ACCESSION 
NUMBER:370464

FILE ID:POL405

DATE:12/08/94

TITLE:CONGRESSIONAL REPORT, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8 (12/08/94)

TEXT:*94120805.POL

CONGRESSIONAL REPORT, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8

(House committee chairs) (340)

HOUSE REPUBLICANS SELECT COMMITTEE CHAIRS

The House Republican Conference December 7 selected chairs for all 20 House

standing committees in the 104th Congress, with the exception of the Ethics

Committee.  The appointment of that chair, which is made by the speaker of

the House, has been delayed due to an ethics-related complaint concerning a

college course taught by incoming speaker Newt Gingrich.  The conference

also selected chairs for the 13 appropriations subcommittees, who will hold

considerable power over spending bills.  Their cooperation will be needed

to eliminate federal programs the Republican leadership opposes.



The new standing committee chairs are:

AGRICULTURE:

Pat Roberts, Kansas

APPROPRIATIONS:

Bob Livingston, Louisiana

BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES: (formerly Banking and Urban Affairs)

Jim Leach, Iowa

BUDGET:

John Kasich, Ohio

COMMERCE: (formerly Energy and Commerce)

Thomas Bliley, Jr.

ECONOMIC AND EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES: (formerly Education and Labor)

William Goodling, Pennsylvania

GOVERNMENT REFORM AND OVERSIGHT (formerly Government Operations)

William Clinger, Pennsylvania

HOUSE OVERSIGHT: (formerly House Administration)

Bill Thomas, California

INTELLIGENCE:

Larry Combest, Texas

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: (formerly Foreign Affairs)

Benjamin Gilman, New York

JUDICIARY:

Henry Hyde, Illinois

NATIONAL SECURITY: (formerly Armed Services)

Floyd Spence, South Carolina

PUBLIC LANDS AND RESOURCES: (formerly Natural Resources)

Don Young, Alaska

RULES:

Gerald B. H. Solomon

SMALL BUSINESS:

Jan Meyers, Kansas

TECHNOLOGY AND COMPETITIVENESS: (formerly Science, Space, and Technology)

Robert Walker, Pennsylvania

1RANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE: (formerly Public Works)

Bud Shuster, Pennsylvania

VETERANS' AFFAIRS:

Bob Stump, Arizona

WAYS AND MEANS:

Bill Archer, Texas

The new chairs of the Appropriations subcommittees are:

AGRICULTURE:

Joe Skeen, New Mexico

COMMERCE, JUSTICE, STATE:

Harold Rogers, Kentucky

DEFENSE:

C. W. Bill Young, Florida

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA:

James Walsh, New York

ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT:

John Myers, Indiana

FOREIGN OPERATIONS:

Sonny Callahan, Alabama

INTERIOR:

Ralph Regula, Ohio

LABOR, HHS, EDUCATION:

John Porter, Illinois

LEGISLATIVE BRANCH:

Ron Packard, California

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION:

Barbara Vucanovich, Nevada

TRANSPORTATION:

Frank Wolf, Virginia

TREASURY, POSTAL SERVICE:

Jim Ross Lightfoot, Iowa

VA, HUD, INDEPENDENT AGENCIES:

Jerry Lewis, California

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