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House Committees

Main Responsibility

Senate Committees

Main Responsibility

  • Rules
  • Appropriations
  • Budgets
  • Commerce
  • Ways and Means
  • Determines whether bills will be considered and in what order
  • Regulates government expenditures
  • Sets level of revenue and spending for fiscal year
  • Regulates interstate and foreign trade
  • Recommends revenue raising bills
  • Foreign Relations
  • Finance
  • Judiciary
  • Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
  • Armed Services
  • Leads foreign policy debate, including discussion of treaties
  • Deals with taxation and other revenue measures
  • Oversees administration of justice and considers judicial nominations
  • Oversees federal government agencies and departments
  • Oversees nation’s military including Department of Defense