Commerce Committee
The House Energy and Commerce Committee, formerly known simply as the Commerce Committee
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Rules Committee, Appropriations Committee, Ways and Means Committee, and the Budget Committee are probably the most powerful. The Energy and Commerce Committee and the Education and Labor Committee are powerful because of the broad reach of their jurisdictional control.
The fourteen executive departments are (in order of creation): State Treasury Interior Justice Homeland Security Agriculture Commerce Labor Defense Health and Human Service Housing and Urban Development Transportation Energy Education Veterans Affairs
There are 15 cabinet postions today. They are State, Treasury, Interior, Agriculture, Justice, Labor, Commerce, Defense, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, Energy, Education, Health and Human Services, Veterans Affairs, and Homeland Security.
In the House of Representatives, the Rules Committee lists the bills on a calendar for debate. This committee can decide to plave the bill ahead of others on the calendar, can limit the amount of time devoted for debate on the bill, and can prohibit the adding of farther amendments to the bill. The powerful Rues Committee can help assure quick passage of a bill or can kill it by placing it so far back on the calendar that it will not reach the House floor before Congress adjourns.