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Below is a brief description of each Congressional Committee offered at PENNMC with a link to its official U.S. Congressional website.
Below is a brief description of each Congressional Committee offered at PENNMC with a link to its official U.S. Congressional website.
Education and the Workforce
Education and the Workforce
The House Education and the Workforce Committee oversees programs that affect all Americans, from early learning and postsecondary education to skills development and retirement security.
The House Education and the Workforce Committee oversees programs that affect all Americans, from early learning and postsecondary education to skills development and retirement security.
Energy and Commerce
Energy and Commerce
The Energy and Commerce Committee is at the forefront of all issues and policies powering America’s economy, including our global competitive edge in energy, technology, and health care.
Transportation & Infrastructure
Transportation & Infrastructure
The Committee has jurisdiction over all modes of transportation – our aviation system, highways and bridges, transit and rail transportation, pipelines, and maritime and waterborne transportation. The Committee also has jurisdiction over wastewater infrastructure, the Nation’s emergency preparedness and response programs, public buildings and federal real estate management, federal economic development agencies, and one of America’s five Armed Forces: the U.S. Coast Guard.
Judiciary
Judiciary
The House Judiciary Committee has jurisdiction over a wide range of legal and constitutional matters, including the administration of justice, civil liberties, immigration, and federal courts. Its responsibilities include considering legislation, overseeing agencies like the Department of Justice and Homeland Security, and initiating impeachment proceedings against federal officials.
Ethics Committee
Ethics Committee
The Committee is charged with investigating and adjudicating any alleged violations of the House rules or any related statutes by House Members, officers, or employees. The Committee's third function is reviewing financial disclosure statements filed by Members, candidates, senior staff, and shared staff.
Natural Resources
Natural Resources
The House Committee on Natural Resources considers legislation about American energy production, mineral lands and mining, fisheries and wildlife, public lands, oceans, Native Americans, irrigation and reclamation.
Foreign Affairs
Foreign Affairs
The committee has a broad mandate to oversee legislation regarding the impact of national security developments on foreign policy; war powers, treaties, executive agreements, and military deployments abroad; foreign assistance; arms control; international economic policy; and other matters.
Oversight and Reform
Oversight and Reform
Our mission statement is to ensure the efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability of the federal government and all its agencies. We provide a check and balance on the role and power of Washington - and a voice to the people it serves.
Science, Space, and Technology
Science, Space, and Technology
The House Science, Space, and Technology Committee oversees agency budgets totaling over $42 billion and its jurisdiction covers most non-defense and non-human-health Federal research and development.
Foreign Relations
Foreign Relations
The Foreign Relations Committee is the only committee in the Senate with jurisdiction to deliberate and report treaties that have been submitted by the President for the Senate to consider. Similar to issue hearings, the committee conducts public hearings on each treaty.
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
The HELP Committee jurisdiction encompasses most federal labor and employment laws, including those that regulate wages and hours of employment, enforce mining and workplace health and safety, combat employment-based discrimination, and regulate union / management relations.
Commerce, Science , and Transportation
Commerce, Science , and Transportation
The Senate Commerce Committee is also charged to "study and review, on a comprehensive basis, all matters relating to science and technology, oceans policy, transportation, communications, and consumer affairs, and report thereon from time to time."
Environment and Public Works
Environment and Public Works
The United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works is responsible for legislation and oversight of the natural and built environment and for studying matters concerning environmental protection and resource conservation and utilitization.
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
The United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (formerly the Committee on Banking and Currency), also known as the Senate Banking Committee, has jurisdiction over matters related to banks and banking, price controls, deposit insurance, export promotion and controls, federal monetary policy, financial aid to commerce and industry, issuance of redemption of notes, currency and coinage, public and private housing, urban development, mass transit and government contracts.
Judiciary
Judiciary
The United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, informally known as the Senate Judiciary Committee, is a standing committee of 21 U.S. senators whose role is to oversee the Department of Justice (DOJ), consider executive and judicial nominations, and review pending legislation.
Armed Services
Armed Services
The Committee on Armed Services (sometimes abbreviated SASC for Senate Armed Services Committee) is a committee of the United States Senate empowered with legislative oversight of the nation's military, including the Department of Defense, military research and development, nuclear energy (as pertaining to national security), benefits for members of the military, the Selective Service System and other matters related to defense policy.
Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Small Business and Entrepreneurship
The Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship oversees the Small Business Administration's (SBA) entrepreneurial development programs. Congress has authorized the SBA to carry out a network of programs to provide small businesses with quality training, counseling and access to resources.
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Its primary responsibilities are to study the efficiency, economy, and effectiveness of all agencies and departments of the federal government; evaluate the effects of laws enacted to reorganize the legislative and executive branches of government; and study the intergovernmental relationships between the U.S. and states and municipalities, and between the U.S. and international organizations of which the U.S. is a member.
In addition to governmental affairs, the Committee now oversees and receives legislation, messages, petitions, and memorials on all matters relating to the Department of Homeland Security, except for appropriations, the Coast Guard, the Transportation Security Administration, immigration, customs revenue, commercial operations, and trade.
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