[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by T. Hoffman

It turns out Mr. Ryan is on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce (Member List), and more importantly the 21st Century Competitiveness Subcommittee, so it's no surprise he mentioned these topics to our kids. His membership on these committees puts him in a great position to jointly pursue the spread of FIRST throughout our region with us.

I neglected to state this in my first post, but those links up above lead to names of other Representatives on these committees, who are spread out throughout the country. Since they are tasked with working on educational and competitiveness problems directly, each of these people would most likely have a stronger interest in expanding programs like FIRST, starting within their own districts. If any of you check out this list and find out one of these people serves within your region, I strongly urge you to contact them. If these associated Congressmen and women collectively hop on board the FIRST train, it will be that much easier to inject the FIRST bug throughout all of Congress.