The Appropriations, Commerce, and Foreign Relations Committees are called standing committees because
A) they have fixed memberships and jurisdictions and they continue from one Congress to another.
B) they have fixed memberships and are the committees with the largest budgets.
C) they are temporary committees created to deal with specific issues.
D) they are considered the second level of importance after the majority committees.
E) the committee system has been reformed several times since it was put in place in 1825 and these are the only three committees that have "stood" in place since then.
A
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