Committees and Caucuses
Committees
House Armed Services Committee — The Armed Services Committee is responsible for policy related to defense policy generally; ongoing military operations; the organization and reform of the Department of Defense and Department of Energy; counter-drug programs; acquisition and industrial base policy; technology transfer and export controls; joint interoperability; the Cooperative Threat Reduction program; Department of Energy nonproliferation programs; and detainee affairs and policy. I currently serve on the following subcommittees:
- Emerging Threats and Capabilities (Ranking Member)
- Seapower and Projection Forces
- Tactical Air and Land Forces
House Committee on Homeland Security — Established in 2002, the Committee on Homeland Security provides Congressional oversight for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to better protect the American people against a possible terrorist attack. The Committee is also responsible for emergency preparedness and response. I currently serve on the following subcomittee:
- Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection
- Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response and Communications
Caucuses
What is a Caucus?
A caucus is an organization of Members of Congress interested in a particular issue or set of issues. Caucuses sponsor educational activities, such as briefings on timely topics or pending legislation, and sometimes encourage legislative action that will advance their members’ common goals.
Caucus Leadership
I currently co-chair the following caucuses:
- Congressional Cybersecurity Caucus
- Bipartisan Disabilities Caucus
- Congressional Olympic & Paralympic Caucus
- Career and Technical Education Caucus
- Congressional Caucus on Foster Youth
- Congressional Submarine Caucus
- Congressional Directed Energy Caucus
Caucus Membership
I am a proud member of the following caucuses:
- Animal Protection Caucus
- Bicameral Congressional Arthritis Caucus
- Bi-Partisan, Bi-Cameral Congressional Task Force on Alzheimer’s Disease
- Bi-Partisan Task Force for Combating Anti-Semitism
- Coalition for Autism Research and Education Caucus (CARE)
- Congressional Addiction, Treatment and Recovery Caucus
- Congressional Adult Literacy Caucus
- Congressional Army Caucus
- Congressional Arts Caucus
- Congressional Boating Caucus
- Congressional Brain Injury Task Force
- Congressional Caucus on Armenian Issues
- Congressional Caucus on Community Health Centers
- Congressional Caucus on Hellenic Issues
- Congressional Caucus on Parkinson's Disease
- Congressional Coalition on Adoption
- Congressional Coast Guard Caucus
- Congressional Dairy Farmers Caucus
- Congressional Diabetes Caucus
- Congressional Fire Services Caucus
- Congressional German-American Caucus
- Congressional Heart and Stroke Coalition
- Congressional High Performance Building Caucus
- Congressional House Ocean Caucus
- Congressional Humanities Caucus
- Congressional Internet Caucus
- Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus
- Congressional Lyme Disease Caucus
- Congressional Mental Health Caucus
- Congressional Multiple Sclerosis Caucus
- Congressional Navy and Marine Corps Caucus
- Congressional Nursing Caucus
- Congressional Pre-K Caucus
- Congressional Robotics Caucus
- Congressional Semiconductor Caucus
- Congressional Shellfish Caucus
- Congressional Shipbuilding Caucus
- Congressional STEAM Caucus
- Congressional STEM Education Caucus
- Congressional Structured Settlement Caucus
- Congressional Taiwan Caucus
- Congressional Travel and Tourism Caucus
- Congressional Ukrainian Caucus
- Congressional United Service Organization (USO)
- Congressional Wine Caucus
- Democratic Israel Working Group (DIWG)
- Health Care Innovation Task Force
- Hidden Heroes Congressional Caucus for Military and Veteran Caregivers
- Historic Preservation Caucus
- House Aerospace Caucus
- House Air Force Caucus
- House General Aviation Caucus
- House Small Brewers Caucus
- House UK Caucus
- Law Enforcement Caucus
- Medical Technology Caucus
- National Guard and Reserve Components Caucus
- National Heritage Area Caucus
- Northeast-Midwest Congressional Coalition
- Portuguese-American Caucus
- Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Caucus
- Sustainable Energy and Environmental Coalition
- Task Force on Anti-Terrorism and Proliferation Financing
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