One Hundred Seventh Congress.