The Senate Judiciary Committee created a new subcommittee this year to specifically oversee the federal courts and the nation's bankruptcy system, including administration and management, judicial rules, and the creation of new judgeships.
Last session's Administrative Oversight and the Courts Subcommittee has been split into two separate subcommittees for this session. Senator Richard Blumenthal will chair the new Oversight, Federal Rights and Agency Action Subcommittee, while Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) will become the chairman of the new Bankruptcy and the Courts Subcommittee.
Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), who was chair last year of the now defunct oversight and the courts subcommittee, will now be the chair of the Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights Subcommittee. Klobuchar takes over that subcommittee from the retired Senator Herb Kohl (D-Wis.)
Oversight, Federal Rights and Agency Action



