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Lawmakers Elect Leaders for 110th Congress
As NAHB prepared to work with the new 110th Congress in a bipartisan fashion to advance the national housing agenda, congressional lawmakers from both parties elected their leadership last week for the 2007-2008 congressional term.
Below is a list of key Senate and House leaders:
Senate Leadership Democratic Majority (51 seats)
- Majority Leader/Democratic Conference Chairman Harry Reid (D-Nev.)
- Assistant Majority Leader/Majority Whip Richard Durbin (D-Ill.)
- Democratic Conference Vice Chairman Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.)
- Democratic Conference Secretary Patty Murray (D-Wash.)
- Democratic Policy Committee Chairman Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.)
- Democratic Senate Campaign Committee (DSCC) Chairman Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.)
Senate Leadership Republican Minority (49 seats)
- Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)
- Minority Whip Trent Lott (R-Miss.)
- Republican Conference Chairman Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.)
- Republican Conference Vice Chairman John Cornyn (R-Texas)
- Republican Policy Committee Chairwoman Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas)
- National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) Chairman John Ensign (R-Nev.)
House Leadership Democratic Majority (231 seats*)
- Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)
- Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.)
- Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.)
- Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.)
- Democratic Caucus Vice Chairman John Larson (D-Conn.)
- Democratic Congressional Committee Chairman: To be appointed by the Speaker.
House Leadership Republican minority (197 seats*)
- Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio)
- Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.)
- Republican Conference Chairman Adam Putnam (R-Fla.)
- Republican Conference Vice Chairman Kay Granger (R-Texas)
- Republican Conference Secretary John Carter (R-Texas)
- Republican Policy Committee Chairman Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich.)
- National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) Chairman Tom Cole (R-Okla.)
* Seven House races are still too close to call.
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