United States House Education Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities
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The House Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities is a former subcommittee
United States Congressional subcommittee
A congressional subcommittee in the United States Congress is a subdivision of a United States congressional committee that considers specified matters and reports back to the full committee....

 within the United States House Committee on Education and Labor. It was also known as the Subcommittee on Select Education. The subcommittee was eliminated in 2011, and it's jurisdiction transferred to other subcommittees.

Jurisdiction

From the Official Subcommittee website, the Subcommittee's jurisdiction includes:
  • Adolescent development and training programs, including but not limited to those providing for the care and treatment of certain at risk youth, including the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act and the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act; all matters dealing with child abuse and domestic violence, including the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, and child adoption; school lunch and child nutrition, poverty programs including the Community Services Block Grant Act, and the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP); all matters dealing with programs and services for the elderly, including nutrition programs and the Older Americans Act; environmental education; all domestic volunteer programs; ; library services and construction, and programs related to the arts and humanities, museum services, and arts and artifacts indemnity.

Current members, 111th Congress

Majority Minority
  • Carolyn McCarthy
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    , New York, Chairwoman
  • Yvette Clarke, New York
  • Carol Shea-Porter, New Hampshire
  • Bobby Scott, Virginia
  • Paul Tonko
    Paul Tonko
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    , New York
  • Jared Polis
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    , Colorado
  • George Miller, California
  • Judy Chu
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    Judy May Chu, Ph.D. is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2009. She is a member of the Democratic Party....

    , California
  • Todd Russell Platts
    Todd Russell Platts
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    , Pennsylvania, Ranking Member
  • Howard McKeon
    Howard McKeon
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    , California
  • Brett Guthrie
    Brett Guthrie
    Steven Brett Guthrie is the U.S. Representative for , a Bowling Green-based district, since 2009. He is a member of the Republican Party. He previously served in the Kentucky Senate.-Early life, education, and career:...

    , Kentucky
  • Phil Roe
    Phil Roe
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    , Tennessee
  • Glenn "G.T." Thompson, Pennsylvania
  • Ex officio
  • John Kline
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    , Minnesota

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