<Li> Foster care and adoption programs </Li> <P> The U.S. Constitution requires that all bills regarding taxation must originate in the House of Representatives . Since House procedure is that all bills regarding taxation must go through this committee, the committee is very influential, as is its Senate counterpart, the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance . </P> <P> Recent chairs have included Bill Thomas, Charlie Rangel, Sander Levin, and Dave Camp . On November 4, 2015 Representative Kevin Brady of Texas was chosen to succeed Representative Paul Ryan as chairman . </P> <P> The idea of a ways and means committee to handle the financial matters of a legislature is an old one, having been used in the British Parliament and the colonial and early state legislatures in America . </P>

Who is the chair of the ways and means committee