Indeed, joint committees of cooperating union and employer health and safety experts are increasingly common at large worksites, observers say.
In a point of order yesterday, Labour procedure wonk Chris Bryant obtained confirmation that joint committees operate under Lords standing orders, which means that the committee chair will have both a vote in their own right and a casting vote - which could give the government point of view more clout in deciding its conclusions.
There's an unusual joint session of the Welsh Affairs and Culture, Media and Sport Committees for a joint pre-appointment hearing with Huw Jones, the preferred candidate for new Chair of S4C, the Welsh language TV channel which was brought under the BBC's organisational umbrella after running into financial difficulties.
The House committees' joint bill and the Senate health committee bills would also create a new, publicly run health plan, which they hope would compete with private insurers and drive down prices.
The finance and enterprise committees brought a joint motion on supporting in principle the devolution of corporation tax powers to the Northern Ireland Assembly, on 28 June 2011.
Obama was also planning to appear at a joint fundraiser for the Democratic campaign committees in the House and Senate.
The Senate Finance Committee is also working on a bill, and three House of Representatives committees have published a joint proposal.
All parties supported the joint motion from the Enterprise and Finance Committees on the Northern Ireland Economic Reform Group Report (ERG) on Corporation Tax.
"I'd want to look at the language, but I think it's very important that the oversight of the intelligence committees continue on and this joint bicameral, bipartisan investigation is allowed to do its work, " he said.
In fact, were it not for the hearings recently undertaken by the Joint Economic and the House Government Operations Committees, it appears that there would be no effort made by the Congress to assign blame or to consider corrective legislation.
Joint hearings of the Senate and House Intelligence Committees should be held to consider the findings of such reviews and the extent to which corrective steps deemed to be in order.
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Last summer a joint task force of the Senate Finance and Judiciary Committees concluded the SEC botched things, retaliating against a whistle-blower.
To this end, the Center for Security Policy recommends that joint hearings of the Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees be held at the earliest possible moment to take testimony from Ms. Albright and other Administration officials.
David Petraeus said at a joint hearing of the House Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees.
Proposed regulations to exempt film sets have divided AMs. As a result, the Welsh government has asked a joint sub-committee of the assembly's enterprise and health committees to hear arguments.
Although foreigners are now winning approval to set up wholly owned ventures, most of those that are around today are joint ventures, burdened by an uneasy sharing of power and layers of committees.
They agreed in Helsinki to convene interim political and military committees in March 2000, and to try to assemble the resources needed for a joint force of up to 60, 000 troops.
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This is a joint committee of members of the Business and Enterprise, Defence, Foreign Affairs and International Development Committees which, every year, scrutinises the government's annual report on the control of strategic exports, including weapons.
In addition to the House Financial Services and Senate Banking Committees, where the semi-annual remarks are delivered, Fed chairmen often face the Joint Economic Committee and the budget panels of both chambers.
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