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单词 committee on ways and means
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Committee on Ways and Means
(b) U.S. Also Committee on Ways and Means. A committee of the House of Representatives having jurisdiction over revenue and related issues, (now) including some aspects of social services programmes such as Social Security and Medicare. Also: a similar committee in various state legislatures.
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Committee on Ways and Means1789
Rules Committee1870
1789 Essex Jrnl. & New Hampsh. Packet 5 Aug. 2/4 Proceedings of Congress... Friday, July 24... Upon motion of Mr. Fitzsimons, the estimate of supplies for 1789, was read, and taken into consideration. It was then voted that a committee of ways and means be appointed, to which the said estimate was referred.
1818 Weekly Recorder (Chillicothe, Ohio) 6 Mar. 247/3 On motion of Mr. Huntingdon, it was Resolved, That the committee on Ways and Means be instructed to examine an act entitled ‘act regulating the currency within the United States, of the gold coins of Great Britain, France, [etc.]’.
1838 N.Y. Rev. July 250 (heading) Report upon the Finances and Internal Improvements of the State of New York, 1838, by the Committee of Ways and Means.
1867 Oregon State Jrnl. 5 Jan. 2/2 The Ways and Means Committee decided to postpone an action on Mr. Boutwell's bill.
1919 Lit. Digest 22 Mar. 21/2 Mr. Fordney, of Michigan,..will probably be..Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee.
1951 Christian Sci. Monitor 13 Nov. 16/5 A $1,166,324 slash in the House-approved $22,612,630 supplementary budget was favored today by the Massachusetts Senate Committee on Ways and Means.
1977 Time 12 Dec. 34/2 Al Ullman, the House Ways and Means chairman, has been pleading with Carter for a ‘minimalist’ rather than a ‘maximalist’ tax bill.
2002 Washington Post (Electronic ed.) 26 June The two lawmakers testified before a House Ways and Means subcommittee.
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