ranking member

Cultural  

1. A legislator on a committee who belongs to the majority party and, by virtue of seniority, ranks first after the committee chairman. The most senior member representing the minority party is the ranking minority member of the committee.

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Example Sentences

He later became Long Beach’s first Latino and first openly gay mayor before arriving in Washington — where he is now one of the youngest to ever serve as the ranking member of the main investigative panel in the House.

From Los Angeles Times

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., the Ranking Member on the Senate Finance Committee, issued a report on Wednesday that alleges the financial giant may have underreported more than $1 billion in “suspicious transactions to the federal government” for nearly two decades.

From Salon

Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., the committee’s ranking member, accused the White House of “hiding…the nature of the relationship between Epstein and the President.”

From Salon

Any disclosures by the company would likely be voluntary since a subpoenas of records would need to come through the chairman of the committee—which is controlled by Republicans—and the ranking member or through a majority vote of the committee.

From The Wall Street Journal

Ms. Shaheen, a Democrat, is a U.S. senator from New Hampshire and ranking member of the Foreign Relations Committee.

From The Wall Street Journal