<P> The U.S. Senate Committee on Finance (or, less formally, Senate Finance Committee) is a standing committee of the United States Senate . The Committee concerns itself with matters relating to taxation and other revenue measures generally, and those relating to the insular possessions; bonded debt of the United States; customs, collection districts, and ports of entry and delivery; deposit of public moneys; general revenue sharing; health programs under the Social Security Act (notably Medicare and Medicaid) and health programs financed by a specific tax or trust fund; national social security; reciprocal trade agreements; tariff and import quotas, and related matters thereto; and the transportation of dutiable goods . It is considered to be one of the most powerful committees in Congress . </P> <P> The Committee on Finance is one of the original committees established in the Senate . First created on December 11, 1815, as a select committee and known as the Committee on Finance and an (sic) Uniform National Currency, it was formed to alleviate economic issues arising from the War of 1812 . On December 10, 1816 the Senate officially created the Committee on Finance as a standing committee . Originally, the Committee had power over tariffs, taxation, banking and currency issues and appropriations . Under this authority the committee played an influential role in the most heated topics of the era; including numerous tariffs issues and the Bank War . The committee was also influential in the creation of the Department of Interior in 1849 . Under the Chairmanship of William Pitt Fessenden, the committee played a decisive role during the Civil War . Appropriating all funds for the war effort as well as raising enough funds to finance the war through tariffs and the nation's first income tax . Additionally, the committee produced the Legal Tender Act of 1862, the nation's first reliance on paper currency . </P>

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