House Republican Policy Committee
James Lankford currently chairs the Policy Committee. He replaced Tom Price in 2013, who had succeeded Thaddeus McCotter in early 2011. McCotter had proposed eliminating the committee in 2010. McCotter was preceded by Adam Putnam, who chaired the committee from February 2006 through the end of the 109th Congress.
In the Republican House leadership hierarchy, the chair of the House Republican Policy Committee ranks fifth, below the Speaker of the House, Majority Leader, Majority Whip, and the Republican Conference Chairman.
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