About Me
With the beginning of the 110th Congress, U.S. Representative Thomas M. Reynolds was sworn into his fifth term serving his Western New York constituents in the 26th Congressional District of New York. Reynolds begins the session as a member of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, taking a seat he first won at the start of the 107th Congress. The Ways and Means Committee, the oldest standing committee in Congress, is one of the most powerful in the House, with legislative authority over economic policy, trade, Social Security, welfare, and health care policy. Reynolds will be the committee's only Republican member from New York State. During the 2006 cycle, Reynolds was the Chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee.