By DOL Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) -Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a memo to the Democratic caucus, outlining the repercussions an education privatization agenda would have on students, schools, and communities. As President...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: Participants: U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration . U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Nebraska Safety Council. Nebraska Safety Council. Great Plains Safety and Health Organization. Great Plains Safety and Health Organization...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: The Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development, chaired by Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-KY), held a hearing today to discuss reauthorization of the Higher Education Act (HEA), focusing on ways to streamline and simplify federal student aid.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), Chairman of the Senate Aging Committee, today reintroduced the Save Access to a Valuable Investment Needed to Generate Savings (SAVINGS) ...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) today introduced the Invest in Women’s Health Act of 2017, legislation to provide women with more preventive and life-saving cancer screenings at safety net clinics like Planned Parenthood. This bill would help reduce health disparities by placing an emphasis on populations most at risk, including low-income women and women of color.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today delivered the following opening statement at a hearing to discuss the FDA user fees agreement. Senator Murray, along with all 11 Democrats on the HELP Committee, had pushed.pdf) Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) to focus the hearing on the House Republicans’ Trumpcare bill that could be on the House floor in a matter of days.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 20, 2017
News Release: Participants: U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration . U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration . Associated Builders and Contractors Inc.-Heart of America Chapter . Associated Builders and Contractors Inc.-Heart of America Chapter...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 20, 2017
News Release: Dear Acting Secretary Hugler: We write regarding the regulation proposed by the Department of Labor (the “Department" or “DOL") delaying the applicability date defining who is a “fiduciary" (82 Fed. Reg. 12,319 (Mar. 2, 2017), the “Proposed Regulation") under the Employee Retirement Income Security...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 20, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today issued the following statement following reports that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, under the leadership of Secretary Tom Price, has eliminated...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 17, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today issued the following statement on press reports that HHS Secretary Tom Price’s medical stock trades may be under investigation by the U.S. Attorney in New York...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray issued the following statement on efforts by President Trump and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan to build support for Trumpcare by promising future health care legislation that would never actually happen.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 17, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Led by Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA), today all 11 Senate Democrats on the Senate HELP Committee sent a letter.pdf) to Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) calling on him to dedicate Tuesday’s scheduled hearing on the FDA user fee agreements to Trumpcare and the devastating impact it would have on patients and families across the country.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Patty Murray (D-WA), the chair and ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, respectively, and Reps. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Bobby Scott (D-VA), chair and ranking member of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, ...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, today issued the following statement in response to President Trump's budget proposal...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 15, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), top Democrat on the Senate HELP Committee, today sent a letter to President Donald Trump urging him to stand with “millions of women and men" nationwide and uphold women’s reproductive rights and access to reproductive health care in his first budget.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 15, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration launched its "Safe and Sound Campaign " recently, calling on employers to review their safety and health programs to protect workers, and reduce workplace injuries and deaths.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 15, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) -Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), reintroduced the Healthy Families Act today, legislation that would allow workers to earn paid sick leave to use when they are sick, to care for a loved one, to obtain preventative care, or to address the impacts of domestic violence, stalking, or sexual assault.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 14, 2017
News Release: Dear Secretary Price: I write with concerns regarding your comments on coverage and cost estimates under the Republicans’ Affordable Care Act (ACA) repeal bill, the American Health Care Act (AHCA). Your claim that “no one will be worse off financially" under the Republican plan suggests a fundamental...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 14, 2017
News Release: Dear Secretary DeVos:. We write today regarding our serious concerns over the Department of Education’s (ED) announcement delaying implementation of the Gainful Employment (GE) rule. The Gainful Employment rule is a critical protection for both students and taxpayers. It will encourage improvement...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 13, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today released the following statement on the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) score of the House Republican bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act...
