New GOP faces on Senate tech committees

Republicans will gain three seats on the Judiciary Committee with Sens David Vitter (R-LA), David Perdue (R-GA), and Thom Tillis (R-NC). The GOP will gain two seats on the Commerce Committee and Sens Tim Scott (R-SC) and Dan Coats (R-IN) are stepping down from it. Sens Jerry Moran (R-KS), Cory Gardner (R-CO), Dan Sullivan (R-AK), and Steve Daines (R-MT) will join the Commerce Committee. The Intelligence Committee is also getting three new GOP faces next year: Sens Roy Blunt (R-MO), James Lankford (R-OK), and Tom Cotton (R-AR) after the retirements of Sens Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) and Tom Coburn (R-OK). At the beginning of 2015, Senate Republicans will have to ratify all of the committee assignments. Republican members on each panel will then select their respective chairman and then those chairmen will have to be approved by the GOP conference.