WASHINGTON, D.C. - Representative Joe Baca (D-Rialto) has been appointed to the House Democratic Caucus’ Committee on Organization, Study, and Review by Robert Menendez, Chairman of the Caucus. The OSR Committee is charged with recommending changes to Caucus rules as circumstances may require, which are then voted upon by the Caucus.

“I’m honored that Chairman Menendez decided to appoint me to help oversee our Caucus,” Baca said. “A large part of our success as a Caucus will depend on our ability to organize ourselves, run efficiently, and disseminate information to our members, and I’m happy to be a part of that process.”

As a member of the OSR Committee, Baca will serve on the Democratic Study Group, which is a Caucus organization whose function is to study legislative policy and institutional matters and to prepare materials on those subjects for the use by all Democratic Members in the House of Representatives.

When former Representative James Traficant was on trial for fraud and racketeering, the OSR Committee recommended the changes to Caucus rules that allowed the Caucus to exclude Traficant from voting in Caucus meetings until his criminal trial was concluded.