Committee

A committee is a group of people that come together to do something or decide something. It is often part of a bigger deliberative assembly. A committee might have a special job to do for a specific topic.

Purpose

A deliberative assembly may create a committee (or "commission") that has one or more persons to help with the work of the assembly.^[1] For bigger organizations, a lot of work is done in committees.^[2] Committees can be a way to get people together that have similar experience from different parts of an organization. Without the committee, these people might not have a good way to share information and work together.

Procedures

When a committee is created, a chairman (or "chair" or "chairperson") is chosen for the committee.^[3] Sometimes a vice-chairman (or similar name) is also chosen.^[4] The committee chairman often organizes the meetings.

When the committee finishes its work, it gives the results in a report to the larger group. The report may include the methods used, the facts found, the conclusions reached, and any suggestions.^[5]

Committee Media

Committee room, designed in 1901, in Halifax Town Hall
Meeting of the Constitutional Law Committee of the Finnish Parliament [fi] (Finnish: Perustuslakivaliokunta) at the House of the Estates in Helsinki, Finland in 1918. The chairman of the committee, K. J. Ståhlberg, at the left end of the table with his back to the camera.
Joint meeting of two standing committees, Social Policy and Family, and Education, Science and Youth, in the Sejm, lower house of the Polish parliament in Warsaw (2018).