The Return of the House Committee on Education and Workforce

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Meet the New GOP Members

of the House Education Committee

The House Education Committee is getting a makeover in the new Congress.

First off, it's changing its name back to House Committee on Education and the Workforce, the title it had from 1995 to 2007, when the GOP controlled the chamber.

Second, Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., the incoming chairman, has named Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., as the chairman of the subcommittee overseeing K-12 policy. That would give him a spot in the "Big 8" lawmakers that the administration is courting in its push to renew the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

Hunter, a conservative, replaces former Rep. Mike Castle, a moderate R from Delaware with expertise and a long record of working across the aisle. He was defeated in the primary by teaparty fave Christine O'Donnell, moderately crazy.

New GOP members of the committee include Rep.-elect Lou Barletta of Pennsylvania, who has a national profile on opposing illegal immigration, and doctors Rep.-elect Larry Bucshon, of Indiana; Rep.-elect Scott DesJarlais, of Tennessee; and Rep.-elect Joe Heck, of Nevada.
Other new GOP members include: Rep,-elect Richard Hanna, of New York; Rep.-elect Mike Kelley, of Pennsylvania; Rep.-elect Kristi Noem, of South Dakota; and Rep.-elect Todd Rokita, of Indiana.

At least three GOP moderates are staying on the committee, including Reps. Judy Biggert, of Illinois; Tom Petri, of Wisconsin; and Todd Platts, of Pennsylvania. And former chairman Rep. Howard P. "Buck" McKeon of California, remains on the committee, too.

Other Republicans who have served on the panel in this Congress (or in the past) and will be back, include Reps. Rob Bishop of Utah; Virginia Foxx, of North Carolina, who will oversee the higher education subcommittee; David Roe, of Tennessee; Glenn Thompson, of Pennsylvania; and Tim Walberg, of Michigan.