List of House and Senate Committee Chairs

[ellisonz]

House:

Ways & Means - Rep. Charles Rangel (NY)
Armed Forces - Rep. Ike Skelton (MO)
Natural Resources - Rep. Nick Rahall (WV)
Oversight & Government Reform - Rep. Henry Waxman (CA)
Judiciary - Rep. John Conyers (MI)
Energy & Commerce - Rep. John Dingell (MI)
Permanent Subcommittee on Intelligence - Rep. Silvestre Reyes (TX)
Education & Labor - Rep. George Miller (CA)
Homeland Security - Rep. Bennie Thompson (MS)
Appropriations - Rep. David Obey (WI)
Agriculture - Rep. Collin Peterson (MN)
Budget - Rep. John Spratt (SC)
Ethics - Rep. Stephanie Tubb Jones (OH)
Financial Services - Rep. Barney Frank (MA)
House Administration - Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald (CA)
Foreign Affairs - Rep. Tom Lantos (CA)
Rules - Rep. Louise Slaughter (NY)
Science and Technology - Rep. Bart Gordon (TN)
Small Business - Rep. Nydia Velaquez (NY)
Transportation & Infrastructure - Rep. James Oberstar (MN)
Veterans' Affairs - Rep. Bob Filner (CA)

Senate

Appropriations Committee - Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia.
Judiciary Committee - Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont.
Foreign Relations Committee - Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware.
Budget Committee - Sen. Kent Conrad of North Dakota.
Homeland Security Committee- Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut (Independent).
Armed Forces Committee - Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan.
Environment & Public Works Committee - Sen. Barbara Boxer of California
Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee - Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts.
Energy & Natural Resources Committee - Sen. Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico.
Rules & Administration Committee - Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California.
Agriculture Committee - Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa.
Select Committee on Intelligence - Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia.
Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs Committee - Sen. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut.
Veterans Affairs Committee - Sen. Daniel Akaka of Hawaii.
Small Business & Entrepreneurship Committee - Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts.
Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee - Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii.
Finance Committee - Sen. Max Baucus of Montana.
Indian Affairs Committee - Sen. Byron Dorgan of North Dakota.
Select Committee on Ethics - Sen. Tim Johnson of South Dakota, Barbara Boxer is chair while he's in the hospital.
Select Committee on Aging - Sen. Herb Kohl of Wisconsin.

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[crickets]

1. Quick, handy link for the bookmarks

Thank you!

[SaveElmer]

2. The most important of these IMO...

Boxer on Envoronment and Public Works

Leahy on Judiciary...

[ellisonz]

3. My picks:

House

1. Oversight & Government Reform - Rep. Henry Waxman (CA)
2. Ways & Means - Rep. Charles Rangel (NY)

Senate

1. Armed Forces Committee - Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan.
2. Select Committee on Intelligence - Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia.

These 4 are going to be immediate nightmares for the GOP. A veritable dozen Iraq hearings are on the way!

[LynneSin]

9. Boy you are are so so so so wrong....

I'm picking House Judiciary just because it's John Conyers and he was hosting hearings back when he was the ranking democrat and had to use a broom closet to host hearings on things like the Plame leak, faulty war intelligence and the DSM. Of course no republicans showed up.

[ellisonz]

10. Conyers deserves praise for that but...

Waxman is going after Iraq War money right away and Rangel is going to be tremendously important now that pay-go passed and the last Congress only passed 1 part of the budget (defense).

So Conyer's isn't a bad pick, but my money isn't on him making the big splash unless John Paul Stevens dies (Dear God, please keep this wonderful man alive for two more years.)

[LynneSin]

12. Conyers wouldn't have any say if JPS dies

that's Senate judiciary and Patrick Leahy's gang

[ellisonz]

13. Whoops you're right...

It's almost 3 AM where I am.

Edit: I should go to sleep if my grammar is this bad.

[ellisonz]

11. DUPE

[ellisonz]

4. Feel free to bkmark, rec, and...

way in on what you think the most important committees in the House and Senate will be in the 110th.

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[Stinky The Clown]

5. Some leathery old lions on that list!

It gives me real hope.

[mcctatas]

6. I think Obey is going t obe great on appropriations...

and not just because he's from WI too!

[ellisonz]

7. He looked really good on This Week last Sunday.

Calm, measured, and deliberate. Even more so than Rangel and Waxman.

:D

[Rageneau]

8. Wow! What an all-star line-up!

Never in my life have I so enjoyed reading a mere list of names and jobs. Wow!

[ellisonz]

14. Kick for democracy.

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[Hippo_Tron]

15. Nevermind I see them now

[ellisonz]

16. Kick for 100 Hours.

And because this is going to be very useful knowledge in the near future.

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[KoKo]

17. Thanks for this list...I've printed it out....keeping nearby for hope. n/t