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New Members of Indian Affairs Committee

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by Brad Jolly, Partner

November 15, 2006

Two of the newly elected Democratic senators have been selected to sit on the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. John Tester (D-MT) and Claire McCaskill (D-MO) will both sit on the Committee, raising the number of Democrats on the Committee to eight and reducing the Republicans to the six member minority.

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