Incoming Speaker Thom Tillis has announced draft committee assignments for Republicans. The Speaker will soon consult with the Minority Leader to choose Democrat member assignments. Here are the following likely committee assignments for the majority party:
Appropriations Subcommittee co-chairs: Responsible for writing (and cutting) the budgets for their specific agencies.
- Health and Human Services: Nelson Dollar and Justin Burr
- Education: Bryan Holloway, Mark Hilton, and Hugh Blackwell
- General Government: George Cleveland
- Justice and Public Safety: David Guice and Shirley Randleman
- Natural and Economic Resources: Carolyn Justice and Roger West
- Transportation: Ric Killian and Philip Frye
Other (non-budget) committee chairmanships:
- Environment: Pat McElraft, Ruth Samuelson, and Roger West
- Health and Human Services: Bill Current and Mark Hollo
- Transportation: Frank Iler and Grey Mills
To see the full list of assignments, click here.
Regarding the Brook Poll relating to socialism, the instruction given was: “One proposal for expanding Medicaid in North Carolina would likely add five hundred thousand new individuals to the program and would cost state taxpayers more than $340 million per year.”
What is clear missing, yet of paramount importance, is information regarding of the ~500,000 new individuals added to the program, how many are currently uninsured. One may only make a well reasoned response knowing this information,