Republican Policy Committee Chairman of the United States Senate
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The Senate Republican Policy Committee is the policy research arm of the Republican Conference. Its predecessor, the Senate Republican Steering Committee was formed in March 1944 after Leader
Charles L. McNary Charles Linza McNary (June 12, 1874February 25, 1944) was an American Republican Party (United States), Republican politician from Oregon. He served in the United States Senate, U.S. Senate from 1917 to 1944 and was Party leaders of the United ...
's death. It became formally funded and renamed the Policy Committee in 1947 along with its Democratic counterpart, the
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, after the
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. Its leader Roy Blunt—the Policy Committee chairman—is the fourth-ranking Republican in the Senate, behind the Republican Leader, the
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, and the Republican Conference Chairman. According to ''
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'', "the Policy Committee is in effect a legislative
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. The committee organizes the prominent Tuesday lunches with summaries of major bills, analysis of roll call votes and distribution of issue papers."


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