'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.
“I am a tender, beautiful and loving guy that happens to slap a photographer now and then because they get in my way.”
“Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.”