Committee Membership Quotes

Anybody with any brain can figure out that if they can get on the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, that’s where they ought to be because that’s where the money is. Once I got on Defense I went from being the skunk to being the prettiest girl at the party.

Madam Speaker, I have spent more than half my life as a member of the Resources Committee. In that time I have supported numerous wilderness designations. In fact, I cannot recall ever opposing a wilderness bill.

Ahmed Tibi does not recognize the existence of the state of Israel, and letting him into the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee is a serious danger to its security.

I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.

I didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy.

Oh, what could be more delicious than replacing Chuck Grassley on the Senate Agriculture Committee?

Shortly after Senator Eugene J. McCarthy died in 2005 the age of 89, I became an honorary member of the committee starting a fellowship in McCarthy's name at his alma mater, Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota.

Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.

We are not being invited to speak [and be paid honoraria] because of our forensic abilities ... or because we have some fantastical insights to offer. We are being invited because we sit on a committee that involves legislation that affects those interests.

If you're on Banking or the Finance Committee, you don't even have to open your mouth. They'll throw money at you over the transom.

The Department of Justice is a member of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.

it's a good idea to wait a few months before joining anything when you arrive at a village. A bookseller friend who retired to nearby Oxfordshire, and was worried he might be bored, got himself on to every village committee in the first six months, and spent the next ten years extricating himself.

I'm a member of the US committee o the United Nations.

To get on an important [Congressional] committee, a member has to raise a certain amount of money per election cycle. If he does not, he will be dropped from the committee. Both parties actually have a formal price tag for that they call A, B and C committees.

I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted himself or herself with the legislator they are going to meet. Know what committees they are on, what issues they are interested in, all in an effort to build a bridge for communicating with them.

If you ever live in a country run by a committee, be on the committee.

I’m one of the few people on this committee who doesn’t have a law degree, and I’m damn proud of that.