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107th Congress

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Wally Herger (CA), Chairman

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• Fraud and Abuse in the Supplemental Security Income Program
  • July 25, 2002, Hearing Advisory, Revised Hearing Advisory, Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript, and Printed Hearing
• Unemployment Fraud and Abuse
  • June 11, 2002, Hearing Advisory, Revised Hearing Advisory, Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript 107-82, and Printed Hearing
• Welfare Reform Reauthorization Proposals
  • April 11, 2002 -- Hearing Advisory, Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript, and Printed Hearing
• Welfare Reform Success (University Center, Michigan)
  • April 2, 2002 -- Hearing Advisory, Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript, and Printed Hearing
• Strengthening Families and Promoting Healthy Families
  • POSTPONED -- Hearing Advisory, Revised Hearing Advisory, Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript, and Printed Hearing
• Implementation of Welfare Reform Work Requirements and Time Limits
  • March 7, 2002 -- Hearing Advisory, Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript 107-59, and Printed Hearing
• President's Unemployment Administrative Financing Reform Initiative
  • March 5, 2002 -- Hearing Advisory, Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript 107-62, and Printed Hearing
• Challenges Facing the New Commissioner of Social Security (Joint with Subcommittee on Human Resources)
  • POSTPONED -- Hearing Advisory, Revised Hearing Advisory, Revised  #2 Hearing Advisory, Revised #3 Hearing Advisory, Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript, and Printed Hearing
• Teen Pregnancy Prevention
  • November 15, 2001 -- Hearing Advisory, Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript 107-48, and Printed Hearing #107-48, PDF
• Bush Administration Budget Proposals
  • July 11, 2001 -- Hearing Advisory, Revised Hearing Advisory, Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript 107-36, and Printed Hearing #107-36, PDF
• Child Support and Fatherhood Proposals
  • June 28, 2001 -- Hearing Advisory,  Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript 107-38, and Printed Hearing #107-38, PDF
• H.R. 7, the "Community Solutions Act of 2001" (Joint with Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures)
  • June 14, 2001 -- Hearing Advisory,  Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript 107-34, and Printed Hearing #107-34, PDF
• Welfare and Marriage Issues
  • May 22, 2001 -- Hearing Advisory,  Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript 107-28, and Printed Hearing #107-28, PDF
• Promoting Safe and Stable Families Program
  • May 10, 2001 -- Hearing Advisory,  Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript 107-18, and Printed Hearing #107-18, PDF
• "Rainy Day" and Other Special TANF Funds
  • April 26, 2001 -- Hearing Advisory,  Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript 107-15, and Printed Hearing #107-15, PDF
• Hearing Series on Welfare Reform
  • April 3, 2001 - Work Requirements on the TANF cash welfare program -- Hearing Advisory,  Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript 107-10, and Printed Hearing #107-10, PDF
  • March 15, 2001 -- Effects of the 1996 Welfare Reform Law -- Hearing Advisory,  Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript 107-5, and Printed Hearing #107-5, PDF

Subcommittee Markups and Meetings

•  April 18, 2002
  • H.R. 4090, the "Personal Responsibility, Work, and Family Promotion Act of 2002" -- Action Release.  Click on the links for additional documents: Subcommittee Report, Comparison of Present Law and H.R. 4090, Modifications to the bill.  See Full Committee for further action.
• September 25, 2001
  • H.R. 2873, the "Safe and Stable Families Amendments of 2001" -- Action Release.  See Full Committee for further action.

 Recent Human Resources-Related Prints and Publications

• WMCP:  106-14
  Background Material and Data on Programs Within the Jurisdiction of the Committee on Ways and Means, "The 2000 Green Book." The 2000 Green Book can be searched as a database and viewed in a text or .pdf format. Type 'green book' in the Search Terms field to retrieve all sections of the Green Book. (Please note that due to the large size of many of the sections, it may be necessary to increase the Disk Cache setting in your web browser when viewing the Green Book).

Subcommittee Jurisdiction

The jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Human Resources shall include bills and matters referred to the Committee on Ways and Means that relate to the public assistance provisions of the Social Security Act including welfare reform, supplemental security income, aid to families with dependent children, social services, child support, eligibility of welfare recipients for food stamps, and low-income energy assistance. More specifically, the jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Human Resources shall include bills and matters relating to titles I, IV, VI, X, XIV, XVI, XVII, XX and related provisions of titles VII and XI of the Social Security Act.

The jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Human Resources shall also include bills and matters referred to the Committee on Ways and Means that relate to the Federal-State system of unemployment compensation, and the financing thereof, including the programs for extended and emergency benefits. More specifically, the jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Human Resources shall also include all bills and matters pertaining to the programs of unemployment compensation under titles III, IX and XII of the Social Security Act, Chapters 23 and 23A of the Internal Revenue Code, the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970, the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 1974, and provisions relating thereto.

Source: "Manual of Rules of the Committee on Ways and Means for the One Hundred Seventh Congress," WMCP: 107-1.

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