joint committee

joint committee

a committee with members from both houses of a bicameral legislature, or from two or more organizations

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Noun

(plural joint committees)

(politics) In a bicameral legislative body, a decision-making entity composed of members of both houses.

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The powers, duties and liabilities of the quarter sessions and justices out of session with respect to the county police were vested in the quarter sessions and the county council jointly, and are now exercised through the standing joint-committee of the two bodies.
During 1861-1862 he was chairman of the important joint-committee on the conduct of the war, and in 1862, as chairman of the Senate Committee on Territories, was instrumental in abolishing slavery in the Federal Territories.

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