New GOP Generation Younger, More Conservative

If Republicans win the House, all but a few of of the two dozen GOP chairmen will be first-timers with the gavel, a strong sign that a new generation of Republican leadership has dawned, ushering in a slate of mostly conservative younger chairmen who will control debate on everything from tax cuts to a farm bill to business regulation.

In broad terms, the Republican chairmen will be policy conservatives but not bomb-throwing ideologues. Many of them are legislators who know how to cut a deal. And above all, the new chairmen will be loyalists to Speaker-in-waiting John Boehner of Ohio. In a bid to reform Congress, Boehner has promised to devolve power back to these chairmen to give them more freedom and more legislative legroom, a contrast to the centralized bill-writing Republicans complained of under Speaker Nancy Pelosi.More at Politico