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Feb
6
There continues to be a blackout on information about the new charge given to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s Subcommittee on International Operations and Organizations, Human Rights, Democracy and Global Women’s Issues (that last phrase is the charge added this session), but PunditMom has a good post about it at BlogHer and I’ve found a list in the Daily Digest for February 5, 2009 under “Commitee Meetings,” then “Business Meetings” of the committee’s members. Interestingly, even though Wikipedia is usually all over changes, neither it nor Congresspedia has noted the change in their listings of subcommittee’s name or subcommitee member list.
Members of the Subcommittee on International Operations and Organizations, Human Rights, Democracy, and Global Women’s Issues:
Ted Kaufman (D-DE) (he is the placeholder, presumably, for US VP Joe Biden’s son who is currently overseas serving in the military)
Republican Leader designee.
Now, recall:
In the U.S. Senate, there are a total of 17 women – 13 Democrats and four Republicans. But the Dems control the Senate and the committee assignments. Of the eight available seats for the Republicans as the minority party, not one currently is held by any of the four women GOP senators (Olympia Snow and Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas). Given the subcommittee’s additional focus, if I were a woman in the GOP (although I know, hard to imagine), I’d be voicing off about making sure that one of those women is appointed.
But even in general – how can there not be even one GOP woman on the Senate’s standing committee on Foreign Relations? That just totally confounds me.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:38 am February 6th, 2009 in Congress, Gender, Government, Media, Politics, Sexism, Women, leadership, senate
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