Senate GOP Adds Coats, Heller, Scott to Finance Committee
Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and his leadership team boosted Republican ranks on the Finance Committee for the 114th Congress, adding three new faces. The move comes as part of a leadership selection of all Senate committee assignments.…
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Sens. Dan Coats, R-Ind., Dean Heller, R-Nev., and Tim Scott, R-S.C., will now join the committee. Current committee ranking member Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, will also stay on as committee chairman in the next Congress. Subcommittee chairmanships will not be named until January, said a spokeswoman for current ranking member of the Finance Trade Subcommittee Johnny Isakson, R-Ga. “Trade is very important to Georgia and he would like to continue his work on the trade subcommittee,” she said.