SENATE HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR & PENSIONS COMMITTEE ROSTER

As previously indicated, next Tuesday, March 27, 2007, the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee will conduct hearings on the Employee Free Choice Act. According to the Committee's website, the Democrat members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee are as follows, by rank:

Chairman Edward Kennedy (MA)
Christopher Dodd (CT)
Tom Harkin (IA)
Barbara A. Mikulski (MD)
Jeff Bingaman (NM)
Patty Murray (WA)
Jack Reed (RI)
Hillary Rodham Clinton(NY)
Barack Obama (IL)
Bernard Sanders (I) (VT)
Sherrod Brown (OH)

In the 109th Congress, Sen. Kennedy introduced a previous version of the Employee Free Choice Act, then known as S. 842. The only Senators listed above who did not sign on as co-sponsors in 2005 were Sens. Sanders and Brown -- both of whom were co-sponsors of its companion legislation while serving at that time in the House of Representatives.

The Committee's Republican members by rank are:

Ranking Member Michael B. Enzi (WY)
Judd Gregg (NH)
Lamar Alexander (TN)
Richard Burr (NC)
Johnny Isakson (GA)
Lisa Murkowski (AK)
Orrin G. Hatch (UT)
Pat Roberts (KS)
Wayne Allard (CO)
Tom Coburn, M.D. (OK)