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Senate VA/HUD/IA Appropriations Subcommittee Roster

APR 17, 1998

The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Veterans’ Affairs, Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies is responsible for writing an appropriations bill that funds, among other agencies, the National Science Foundation and NASA. Below is the roster for this subcommittee for the second session of the 105th Congress. (See FYI #65 for the roster of the comparable House subcommittee.) Information on rosters comes from the Congressional Quarterly’s Washington Alert. (The chairman and ranking member of the full Appropriations Committee, Republican Ted Stevens of Alaska and Democrat Robert Byrd of West Virginia are ex officio members of all subcommittees.) See http://www.senate.gov/senator/members.html for the Web sites of all senators.

Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on VA/HUD/Independent Agencies SD-127 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510-6032 202-224-7211 REPUBLICANS Chairman: Christopher Bond (Missouri) Conrad Burns (Montana) Ted Stevens (Alaska) Richard Shelby (Alabama) Ben Nighthorse Campbell (Colorado) Larry Craig(Idaho) DEMOCRATS Ranking Minority Member: Barbara Mikulski (Maryland) Patrick Leahy (Vermont) Frank Lautenberg (New Jersey) Tom Harkin (Iowa) Barbara Boxer (California)

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