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.
If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.
The basic work of Congress is done in committees.
I'd like to solve more problems and help Hoosiers with more opportunities by serving on more committees.
As a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee it has been important to me to intersect with Hoosier farmers as often as possible.
In Westminster, I make sure I maximise my ability to represent my constituents. I can do that in a variety of ways: by asking written questions or questions in the House of Commons, through the scrutiny of bills and by sitting on the environmental audit select committee every week, as well as other committees.
A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.
As debate is rare in the House of Representatives, since nearly all real business is done in the committees, it is very natural that such debate as there is should be very oratorical, should be
As a member of the Aging Committee, I'm no stranger to fighting for America's seniors.
The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.
I'm on the Armed Services Committee, which gives me the opportunity to get involved on some of these international issues. My focus is, as you know, on the economic issues and budget issues.
When you want to work for God start a committee. When you want to work with God start a prayer group
One of things I have always been open to is making policy in the Senate Commerce Committee.
We tend to think of politicians as time-servers and slackers. But on those committees they usually have an interest in the subject. And they're quite clever. I've seen them pick people apart.
Thousands of members of Congress have come and gone over the years, their individual achievements hidden in committee reports, private compromises, amendments pushed through or blocked, and innumerable, unnoticed meetings.
A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.
A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.
I'm grateful for the opportunity to return to the Veterans' Affairs Committee and continue working to ensure that every veteran in America gets the care, support and opportunities they've earned.
I work on the Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees to keep us safe at home and strong in the world.
The work of the Energy Subcommittee of the Science, Space and Technology Committee is critical to our region.
My work on the Judiciary Committee has made me more aware of the InfoWars content than when I appeared previously in a very standard and respectful interview.
Uranium Committee of the National Bureau of Standards
See Albert Einstein.
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.
Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.
