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Committee

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.

Extends: [Human communication](https://wikipedia.org.ai/Human communication), Committees, Legislatures, Meetings, [Parliamentary procedure](https://wikipedia.org.ai/Parliamentary procedure)

Properties

Property Expected Type Description
Name Text Commit (RONR)
Class Text S
[In Order](https://wikipedia.org.ai/In Order) Text No
Seconded Text Yes
Debatable Text Yes, although debate on the motion must be confined to its merits only, and cannot go into the main question except as necessary for debate of the immediately pending question.
Amendable Text Yes
Voterequired Text Majority
Reconsidered Text Yes, if a committee has not begun consideration of the question. A negative vote on this motion can be reconsidered only until such time as progress in business or debate has made it essentially a...
Name Text Discharge a committee (RONR)
Class Text B
Inorder Text No
Seconded Text Yes
Debatable Text Yes; debate can go into question in the hands of the committee.
Amendable Text Yes
Reconsidered Text Negative vote only