The Senate HELP committee was formed in 1869, originally as the Committee on Education. In 1999, James Jeffords (Chairman) of Vermont had the committee officially named the health, education, labor, and pensions committee (US Senate, HELP Committee, n.d.).
This committee has all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, and other matters related to the following subjects listed below referred for review (US Senate, HELP Committee, n.d.):
1. All dealings related to education, labor, health, and public welfare
2. Aging
3. Agricultural colleges
4. Arts and Humanities
5. Biomedical research and development
6. Child labor
7. Convict labor
8. Domestic actions of the American Red Cross
9. Equal employment opportunities
10. Gallaudet University, Howard University, and Saint Elizabeth hospital
11. Individuals with disabilities
12. Labor standards and statistics
13. Mediation and arbitration of labor disputes
14. Occupational safety and health
15. Private pension plans
16. Public health
17. Railway labor and retirement
18. Regulation of foreign laborers
19. Student loans
20. Wages and hours of labor (US Senate, HELP Committee, n.d)
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Wow - very interesting, although that is quite a wide range of responsibilities for one committee. Makes one wonder if it might be more effective to divide it further? Maybe they could get more done!
ReplyDeleteGreat 'one sheet'. Made me go look at more!
ReplyDeleteAs a peson whose career is based around roughly half of those topics, I can vouch for just how closely they all work together...eventhough the topics of responsibility seem so broad.