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Thune unveils Senate GOP committee assignments

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Incoming Senate GOP Leader John Thune late Friday night unveiled the Republican conference’s committee assignments for next term.

A press release from Thune’s office noted the assignments “have been ratified by the Senate Republican Conference and are expected to be ratified by the full Senate early next Congress.”

Here’s who’s where:

Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee

  • John Boozman (R-Ark.)
  • Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)
  • John Hoeven (R-N.D.)
  • Joni Ernst (R-Iowa)
  • Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.)
  • Roger Marshall (R-Kan.)
  • Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.)
  • Jim Justice (R-W.Va.)
  • Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)
  • John Thune (R-S.D.)
  • Deb Fischer (R-Neb.)
  • Jerry Moran (R-Kan.)

Senate Appropriations Committee

  • Susan Collins (R-Maine)
  • Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)
  • Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska)
  • Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)
  • Jerry Moran (R-Kan.)
  • John Hoeven (R-N.D.)
  • John Boozman (R-Ark.)
  • Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.)
  • John Kennedy (R-La.)
  • Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.)
  • Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.)
  • Katie Britt (R-Ala.)
  • Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.)
  • Deb Fischer (R-Neb.)
  • Mike Rounds (R-S.D.)

Senate Armed Services Committee

  • Roger Wicker (R-Miss.)
  • Deb Fischer (R-Neb.)
  • Tom Cotton (R-Ark.)
  • Mike Rounds (R-S.D.)
  • Joni Ernst (R-Iowa)
  • Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska)
  • Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.)
  • Rick Scott (R-Fla.)
  • Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.)
  • Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.)
  • Ted Budd (R-N.C.)
  • Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.)
  • Jim Banks (R-Ind.)
  • Tim Sheehy (R-Mont.)

Senate Banking Committee

  • Tim Scott (R-S.C.)
  • Mike Crapo (R-Idaho)
  • Mike Rounds (R-S.D.)
  • Thom Tillis (R-N.C.)
  • John Kennedy (R-La.)
  • Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.)
  • Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.)
  • Katie Britt (R-Ala.)
  • Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.)
  • Jim Banks (R-Ind.)
  • Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.)
  • Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio)
  • Dave McCormick (R-Pa.)

Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee

  • Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas)
  • John Thune (R-S.D.)
  • Roger Wicker (R-Miss.)
  • Deb Fischer (R-Neb.)
  • Jerry Moran (R-Kan.)
  • Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska)
  • Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.)
  • Todd Young (R-Ind.)
  • Ted Budd (R-N.C.)
  • Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.)
  • John Curtis (R-Utah)
  • Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio)
  • Tim Sheehy (R-Mont.)
  • Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.)
  • Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.)

Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee

  • Mike Lee (R-Utah)
  • John Barrasso (R-Wyo.)
  • Jim Risch (R-Idaho)
  • Steve Daines (R-Mont.)
  • Tom Cotton (R-Ark.)
  • Jim Justice (R-W.Va.)
  • Dave McCormick (R-Pa.)
  • Bill Cassidy (R-La.)
  • Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.)
  • Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska)
  • John Hoeven (R-N.D.)

Senate Environment and Public Works Committee

  • Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.)
  • Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.)
  • Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.)
  • John Curtis (R-Utah)
  • Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)
  • Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska)
  • Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.)
  • Roger Wicker (R-Miss.)
  • John Boozman (R-Ark.)
  • Jerry Moran (R-Kan.)

Senate Finance Committee

  • Mike Crapo (R-Idaho)
  • Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)
  • John Cornyn (R-Texas)
  • John Thune (R-S.D.)
  • Tim Scott (R-S.C.)
  • Bill Cassidy (R-La.)
  • James Lankford (R-Okla.)
  • Steve Daines (R-Mont.)
  • Todd Young (R-Ind.)
  • John Barrasso (R-Wyo.)
  • Ron Johnson (R-Wis.)
  • Thom Tillis (R-N.C.)
  • Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.)
  • Roger Marshall (R-Kan.)

Senate Foreign Relations Committee

  • Jim Risch (R-Idaho)
  • Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.)
  • Dave McCormick (R-Pa.)
  • Steve Daines (R-Mont.)
  • Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.)
  • John Barrasso (R-Wyo.)
  • Rand Paul (R-Ky.)
  • Ted Cruz (R-Texas)
  • Mike Lee (R-Utah)
  • Rick Scott (R-Fla.)
  • John Curtis (R-Utah)
  • John Cornyn (R-Texas)

Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee

  • Bill Cassidy (R-La.)
  • Rand Paul (R-Ky.)
  • Susan Collins (R-Maine)
  • Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska)
  • Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.)
  • Roger Marshall (R-Kan.)
  • Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.)
  • Tim Scott (R-S.C.)
  • Josh Hawley (R-Mo.)
  • Jim Banks (R-Ind.)
  • Mike Crapo (R-Idaho)
  • Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.)

Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee

  • Rand Paul (R-Ky.)
  • Ron Johnson (R-Wis.)
  • James Lankford (R-Okla.)
  • Rick Scott (R-Fla.)
  • Josh Hawley (R-Mo.)
  • Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio)
  • Joni Ernst (R-Iowa)
  • Tim Scott (R-S.C.)

Senate Judiciary Committee

  • Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)
  • Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)
  • John Cornyn (R-Texas)
  • Mike Lee (R-Utah)
  • Ted Cruz (R-Texas)
  • Josh Hawley (R-Mo.)
  • Thom Tillis (R-N.C.)
  • John Kennedy (R-La.)
  • Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.)
  • Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.)
  • Katie Britt (R-Ala.)
  • Mike Crapo (R-Idaho)

Senate Committee on Intelligence

  • Tom Cotton (R-Ark.)
  • Jim Risch (R-Idaho)
  • Susan Collins (R-Maine)
  • John Cornyn (R-Texas)
  • Jerry Moran (R-Kan.)
  • James Lankford (R-Okla.)
  • Mike Rounds (R-S.D.)
  • Todd Young (R-Ind.)
  • Marco Rubio (R-Fla.)

Senate Aging Committee

  • Rick Scott (R-Fla.)
  • Dave McCormick (R-Pa.)
  • Jim Justice (R-W.Va.)
  • Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.)
  • Ron Johnson (R-Wis.)
  • Mike Crapo (R-Idaho)
  • Tim Scott (R-S.C.)

Senate Budget Committee

  • Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)
  • Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)
  • Mike Crapo (R-Idaho)
  • Ron Johnson (R-Wis.)
  • Roger Marshall (R-Kan.)
  • John Cornyn (R-Texas)
  • Mike Lee (R-Utah)
  • John Kennedy (R-La.)
  • Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.)
  • Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio)
  • Rick Scott (R-Fla.)

Senate Indian Affairs Committee

  • Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska)
  • John Hoeven (R-N.D.)
  • Steve Daines (R-Mont.)
  • Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.)
  • Mike Rounds (R-S.D.)
  • Jerry Moran (R-Kan.)

Joint Economic Committee

  • Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.)
  • Tom Cotton (R-Ark.)
  • Ted Budd (R-N.C.)
  • Dave McCormick (R-Pa.)
  • Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.)
  • Jerry Moran (R-Kan.)

Senate Committee on Rules and Administration

  • Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)
  • Deb Fischer (R-Neb.)
  • Ted Cruz (R-Texas)
  • Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.)
  • Roger Wicker (R-Miss.)
  • Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.)
  • Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.)
  • Katie Britt (R-Ala.)
  • John Boozman (R-Ark.)

Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee

  • Joni Ernst (R-Iowa)
  • Jim Risch (R-Idaho)
  • Rand Paul (R-Ky.)
  • Tim Scott (R-S.C.)
  • Todd Young (R-Ind.)
  • Josh Hawley (R-Mo.)
  • Ted Budd (R-N.C.)
  • John Curtis (R-Utah)
  • Jim Justice (R-W.Va.)
  • Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.)

Senate Veterans Affairs Committee

  • Jerry Moran (R-Kan.)
  • John Boozman (R-Ark.)
  • Bill Cassidy (R-La.)
  • Thom Tillis (R-N.C.)
  • Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska)
  • Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.)
  • Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.)
  • Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.)
  • Jim Banks (R-Ind.)
  • Tim Sheehy (R-Mont.)

Senate Ethics Committee

  • James Lankford (R-Okla.)
  • Jim Risch (R-Idaho)
  • Deb Fischer (R-Neb.)
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Thune is ‘hopeful’ Mitch McConnell will return this week

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Monday he hopes his predecessor as top Republican, Mitch McConnell, returns this week from a hospitalization.

Thune said he had not yet spoken directly with the 84-year-old Kentuckian but is getting “readouts from his staff.”

Asked about McConnell’s condition or if he knew if he would be back this week, Thune told reporters, “I’m hopeful that he’ll be back this week.”

