Glenn Kelman

In 2006, I appeared before a House subcommittee considering real estate reform. It was like visiting the capital for the 'Hunger Games' as an outsider in a glamorous and byzantine fairy tale: I couldn't believe how beautiful all the congressional aides were, and I never understood the system of bells and alarms warning legislators to vote.

American Businessman

Blake Farenthold

My subcommittee will be thoroughly investigating this issue and demanding answers from Census officials on allegations that the Census Bureau is changing the wording of survey questions used to determine our nation's annual report on health insurance coverage.

American Politician

Sam Graves

When I pick my subcommittee chairmen, I look for people that understand what it's like to run successful businesses, who know what it's like to sign the front of the check instead of the back of the check: somebody that gets it.

Gary Weiss

For Randy Neugebauer, the Texas Republican who chairs the investigations subcommittee, the top sources of funding for his 2012 reelection campaign are from the insurance, banking, finance, securities and real estate industries.

American Journalist

Tom Fitton

While the Pentagon ultimately awards military contracts, there is a reason for the review process. The Senate's subcommittee on Military Construction's approval carries weight.

American Activist

Tom Graves

I think it's possible to have a conservative serve in a cardinal position, a subcommittee chair position, and be very effective.

Lindsey Graham

I'm the ranking Republican on the foreign aid appropriations subcommittee, so I know Tunisia well.

Dick Durbin

Chairing any Appropriations subcommittee is both a great honor and weighty responsibility.

Kevin Richardson

Prior to that I testified before the Senate subcommittee addressing mountaintop removal.

American Musician

Ed Royce

I am chairman of the Africa subcommittee in the House of Representatives.

A subcommittee focuses on a particular area or task within the larger group's responsibilities.

Specific Purpose

Subcommittees may be temporary and disband after completing their specific task or issue.

Temporary Nature

Members of a subcommittee are often chosen for their expertise or interest in the subject they'll be working on.

Expertise Required

 before the United States congressional subcommittee on communications, chaired by the seemingly very curmudgeonly John Pastore. And Mister Rogers is there to make a kind of classic debate case, a really bold an increase in federal funding for public broadcasting.

How to disagree...

 while distorting or fabricating evidence. Many citizens reviled McCarthy while others praised him. And when the Korean War broke out, McCarthy seemed vindicated. Once he became chair of the Senate's permanent subcommittee on investigations in 1953,