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Posted December 12, 2012, 12:51 pm MT

After saying yes to running the DSCC, Bennet gets Finance committee

U.S. will serve on the Senate Finance Committee in the next Congress. (Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)

WASHINGTON — Sen. Michael Bennet will get a seat on the venerable Senate Finance Committee as a favor for being the Democratic party’s top fundraising dog for the next two years.

Bennet, a freshman elected to his seat in 2010, was granted the committee assignment after saying yes to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to running the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee last week.

In that job, he’ll be expected to raise at least $100 million to help elect and re-elect Senate Democrats — including Mark Udall — in 2014.

There are at least two outgoing Democrats on the Committee, Sen. Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico and Sen. Kent Conrad of North Dakota, that makes room for a new member.

Bennet is a member of the “Gang of Eight” — a group of Republicans and Democrats trying to work on the country’s fiscal crises. He will give up spots on Banking and Aging committees to make room in his schedule for his new post. He will continue to serve on the Health, Education, Labor, Pensions Committee and Agriculture Committee.

Sen. Udall will keep his same committee assignments this next Congress, including Energy, Armed Services and Intelligence.

The House’s new assignments haven’t all been doled out yet.

Categories: U.S. Senate, Washington Bureau
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  • Sir Reebral

    Oh Great. Bennet is a “Rubber Stamp” for all of 0bama’s big spending bills. He can show the Finance Committee how to spend TRILLIONs without reading the bill first.

  • DeltaDude

    Wonderful! Bennet and Udall voted to reinstate Bernanke and what was the result? Bernanke took his banking buddies bad loans and transferred to the U.S. public. It looks like Bernanke is about to do the same trick again. What a total bunch of Bozos. Can’t we some how get rid of these clowns?

  • Anonymous

    A sad waste of an important committee seat.

  • Dave

    What a dope…

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1040385686 Henk Vandenbergh

    As reward for raising a couple of thousand in election funds he now gets to spend billions. Hold on to your wallets.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1040385686 Henk Vandenbergh

    let’s say it nicely: millions of college-age students clicked ‘like’ for Obama on last month’s ballot, not realizing that it is THEY that are expected to pay back the trillions of dollars Obama spent to be ‘liked’. The irony.

  • guest

    What a waste. Bennet won’t even push for the Senate to pass a budget.

  • http://coloradopeakpolitics.com/2012/12/14/bipartisan-bashing-u-s-senators-chambliss-lieberman-trash-bennets-bipartisan-bs/ Colorado Peak Politics – BIPARTISAN BASHING: U.S. Senators Chambliss, Lieberman Trash Bennet’s Bipartisan BS

    [...] with Bennet taking the partisan job at the DSCC, and getting a high profile committee seat as a quid pro quo either. What’s wrong is allowing Bennet to pretend he’s still Mr. Bipartisan while [...]

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