HSWM03 · House Subcommittee

Work and Welfare Subcommittee

Under Ways and Means Committee waysandmeans.house.gov

House Subcommittee on Work and Welfare

Showing the 114th Congress (2015–2016), when this was the Human Resources. Back to the 119th Congress

65 bills referred in the 114th Congress

727 across the 12 Congresses on file, most in the 118th at 153. A referral is not a hearing: most bills sent to a committee are never taken up.

Bills referred, by Congress 107th to 118th

Members

Served in the 114th Congress

Meetings

Hearings and business meetings in the 114th Congress

Members, 114th Congress 15

Everyone listed on the subcommittee in the 114th Congress, from printed hearings, the Congressional Directory and the official rosters.

Seat	Member	Role
R-LA	Charles W. Boustany, Jr.	Chair
R-FL	Vern Buchanan	Chair
D-IL	Danny K. Davis
R-WA	David G. Reichert
R-NC	George Holding
R-MO	Jason Smith
D-GA	John Lewis
D-NY	Joseph Crowley
R-SD	Kristi L. Noem
D-TX	Lloyd Doggett
R-PA	Patrick Meehan
R-IL	Robert J. Dold
R-IN	Todd Young
R-NY	Tom Reed
R-SC	Tom Rice

Record

Bills, meetings, hearings, reports and more, newest first. In the 114th Congress.

Newest activity first. In the 114th Congress.

Bill	Title	Referral	Date
HR 6280	Ensuring Healthy Beginnings Act	Referred To	Oct 7, 2016
HR 6163	Federal Benefits Fairness and Restoration Act of 2016	Referred To	Oct 4, 2016
HRES 867	Expressing support for designation of September 2016 as "National Kinship Care Month".	Referred To	Sep 19, 2016
HR 5945	Ready to Work Act of 2016	Referred To	Sep 12, 2016
HR 5851	Refugee Protection Act of 2016	Referred To	Aug 17, 2016
HR 5737	Protecting Foster Youth Resources to Promote Self-Sufficiency Act	Referred To	Jul 21, 2016
HR 5669	Creating Opportunities for America's Laid-off (COAL) Miners Act of 2016	Referred To	Jul 15, 2016
HR 5533	Recognizing American Children Act	Referred To	Jul 5, 2016

Hearings, markups and business meetings, newest first. In the 114th Congress.

Kind	Subject	Status	Date
Hearing	Hearing on “Unemployment Insurance: An Overview of the Challenges and Strengths of Today’s System”Longworth House Office Building 11007 documents 4 witnesses Cissy Proctor, Executive Director, Florida Department of Economic Opportunity Walter Carpenter, MAI, CRE, President, Pinel & Carpenter, Inc. Judith Conti, Federal Advocacy Coordinator, National Employment Law Project Michelle Beebe, Director, Unemployment Insurance, Utah Department of Workforce Services	Scheduled	Sep 7, 2016

Hearing	Hearing on “The Heroin Epidemic and Parental Substance Abuse: Using Evidence and Data to Protect Kids from Harm”Longworth House Office Building 11009 documents 6 witnesses The Honorable Tom Marino, Member of Congress The Honorable Karen Bass, Member of Congress Tina Willauer, Director, Sobriety Treatment and Recovery Teams (START), Department for Community Based Services, Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services Hector Glynn, Vice President, Programs, The Village for Families and Children Katherine Barillas, Director, Child Welfare Policy, One Voice Texas Bryan Lindert, Senior Director of Quality Management, Eckerd Youth Alternatives	Scheduled	May 18, 2016

Hearing	Chairman Boustany Announces Hearing on Lessons Learned from Welfare Reforms in Other CountriesLongworth House Office Building 11007 documents 3 witnesses Douglas Besharov, Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland Melissa Boteach, Vice President, Poverty to Prosperity Program, Center for American Progress Richard Burkhauser, Sarah Gibson Blanding Professor of Policy Analysis, Cornell University College of Human Ecology	Scheduled	Nov 17, 2015

