Committee Role Quotes

I've been in Congress 14 years. I've been on the Appropriations Committee in which we are in charge of trying to move legislation.

[A] Senator who wants to stir up trouble ... can do so by introducing on the floor amendments which he was duty bound to present in committee. But presentation in committee makes no headlines.

The major role of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is not legislative; it is educational.

We had something in the United States called, which is called CFIUS, which is the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. My husband used to be one of the lawyers on that committee.

Since 2000, it's been a privilege and honor for me to be on the competition committee. And our main focus... is player safety.

The work of the Energy Subcommittee of the Science, Space and Technology Committee is critical to our region.

I have recently taken on two major challenges: running the CHC BOLD PAC and serving Los Angeles as our voice on the Energy and Commerce Committee.

For me, appropriations bills are the glue. These are the bills that must move, no matter what, to keep the government functioning as a reliable element of our society. The Appropriations Committee shouldn't be the most political place to be; it's the place where we have to make the institution function for the country.

Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, almost without exception, is in the committees, more so than on the floor although sometimes more attention is paid to the floor.

The Ways and Means Committee for me has this opportunity to work with programs where I can take my parents' sense of community and make it work.

Ways and Means is the committee that tackles the big issues that affects people's lives and their jobs in a major way.

If it's necessary to join a caucus and get a committee assignment, I'll do it.

I've served on the International Relations Committee.

Serving on the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight allows me to play a role making government more accountable by investigating waste, mismanagement, and improprieties.

But the Committee for Industrial Organizations is here. It is now henceforth a definite instrumentality, destined greatly to influence the lives of our people and the internal and external course of the republic.