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HOUSE COMMITTEE

House Committee on Armed Services

Republican control · 30R·27D

Chair: Mike Rogers (R)

Ranking Member: Adam Smith (D)

57 members in the 119th Congress

About

The United States House Committee on Armed Services, commonly known as the House Armed Services Committee or HASC, is a standing committee of the United States House of Representatives. It is responsible for funding and oversight of the Department of Defense (DoD) and the United States Armed Forces, as well as substantial portions of the Department of Energy. Its regular legislative product is the National Defense Authorization Act, which has been passed by Congress and signed into law each year since 1962.

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In the 119th Congress

Armed Services among House and joint committees, ringed below; the rest are faded.

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Member roster · dimension 1

This committee’s 57 members on the same left–right axis. Committee membership isn’t tracked historically — only the 119th Congress — so there’s no trajectory view here the way there is for an individual member.

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Subcommittees

7 subcommittees of the Armed Services committee. Each row’s tick is the full committee’s own blended position — subcommittee rosters are usually too small for a separate mean to mean much, so there isn’t one here; the dots are the subcommittee’s chair and ranking member.

Legislation in this committee

599 bills and joint resolutions referred this Congress. Loading their steps…