Suozzi Scores Seat On Ways And Means

Congressman Thomas Suozzi works during a hearing of the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Huntington’s second-term congressman Thomas Suozzi has been named to the House of Representatives’ Ways and Means Committee.

By Connor Beach
cbeach@longislandergroup.com

Suozzi (D-Glen Cove) thanked House Democratic leadership and the new Ways and Means Committee chair Richard Neal (D- Worcester, MA) for appointing him to the prestigious committee.

“It is an honor to be appointed and serve my constituents on this committee,” Suozzi said. “I will fight for the national issues voters and American families are concerned about – increasing wages, improving retirement security and reducing healthcare and prescription drug costs – as well as local issues like reinstating the SALT deduction.”

The Committee on Ways and Means is the oldest committee of the United States Congress, and is the chief tax-writing committee in the House of Representatives. The committee has jurisdiction over revenue and related issues such as tariffs, trade agreements, Social Security, Medicare and other social services programs.

Suozzi said his experience as a former CPA, an attorney, Mayor of Glen Cove and Nassau County Executive would help bring expertise to the committee charged with handling revenue and tax legislation.

Suozzi is slated to take over the “downstate New York seat” on the committee previously held by former Democratic congressman Joe Crowley. Crowley lost the 2018 Democratic primary for New York’s 14th District in Queens to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Suozzi is one of 10 new Democratic members appointed to the Ways and Means Committee since the Democrats took control of the House on Jan. 3.