Senate Republicans complete committee assignments

Senate Republicans on Thursday announced their final committee assignments, which are still subject to the approval of the full Senate. 

The Senate Appropriations Committee added six freshmen to the panel — Mark Kirk (Ill.), Dan Coats (Ind.), Roy Blunt (Mo.), Jerry Moran (Kan.), John Hoeven (N.D.) and Ron Johnson (Wis.) — charged with looking at the federal budget's issues. 

There were four freshmen added to Senate Banking — Pat Toomey (Pa.), Kirk and Moran. Johnson and Rob Portman (Ohio) had previously been assigned seats on the Senate Budget panel. 

Coats, Toomey and Mike Lee (Utah) are joining the Joint Economic Committee. 

Four Republican freshmen were added to the Small Business panel: Marco Rubio (Fla.), Rand Paul (Ky.), Kelly Ayotte (N.H.) and Moran. 

Following is a list of the full GOP membership on those and other committees:

• Senate Appropriations — Thad Cochran (Miss.), Mitch McConnell (Ky.), Richard Shelby (Ala.), Kay Bailey Hutchison (Texas), Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Kirk, Coats, Roy Blunt (Mo.), Moran, Hoeven, Johnson.

• Senate Finance — Chuck Grassley (Iowa), Orrin Hatch (Utah), Olympia Snowe (Maine), Jon Kyl (Ariz.), Mike Crapo (Idaho), Pat Roberts (Kan.), John Ensign (Nev.), Mike Enzi (Wyo.), John Cornyn (Texas), Tom Coburn (Okla.), John Thune (S.D.).

• Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs — Shelby, Crapo, Bob Corker (Tenn.), Jim DeMint (S.C.), David Vitter (La.), Mike Johanns (Neb.), Toomey, Kirk, Moran, Roger Wicker (Miss.).

• Senate Budget — Grassley, Enzi, Jeff Sessions (Ala.), Crapo, Ensign, Cornyn, Graham, Thune, Portman, Toomey, Johnson.

• Joint Economic Committee — DeMint, Coats, Lee, Toomey.

• Small Business — Snowe, Vitter, Jim Risch, (Idaho), Rubio, Paul, Ayotte, Enzi, Scott Brown (Mass.), Moran.