The powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee said he would consider moving quickly on a stand-alone bill to cut tax rates.

The powerful chairman molded the firm into the premier bond-trading house on Wall Street.

The Nationalists, for their part, have been thrown into turmoil and their powerful chairman, President Lee, is now on the spot.

But the Administration was not certain the strategy would work and it feared alienating the powerful chairman.

But whether the two powerful chairman can withstand the heat of one of the country's most articulate and vigorous lobbies remains a question.

There is little question that Mr. Rostenkowski is a powerful chairman.

Mr. Whitten is considered one of the most skillful and powerful chairmen in the House.

Although these powerful chairmen had little respect for the cautious Lincoln, they positively hated Seward.

It continued, as many fights continue in the Senate, with some delicate thrust-and-parry between two powerful chairmen.

He served as the powerful chairman of the Budget Committee from 2000 to 2002.