Lamar Smith has long been known as a friend to his Texas industry of petroleum.

In other committee assignments:

Amid criticism, House GOP names woman committee chair

After taking heat for naming zero women or minorities as committee chairmen in the next Congress, House Republican leadership today appointed Rep. Candice Miller, R-Mich., to serve as chairman of the House Administration Committee.

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Still, the appointment appears to be purely political, since Miller, in her sixth term in office, doesn’t even currently serve on the House Administration Committee. The Administration and Ethics committees are the only congressional committees to which the speaker can simply appoint someone.

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Well yes, all committee chairmanships are “political”, but in this case I think it is striking that the GOP in Congress, when left to their own, appointed all white men to head committees, and it took public outcry to move the John the Orange to execute one of his options in appointing a woman to a committee chair.