Committee Assignments

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Committee on Education and the Workforce
The Education and the Workforce Committee has a dual mission: empowering parents and teachers to provide our students with the best education possible and giving American workers access to the tools and protections they need to meet the challenges and opportunities of the New Economy.

Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, Chairman
Workers' health and safety including, occupational safety and health, mine health and safety, youth camp safety, and migrant and agricultural labor health and safety; wages and hours of labor including, Davis-Bacon Act, Walsh-Healey Act, Fair Labor Standards Act, including child labor; workers' compensation generally, Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act, Federal Employees' Compensation Act, Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act, Service Contract Act, Family and Medical Leave Act, Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, Employee Polygraph Protection Act of 1988; and, oversight of compulsory union dues within the jurisdiction of another subcommittee.

Subcommittee on Select Education
Title VI (International Programs) and Title VII (Graduate and Postsecondary Improvement programs) and Title I, as it relates to those Titles, and oversight of Titles III (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) and V (Hispanic Serving Institutions), of the Higher Education Programs; environmental education programs; all matters dealing with programs and services for the elderly, including nutrition programs and the Older Americans Act; domestic volunteer programs; library services and construction; programs related to the arts and humanities, museum services, and arts and artifacts indemnity; services for at risk youth; child abuse/domestic violence prevention programs; adoption programs; School to Work Opportunities Act.

Committee on Energy and Commerce
Maintains principal responsibility for legislative oversight relating to telecommunications, consumer protection, food and drug safety, public health, air quality and environmental health, the supply and delivery of energy, and interstate and foreign commerce in general.

Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality
National energy policy generally; fossil energy, renewable energy resources and synthetic fuels; energy conservation; energy information; energy regulation and utilization; utility issues and regulation of nuclear facilities; interstate energy compacts; nuclear energy and waste; The Clean Air Act; and, all laws, programs, and government activities affecting such matters.

Subcommittee on Health, Vice-Chairman
Public health and quarantine; hospital construction; mental health and research; biomedical programs and health protection in general, including Medicaid and national health insurance; food and drugs; and, drug abuse.