Published: January 15, 1997

Federal File

The committee overseeing federal education laws will have a different name for the third consecutive Congress.

Rep. Bill Goodling, R-Pa., announced last week that the committee he was again elected to chair will now be known as the Education and the Workforce Committee.

That's not to be confused with the Economic and Educational Opportunities Committee, as it was known in the first two years of the Republican reign in the House, or the Education and Labor Committee, as Democrats dubbed it during their 40...