WASHINGTON - The House GOP Steering Committee voted Tuesday to back Rep. Mike Rogers of Alabama to replace Rep. Mac Thornberry of Texas as the top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee in the next Congress. The panel recommended Rogers, the Homeland Security Committee’s ranking member, over House Strategic Forces Subcommittee ranking member Mike Turner of Ohio. The full GOP conference is expected later this week to ratify the committee’s recommended slate of committee chairmen. Rogers, 62, comes from a deep red district, which hosts Anniston Army Depot and part of Fort Benning. He was an architect in what eventually became the Space Force with Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., when they led the Strategic Forces Subcommittee together. (Source: Defense News 12/01/20)
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