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Chairman
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CHAIRMAN. The presiding officer of a committee; as, chairman of the committee of ways and means. The person selected to preside over a popular meeting, is also called a chairman or moderator.



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Rather than awarding Padilla one of those plum assignments, Perata granted two slots to Republicans and gave multiple chairmanships to four veteran Democrats.
As for the former chairman, Gilman lost out in the shuffle for committee chairmanships and now is the ranking Republican, after the chairmen, on the International Relations and Government Reform committees.
One more oddity in relation to the Senate elections: Noting that the Senate hasn't had a 50-50 split in more than 80 years, some observers question whether either party can lay exclusive claim to committee chairmanships as they've evolved over the years.
 
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