Action Alert! Weigh-in for this Week's Cabinet Confirmation Hearings

*** Contact the Senate HELP Committee Members ***

The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) will begin the first of the Cabinet Confirmation Hearings this Thursday.

Make sure the issues and concerns of our community are represented in these hearings.

Contact the members of the HELP Committee (for member info see below-Chairman Kennedy and Ranking Member Enzi's names are linked to their email page) and encourage them to ask questions that concern you. 

*** Make sure Arne Duncan's track record on special education is not overlooked*** 

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Upcoming hearings:  

10:00 AM Thursday, January 8, 2009: Confirmation Hearing for Secretary of Health and Human Services-Designate, Former Senate Majority Leader Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.)

9:30 AM Friday, January 9, 2009: Confirmation Hearing for Secretary of Labor-Designate, Rep. Hilda L. Solis (D-Calif.)

10:00 AM Tuesday, January 13, 2009: Confirmation Hearing for Secretary of Education-Designate, Mr. Arne Duncan

All hearings will be held in 430 Dirksen Senate Office Building.

Members of the Senate HELP Committee:

Democrats by Rank
Edward (Ted) Kennedy (MA)
Christopher Dodd (CT)
Tom Harkin (IA)
Barbara A. Mikulski (MD)
Jeff Bingaman (NM)
Patty Murray (WA)
Jack Reed (RI)
Hillary Rodham Clinton(NY)
Barack Obama (IL)
Bernard Sanders (I) (VT)
Sherrod Brown (OH)

Republicans by Rank
Michael B. Enzi (WY)
Judd Gregg (NH)
Lamar Alexander (TN)
Richard Burr (NC)
Johnny Isakson (GA)
Lisa Murkowski (AK)
Orrin G. Hatch (UT)
Pat Roberts (KS)
Wayne Allard (CO)
Tom Coburn, M.D. (OK)