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ranking member
A legislator on a committee who belongs to the majority party and, by virtue of seniority, ranks first after the committee chairman. The most senior member representing the minority party is the ranking minority member of the committee.
Example Sentences
It’s hard to imagine she didn’t recognize Padilla, who served on her confirmation committee and is the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship and Border Safety.
“CBO already confirmed that House Republicans are planning to strip health care from 16 million people — just to help pay for tax breaks for billionaires,” House Budget Committee Ranking Member Brendan Boyle, D-Pa, shared in a statement.
Rep. Jaime Raskin, D-Md., the ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee, is calling on the president to release the names of attendees at the May 22 gala, which was billed as “the most exclusive invitation in the world.”
“Nowhere is Trump’s blatant disregard and disrespect for the rule of law more apparent than in the way he has exploited the office of the presidency to promote shady, fraudulent crypto ventures that hold no real value, and serve no true purpose other than to pad his pockets,” Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif,, the ranking member on the House Financial Services Committee, said in a statement last week.
Democrats lost a vote in the narrowly divided House after a 74-year-old member died of the cancer he had already been diagnosed with when the party named him ranking member of the Oversight Committee in January.
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