Committees

group of people who jointly supervise the activities of an organization

thumb|right|250px|Committee room, designed in 1901, in Halifax Town Hall A committee or commission is a body of one or more persons subordinate to a deliberative assembly or other form of organization. A committee may not itself be considered to be a form of assembly or a decision-making body. Usually, an assembly or organization sends matters to a committee as a way to explore them more fully than would be possible if the whole assembly or organization were considering them. Committees may have different functions and their types of work differ depending on the type of organization and its ne

organization

committee of the United States Federal Reserve

Committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence

operating committee of the board of directors

shadow governments before the American Revolution

1972 fundraising organization of United States president Richard Nixon

committee of the Bank of England that decides the United Kingdom's official interest rate