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Education & Labor Committee Republicans

Members

Virginia Foxx, North Carolina (Chairwoman)
Thomas E. Petri, Wisconsin
Howard P. “Buck” McKeon, California
Glenn Thompson, Pennsylvania
Tim Walberg, Michigan
Matt Salmon, Arizona
Brett Guthrie, Kentucky
Lou Barletta, Pennsylvania
Joseph J. Heck, Nevada
Susan W. Brooks, Indiana
Richard Hudson, North Carolina
Luke Messer, Indiana

Rubén Hinojosa, Texas (Ranking Member)            
Timothy H. Bishop, New York
Frederica Wilson, Florida             
Suzanne Bonamici, Oregon
Mark Takano, California 
Carolyn McCarthy, New York
John Tierney, Massachusetts 
Rush Holt, New Jersey
Susan A. Davis, California

           



Jurisdiction

The Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training has jurisdiction over education and training beyond the high school level including, but not limited to, higher education generally, postsecondary student assistance and employment services, and the Higher Education Act; Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972; all domestic volunteer programs; all programs related to the arts and humanities, museum and library services, and arts and artifacts indemnity;  postsecondary career and technical education, apprenticeship programs, and job training including the Workforce Investment Act, vocational rehabilitation, and training programs from immigration funding; science and technology programs; adult basic education (family literacy); all welfare reform programs including work incentive programs and welfare-to-work requirements; poverty programs including the Community Services Block Grant Act and the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP); the Native American Programs Act; the Institute of Peace; and all matters dealing with programs and services for the elderly including nutrition programs and the Older Americans Act.
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