TOPICS
TOPICS
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
SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE
Committee at a Glance
Subcommittees
Staff Biographies
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