He got his first big committee assignment in January when he joined the Armed Services Committee.
It's moviemaking by committee with a really big committee, another byproduct of our culture's weird need for entertainment that behaves as if it's been reading our blogs instead of trying to surprise us.
Office-bearer statistics represent only the "executive boards" of societies, but across bigger committees the story seems much the same.
"But this is the biggest committee yet".
"People, whenever a lot of them see me, say, 'Congratulations, you have got a great job, chairman of the biggest committee,' " he said.
With 67 members, it is the third biggest committee in the chamber, after those responsible for foreign affairs and public health and environment issues.
A former Nasdaq-listed pharmaceutical services company executive, who declined to be named, said: "The pharmaceutical industry is good at marketing but less good at research nowadays, partly because smaller companies are more nimble and are less restrained by big pharma committees and bureaucracy, which can crush research and development.
For example, in June, a Big Board committee proposed rigorous new standards that would tighten corporate governance and disclosure requirements for member companies.
Their choices range from reinstalling the old committee, upholding the new committee, holding yet another New York City election, or finding a middle way, such as mixing the new and old members into one big leadership committee.
Most of the media covered this year's "big brass" committee hearing with all the subtlety of Beavis and Butthead.
