List of defunct United States Congressional committees
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Many committees of the United States Congress are now defunct. In some cases their responsibilities have been moved to other committees. In other cases the name was changed. In other cases, the responsibilities no longer merit a committee.
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[edit] Defunct House Committees
- Accounts (1803–1947; moved into House Administration)
- Alcoholic Liquor Traffic (1893–1927; implementation of 18th Amendment)
- Assassinations (Select, 1976-1979)
- Banking and Currency (renamed Financial Services)
- Census (1901–1946; moved into Post Office and Civil Service)
- Civil Service (1924–1946; moved into Post Office and Civil Service)
- Claims (1794–1946; moved into Judiciary)
- Coinage, Weights and Measures
- Commerce and Manufactures (1795-1819; renamed Commerce)
- Commerce, (1819-1981; renamed Interstate and Foreign Commerce)
- Disposition of Executive Papers (1889–1947; moved into House Administration)
- District of Columbia (-1999; moved into Government Reform)
- Economic and Educational Opportunities (1995-1997; renamed Committee on Education and the Workforce)
- Education (1883-1947; merged into Education and Labor)
- Education and Labor (1867-1883; split into Education and Labor)
- restored (1947-1995; renamed Economic and Educational Opportunities)
- renamed Education and the Workforce (1997-2007)
- restored (2007)
- Elections (1789-1947; moved into House Administration)
- Election of the President, Vice President and Representatives in Congress (1893–1947; moved into House Administration)
- Engraving (1844–1860; moved into Printing)
- Enrolled Bills (1876–1947; moved into House Administration)
- Expenditures in the Executive Departments (1927–1952; created by the merger of minor expenditure committees; moved into Government Operations)
- Expenditures in the Agriculture Department (1889–1927; merged into Expenditures in the Executive Departments)
- Expenditures in the Commerce and Labor Departments (1905–1913; split between Expenditures in the Commerce Department and Expenditures in the Labor Department)
- Expenditures in the Commerce Department (1913–1927; merged into Expenditures in the Executive Departments)
- Expenditures in the Interior Department (1860–1927; merged into Expenditures in the Executive Departments)
- Expenditures in the Justice Department (1874–1927; merged into Expenditures in the Executive Departments)
- Expenditures in the Labor Department (1913–1927; merged into Expenditures in the Executive Departments)
- Expenditures in the Navy Department (1816–1927; merged into Expenditures in the Executive Departments)
- Expenditures in the Post Office Department (1816–1927; merged into Expenditures in the Executive Departments)
- Expenditures in the State Department (1816–1927; merged into Expenditures in the Executive Departments)
- Expenditures in the Treasury Department (1816–1927; merged into Expenditures in the Executive Departments)
- Expenditures in the War Department (1816–1927; merged into Expenditures in the Executive Departments)
- Expenditures on Public Buildings (1816–1927; merged into Expenditures in the Executive Departments)
- Flood Control
- Freedmen's Affairs (1866–1875; implementation of 14th and 15th Amendments)
- Government Operations (1952-1999; moved into Government Reform)
- Government Reform (1999-2007; renamed Oversight and Government Reform)
- Hurricane Katrina (Select) (2005-2006; select committee expired)
- Immigration and Naturalization (1893–1946; moved into Judiciary)
- Indian Affairs (1821–1946; moved into Public Lands)
- Industrial Arts and Expositions
- Insular Affairs (1899–1946; Cuban affairs moved to Foreign Affairs in 1906; moved to Public Lands)
- Interior and Insular Affairs (1951–1993; moved to Resources)
- Internal Security (1969–1975; functions transferred to the Judiciary)
- International Relations (1995-2007; renamed to Foreign Affairs)
- Interstate and Foreign Commerce (-1981; renamed Energy and Commerce)
- Invalid Pensions (1831–1946; terminated)
- Irrigation and Reclamation (1924–1946; moved to Public Lands)
- Irrigation of Arid Lands (1893–1924; renamed Irrigation and Reclamation)
- Labor (1883-1947; merged into Education and Labor)
- Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River
- Library (some functions moved into House Administration; now Joint Committee on the Library)
- Manufactures (1819-1911)
- Memorials (1929–1947; moved into House Administration)
- Merchant Marine and Fisheries (1887–1932, 1935–1994)
- Merchant Marine, Radio and Fisheries (1932–1935; temporary renaming of Merchant Marine and Fisheries)
- Mileage (1837–1927; duties returned to Accounts
- Military Affairs (1822–1946; moved into Armed Services)
- Military Pensions (1825–1831; renamed Invalid Pensions)
