Senate Committees © 2021 Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP bhfs.com | 1 Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry Chair: Debbie Stabenow (MI) Ranking Member: John Boozman (AR) • Stabenow was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2000 • Boozman was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010 • Her priorities as chair include protecting SNAP, • He previously served as chair of the Subcommittee on reauthorizing the Child Nutrition Act and supporting Commodities, Risk Management, and Trade programs that promote agriculture and • Boozman has long supported expanded drilling for oil manufacturing and natural gas, including opening additional federal • She also serves as the chair of the Senate lands, such as Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Democratic Policy and Communications Committee to energy exploration • He has also sponsored legislation to help feed low- income children in the summer when they do not have access to the school meals program © 2021 Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP bhfs.com | 2 Appropriations Chair: Patrick Leahy (VT) Ranking Member: Richard Shelby (AL) • Leahy was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1974 and • Shelby was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986 after is currently the most senior member serving four terms in the U.S. House and is the fourth • He served as president pro tempore from 2012 to most senior member of the Senate 2015 • He previously chaired the Banking, Housing and Urban • Appropriations will be the third committee Leahy has Affairs, and Rules committees chaired in his tenure—he previously chaired the • He is a conservative and generally seeks to reduce Senate Judiciary and Agriculture committees government spending, though he supports increased • Among other issues, Leahy has taken strong positions military spending on immigration reform, gun safety, technology-related • He favors less federal regulations and has been a strong issues, foreign aid and human rights opponent of the Export-Import Bank © 2021 Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP bhfs.com | 3 Armed Services Chair: Jack Reed (RI) Ranking Member: Jim Inhofe (OK) • Reed was elected to the U.S. House in 1990, then the • Inhofe was elected to the U.S. House in 1874, then U.S. Senate in 1996 the U.S. Senate in 1995 • He is a former Army Ranger, West Point graduate and • Before becoming a full-time politician, he worked as teacher and served in the 82nd Airborne Division a businessman in aviation, a real estate developer, • Reed takes a consensus-oriented approach to foreign and in insurance, eventually becoming the president policy, holding mainstream national security views of Quaker Life Insurance Company • He has called for increasing spending caps “on both • From 1957 to 1958, he served in the U.S. Army sides of the ledger” • Inhofe has become the leading voice in the Senate • Reed does not support the use of the military to help advocating for increased defense and abolishing secure the southern border spending caps for the Pentagon © 2021 Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP bhfs.com | 4 Banking, Housing & Urban Development Chair: Sherrod Brown (OH) Ranking Member: Pat Toomey (PA) • Toomey was elected to the U.S. House in 1998 and the • Brown was elected to the U.S. House in 1992, then U.S. Senate in 2010; he intends to retire when his the U.S. Senate in 2006 current term expires in 2022 • He is known for his progressive policies and has a • Toomey’s priorities include fintech systems, digital long record of criticizing big banks and clashing with currencies, housing reform, marijuana banking and Republican agency officials increasing access to investment opportunities • As ranking member, Brown worked across the aisle • Toomey is a champion of free markets, bank on legislation to protect consumers’ financial data deregulation and tax cuts, and played a significant role • He is expected to remain involved in data protection in the 2017 Republican tax overhaul law efforts, along with marijuana banking and broader • He has also been active on trade and immigration privacy legislation, during his tenure as chair issues © 2021 Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP bhfs.com | 5 Budget Chair: Bernie Sanders (D-VT) Ranking Member: Lindsey Graham (R-SC) • Sanders was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006 • Graham was elected to the U.S. House in 1992 and the • Sanders’ ill-fated presidential runs have made him U.S. Senate in 2002 one of the most well-known members of the Senate • His priorities include immigration, defense and foreign • His priorities include raising the federal minimum policy—he is one of the most outspoken foreign-policy wage to $15/hour, raising taxes on top earners, and hawks increasing oversight of financial institutions and • In the 116th Congress, Graham devoted much of his health care companies political energy to confirming conservative judges and • On the Budget Committee, Sanders has advocated for combating Russian aggression expanding Medicare and Social Security and has been critical of Republican proposals to curb federal