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News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) spoke in opposition to H.R. 2062, the Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act, which is duplicative of existing anti-discrimination statutes and rewards lawyers instead of workers.

Allen Opening Statement at Subcommittee Hearing on Retirement Security

News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Rick Allen (R-GA) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at a hearing on building a stronger retirement system...

House Passes Bill Benefitting Special Interest Lawyers Over Employees Who Suffered Discrimination

News Release: Today, the House passed H.R. 2062, the Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act, which uses older workers as pawns to advance a special interest and pro-trial lawyer agenda.

Murray, Burr Announce New Oversight as Part of Bipartisan Pandemic Preparedness Effort

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and U.S. Senator Richard Burr, Ranking Member of the Senate HELP Committee, announced three new areas of bipartisan oversight as part of their ongoing work to develop policy proposals aimed at improving the nation’s public health and medical preparedness and response programs.

US Department of Labor cites Toccoa plastic recycler for violating safety standards after worker sustains fatal injuries from a fall

News Release: TOCCOA, GA - With the holiday fast approaching, a 56-year-old worker at a Toccoa plastic processing facility could never have known he would spend Christmas Day in a hospital and die from a head injury after falling more than 6 feet from an elevated platform.

On Olmstead Anniversary, Murray and CAP’s Mia Ives-Rublee Push for Investment in Home Care

News Release: (Washington, D.C.)- Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Mia Ives-Rublee, Director of the Disability Justice Initiative at the Center for American Progress (CAP), continued to push for a historic investment in home- and community-based...

Foxx, Smith Demand Answers on Biden Administration’s Failure to Put American Students First

News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (NC-05) and House Budget Committee Republican Leader Jason Smith (MO-08) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona demanding transparency into the use of federal funds issued to K-12 and higher education institutions by the Department.

US Department of Labor, stakeholders renew alliance to train, protect North Dakota workers from excavation, trenching hazards

News Release: BISMARCK, ND - To combat the dangers workers face in trenching and excavation operations, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration and key stakeholders renewed an alliance to train workers on trenching and excavation hazards.

Senator Murray Urges Action to Increase Vaccine Confidence, Get Shots into Arms, and End COVID-19 Pandemic

News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), chair of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, led a bipartisan hearing on vaccines, the United States’ best shot at finally ending the COVID-19 pandemic, with experts from various backgrounds who discussed how to increase...

Murray Urges Democrats to Follow Supreme Court Victory on Health Care With Bold Action

News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement in response the Supreme Court issuing a ruling in Texas v. California-the case where Republican Attorneys General sought to strike down...

Senator Murray Urges Action to Make Higher Education More Affordable and Accessible, As Colleges Work to Reopen this Fall

News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, during a Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing, Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) highlighted how the American Rescue Plan has provided key relief to higher education students and helped institutions re-open their doors safely. In her opening remarks, Senator...

What They’re Saying: Pell Grant Preservation and Expansion Act

News Release: (Washington, D.C.)- Senators Mazie Hirono (D-HI) and Patty Murray (D-WA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Representatives Mark Pocan (D-WI) and Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (D-VA), chairman of the House Education & Labor Committee, reintroduced the Pell Grant...

Chair Murray, Congresswoman Garcia Reintroduce The Stop Shackling And Detaining Pregnant Women Act

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), and Congresswoman Sylvia R. Garcia (TX-29 D) led 27 of their House and 18 of their Senate Democratic colleagues in introducing the Stop Shackling and Detaining Pregnant...

Foxx Statement on Supreme Court ACA Ruling