Majority of Senate Standing Committees Still Aren’t Tweeting

The official launch of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s Twitter account brought the percentage of tweeting Senate standing committees to just less than 50 percent.

Homeland Security Chairman Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) officially unveiled the Twitter account and a new committee Facebook profile, though staffers have been tweeting from the account since early March. Sen Carper inherited the chairmanship early this year after former Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) retired. With the addition of Homeland Security, seven of the Senate’s 16 standing committees now have accounts verified by Twitter. A few committees without official accounts -- including the Banking and Armed Services panels-- have verified accounts managed by their Republican minorities.

Senate standing committees with verified Twitter accounts run by the majority are:

• Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
• Appropriations
• Budget
• Energy and Natural Resources
• Finance
• Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
• Veterans' Affairs

Those that lack them are:

• Armed Services (minority account)
• Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (minority account)
• Commerce, Science, and Transportation
• Environment and Public Works
• Foreign Relations
• Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (minority account)
• Judiciary
• Rules and Administration
• Small Business and Entrepreneurship