Pelosi Announces Members of Homeland Security and Oversight and Government Reform Committees

January 28, 2009
Press Release
Washington, D.C. - Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced today that the House Democratic Caucus has approved appointments to the Homeland Security Committee and Oversight & Government Reform Committee.  Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson and Oversight & Government Reform Chairman Edolphus Towns were previously appointed to their positions by the Democratic Caucus.

The Democratic Caucus approved the following committee members:

Homeland Security

  •         Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez of California

  •         Congresswoman Jane Harman of California

  •         Congressman Peter DeFazio of Oregon

  •         Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton of Washington D.C.

  •         Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren of California

  •         Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee of Texas

  •         Congressman Henry Cuellar of Texas

  •         Congressman Christopher Carney of Pennsylvania

  •         Congresswoman Yvette Clarke of New York

  •         Congresswoman Laura Richardson of California

  •         Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick of Arizona

  •         Congressman Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico

  •         Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. of New Jersey

  •         Congressman Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri

  •         Congressman Al Green of Texas

  •         Congressman James A. Himes of Connecticut

  •         Congresswoman Mary Jo Kilroy of Ohio

  •         Congressman Eric Massa of New York

  •         Congresswoman Dina Titus of Nevada

Oversight & Government Reform

  •         Congressman Paul Kanjorski of Pennsylvania

  •         Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney of New York

  •         Congressman Elijah Cummings of Maryland

  •         Congressman Dennis Kucinich of Ohio

  •         Congressman John Tierney of Massachusetts

  •         Congressman William Lacy Clay of Missouri

  •         Congresswoman Diane Watson of California

  •         Congressman Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts

  •         Congressman Jim Cooper of Tennessee

  •         Congressman Gerry Connolly of Virginia

  •         Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton of Washington D.C.

  •         Congressman Patrick Kennedy of Rhode Island

  •         Congressman Danny Davis of Illinois

  •         Congressman Chris Van Hollen of Maryland

  •         Congressman Henry Cuellar of Texas

  •         Congressman Paul Hodes of New Hampshire

  •         Congressman Christopher Murphy of Connecticut

  •         Congressman Peter Welch of Vermont

  •         Congressman Bill Foster of Illinois

  •         Congresswoman Jackie Speier of California

  •         Congressman Steve Driehaus of Ohio