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Ways and Means Committee

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Committee on Ways and Means

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2,388 bills referred in the 110th Congress

23,955 across the 13 Congresses on file, most in the 112th at 2,581. A referral is not a hearing: most bills sent to a committee are never taken up.

Bills referred, by Congress 107th to 119th

Members

Served in the 110th Congress

Subcommittees

Each with its own members and record

Members, 110th Congress 41

Everyone who held a seat in the 110th Congress, leaders first, with the day they joined or left when it was not with the rest.

Seat	Member	Role
D-NY	Charles B. Rangel	Chair
R-LA	Jim McCrery	Ranking Member
D-PA	Allyson Y. Schwartz
D-AL	Artur Davis
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.
D-MD	Chris Van Hollen
R-MI	Dave Camp
R-CA	Devin Nunes
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer
D-ND	Earl Pomeroy
R-VA	Eric Cantor
D-CA	Fortney Pete Stark
R-IL	Jerry Weller
D-WA	Jim McDermott
R-MN	Jim Ramstad
D-CT	John B. Larson
D-GA	John Lewis
R-GA	John Linder
D-TN	John S. Tanner
R-NV	Jon C. Porter
D-NY	Joseph Crowley
D-FL	Kendrick B. Meek
R-MO	Kenny C. Hulshof
R-TX	Kevin Brady
D-TX	Lloyd Doggett
D-NY	Michael R. McNulty
D-CA	Mike Thompson
R-OH	Patrick J. Tiberi
R-WI	Paul D. Ryan
R-PA	Phil English
D-IL	Rahm Emanuel
D-MA	Richard E. Neal
D-WI	Ron Kind
R-KY	Ron Lewis
R-TX	Sam Johnson
D-MI	Sander M. Levin
D-NV	Shelley Berkley
D-OH	Stephanie Tubbs JonesLeft Aug 1, 2008
R-NY	Thomas M. Reynolds
R-CA	Wally Herger
D-CA	Xavier Becerra

Subcommittees, 110th Congress 6

Under the names they had then. Each has its own record.

Record

Bills, meetings, hearings, reports and more, newest first. In the 110th Congress.

Newest activity first. In the 110th Congress.

Bill	Title	Referral	Date
S 3712	A bill to make a technical correction in the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008.	Discharged From	Dec 11, 2008
HR 7327	Worker, Retiree, and Employer Recovery Act of 2008	Discharged From	Dec 11, 2008
HR 7339	Taxpayer Holiday Act for 2009	Referred To	Dec 10, 2008
HR 7338	Taxpayer Relief Act of 2008	Referred To	Dec 10, 2008
HR 7335	To amend title 31, United States Code, to allow certain local tax debt to be collected through the reduction of Federal tax refunds.	Referred To	Dec 10, 2008
HR 7336	To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prevent the alternative minimum tax from effectively repealing the Federal tax exemption for interest on State and local private activity bonds.	Referred To	Dec 10, 2008
HR 7325	Economic Recovery Through Responsible Homeownership Act of 2008	Referred To	Dec 10, 2008
HR 7321	Auto Industry Financing and Restructuring Act	Referred To	Dec 10, 2008

The published transcripts, newest first, from GovInfo. In the 110th Congress.

