What are three examples of standing committees?

Appropriations, Armed Services, Judiciary

What Is A Standing Committee

President Obama, a consensus builder when possible, called ALL of the leading Pharmaceutical Industry leaders to the White House early last year soon after taking office (March 5, 2009). What he negotiated back then while the whole health care and insurance reforms debate was ongoing was an agreement with the pharmaceutical industry that they would donate enough to close the gap (a.k.a., "donut hole") in Medicare prescription coverage, which is capped for seniors at $2,700 and then does not kick in again until the patient has spent $6,154, but Tauzin came under fire at PhRMA and the original deal that allowed Medicare to negotiate prices or allowed the import of less expensive medications was removed from the original agreement. What the pharmaceutical industry did agree to do was DONATE $80 billion for the donut hole gap, but the other two items were removed from the agreement. Max Baucus was the liaison during these negotiations, according to the Sunlight Foundation blog page. The industry leaders met four times with the White House in April and May of 2009, and President Obama was able to get them to pledge cost cutting measures that they claimed "would save upwards of $2 trillion over ten years." Tauzin, by the way, lost his job (he was asked to step down) after working out this compromise deal with the Obama administration, which sort of shoots down any assertion that President Obama is "in bed with" the pharmaceutical industry, doesn't it? President Obama is NOT hypocritical...he tries to build CONSENSUS to lower rancor. Recall that when he went to NYC to speak about Wall Street oversights, he first asked Wall Street executives "to join us in this effort" at the first first lines from the speech. He gets a bit of a concession, then backs off, and then pushes again for another yield and gets one in small dose, and then again backs off...this is a pattern with him. This is how he has been able to open foreign markets to American-made exports, and how he got Democrats to finally work together and show some backbone. He does NOT want to vilify one side or the other, but instead wants to get the corporations and Wall Street to simply agree to COOPERATE, which will save time and eliminate partisan bickering. Be patient with this guy...and have some faith. He knows what he is doing, and slow-but-steady wins the race.