Members Headline List of Republican Convention Officials

By Lauren W. Whittington

Posted August 6, 2008 at 1:10pm

The Republican National Committee announced Wednesday that the following Members of Congress will serve as officers for the Republican National Convention, which will be held Sept. 1-4 in St. Paul, Minn.:

House Minority Leader John Boehner (Ohio), permanent chairman

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), temporary chairman

Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (Fla.), deputy permanent co-chair

Rep. David Dreier (Calif.), parliamentarian

Rep. Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), Platform Committee chairman

Sen. Richard Burr (N.C.), Platform Committee co-chairman

GOP lawmakers call for redistricting after Supreme Court ruling

From left, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, ACLI President Dirk Kempthorne, and Olympic runner Meb Keflezighi talk before the ACLI Capital Challenge Three-Mile Team Race in Anacostia Park on May 18, 2016.

Dirk Kempthorne, the creaky runner appreciation

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., leaves the House chamber after a rule governing debate on Section 702 of FISA and other measures was adopted Wednesday.

House overcomes floor hurdle on spy authority reauthorization

Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., was among the Republican holdouts who came around on the rule vote.

GOP leaders twist arms, flip votes on mega rule

From left, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, FBI Director Kash Patel, and Darren B. Cox, deputy assistant director of the FBI Criminal Investigative Division, conduct a news conference at the Department of Justice on Monday about the suspect in the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting incident. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

DOJ details planning of man charged with White House dinner shooting