Congressional committees
Where Congress actually decides things — and which member has power over what.
A committee is a small panel of members that decides which bills move forward and which quietly die, and that holds oversight hearings over the federal agencies in its subject area. Almost nothing reaches a floor vote without clearing one first.
That makes a member’s committee seats the clearest public signal of what they actually have power over — which industries they write the rules for, which agencies answer their questions, which budgets they mark up. Committee membership is neutral public information: it says what a member’s job is, nothing more.
We have which committees and subcommittees existed. We do not have historical membership: every roster on this site is the current Congress only. Who sat on a committee in an earlier Congress is not in this data, and nothing here should be read as if it were.
Sources: official committee rosters. Data catalog →
Committee membership is neutral public information about a member’s official job. Nothing on this page is an allegation, and sitting on a committee is not evidence of anything. Where we compare a member’s committee against their money, we label the result a research flag — a lead from public records to be checked, never a finding of wrongdoing.