A McConnell spokesperson said Sunday that he had been admitted to the hospital but did not provide details on his condition or why he was hospitalized — a break from recent prior instances where the seven-term senator was hospitalized.

A former McConnell staffer who spoke on the condition of anonymity was told the senator was doing much better Monday without any further details on what put him in the hospital.

Daniel Desrochers contributed to this report.

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Senate to confirm Jay Clayton as soon as Thursday

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The Senate could vote as soon as Thursday on Jay Clayton’s nomination to serve as director of national intelligence — a lightning speed pace that will necessitate buy-in from all 100 senators.

Confirming Clayton could help shore up enough votes from Democrats to extend a government surveillance program that expired last Friday over opposition to Trump’s pick for acting director, Bill Pulte.

“He will come out of the committee Thursday, at least hopefully, and then if we get consent, we can move,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune said in an interview Monday about Clayton, who Trump only nominated for the job late last week.

Democrats “ought to be happy with Clayton,” said Thune, adding that he’s a “good” and “solid” pick.

Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, floated Sunday to CBS News that Clayton could be confirmed this week if every senator cooperates.

Senate Intelligence will hold a hearing Wednesday on Clayton’s nomination. If every member of the panel agrees, he could then get a committee vote Thursday. Confirming Clayton on the Senate floor hours later would require getting agreement from every senator to speed up the process. Opposition from a single member will punt Clayton’s confirmation to next week.

Confirming Clayton Thursday would, crucially, limit — and potentially circumvent — Pulte from becoming acting director of national intelligence, which Trump has slated to take place Friday, June 19.

The president’s decision to put Pulte in charge after Tulsi Gabbard’s departure at the helm of the Office of National Intelligence sparked bipartisan pushback, with Democrats saying they will withhold support for extending Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act while Pulte is in the acting role. Congress allowed the key government spy authority lapse last Friday without a deal.

Trump threw another curveball into a FISA extension over the weekend when he posted on social media that he was against reauthorizing Section 702 unless a GOP elections bill is attached. That bill, known as the SAVE America Act, does not have the votes to get through Congress.

Thune threw cold water Monday on tying the two issues together.

“Yeah, he’s, as you know, passionate about getting that done and wants to use every opportunity to take a shot at it,” Thune said of Trump and his desire to enact the elections bill.

But, Thune said, “we can’t get FISA done” if the policies are linked.

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Senate eyes vote on updated housing affordability legislation

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune is planning to put an updated version of a bipartisan housing affordability bill on the Senate floor for a vote this week, according to two people familiar with the bill dynamics and two Senate Democratic aides granted anonymity to discuss ongoing plans.

The version of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act that the Senate will vote on will include most of the House-passed language, including a provision restricting large institutional investors from buying single-family homes. The legislation would also add back Senate bills that were dropped from the House package that passed last month, the two people and the two aides said.

The Senate legislation comes after talks between Thune, Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and ranking member Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). The updated Senate package was also discussed with the House and the White House, the aides said.

Still, it’s unclear if House leadership and the White House have signed off on the legislation.

The Senate and House have gone back and forth for months on language for a housing affordability bill as lawmakers on both sides look for a win to tout during a midterm election season dominated by cost-of-living issues.

Both chambers overwhelmingly passed their own versions of the housing bill — the Senate 89-10 in March, and the House 396-13 in May. The White House supported the Senate-passed bill and then backed the House-passed bill after it retained most of the Senate’s language on reining in private equity and other large Wall Street investors in the housing market — a top priority for President Donald Trump.

The Senate’s updated legislation would remove two of the House’s community banking deregulation bills due to budget scoring concerns, said two of the people familiar: two bills that would modify the Federal Deposit Insurance Act around failed insured depository institutions. The Senate bill also added back a provision to authorize the Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery program for seven years, as opposed to a permanent reauthorization in the Senate’s March legislation.

The Senate additionally re-inserted several upper-chamber priorities, including the BUILD NOW Act, which would incentivize communities to build more housing through the Community Development Block Grant program; the Rental Assistance Demonstration bill, which would raise the cap on housing authorities to convert voucher-based assistance; the Moving to Work bill, which would aim to add a new cohort of MTW public housing agencies; and the VALID Act, which would require Federal Housing Administration mortgage disclosures to include cost comparison information for veterans.

The package retains core wins for the leaders of both the Senate Banking and House Financial Services committees and their members and reflects input from all four leaders of those panels, one of the people familiar said.

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