HOUSE COMMITTEES LISTING, incl websites

Use these to check up on your elected representatives, to see if and when they are doing their job by actually representing the people who elected them, or not, and to see what they are doing with your tax dollars. And when you don't like what they are doing, the laws they're passing then contact your reps and tell them. Tell them often. The only thing that will make them do right is to let them know that you are watching, you will hold them accountible. The most important thing to them is getting elected, and if they think they won't because too many people are unhappy with their performance, they will change or else don't elect them. They've gotten away with too much for too long but if we start watching them and holding them accountable, they will straighten up or we'll elect someone who will. Anyhow I didn't mean to start a rant, just to give you this info, and I'm on the phone while doing this so I probably repeated myself and sound goofy. So here's the info:

NOTE: There would be lots of repetition if I list the entire name of all these, so remember, each one is a committee, and the name will go someting like "The Committee on Foreign Affairs" or "the Ways an d Means Committee",in case you wanna Google orBing or need it for whatever reason. OK, the info NOW:

Committee on:

Agriculture www.agriculture.house.gov

Appropriations Committee www.appropriations.house.gov

Committee on Armed Services [don't have the website, but I'm seeing a pattern here so I'd try www.armed services.house.gov first, or just Google it, or

Budget www.budget.house.gov

WAIT. Changed my mind. I knw its a sloppy post but I've deleted it n started over twice already n I'm impatient today, moreso than usual even. So I'm gonna leave this up and take a different route for the rest.

YOu see above you examples of how to go directly to the committees, and can use them if you want. I'm gonna back up n talk about the website for the HOuse.

All of the links for all of the committees can be found on the home page of the House of Representatives website, at

www.house.gov

Besides the committees, you will also find links to the leaders of each committee, other House organizations, and ALL of the elected representatives (including yours - and if unsure who is your Rep, you can find out here)

Resources

• Speaker of the House
• Chief Administrative Officer
• Clerk of the House [I just went ahead and copied the links to make my life easier, ha ha]
• Educational Resources
• Government Resources
• House Directory
• House Rules
• Kids in the House
• Legislative Archive
• Media Resources
• Capitol Visitor Center
• Visiting D.C.

• House Schedule
• House Operating Status

• Procurement Opportunities
• Employment Information

You'll find what is currently on the House floor, not only for this week, but also see the 2009 calendar. You can find voting information, find a bill, amendment, or debate. And you can access the laws of the United States, and see what they have done to us. I keep wondering, at what point will we have enough laws to follow? Is there not a time place reason, something, for someone to stand up and say, "We have passed laws on EVERYTHING and there are no more to make. What, will they begin to pass laws on what color people are allowed to paint their houses (some colors may offend the majority of the neighbors), or on how much coffee we're allowed to buy per month? What? When cometh the end? I forget at the moment who said it, but its absolutely true, and goes something like: "That government is best which governs the least". {I was gonna do some quotes soon, and I'll try to remember to look this one up and correct it and give it correct attribution.}

Anyway, the site will also tell you how it all works - that is, how laws are made and enacted.

Legislative
Branch Agencies

• Architect of the Capitol
• Congressional Budget Office
• Government Accountability Office
• Government Printing Office
• Library of Congress
• U.S. Senate

More government links »

Visiting
Washington, D.C.

• Tourist Information
• Public Transportation
• Local Weather Forecast [ And that's the rest of the home page. ]

Now I'll give you a list of the various committees of the House of Reps.

I'd imagine that your average American knows some of them, but that there are committees most don't know about, and might be interested in if they did know of them. Check up on those you care about, see what your reps are doing, hold them accountable and let 'em know, WE ARE PAYING ATTENTION, because we have learned as the People that we MUST, and cannot trust our Reps to do what they KNOW we want them to.

Committee on: Agriculture Appropriations Armed Services

the Budget Education and Labor Energy and Commerce

Financial Services Foreign Affairs Homeland Security

House Administration the Judiciary Natural Resources Rules

Oversight and Reform Science and Technology Small Business

Standards of Official Conduct Transportation and Infrastructure

Veteran's Affairs Ways and Means Joint Economic Committee

Joint Committee on Printing {?} Joint Committee on Taxation

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence