Sessions to take over top GOP slot on Judiciary

[babylonsister]

Sessions to take over top GOP slot on Judiciary
By Reid Wilson
Posted: 05/04/09 10:45 AM


Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) will take over the ranking member position on the Senate Judiciary Committee after striking a deal with his more senior colleagues over the weekend, sources confirm to The Hill.

Sessions and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) reached the deal that will allow the Alabama Republican to take over for Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.), whose departure from the GOP last week left the committee without a ranking member.

Under terms of the deal, Sessions will serve as ranking member until the 112th Congress, when he will take over the ranking member post on the Senate Budget Committee. Current Budget Committee ranking member Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) is retiring at the end of the 111th Congress.

Grassley, the top Republican on the Finance Committee, will then become ranking member on the Judiciary Committee.

Last week, Grassley had enlisted the help of Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) in positioning himself for the top slot on the committee. Under the deal floated then, Hatch would have taken over Judiciary for the remainder of the 111th, with Grassley taking the helm once his tenure on Finance expired.

The seven Republicans who remain on the Judiciary Committee after Specter's departure will meet to vote on Sessions's ascension early this week. Once they do, the decision goes to the full Republican Conference, which usually ratifies decisions the committee makes. Sources could not recall a ranking member vote made by a committee that was not, in the end, ratified by the full conference.

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http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/sessions-to-take-over-top-gop-slot-on-judiciary-2009-05-04.html

[Old and In the Way]

1. Read - Automatic Obstruction

He's just a vile, cynical hypocrite who's the prototypical Republican in Congress today.

[BuyingThyme]

2. This can only excel the Pukes' decent into comical insignificance.

[AlinPA]

3. The strength from their regional party. He fits perfectly.

[SCantiGOP]

4. You don't give them enough credit

If the Confederacy is ever revived, the Republicans will win in a landslide.