Defunct House Committees
| Committee | Established | Terminated | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alleged Abstraction of Books from the Library of the House (Select) | February 14, 1861 | February 28, 1861 | 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 (Select) | March 3, 1863 | March 3, 1863 | Investigation into the disappearance of a committee report from the Select Committee on Government Contracts |
| Accountability of Public Moneys (Select) | April 12, 1822 | May 8, 1822 | Select committee expired |
| Accounts | December 27, 1803 | January 2, 1947 | Merged with House Administration |
| Admission to the Floor (Select) | June 18, 1886 | January 27, 1887 | Select committee expired |
| Affairs with Algiers (Select) | February 9, 1808 | April 25, 1808 | Select committee expired |
| Aging (Permanent Select) | October 8, 1974 | October 9, 1992 | Terminated at the end of the 102nd Congress. Committee not renewed during the 103rd Congress. |
| Memorial of the Agricultural Bank of Mississippi (Select) | January 7, 1842 | April 9, 1842 | Memorial requesting forgiveness of a debt to the United States. |
| Air Accidents (Select) | March 6, 1941 | January 7, 1943 | Select committee expired |
| Air Services (Select) | March 24, 1924 | 1925 | Select committee expired |
| Alabama’s Admission to the Union (Select) | December 7, 1818 | March 3, 1819 | Select committee expired |
| Alabama Affairs (Select) | December 21, 1874 | February 23, 1875 | Select committee expired |
| Alcoholic Liquor Traffic (Select) | May 16, 1879 | August 18, 1893 | Became a standing committee |
| Alcoholic Liquor Traffic (Standing) | August 18, 1893 | December 5, 1927 | |
| Alleged Assault on Senator Sumner (Select) | May 23, 1856 | June 2, 1856 | Select committee expired |
| Amendment to the Constitution (Select) | December 17, 1835 | February 28, 1837 | Amendent related to the Election of President and Vice President; Select committee expired |
| January 11, 1837 | July 9, 1838 | Amendment related to the Appointment of Members of Congress to office; Select committee expired | |
| American Colonization Society (Select) | January 29, 1827 | February 7, 1832 | Memorial of the American Colonization Society; Select committee expired |
| American Retail Federation (Special) | April 24, 1935 | April 7, 1936 | Select committee expired |
| American Ship building (Select) | December 19, 1883 | February 12, 1887 | Select committee expired |
| American Sugar Refining Company (Special) | May 9, 1911 | April 20, 1912 | |
| Anthracite Emergency Program (Special) | September 12, 1940 | January 3, 1941 | Program to stabilize the Pennsylvania coal industry. Not authorized to hold hearings and no appropriations were authorized for it. |
| Apportionment of Representatives (Select) | November 8, 1811 | November 20, 1811 | Bring a Bill for the Apportionment of Representatives; Select committee expired |
| December 29, 1820 | March 3, 1821 | Apportionment of Representatives under the 4th Census; Select committee expired | |
| December 11, 1826 | March 3, 1827 | Apportionment of Representatives under the Next Census; Select committee expired | |
| December 13, 1841 | January 22, 1842 | Apportionment of Representatives under the 6th Census; Select committee expired | |
| Arkansas Affairs (Select) | May 27, 1874 | February 6, 1875 | Select committee expired |
| Arkansas Territory (Select) | December 16, 1818 | December 21, 1818 | Select committee expired |
| Arkansas Territorial Limits (Select) | January 9, 1823 | March 3, 1823 | Select committee expired |
| Arms Contracts (Select) | January 7, 1824 | March 27, 1824 | Select committee expired |
| Arms Exports (Select) | February 27, 1809 | February 27, 1809 | Select committee expired |
| Army Appropriations Inquiry (Select) | December 10, 1819 | February 28, 1820 | Select committee expired |
| Army Pay (Select) | December 16, 1844 | March 3, 1845 | Bill to Regulate Army Pay; Select committee expired |
| Army Regulations (Select) | December 6, 1805 | April 21, 1806 | Select committee expired |
| Army Supply Contracts (Select) | February 3, 1814 | April 13, 1814 | Select committee expired |
| Assassinations (Select) | February 2, 1977 | March 29, 1979 | 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) | April 18, 1828 | May 16, 1828 | Select committee expired |
| Establishing an Assay Office in the Gold Region | January 4, 1831 | April 4, 1834 | |
