Finance Democrats Lose Rockefeller to Retirement, but Other Committee Assignments Stay In-Tact
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., will keep his party leadership position on the committee, after ranking member Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, takes the chairmanship in the 114th Congress, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said in a Dec. 12…
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emailed statement laying out committee assignments. The second-ranking Democrat on the committee, Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., is retiring, so Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., will move up in seniority, along with other Democrats in the pecking order. That brings the total number of Democrats on the committee to 12. Finance Republicans totaled 11 in the 113th Congress. Senate Republicans have not yet publicly designated committee assignments.