Hearing	Chairman Boustany Announces Hearing on Better Coordinating Welfare Programs to Serve Families in NeedLongworth House Office Building 110010 documents 5 witnesses Geoff Davis, Member of Congress (retired), Republic Consulting, LLC Maura Corrigan, Visiting Fellow, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Nick Lyon, Director, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHSS) Robert Greenstein, President, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) Scott Sanders, Executive Director, National Association of State Workforce Agencies	Scheduled	Nov 3, 2015

Hearing	Boustany Announces Hearing on Welfare Reform ProposalsLongworth House Office Building 110010 documents 5 witnesses David Kelly, Secretary of Program, Salvation Army Boyd Brown, Area Director, Employment and Training, Goodwill Easter Seals Minnesota Grant Collins, Senior Vice President, Workforce Development; and Executive Director, WeCARE Region II,, FedCap Kristen Cox, Executive Director, Governor’s Office of Management and Budget, State of Utah LaDonna Pavetti, Vice President for Family Income Support Policy, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities	Scheduled	Jul 15, 2015

Hearing	Chairman Boustany Announces Hearing on Protecting the Safety Net from Waste, Fraud, and AbuseLongworth House Office Building 110014 documents 12 witnesses The Honorable James Renacci, Member of Congress The Honorable Rosa DeLauro, Member of Congress The Honorable Sam Johnson, Member of Congress The Honorable Kevin Brady, Member of Congress The Honorable David Reichert, Member of Congress The Honorable Xavier Becerra, Member of Congress The Honorable Tom Reed, Member of Congress Dan Bertoni, Director, Education, Workforce, and Income Security Issues, Government Accountability Office Curt Eysink, Executive Director, Louisiana Workforce Commission Debra Rohlman, Vice President of Government Sales, Equifax Workforce Solutions Rebecca Vallas, Director of Policy for Poverty to Prosperity Program, Center for American Progress Patrick O'Carroll, Jr., Inspector General, Social Security Administration	Rescheduled	Jun 3, 2015

Hearing	Chairman Boustany Announces Hearing on Using Evidence to Help Low-Income Individuals and Families Get AheadRayburn House Office Building B-3188 documents 4 witnesses GroverJ. "Russ" Whitehurst, Director, Brown Center on Education Policy, The Brookings Institution Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family Economic Security, National Women’s Law Center John Bredgeland, CEO, Civic Enterprises David Muhlhausen, Research Fellow in Empirical Policy Analysis, The Heritage Foundation	Scheduled	Mar 17, 2015

Meeting	Organizational Meeting of the Subcommittee on Human ResourcesRayburn House Office Building B-318	Scheduled	Feb 11, 2015

By Congress

The committee's record in each Congress on file. Choose one to see the page as it stood then: its members, subcommittees and record. A dash means the official source has nothing that early, not that the committee did nothing.

Congress	Members	Bills referred	Reported	Became law	Meetings
119th2025–2026, sitting	13	0	0	0	7
118th2023–2024	14	153	0	0	8
117th2021–2022	11	95	0	0	4
116th2019–2020	11	55	0	0	4
115th2017–2018	14	67	0	1	8
114th2015–2016	15	65	0	0	8
113th2013–2014	23	29	0	0	10
112th2011–2012	12	59	0	0	0
111th2009–2010	14	15	0	0	—
110th2007–2008	13	52	0	1	—
109th2005–2006	14	34	1	0	—
108th2003–2004	13	73	0	2	—
107th2001–2002	13	30	2	1	—

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Everything here is as published by Congress. Seats run from the 107th Congress, dated by the resolutions that made them and the Congressional Record; referrals and nominations from the 107th; meetings from the 112th. A committee older than that shows less than it has done. A subcommittee's referrals are recorded against it separately from its parent's, so the two lists do not add up. Records come from Congress.gov, GovInfo and the House and Senate.