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Dan's Committees

House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform

  • Former Chairman (1997-2002)
  • Senior Member
  • Subcommittee on Health Care, District of Columbia, Census and the National Archives
  • Subcommittee on National Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations

The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is the main investigative committee in the U.S. House of Representatives. It has jurisdiction to investigate any federal program and any matter with federal policy implications.

House Committee on Foreign Affairs

  • Subcommittee on Europe and Eurasia, Chairman

The Committee on Foreign Affairs has jurisdiction on the relations of the United States with foreign nations generally. The committee deals with export controls, including nonproliferation of nuclear technology and nuclear hardware, international conferences and congresses, international education, intervention abroad, and declarations of war. The committee also handles measures to foster commercial intercourse with foreign nations and to safeguard American business abroad.