United States Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel

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The Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel is one of seven subcommittees within the Senate Armed Services Committee.

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Jurisdiction

The Personnel Subcommittee has jurisdiction over all matters relating to active and reserve military personnel, including pay rates, military health care and education benefits, Morale, Welfare and Recreation services, and military justice. The subcommittee also oversees issues related to prisoners of war and military personnel who are missing in action. [1]

Members, 118th Congress

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Historical subcommittee rosters

117th Congress

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116th Congress

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115th Congress

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114th Congress

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See also

Notes

  1. "United States Senate Committee on Armed Services - Subcommittee on Personnel". United States Senate Committee on Armed Services - Subcommittee on Personnel. Retrieved 14 November 2016.
  2. Angus King is an independent, but caucuses with the Democrats.


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