Education Committees Could See Changes
Some Chairs May Shift, Even if Control Doesn’t
Rep. David Wu, a Democratic member of the House education committee, was already facing a competitive campaign to keep his Oregon seat when the news broke this month that decades earlier he allegedly sexually assaulted a former girlfriend.
After The Oregonian newspaper in Portland published an in-depth report on the alleged 1976 attack in a Stanford University dorm room, Mr. Wu issued a statement in which he apologized and admitted to “inexcusable behavior.”
Rep. Wu, who as a member of the House Education and the Workforce Committee has introduced a bill to make the No Child Left Behind Act more flexible, must now work even harder as he seeks a fourth term. He is one of only a handful of members of key congressional committees dealing with education who face...
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