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A committee (or “commission”) is a type of small deliberative assembly that is 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: A committee that is a subset of a larger committee is called a subcommittee. Where the larger group has a name other than “committee” – for example, “Board” or “Commission”, the smaller group(s) would usually be called committee(s), not subcommittee(s), and might go by an entirely different name, or substitute “Commission” for “Committee”. For example in the sciences, the “International Commission on Stratigraphy” (ICS) a standing working committee is doing organizational work establishing uniform naming and benchmarks in the geologic record and timeline since 1974, all under the auspices of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS)….