The composition of the U.S. Senate Budget Committee. Purple states have 2 members on the committee.
Some notable chairmen of this committee in the past: Edmund Muskie, Fritz Hollings, & Lawton Chiles.
The committee has recently been in the spotlight after it passed a budget, with the Tea Party Republican Senators objecting to a conference committee and then being orally spanked by fellow Republican Sen. John McCain (AZ).
