House Armed Services Committee at a Glance

Majority
Room, 2120 Rayburn
Phone, 225-4151
Fax, 225-9077
www.house.gov/hasc/

Minority
Room, 2340 Rayburn
Phone, 225-4158
Fax, 225-3623
www.house.gov/hasc/

Major issues
Emergency funding for crises
Military pay and benefits
Weapons purchases
New terrorist threats

Committee profile
What's in a name? Tradition. This year, the 1994 Republican coinage "House National Security Committee" was changed back to the old "House Armed Services Committee"-a name that had for years connoted power and authority. The shift is appropriate for a committee that went through fewer dislocations than other committees during the GOP takeover, and that still has a reputation for bipartisanship. Indeed, four years after the great upheaval, the staffers pride themselves on how much they have retained from an earlier era, when staffers put professionalism before party to get an authorization bill out every year. That bill-covering half of federal discretionary spending-still comes out under the aegis of a staff that is unified both in theory and (largely) in practice: A single budget pays the salaries of both the Republican and Democratic staffers, who are responsible to members of both parties; and the subcommittees are staffed not by their own chairmen's hires, but by employees of the full committee.

Republicans (32)
Floyd Spence, S.C.
Bob Stump, Ariz.
Duncan Hunter, Calif.
John R. Kasich, Ohio
Herbert H. Bateman, Va.
James V. Hansen, Utah
Curt Weldon, Pa.
Joel Hefley, Colo.
Jim Saxton, N.J.
Stephen Buyer, Ind.
Tillie K. Fowler, Fla.
John M. McHugh, N.Y.
James M. Talent, Mo.
R. Terry Everett, Ala.
Roscoe G. Bartlett, Md.
Howard P. "Buck" McKeon, Calif.
J. C. Watts, Okla.
Mac Thornberry, Texas
John Hostettler, Ind.
Saxby Chambliss, Ga.
Van Hilleary, Tenn.
Joe Scarborough, Fla.
Walter B. Jones, N.C.
Lindsey Graham, S.C.
Jim Ryun, Kan.
Bob Riley, Ala.
Jim Gibbons, Nev.
Mary Bono, Calif.
Joseph R. Pitts, Pa.
Robin Hayes, N.C.
Steven T. Kuykendall, Calif.
Don Sherwood, Pa.

Majority

Staff Director
Andrew K. Ellis, 225-9648

Deputy Staff Director
Robert S. Rangel, 225-4224

Press Secretary
Maureen P. Cragin, 225-2539

Professional Staff Member
(policy group lead)
Thomas M. Donnelly, 226-5372

Professional Staff Member
(budget analyst)
Dionel M. Aviles, 226-0533


Democrats (28)
Ike Skelton, Mo.
Norman Sisisky, Va.
John M. Spratt Jr., S.C.
Solomon P. Ortiz, Texas
Owen Pickett, Va.
Lane Evans, Ill.
Gene Taylor, Miss.
Neil Abercrombie, Hawaii
Martin T. Meehan, Mass.
Robert Underwood, Guam
Patrick J. Kennedy, R.I.
Rod R. Blagojevich, Ill.
Silvestre Reyes, Texas
Tom Allen, Maine
Victor F. Snyder, Ark.
Jim Turner, Texas
Adam Smith, Wash.
Loretta Sanchez, Calif.
James H. Maloney, Conn.
Mike McIntyre, N.C.
Ciro Rodriguez, Texas
Cynthia McKinney, Ga.
Ellen Tauscher, Calif.
Robert Brady, Pa.
Robert Andrews, N.J.
Baron Hill, Ind.
Mike Thompson, Calif.
John Larson, Conn.

Minority

Staff Director
Thomas P. Glakas, 225-4158

Professional Staff Member
John J. Pollard III, 226-1810