Commerce Subcommittee Selection Process Beginning, Thune Says
Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., said Commerce Committee lawmakers soon will start determining specifics of Commerce subcommittees. He will chair the Commerce Committee in the next Congress and told reporters at the Capitol Tuesday that sorting out those committee details will…
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dominate much of his coming two weeks. “With Republican and Democrat senators now named to the Commerce Committee, the subcommittee selection process will begin, enabling the committee to be formalized as early as the first full week of January, after the 114th Congress convenes,” Thune said in a statement Monday. A news release included all the Republicans and Democrats in the 114th Congress (see 1412150052), and Thune cited Internet policy and consumer protection among his priorities. He told us he sees a strong role for the Communications Subcommittee (see 1412120057).