Ways and Means Committee
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- noun
- /weɪz ənd miːnz kəˈmɪti/
- Formal
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Comité de Medios y Arbitrios
- First, the US House Ways and Means Committee filed legislation to eliminate the tax benefits associated with financing mergers.
- Ways and Means Committee
- House Ways and Means
- chairman of the Ways and Means Committee
Examples
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Look at poor Dan Rostenkowski (D-Ill.), the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, arguably the most powerful committee in Congress.
Academic text (1990) -
Just when I had abandoned hope of amusement, it's the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.
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He was also a key member of the House Ways and Means Committee.
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Rangel had been forced to step down as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee.
Blog text (28) -
The Republicans in Congress, especially in the Ways and Means Committee, were urging the Administration to propose a bill, waiting for one.
Academic text (1997) -
Congressman Jim Dodd, head of Ways and Means.
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Likewise, taxpayers in districts with representatives on the powerful Ways and Means Committee experienced significantly fewer audits.
Academic text (1999) -
Congress overwhelmingly terminated the catastrophic illness insurance program that Ways and Means had hatched the year before.
Academic text (1990) -
In the late 1990s, the Republican-dominated House Ways and Means Committee pressured the then-HCFA to reform its coverage decision-making and appeals processes.
Academic text (2018) -
He was also a key member of the Ways and Means Committee responsible for tax legislation.
Synonyms
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A permanent group in a parliament or council that meets regularly to study and make decisions about issues
Surface Forms
Morphology
The constituents 'way', 'means' and 'committee' signal that this is a group concerned with methods or resources, so a learner can infer it is a committee about methods/tools — giving partial, compositional sense. However, 'Ways and Means' is an institutionalized political term specifically tied to raising revenue in parliamentary/US contexts, a specialized remit not fully predictable from the words alone, so full precise meaning requires prior exposure.
Etymology
Ways and Means Committee comes from an old phrase where ways means methods and means means money. The group was made to find ways to 'raise money' for the government, so today the Ways and Means Committee deals with taxes and other laws about government money.