Alexander Announces Committee Assignments For Next Congress

  • Thursday, December 18, 2014

Senator Lamar Alexander on Thursday announced that in the next Congress he will serve on the following committees: 

· Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, where he is the ranking Republican member

· Appropriations, where he is the ranking Republican member on the subcommittee that oversees energy and water appropriations

· Energy and Natural Resources

· Rules and Administration

“In the new Senate majority, Republicans will have an extraordinary opportunity to show Americans what it means to lead and work together to get results,” Senator Alexander said. “We need to repair the damage Obamacare has done to our health care system. We need to get Washington out of our local schools. We need to reform the FDA so life-saving drugs can get to patients faster. We need a 21st century energy policy that doesn’t pick winners and losers in the marketplace and recognizes the importance of clean, low-cost, and reliable nuclear power. These will all be top priorities of mine as the new Congress begins in January, and these committee assignments give me a real opportunity to get results.”

Senate committee chairmen will be elected in January by members of the respective committees, the results of which will then need to be approved by the full conference of Republican senators.

 

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