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Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee Roster

APR 17, 1998

The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense is responsible for writing an appropriations bill that funds, among other programs, Department of Defense Research and Development. Below is the roster for this subcommittee for the second session of the 105th Congress. (FYI #63 will contain the roster for 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 site of all senators.

Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense SD-122 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510-6028 202-224-7255 REPUBLICANS Chairman: Ted Stevens (Alaska) Thad Cochran (Mississippi) Arlen Specter (Pennsylvania) Pete Domenici (New Mexico) Christopher Bond (Missouri) Mitch McConnell (Kentucky) Richard Shelby (Alabama) Judd Gregg (New Hampshire) Kay Bailey Hutchison (Texas) DEMOCRATS Ranking Minority Member: Daniel Inouye (Hawaii) Ernest Hollings (South Carolina) Robert Byrd (West Virginia) Patrick Leahy (Vermont) Dale Bumpers (Arkansas) Frank Lautenberg (New Jersey) Tom Harkin (Iowa) Byron Dorgan (North Dakota)

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