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Dems Lengthen Subcommittee Names (& Name New Heads)

By Alexander Russo — January 18, 2007 2 min read
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Click below to check out the full list of House education subcommittee members, as announced by Chairman Miller’s office earlier today - along with some snazzy new names.

**Ed Reform gets a new long name and Kildee as head.

**21st Century Competitiveness gets a new long name and Hinojosa as head.

**Select Education turns into “Healthy Families & Communities” and McCarthy heads it.

Where’s Woolsey? She’s heading a labor panel. From The Chairman’s Office:

The Democratic members of the House Committee on Education and Labor met this morning and approved Subcommittee Chairs and memberships for the 110th Congress, Committee Chairman George Miller (D-CA) announced today. The recommendations will be sent to the full Committee for final approval next week.

“The Democrats on the Education and Labor Committee are smart, talented, hard-working men and women from diverse backgrounds, and they will make the Congress and the country proud,” said Miller. “I am eager to work with them this year on growing and strengthening America’s middle class.”

The Subcommittee Chairs and members are:

Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education (formerly Education Reform)

Chairman Dale Kildee of Michigan

Robert C. “Bobby” Scott of Virginia

Dennis Kucinich of Ohio

Susan Davis of California

Danny Davis of Illinois

Ra�l Grijalva of Arizona

Donald Payne of New Jersey

Rush Holt of New Jersey

Linda Sanchez of California

John Sarbanes of Maryland

Joe Sestak of Pennsylvania

David Loebsack of Iowa

Mazie Hirono of Hawaii

Phil Hare of Illinois

Lynn Woolsey of California

Rub�n Hinojosa of Texas

Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness (formerly 21st Century Competitiveness)

Chairman Rub�n Hinojosa of Texas

John Tierney of Massachusetts

David Wu of Oregon

Timothy Bishop of New York

Jason Altmire of Pennsylvania

John Yarmuth of Kentucky

Joe Courtney of Connecticut

Robert Andrews of New Jersey

Robert C. “Bobby” Scott of Virginia

Susan Davis of California

Danny Davis of Illinois

Mazie Hirono of Hawaii


Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions (formerly Employer-Employee Relations)

Chairman Robert Andrews of New Jersey

Dale Kildee of Michigan

Carolyn McCarthy of New York

John Tierney of Massachusetts

David Wu of Oregon

Rush Holt of New Jersey

Linda Sanchez of California

Joe Sestak of Pennsylvania

David Loebsack of Iowa

Phil Hare of Illinois

Yvette Clarke of New York

Joe Courtney of Connecticut

Subcommittee on Workforce Protections

Chairwoman Lynn Woolsey of California

Donald Payne of New Jersey

Timothy Bishop of New York

Carol Shea-Porter of New Hampshire

Phil Hare of Illinois


Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities (formerly Select Education)

Chairwoman Carolyn McCarthy of New York

Yvette Clarke of New York

Carol Shea-Porter of New Hampshire

Dennis Kucinich of Ohio

Ra�l Grijalva of Arizona

John Sarbanes of Maryland

Jason Altmire of Pennsylvania

John Yarmuth of Kentucky

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