House Judiciary Chair

**PhillyAR** · January 20th, 2011, 01:36 PM

Why is a democrat (John Conyers) the House Judiciary Committee Chair ? I thought that one advantage Republicans got in taking control of the House was that we got control of the Chairmanships of all the committees as well.

Correct me if I am wrong, but does not the Committee Chairman decide what and when the committees vote on ? Therefore in order to keep anti gun bills from ever even getting voted on, should we focus our attention on calling and writing Rep. Conyers ?

**Yellowfin** · January 20th, 2011, 01:46 PM

We've had a very bad problem in the last 30 years of Republicans playing nicey-nicey with the bad guys including Rinos instead of kicking them to the curb.

**PhillyAR** · January 21st, 2011, 01:46 AM

So the Republicans VOTED him chairman ?

**FNG19** · January 21st, 2011, 02:01 AM

Originally Posted by PhillyAR

Why is a democrat (John Conyers) the House Judiciary Committee Chair ?

According to the House Judiciary Committee website, Lamar Smith is the chairman. John Conyers is the Ranking Member, which means he's the senior-most member of the committee from the minority party.

**PhillyAR** · January 21st, 2011, 05:26 PM

Originally Posted by FNG19

According to the House Judiciary Committee website, Lamar Smith is the chairman. John Conyers is the Ranking Member, which means he's the senior-most member of the committee from the minority party.

Thanks. The website I was looking at must not have updated their info.