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joint committee
noun
- a committee appointed from both houses of a bicameral legislature in order to reach a compromise on their differences concerning a particular issue.
Word History and Origins
Origin of joint committee1
Example Sentences
That summer, the Treasury Department released one name after another at a packed meeting of a joint committee of the House and Senate.
One of these critics was William Borden, executive director of the congressional joint committee on atomic energy.
Another piece of Friday/weekend news was the letter from the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation debunking Romney's plan.
This joint committee will be the first empowered to bring its proposals to an up-or-down vote.
It is a recipe for failure at the very time we need just such a joint committee to succeed.
At the end of this year, a joint committee of Congress will find another $1 trillion to $2 trillion in cuts.
The laws were settled in August 1908 by a joint committee of the Bath and Portland clubs.
A joint committee was speedily appointed and as promptly made its report.
Joint Committee on Reconstruction, report on affairs in the South, 313.
Chandler objected to a joint committee with power to investigate all the executive departments.
It was therefore resolved at the end of July that our delegates be withdrawn, and that put an end to the Joint Committee.
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