A committee of a committee, usually formed for study and investigation, reports its findings to the committee that formed it. What is this committee called?

• A. Ad Hoc Committee
• B. Joint Committee
• C. Special Committee
• D. Subcommittee

Answer: (D)

The idea here is a smaller unit created by a committee to dig into a specific issue and then report back to the parent committee. That nested structure—where the parent committee delegates study and investigation to a dedicated group and expects findings and recommendations to come back for the parent to act on—defines a subcommittee. It’s designed to handle detailed work without pulling the entire committee away from its broader duties, while keeping the parent in control.

Why the others don’t fit as neatly: an ad hoc committee is temporary and formed for a specific task, but it isn’t inherently a subset of a committee reporting back; a joint committee brings members from different bodies or committees for coordination rather than a nested reporting relationship; a special (or select) committee is created to study a particular issue for the assembly, but again isn’t defined as a committee formed by another committee to investigate and then report back as a subunit.