This research paper, with an interdisciplinary approach, transits through both political and media fields in order to display the content of the discourses of the propositions, actions and interviews of the members of the Amazon, National Integration and Regional Development Committee (CAINDR), of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies. By indicating whether ‘Development’ and ‘Sustainability’ themes are embedded or not in public policies constructed in this forum, this thesis main purpose is to identify which kind of development this Committee stands up for and how The Amazon is portraited by its members. Through a detailed survey of projects, applications, documents, speeches and actions of lawmakers who formed the committee at the 52nd Legislature (2003-2006), as well as the relevant media production related to certain actions and propositions presented at CAINDR, went for the Speech Analysis. More than a methodological tool, Speech Analysis constitutes a theoretical and methodological approach, essentially interdisciplinary, that enables the understanding of discursive strategies in a particular social field. Analyzing the meanings of speeches, marks or clues left in the production of senses, as well as elucidate the social place of production (relations) and the voices convened by the speeches in this forum, allow identifying what is their priority and how they portray the Amazon – result that is even more interesting when you come across the news in question, placing the relation between the political and the media fields. In this sense, the Social Field Theory was adopted as a theoretical reference for this research, not only by seeking to understand relations and representations of the social world. In this sense, adopting the Social Field Theory as a theoretical reference has confirmed itself as the best choice for this research, not only by seeking to understand relations and representations of the social world, but also by helping locate, in dispute for symbolic power, the central thrust of interests and strategies of actors from the studied social field. The result of this research was rewarding and allowed confirming its central point: that development model defended by CAINDR prioritizes the progress of frontiers and markets over the environmental issues – continuing the exploitative and concentrator model which rules for such a long time in the Brazilian Amazon.
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