Standing Committees

        The seats at the Committees belong to the parties or party groups. For this reason, the number of seats, the chairmanship and the positions at the Committees’ Boards (immediate deputies to the chairman) follow the party proportionality principle.

        No Standing Committee may have less than three and a half nor more than twelve hundredths of the total number of Representatives – disregarding the fraction (i.e. from 17 to 61 Representatives). No Representative can hold a member position on more than one Standing Committee.

There are 25 Standing Committees in the Chamber of Deputies: (links in Portuguese)

• Committee on Agriculture, Animal Industry, Supply and Rural Development;
• Committee on the Constitution and Justice and Citizenship;
• Committee on Consumer Protection;
• Committee on Culture;
• Committee on Defense of the Rights of People with Disabilities;
• Committee on Defense of the Rights of Women;
• Committee on Defense of the Rights of Senior People;
• Committee on Economic Development, Commerce and Industry;
• Committee on Education;
• Committee on the Environment and Sustainable Development;
• Committee on Finances and Taxation;
• Committee on Financial Oversight and Control;
• Committee on Foreign Relations and National Defense;
• Committee on Human Rights and Minorities;
• Committee on Labor, Administration and Civil Service;
• Committee on Mines and Energy;
• Committee on National Integration, Regional Development and the Amazon;
• Committee for Participatory Legislation;
• Committee on Public Security and Fight against Organized Crime;
• Committee on Science and Technology, Communications and Computer Sciences;
• Committee on Social Security and Family;
• Committee on Sports;
• Committee on Tourism;
• Committee on Transportation;
• Committee on Urban Development.