Sen.-elect Angus King is set to serve on four Senate committees when he’s sworn into the body on Jan. 3, his office said Wednesday.
King, an independent who joined the Senate’s Democratic caucus after his election last month, has been approved for seats on the Armed Services, Budget, Rules and Intelligence committees.
In a statement, King said his assignment on the Rules Committee is “particularly important.”
“[T]his is a committee that has jurisdiction over filibuster reform and campaign finance, two issues which I focused on during the campaign,” he said.
King also noted that Maine has had a senator on the Armed Services Committee for all but six years since 1953.
Sen. Susan Collins, who will be Maine’s senior senator, now serves on the Senate’s Homeland Security, Appropriations and Armed Services committees, as well as the Special Committee on Aging.
Her committee assignments will change, however, when the new Senate takes office. She said last month she expects to remain on the Appropriations Committee. Her time as ranking member on the Homeland Security Committee, however, will end.
We are headed for a cliff and our Pres. brings
Independent Angus on board?
Thats reassuring.
Budget committee among others will find him useful, I’m sure.
R’s created the cliff by refusing to raise the debt ceiling..NOW they have to try to fix the mess they made of things ( AGAIN)..i say Obama should just let them twist in the wind. and live with their consequences . Jan 1st ,ALL tax rates go up automatically. Revenue galore . The tax decrease was ALWAYS supposed to be temporray post 911 to “save” the economy .
Check your facts…the debt ceiling has been raised FIVE times since obama took office
Facts mean nothing to the Obama followers and freeloaders that adore him. The only fact that they will finally get, is that the gravy train will be over when he finally bankrupts the country for good. Then they’ll still blame Bush.
Drive it off the cliff Mr. President. That may be the only way to stop the out of control spending. I guess we will just have to pay a little more. After all the real money is in the middle class anyway. No real cuts, just scare the older folks about everything being taken away and more stimulus spending for the union payback. Tax the rich..same old, same old.
Please put all your skills to work and good luck Mr. King. That’s one sorry do nothing place we’re sending you to. “Most of us” hope you and other free thinkers can get things moving there again as quickly as possible.
When he took the office of Gov. we had a surplus. When he left office, he had created a deficit of $1billion. He is now on the budget committee at the Federal level. He was a failure at the State level. Way to go Dems and the low information society!
Sad to know he also took a position working as a lawyer for the disadvantaged as a means of avoiding the draft in the sixties. I can’t understand what qualifies him to be on the armed services lineup. Perhaps he will undo what Mike Michaud has accomplished for the veterans. Come to think of it , president Obama is not a veteran either !
At least he didn’t run to Canada like Lepage!
Please provide proof of this claim. Was Lepage still subject to the draft when he moved? And for the record, I’m no Lepage fan but I do think truth is important.
” When he left office, he had created a deficit” .So did BUSH. Angus also hit a recession post 911 as he left office ,so did BUSH. BUSH solved that “problem” with historic tax cuts, that resulted in a historic deficit . So what exactly IS your point ?
There was a deficit? The state issued bonds to pay its bills? I don’t recall that.
Congrats Mr. King and best of luck with your new found responsibilities…..may you make a difference from what we are used to seeing in Washington…..
Does the “pab” stand for pablum?
He is one of them , there will be nothing different from Angus.
Lucky us.
That give him a chance to make a little extra cash, as he did as Gov. He maybe be a “free” thinker but someone else will pay.
I sincerely hope that King has the ‘smart’s to NOT take what the DOD and the Intelligence Agency’s provide him at face value. Had some of the Committee member’s done so, and exercised some common sense and patience, back when George the 2nd was running around loose the Iraqi’s supposed nuclear search in Chad and Sudan might have been seen for what they were, Presidential theater to rationalize Gulf 2. If Angus is really smart he’s gonna go and find a staffer that’s been burned by these 2 and turn them loose whenever they send him some they consider ‘Gospel’. Ruthless objectivity in DC is gonna be his only way to see truth in the face of political theater. It’s also the only way he’s ever going to get to the truth. And truth in DC is a very dangerous thing ! It’s also very rare.
Truth ? Truth?
You speak of truth?
Im sure Anquish will bring “truth” to Washington DC.
Just like all the others before him.
So Gus is getting his hands on economic levers at the federal level. Wow, considering what he did to our state, nothing to say except hang on to your wallets!
pretty important committees to be on.
Payback for joining the dems
Yahoo, filibuster reform! :)
Free thinker = Someone who thinks they are the smartest one in the room
It seems that Angus back door deals with Harry Reid before the election paid off.
for him
Does Angus remember your name?? He will have to get 2 wallets in order to no throw out his back.