1641-1789, Antecedents: legislative finance Committees in Great Britain and America

1789-1801, Origins: the House Committee of Ways and Means

1801-1829, The Jefferson Republican Committee

1829-1861, Appropriations, banking, and the tariff

1861-1865, financing the Civil War

1865-1890, The Gilded Age Committee

1890-1933, Reform and revenue

1933-1959, from the New Deal to the Cold War

1959-1975, the Mills Committee

1975-1989, the Post-Reform Committee.