By DOL Newswire | Nov 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement after the Senate approved the Children’s Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act (CHGME). Harkin, Ranking Member Lamar Alexander (R-TN), and...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: Region 5 News Release: 13-2070-CHI. Nov. 12, 2013. Contact: Scott Allen Rhonda Burke. Phone: 312-353-6976. Email: allen.scott@dol.gov burke.rhonda@dol.gov. HARRISON TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Selfridge Air National Guard Base has been issued eight notices of unsafe or unhealthful working conditions by the U.S. Department...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: Region 4 News Release: 13-2140-ATL (284)
By DOL Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, after the U.S. Senate took a procedural vote to start debate on the Drug Quality and Security Act, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) said Congress was one step closer to passing the legislation. Harkin, as Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, ...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: On Thursday, November 14th at 10:00 a.m., the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), will hold a hearing entitled, “The Effects of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on Schools, Colleges, and Universities." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee delivered a speech on the floor of the Senate on the Drug Quality and Security Act.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Chairman Tom Harkin (D-IA), along with a coalition of lawmakers, today welcomed the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) release of a proposed rule to ensure that generic manufacturers of prescription drugs can update their warning labels to provide better patient safety information to consumers.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: On Wednesday, November 13th at 10:00 a.m., the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), will hold a hearing entitled, “Keeping College Within Reach: Simplifying Federal Student Aid." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today welcomed the Administration’s announcement that final regulations will be put in place to implement the 2008 Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today issued the following statement upon learning of President Barack Obama’s support for legislation that would raise the minimum wage to $10.10 and index it to inflation.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
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 that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has made a preliminary determination to withdraw “Generally Recognized as Safe" (GRAS) status for...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today welcomed the final vote by the Senate to pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which would outlaw employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. Harkin, as Chairman of the HELP Committee, oversaw the bipartisan passage of ENDA in the Committee this July.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 6, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) introduced legislation in the Senate that would help put an end to the for-profit higher education industry's predatory marketing campaigns...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Senate author of the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act, released the following statement regarding the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s hearing today on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CPRD):
By DOL Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Participants of employer-sponsored retirement plans may not be getting access to important plan documents because of confusing and contradictory rules regarding electronic records disclosures, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found in a report released by Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) ...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 5, 2013
News Release: “About five years ago, Richard Streeter, a 47-year-old truck driver from Eugene, Oregon, was frustrated and worried. As New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof described this weekend, Mr. Streeter couldn’t find affordable insurance in the individual market-back in the bad old days, no insurance company would cover him. So he did what people locked out of the market do-he went without care.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 4, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-On the floor of the U.S. Senate this afternoon, U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) welcomed a historic Senate vote on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), a bill that would prohibit workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Harkin, as Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, oversaw the bipartisan passage of ENDA in the Committee this July.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 4, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, after the successful cloture vote to start debate on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), Senators Tom Harkin (D-IA), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Mark Kirk (R-IL), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), called on the Senate to pass the bill and end LGBT employment discrimination. Harkin is Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, which passed the bill on a bipartisan vote in July.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-A bill to improve access to emergency epinephrine in schools-unanimously approved by the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee this week -has passed both chambers of Congress and will now go to the President’s desk to be signed into law. HELP Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-IA), a sponsor of the measure, applauded the news in a statement today...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Senators Tom Harkin (D-IA), Jack Reed (D-RI), Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Patty Murray (D-WA), and Pat Roberts (R-KS) today released the following statement applauding the news that the 500th drug has been labeled with pediatric information as a result of provisions included in the...
