A committee (some of which are titled instead as a "Commission", or other terms discussed below in ) is a type of small deliberative assembly that's usually intended to remain subordinate to another, larger deliberative assembly—which when organized so that action on committee requires a vote by all its entitled members, is called the "Committee of the Whole". Committees often serve several different functions: Governance: in organizations considered too large for all the members to parti… (More on Committee)