Hearing	Title	Held
Serial No. 111-44	Taxes as Part of the Federal Budget168 pages 4 witnesses Thomas A. Barthold, Chief of Staff, Joint Committee on Taxation Len Burman, Daniel Patrick Moynihan Professor of Public Affairs at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University, Center for Policy Research, Syracuse, New York Robert Greenstein, Executive Director, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Washington, D.C Douglas Holtz-Eakin, President, American Action Forum, Arlington, Virginia	Mar 23, 2010
Serial No. 110-101	Economic Recovery and Job Creation Through Investment in America328 pagesOn H.R. 1386, H.R. 1499, H.R. 1540, H.R. 1840, H.R. 3221 and 16 more 13 witnesses The Honorable David Paterson, Governor, State of New York The Honorable Mark Sanford, Governor, State of South Carolina The Honorable Douglas Palmer, Mayor, City of Trenton, New Jersey Timothy Firestine, Chief Operating Officer, Montgomery County Executive, Rockville, Maryland David Mongan, President, American Society of Civil Engineers Dennis Van Roekel, President, National Education Association Randi Weingarten, President, American Federation of Teachers Jared Bernstein, Ph.D., Director, Living Standards Program, Economic Policy Institute Robert Greenstein, Executive Director, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Christine Owens, Executive Director, National Employment Law Project Jeanne Lambrew, Ph.D., Associate Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress, Action Fund, Austin, Texas Martella A. Turner-Joseph, Vice President, Joseph & Turner Consulting Actuaries, LLC, New York, New York Alan Viard, Ph.D., Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute	Oct 29, 2008
Serial No. 110-100	Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation78 pages 2 witnesses Hon. Charles E. F. Millard, Director, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Barbara D. Bovbjerg, Director, Education, Workforce, and Income Security, U.S. Government Accountability Office	Sep 24, 2008
Serial No. 110-99	The Health of the Private Health Insurance Market66 pagesOn H.Con.Res. 400, H.R. 506, S.Res. 638 4 witnesses Karen Davis, Ph.D., President, The Commonwealth Fund, New York, New York Bruce Bodaken, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Blue Shield of California, San Francisco, California Roger Feldman, Ph.D., Blue Cross Professor of Health Insurance, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota Mila Kofman, Superintendent of Insurance, Maine Bureau of Insurance, Augusta, Maine	Sep 23, 2008
Serial No. 110-98	Policy Options to Prevent Climate Change255 pagesOn H.R. 6, H.R. 1475, H.R. 2069, H.R. 3221, H.R. 3416 and 6 more 13 witnesses The Honorable Michael Bloomberg, Mayor, City of New York, New York Peter R. Orszag, Ph.D., Director, Congressional Budget Office The Honorable Carol Browner, Principal, The Albright Group LLC Dallas Burtraw, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future Robert E. Lighthizer, Partner and Head of the International Trade Department, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Timothy J. Regan, Senior Vice President, Corning Incorporated Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Reginald Jones Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics Frank Ackerman, Ph.D., Global Development and Environmental Institute and Stockholm Environment Institute--U.S. Center, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts Daniel R. Abbasi, Director, MissionPoint Capital Partners, Norwalk, Connecticut Jerome Ringo, President, Apollo Alliance, San Francisco, California Peter Barnes, Senior Fellow, Tomales Bay Institute, Point Reyes Station, California William W. Millar, President, American Public Transportation Association David W. Kreutzer, Ph.D., Senior Policy Analyst, The Heritage Foundation	Sep 18, 2008
Serial No. 110-97	The Performance of Social Security Administration Appeals Hearing Offices150 pagesOn H.Con.Res. 312 7 witnesses The Honorable Frank Cristaudo, Chief Administrative Law Judge, Social Security Administration The Honorable Patrick O'Carroll, Inspector General, Social Security Administration Ethel Zelenske, Co-Chair, Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities Social Security Task Force Kathy Meinhardt, Principal Executive Officer for Federal Managers Association Chapter 275, Social Security Office of Disability Adjudication and Review, Federal Managers Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota Sylvester J. Schieber, Chairman, Social Security Advisory Board The Honorable Ron Bernoski, President, Association of Administrative Law Judges, Milwaukee, Wisconsin James Hill, President, Chapter 224, National Treasury Employees Union, Cleveland, Ohio	Sep 16, 2008
Serial No. 110-39	Reforming Medicare's Physician Payment System78 pagesOn H.R. 6331 4 witnesses Bruce C. Vladeck, Ph.D., Senior Health Policy Advisor and Executive Director of Health Sciences Advisory Services, Ernst & Young, LLP, New York, New York Gail Wilensky, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Project Hope, Bethesda, Maryland Nancy H. Nielsen, M.D., Ph.D., President, American Medical Association, Chicago, Illinois Donald M. Crane, President and Chief Executive Officer, California Association of Physician Groups, Los Angeles, California	Sep 11, 2008
Serial No. 110-103	Challenges Facing American Workers77 pages 5 witnesses Jared Bernstein, Ph. D., Senior Economist, Economic Policy Institute Michael Ettlinger, Vice President for Economic Policy, Center for American Progress Elizabeth Lower-Basch, Senior Policy Analyst, Center for Law and Social Policy Gregory Acs, Ph.D., Principal Research Associate, The Urban Institute William W. Beach, Director, Center for Data Analysis, The Heritage Foundation	Sep 11, 2008

