House Leadership Names Chairs for Trade-Related Committees

House Republican leadership chose Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.) to continue to chair the House Ways and Means Committee in the next Congress. "We will keep pursuing new opportunities in the global marketplace while enforcing our rights and holding our trading partners accountable," Camp said in a press release (here).

The House leadership also chose Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) as the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, replacing Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) in the 113th Congress. McCaul is now chairman of the Homeland Security Oversight Subcommittee. McCaul's press release is (here). Rep. Ed Royce (R-Calif.) will be chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, replacing Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.). Royce's press release is (here).