super-committee

The cross-party Liaison Committee is a kind of super-committee made up of all the MPs who chair those individual select committees.

The Liaison Committee is a super-committee made up of the chairs of 14 senior select committees.

During his time in the House of Commons, he was chairman of the European scrutiny select committee for 14 years and a member of the liaison super-committee between 1992 and 2006.

The super-committee failed and the sharp cuts were imposed.

The whole unwieldy process came crashing down in July 2011 with a brief shutdown that produced a time-buying agreement to set up a super-committee that would reach a tax-and-spending deal in 2012 — or impose draconian, across-the-board defense and welfare spending cuts through sequestration.