POLITICO examines whether Rep. Bobby Scott, the low-key Virginia Democrat who has led his party on the House education committee since 2015, can keep his gavel against challenges from Reps. Suzanne Bonamici and Jahana Hayes as Democrats weigh his methodical, no-showmanship style against the fight over Donald Trump's push to dismantle the Education Department, which Linda McMahon has thinned out, including its civil rights office. Scott says he wants to retake the chairmanship in 2027 and, with subpoena power restored, call career officials and civil rights advocates to testify on the department's dismantling while pursuing child care costs, student aid, and union rights; Randi Weingarten calls him "Mr. Education in the House of Representatives."