The Daily Background
| House Committee Chairs announced- Anybody from your state?
by Arlen Parsa
We already knew the new Senate Committee Chairs, but here are the House ones. Anybody from your state?
Agriculture, Collin Peterson (D-MN)
Appropriations, David Obey (D-WI)
Armed Services, Ike Skelton (D-MO)
Budget, John Spratt (D-SC)
Education & the Workforce, George Miller (D-CA)
Energy & Commerce, John Dingell (D-MI)
Financial Services, Barney Frank (D-MA)
Government Reform, Henry Waxman (D-CA)
Homeland Security, Bennie Thompson (D-MS)
Intelligence, Silvestre Reyes (D-TX)
International Relations, Tom Lantos (D-CA)
Judiciary, John Conyers (D-MI)
Resources, Nick Rahall (D-WV)
Rules, Louise Slaughter (D-NY)
Science, Bart Gordon (D-TN)
Small Business, Nydia Velazquez (D-NY)
Transportation & Infrastructure, James Oberstar (D-MN)
Veterans’ Affairs, Bob Filner (D-CA)
Ways & Means, Charles Rangel (D-NY)
Intelligence, Silvestre Reyes (D-TX). But he ain’t know if da al qaeda are shia or sunni!
Haha, yeah. I’ve heard favorable things about him but that was an unfortunate mistake. Reminded me of when Bush couldn’t define sovereignty for the press, or name who the President of Pakistan was while on the 2000 campaign trail.