US/Senate/Committee/Health Education Labor and Pensions
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The United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) generally considers matters relating to these issues. Its jurisdiction also extends beyond these issues to include several more specific areas, as defined by Senate rules.
History
During the Administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson, the committee took the lead in shaping legislation as part of Johnson's War on Poverty, resulting in the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. On March 18, 1992, the committee’s jurisdiction was updated to include all of the areas listed below. The committee was given its current name, the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, on January 19, 1999, by S. Res. 20.[1]
Jurisdictional areas
Under the Rule 25[2] of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the following subject matters fall under the jurisdiction of the Committee.[3]
- Measures relating to education, labor, health, and public welfare
- Aging
- Agricultural colleges
- Arts and humanities
- Biomedical research and development
- Child labor
- Convict labor and the entry of goods made by convicts into interstate commerce
- Domestic activities of the American Red Cross
- Equal employment opportunity
- Gallaudet University, Howard University, and St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C.
- Individuals with disabilities
- Labor standards and labor statistics
- Mediation and arbitration of labor disputes
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration, including the welfare of miners.
- Mine Safety and Health Administration
- Private pension plans
- Public health
- Railway labor and retirement
- Regulation of foreign laborers
- Student loans
- Wages and hours of labor, including the federal minimum wage
References
- ↑ https://catalog.archives.gov/id/10458034%7Ctitle=U.S. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. 1/19/1999- Organization Authority Recor
- ↑ https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/SMAN-113/pdf/SMAN-113-pg25.pdf
- ↑ https://www.help.senate.gov/about
