'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.
“Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation.”
“Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.”