
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, November 13, 1994                   TAG: 9411140106
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: D3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: RICHMOND                                 LENGTH: Short

WARNER CLAIMS CHAIRMANSHIP

Sen. John Warner, R-Va., says he expects to be the chairman of the Senate Rules and Administration Committee when Congress opens next year with a Republican majority.

Warner wrote Thursday to Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole of Kansas to document his seniority and to say he wanted the job. Dole is expected to become Senate majority leader in the next Congress, the first in more than 40 years with a GOP majority. Warner is planning to take the top Republican job on the Rules Committee because he is required to leave the Intelligence Committee. The intelligence panel has special rules limiting duration of membership.

The Rules Committee oversees administration of the Senate, approves budgets for committees, looks into any unresolved Senate races and has jurisdiction over federal election issues.

Senate Republicans are expected to formally make committee assignments and select committee heads early next year after the 104th Congress begins.

Warner is second in seniority on the Senate Armed Services Committee to 92-year-old Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., who will become chairman of that panel.

Because of his seniority, Warner also plans to head two subcommittees: environment and public works, and part of the Armed Services Committee dealing with NATO defenses, parts of the Marine Corps, the Navy, and Army and several other areas.

by CNB