True Inhofe chairs that Committee and he described it as 9-9 because of Chaffe. We'll get no property rights protection out of that committee as long as Linc is on it.
You guys hit the nail in the head: Having Lincoln Chafee in the Senate with an R next to his name actually hurts the GOP in the three committees on which he sits, since they are for all intents and purposes evenly split among the parties instead of having a 2-vote GOP advantage. We need to get Chafee to lose or at least switch to the Democrats:
http://auh2orepublican.blogspot.com/2005/08/what-to-do-about-insufferable-senator.html
Conservatives should support Mayor Stephen Laffey in the GOP primary against Chafee. http://auh2orepublican.blogspot.com/2005/09/more-on-why-senator-lincoln-chafee-has.html