Ranking member
In the political system of the United States , ranking members are the highest-ranking MPs of a minority party (and thus also opposition leaders ) within the committees and subcommittees of the United States Congress .
If the majority ratio changes in favor of the previous minority party in a legislative chamber, the previous ranking members usually receive the chairmanship of the committee. Conversely, the previous committee chairman becomes a ranking member.
In many committees, the most senior minority member, together with the chairman of the committee, acts ex officio as a member of all sub-committees .
Senate committees
The following four United States Senate committees appoint the senior minority member as vice chairman.
- Senate Committee on Appropriations
- Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
- Senate Select Committee on Ethics
- Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
The House of Representatives , as well as the following committees, do not follow this rule. There a politician from the majority party receives the seat of the deputy chairman.
- House Committee on Agriculture
- House Committee on Appropriations
- House Committee on the Budget
- House Committee on Education and the Workforce
- House Committee on Energy and Commerce
- House Committee on Financial Services
- House Committee on Government Reform
- House Committee on Foreign Affairs
- House Committee on Resources
- House Committee on Veterans' Affairs
- House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (exception for the subcommittees)
Individual evidence
- ↑ ranking member | Politics Glossary | washingtonpost.com. July 1, 2011, accessed January 5, 2019 .
- ↑ United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs: Home . Banking.senate.gov. Retrieved October 18, 2013.