By DOL Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: On Tuesday, February 7 at 10:00 a.m., the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), will hold a hearing entitled “Challenges and Opportunities in Higher Education." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: Dear Commissioners: We write to provide additional evidence that necessitates an investigation of Representative Tom Price’s stock market trading activities prior to his confirmation as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. As detailed in our request for an investigation last week, ...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, led by Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Senate Democrats kicked off the final 24 hours of debate on the Senate floor on the nomination of Betsy DeVos for Secretary of Education. The Senate is expected to hold a final vote to confirm her nomination on Tuesday at 12:00pm.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 5, 2017
News Release: (Washington, DC) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on President Trump’s memorandum to the Acting Secretary of Labor calling for a study of the conflicts of interest rule to serve as a basis to rescind or revise the rule...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, kicked off 30 hours of debate on the Senate floor prior to the final vote to confirm President Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, and Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), chairman of the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, today issued the following joint statement after President Trump took action to delay implementation of the Department of Labor's flawed fiduciary rule...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: Today, the House voted to protect workers, taxpayers, small businesses, and our Armed Forces by passing a resolution of disapproval (H. J. Res 37) to block the Obama administration’s flawed “blacklisting" rule. The rule would make a system designed to protect workers less efficient, undermine our nation’s military readiness, and limit the ability of small businesses to compete for federal contracts.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, and Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), chairman of the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, today called on National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Richard Griffin to abandon his partisan agenda or step down immediately.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today sent a letter to Betsy DeVos, nominee for Education Secretary, asking whether she supports President Trump’s Executive Order halting immigration and refugee resettlement to the United States from seven Muslim-majority countries.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: Leaders of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce introduced resolutions of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act to block implementation of two flawed Obama administration regulations. Both rules from the former administration expand the federal role in education and diminish the ability for state and local leaders to make decisions affecting their students and schools.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 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 Republicans’ decision to rush through and advance for a vote the nomination of Betsy DeVos for Secretary of Education despite...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 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 statement at a hearing on the Affordable Care Act (ACA). At the hearing, Murray and Senate Democrats on the Committee highlighted the devastating...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U. S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) issued the following statement on Finance Committee Republicans’ decision to break longstanding Committee rules and advance the nomination of Congressman Tom Price despite serious, outstanding concerns about the medical stock trades he made while legislating on health care policy.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: Dear Mr. Botel and Mr. Rosenfelt...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: The House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), held a hearing today to examine the failures and consequences of the 2010 health care law and to discuss patient-centered solutions toward better, more affordable health care.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: The House Committee on Education and the Workforce will hold hearings this week to discuss the need to rescue Americans from the failed health care law, as well as the opportunities created by providing families with more education options. Both hearings will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senators Patty Murray (D-WA) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) released a new report detailing first-hand accounts from workers employed by Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr. restaurants under the leadership of Andrew Puzder, President Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Labor. The alarming accounts...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on the announcement that a hearing on President Trump’s nominee for the Department of Labor, CEO Andrew Puzder, will be delayed for a fourth time.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Republicans on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee jammed through the nomination of Betsy DeVos to serve as Secretary of Education, even though she had not provided adequate paperwork and responses to questions from Senator Murray and Democrats about her financial disclosures and support for anti-public education policies.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: House and Senate leaders with jurisdiction over workforce protections and federal contracting today introduced a joint resolution of disapproval that would block implementation of the Obama administration’s flawed, redundant, and burdensome “blacklisting" rule through the Congressional Review Act. The ...
