Super Committees have occasionally been formed by Congress to deal with specific situations, and often have touched on federal budgeting. One example is the Joint Committee on the Legislative Budget, with members from the Appropriations, Ways and Means, and Finance Committees created by the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946. Another, more recent, example was the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, created in 2012, which was bicameral and bipartisan with the power to submit fast-track legislation to Congress if it reached an agreement, though agreement was not reached.
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