- Militia (1835–1911; moved to Military Affairs)
- Mines and Mining (1865–1946; moved to Public Lands)
- Mississippi Levees
- Natural Resources (1993-1995; renamed Resources
- (Restored in 2007)
- Naval Affairs (1822–1946; moved into Armed Services)
- Pacific Railroads (1865–1911; terminated)
- Patents (1837–1946; moved into Judiciary)
- Pensions and Revolutionary War Claims (1813–1825; renamed Revolutionary Pensions)
- Pensions (1880–1946; terminated)
- Post Office and Civil Service (1946–1999; moved into Government Reform)
- Post Office and Post Roads (1808–1946; moved into Post Office and Civil Service)
- Printing (created in 1846; moved into House Administration)
- Private Land Claims
- Public Buildings and Grounds
- Public Expenditures (1814–1880)
- Public Lands (1805–1951; renamed Interior and Insular Affairs)
- Public Works
- Railways and Canals
- Reconstruction (Select)
- Records of Committees Relating to Banking and Currency
- Reform in the Civil Service (1893–1924; renamed Civil Service)
- Resources (1995-2007; renamed Natural Resources)
- Revisal and Unfinished Business (1795–1868; unfinished business duties obsolete; remainder renamed Revision of Laws)
- Revision of Laws (1868–1946; moved into Judiciary)
- Revolutionary Claims (1825–1873; moved to War Claims)
- Revolutionary Pensions (-1825; split between Military Pensions and Revolutionary Claims)
- Rivers and Harbors
- Roads
- Roads and Canals
- Science (1995-2007; renamed Science and Technology)
- Science and Astronautics (1959-1974; renamed Science and Technology)
- Science and Technology (1974-1987; renamed Committee on Science, Space and Technology)
- (Restored in 2007)
- Science, Space and Technology (1987-1995; renamed Committee on Science
- Territories (1825–1946; moved to Public Lands)
- Un-American Activities, also called HUAC or HCUA (1945–1969; became Internal Security
- Uniform System of Coinage, Weights and Measures
- Ventilation and Acoustics (1893–1911)
- War Claims (1873–1946; moved into Judiciary)
- Woman Suffrage (1917–1927; implementation of the 19th Amendment)
- World War Veterans' Legislation
[edit] Defunct Senate Committees
- Committee of the Whole (1789-1986)
- Accomodations for the Library of Congress (Select)
- Aeronautical and Space Sciences (1958-1977; replaced by Commerce, Science and Transportation)
- Agriculture and Forestry (1884-1977; replaced by Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry)
- Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate (1807-1947; replaced by Rules and Administration)
- Banking and Currency (1913-1970; replaced by Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs)
- Canadian Relations
- Census
- Civil Service and Retrenchment (replaced by Civil Service)
- Civil Service (replaced by Post Office and Civil Service)
- Claims (1816-1947; transferred to Judiciary and United States Court of Federal Claims)
- Coast and Insular Survey
- Coast Defenses (1885-1921)
- Commerce (1825-1947; replaced by Interstate and Foreign Commerce)
- restored (1961-1977; replaced by Commerce, Science and Transportation)
- Commerce and Manufactures (1816-1825; split into Commerce and Manufactures
- Condition of the Potomac River Front at Washington (Select)
- Conservation of National Resources
- Construction of the Nicaragua Canal (Select)
- Corporations Organized in the District of Columbia
- Cuban Relations
- Disarmament (Select)
- District of Columbia (1816-1977; replaced by Governmental Affairs)
- Education (1869-1870; replaced by Education and Labor)
- Education and Labor (1870-1947; replaced by Rules and Administration and Labor and Public Welfare)
- Enrolled Bills (1875-1947; incorporated into Rules and Administration)
- Engrossed Bills (1806-1921)
- Epidemic Diseases (1887-1896; replaced by Public Health and National Quarantine)
- Establish a University of the United States
- Examine the Several Branches of the Civil Service
- Expenditures in Executive Departments (1921-1952; became Government Operations)
- Fisheries
- Five Civilized Tribes of Indians (1909-1921)
- select committee (1887-1909)
- Forest Reservations and the Protection of Game (1896-1921; combined with Committee on Agriculture and Forestry)
- preceeded by Select Committee on Forest Reservations (1893-1896)
- preceeded by Select Committee on Forest Reservations in California (1892-1893)
- Geological Survey
- select committee (1892-1899)
- became a standing committee (1993-present)
- Indian Depredations (1893-1921; terminated)
- select committee (1889-1893)
- Governmental Affairs (1977-2005; replaced by Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs)
- Government Operations (1952-1977; replaced by Governmental Affairs
- Human Resources (1977-1979 replaced by Labor and Human Resources
- Immigration
- Indian Affairs (1820-1947; transferred to Committee on Public Lands)
