This is a very important coup for Alabama and an impressive appointment for Rogers. If the Republicans maintain their majority into 2025, Aderholt is in line to become chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.Ĭongressman Mike Rogers (R-Saks/Anniston) has emerged as chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. This committee will be very important to Alabama because of the biomedical research going on in Birmingham and Huntsville. He is one of the cardinals on the House Appropriations Committee and is now chairman of the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Resources. He is now only 57 years old and has 28 years of seniority. He got to Washington at a very young age. This committee has jurisdiction over health care, which is vital to UAB - the heart and soul of the 6th District.Ĭongressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) is our senior congressman. He will also retain his position on the House Energy and Commerce Committee. They essentially chose the House Committee Assignments along with Speaker Kevin McCarthy.Ĭongressman Gary Palmer will serve as chairman of the House GOP Policy Committee. This committee has emerged as a powerful entity in the past decade. Therefore, it was apropos that he would gravitate to the 30-member Republican Party Steering Committee. Palmer, who is a quiet, policy issues congressman, was the founder and leader of the Alabama Policy Institute prior to going to Congress. Jefferson/Shelby 6th District Congressman Gary Palmer (R-Hoover) has been instrumental in helping to garner extremely good committee assignments for our six Republican members of Congress. Therefore, for at least the next decade, our power in Washington will be in the U.S. House delegation who are garnering some seniority and are emerging as powerful members of the lower body.
However, we have several members of our U.S. That places him 89th in seniority in the 100-member senate. senator, Tommy Tuberville, has two years of seniority.
Britt took office with zero years of seniority, and that places her 99th in seniority status in the U.S. Senate seniority system, it will take young Katie Britt about 10 years before she will have any impact and influence in the Senate. Fortunately, as he was walking out the door, he brought so much largesse home with him that it will take other states 10 years to catch up. Alabama will never be able to raid the federal vault like Shelby has done. However, we who follow Alabama politics have been cautioning you that our day of reckoning would arrive in January 2023, when Shelby retired from the Senate, and that day has arrived. Senate, seniority equates power and we had it.
In the halls of Congress, and especially in the U.S. Jeff Sessions, who served with distinction for 20 years in the Senate. Lest we forget, Shelby also had a very respected and tenured wingman in Sen. National publications labeled Shelby the “Greatest Pork King” in federal history, surpassing the late Sen. We received more federal funding than any state in America. Shelby practically moved Washington, D.C., to Alabama when it came to bringing home procured earmarked funds to the Heart of Dixie. However, he became immensely powerful his last six years as chairman of the Appropriations Committee. During Shelby’s 36-year tenure as senator, he chaired the Intelligence, Banking and Rules committees. Senate - primarily because of Richard Shelby’s immense power and influence. Congressional Delegation Garnered Good Committee Assignmentsįor the past several decades, Alabama’s power has been centered around the U.S.
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