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Paul Ryan, Ranking Member of the House Budget Committee, closes debate on the House Concurrent Resolution on the Budget on March 13, 2008

 

Past Chairmen

Past Chairmen of the
Committee on the Budget
*

Name

State

Party

Term(s) in the House

Term(s) as Chairman1 or Ranking Member2

Albert C. (Al) Ullman

Oregon

Democrat

January 3, 1957 (85th Congress)-January 3, 1981 (96th Congress). Served as cochairman of the Joint Study Committee on Budget Control composed of chairmen and ranking members of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, House Ways & Means and Senate Finance.

92nd - 93rd Congress1

Jamie L. Whitten

Missippipi

Democrat

November 4, 1941 (77th Congress)-January 3, 1995 (103rd Congress). Served as cochairman of the Joint Study Committee on Budget Control.

92nd - 93rd Congresses1

Herman T. Schneebeli

Pennsylvania

Republican

April 26, 1960 (86th Congress), to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative Alvin R. Bush -January 3, 1977 (93rd Congress). Served as vice-cochairman of the Joint Study Committee on Budget Control.

92nd - 93rd Congresses2

Brockman (Brock) Adams

Washington

Democrat

January 3, 1965 (89th Congress), until his resignation on January 22, 1977 (95th Congress) to serve as Secretary of Transportation in the Carter Administration. Also served one term in the U.S. Senate.

94th Congress1

Delbert L. (Del) Latta

Ohio

Republican

January 3, 1959 (86th Congress)-January 3, 1983 (100th Congress)

93rdth - 100th Congresses2

Robert N. (Bob) Giaimo

Connecticut

Democrat

January 3, 1959 (86th Congress)-January 3, 1981 (96th Congress)

95th & 96th Congresses1

James R. (Jim) Jones

Oklahoma

Democrat

January 3, 1973 (93rd Congress)-January 3, 1987 (99th Congress)

97th & 98th Congresses1

William H. (Bill) Gray, III

Pennsylvania

Democrat

January 3, 1979 (96th Congress), until his resignation September 11, 1991 (102nd Congress)

99th & 100th Congresses1

Leon E. Panetta

California

Democrat

January 3, 1977 (95th Congress), until his resignation January 22, 1993 (103rdth Congress) to serve as Director of the Office of Management & Budget in the Clinton Administration.

101st & 102nd Congresses1

Bill Frenzel

Minnesota

Republican

January 3, 1971(93rd Congress)-January 3, 1991(101st Congress)

101st Congress2

Willis D. Gradison, Jr.

Ohio

Republican

January 3, 1975 (94th Congress)-until his resignation January 31, 1993 (103rd Congress)

102nd Congress2

Martin O. (Marty) Sabo

Minnesota

Democrat

January 3, 1979 (96th Congress)-present

103rd Congress1
104th Congress2

John R. Kasich

Ohio

Republican

January 3, 1983 (98th Congress)-January 3, 2001 (106th Congress)

103rd Congresses2 104th - 106th Congresses1

John M. Spratt, Jr.

South Carolina

Democrat

January 3, 1983 (98nd Congress)-present

105th - 109th Congresses2

James A. (Jim) Nussle

Iowa

Republican

January 3, 1991 (102nd Congress)-present

107th – 109th Congresses1

* The Committee on the Budget was established by the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-344,as amended). This Law also created the Congressional Budget Office to perform nonpartisan analyses.

Last revised April 11, 2005.