Virginia Foxx reclaims chair of House education committee

Higher Ed Dive

Rick Seltzer

January 9, 2023

Dive Brief:

• Rep. Virginia Foxx, a North Carolina Republican, was chosen Monday to chair the House Education and the Workforce Committee again, and she wasted no time warning President Joe Biden’s administration that Education Department officials will be answering her questions.

• “To officials in the Biden administration: think about investing in a parking space on Capitol Hill — you will be here often,” Foxx said in a statement. “Conducting vigorous and sustained oversight of the federal government, especially the Departments of Education and Labor, will be among my top priorities.”

• Foxx also called for stopping the administration’s regulatory agenda, which she described as “reckless and destructive.”

Dive Insight:

Foxx has been the presumed leader of the House’s education committee since Republicans captured control of the chamber in November’s election. She previously chaired the committee from 2017 to 2019 before Democrats took control of the House and gave leadership of the committee, which they called the Committee on Education and Labor, to Rep. Bobby Scott of Virginia.

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