Career & Workforce Policy Committee issues are education and lifelong learning, health care and retirement income security, high skills immigration, and STEM workforce development.
Education and lifelong learning initiatives include:
- Focus - K-12 math and science, post-secondary engineering and continuing education programs
- K-12 Bills - ESEA/NCLB re-authorization and Federal agency appropriations (Dept of Ed, DoE, NASA, NSF)
- New - Engineering Education for Innovation (E2) Act
- Partners - STEM Education Coalition, E2 Coalition
- Focus - Health care - affordability for small businesses and the self-employed
- Focus - Retirement - tax-favored retirement savings plans and social security
- Bills - TBD
- Partners - National Association for the Self-Employed, Retirement Savings Coalition
- Focus - Permanent, employment-based admissions; foreign students with advanced degrees in STEM fields from U.S. schools; the temporary H-1B and L-1 work visa programs; and visa processing inefficiencies
- Bills - House bills sponsored by Representatives Issa and Flake and draft legislation being prepared for introduction by Lofgren
- Partners - employer, educational, immigrant, and other professional organizations
- Focus - engineering education and training programs in high demand industries, including aerospace and defense, computer and information technology and electric power
- Bills - TBD
- Partners - IEEE technical societies, engineering organizations and industry trade associations
- Vote in the Senate next week on patent reform bill S.23
- Bill eliminates first-to-file grace period
- Intellectual Property Committee opposes S.23
- Get to know your U.S. Senators and Representatives
- Communicate with them on issues of special concern on a regular basis
- Get involved in politics
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