GOP House appropriators trying to sort out their subcommittee lineup after the ascension of Tom Cole of Oklahoma to the full committee chairmanship found themselves stymied Thursday by a familiar stumbling block: Homeland Security spending.
Other pieces have fallen into place more easily — Steve Womack of Arkansas claimed the Transportation-HUD Appropriations Subcommittee gavel left open by Cole’s promotion, which in turn opened up the Financial Services subcommittee chairmanship for David Joyce of Ohio.
California’s David Valadao took the Legislative Branch gavel, as first-time cardinals usually do.
