The party heads are not influential policy shapers, but that is allowed, they are the heads of the party they just lead the party they don’t create policies, the policies are just delegated to the different committees, the committee Chairs and ranking members must be mentioned in when talking about the top 500 most influential people in D.C. Lets Check.

House Committee on Agriculture

• Chairman Glenn Thompson is mentioned once in passing. Apparently, Denise Bode, the president and managing partner for Constitution Partners , worked with Thompson to reintroduce the American Food for American Schools Act as part of the Farm Bill. She pushed to lump the bills together

• Ranking member David Scott is not mentioned once.

• Not a single lower member of the House Agricultural Committee is mentioned. Well, I’m sure that’s not the case for every committee

House Appropriations Committee

• Chairman Tom Cole Ranking Member and Rosa DeLauro are not mentioned.

• Member Michael Guest is mentioned once in passing. He helped Art Cameron, who is the Vice President and Global Relations for RTX, expand Raytheon’s manufacturing operation in Forest, Mississippi.

• Not a single member is influential enough in D.C, but Raytheon knows who to talk to if they want anything done in Forest Mississippi, and it is not their elected official. Everyone in Forest, MS, thank Art.

House Armed Services Committee

• Chairman Mike Rogers? No. Ranking Member Adam Smith? No.

• Any of the Armed Services Committee members? No.

House Budget Committee

• Chairman Jodey Arrington? Ranking Member Brendan Boyle? No.

• Members of the Budget Committee? No.

House Committee on Education & the Workforce

• Chairwoman Virginia Foxx is 81 years old, has been North Carolina’s 5th district representative since 2005, was a member of the North Carolina State Senate from 1994-2004, was the president of Mayland Community College from 1987-1994, and was a member of the Watauga Country Board of education from 1976-1988. Apparently, that isn’t good enough for D.C. since she isn’t mentioned once.

• Is Ranking Member Bobby Scott mentioned? Despite being 77 years old, assuming Virginia’s 3rd District in 1993, and has been in Washington for over 30 years, his name is not mentioned once.

• No member of this committee is mentioned a single time.

House Committee on Energy and Commerce

• Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers is not mentioned once, but Ranking member Frank Pallone is mentioned once.

• Caroline Tess, Executive Director for National Security Action, her first job was as a Military Legislative Assistant for Congressman Pallone.

• No other member is mentioned.

House Ethics Committee

• Chairman Michael Guest was mentioned earlier. He was a lower member of the House Appropriation Committee. His buddy Art Cameron is on the list for helping Raytheon.

• Ranking Member Susan Wild is not even mentioned in passing.

• Member Glenn Ivey is mentioned, Ron Busby Sr. is the President and CEO of U.S. Black Chambers and worked with Congressman Ivey to help black entrepreneurs understand how the Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action would affect minority-owned businesses.

• No other members are mentioned.

House Financial Services Committee

• Chairman Patrick McHenry is not mentioned on the list, which is a surprise since he was elected as temporary Speaker of the House. I he not a good policymaker?

• Then there is Ranking Member Maxine Waters, who is 86 years old. She was first elected to Congress in 1991 and has been there since. Before that, she was a member of the California State Assembly from 1977-1991. How is she not on the list? She has been in public office for nearly 50 years.

• Majority Whip and Committee Member Tom Emmer is mentioned in passing. Eric Burgeson, the managing director and government affairs for Delta Air Lines, is mentioned having close ties with Emmer.

• Member Rashida Tlaib is mentioned in passing also, though it has nothing to do with having close ties to anyone. Yasmine Taeb, the President of Taeb Strategies and the legislative and political director of MPower Change Action Fund, was upset at lawmakers for voting to censure Representative Tlaib.

• That is it for the Finical Services Committee.

House Committee on Foreign Affairs

• Chairman Michael McCaul and ranking member Gregory Meeks are nowhere mentioned, along with not a single member.

House Committee on Homeland Security

• Chairman Mark Green along with ranking member Bennie Thompson are not mentioned, but Michael Guest the Vice- Chairman makes an appearance again. He is the Chairman of one committee and on at least two others so far. How is he only mentioned in passing for helping Art Cameron secure deals for Raytheon?

• Although Eric Swalwell’s name does not appear on the list in any way, we feel obligated to mention he was removed from his position on the House Intelligence Committee in 2023 due to his ties with a Chinese spy, yet he is still a member of the Homeland Security Committee.

• Glenn Ivey is also a member of this committee which is the second committee he is on. His name mentioned in passing. Hello again Ron Busby Sr, President and CEO of U.S. Black Chambers

Committee on House Administration

• Chairman Bryan Steil and Ranking Member Joe Morelle's names do not appear.

• Congressman and member Mike Carey is not mentioned, but Jamie Jackson, Partner for K&L Gates, has Mariah Carey’s “Hero” as her, and Jill Zuckman, Partner at SKDK has Mariah Carey’s “ Always Be My Baby” on repeat. The more you know about D.C.’s 2024 Top 500 Influential People Shaping Policy.

• That is all for the House Administration.

