Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Congress/Committees

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This is a boilerplate template (at the bottom of this article) for congressional committee and subcommittee articles (see List of United States Senate committees, List of United States House of Representatives committees, and List of defunct United States congressional committees). Put {{US-Congress-stub}} at the end of the article unless you believe it is sufficiently completed.

You can also use {{section-stub}} and/or {{list-dev}} if/when appropriate.

External Sources for the articles: Web Resources

• Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress for committee chairmen [1]
• Congressional Research Service reports: http://www.opencrs.com/ and http://www.wikileaks.org/
• 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
• Historic House Committee Names
• House Committee Bibliography
• Current Committees in the United States Senate
• Chairmen of Senate Standing Committees 1789-present, United States Senate Historical Office. June 2008.
• House and Senate Journals, 1789-1875 via the Library of Congress American Memory Project
• Official Congressional Directory: 1820-present.
  • Early editions (incomplete list) through Google Books [2] or University of Michigan [3]
  • Current editions (1998-present) through the Government Printing Office [4]

Books

• Robert C. Byrd (1992), The Senate: 1789-1989 Historical Statistics 1789-1992, Vol. 4, U.S. Government Printing Office, ISBN 0-16063-256-0
• Canon, David T.; Garrison Nelson; Charles Stewart III (2002). Committees in the U.S. Congress: 1789-1946. Washington, DC: CQ Press. ISBN 1-56802-171-2.
• Galloway, George Barnes (1976), History of the House of Representatives, Crowell, ISBN 0-69001-101-6
• Haynes, George Henry (1960) [1938], The Senate of the United States: Its History and Practice, New York: Russell & Russell
• Nelson, Garrison (1993). Committees in the U.S. Congress: 1947-1992. Washington, DC: CQ Press. ISBN 0-87187-729-5.
• Nelson, Garrison (2010). Committees in the U.S. Congress: 1993-2010. Washington, DC: CQ Press.
• Stubbs, Walter (1985), Congressional Committees, 1789-1982: A Checklist, Greenwood Press

The boilerplate template begins after this horizontal line:

The '''Senate Committee on XX''' was a [[standing committee (United States Congress)|standing committee]]
[[select or special committee (United States Congress)|select or special committee]] of the 
[[United States Senate]]/[[US House of Representatives]] between 1990 and 2000. It was originally established 
as a select committee, but became a standing committee in 1999. It is primarily responsible for the oversight of 
federal widgets and thingamajigs.