Dr. Alan Bates - Oregon Senate Majority Whip

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Committee Assignments

2007 Interim

• Senate Environment and Natural Resources, Chair
• Senate Commerce and Labor Subcommittee on Health Care Reform
• Emergency Board
• Emergency Board Subcommittee on Human Services

2008 Special Session

• Senate Environment and Natural Resources
• Joint Ways and Means Committee*
• Senate Commerce and Labor Subcommittee on Health Care Reform

2007 Regular Session

• Senate Special Committee on Health Care Reform, Chair
• Senate Committee on Environment and Natural Resources
• The Committee on Ways and Means
• The Ways and Means Subcommittee on Human Services
• The Ways and Means Subcommittee on General Government

It is the Legislature's constitutional requirement to adopt a balanced budget and the recommendations of the Ways and Means committee assist the Legislature in doing so. The structure of this process of fund appropriation is unique to Oregon and a few other states and it is an especially effective way to resolve budgetary differences.