House Appropriations Committee at a Glance

Majority
Room: H218 Capitol
Phone: 225-2771
www.house.gov/appropriations

Minority
Room: 1016 Longworth
Phone: 225-3481
www.house.gov/appropriations

Major issues
Annual appropriations bills

Committee profile
The House appropriators have insisted that if people would just leave them alone, they could get their work done-on time-on the 13 annual appropriations bills. But unfortunately for them, the committee and its bills have become the battleground for a variety of ideological fights ever since the Republicans assumed control of Congress in 1995. Along with the GOP takeover came drastic changes in the committee staff: Three women took over as subcommittee clerks. And the committee, which for decades did a portion of its work behind closed doors, just last year moved into a large hearing room that accommodates more of the press and the public. Following the departure of former Chairman Bob Livingston, R-La., and a string of retirements, the committee this year has a new chairman, as do six of the subcommittees.

Republicans (34)
C. W. ``Bill'' Young, Fla.
Ralph Regula, Ohio
Jerry Lewis, Calif.
John Edward Porter, Ill.
Harold Rogers, Ky.
Joe Skeen, N.M.
Frank R. Wolf, Va.
Tom DeLay, Texas
Jim Kolbe, Ariz.
Ronald C. Packard, Calif.
Sonny Callahan, Ala.
James T. Walsh, N.Y.
Charles H. Taylor, N.C.
David Hobson, Ohio
Ernest J. Istook Jr., Okla.
Henry Bonilla, Texas
Joseph Knollenberg, Mich.
Dan Miller, Fla.
Jay W. Dickey, Ark.
Jack Kingston, Ga.
Rodney Frelinghuysen, N.J.
Roger Wicker, Miss.
Michael P. Forbes, N.Y.
George Nethercutt Jr., Wash.
Randy ``Duke'' Cunningham, Calif.
Todd Tiahrt, Kan.
Zach Wamp, Tenn.
Tom Latham, Iowa
Anne Northup, Ky.
Robert Aderholt, Ala.
Jo Ann Emerson, Mo.
John E. Sununu, N.H.
Kay Granger, Texas
John E. Peterson, Pa.

Majority

Staff Director, Clerk
James W. Dyer, 225-2771

Staff Assistants
John Mikel , 225-2771
Charles R. Parkinson, 225-2771

Communications Director
Elizabeth Morra, 225-2771

Chief of Investigative Staff
R.W. Vandergrift, 225-3881


Democrats (27)
David R. Obey, Wis.
John P. Murtha, Pa.
Norman Dicks, Wash.
Martin Olav Sabo, Minn.
Julian C. Dixon, Calif.
Steny H. Hoyer, Md.
Alan Mollohan, W.Va.
Marcy Kaptur, Ohio
Nancy Pelosi, Calif.
Peter J. Visclosky, Ind.
Nita M. Lowey, N.Y.
Jose Serrano, N.Y.
Rosa DeLauro, Conn.
James P. Moran, Va.
John W. Olver, Mass.
Ed Pastor, Ariz.
Carrie P. Meek, Fla.
David Price, N.C.
Chet Edwards, Texas
Bud Cramer Jr., Ala.
James E. Clyburn, S.C.
Maurice D. Hinchey, N.Y.
Lucille Roybal-Allard, Calif.
Sam Farr, Calif.
Jesse Jackson Jr., Ill.
Carolyn C. Kilpatrick, Mich.
Allen Boyd Jr., Fla.


Minority

Staff Director, Clerk
R. Scott Lilly, 225-3481

Staff Assistants
Gregory Dahlberg, 225-3481
Delacroix Davis, 225-3481
Mark W. Murray, 225-3481