- restored as a select committee (1977-1993)
- became a standing committee (1993-present)
- Indian Depredations (1893-1921; terminated)
- select committee (1889-1893)
- Industrial Expositions (1909-1921)
- select committee (1899-1909)
- preceeded by International Expositions (Select) (1895-1899)
- Interior and Insular Affairs (1948-1977; became Energy and Natural Resources
- Subcommittee on Internal Security, more commonly known as the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee (SISS), also called Special Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws, or the McCarran Committee (1951–1977)
- Interoceanic Canals
- Interstate and Foreign Commerce (1947-1961; became Commerce)
- Interstate Commerce (1887-1947; became Interstate and Foreign Commerce)
- Investigation of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (Select) (1924–1926)
- Replaced by Joint Committee on Taxation
- Irrigation and Reclamation (1891-1947; now Energy and Natural Resources)
- select committee (1889-1891)
- Labor and Human Resources (1979-1999; moved to Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions)
- Labor and Public Welfare (1947-1977; moved to Human Resources)
- Library (now Joint Committee on the Library)
- Manufactures (1825-1947; became Interstate and Foreign Commerce)
- Military Affairs (1816-1947; became Armed Services)
- Militia (1816-1857; incorporated into Military Affairs)
- Mines and Mining (1865-1947, now Energy and Natural Resources)
- Mississippi River and Its Tributaries
- National Banks (Select)
- Naval Affairs (1816-1947, now Armed Services)
- Pacific Islands and Puerto Rico
- Pacific Islands, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands
- Pacific Railroad (1861-1873), became the Committee on Railroads
- Pacific Railroads (1893-1921), separate and distinct from the Committee on the Pacific Railroad
- Patents
- Pensions
- Philippines
- Post Office and Civil Service
- Post Office and Post Roads
- Printing (1848-1947; became Joint Committee on Printing)
- Private Land Claims (1826-1921; combined with Committee on Claims)
- Privileges and Elections
- Public Buildings and Grounds (now Environment and Public Works)
- Public Health and National Quarantine
- Public Lands (now Energy and Natural Resources)
- Public Lands and Surveys (now Energy and Natural Resources)
- Public Works (now Environment and Public Works)
- Railroads
- Revision of the Laws
- Revolutionary Claims (1832-1921; combined with Committee on Claims)
- Roads and Canals (1830-1857)
- select committee (1820-1830)
- Rules (1874-1947)
- select committee (1867-1874)
- became Rules and Administration (1947-present)
- Small Business (Select) (1950-1981; became Small Business and Entrepreneurship)
- Standards, Weights, and Measures
- Special Committee to Study and Survey Problems of Small Business Enterprises (1940–1950; became Small Business (Select))
- Territorial and Insular Affairs (now Energy and Natural Resources)
- Territories
- Territories and Insular Possessions
- Transportation and Sale of Meat Products (Select)
- Transportation Routes to the Seaboard
- Tresspassers upon Indian Lands (Select)
- Year 2000 Technology Problem (Special) (1998-2000)
- Woman Suffrage (Select)
[edit] Defunct Joint Committees
- Atomic Energy (1946–1977)
- Aviation Policy Board (1947–1948)
- Conduct of the War (1861–1865)
- Defense Production (1950–1977)
- Disposition of Useless Papers (1889–1935; became Disposition of Executive Papers)
- Economic Report (1946–1956)
- Enrolled Bills (1789–1876; split into House Committee on Enrolled Bills and Senate Committee on Enrolled Bills)
- Ford's Theater Disaster (1894–1897)
- Housing (1947–1948)
- Inquire into the Condition of the Late Insurrectionary States (1871–)
- Internal Revenue Taxation (1926–1975; renamed Taxation)
- Investigate Dirigible Disasters (1933)
- Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack (1945–1946)
- Labor Management Relations (1947–1949)
- Muscle Shoals (1926)
- Organization of Congress (1944–46, 1965–66, 1991-94)
- Reconstruction (1865–1867)
- Revision of the Laws (1907–1910)
- Tennessee Valley Authority (1938–39)
- Veterans Affairs (1932–33)
- Washington Metropolitan Problems (1957–60)
[edit] External links and Sources
- Chairmen of Senate Standing Committees 1789-present. United States Senate Historical Office. November 2006.
- Via National Archives and Records Administration:
- Committee Resource Guide: Committees of the U.S. Senate
- Guide to the Records of the U.S. Senate at the National Archives (Record Group 46)
- Guide to the Records of the U.S. House of Representatives at the National Archives, 1789-1989 (Record Group 233)
- Chapter 23. Records of the Joint Committees of Congress 1789-1968 (Record Group 128)
- Current Committees in the House of Representatives
- Current Committees in the United States Senate
