ASSU Senate Chair Priyanka Sharma ‘09 cast the deciding vote for Corinne Prudhomme ‘09 as the chair of the Appropriations Committee on Friday, breaking a 4-4 tie. Senators told The Daily that the committee was previously divided between the SOCC-endorsed and Stanford Review-supported factions.

Prudhomme defeated Tomas Vacek ‘10. Sharma stood by her choice for what she said was the head of one of the Senate’s most important committees.

“I picked the best person for the job,” she said. “It’s not just a finance position; it’s a leadership position too. It’s eight people on the committee and it takes good personal skills for the committee to work well.”

She said that committee meetings were already underway.

“They all met again on Saturday,” Sharma said. “They were reviewing the funding policies to see how they work so that they became more familiar with them. Last year’s worked pretty well so there wasn’t that much.”

Sharma said she did not look at the previous recommendations for committee assignments made by incoming ASSU Vice President Mondaire Jones ‘09, which were based on early preferences. She has now assigned all committees.