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The House Committee on House Administration deals with the general administration matters of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Member	Party	State
Bob Brady	D	PA
Zoe Lofgren	D	CA
Michael Capuano	D	MA
Charlie Gonzalez
Susan Davis	D	CA
Artur Davis	R	AZ
Dan Lungren
Kevin McCarthy	R	CA
Gregg Harper	R	MS

Contents 1 Subcommittees 2 Committee activity 2.1 110th Congress 2.1.1 2006 Florida 13th district election: Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.) and Christine Jennings 2.1.2 Chair Millender-McDonald dies; Rep. Brady takes over on interim basis 3 Previous committee membership 3.1 110th Congress (2007-2008) 3.2 109th Congress (2005-2006) 4 Articles and Resources 4.1 References 4.2 Resources 4.2.1 Related Congresspedia/SourceWatch resources 4.3 Articles 5 Contact

Subcommittees

• Subcommittee on Elections
• Subcommittee on Capitol Security

Committee activity

110th Congress

2006 Florida 13th district election: Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.) and Christine Jennings

The 2006 congressional election between Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.) and Christine Jennings was decided by just 370 votes. In 17,000 to 18,000 ballots, voters did not choose either candidate. In election administration terminology, this is known as an "undervote" and may indicate a failure of Sarasota's direct-recording electronic (DRE) voting machines. The Help America Vote Act of 2002 was passed to correct election administration errors.

In May, 2007, the Committee created a special task force to investigate the 18,000 ballot undervote.^[1]

For more information on Florida's 2006 13th district election controversy:

Main article: U.S. congressional actions regarding contested elections

Chair Millender-McDonald dies; Rep. Brady takes over on interim basis

On April 22, Chair Juanita Millender-McDonald (D-Calif.) died of cancer. She was replaced as chair of the committee by Rep. Bob Brady (D-Pa.) on an interim basis.^[2]

On May 24, Brady was named permanent chair of the committee by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).^[3]

Previous committee membership

110th Congress (2007-2008)

Members of the House Committee on House Administration, 110th Congress
Democrats:	Republicans:
Bob Brady (Pa.), Chair Zoe Lofgren (Calif.) Michael Capuano (Mass.) Susan Davis (Calif.) Charlie Gonzalez (Texas) Artur Davis (D-Ala.)	Vernon J. Ehlers (Mich.), Ranking Member Dan Lungren (Calif.) Kevin McCarthy (Calif.)

109th Congress (2005-2006)

Members of the House Committee on House Administration, 109th Congress
Democrats:	Republicans:
Juanita Millender-McDonald (Calif.), Ranking Member Robert Brady (Pa.) Zoe Lofgren (Calif.)	Vernon J. Ehlers (Mich.), Chairman Bob Ney (Ohio) John Mica (Fla.) John Doolittle (Calif.) Tom Reynolds (N.Y.) Candice Miller (Mich.)

Articles and Resources

References

Wikipedia also has an article on House Committee on House Administration. This article may use content from the Wikipedia article under the terms of the GFDL.

1. ↑ Patrick O'Connor, "House to probe Fla. 13 results", Politico, May 2, 2007.
2. ↑ Joe Holley, "Juanita Millender-McDonald, 68, chair of US House committee," Boston Golbe, April 23, 2007.
3. ↑ Kelly McCormack, "Pelosi makes Brady new ‘mayor’ of Capitol Hill," The Hill, May 24, 2007.

Resources

• The dKosopedia page on the House Committee on House Administration.

Related Congresspedia/SourceWatch resources

• Help America Vote Act

Articles

Contact

[URL: http://cha.house.gov/ Committee Web site]

• Majority staff office - (202) 225-8281
• Minority staff office - (202) 225-2061