Congressional Committees Quotes

The political party having the majority ... [will] necessarily control all the committees ... because they ... must, as a party, protect themselves against the chance of the control of the business of the body going into the hands of their opponents.

A committee of the Senate ought to confer with a committee of the President through a head of a department and not with the Chief Magistrate, for in the latter case a committee of that House is equal to the President.

You have 435 people in the United States House of Representatives trying to get along.

The House [of Representatives] has become not so much a legislative assembly as a huge panel from which committees are selected.

No one took H.U.A.C. [House Un-American Activities Committee] seriously until it was too late.

First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified before Congressional Committees, nor written works on the Communist conspiracy.

The diabolical influence of communism on youth was manifested in the ... communist inspired riots in San Francisco, where students were duped into disgraceful demonstrations against a Congressional committee.

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.

Our whole system was to settle disputes within the [congressional] committees. It's a waste of time to bring out a bill if you can't pass it. I just don't like to have a record vote for the sake of having a vote.

The basic work of Congress is done in committees.

Now, for this book I had to learn the world of the Senate, which is really for all that's written about the Senate, an unknowing world and its mores, and the way things work with subcommittees and all. I loved learning about that.

The people never have and never will be able to understand how the will of a majority of the House of Representatives can be set aside by the judgment of a few men on a powerful committee.

In the 114th Congress, I had the privilege of serving on two of the most important Committees in the House of Representatives: the House Armed Services Committee and the Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Do I have comedy writers? Of course I have writers—535 of them—100 in the Senate and 435 in the House.

Congress is a collection of committees that come together in a Chamber periodically to approve one another's actions.

I am chairman of the Africa subcommittee in the House of Representatives.

If you undertake to divide all these appropriations and have many committees where there should be but one, you will enter upon a path of extravagance that you cannot foresee … until we find the Treasury of the country bankrupt.

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.

Select Committee of the House and Senate on the Insurrectionary States

You can go to Hell! It makes no difference what a majority of you decide; I am the Committee ...

It is in the committee that the dirty work is done ... away from the many-eyed scrutiny of the rest of Congress and the public ... special interest legislation usually originates in the committee room.

I represent the 9th Congressional District of Georgia. I'm their voice.

When people are making up stories about Bob Mueller on Fox News and those get traction in congressional committees and in the White House, at a certain point, I've got to say no.

While nobody likes a watchdog, and for that reason many investigating committees are unpopular, I thank God for men who, in the face of public denouncement and ridicule go loyally on in their work of exposing the pinks, the lavenders and the reds who have sought refuge beneath the wings of the American eagle …

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.