United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
The U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations is a standing committee of the Senate of the United States, which is responsible for the provision of financial resources. The Committee is responsible for all non-statutory expenditure in the 2006 budget, a sum of 860 billion dollars.
The Committee has 29 members, not only the greatest number of members of the Senate, but one of is most powerful, as all issues of government constitutionally must only be decided by a law and the jurisdiction of the Committee. It has existed since 1867, was separated as this area of legislative work by the Finance Committee.
In particular, the chairman has a large abundance of power, which he can use both to his own State to provide benefits even to other senators to do as a favor or contain who want to promote their own projects. While Ted Stevens of Alaska, for example, six years was chairman of the Committee, received the state per capita $ 12,000 in public funds, double the national average.
Members in the 113th Congress
Committee chairman after the death of Daniel Inouye in December 2012, the Democrat Barbara Mikulski of Maryland. " Ranking minority member" is the Republican Richard Shelby of Alabama.
Subcommittees
The structure of the sub-committees is largely parallel to that of all Senate committees:
- Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Chairman: Mark Pryor
- Ranking Member: Roy Blunt
- Chairman: Barbara Mikulski
- Ranking Member Richard Shelby
- Chairman: Richard Durbin
- Ranking Member Thad Cochran
- Chairman Dianne Feinstein
- Ranking Member Lamar Alexander
- Chairman: Frank Lautenberg
- Ranking Member: Mike Johanns
- Chairman: Mary Landrieu
- Ranking Member: Dan Coats
- Chairman: Jack Reed
- Ranking Member Lisa Murkowski
- Chairman: Tom Harkin
- Ranking Member: Jerry Moran
- Chairman: Jeanne Shaheen
- Ranking Member: John Hoeven
- Chairman: Tim Johnson
- Ranking Member: Mark Kirk
- Chairman Patrick Leahy
- Ranking Member: Lindsey Graham
- Chairman Patty Murray
- Ranking Member Susan Collins