New House Commitee Chairmen all white men!

[Ogre Mage]

For the record I am nonwhite and gay.  So I am a twofer here and will criticize their lack of diversity.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Its a senority issue primarily. The parties are fairly rigid about it too, though the GOP atleast has the term limit on its chairman (yea Ryan shouldn't have been waived)

Paul Ryan, Wisconsin, Chairman
Scott Garrett, New Jersey, Vice-Chairman
Mike Simpson, Idaho
John Campbell, California
Ken Calvert, California
Todd Akin, Missouri

Top six GOP members on the Budget Committee for the 112th Congress.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Tom Cole, Oklahoma
Tom Price, Georgia
Tom McClintock, California
Jason Chaffetz, Utah
Marlin Stutzman, Indiana
James Lankford, Oklahoma
Diane Black, Tennessee

We have found women!!!! Unlucky number 13 and the only one on there.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Chris Van Hollen, Maryland, Ranking Member
Allyson Schwartz, Pennsylvania
Marcy Kaptur, Ohio
Lloyd Doggett, Texas
Earl Blumenauer, Oregon
Betty McCollum, Minnesota
John Yarmuth, Kentucky
Bill Pascrell, New Jersey
Mike Honda, California
Tim Ryan, Ohio
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Florida
Gwen Moore, Wisconsin
Kathy Castor, Florida
Heath Shuler, North Carolina
Karen Bass, California
Suzanne Bonamici, Oregon

Dems are 50% Female on the committee.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

Actually I will say I'm a bit miffed at this.

I'm as opposed as anyone to affirmative action, quotas, etc... but its not like these Committee Chairs are based entirely on merit.  I don't think that leadership is going through stacks of resumes of the members.  These are political positions in a political body and there should be some political choices made here.  There are plenty of GOP women who have been in the House for at least 10 years that are more than qualified to be Chairs.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

For the record I am nonwhite and gay.  So I am a twofer here and will criticize their lack of diversity.

How many Forum Moderators are women?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I think don just brought up the most pointless comparison of the year, which says a lot considering the election time trolls.

[krazen1211]

What's the problem with the white man?

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Perhaps we should diversify our virtually all-white, all-male Forum before we criticize the House GOP.

It is virtually all-male (though we've been trying to change this); it isn't virtually all-white, though.

[All Along The Watchtower]

What's the problem with the white man?

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Oh..

krazen post.

[DrScholl]

Perhaps we should diversify our virtually all-white, all-male Forum before we criticize the House GOP.

I'm an African-American male, so that counts toward some diversity on this forum. That said, an internet forum is a little bit different than the House of Representatives.

[Mehmentum]

Perhaps we should diversify our virtually all-white, all-male Forum before we criticize the House GOP.

It is virtually all-male (though we've been trying to change this); it isn't virtually all-white, though.

We have?

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

Good god, guys, be honest with yourselves -- if this hadn't been the case, you'd all be lambasting the Republicans for "tokenism" or whatever.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

Perhaps we should diversify our virtually all-white, all-male Forum before we criticize the House GOP.

I'm an African-American male, so that counts toward some diversity on this forum. That said, an internet forum is a little bit different than the House of Representatives.

Sadly, my Party often seems like very little more than an internet forum.  More folks believe what they read in chain e-mails than what they get from legitimate news outlets.

[Ogre Mage]

For the record I am nonwhite and gay.  So I am a twofer here and will criticize their lack of diversity.

How many Forum Moderators are women?

What do our forum moderators have to do with the House committee chairs?  That makes little sense.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

For the record I am nonwhite and gay.  So I am a twofer here and will criticize their lack of diversity.

How many Forum Moderators are women?

What do our forum moderators have to do with the House committee chairs?  That makes little sense.

They don't think the poor should have food and words.

[Ogre Mage]

For the record I am nonwhite and gay.  So I am a twofer here and will criticize their lack of diversity.

How many Forum Moderators are women?

What do our forum moderators have to do with the House committee chairs?  That makes little sense.

They don't think the poor should have food and words.

lol I'm not going to touch that one.

[politicallefty]

I'll just let this one be known without comment, but Candice Miller will chair the House Administration Committee.