The Republican membership of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) is the caucus of Senate GOP senators serving on the HELP committee. Its role is to review, draft, and provide oversight of federal legislation and programs related to health care, public health, education, workforce policy, labor law, and retirement security, and to advance the committee’s work from a Republican policy perspective.
Typically advances Republican priorities on health, education, labor, and pensions, including market-based health care reforms and regulatory relief, private-sector and state-led education reforms (school choice and local control), workforce development and apprenticeships, pro-business labor and employment policies, pension solvency and retirement-savings initiatives, and public-health preparedness and biomedical innovation supportive of private-sector solutions.
Committee operations are funded through federal congressional appropriations; the political and advocacy activities of the Republican members are supported by individual member campaign committees, the Senate Republican Conference, and affiliated Republican party organizations and political action committees.
Senate Republican Conference and Senate GOP leadership, the Senate Republican Policy Committee, Republican members of related House committees (Education and Workforce; Energy and Commerce), and allied conservative think tanks and advocacy groups and business/trade associations that commonly collaborate on GOP policy priorities.
Congressional standing committee (Republican membership caucus) / government legislative body
