Rep. Eshoo Elected To Chair Health Subcommittee

PALO ALTO, CA -- U.S. Rep. Anna G. Eshoo, (D-Palo Alto), was elected as chairwoman of the Health Subcommittee by Democratic members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

The distinction punctuates the importance of the congresswoman's role in the U.S. House of Representatives.

“The 2018 midterm elections were won on the issue of health care and the American people now expect us to deliver. I’m grateful to my colleagues for choosing me to help lead the effort in the House to strengthen the Affordable Care Act, reduce the price of prescription drugs and continue to make critically important investments in the National Institutes of Health,” Eshoo said in a statement.

The critical assignment is right up the lawmaker's alley.

Eshoo was elected to the Energy and Commerce Committee in 1995 and has served on the Health Subcommittee for 14 of her 24 years on the committee. Of the 41 bills she has authored that have been signed into law by four presidents, over half have been health related. The Energy and Commerce Committee is the oldest continuous standing committee in the House of Representatives, originally established in 1795 to regulate interstate and foreign commerce.

In contemporary times, the committee has the broadest jurisdiction of any authorizing honorary panel in Congress.

--Image courtesy of Rep. Anna Eshoo's Washington, D.C. office