Republican
Committees-Organization
2008 Edition --last
updated July 31, 2008
National Republican Senatorial
Committee
425
2nd Street NE | Washington DC 20002
Chairman |
U.S. Sen. John Ensign (NV) |
(elected chairman in Nov.
2006)
Elected to the U.S. Senate in 2000 and re-elected in 2006.
Elected
to Congress in 1994 and re-elected in 1996 and 1998.
Unsuccessfully
challenged U.S. Sen. Harry Reid in 1998. Owner of South Shores
Animal
Hospital, Las Vegas, 1994-2001. Owner of West Flamingo Animal
Hospital
in Las Vegas, 1987-94. D.V.M. from Colorado State
University,
1985; B.S. from Oregon State University, 1981.
Executive Director |
Scott Bensing |
Previously Ensign's chief
of
staff for over six years. Deputy campaign manager on Ensign's
successful
2000 campaign for U.S. Senate. Worked for U.S. Rep. Steve Largent
(R-OK). Worked on Ensign's closely fought 1998 campaign against
U.S.
Sen. Harry Reid. Legislative director for then-U.S. Rep. John
Ensign.
Graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1988 and served seven years as
a surface warfare officer in the U.S. Navy. M.B.A. from American
University.
Political
Director |
Mike
Slanker |
Came to the Committee from
Las
Vegas where he and his wife Lindsey ran November Inc., a political
consulting
firm. He has worked on Ensign's 1998, 2000 and 2006 Senate
campaigns
among many others. Native of Salem, Ohio.
Communications
Director |
Rebecca Fisher |
(started Jan. 2007)
Spokesperson
and media liaison at the Federal Communications Commission Media Bureau
starting in Sept. 2004. Previously press secretary on the Senate
Commerce Committee.
Finance
Director |
Lindsey Slanker |
Came to the Committee from
Las
Vegas where she and husband Mike ran November Inc., a political
consulting
firm.
Independent
Expenditures
|
Sam Van Voorhis
|
A direct-mail consultant with NextWave
Communications. (reported by Stuart Rothenberg).
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