Weber Tapped for House Communications Vice Chair
House Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., said Thursday she has appointed Rep. Randy Weber (Texas) as Communications Subcommittee vice chair. The post has been vacant since former Vice Chair Buddy Carter (Ga.) relinquished it in January to become…
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Environment Subcommittee chairman (see 2402290054). Weber was among nine Republicans who joined House Commerce last year (see 2301110046). Rodgers also slightly reshuffled House Commerce subcommittees’ GOP rosters. Mariannette Miller Meeks (Iowa) joined House Communications, while Troy Balderson (Ohio) is leaving the subpanel. John James (Mich.) and Jay Obernolte (Calif.) will join the Innovation Subcommittee, while Rick Allen (Ga.) and Greg Pence (Ind.) will leave the subpanel. The reshuffling follows the January departure (see 2401020056) of former House Communications member Bill Johnson, R-Ohio.