Committees and Caucuses

Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

The Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee has jurisdiction over all modes of transportation: aviation, maritime and waterborne transportation, highways, bridges, mass transit, and railroads. The committee also has jurisdiction over other aspects of our national infrastructure, such as clean water and wastewater management, the transport of resources by pipeline, flood damage reduction, the management of federally owned real estate and public buildings, the development of economically depressed rural and urban areas, disaster preparedness and response, and hazardous materials transportation.

The committee’s broad oversight portfolio includes many federal agencies, including the Department of Transportation, the U.S. Coast Guard, Amtrak, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the General Services Administration, the Army Corps of Engineers, and others.

T&I Subcommittees:

• Aviation
• Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management
• Highways and Transit

Committee on Veterans' Affairs

The House Committee on Veterans' Affairs (HVAC) is the authorizing committee for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The committee is responsible for recommending legislation expanding, curtailing, or fine-tuning existing laws relating to veterans' benefits. The committee also has oversight responsibility, which means monitoring and evaluating the operations of the VA. If the committee finds that VA is not administering laws as Congress intended, then it is addressed through the hearing process and legislation. The committee is the voice of Congress for veterans in dealings with the VA.

HVAC Subcommittees:

• Technology Modernization, Chairman
• Economic Opportunity

Caucuses:

• Abraham Accords Caucus
• Aviation Safety Caucus
• Congressional Addiction, Treatment, and Recovery (ATR) Caucus
• Congressional Aggregates Caucus
• Congressional Iraq Caucus
• Congressional Psychedelics Advancing Therapies (PATH) Caucus
• For Country Caucus
• Hearing Health Caucus, Co-Chair
• Korea Caucus
• Macedonian Caucus
• Northern Border Caucus
• Real Estate Caucus
• Republican Study Committee
• Rotary Wing Caucus, Co-Chair
• USO Congressional Caucus
• U.S.-Japan Caucus