Senate Sets Appropriations
Subcommittee Assignments
March 7, 2003 - Senate Appropriations Chairman Ted
Stevens (R-Alaska) and Ranking Member Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.)
March 4 announced subcommittee assignments for the 108th Congress.
They also announced the creation of a new Homeland Security
Subcommittee and the merger of the Transportation and Treasury-General
Government Subcommittees.
Senator Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) joins the Labor-HHS-Education
Subcommittee, which loses Senator Byrd. Senators Kay Bailey
Hutchison (R-Texas) and Harry Reid (D-Nevada) join the VA-HUD
Subcommittee, which loses Senators Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) and
Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.).
The new Homeland Security Subcommittee will be chaired by
Senator Thad Cochran (R-Miss.). Other Republicans on the subcommittee
will be Senators Stevens, Arlen Specter (Pa.), Pete Domenici
(N.M.), Mitch McConnell (Ky.), Shelby, Judd Gregg (N.H.),
Ben "Nighthorse" Campbell (Colo.) and Larry Craig
(Idaho). Democrats on the panel will be Byrd, Daniel Inouye
(Hawaii), Hollings, Patrick Leahy (Vt.), Tom Harkin (Iowa),
Barbara Mikulski (Md.), Kohl, and Patty Murray (Wash.).
Senator Robert Bennett (R-Utah) succeeds Senator Cochran
as chair of the Agriculture Subcommittee.
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