Committees!

I checked the committees for both of my representatives, this is what I got:
Pete Stark:

• Committee on Ways and Means

Bob Casey:

• Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
• Committee on Foreign Relations
• Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
• Special Committee on Aging
• Joint Economic Committee

Here are some Facts that I've learned about the Committee on Ways and Means, the Committee on Foreign Relations, and the Joint Economic Committee:

1. The chairman of the Committee of Foreign Relations is John Kerry.
2. The C.F.R.'s latest action was involving a nuclear-weapons-free-zones treaty.
3. The C.F.R. was founded in 1819 and had such accomplishments as the purchase of the state of Alaska.
4. The Committee on Ways and Means is the oldest in the US.
5. The Committee on Ways and Means is the main tax writing committee in the House of Representatives.
6. The Committee on Ways and Means has six subcommittees, Pete Stark is on three of these, and he is a ranking member on two of them.
7. Bob Casey is the Chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, which Senator Pat Toomey is also a member on.
8. The J.E.C. was established in 1946 by the Employment Act of 1946.
9. The J.E.C.'s last hearing was held yesterday, Nov. 16, and the topic was job creation and its involvement with the infrastructure of America.
10. From what I have researched not many of these committees see much action each month, but they all seem to be significant.