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Senate Committee Staff Directors Set Session Agenda

Top Senate Democratic staffers, left to right: Environment and Public Works, Bettina Poirier; Appropriations, Terrence E. Sauvain; Judiciary , Bruce Cohen; Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Michael L. Alexander; Armed Services, Richard D. DeBobes; Foreign Relations, Antony J. Blinken; Intelligence, Andrew Johnson; Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, J. Michael Myers; and Finance, Russ Sullivan.
Top Senate Democratic staffers, left to right: Environment and Public Works, Bettina Poirier; Appropriations, Terrence E. Sauvain; Judiciary , Bruce Cohen; Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Michael L. Alexander; Armed Services, Richard D. DeBobes; Foreign Relations, Antony J. Blinken; Intelligence, Andrew Johnson; Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, J. Michael Myers; and Finance, Russ Sullivan. (By Robert A. Reeder -- The Washington Post)
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Johnson, 47, received undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Maryland at College Park. Selected as a presidential management intern at the Department of Navy, he worked on contracting issues until coming to Capitol Hill in 1990 to work on defense and international affairs for then-Sen. Jim Exon (D-Neb.). Under Michigan's Levin, he came to the intelligence committee to monitor satellite and geospatial agencies. In 2004, he became the staff director for the committee vice chairman, Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.).

Johnson said the committee has much work to do in terms of oversight and restoring a bipartisan tone to its efforts. "The committee has not done its necessary work in understanding and evaluation of national intelligence," Johnson said, referring to the National Security Agency's secret surveillance program and the CIA's system for detention and interrogation.

Judiciary

Bruce Cohen brings 15 years' experience as a litigator and a decade as Democratic staff director and chief counsel on the Judiciary Committee to his new, majority role.

During his early law career, Cohen, who received his law degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1975, practiced in Philadelphia and Washington, where he was a partner in the law firm of Dechert Price and Rhoads, and in Los Angeles, where he was a partner in the law firm of Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro. He spent two years in the early 1980s as chief counsel of the subcommittee on juvenile justice, when it was chaired by Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.). Cohen, 56, joined Sen. Patrick J. Leahy's (D-Vt.) staff in 1994 and served as chief counsel of the subcommittee on technology and the law. A year later, he became Democratic chief counsel of the subcommittee on antitrust, business rights and competition, filling that role for a year.

Other Committees

Veterans Affairs: William E. Brew

Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry: Mark Halverson

Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs: Shawn Maher

Commerce, Science and Transportation: Margaret Cummisky

Energy and Natural Resources: Bob Simon

Staff writers Al Kamen, Lyndsey Layton and Elizabeth Williamson and special correspondent Zachary A. Goldfarb contributed to this report.


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