Privacy Policy

The Committee handles information we gather from your visit to our web site in the following ways outlined below: 

  • The name of the domain from which you access the Internet (for example, aol.com, if you are connecting from an America Online account), and the date and time you access our site.
  • The Internet address of the web site from which you linked directly to our site or the Internet address of the computer used to link to our site.
  • The site`s most heavily visited location where you read or download information, such as publications, press releases, witness lists, or testimony.
  • We use the information we collect to measure the number of visitors to the different sections of our site, and to help us make our site more useful to visitors.
  • We want to be very clear: We will not obtain personally-identifying information about you when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide such information to us by letter or telephone.

COPYRIGHT INFORMATION

The Committee on  Ways and Means has created and maintains this web site (http://waysandmean.house.gov) at taxpayer expense. Unless otherwise noted, all the information provided is in the public domain. Information from this web site should be cited in the same way as it would be from a paper publication. A link can also be added if desired. See the example footnotes below; footnote two shows how the footnote might provide link information:

1. U.S. Congress. U.S. House of Representatives. Committee on Ways and Means, "1998 Green Book, Background Material and Data on Programs Within the Jurisdiction of the Committee on Ways and Means." 105th Congress, 2nd Session. WMCP: 105-7. Washington, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1998, pp. 234-237.

2. U.S. Congress. U.S. House of Representatives. Committee on Ways and Means, "1998 Green Book, Background Material and Data on Programs Within the Jurisdiction of the Committee on Ways and Means." 105th Congress, 2nd Session. WMCP: 105-7. Washington, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1998, pp. 234-237.

For additional information on how to cite on-line sources, see the Modern Language Association guidelines, with examples, for citing World Wide Web sources at: http://www.mla.org.

PERMISSION TO LINK

You are welcome to create or provide links to this web site: http://waysandmeans.house.gov.  We would appreciate it if you would identify the Committee by its proper name. It should be: Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives, 111th Congress.