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Committee of the Whole
All of the Members of the House sitting as a committee. Presided over by a chairman rather than by the Speaker, it studies appropriation bills and any other matters referred to it by the House.
All of the Members of the House sitting as a committee. Presided over by a chairman rather than by the Speaker, it studies appropriation bills and any other matters referred to it by the House.
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Committee of the Whole
A Committee of the Whole is a device in which a legislative body is considered one large committee. All members of the legislative body are members of such a committee. This is usually done for the purposes of discussion and debate of the detail of bills before the parliament.
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