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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

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

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

• 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

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

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

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

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

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. Senate in 2006 committees, and in 2019, he assumed the chairmanship of the • He served as chair of the Foreign Relations Foreign Relations Committee following Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN)’s Committee from 2013‒2015, where he took a retirement hardline stance on U.S. policy toward Iran • In 2019, Risch defended the Trump administration’s response to • In 2013, Menendez was one of eight senators the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi who pushed forward comprehensive immigration • He has taken a hawkish position toward China in response to reform legislation that passed the Senate national security and human rights violations • Menendez has recently focused on U.S. policy to • He supports sanctions against Turkey, given its purchase and protect human rights globally and will likely focus testing of Russian military equipment on this in the new Congress • Risch is also a member of the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee

Chair: Patty Murray (WA) Ranking Member: Richard Burr (NC)

• Murray was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1992 • Burr was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004 and said • She is known for her long record of negotiating in 2016 that this would be his last term legislation on complicated issues that required • He previously served as chair of the Intelligence bipartisan cooperation Committee • She helped draft the Every Student Succeeds Act, • Burr is known for working across the aisle annually the public education package that replaced the No with Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) to increase funding for Child Left Behind Act the National Institutes of Health • Murray also serves as assistant Democratic leader • Burr opposes the Affordable Care Act and has • Reauthorizing the Higher Education Act is a top goal worked to repeal and replace the law in the 117th Congress

Chair: Gary Peters (MI) Ranking Member: Rob Portman (OH)

• Peters was elected to the U.S. House in 2008 and the • Portman was elected to the U.S. House in a special U.S. Senate in 2014 election in 1993 and to the U.S. Senate in 2010 • Before his election to Congress, Peters served in the U.S. • He sees lower taxes, less regulation and free trade as Navy Reserve, spent 22 years as an investment advisor pragmatic ways to raise living standards for all and worked briefly in academia Americans—he is a self-described deficit hawk • As ranking member on the Homeland Security and • In 2005 under President George W. Bush, Portman Governmental Affairs Committee, Peters led efforts to became U.S. trade representative and later served as the address staffing shortages at ports of entry across the director of the Office of Management and Budget country • His committee assignments include the Finance, Foreign • He pushed the federal government to address water Relations, and Homeland Security and Governmental contamination in the country by harmful PFAS chemicals Affairs panels, as well as the Joint Economic Committee

Chair: Brian Schatz (HI) Ranking Member: Lisa Murkowski (AK)

• Schatz was appointed to the U.S. Senate in 2012 • Murkowski was first appointed to the U.S. Senate in • He has championed Native Hawaiian issues during 2002 and won reelection in 2004 his tenure and is a proponent for Native Hawaiian • She has worked on issues such as oil and gas self-governance pipelines, efforts to expedite new project permitting • Schatz has been outspoken about the and environmental reviews, and the expansion of disproportionate impact of climate change on drilling on federal lands/waters American Indian and Native Hawaiian communities • He also sits on the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee and the Appropriations Committee © 2021 Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP bhfs.com | 14 Intelligence

Chair: Mark Warner (VA) Ranking Member: Marco Rubio (FL)

• Warner was elected to the U.S Senate in 2008 • Rubio was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010 • He has advocated for stronger gun laws, including • He has deepened his interest in foreign policy under the Trump a ban on military-style assault weapons and administration, opposing moves to reopen relations between expanded background checks, and worked on a the U.S. and Cuba bipartisan basis to reduce federal budget deficits • He has used his chairmanship of the Small Business and • Warner is a founder and co-chair of the Senate Entrepreneurship Committee to hold hearings on international Cybersecurity Caucus, focusing on the cyber aid and cybercrime threats posed to the U.S. by foreign actors • Rubio contributed to a comprehensive immigration reform bill • He has supported the ACA, voted in favor of a that, among other things, would have protected illegal bipartisan immigration overhaul, backs abortion immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, though he later rights and favors trade agreements called the measure a mistake while campaigning for president

Chair: Dick Durbin (IL) Ranking Member: Chuck Grassley (IA)

• Durbin was elected to the U.S. House in 1982, • Grassley was elected to the U.S. House in 1974 before being where he served until his election to the U.S. elected to the U.S. Senate in 1980 Senate in 1996 • Grassley is the second most senior senator • He is a liberal Democrat with a reputation for • His priorities include lowering prescription drug prices, reducing working across the aisle taxes, expanding market access for farmers and manufacturers • He has been involved in major pieces of and confirming conservative Supreme Court justices immigration and criminal justice legislation • Grassley is also interested in anti-trust enforcement, • Durbin has served as Senate Democratic whip, government transparency and immigration policy the second-highest position in party leadership, • During his time as Judiciary chair, Grassley presided over the for over 15 years, and will remain in that investigations into President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James position as Judiciary chair Comey and Russian interference in the 2016 election • He is set to play a key role in helping Biden • He also refused to hold confirmation hearings for Merrick shepherd nominees for judicial and law Garland, Barack Obama’s nominee to succeed Supreme Court enforcement roles through Senate confirmation Justice Antonin Scalia

Chair: Amy Klobuchar (MN) Ranking Member: Ted Cruz (TX)

• Klobuchar was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006 • Cruz was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2012 • As ranking member, Klobuchar worked on policies • He is a staunch conservative and has drawn criticism related to sexual harassment and other discrimination for his reluctance to compromise complaints on Capitol Hill • Cruz supports reduced government spending, lower • Klobuchar has also led bipartisan efforts to reconstitute taxes, a repeal of the Affordable Care Act and less a quorum in the Federal Election Commission and regulation overall authorize funds for states to prevent foreign meddling in • He is a proponent of school choice and strict U.S. elections immigration laws. He opposes access to abortion and • She supports stronger consumer data protections restrictions on gun ownership allowing Americans to buy prescriptions from approved • Cruz does not believe climate change is related to Canadian pharmacies human activity

Chair: Ben Cardin (MD) Ranking Member: Rand Paul (KY)

• Cardin was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006 • Paul was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010 • He introduced legislation to increase access to Small • Paul is a libertarian who favors deregulation and Business Administration lending programs, invest in lowering taxes, previously embracing a flat tax underserved small businesses and improve the way • He has introduced legislation to ease constraints on the small business size standards are calculated hemp industry • Cardin was briefly interim chair of the Senate Foreign • Paul has also supported increasing credit union Relations Committee and has long been active in member business-lending caps for well-capitalized foreign policy. He opposed attempts to cut State credit unions to help small businesses access capital Department funding and the Iran nuclear agreement • The health of the Chesapeake Bay is his top priority

Chair: Jon Tester (MT) Ranking Member: Jerry Moran (KS)

• Tester was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006 • Moran was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010 • As ranking member of the Committee on Veterans’ • He chaired the committee in 2020 and has long been Affairs, Tester supported efforts to improve access to an advocate for improving rural veterans’ access to health care, benefits, jobs, education, transportation health care and housing for veterans • Moran has also been active on many issues that • In 2019, Tester worked across the aisle on legislation to impact rural America broadly, including the 2018 farm ensure that veterans who were exposed to Agent bill, food aid for low-income families, trade restrictions Orange receive access to care and benefits and transportation projects in small cities • He’s broken with the Democratic caucus on some • He is co-chair of the Senate Aerospace Caucus and environmental, immigration and gun-related measures participated in investigations into federal oversight of Boeing’s 737 Max