• Today we will Wednesday 11/9/22

review the results

from yesterday’s
midterm election
and compare the
actual results to
the AP Gov
results.We will also
begin our review of
congressional
committees.
 Warm Up/Review:
Jamboard - Congressional Leadership
1. Make a copy of
the Jamboard
2. Move the
statement next
to the position
it describes.
3. Every position
has an answer
- some have
more than
one!
Congressional Committees

Video Introduction
Q#9: What are the names of the four types of
Congressional Committees?
STANDING SELECT
Q#9: What are the names of the four types of
Congressional Committees?
(BY CHAIR COLOR - DESCRIBE THE ROLE OF EACH
COMMITTEE)

JOINT CONFERENCE
Match the Committee name to the accurate description
● A committee composed of both members of the House and
Senate. They don’t write laws, they just gather information,
STANDING draw attention to a topic, and recommend actions that
Congress can take on the issue.
● If the House and Senate pass different versions of the same
law they form this temporary committee - which irons out
SELECT any differences between the two chambers. (Both chambers
must pass the exact same version of a law.)
● The most important of the four committees. These are permanent
committees. All members of Congress are assigned to one or more
JOINT of these committees. Writing, debating, approving/rejecting, and
overseeing all laws happen in this committee.
● A temporary committee in either the House or Senate that is
CONFERENCE created to address a very specific issue. They don’t write
laws, they just gather information, draw attention to a topic,
and recommend actions that Congress can take on the issue.
Match the Committee name to the accurate description
● A committee composed of both members of the House and
Senate. They don’t write laws, they just gather information,
STANDING draw attention to a topic, and recommend actions that
Congress can take on the issue.
● If the House and Senate pass different versions of the same
law they form this temporary committee - which irons out
SELECT any differences between the two chambers. (Both chambers
must pass the exact same version of a law.)
● The most important of the four committees. These are permanent
committees. All members of Congress are assigned to one or more
JOINT of these committees. Writing, debating, approving/rejecting, and
overseeing all laws happen in this committee.
● A temporary committee in either the House or Senate that is
CONFERENCE created to address a very specific issue. They don’t write
laws, they just gather information, draw attention to a topic,
and recommend actions that Congress can take on the issue.
 Activity: Investigating the current Standing, Select
and Joint Committees in the House and Senate
• Go to today’s folder in eKadence
• Access the link to either the House and Senate Committee pages
• Spend 10 minutes silently investigating committees in either one or both chambers. You
can:
• Focus on just one committee
• Compare and contrast two committees (one in the House and one in the Senate)
• While researching take notes on the following information:
• On what did you direct your investigation? (A specific committee, comparing and contrasting House
and Senate committees?)
• What type of committee(s) did you investigate? (Standing, Select, Joint)
• What did you learn during your investigation?
• 5 substantive statements about the committee:
• Example:
• The U.S. House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis
• This committee was created in 2019 by Speaker Pelosi to acknowledge the threat of climate change.
• This is a select committee - no laws are debated - they just investigate and study ways to reduce pollution and then
make recommendations to the rest of the Congress on what they”think” Congress should do.
• In June 2020 the Democrats on the committee released an action plan to reduce air pollution by 2050 that would save
60,000 lives and save the economy $8 trillion. The entire action plan is available on the committees website.
• There are 9 Democrats and 7 Republicans on this committee.
 Vocabulary Review Handout:
Structure of Congress Textbook Reading Assignment

Please finish the reading assignment tonight if not yet finished!