GOP Taps Young to Chair Transportation Panel

	Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska)

With the House Republican leadership sticking to its term-limits plan, the GOP installed Rep. Don Young of Alaska to chair the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to replace former chairman Bud Shuster.

As previously reported, Shuster announced Thursday that he was resigning from Congress.

Young, a former riverboat captain who was first elected to Congress in March 1973, had chaired the Resources Committee and served on the transportation panel.

Congressional Quarterly's "Politics in America 2000" book described Young as a supporter of oil and gas, and mining and timber interests.

Also newly named to committee chairmanships are:

• Armed Services: Bob Stump of Arizona
• Financial Services: Michael Oxley of Ohio
• Budget: Jim Nussle of Iowa;
• Anergy and Commerce: Bill Tauzin of Louisiana
• Education and the Workforce: John Boehner of Ohio
• International Relations: Henry Hyde of Illinois
• Judiciary: James Sennsenbrenner Jr. of Wisconsin
• Resources: James Hansen of Utah
• Science: Sherwood Boehlert of New York
• Veterans Affairs: Christopher Smith of New Jersey
• Ways and Means: Bill Thomas of California