Representative Walberg Selected to Chair House Education and Workforce Committee

This week, the House Republican Steering Committee named Rep. Mark Walberg (R-MI) as the incoming Chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee. He will replace term-limited, outgoing Chair Virginia Foxx (R-NC). Walberg is a longtime member of the Committee, having served for sixteen years and seeking multiple waivers to remain on the Committee, which he points to as evidence of his commitment to the work.

As Chairman, he has pledged to focus on the connection between education and employment, work across the aisle to advance a short-term Pell Grant program and reauthorize the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, and advance his caucus’s priorities around school choice, parent engagement, college affordability, and apprenticeships.

In a statement after the announcement, Walberg remarked, “We have a unique opportunity to make substantive reforms to empower parents, incentivize workforce training, improve government efficiency, and unburden American innovators and job creators. The American people have given us a mandate to enact meaningful change and ensure future generations will succeed.”

Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA) will continue to serve as the lead Democrat on the Committee.