The committee's written reports, most on a bill it sent to the floor. In the 110th Congress.

Report	Title	Issued
H. Rept. 110-934	Report on the Legislative and Oversight Activities of the Committee on Ways and Means During the 110th Congress	Jan 2, 2009
H. Rept. 110-728	Alternative Minimum Tax Relief Act of 2008On H.R. 6275	Jun 20, 2008
H. Rept. 110-658	Renewable Energy and Job Creation Act of 2008On H.R. 6049	May 20, 2008
H. Rept. 110-607	Emergency Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2008On H.R. 5749	Apr 24, 2008
H. Rept. 110-606	Housing Assistance Tax Act of 2008On H.R. 5720	Apr 24, 2008
H. Rept. 110-584,Part 2	Taxpayer Assistance and Simplification Act of 2008On H.R. 5719 · Part 2	Apr 14, 2008
H. Rept. 110-584	Taxpayer Assistance and Simplification Act of 2008On H.R. 5719	Apr 14, 2008
H. Rept. 110-529	Andean Trade Preference Extension Act of 2008On H.R. 5264	Feb 25, 2008

Reference documents the committee published: studies, compilations of law, rules. In the 110th Congress.

Print	Title	Text
H. Prt. 110-4	COMPILATION OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY LAWS, Including the Social Security Act, as Amended, and Related Enactments Through January 1, 2007, Volume II	PDF · Text
H. Prt. 110-3	COMPILATION OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY LAWS, Including the Social Security Act, as Amended, and Related Enactments Through January 1, 2007, Volume I-Part 2	PDF · Text
H. Prt. 110-2	COMPILATION OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY LAWS, Including the Social Security Act, as Amended, and Related Enactments Through January 1, 2007, Volume I-Part 1	PDF · Text
H. Prt. 110-1	MANUAL OF RULES of the COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS during the ONE HUNDRED TENTH CONGRESS	PDF · Text

By Congress

The committee's record in each Congress on file. Choose one to see the page as it stood then: its members, subcommittees and record. A dash means the official source has nothing that early, not that the committee did nothing.

Congress	Members	Bills referred	Reported	Became law	Reports	Meetings	Printed hearings	Communications	Prints
119th2025–2026, sitting	45	2,009	50	10	50	34	4	309	0
118th2023–2024	45	1,758	67	16	72	60	70	381	1
117th2021–2022	45	1,754	10	12	12	28	0	376	0
116th2019–2020	43	1,728	27	15	29	41	9	454	4
115th2017–2018	44	1,502	57	15	58	34	47	500	0
114th2015–2016	41	1,472	88	35	89	28	70	663	1
113th2013–2014	39	1,354	25	20	28	15	72	—	6
112th2011–2012	39	2,581	21	30	25	0	101	—	4
111th2009–2010	41	1,767	4	46	5	—	41	—	5
110th2007–2008	41	2,388	23	34	24	—	97	—	4
109th2005–2006	42	2,156	14	38	14	—	85	—	10
108th2003–2004	41	1,542	25	37	26	—	70	—	13
107th2001–2002	41	1,944	37	20	37	—	96	—	2

Membership changes 1

Who joined, left or changed role after the committee was first filled in the 110th Congress, newest first, each with the official record.

Date	Member	Change	Record
Aug 1, 2008	Stephanie Tubbs Jones D-OH	Left Congress	Last recorded vote

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