The field of candidates to become the next House Appropriations Committee chair is officially down to just one, as Rep. Robert B. Aderholt will not run against Rep. Tom Cole for the role at Tuesday night’s GOP Steering Committee meeting.
Aderholt, the current Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee chairman, had been pondering a run against Cole but has decided against it, an Aderholt spokesman said in an emailed statement Tuesday.
“The Congressman is not seeking the chairmanship,” Aderholt spokesman Carson Clark said. “He wanted to use the vacancy though as an opportunity to voice his concerns and his ideas of how the process can be reformed. It needs to work better for members and ultimately the taxpayers in our country.”
