Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., is the new ranking member of...
Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., is the new ranking member of the Senate Communications Subcommittee, as had been expected (CD April 25 p1), the Commerce Committee announced Wednesday. DeMint replaces Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., who left in the wake of controversy…
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over an affair. Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, is more senior than DeMint, but she kept her post atop the Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries and Coast Guard. DeMint is considered a rising GOP star and could be in line to replace Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, atop the full Commerce Committee when she retires at the end of 2012. DeMint opposed the FCC’s net neutrality decision and last year said (CD Dec 22 p5) he intends to prevent “the FCC or any government agency from unilaterally burdening our recovering economy with baseless regulation.” DeMint introduced a bill in 2010 and in 2005 to limit new FCC regulations, but failed to move it through the Senate. This year, DeMint has a bill to cut off funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (S-492). As part of the subcommittee swap, Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., replaced DeMint atop the Aviation Subcommittee, while Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., took Thune’s job atop the Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety and Security. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., who was not previously ranking on any subcommittee took Wicker’s post atop the Consumer Protection Subcommittee.