Foxx Gets Waiver, Faces New Contender to Lead House Panel (1)

Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) received a waiver Wednesday that would put her in the running to lead the House Education and Labor Committee, but fellow Republican Rep. Tim Walberg of Michigan said he, too, wants to chair the panel.

The Republican steering committee said Foxx could circumvent term-limit rules to be chair of the committee next year, according to a House Republican aide familiar with the matter. Foxx has been the top Republican on the education and labor panel since 2017, when she took over as chair of the then-Education and the Workforce Committee, which she has promised to reinstate ...