---
type: Body
title: "Senate Committee on the Budget"
classification: "committee"
chamber: "senate"
code: "SSBU"
leadership:
  - person: "Lindsey Graham"
    role: "chair"
  - person: "Jeff Merkley"
    role: "ranking-member"
sources:
  - field: definition
    source: congress-legislators (unitedstates project)
confidence: official
tags: [body, committee, senate]
timestamp: "2026-07-03"
---

# Senate Committee on the Budget

Committee (senate).

## Leadership

- chair: Lindsey Graham
- ranking-member: Jeff Merkley

21 members (see each member's file for their seat on this body).

## Source

- definition: congress-legislators (unitedstates project)