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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has selected Senator James Lankford to join the Senate Finance Committee for the 116th Congress. Lankford He will retain his current assignments to the Senate Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and the Committee on Indian Affairs.  

 

Lankford calls the assignment an honor.  He says the Committee is front and center on tax policy, healthcare, and trade, all of which are some of the top priorities for Oklahomans. 

 

Lankford has been a leading voice on a number of issues that fall under the jurisdiction of the Finance Committee, including international trade, for which he secured one of the only Senate amendments on trade policy; healthcare; and solvency of federal support programs like Social Security Disability Insurance. 

 

The Committee on Finance was established as a standing committee of the Senate in 1816 and is one of the oldest and most powerful committees in the Senate.