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produce a compromise bill that both the House and Senate will accept.
Quebec Conference, October 1864. Charlottetown Conference, September 1864. Quebec Conference, October 1864.
The permanent committees of Congress are called a standing committee. The standing committees of each house are controlled by the majority leader.
The US Senate has 16 standing committees
The committees of correspondence were bodies organized by the local governments of the Thirteen colonies before the American Revolution for the purposes of coordinating written communication between and outside of the colonies. These served an important role in the Revolution, by disseminating the colonial interpretation of British actions between the colonies and to foreign governments. The committees of correspondence rallied opposition on common causes and established plans for collective action. The group of committees was the beginning of what later became a formal political union among the colonies.