Finance Committeee Snubs CPA
Jan 26th 2008ScottAmerican History & Politics & Senate Confirmations & Wyoming & conservatism & elections & taxes
Imagine an organization whose members serve on various committees. These members come from various walks of life all across the fruited plain. One committee deals with finances. In this organization is one CPA whose job is fairly secure. There is another lower-ranked member whose job is very much at risk. The leadership sets about assigning committee memberships. In an effort to attempt to give the “at risk” member some importance and perhaps a boost to save his job, the lower-ranked member is assigned to the finance committee.
Well, quit imagining. The organization is the Republican leadership of the U.S. Senate. The at-risk employee is one-term Sen. Sununu (R-NH). The lone CPA is in this organization is Wyoming’s own two-term Sen. Mike Enzi. And for the record, Wyoming’s senior Senator is mad.
Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) reason for the snub? Sen. Enzi is the ranking Republican on the Health, Education, Labor, Pensions (HELP) Committee.
Sen. Enzi is also the highest ranking Republican not on a “Super A” (Armed Services, Appropriations, Finance and Foreign Relations) committee. Sen. Thomas’ death last summer left a vacancy on the Finance committee, which Sen. Enzi hoped to get then. Instead, Nevada Sen. John Ensign, also lower-ranked than Sen. Enzi, received the seat in recognition of his work as chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
In spite of the snub, Sen. McConnell describes Sen. Enzi as a “true leader” and “one of the most influential” members of the Republican Conference.
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