Event class: committee, house, chairman, member, senate, elected, served, appointed, became, chair

Events with high posterior probability

Rollie Heath	For the 2009 session of the Colorado General Assembly, Heath was named to seats on the Senate Business, Labor, and Technology Committee, the Senate Education Committee, and the Senate Finance Committee.
Kevin Grantham	In 2013, Grantham was appointed to serve on the Senate Finance Committee, as well as the Legislative Council.
Chris Hagenow	Following the 2012 election, Chris was elected by his colleagues to serve as the House Majority Whip for the 85th General Assembly.
Lena Taylor	When Democrats were elected to the majority in the Wisconsin State Senate in November 2006, Taylor was chosen to Chair the Committee on Judiciary and Corrections, on which she had served for the preceding two years.
Idris Abubakar	After taking his seat in the Senate in June 1999, he was appointed to committees on Rules & Procedures, Solid Minerals, Banking & Currency, Water Resources, Privatization and Local & Foreign Debts (chairman).
Lovemore Moyo	In the March 2005 parliamentary election, he was re-elected to represent the same constituency and continued to serve on the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Education, Sport and Culture and on Public Accounts.
Dick Ackerman	On May 10, 2004, Ackerman was unanimously elected to serve as Senate Minority Leader.
Peter Milliken	On October 12, 2009, he became the longest serving Speaker of the House of Commons in Canadian history.
John Chichester	In 1995 Andrews was defeated for reelection, and under a powersharing agreement in a body split 20 -- 20, Chichester became co-chair of the Senate Finance Committee.
Chuck Schumer	In November 2010, he was also chosen to hold the additional role of chairman of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee starting at the opening of the 112th Congress.
Jim Morris (Louisiana politician)	In June 2012, House Speaker Chuck Kleckley removed Morris from the vice-chairmanship of the House Natural Resources and Environment Committee after Morris criticized Governor Jindal's budget proposals, including his education bills.
Jack Whitver	In 2013 Jack was named Ranking Member of the Appropriations Committee as well as serving on the Economic Growth, Ethics, Human Resource, Judiciary and State Government committees.
Dianne Primavera	For the 2009 legislative session, Primavera was named to seats on the House Health and Human Services Committee and the House Transportation and Energy Committee, and was tapped to chair the Legislative Audit Committee.
Cherylin Peniston	For the 2009 legislative session, Peniston was named to chair the House Local Government Committee and to a seat on the House Education Committee.
Roland Burris	In 1985, Burris was selected for the position of Vice-Chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
Mark Hoban	In parliament he served as a member of the science and technology select committee for two years from 2001.
Raymond Meier	In 1997, Meier served as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans and Military Affairs.
Jim Keffer	As of 2013, he was the chairman of the House Committee on Energy Resources and a member of the Natural Resources and Redistricting committees.
Brand Whitlock	In 1894, he was Chair of the Democratic Finance Committee and in charge of arrangements for the state convention.
Saxby Chambliss	Vice Chairman Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Senate Armed Services Committee Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Senate Committee on Rules and Administration Senate Special Committee on Aging Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe According to the Congressional Research Service, Sen. Chambliss is the only senator since 1947 to have chaired a full standing Senate Committee (Agriculture) after serving in the Senate for just two years.
Lee Bright	As of 2012, Bright serves on the South Carolina Senate's Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee, Judiciary Committee and Labor Committee.
Duncan Hunter	Hunter became ranking member of the committee when Democrats took control of the House in 2007.
Sandra Osborne	In January 2011 the Speaker of the House of Commons appointed her to his Panel of Chairs.
Grace Folashade Bent	After election in 2007 Grace Folashade Bent became chair of the Senate Committee on Environment.
Chuck Riley (Oregon politician)	During the 2008 special session he also served on the Consumer Protection and the Workforce and Economic Development committees.
Dorothy Liggett Pelanda	She was seated on July 28, 2011, and is serving on the committees of Economic and Small Business Development ; Health and Aging and its Subcommittee on Retirement and Pensions ; Local Government ; Rules and Reference ; and Agriculture and Natural Resources.
Sal Pace	For the 2009 legislative session, Pace served on the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee, the House Appropriations Committee, and the House Judiciary Committee.
John Kefalas	In the 2008 session of the Colorado General Assembly, Kefalas sat on the House Finance Committee and the House Health and Human Services Committee.
Roger Rawson	After the Republicans won control of the House in 1978, Rawson served as the minority leader.
Francis Y.S. Garlawolu	In 1997, he was elected as Senior Senator of Bong County and chaired the Senate Standing Committee on Judiciary & Human Rights.
Mark D. Schwartz	He served as Counsel to the Chair of the Credentials Committee of the Democratic National Committee during the 1988 Democratic Presidential Convention.
Samuel Decius Hubbard	In 1876, serving as chairman of his county board of supervisors, Hubbard was elected once again to the Assembly in 1876 as a Liberal Republican, with 1,254 votes to 1,104 for Republican incumbent Nathaniel Farnsworth ; he was assigned to the committee on federal relations.
