Specter Will Be Junior Democrat on Committees
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Specter Will Be Junior Democrat on Committees
Despite promises from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) that Sen. Arlen Specter would retain his seniority after switching parties, Specter will be put at the end of the seniority line on all his committees but one under a resolution expected to be passed on the floor late Tuesday.
A Democratic aide acknowledged Tuesday that under the modified organizing resolution, Specter would not keep his committee seniority on any of the five committees that he serves on and would be the junior Democrat on all but one — the chamber’s Special Committee on Aging. On that committee, he will be next to last in seniority.
As a result, Specter — who as a Republican was ranking member on the Judiciary Committee and a senior member of the Appropriations Committee, as well as ranking member of the panel’s Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education — will rank behind all other Democrats, at least until the end of this Congress.
via Specter Will Be Junior Democrat on Committees – Roll Call.
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