Committees

Robert Casey's committees that He Serves:

Joint Economic Committee »

• Chairman

Facts on Committee: 

1. Joint Economic Committee was established as part of the Employment Act of 1946
2. The (JEC) is repsonsible for reporting the current economic condition of the United States and suggesting ways to improve the economy. 

Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry »

• Chairman - Subcommittee on Nutrition Specialty Crops, Food and Agricultural Research
• Subcommittee on Jobs, Rural Economic Growth and Energy Innovation
• Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, Marketing and Agriculture Security

Facts On Committee:

1. Committee has 21 members 11 in the Majority 10 in the Minority
2. The Committee was founded in 1825 in or to avoid the division of the commerce and manufacturing committee. 

Health, Education, Labor and Pensions »

• Subcommittee on Children and Families

Facts On Committee:

1. Cover Twenty different topics of jurisdiction everything from Aging to Loans, Work Hours, etc...
2. The committee began in 1869 as the Education Committee in 1884 it was known as the Education and Labor Committee and in 1999 it was renamed the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee (HELP).

Pat Toomey Serves On: 

1.Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine

2.Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

Facts On Committee:

1. Established by Robert Owen in 1913 under the Federal Reserve Act 
2. The Committee is made up of 22 senators 

3. Super Committee 

Facts On Committee:

1. Created by the Budget Control Act August 2011
2. The committee is supposed to have a plan to cut 1.5 trillion dollars by November 23, 2011