Boozman, Cotton Get Senate Committee Assignments

With a solid majority in the U.S. Senate, Arkansas’ two senators have received their committee assignments.

U.S. Sen.-elect Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas, has been named to the Armed Services Committee; Select Committee on Aging; Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee; Select Committee on Intelligence; and Joint Economic Committee.

Cotton, who defeated incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor, is an Iraqi and Afghanistan veteran. He will take office in January in the 114th Congress.

Senior U.S. Senator John Boozman, R-Arkansas, will serve on the Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee; Appropriations Committee; Environment and Public Works Committee; Senate Rules and Administration Committee; and Veterans’ Affairs Committee.

Boozman has said he will seek re-election to the Senate in 2016.

In his first TV interview after the Nov. 4 election, Cotton was coy on which committee assignments he preferred. He said in a Talk Business & Politics interview in November that he had an interest in the Armed Services, Intelligence, Foreign Relations, Banking, Energy & Natural Resources, and Judiciary committees, some of which have overlap from his one term of House service.

In January, Republicans will control the U.S. Senate 54-46.