House Judiciary Committee

• Chairman Jim Jordan? Ranking member Jerrold Nadler? No not mentioned

• Eric Swalwell is still on this committee too. He can’t be on the Intelligence Committee because of his close ties to a Chinese spy, but he is more than allowed on both Homeland Security and Judiciary Committees.

• Congressman Glenn Ivy is also on this Committee, his friend Ron Busby Sr. at U.S. Black Chambers is very influential.

House Committee on Natural Resources

• Chairman Bruce Westerman and ranking member Raul Grijalva are siding with the majority of our elected officials, not being mentioned once.

• In another case of being mentioned but not for having any connection, Congresswoman Lauren Boebert is mentioned. Tiffany Muller, President of End Citizens United, has frequently called out the alleged ethical transgression of Republicans like Lauren Boebert. I guess Tiffany chooses to ignore any alleged transgression made by Democrats.

• Well, it looks like Tiffany is a better policy shaper than anyone on the House Natural Resource Committee.

House Committee on Oversight and Accountability

• Chairman James Comer and Ranking Member Jamie Raskin are not mentioned

• Lauren Boebert along with Rashida Tlaib are members of this committee, so we get to see oversight and accountability when Tiffany Muller and Yasmine Taeb decide since they have “more experience” than anyone else on this committee.

House Rules Committee

• Chairman Michael Burgess along with Ranking Member Jim McGovern and every other member of the rules committee are nowhere to be seen.

House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology

• Chairman Frank Lucas, Ranking member Zoe Lofgren, and every other member of Science, Space, and Technology, have no mentions

House Committee on Small Business

• Chairman Roger Williams and Ranking Member Nydia Velázquez do not appear on the list, and neither does any other member.

• Side note: there are two websites for the Small Business Committee, one for the Republicans and one for the Democrats.

House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

• Chairman Sam Graves is not listed, but Fatima Goss Graves is. She is the President and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center, known for pressuring the Biden administration to finalize Title XI rules.

• Ranking Member Rick Larsen is not named at all, the same goes for the rest of the Transportation and Infrastructure members.

House Veteran’s Affairs Committee

• Chairman Mike Bost and Ranking Member Mark Takano aren’t on the list, along with the rest of the committee members.

House Way’s and Means Committee

• Chairman Jason Smith and Ranking Member Richard Neal aren’t on this list

• Mike Carey is on this committee again. He isn’t influential, but remember Jamie Jackson, partner for K&L Gates, and Jill Zuckman from SKDK they can listen to Mariah Carey’s songs on repeat

• If you need anything done by the Ways and Means Committee, just ask Jamie or Jill because they can influence policy, but the committee members can’t.

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

• Chairman Michael Turner, Ranking member Jim Himes, and every other member is missing from the list.

House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party

• Chairman John Moolenaar and Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi

• The last name “Dunn” appears on the list but it does not belong to committee member Neal Dunn; it belongs to Karen Dunn, Partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. She fought the Justice Department on behalf of Google.

• Member Dusty Johnson isn’t on the list but Johnson appears twice. Remember Lindsey Johnson, President and CEO of the Consumer Bankers Association? We can’t forget bisexual black woman Kierra Johnson, Executive Director of the National LGBTQ Task Force. Maybe if Dusty Johnson needs some policy advice he can ask Lindsey or Kierra.

• You will find the last name “Banks” on the list, but it does not belong to committee member Jim Banks. It belongs to Lisa Banks, Partner for Katz Banks Kumin, a leading sexual harassment and employment discrimination attorney.

• None of the members of the Strategic Competition Committee are in the top 500 Influential Policymakers in D.C., so we better start electing Karen Dunn, Lindsey Johnson, and Kierra Johnson. They are the influential policymakers who will defeat the CCP.

House Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump. (Did they do anything?)

• Glenn Ivey is on this task force, let’s say hello again to Ron Busby Sr. President of U.S. Black Chambers.

• That’s it.

Joint Economic Committee

• Chairman Martin Heinrich and Ranking Member Mike Lee are not mentioned. The same goes for all other committee members, senators, and congress members alike.

Joint Committee on the Library

• Chairman Bryan Steil and Ranking Member Joe Morelle are not on the list

• Mike Carey is here, is anyone else tired of listening to Mariah Carey on repeat? Well, not Jamie Jackson and Jill Zuckman. They love listening to her on repeat while advising for SKDK and K&L Gates.

Joint Committee on Printing

• All the same people as the Joint Committee on the Library, let Mariah sing.

Joint Committee on Taxation

• Chairman Ron Wyden and Vice Chair Jason Smith are not mentioned

• Senator Chuck Grassley is on this Committee. He is 91 years old and has been the senator for Iowa since 1981, he should be very influential, but he is only mentioned in passing. Mike Davis, the Founder and President of Article III Project, was a former Chief Counsel to Senator Grassley.

That is all the House Committees. It doesn’t seem like our elected officials do much in shaping policy. You would think that committee representatives would be mentioned more in the most influential policy shapers in Washington, D.C.

What was in that most recent Bill to fund the government? All the new spending added. Who crafted those policies? Who wrote them? If our elected officials are not the most influential policymakers in D.C., why do we keep re-electing them?