This dissertation analyzes the performance of the Social Security and Family Commission
(SSFC) in the Chamber of Deputies with a focus on Social Security and Social Assistance
policies from 1999 to 2018. The objective of the work is to analyze the internal dynamics of
the SSFC from the perspective of approach neoinstitutional, whose debate focuses on the
importance of institutional rules in defining the decision-making process. We observed the
institutional context where the projects were discussed and voted on and the role of political
actors. The analysis was made by two hypotheses: H1 states that “The commission acted
proactively filtering and approving the social security and assistance proposals processed in the
SSFC” and H2 maintains that “The commission has no conclusive power when what is on the
agenda is a matter of interest. government coalition, due to the high degree of conflict they
raise”. This is an exploratory study that quantifies and interprets the data related to the
processing of proposals submitted to the committee, recorded in the annual reports of the
legislative arena, available on the website of the Chamber of Deputies. The survey found that
the SSFC is the third largest committee in number of parliamentarians and projects submitted
for discussion, having a structure capable of deciding on the outcome of matters within its
competence. The analysis of the data revealed a small number of altered projects within the
commission, which leads us to infer that the legislative matters submitted to the SSFC presented
issues of low conflict between the parties. The approved proposals were processed with low
interference from urgent requests, and the decision deliberated by the SSFC was accepted.
However, the results also showed that this commission is an important arena to streamline the
Chamber's activities, acting as a filtering space for the projects presented, approving or rejecting
them within its competence. The observed results suggest that the most complex issues, related
to the Social Security and Social Assistance themes, obey a special procedure outside the SSFC.
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