Projo Politics Blog

By Katherine Gregg
Journal State House Bureau

Sen. Joshua Miller, D-Cranston, will head the Corporations Committee, which controls key legislation regarding state business regulations.

Miller, who owns two downtown Providence restaurants, Trinity Brewhouse and Local 121, succeeds Sen. William A. Walaska, D-Warwick, who mounted a short-lived challenge to M. Teresa Paiva Weed's successful bid to become the state's first female Senate president.

Late Friday, Paiva Weed confirmed the other new Senate committee chairmen. They include self-employed financial consultant Daniel DaPonte, D-East Providence, as the previously announced new chairman of the Finance Committee. Plumber Paul W. Fogarty, D-Glocester, is replacing new Senate Majority Leader Daniel Connors at the helm of the Labor Committee; lawyer Christopher B. Maselli, D-Johnston, is Connors' replacement as Rules Committee chairman; and South Kingstown school speech pathologist Hanna M. Gallo, D-Cranston, will replace the defeated Daniel Issa at the helm of the Education Committee.

Those reappointed to their chairmanships include Michael J. McCaffrey, Judiciary; J. Michael Lenihan, Government Oversight; John J. Tassoni, Housing; Rhoda Perry, Health and Human Services; Maryellen Goodwin, Constitutional and Regulatory Issues, and V. Susan Sosnowski, Senate Environment and Energy.

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