Politics

Speaker Pelosi Announces More Committee Memberships

By Karina

Speaker Pelosi announced today that the House Democratic Steering Committee has nominated appointments to the House Agriculture Committee, House Education & Labor Committee, House Foreign Affairs Committee, House Judiciary Committee, House Natural Resources Committee, House Oversight & Government Reform Committee, House Science & Technology Committee, House Small Business Committee, and House Veterans? Affairs Committee. The Democratic Caucus also approved the Speaker?s nominations to the House Rules Committee.

The Steering Committee approved the following new Committee members:

Agriculture

Congressman Eric Massa of New York
Congressman Bobby Bright of Alabama
Congresswoman Betsy Markey of Colorado
Congressman Frank Kratovil of Maryland
Congressman Mark Schauer of Michigan
Congressman Larry Kissell of North Carolina
Congressman John Boccieri of Ohio

Education & Labor

Delegate Gregorio Sablan of the Mariana Islands
Congresswoman Dina Titus of Nevada

Foreign Affairs

Congressman Albio Sires of New Jersey
Congressman Michael McMahon of New York

Judiciary

Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi of Puerto Rico

Natural Resources

Congressman Martin Heinrich of New Mexico

Oversight & Government Reform

Congressman Gerry Connolly of Virginia

Science & Technology

Congresswoman Marcia Fudge of Ohio
Congressman Ben Lujan of New Mexico
Congressman Paul Tonko of New York
Congressman Parker Griffith of Alabama

Small Business

Congresswoman Kathy Dahlkemper of Pennsylvania
Congressman Kurt Schrader of Oregon
Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick of Arizona
Congressman Glenn Nye of Virginia

Veterans? Affairs

Congresswoman Debbie Halvorson of Illinois
Congressman Tom Perriello of Virginia
Congressman Harry Teague of New Mexico

In addition, the following members nominated by Speaker Pelosi were confirmed by the Democratic Caucus to serve on the Rules Committee:

Congressman Ed Perlmutter of Colorado
Congresswoman Chellie Pingree of Maine
Congressman Jared Polis of Colorado

See Freshmen and other Committee memberships announced on January 6th>>

Full post as published by The Gavel on January 14, 2009 (boomark / email).