By DOL Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at a full committee organizational meeting ...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report predicting devastating job losses if the national minimum wage is increased to $15, as required by Democrat-authored H.R. 603 (Rep. Scott (D-VA)) and S. 53 (Sen. Sanders (D-VT))...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: Today, the House will vote on H.R. 447, the National Apprenticeship Act of 2021. This shortsighted, job-killing legislation doubles down on a flawed 80-year-old system, encourages union giveaways, and limits employers’ abilities to create apprenticeship programs that meet the unique needs of their workers.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: Committee on Education and Labor Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after the House passed H.R. 447, the National Apprenticeship Act of 2021, job killing legislation that doubles down on an 80-year-old system and closes pathways to rewarding careers...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) today issued a proposed rule to update the agency’s Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) to align with the seventh revision of the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS).
By DOL Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: Ahead of next week’s Education and Labor Committee markup of a budget reconciliation bill that will likely include a massive wish list from the far-left, the Committee’s Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget Rob Fairweather requesting details on unused COVID-19 relief funds.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: Committee on Education and Labor Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement on the Democrats’ reintroduction of the so-called Protecting the Right to Organize Act, far-reaching, radical legislation that allows union bosses to consolidate power, coerce workers, line their own pockets, and bolster their own political agenda...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, during the hearing to consider the nomination of Mayor Marty Walsh to serve as Secretary of Labor, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, stressed that immediately confirming Mayor Marty Walsh is critical to our nation’s ability to respond to and recover from COVID-19, and to building back an economy that works for everyone, not just those at the top.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Congressman Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (VA-03), Chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: Senator Murray to serve as Chair and Senator Burr to serve as Ranking Member during the 117th Congress
By DOL Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, during a hearing, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), incoming Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, pushed to quickly confirm Secretary of Education nominee Dr. Miguel Cardona to help get students safely back to the classroom for in-person...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 2, 2021
News Release: House Committee on Education and Labor Ranking Member Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), Representative Tim Walberg (R-Mich.), and Representative Michael Cloud (R-Texas) today wrote to the Biden-Harris Transition Team and White House Counsel’s ...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 29, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor announced today that its Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued stronger worker safety guidance to help employers and workers implement a coronavirus prevention program and better identify risks which could lead to exposure and contraction. Last week, President Biden directed OSHA to release clear guidance for employers to help keep workers safe from COVID-19 exposure.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 29, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - For your planning purposes, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and U.S. Senator Richard Burr (R-NC), incoming Chair and Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, have scheduled hearings to consider the nominations of Dr. Miguel Cardona to serve as U.S. Secretary of Education and Mayor Marty Walsh to serve as U.S. Secretary of Labor.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 29, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), issued the following statement rebuking the Biden administration’s decision to eliminate the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Payroll Audit Independent Determination (PAID) program...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: Today, House Education and Labor Committee Ranking Member Virginia Foxx (R-NC), House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-KY), and House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent a letter to the President of the University of Pennsylvania, Amy Gutmann, expressing ...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement in response to President Biden announcing an executive order asking the Department of Health and Human Services to review the Trump Administration’s rule gagging Title X-funded health care providers from discussing abortion.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.- Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), incoming Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, led every Democrat in Congress in reintroducing the Paycheck Fairness Act, legislation that would strengthen the Equal Pay Act of 1963, help eliminate the gender wage gap, and guarantee that women can challenge pay discrimination and hold employers accountable.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, incoming Senate HELP Committee Chair Patty Murray (D-WA), House Committee on Education and Labor Chairman Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (VA-03), Congressman Andy Levin (MI-09), Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01), Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), and Senator Tina Smith (D-MN) introduced legislation...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), incoming chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement after meeting by phone with Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, President Biden’s nominee to serve as Secretary of Labor...
