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HASC Dem Subcommittee Breakdowns Announced

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Thursday, January 15th, 2009

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The House Armed Services Committee's (HASC) subcommittees will have the same chairmen they had last session, panel Chairman Ike Skelton (D-Mo.) confirmed yesterday. The following Democratic subcommittee assignments were announced in a press release after a HASC organizational meeting for the new session of Congress. Seapower and Expeditionary Forces subcommittee, under Chairman Gene Taylor (Miss.): Solomon Ortiz (Texas), Jim Langevin, (R.I.), Rick Larsen, (Wash.) Brad Ellsworth (Ind.), Joe Courtney (Conn.), Joe Sestak (Penn.), Glenn Nye (Va.), Chellie Pingree (Maine), and Eric…

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