ou are a member of the House of Representatives, and you’ve just been chosen to be on the Ways and Means Committee. You come home and tell your family, and they look at you with blank stares. “So what does that mean?” they ask. Explain the privileges, restrictions, and duties of sitting on the Ways and Means Committee.
Responses will vary. A sample response follows: The Ways and Means Committee is widely considered to be the most powerful joint committee (finish it, the rest is on the picture)