WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- U.S. House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., Tuesday named Rep. Jo Anne Davis, R-Va., to fill a GOP vacancy on the House Select Committee on Intelligence.
Davis, who was first elected to Congress in 2000, is a member of the House Committees on International Relations, Armed Services and Government Reform, where she chairs the subcommittee on civil service.
Praising Davis' commitment "to winning the war on terror," Hastert said she was the "obvious choice" for the assignment.
Davis will immediately fill the vacancy created by the retirement of U.S. Rep. Doug Bereuter, R-Neb., who resigned from the committee in anticipation of his Aug. 31 retirement from Congress.
Earlier Tuesday, President George Bush tapped the committee's chairman, retiring U.S. Rep. Porter Goss, R-Fla., to be the nation's next director of central intelligence should he be confirmed by the United States Senate.
