Newly elected U.S. House Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith (R-MO) has wasted no time in assembling his team. The majority party typically gets 25 seats (compared with 18 for the minority party) on the tax-writing committee, and Smith has added 10 members now that Republicans are in charge. These include lawmakers with tax-writing experience (Randy Feenstra, R-IA and Michelle Steel, R-CA) and backgrounds as small-business owners (Claudia Tenney, R-NY). Several of the new additions are from high-tax states, including California and New York. According to Smith, the committee plans to “prioritize our most valuable economic resource, the American worker.”
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