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By Julia Edwards

Updated: August 11, 2011 | 1:27 p.m.
August 11, 2011 | 1:13 p.m.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)

The guessing game is over. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was the last to announce her three choices to complete the group of 12 lawmakers charged with shaving at least $1.5 trillion in spending between fiscal years 2012 and 2021. Her three, Reps. James Clyburn, D-S.C., Xavier Becerra, D-Calif., and Chris Van Hollen, D-Md. join those tapped by House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. We bring you the tapped 12: Let the trimming begin!

Final super committee

<p><strong>Boehner's picks:</strong> Rep.<strong> Jeb Hensarling</strong>, R-Texas. Hensarling, already the Republican conference chairman, will co-chair the committee with Sen. <strong>Patty Murray</strong>, D-Wash.</p> - Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

<p><strong>Boehner's picks:</strong> Rep.<strong> Dave Camp</strong>, R-Mich.Camp is chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee.</p> - MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images

<p><strong>Boehner's picks:</strong> Rep. <strong>Fred Upton</strong>, R-Mich. Upton is chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. </p> - Liz Lynch

<p><strong>McConnell's picks:</strong> Sen. <strong>Pat Toomey</strong>, R-Pa.Toomey was once head of the anti-tax organization Club for Growth.</p> - Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

<p><strong>McConnell's picks:</strong> Sen. <strong>Jon Kyl</strong>, R-Ariz. Kyl said he will retire at the end of the term.</p> - Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images

<p><strong>McConnell's picks:</strong> Sen. <strong> Rob Portman</strong>, R-Ohio. Portman once co-chaired the National Commission on Restructuring the Internal Revenue Service.</p> - Alex Wong/Getty Images for Meet the Press

<p><strong>Reid's picks</strong>: Sen. <strong> Patty Murray</strong>, D-Wash. Murray, once labeled the "Mom in Tennis Shoes" will now co-chair the debt reduction committee with Rep. Hensarling, R-Texas.</p> - Richard A. Bloom

<p><strong>Reid's picks</strong>:Sen. <strong> Max Baucus</strong>, D-Mont. Baucus is chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.</p> - Getty Images/Chip Somodevilla

<p><strong>Reid's picks</strong>:Sen. <strong>John Kerry</strong>, D-Mass. The former presidential candidate is now chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.</p> - Richard A. Bloom

<p><strong>Pelosi's picks:</strong> Rep. <strong>James Clyburn,</strong> D-S.C. Clyburn is the assistant minority leader, making him the third-ranking House Democrat and the highest ranking African-American in Congress./p> - Richard A. Bloom

<p><strong>Pelosi's picks:</strong> Rep. <strong>Xavier Becerra</strong>, D-Calif. Becerra is the vice-chairman of the House Democratic Caucus.</p>

<p><strong>Pelosi's picks:</strong> Rep. <strong>Chris Van Hollen</strong>, D-Md. Van Hollen is the senior Democrat on the House Budget Committee and was chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2008 and 2010.</p>

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