On April 14, Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI), Vice Chairman of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) and Chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means, announced that Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) has been elected Chairman of the JCT for the remainder of the second session of the 113th Congress. The position was vacated by former Sen. Max Baucus, who resigned earlier this year to become the U.S. Ambassador to China.