Rep. Steven Horsford is likely to fill the open seat on the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, following the death earlier this month of Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., D-N.J., according to sources familiar with the situation.
Horsford, D-Nev., who will need to be formally nominated by his party’s Steering and Policy Committee and approved by the caucus, is next in line to rejoin the tax-writing panel, where he held a seat from 2019 until last year. He was forced off the committee after two terms when Republicans took back the majority and realigned panel ratios to give their side more seats and Democrats fewer.
Horsford is considered likely to win reelection in his Democratic-leaning district this November, though his recent races haven’t been blowouts. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee included Horsford in its Frontline program to deliver extra help to incumbents considered vulnerable.