| Assent of Congress to an Act of the Virginia Legislature (Select) | April 8, 1816 | April 9, 1816 | Select committee expired |
| Astronautics and Space Exploration (Select) | March 5, 1958 | July 21, 1958 | Select committee expired |
| Asylum for the Blind (Select) | December 12, 1831 | December 28, 1831 | Select committee expired |
| Attorney General's Office (Select) | December 4, 1816 | March 3, 1817 | Select committee expired |
| Investigate the Incorporation of the Baltic States into the U.S.S.R. (Select) | July 27, 1953 | March 4, 1954 | Replaced by the Committee on Communist Aggression (Select) |
| Bank of the United States (Select) | November 30, 1818 | January 16, 1819 | Conduct and Management of the Bank of the United States; Select committee expired |
| December 13, 1820 | March 7, 1822 | Petition of the Bank of the United States; Select committee expired | |
| March 14, 1832 | June 25, 1834 | United States Bank Affairs; Select committee expired | |
| Banking and Currency | March 2, 1865 | January 3, 1975 | Renamed Banking, Currency, and Housing |
| Banking, Currency, and Housing | January 3, 1975 | January 4, 1977 | Renamed Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs |
| Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs | January 4, 1977 | January 5, 1995 | Renamed Banking and Financial Services |
| Banking and Financial Services | January 5, 1995 | January 3, 2001 | Renamed Financial Services |
| Banking Memorials (Select) | January 20, 1823 | February 27, 1823 | Memorials of Banking Institutions and Insurance Companies in Charleston, South Carolina, and the Bank of the United States; Select committee expired |
| Bankrupt Law (Select) | July 15, 1861 | May 17, 1866 | Select committee expired |
| Bankruptcy (Select) | January 1, 1812 | July 6, 1812 | Establishing a Uniform System of Bankruptcy; Select committee expired |
| Banks of the District of Columbia (Select) | February 19, 1814 | March 3, 1817 | Select committee expired |
| December 31, 1835 | June 20, 1836 | Select committee expired | |
| December 4, 1844 | February 25, 1845 | Select committee expired | |
| Benefits for Dependents of Armed Services Veterans (Select) | August 4, 1954 | January 15, 1956 | 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) | January 29, 1817 | February 21, 1817 | Select committee expired |
| Bible Society of Philadelphia (Select) | February 24, 1816 | March 5, 1816 | Select committee expired |
| Biennial Register (Select) | April 28, 1832 | June 26, 1834 | Select committee expired |
| Bills of Exchange (Select) | January 13, 1826 | March 22, 1826 | Select committee expired |
| Bills and Resolutions Introduced in the House (Select) | February 10, 1909 | March 3, 1909 | Select committee expired |
| Bonus of the National Bank (Select) | December 16, 1816 | December 23, 1816 | Select committee expired |
| Boundary of the Chickasaw Indians (Select) | February 6, 1834 | May 6, 1834 | 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) | December 5, 1850 | August 31, 1852 | Select committee expired |
| Bounty Lands Commutation (Select) | December 11, 1816 | January 11, 1817 | Select committee expired |
| Boynton Investigation (Select) | February 8, 1884 | July 7, 1884 | Select committee expired |
| British Depredations of the Northern Frontier (Select) | January 25, 1832 | March 17, 1832 | Select committee expired |
| Brownstown Treaty (Select) | January 26, 1820 | May 12, 1820 | Select committee expired |
| Conduct of Peter J. Bruin (Select) | April 18, 1808 | April 21, 1808 | Committee investigated the conduct of Peter J. Bruin, one of the Judges of the Superior Court of the Mississippi Territory |
| Budget (Select) | July 31, 1919 | October 11, 1919 | Select committee expired |
| Census | 1901 | 1946 | Jurisdiction merged into Post Office and Civil Service |
| Civil Service | 1924 | 1946 | Jurisdiction merged into Post Office and Civil Service |
| Claims | November 14, 1794 | 1946 | Jurisdiction merged into Judiciary |
| Coinage, Weights and Measures | 1867 | 1946 | Jurisdiction merged into Banking and Currency |
| Commerce and Manufactures | December 14, 1795 | 1819 | Renamed and split into Commerce and Manufactures |
| Commerce | 1819 | 1893 | First period. Renamed Interstate and Foreign Commerce |
| Disposition of Executive Papers | 1889 | 1947 | Jurisdiction merged into House Administration |
