Committees of Congress

Standing Committees: Permanent committees
16 Senate 22 House of Reps.

Subcommittees
These committees are broken down into more specific committees.

Select Committees:
Deal with situations not settled by the standing committees.

Joint Committees:
The two houses come together to solve a problem

Confrence Committees:
Work on problems that need to be compromised when the House and Senate pass out different versions of the same bill