List Of Current United States House Of Representatives Committees
The United States House of Representatives currently has 21 congressional committees, 20 standing committees and one select committee. All but two committees, the Budget Committee and the Ethics Committee, are subdivided into subcommittees, each with its own leadership.
The modern House committees were brought into existence through the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946. This bill reduced the number of House committees from 48 to 19, as well as restructured the jurisdictions of the committees.
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