Nuzhat Katzav	She sat on the Finance Committee and the Economic Affairs Committee until losing her seat in the 1977 elections.
Bud Shuster	Shuster resigned from Congress on February 3, 2001, claiming health problems but also due to a Republican policy of term limitations on House Committee chairs, meaning that he could no longer chair the Transportation and Infrastructure committee.
Grace Tully	In 1955 she joined the staff of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee, working with Lyndon B. Johnson, the Senate Majority Leader at the time.
John Jay Lee	He was elected to the Nevada Senate in 2004, where he served as a member of the Legislative Operations and Elections, and the Energy, Infrastructure, and Transportation committees.
Joseph Bruno	On June 24, 2008, Bruno stepped down as'' temporary president of the senate'' and as Senate Majority Leader.
Angie Paccione	During both her terms in the legislature, Paccione sat on the Joint Committee on Computer Management -- chairing the committee in 2006 -- the House Committee on Business Affairs and Labor, and the House Committee on Education ; she served as Vice-Chair of the Education Committee during her second term and chaired the subcommittee on Higher Education.
D.J. Bettencourt	Bettencourt won the House majority leader's post on December 1, 2010, in voting by the Republican House caucus.
David L. Ganz	Ganz has testified before the House Financial Services Committee, Senate Banking Committee, Senate Finance Committee, and various subcommittees of the House Banking committee on more than a dozen occasions since 1974, and has an active legal practice.
Florence Shapiro	Shapiro previously served as Senate State Affairs Committee chair and since 2003 has chaired the Senate Education Committee.
Marko Liias	In January 2011, Liias was reappointed as Vice Chair of the House Transportation Committee, and he was appointed to the Education Committee and the Technology, Energy and Communications Committee.
Derek Quigley	In the 1996 election, the first conducted under MMP, Quigley was returned to Parliament as an ACT list MP and chaired the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Select Committee during the next three years.
John C. Bell, Jr.	He was finance chairman for Arthur H. James in the 1938 gubernatorial election, and later served as vice-chairman of the Republican State Finance Committee.
Armond Budish	On January 3, 2011 Budish was sworn in as minority leader, and pledged cooperation with Republicans.
Alan Frumin	In 1995, when the Republican party regained control of the Senate, Dove was reinstated as Parliamentarian, and Frumin was returned to his previous position as top assistant.
Ted Stevens	In 1994, after the Republicans took control of the Senate, Stevens was appointed Chairman of the Senate Rules Committee.
Devin Nunes	In 2003, Nunes became a founding member of the Congressional Hispanic Conference, a caucus of Republican Members of Congress of Hispanic and Portuguese descent.
Nigel Evans	He has been a member of the Culture Media and Sport Select Committee since the 2005 general election.
David Skaggs	While in the House, he served initially on the Science, Space & Technology Committee and the Public Works & Transportation Committee, before winning a seat on the Appropriations Committee in 1991.
Gwen Moore	In January 2011, she was elected Democratic co-chair of the Congressional Women's Caucus to become a leader on health insurance reform and the protection of reproductive rights.
David Goodman (politician)	By 2001, Goodman was serving as Chairman of a Finance Subcommittee.
Guy Vander Jagt	Vander Jagt was appointed to the Ways and Means Committee in 1974 where he served on the Trade and Select Revenue Measures Subcommittees.
Yuli Tamir	She was elected to the Knesset in the following 2003 election, and served on the finance, constitutional, law and order, public input, and culture and sport committees.
Steven Bradford	Among these were bills focused on public safety, solar energy, and criminal justice reform : Steven Bradford was elected in a 2009 special election, following the resignation of Curren Price, who had recently won election to the California State Senate.
J. Proctor Knott	In 1875, he returned to the House and served as chair of the judiciary committee.
Jerry Sonnenberg	In the 2008 session of the Colorado General Assembly, Sonnenberg sits on the House Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources Committee and the House Transportation and Energy Committee.
Claire Trevena	Beginning in 2008, Trevena sat on the Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts, during the 4th and 5th Parliamentary sessions.
Dan Lungren	To serve on this new role, he left his spot with the Budget Committee and became Chairman of the House Administration Committee when Republicans took control of the House in January 2011.
Bob Packwood	He was most noted for his role in the 1986 `` unlikely triumph of tax reform'' while he was chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee.
Jim Jeffords	He then handed his chairmanship of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, which he had held since 1997, to Ted Kennedy (D-MA) and was given the chairmanship of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, which would have been occupied by ranking minority member Harry Reid.
Greg Laughlin	In 1995, the Republican Party, which had gained a majority in the House for the first time in four decades, offered Laughlin a seat on the Ways and Means committee if he joined the GOP.
Dirk Niebel	Since 1998, he has been the speaker of the parliamentary group on Labor Policy.
