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In United States politics, a ranking member is the most senior member of a congressional or state legislative committee from the minority party. [1] On many committees the ranking minority member, along with the Chair , serve as ex officio members of all of the committee's subcommittees.
The table below lists the tenure of when each member was selected for their current term as committee lead. The Republican party rules stipulate that their leads of standing committees may serve no more than three congressional terms (two years each) as chair or ranking member unless the full party conference grants them a waiver to do so. [51]
The committee has oversight and legislative authority over the Small Business Administration (SBA) and its programs, as well as provides assistance to and protection of small businesses, including financial aid and the participation of small business enterprises in federal procurement and government contracts.
The table below lists the tenure of when each member was selected for their current term as committee lead. The Republican party rules stipulate that their leads of standing committees may serve no more than three congressional terms (two years each) as chair or ranking member, unless the full party conference grants them a waiver to do so. [18]
That first committee had just nine members. It was the first select committee created by the Senate that still operates today. The select committee was terminated on March 25, 1981, when it became the Committee on Small Business, a standing committee. On June 29, 2001, Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) changed the name of the committee to the ...
Ranking Member: Education and the Workforce: 15 Nydia Velázquez: D New York 7: Ranking Member: Small Business: 16 Bennie Thompson: D Mississippi 2: April 13, 1993 Ranking Member: Homeland Security: 17 Frank Lucas: R Oklahoma 3: May 10, 1994 18 Lloyd Doggett: D Texas 37: January 3, 1995 19 Zoe Lofgren: D California 18: Ranking Member: Science ...
Good morning. As my colleague Lee Clifford notes in our inaugural ranking of the 100 Most Powerful People in Business, power is nuanced: hard-won and easily lost, it’s never static.Elon Musk has ...
The joint committees alternate between the chambers, with the majority lead in one serving as chair and the other as vice chair (and their respective minority opposites in the other chamber as ranking member and vice ranking member). The table below lists the tenure of when each member was selected for their current term as committee lead.