The current list of Republicans on that committee are
Thad Cochran, Ranking Member, Mississippi
Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania
Kit Bond, Missouri
Mitch McConnell, Kentucky
Richard Shelby, Alabama
Judd Gregg, New Hampshire
Robert Bennett, Utah
Kay Bailey Hutchison, Texas
Sam Brownback, Kansas
Lamar Alexander, Tennessee
George Voinovich, Ohio
Susan Collins, Maine
Lisa Murkowski, Alaska
Retirements: Bond, Gregg, Hutchinson, Brownback, Voinovich. Specter could be defeated, and Bennett is being primaried. That is potentially 7 openings on the committee! Republicans are going to have a hey-day come January 2011 to see who gets to be on this committee.
On the Dem side, nobody is going anywhere.
I was unaware that Bennett was being primaried. Who is the Neanderthal?
with Democrats!
By which party has what % of Senate seats? If Dems get well over 60 seat in 2010 there may not be many repubs needed on these committees.