Powerful Ways and Means Committee

House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi's bid to temporarily remove embattled Democratic Rep. William Jefferson from the powerful Ways and Means Committee while he remains the subject of a federal corruption investigation is headed for a showdown next week.

Now, at some point, wouldn't you, as a reporter, be embarrassed about writing "the powerful Ways and Means Committee"? Why don't we just put it in the stylebook, "the Powerful Committee on Ways and Means," along with "the Lackluster Committee on Science" and "the Bloated Committee on Agriculture"?