Which house committees would you want to be on if elected Representative?

[MaC]

wow, that's a lot of committees, (didn't include the joint committees, special, ect.)

[Jake]

Armed Services, Homeland Security, and Judiciary. International Relations, Appropriations, and Rules wouldn't be bad either.

[CARLHAYDEN]

Rules and Ways and Means.

[Emsworth]

Appropriations, Judiciary, Rules, and Ways and Means

[TeePee4Prez]

Appropriations, Budget, Education and Commerce, Financial Services, Judiciary, Transportation, and finally my most coveted Ways and Means

[Democratic Hawk]

It's never going to happen but I picked: Appropriations, Armed Services, Budget, Financial Services, International Relations. Standards of Official Conduct and Ways & Means

Dave

[Frodo]

Energy and Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, and the Ways and Means committees. 

[Beet]

Rules, Ways and Means, and Appropriations.

[afleitch]

Transport and Infrastructure. I personally blame playing SimCity for that one.

[WalterMitty]

transportation.

[afleitch]

transportation.

I'd push for a high speed Maglev line to link the East Coast from Washington through to Boston. May not be feasable of course, but it is worth looking into.

[WalterMitty]

transportation.

I'd push for a high speed Maglev line to link the East Coast from Washington through to Boston. May not be feasable of course, but it is worth looking into.

i agree with you.

it is downright sickening how car-obsessed we americans are.

at least you brits dont suffer from this horrible car infatuation.

[TeePee4Prez]

transportation.

I'd push for a high speed Maglev line to link the East Coast from Washington through to Boston. May not be feasable of course, but it is worth looking into.

I have an I-895 proposal around Philly, an I-72 running south of Philly relieving the Schuykill, and an I-87 extension bypassing Philly and NYC to the west eventually running down Delaware to Rehoboth.  I'll link you to a site I heavily contributed to, but got no credit for.  The I-66 extension towards the Delmarva and South Jersey was my thinking as well.

http://www.angelfire.com/nj4/fictionalfreeways/

[Blue Rectangle]

Ways and Means

Why?  To quote Willie Sutton, "because that's where the money is."

[JohnFKennedy]

International Relations, Rules and Ways and Means. In that order.

[The Duke]

Ways and Means, Standards of Official Conduct

[Dave from Michigan]

I don't really know much about congress commitees, what is the rules commitee

[12th Doctor]

Education and the Workforce.


And, BTW, House members only get to be on one committee, except in extraordinary circumstances.

[12th Doctor]

I don't really know much about congress commitees, what is the rules commitee

The Rules committee decides on the schedualing of the debate on particular bills and decides what the rules of the debate will be.  It sounds pretty lame, but the rules choosen for debate and voting can acctually have a huge impact on close bills.

[12th Doctor]

Exception:  Often times, some Ways and Means memebrs are allowed to have a second assignment, due to the fact that their committee strongly impacts the activities of everyother committee.  They often like to have one memeber of Ways and Means on each committee, so as to keep tabs on what is going on.

[Nation]

Probably budget.