| District of Columbia | 1808 | 1999 | Jurisdiction merged into Government Reform |
| Economic and Educational Opportunities | 1995 | 1997 | Renamed Committee on Education and the Workforce |
| Education | 1883 | 1947 | Merged into Education and Labor |
| Education and Labor | 1867 | 1883 | Split into Education and Labor 1947-1995: Restored as Economic and Educational Opportunities 1997-2007: Renamed Education and the Workforce; Restored in 2007 |
| Elections | April 13, 1789 | 1947 | Jurisdiction merged into House Administration |
| Election of the President, Vice President and Representatives in Congress | 1893 | 1947 | Jurisdiction merged into House Administration |
| Energy Independence and Global Warming | 2007 | 2011 | Terminated |
| Engraving | 1844 | 1860 | Jurisdiction merged into Printing |
| Enrolled Bills | 1876 | 1947 | Jurisdiction merged into House Administration |
| Expenditures in the Executive Departments | 1927 | 1952 | Created by the merger of several predecessor expenditure committees Jurisdiction merged into Government Operations |
| Expenditures in the Agriculture Department | 1889 | 1927 | Jurisdiction merged into Expenditures in the Executive Departments |
| Expenditures in the Commerce and Labor Departments | 1905 | 1913 | Split between Expenditures in the Commerce Department and Expenditures in the Labor Department |
| Expenditures in the Commerce Department | 1913 | 1927 | Merged into Expenditures in the Executive Departments |
| Expenditures in the Interior Department | 1860 | 1927 | Merged into Expenditures in the Executive Departments |
| Expenditures in the Justice Department | 1874 | 1927 | Merged into Expenditures in the Executive Departments |
| Expenditures in the Labor Department | 1913 | 1927 | Merged into Expenditures in the Executive Departments |
| Expenditures in the Navy Department | 1816 | 1927 | Merged into Expenditures in the Executive Departments |
| Expenditures in the Post Office Department | 1816 | 1927 | Merged into Expenditures in the Executive Departments |
| Expenditures in the State Department | 1816 | 1927 | Merged into Expenditures in the Executive Departments |
| Expenditures in the Treasury Department | 1816 | 1927 | Merged into Expenditures in the Executive Departments |
| Expenditures in the War Department | 1816 | 1927 | Merged into Expenditures in the Executive Departments |
| Expenditures on Public Buildings | 1816 | 1927 | Merged into Expenditures in the Executive Departments |
| Flood Control | February 3, 1916 | January 3, 1947 | 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. |
| Freedmen's Affairs | 1866 | 1875 | Implementation of 14th and 15th Amendments |
| Government Operations | 1952 | 1999 | Moved into Government Reform |
| Government Reform | 1999 | 2007 | Renamed Oversight and Government Reform |
| Hurricane Katrina (Select) | 2005 | 2006 | Select committee expired |
| Immigration and Naturalization | 1893 | 1946 | Moved into Judiciary |
| Indian Affairs | 1821 | 1946 | Moved into Public Lands |
| Industrial Arts and Expositions | 1903 | 1927 | |
| Insular Affairs | 1899 | 1946 | Cuban affairs moved to Foreign Affairs in 1906 Moved to Public Lands |
| Interior and Insular Affairs | 1951 | 1993 | Moved to Resources |
| Internal Security | 1969 | 1975 | Functions transferred to the Judiciary |
| International Relations | 1975 | 1979 | Renamed Foreign Affairs Restored 1995–2007 Reverted back to Foreign Affairs |
| Interstate and Foreign Commerce | 1893 | 1981 | Renamed Energy and Commerce |
| Invalid Pensions | 1831 | 1946 | Terminated |
| Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran (Select) | January 1987 | November 1987 | Iran-Contra Committee; Select committee expired |
| Irrigation and Reclamation | 1924 | 1946 | Moved to Public Lands |
| Irrigation of Arid Lands | 1893 | 1924 | Renamed Irrigation and Reclamation |
| Katyn Forest Massacre Investigation (Select) | 1951 | 1952 | Select committee expired |
| Labor | 1883 | 1947 | Merged into Education and Labor |
| Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River | November 7, 1877 | April 5, 1911 | Committee terminated, with its successor being Rivers and Harbors. |
| Library | ?? | ?? | Some functions moved into House Administration. Now Joint Committee on the Library |
| Manufactures | December 8, 1819 | 1911 | Created from the split of Commerce and Manufactures in 1819, it became inactive during its later years and was eliminated in 1911. |
