A former House Commerce Committee member joined the Senate Commerce...
A former House Commerce Committee member joined the Senate Commerce Committee. A list of GOP committee assignments released Thursday shows that Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri is one of five new Republican senators joining the committee. In the House, Blunt…
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supported Universal Service Fund overhaul and strongly opposed net neutrality rules. The GOP now has 12 seats on the Senate Commerce Committee. The other four new Republicans are Sens. John Boozman of Arkansas, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, Marco Rubio of Florida and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire. Previously on the committee were Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., who retired, and Sen. George LeMieux, R-Fla., who didn’t seek re-election. Joining the Senate Judiciary Committee is Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah. Democrats also released committee assignments Thursday. The party lost a seat on the Commerce Committee, but the lineup is otherwise the same as last year because Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-S.D., retired. Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, the former attorney general who led an investigation of Google “Street View,” joined the Senate Judiciary Committee. Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware, another freshman Democrat, took the Judiciary seat of the state’s former Sen. Ted Kaufman. Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., left Judiciary.