Ways and Means shifts subcommittee chiefs

The House Ways and Means Committee will be shifting around its subcommittee chairmanships next year under its incoming chairman, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.).

Only two of the six subcommittees will have the same chairman when Congress comes back in January: the Social Security panel, to be helmed by Rep. Sam Johnson (R-Texas); and the health subcommittee, which will be led by Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas).

Rep. Dave Reichert (R-Wash.) will head the select revenue measures subcommittee, where he’ll help oversee the committee’s work on taxes. Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.) gets the slot at the oversight subcommittee, which has played a big role in the investigation into the IRS’s improper scrutiny of Tea Party groups.

Rep. Pat Tiberi (R-Ohio) will lead the trade subcommittee at a time when congressional Republicans and President Obama have some common ground on trade issues. And Rep. Charles Boustany Jr. (R-La.) will be the new chairman of the human resources subcommittee, which has jurisdiction over some of the anti-poverty measures that Ryan has said are priorities.

Term limits caused the round of musical chairs at the subcommittees, with only Roskam, who lost a battle for House majority whip, becoming a new chairman next year.

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