{"id":60091,"date":"2015-01-09T19:08:59","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T19:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2015\/01\/09\/first-batch-of-house-democrats-get-committee-nominations\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:26:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:26:01","slug":"first-batch-of-house-democrats-get-committee-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2015\/01\/09\/first-batch-of-house-democrats-get-committee-nominations\/","title":{"rendered":"First Batch of House Democrats Get Committee Nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The Democratic members of US House committees important to national security are beginning to take shape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Friday announced recommended committee assignments for 27 members of her caucus. Additional recommendations will be coming soon, her office said in a statement. And the House Intelligence Committee has a new ranking member.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span>The <span class=\"rte rte-comment\">recommendations were made by the <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #0d0d0d; background: #ffffff;\">House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee made the recommendations, and the entire caucus must approve them. For this first batch, that caucus vote is slated for next week.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #0d0d0d; background: #ffffff;\">Democratic members who <span class=\"rte rte-comment\">that <\/span>would join the House Armed Services Committee include Reps. <\/span><span style=\"color: #0d0d0d;\">Tim Walz of Minnesota, Beto O&#8217;Rourke of Texas, Donald Norcross of New Jersey, Ruben Gallego of Arizona, Mark Takai of Hawaii, Gwen Graham of Florida<\/span>, <span style=\"color: #0d0d0d;\">Brad Ashford of Nebraska, and Seth Moulton of Massachusetts.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-2919fb1c-d00d-7249-f320-fe0bae92f4eb\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/budget-policy\/congresswatch\/\"><span style=\"color: #4a86e8; background: #ffffff;\"><b>For the latest national security news from Capitol Hill, go to CongressWatch.<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/span><br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Democratic Reps. Robin Kelly of Illinois and Brendan Boyle of Pennsylvania would join the Foreign Affairs Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nominated to join the Homeland Security Committee are Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman of New Jersey, Kathleen Rice of New York, and Norma Torres of California. And Reps. 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Adam Schiff, D-Calif., announced <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepAdamSchiff\/status\/553289939715391489\" title=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepAdamSchiff\/status\/553289939715391489\">on Twitter<\/a> that he has been named <span class=\"rte rte-comment\">as <\/span>the House Intelligence Committee&#8217;s top Democrat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;As the tragic events of the last 24 hours make clear, the work of our intelligence agencies and our relationships with allies will continue to be of unsurpassed importance in protecting our nation and values,&#8221; Schiff said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;There will be no shortage of issues to come before Congress in this session,&#8221; he said, &#8220;from addressing new threats of terrorism at home and around the world, to reforming our surveillance capabilities and oversight, as well as securing and reinforcing our nation&#8217;s cyber security.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-2919fb1c-d00d-4a3a-bd25-f28522fc219c\"><span style=\"background: #ffffff;\"><i>Email: jbennett@defensenews.com.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span><span style=\"background: #ffffff;\">Twitter: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BennettJohnT\"><span style=\"color: #4a86e8;\">@bennettjohnt<\/span><\/a><\/span><br\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic members of US House committees important to national security are beginning to take shape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":116147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":8,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[8,33,19],"tags":[],"coauthors":[1090],"class_list":["post-60091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-congress","category-home","category-pentagon"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"7AD4AIFCYVHJHMD75MJN66NEF4","arc_canonical_url":"\/congress\/2015\/01\/09\/first-batch-of-house-democrats-get-committee-nominations\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>First Batch of House Democrats Get Committee Nominations - Defense News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Democratic members of US House committees important to national security are beginning to take shape.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"First Batch of House Democrats Get Committee Nominations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Democratic members of US House committees important to national security are beginning to take shape.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2015\/01\/09\/first-batch-of-house-democrats-get-committee-nominations\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Defense News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-01-09T19:08:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-08-08T00:26:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"John T. 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