Wason named minority staff director at Senate Armed Services Committee

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Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), ranking member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, has announced that John Wason will become the panel's new minority staff director, succeeding John Bonsell. Wason, who previously served as the committee's deputy staff director, joined the panel in 2018 after serving as a professional staff member on the House Armed Services Committee for 13 years. "He knows how the Committee should set our priorities to ensure the Pentagon has the resources, equipment and strategy needed to defend our nation," Inhofe said of Wasson in a statement. The senator also thanked Bonsell for serving as majority staff director for the past two and a half years. "I credit him greatly for continuing the six-decade streak of enacting the National Defense Authorization Act into law and making sure these bills included good policy to strengthen national security and support our military families," Inhofe said. "No one on Capitol Hill has fought harder for our troops or for our country than John Bonsell, and I'll miss him greatly."