Doug Jones Appointed To Senate Committees

WASHINGTON, DC - Alabama senator Doug Jones has been appointed to four different Senate Committees this week. An announcement was made Tuesday that Jones has been appointed to the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; the United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP); the United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs; and, the United States Senate Special Committee on Aging.

"It is a tremendous honor to be given the opportunity to serve on these four important Senate committees," said Jones. "These assignments provide me with an avenue to begin working for the people of Alabama on issues such as creating long-term funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program and ensuring our nation’s safety from those who would do us harm. I am also looking forward to working with my colleagues in the Senate to protect programs that our seniors and middle-class Americans depend on."

Jones is the first Democrat to be elected to the Senate from Alabama since 1992, and the first to serve in the Senate since Howell Heflin left the Senate in 1997.

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