Note 115 — Chapter XIV · CONGRESS AT WORK

The plan at present (1922) is as follows: the Republican members of the House from each state select one of their members to represent them in choosing the committees. This representative from each state becomes a member of the Committee on Committees and at meetings of this committee casts a vote equal to the number of Republican Representatives from his state. This Committee on Committees selects the Republican members of the various committees. A caucus of the Democratic members of the House, sometimes through the medium of a Committee on Committees, selects the Democratic members of the Committees. Then the House as a whole accepts the joint list.