The Center for Public Integrity

Dave Camp of Michigan, the presumptive new chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, was first elected two decades ago and his conservative views on fiscal issues have won him broad backing in the business community.

Peter T. King, one of just two Republicans in New York’s current 28-member House delegation, has represented much of Long Island’s Nassau and Suffolk Counties since 1993. Earlier this year, the lawmaker from New York’s 3rd Congressional District considered a run for U.S. Senate against appointed incumbent Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand, but ultimately opted to run for re-election to his House seat.

Officials from the Obama administration will likely be frequent visitors to this panel once Darrell Issa takes the gavel.

Since 1987, Fred Upton, 57, has represented Michigan’s 6th Congressional District, which spans the southwestern corner of the Wolverine State. The grandson of Whirlpool co-founder Frederick Upton, Upton has long been viewed as a moderate in his party, voting with House Republicans most of the time, but breaking ranks on such issues as the 2007 Iraq War troop surge, which he opposed.

John Mica, the brother of former Democratic Rep. Dan Mica, was elected to the U.S. House as a Republican in 1992 representing Florida’s 7th District. The district stretches from St. Augustine on the Atlantic coast down to Maitland, a northern suburb of Orlando. Mica voted with GOP leadership more than 95 percent of the time during the 111th Congress. As chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Mica would oversee airline, highway, rail, and inland waterways issues as well as bridges, dams, flood control, and the Coast Guard.