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The House rules committee(1963) Schickler, Eric; Pearson, Kathryn. "Agenda Control, Majority Party Power, and the House Committee on Rules, 1937–52," Legislative Studies Quarterly (2009) 34#4 pp 455–491; Smallwood, James. "Sam Rayburn and the Rules Committee Change of 1961." East Texas Historical Journal 11.1 (1973): 10+ online.
A Democrat, he is the ranking member of the House Rules Committee, chaired the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, and is the co-chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission. [1] His district, numbered as the 3rd district from 1997 to 2013, stretches from Worcester to the Pioneer Valley.
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]
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 ...
(The Center Square) – Republican U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx of North Carolina will serve as chairwoman of the House of Representatives' Committee on Rules for the 119th Congress. Foxx, of the 5th ...
The position of vice chair as the designation for the ranking minority member has been used for the House January 6 Committee. Joint committees of the House and Senate operate in much the same way, with a chairman and vice-chairman from the majority party, alternating between a member of the House and a member of the Senate, and often two ...
The Minnesota lawmaker — who is the second-most senior current Republican member on the committee — first came to Congress in 2021 and scored a spot on the Rules Committee that year ...
Rep. Chip Roy’s (R-Texas) bid to be chair of the House Rules Committee is emerging as a key issue for those withholding support for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) ahead of Friday afternoon’s ...