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The hearing was ostensibly a way for subcommittee members to examine whether there are enough checks to ensure the safety of children who receive federal money while in the care of child welfare agencies.

Mr. Specter, who sat on the Democratic side of the dais during a committee hearing Tuesday afternoon, said he had been assured that his seniority would be recognized by his new party, which would put him in line to jump over some Democrats for subcommittee chairmanships after the 2010 midterm elections.

They would yield an earmark for subcommittee members, but never for Senators in general.

The conservative goal is for subcommittee chairs to select hard-line Republican staff members who would create a bench of potential candidates for the future, in addition to giving the subcommittees more independence and power.

A spokeswoman for subcommittee chairman Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) told Foreign Policy this week that Rajavi is qualified to comment on the Islamic State because she is a Muslim woman who knows the "prejudices inherent in radical Islamist ideology," and because of her group's association with Iraq, where it was sheltered by then-President Saddam Hussein after being expelled from Iran in the 1970s.

Watch for subcommittee consideration.

Spokesmen for the subcommittee, as well as for Whitfield, did not return telephone and e-mail messages.

Questionable Grants In North Carolina, conflict of interest questions are swirling around Representative Frank Ballance, who, as a state senator, was the vice chairman for a subcommittee that oversaw the budget for the North Carolina Department of Correction.

Each time Campbell was reëlected, he volunteered for the subcommittee.

Both men once worked as lawyers for the subcommittee.

"There's the pressure factor," said Chip Walker, communications director for the subcommittee's Republican majority.