Tom Pauken	During Pauken's tenure as chairman, the Republican Party gained majority status in Texas, and he was re-elected chairman in 1996.
S?ndor Font	He was elected in 1998 and became a member of the Agricultural, Budget, and Finance committees.
David Myers (politician)	Myers first served as the vice chair of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee before serving as chair of the committee in 2011.
William J. Frank	Since being elected to the House of Delegates, he has been the Deputy Minority Whip (2003) and the Assistant Minority Whip (2003 -- 05).
Helen Jones	She also served on the Standing Orders Committee (1999 -) and the Unopposed Bills (Panel) (1999 -).
Kumar P. Barve	He took office in January, 1991, and was appointed to the House Economic Matters Committee, which considers legislation related to business and labor policy and regulation.
Sid Morrison	After his election to the 97th United States Congress in 1980, Morrison became a member of the House Energy and Agriculture Committees and was also a junior member of the National Security Council early in his career.
Wataru Kubo	Until 1993 he served as chairman and a member of different committees at the house, including the budget and finance committee in the upper house.
Preston E. Peden	He served as staff member of the Public Lands Committee of the United States House of Representatives in May 1949.
Eileen S. Naughton	Beginning in January 1993, Naughton served on the Judiciary committee with a four-year tenure on that committee.
Craig Thomson (politician)	Until August 2011, Thomson was the Chair of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics as well as a member of the Privileges Committee and the Petitions Committee.
Veselin Bliznakov	Until 2005, he was chair of the Energy Parliamentary Committee, member of the Foreign Policy, Defence and Security Parliamentary Committee, and member of the joint parliamentary committee Bulgaria-EU.
Barbara Comstock	After being reelected in 2013, she was named the Chairwoman of the House Science And Technology Committee.
Andy Kerr (American politician)	During the 2010 session, Representative Kerr served on the Business Affairs and Labor Committee.
John Boehner	After the Republicans lost control of the House in the 2006 elections, the House Republican Conference chose Boehner as Minority Leader.
Pete Sessions	In 2012, he was named chairman of the House Rules Committee for the 113th Congress by Speaker of the House John Boehner.
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (born 1953)	When newly elected he became a member of the Environment Select Committee, where he worked until 1995.
Arch Bevis	Following the 2007 federal election, Bevis was elected Chairperson of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, and Chairperson of the Joint Defence Sub-Committee.
John Glenn	Once Republicans regained control of the Senate, Glenn also served as the ranking minority member on a special Senate investigative committee chaired by Tennessee senator Fred Dalton Thompson that looked into illegal foreign donations by China to U. S. political campaigns for the 1996 election.
Elizabeth Baldwin Letchworth	She served in this position until June 2001 when, as a result of the party switching by Sen. James Jeffords of Vermont, the Senate republicans were then casts into the Minority party.
Abel Maldonado	In December 2006, he was named Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee.
Anne Begg	She is also currently a member of the House of Commons Chairmen's Panel Since July 2010 she has chaired the Work and Pensions Select Committee.
Mitch McConnell	In November 2006, after Republicans lost control of the Senate, they elected McConnell to replace Frist as Minority Leader.
Richard Ottaway	After the 2010 General Election Ottaway was elected the Chairman of the House of Commons Select Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Greg Leding	Since August 2012, Leding has served as a vice chair of the Natural Resources and Infrastructure Committee of the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Robert L. Bobbitt	Bobbitt rose to the chairmanship of the House Judiciary Committee before being elected Speaker in 1927.
Hugh Farley	In 1979, Senator Farley was chosen as the first Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Aging.
Maurine Karagianis	In April 2011, Maurine was appointed Official Opposition Caucus Whip and presently continues to serve in this position.
Dale Bumpers	Bumpers served as ranking minority member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources from 1997 until his retirement.
Paul Farrelly	In the House of Commons Farrelly has served on several select committee s including the Science and Technology Committee, he has been a member of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee since the 2005 General Election.
Stephen Mayne	In October 2012 he was elected to Melbourne City Council where he currently serves as chair of the Finance and Governance Committee and deputy chair of the Planning committee.
Uta Zapf	Since 1998, Uta Zapf has been chairperson of the subcommittee for'' Disarmament, Arms Control, and Nonproliferation'' of the Foreign Affairs Committee and also acting person for the faction working group on'' Foreign Policy.''
Neil Gerrard	He served on several select committee s and was a member of the administration committee since the 2005 general election.
John Thune	After briefly serving as Republican Conference Vice-Chairman, Thune became chairman of the Republican Policy Committee in June 2009, which is the fourth-ranking position in the Senate.
William P. Hobby, Jr.	Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes appointed him chair of the Senate Interim Committee on Welfare Reform in 1969.
Andy Kerr (American politician)	For the 2009 session, Kerr served on the Appropriations Committee and the Finance Committee.
David Dreier	Walnut, California Following the indictment of Tom DeLay on September 28, 2005, Dreier was widely expected to temporarily assume the position of House Majority Leader.