BY TAYLOR MARSH
Senator John Kerry, someone who I’ve met and interviewed as
well, is finally in a post that fits him perfectly.
A place where the topics and issues give him a platform to lay out what Democratic foreign policy priorities
represent and mean in the 21st century. It may not be the first job he wanted (or second), but
it’s one for which he’s prepared.
That Senator Joe Lieberman is among the chairman assignments below is not something anyone should trumpet, but it’s what President-elect Obama preferred. We’ll see how far “post-partisanship,” a true fantasy if ever there was one, gets Mr. Obama.
The
following are the list of anticipated Chairmanships for the 111th Congress:- Senator Herb Kohl, Chairman, Senate Special Committee on Aging
– Senator Tom Harkin, Chairman, Senate Committee on Agriculture
– Senator Daniel Inouye, Chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriations
– Senator Carl Levin, Chairman, Senate Committee on Armed Services
– Senator Christopher Dodd, Chairman, Senate Committee on Banking, Housing,
and Urban Affairs
– Senator Kent Conrad, Chairman, Senate Committee on Budget
– Senator John D. Rockefeller IV, Chairman, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science,
and Transportation
– Senator Jeff Bingaman, Chairman, Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
– Senator Barbara Boxer, Chairwoman, Senate Committee on Environment and Public
Works
– Senator Max Baucus, Chairman, Senate Committee on Finance
- Senator John Kerry, Chairman, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
(upon the resignation of Senator Joseph Biden)
– Senator Edward Kennedy, Chairman, Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor,
and Pensions
– Senator Joseph Lieberman, Chairman, Senate Committee on Homeland Security
– and Governmental Affairs
– Senator Byron Dorgan, Chairman, Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
– Senator Dianne Feinstein, Chairwoman, Senate Intelligence Committee
– Senator Patrick Leahy, Chairman, Senate Committee on Judiciary
– Senator Charles Schumer, Chairman, Senate Committee on Rules and Administration
– Senator Mary Landrieu, Chairwoman, Senate Committee on Small Business and
Entrepreneurship (upon resignation of Senator Joseph Biden and Senator John
Kerry assuming Chair of Foreign Relations)
-Senator Daniel Akaka, Chairman, Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs**Senate Committee on Ethics Chairperson will be recommended by the Senate
Majority Leader and adopted by Senate resolution
**Joint Economic Committee Chairperson alternates with each Congress. The
House of Representatives will chair the Committee in the 111th Congress
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