House Committee Chairs Won't Be All-Boys Club

Candice Miller of Michigan gets picked
By John Johnson,  Newser Staff
Posted Nov 30, 2012 3:50 PM CST
House Committee Chairs Won't Be All-Boys Club
Rep. Candice Miller, R-Mich., in a 2011 file photo.   (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

John Boehner took some heat earlier this week when his newly announced lineup of House committee chairs was made up entirely of men. But he still had two spots left, and the speaker used one of them today to select Rep. Candice Miller of Michigan to run the House Administration panel, reports the Hill. Miller had been in the running for the coveted Homeland Security chairmanship, but she lost out to Rep. Mike McCaul. Despite today's pick, the chairs of all the major House panels will be white men, notes Politico. (More women in politics stories.)

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