user Posted January 16, 2019 at 09:36 PM Report Share Posted January 16, 2019 at 09:36 PM Can a committee have multiple reports on an issue representing different viewpoints (e.g. democrats vs. republicans)? Does the majority win and decide what goes in the official committee report? How does it work in US government where a committee has democrats and republicans which may take two different sides on an issue? Do they have separate majority and minority reports? How would something like that work based on RONR if there are two different major views of a committee? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstackpo Posted January 16, 2019 at 09:50 PM Report Share Posted January 16, 2019 at 09:50 PM "Multiple reports?" Well, yes and no. There can be only one "Majority Report" consisting of the text adopted by a majority vote of the committee members. That will be THE Committee Report. The minority (or any number of sub-minorities) can write a report but the group to which the committee is reporting is NOT obliged to officially listen (or even pay the slightest attention) to minority reports - see page 527ff. I have no idea how the US congress does such things -- I'm not sure all of them know either. It is logically impossible for there to be two (or more!) majorities giving reports. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
user Posted January 16, 2019 at 10:35 PM Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2019 at 10:35 PM Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Brown Posted January 17, 2019 at 02:07 AM Report Share Posted January 17, 2019 at 02:07 AM I think that @Caryn Ann Harlos might be interested in this issue. I believe she has chaired a committee that issued multiple reports. As I recall, there might even have been a discussion in this forum about it. 😉 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryn Ann Harlos Posted January 17, 2019 at 02:47 AM Report Share Posted January 17, 2019 at 02:47 AM LOL, and yes there can be multiple minority reports but a lot will depend on what the bylaws say. And as I got constantly reminded :)) there is no such thing as a majority report, it is merely the committee report (though in our case our bylaws actually call it the majority report). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
user Posted January 17, 2019 at 03:00 AM Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2019 at 03:00 AM Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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