By DOL Newswire | Oct 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Chris Murphy (D-CT), and Representative Elijah Cummings (D-MD) today released the following statement regarding the Department of Education’s final gainful employment rule...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 28, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Ranking Member Lamar Alexander (R-TN) announced their intention to introduce a bill to speed the development of treatments and vaccines for Ebola by adding Ebola to...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) released the following statement marking the 20th anniversary of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA) this week. The law, championed by Harkin and Senator Orin Hatch (R-UT), aimed to help the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) protect consumers from unsafe dietary supplements and boost FDA’s accountability.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement in response to the announcement that the Wage and Hour Division at Department of Labor will move forward with implementing the final rule...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, was joined by Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Representative Elijah Cummings (D-MD) today in announcing that fourteen Attorneys General from around the country have expressed support for their legislation to improve coordination between federal agencies that oversee the for-profit college industry.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today released the following statement on the September employment report showing that the economy added 248,000 jobs last month, with the national unemployment rate continuing to decrease, falling from 6.1 percent to 5.9 percent, its lowest point in six years.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of both the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education (the LHHS subcommittee) and the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement calling for an...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of both the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee and the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education (the LHHS subcommittee), released the following statement after the Centers...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, joined seven House and Senate Democrats in releasing a new report that found that hundreds of tobacco advertisements and images glorifying smoking and e-cigarettes appear in magazines with large teen readerships.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 19, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement applauding Senate passage of the Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Community Assistance, Research and Education (MD-CARE) Amendments of...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 19, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) released the following statement on legislation they introduced this week that would crack down on worthless degrees peddled by unscrupulous...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Ranking Member Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), and Senator Johnny Isakson (R-GA) applauded Senate passage of the bipartisan Sunscreen Innovation Act just hours after it was passed by the HELP Committee.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-At the Senate HELP Committee hearing “Fulfilling the Promise: Overcoming Persistent Barriers to Economic Self-Sufficiency for People with Disabilities," Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, unveiled a report that he...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), as Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a new report on an investigation he called for regarding the barriers that people with disabilities face as they seek to rise out of poverty and enter the middle...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today applauded approval of three bipartisan HELP Committee bills. The Traumatic Brain Injury Reauthorization Act of 2014 and S.2511, a bill to amend the Employment Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, were both approved by the Senate and the Emergency Medical Services for Children Reauthorization Act of 2014 was approved by the House.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement after the HELP Committee approved the nomination of Sharon Block to serve as Member of the National Labor Relations Board with bipartisan support.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Chairman Phil Roe have asked National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Richard Griffin to provide documents and information concerning his effort to rewrite the joint-employer standard under the National Labor Relations Act.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Chairman Tom Harkin (D-IA) released the following statement today following the objection of a Republican Senator to proceed to a vote and ratify the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CPRD) - a treaty that builds upon the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Ranking Member Lamar Alexander (R-TN) praised the HELP Committee’s passage of the Strengthening Education through Research Act, a bill that would reauthorize the Education...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Chairman Todd Rokita (R-IN) today released the following joint statement commending the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for approving H.R. 4366, the Strengthening Education through Research Act...
