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Ranking Member, Senate Armed Services Committee
Jack Reed is a Democratic senator from Rhode Island and the Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee in the 119th Congress. The committee’s current membership page lists him as the senior minority member.
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Jack Reed is a Democratic senator from Rhode Island and the Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee in the 119th Congress. The committee’s current membership page lists him as the senior minority member.
Open biography & office record ↓Jack Reed is a Democratic senator from Rhode Island and the Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee in the 119th Congress. The committee’s current membership page lists him as the senior minority member.
Reed joined the Armed Services Committee in 1998, became its Ranking Member in 2015 and later served as Chairman when Democrats controlled the Senate. His long tenure has made him a central participant in annual defense authorization negotiations.
This profile records supported committee leadership and legislation, while keeping military-policy judgments separate from factual claim reviews unless a discrete assertion can be tested against the record.
The Armed Services Committee announced that Reed and Chairman Roger Wicker led the committee process that advanced and filed the FY2027 NDAA in June 2026.