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Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami
202-226-7616
01/14/2009
Pelosi Announces More Committee Memberships
Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced today that the House Democratic Steering Committee has nominated appointments to the House Agriculture Committee, House Education & Labor Committee, House Foreign Affairs Committee, House Judiciary Committee, House Natural Resources Committee, House Oversight & Government Reform Committee, House Science & Technology Committee, House Small Business Committee, and House Veterans’ Affairs Committee.
The Democratic Caucus also approved the Speaker’s nominations to the House Rules Committee.
The Steering Committee approved the following new Committee members:
Agriculture
• Congressman Eric Massa of New York
• Congressman Bobby Bright of Alabama
• Congresswoman Betsy Markey of Colorado
• Congressman Frank Kratovil of Maryland
• Congressman Mark Schauer of Michigan
• Congressman Larry Kissell of North Carolina
• Congressman John Boccieri of Ohio
Education & Labor
• Delegate Gregorio Sablan of the Mariana Islands
• Congresswoman Dina Titus of Nevada
Foreign Affairs
• Congressman Albio Sires of New Jersey
• Congressman Michael McMahon of New York
Judiciary
• Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi of Puerto Rico
Natural Resources
• Congressman Martin Heinrich of New Mexico
Oversight & Government Reform
• Congressman Gerry Connolly of Virginia
Science & Technology
• Congresswoman Marcia Fudge of Ohio
• Congressman Ben Lujan of New Mexico
• Congressman Paul Tonko of New York
• Congressman Parker Griffith of Alabama
Small Business
• Congresswoman Kathy Dahlkemper of Pennsylvania
• Congressman Kurt Schrader of Oregon
• Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick of Arizona
• Congressman Glenn Nye of Virginia
Veterans’ Affairs
• Congresswoman Debbie Halvorson of Illinois
• Congressman Tom Perriello of Virginia
• Congressman Harry Teague of New Mexico
In addition, the following members nominated by Speaker Pelosi were confirmed by the Democratic Caucus to serve on the Rules Committee:
• Congressman Ed Perlmutter of Colorado
• Congresswoman Chellie Pingree of Maine
• Congressman Jared Polis of Colorado