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WASHINGTON Candice Miller has a special status in the new Republican-run U.S. House: She's the only female lawmaker in the party to head a congressional committee.

Her domain? House Administration, a panel known more for tending to granular details - overseeing federal elections, parking lots and cafeterias - than grabbing headlines.

"I don't want to diminish her position but it's not Ways and Means, it's not the Budget Committee," said Debbie Walsh, head of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University in New Jersey. "It's much more administrative."

Even as Republicans seek to attract more female voters and fend off attacks from Democrats on women's issues, the lack of women heading the House's 22 committees shows the party has a long way to go to catch up to the minority party, Walsh said.

"It is shocking to think there is only one woman in the entire House that holds a committee chair," Walsh said. "Republicans had an opportunity to put women in leadership positions on committees and have made a conscious choice not to do so."

Indeed, it's less common for a female Republican to get a committee gavel than it is for a woman to run a major U.S. corporation. Miller's lone chairmanship means that 4.5 percent of the 22 Republican women serving in the House will head panels during the congressional session that began last week.

That compares with 25, or 5 percent, of Fortune 500 company chief executive officers who are women.

Republicans have made strides in responding to criticism that the House party leadership included few women. In 2012, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington was elected head of the Republican Conference, in charge of messaging and communications. Lynn Jenkins of Kansas was chosen as conference vice chairwoman, and Virginia Foxx of North Carolina as secretary.

Miller, 60, first became head of the House Administration panel in 2013 - the only woman to head a committee in that Congress, too - after losing a bid to run the Committee on Homeland Security. She was defeated by Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas, although Miller, a Michigan lawmaker now starting her seventh term in the House, had been in Congress two years longer than he had.

Miller said in an interview that she's "delighted" to run the Administration committee and that the panel's duties, which include oversight of security on the House side of the U.S. Capitol complex and the Federal Election Commission, weren't belittled until she took over the job. The comments come mainly from people who want to attack Republicans in general, she said.

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Dec. 1, 2014: Former Republican presidential canadiate Mitt Romney smiles on the field before an NFL football game between the New York Jets and the Miami Dolphins in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Mitt Romney has been invited to speak at the Republican National Committee's winter meeting in San Diego this week amid reports that the former Massachusetts governor is gearing up for a possible third run for the White House.

Romney has not yet decided whether he will attend the meeting, but RNC spokesman Sean Spicer told Fox News that Romney was "one among several prominent Republican officials, and leaders, who were invited."

Among the prominent Republicans confirmed to speak at the conference on Coronado Island, Spicer noted, was Dr. Ben Carson.

The Washington Post reported late Monday that Romney had begun contacting former aides, donors and other supporters, including current and former GOP elected officials, over the weekend. One senior Republican told the paper that Romney had said that he "almost certainly" will run for President in 2016.

The Post reported that Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., Romney's running mate in 2012, was among those contacted and was described by people with knowledge of the calls as "encouraging." On Monday, Ryan announced that he would not seek the Republican nomination.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who will be in California this week for fund-raising events, was also invited but has no plans currently to attend the meeting, a Bush source confirmed to Fox News.

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Serafin Gomez is the Miami Bureau producer for FOX News Channel, and a contributor to FOX News Latino. He covers politics, Florida, and Latin America. Follow him on Twitter: @Finnygo.

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