About Committee News
A committee’s main job is to check, or scrutinise, the work of the government by running inquiries on specific subjects. These inquiries usually require a response from the government and are published as reports. The work of some committees also involves organising public meetings, holding events and surveys, or visiting places.
Once a bill has been debated in committee, it can be reported with or without amendment or it can be rejected (tabled). If a report is approved, the House of Commons prepares a House Report to describe its purpose and scope, and assigns it a number that indicates the Congress in which it was introduced, e.g. 107th Report.
The Government normally makes a response to a report within two months of publication. It can either publish this as a Command Paper or send it to the committee, which can publish it with its own comments or take further evidence. See How Our Laws Are Made for more information on the procedure for considering a bill. The committee also voted to subpoena Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and ten others affiliated with her organization, Women for America First, which held the permit for the rally that preceded the January 6 attack.