New GOP Members of Senate Foreign Relations, Banking Announced
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will gain six new Republican members in January, incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., announced Dec. 20.
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The new members are Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, Steve Daines, R-Mont., Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Rick Scott, R-Fla., and Sens.-elect John Curtis, R-Utah, and Dave McCormick, R-Pa. Leaving the committee are Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Mitt Romney, R-Utah, Todd Young, R-Ind., and Tim Scott, R-S.C.
The Senate Banking Committee will get four new Republican members: McCormick, Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., and Sens.-elect Jim Banks, R-Ind., and Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio. It will lose two: Daines and Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio.
Senate Democrats have not yet announced their committee assignments for the next Congress.