House Republicans shouldn’t rush to pick a new Appropriations Committee leader until they have a fuller discussion about changing the process to avoid massive packages like the long-delayed $1.2 trillion measure enacted before the Easter recess, Rep. Robert B. Aderholt, R-Ala., said Wednesday.
Aderholt, who is considering running against Oklahoma Rep. Tom Cole for the job, in a Wednesday letter to fellow GOP lawmakers called for party leaders to delay a scheduled April 9 Steering Committee meeting to select the new chairman.
Currently the Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee chairman, Aderholt is the full committee’s most senior Republican after Rep. Kay Granger of Texas, who is stepping down into a “chairwoman emeritus” role, and Rep. Harold Rogers of Kentucky, the panel’s former top Republican who already served a full six-year term.
