By DOL Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: “Today’s roundtable will focus on our main federal college access programs - TRIO and GEAR UP-and how they’re performing in helping low-income students access and persist through postsecondary education. This roundtable marks our fifth event in a series to examine issues we plan to address in the upcoming reauthorization of the Higher Education Act.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Another bipartisan Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee bill is headed to President Obama’s desk following unanimous Senate passage last night. The Poison Center Network Act cleared the Committee in December and passed the U.S. House of Representatives last...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-At an event held today at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA joined Rep. George Miller (D-CA) and Jason Furman, Chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, to call on Congress to pass legislation Harkin and Miller have introduced to raise the...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee members today raised concerns about the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) unprecedented intrusion into family farms. In a letter to OSHA Assistant Secretary David Michaels, committee leaders requested documents and communications surrounding guidance that unilaterally extends OSHA jurisdiction over farms with 10 or fewer employees.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: Dear Ms. Wright: We are writing to raise several questions about aspects of the “Accessing Higher Education Track" of the Department’s Transition Assistance Program, a class that our staffs recently viewed on DVD. In August 2011, President Obama directed the Departments of Defense (DOD), Veterans Affairs...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-In a floor speech Monday, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, expressed his support for extending federal unemployment insurance. He also voiced concerns about the impact of proposed offsets, which include cuts to programs serving Americans with disabilities.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) today issued the following statement after learning that Congressman George Miller (D-CA), senior Democrat on the House Education and Workforce Committee, would retire at the end of his term. Harkin and Miller were both elected to the U.S. House in 1974 and...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement after Ranking Member George Miller (D-CA) announced he will retire at the end of the 113th Congress...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, welcomed the announcement by the Administration that a final rule issued today will help ensure that Medicaid’s home and community-based services programs provide full access...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee welcomed the announcement this week that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is moving forward with implementation of the Drug Quality and Security Act, which Harkin led to Senate passage in November 2013 and President Obama signed later that month.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) applauded the historic and continued success of anti-smoking efforts ahead of the 50th anniversary of the first Surgeon General’s report on smoking and health. The most recent evidence of the extraordinary progress made over the last five decades comes...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today welcomed the announcement from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that under provisions he authored in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), women will be able to gain access to medications that will reduce the risk of breast cancer at no cost.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement on the 12th anniversary of No Child Left Behind...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, after the U.S. Senate voted to start debate on the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) said Congress was one step closer to passing the bill. Harkin, as Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, has...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - In a statement submitted today to the Congressional Record, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, said that Congress has a duty to restore federal unemployment insurance for the 1.3 million Americans who lost those...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 30, 2013
News Release: NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Complete Liquidations, doing business as The Furniture Exchange, with four repeat and 13 serious violations at the company's warehouse in New Brunswick. OSHA's July investigation began in response to a complaint, and resulted in proposed penalties totaling $71,280.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 19, 2013
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By DOL Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Capping a year of bipartisan accomplishments, the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee met in executive session today to approve two health bills, the Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act and the Poison Center Network Act. Chairman Tom Harkin (D-IA) issued the following statement to mark the HELP Committee’s productive year in 2013...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: Dear Chairwoman Ramirez: According to the National Youth Tobacco Survey, 1.8 million middle and high school students said they tried electronic cigarettes or “e-cigarettes" in 2012, and the percentage of high school students who had tried them more than doubled from the prior year. This high usage rate...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
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 three nominees. The approved nominees include: Dr. David Weil to serve as head of the Wage and Hour Division...
