Irony Alert–Senate Dems to decide Specters seniority by SECRET BALLOT

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) predicted Friday that a deal can be worked out to prevent Sen. Arlen Specter from bumping a Senate Democrat from the chairmanship of a powerful committee or subcommittee next year according to The Hill.

Specter, the Pennsylvania lawmaker who abandoned the Republican Party this week to become a Democrat, has set his sights on chairing the Appropriations Committee someday. He could also take over the Judiciary Committee if current chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) takes the Appropriations gavel.

Specter says that Reid has promised to let him keep the seniority he accrued as a Republican since first winning election to the Senate in 1980. This would make Specter senior to all but a few Democrats when the Senate is scheduled to next organize committee assignments. (Panel positions for the 112th Congress will be decided after the 2010 election.)

But several senior Democrats have pushed back strongly against Reid’s deal with Specter, which was negotiated in secret.

Under pressure, Reid now says it will be up to the Democratic caucus to determine whether to recognize Specter’s 28 1/2 years of seniority.


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May 2, 2009 · Filed Under congress

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