United States House Committee on Ways and Means | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-07

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United States House Committee on Ways and Means


00:01:11 1 History
00:03:40 2 Political significance
00:04:58 3 Members, 115th Congress
00:05:24 4 Subcommittees, 115th Congress
00:05:57 5 List of Chairs
00:06:06 6 See also



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The Committee on Ways and Means is the chief tax-writing committee of the United States House of Representatives. Members of the Ways and Means Committee are not allowed to serve on any other House Committee unless they apply for a waiver from their party's congressional leadership. The Committee has jurisdiction over all taxation, tariffs, and other revenue-raising measures, as well as a number of other programs including Social Security, unemployment benefits, Medicare, the enforcement of child support laws, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and foster care and adoption programs.
The United States Constitution requires that all bills regarding taxation must originate in the U.S. House of Representatives. Since House procedure is that all bills regarding taxation must go through this committee,  the committee is very influential, as is its Senate counterpart, the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance.
Recent chairmen have included Bill Thomas, Charlie Rangel, Sander Levin and Dave Camp. On November 4, 2015, U.S. Representative Kevin Brady from Texas was chosen to succeed U.S. Representative Paul Ryan as Chair, after his election as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.