| Memorials | 1929 | 1947 | Moved into House Administration |
| Merchant Marine and Fisheries | 1887 | 1932 | |
| 1935 | 1994 | ||
| Merchant Marine, Radio and Fisheries | 1932 | 1935 | Temporary renaming of Merchant Marine and Fisheries |
| Mileage | 1837 | 1927 | Duties returned to Accounts |
| Military Affairs | 1822 | 1946 | Moved into Armed Services |
| Military Pensions | 1825 | 1831 | Renamed Invalid Pensions |
| Militia | 1835 | 1911 | Moved to Military Affairs |
| Mines and Mining | 1865 | 1946 | Moved to Public Lands |
| Mississippi Levees | December 10, 1875 | November 7, 1877 | Renamed Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River, until 1911. |
| Natural Resources | 1993 | 1995 | Renamed Resources 2007: Restored |
| Naval Affairs | 1822 | 1946 | Moved into Armed Services |
| Niagara Ship Canal (Select) | on/before 1861 | on/after 1861 | Select committee expired |
| Pacific Railroads | 1865 | 1911 | Terminated |
| Patents | 1837 | 1946 | Moved into Judiciary |
| Pensions and Revolutionary War Claims | 1813 | 1825 | Renamed Revolutionary Pensions |
| Pensions | 1880 | 1946 | Terminated |
| Post Office and Civil Service | 1946 | 1999 | Moved into Government Reform |
| Post Office and Post Roads | 1808 | 1946 | Moved into Post Office and Civil Service |
| Printing | 1846 | ?? | Moved into House Administration |
| Private Land Claims | ?? | ?? | |
| Public Buildings and Grounds | 1837 | 1946 | 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. |
| Public Expenditures | 1814 | 1880 | |
| Public Lands | 1805 | 1951 | Renamed Interior and Insular Affairs |
| Public Works | 1947 | 1968 | 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. |
| Railways and Canals | April 9, 1869 | 1927 | 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. |
| Reconstruction (Select) | ?? | ?? | Select committee expired |
| Records of Committees Relating to Banking and Currency | ?? | ?? | |
| Reform in the Civil Service | 1893 | 1924 | Renamed Civil Service |
| Resources | 1995 | 2007 | Renamed Natural Resources |
| Revisal and Unfinished Business | December 9, 1795 | 1868 | Unfinished business duties obsolete, remainder renamed Revision of Laws |
| Revision of Laws | 1868 | 1946 | Moved into Judiciary |
| Revolutionary Claims | 1825 | 1873 | Moved to War Claims |
| Revolutionary Pensions | ?? | 1825 | Split between Military Pensions and Revolutionary Claims |
| Rivers and Harbors | December 1883 | 1946 | 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. |
| Roads | 1913 | 1946 | The committee was disbanded by the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, and its jurisdiction included in those of the new Public Works. |
| Roads and Canals | 1831 | 1869 | 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 |
| Science | 1995 | 2007 | Renamed Science and Technology |
| Science and Astronautics | 1959 | 1974 | Renamed Science and Technology |
| Science and Technology | 1974 | 1987 | Renamed Committee on Science, Space and Technology (Restored in 2007) |
| Science, Space and Technology | 1987 | 1995 | Renamed Committee on Science |
| Territories | 1825 | 1946 | Moved to Public Lands |
| Un-American Activities | 1945 | 1969 | Also called HUAC or HCUA. Became Internal Security |
| Uniform System of Coinage, Weights and Measures | ?? | ?? | |
| Ventilation and Acoustics | 1893 | 1911 | |
| Voting Irregularities of August 2, 2007 (Select) | August 3, 2007 | January 3, 2009 | Select committee expired |
| War Claims | 1873 | 1946 | Moved into Judiciary |
| Water Power (Special) | 1918 | 1921 | |
| Woman Suffrage | 1917 | 1927 | Implementation of the 19th Amendment |
| World War Veterans' Legislation | ?? | ?? |
Read more about this topic: List Of Defunct United States Congressional Committees
Famous quotes containing the words defunct, house and/or committees:
“The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“But in the reception of metaphysical formula, all depends, as regards their actual and ulterior result, on the pre-existent qualities of that soil of human nature into which they fall—the company they find already present there, on their admission into the house of thought.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)
“... in the minds of search committees there is the lingering question: Can she manage the football coach?”
—Donna E. Shalala (b. 1941)