Similar words: ways and means, ethics committee, committee, steering committee, subcommittee, committeeman, joint committee, select committee. Meaning: n. a permanent committee of the United States House of Representatives that makes recommendations to the US House on all bills that would raise revenue.
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(1) Democrats on the Ways and Means Committee are offering their own rate-reduction measure during today's hearing.
(2) On June 30, the House Ways and Means Committee voted out a universal coverage bill without a single Republican vote.
(3) I also pardoned former House Ways and Means Committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski.
(4) Senior House Republicans, such as incoming Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.), are already working to make passing trade deals a focus of their work in the next Congress.
(5) The Senate Finance Committee and House Ways and Means Committee have jurisdiction over most U.S. trade policy legislation.
(6) The U.S. House Ways and Means Committee said yesterday it will meet Sept. 24 to consider legislation to push China to raise the value of its currency.
(7) According to House Ways and Means Committee documents, an undervalued exchange rate makes Chinese exports to the United States less expensive and U.S. exports to China more expensive.
(8) Asked yesterday how Congress might find the money, Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, laughed. "With great difficulty, " he said.
(9) Sander Levin, the usually interventionist-minded chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee which oversees trade matters, advocates multilateral rather than unilateral pressure.
(10) The China Currency Act has been forwarded to the House Ways and Means Committee for consideration. Sentencedict.com
(11) Similarly, the chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee, Sander Levin, said the United States should keep "all options" open to pressure China on its currency.
(12) Charles Rangel stepped down as chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee.
(13) But nine months later, the full Senate still has not voted on either bill and the House Ways and Means Committee has not moved its own legislation.
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