Senate Armed Services Committee at a Glance

Majority
Room, 228 Russell
Phone, 224-3871
Fax, 228-0037
www.senate.gov/~armed_services/

Minority
Room, 228 Russell
Phone, 224-3871
Fax, 228-0036
www.senate.gov/~armed_services/

Major issues
Emergency funding for crises
Military pay and benefits
Weapons purchases
Terrorism

Committee profile
Few committees are as quintessentially senatorial as Armed Services. Under the long chairmanship of Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn, it won a reputation for serious intellectual policy-making tinged with a bit of smugness. This aura faded somewhat under the more homespun South Carolinian Strom Thurmond, but this year, Nunn's longtime ranking member, Virginia Republican John Warner, has taken the chair. Warner has imported wonks from other committees to rebuild the full committee's policy shop, and he has abolished the Acquisition and Technology Subcommittee in order to replace it with a new subcommittee on Emerging Threats: terrorism, nuclear proliferation, and other intellectually sexy issues. Such reshufflings are easier on Armed Services because everyone on the staff works directly for either the chairman or the ranking member, and many staffers serve several of the subcommittees.


Republicans (11)
John W. Warner, Va.
Strom Thurmond, S.C.
John McCain, Ariz.
Bob Smith, N.H.
James M. Inhofe, Okla.
Rick Santorum, Pa.
Olympia Snowe, Maine
Pat Roberts, Kan.
Wayne Allard, Colo.
Tim Hutchinson, Ark.
Jeff Sessions, Ala.


Majority

Staff Director
Les Brownlee, 224-9348

Deputy Staff Director
Judith Ansley, 224-4928

General Counsel
Scott W. Stucky, 224-8629

Professional Staff Members
Charles S. Abell, 224-3094
Lawrence J. Lanzillotta, 224-4148
George Lauffer, 224-8636

Chief Clerk
Marie Fabrizio Dickinson, 224-8627

Communications Director
Carter Cornick, 224-6677


Democrats (9)
Carl Levin, Mich.
Edward Kennedy, Mass.
Jeff Bingaman, N.M.
Robert C. Byrd, W.Va.
Charles S. Robb, Va.
Joseph I. Lieberman, Conn.
Max Cleland, Ga.
Mary L. Landrieu, La.
Jack Reed, R.I.


Minority

Staff Director
David S. Lyles, 224-3830

Counsels
Richard D. DeBobes, 224-7530
Madelyn R. Creedon, 224-9338
Gerald J. Leeling, 224-9339
Peter K. Levine, 224-8631

Communications Director
John Brennan, 224-6221