page_title: Ways and means committee
hierarchical_section_title: Ways and means committee
caption_attribution_description: English: First Ways and Means Committee hearing this Congress: Hearing on Protecting Americans with Pre-Existing Conditions.
context_page_description: A ways and means committee is a government body that is charged with reviewing and making recommendations for government budgets. Because the raising of revenue is vital to carrying out governmental operations, such a committee is tasked with finding the ways and means with which to raise that revenue.
  The term "ways and means" originated with the Parliament of England and refers to the provision of revenue to meet national expenditure requirements and to implement the objectives of economic policy. Ways and means are literally provided by the imposition of taxation.
context_section_description: A ways and means committee is a government body that is charged with reviewing and making recommendations for government budgets. Because the raising of revenue is vital to carrying out governmental operations, such a committee is tasked with finding the ways and means with which to raise that revenue.
  The term "ways and means" originated with the Parliament of England and refers to the provision of revenue to meet national expenditure requirements and to implement the objectives of economic policy. Ways and means are literally provided by the imposition of taxation.
caption: A ways and means committee of the United States Congress.
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