spending © 2021 Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP bhfs.com | 6 Commerce, Science & Transportation Chair: Maria Cantwell (WA) Ranking Member: Roger Wicker (MS) • Cantwell was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2000 • Wicker was elected to the U.S. House in 1994 and the U.S. • She supports efforts to expand rural broadband, Senate in 2006 improve aerospace workforce training, create • His priorities include bridging the digital divide, winning the efficient freight networks, and prepare for race to dominate 5G, and establishing federal data privacy natural disasters, and is particularly focused on standards, while he opposes heavy regulation of the internet data privacy—she has introduced legislation to • Wicker was involved in the effort to hold technology establish rules preventing consumer data abuse companies accountable for perceived bias against • She has also demonstrated interest in several conservatives technology issues, including 5G and net • He supports the “Blue Economy,” which he describes as the neutrality, which will likely arise during the sustainable use of ocean resources for economic growth 117th Congress © 2021 Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP bhfs.com | 7 Energy & Natural Resources Chair: Joe Manchin (WV) Ranking Member: John Barrasso (WY) • Manchin was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010 • Barrasso was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006 • He supports an “all-of-the-above” energy policy, • He served as the chair of the Republican Policy including coal production, though he is concerned about Committee from 2012 to 2019 climate change and hopes to “find that moderate • He is a fierce critic of the Green New Deal, though he middle place” on the issue has promoted nuclear energy and carbon capture • Manchin considers himself a “centrist, moderate • As chair of the Indian Affairs Committee, Barrasso conservative Democrat” and touts his ability to work supported legislation to increase energy development across party lines and speed up approvals of infrastructure projects on • He co-sponsored the bipartisan energy package with tribal lands Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) that ultimately became part • He also pushed legislation to repeal an Obama-era rule of the fiscal year 2021 appropriations bill limiting the emissions of methane, which was eventually revised by the Trump administration © 2021 Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP bhfs.com | 8 Environment & Public Works Chair: Tom Carper (DE) Ranking Member: Shelley Moore Capito (WV) • Carper was elected to the U.S. House in 1982, • Capito was elected to the U.S. House in 2000 and then served two terms as Delaware governor the U.S. Senate in 2014 before joining the U.S. Senate in 2000 • She has endorsed an “all-of-the-above” energy • He has publicly declared climate change as the policy and supports the coal and natural gas “greatest threat to our planet” and sponsored industries in her state legislation requiring net-zero emissions by 2050 • Capito co-sponsored the Great American Outdoors • He opposed Trump’s rollback of fuel efficiency Act, which fully funds the Land and Water standards, saying it would cost drivers more Conservation Fund and provides funding for the • Carper is also a member of the Finance Committee National Park Service’s maintenance backlog and sponsored bills to provide tax incentives for • Though reliably conservative, she frequently works alternative fuel vehicles and wind energy across the aisle on legislation © 2021 Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP bhfs.com | 9 Finance Chair: Ron Wyden (OR) Ranking Member Mike Crapo (IN) • Wyden was elected to the U.S. House in 1980, then • Crapo was elected to the U.S. House in 1992, then the the U.S. Senate in 1996 Senate in 1998 • He has been highly critical of the Tax Cuts and Jobs • As Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee chair, Act, arguing the law provided too many benefits to Crapo focused on housing issues to increase competition wealthy individuals and corporations and not among mortgage guarantors and promote access to enough for middle-class and poor Americans affordable housing • Wyden is also interested in pursuing infrastructure • Crapo has shown a willingness to work with Democrats on legislation, for which he will play a pivotal role in issues related to environmental protection, wildfire helping secure financing mechanisms mitigation and public land use • Wyden’s other interests include the implementation • Since Democrats will push legislation related to these of a mark-to-market regime, tax breaks for working- issues in the 117th Congress, Crapo will play an influential class families and reducing health care costs role in the development of any bipartisan policies © 2021 Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP bhfs.com | 10 Foreign Relations Chair: Bob Menendez (NJ) Ranking Member: Jim Risch (ID) • Risch was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2008 • Menendez was elected to the U.S. House in 1994 • He has served on both the Foreign Relations and Intelligence and first appointed to the U.S.