• A deliberative assembly may resolve itself into a committee of the whole so that it can take advantage of the greater procedural flexibility that a committee enjoys, usu. presided over by some chair other than the assembly’s regular chair. Cf. quasi committee of the whole. [Cases: States 32. C.J.S. States §§ 48–50.]
committee of the whole
A special committee that comprises all the deliberative assembly’s members who are present.
