Dodd won’t seek HELP committee chairmanship
Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, D-Conn., will stay as chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee to lead the effort for financial regulatory reform, declining to seek the chairmanship of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and succeed Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, who died Aug. 25, according to a statement by Mr. Dodd this afternoon.
Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, D-Conn., will stay as chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee to lead the effort for financial regulatory reform, declining to seek the chairmanship of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and succeed Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, who died Aug. 25, according to a statement by Mr. Dodd this afternoon.
Mr. Dodd will remain the senior Democrat on the HELP committee, the statement said.
Sens. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, and Barbara A. Mikulski, D-Md., now are viewed as the leading candidates to succeed Mr. Kennedy and the next senior members on the HELP committee.
Mr. Harkin is chairman of the Senate Agriculture Nutrition and Forestry Committee, which he would have to give up to lead the HELP committee.
Ms. Mikulski is a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
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