Langevin appointed to U.S. House budget committee
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Langevin, who also serves on the House Armed Services Committee, has left the House Homeland Security Committee. In a statement, Langevin said he hopes to retain his seat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In the Armed Services Committee, Langevin sits on the Seapower and Expeditionary Forces subcommittee, a "major player in the authorization of the shipbuilding plans that are crucial to such big New England employers as the Groton-based submarine-builder, Electric Boat, and Maine's Bath Iron Works, which builds surface ships," The Providence Journal has reported. Journal archive photo by Connie Grosch. "The 111th Congress and the Obama Administration have inherited an estimated $1.2 trillion deficit as a result of the misguided policies and priorities of the Bush Administration," Langevin said in a statement. "By joining the Budget Committee, I am in a unique position to address some of the most pressing issues facing our nation, including the current state of the economy, the soaring federal deficit, as well as the need to create jobs and fix the breakdown in critical government services and infrastructure over the past several years." Langevin, a Democrat, was elected in 2000 to his House seat, after serving as Rhode Island's secretary of state. 
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