Rep. Denise Grimsley, R-Lake Placid, was named House Appropriations Committee chairwoman last week by incoming House Speaker Dean Cannon, R-Winter Park, who will take over if Republicans maintain control of the 120-member chamber.

LEMIEUX LOSES MOST-JUNIOR STATUS
West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin’s appointment Friday of Carte Goodwin, his former general counsel, to fill the U.S. Senate vacancy left by the death of Sen. Robert Byrd, pushes Florida Sen. George LeMieux off the perch as the chamber’s youngest member. Goodwin is 36; LeMieux, 41.