By DOL Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: On Friday, September 20th at 10:00 a.m., the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education will hold a hearing entitled, “Preparing Today’s Students for Tomorrow’s Jobs: A Discussion on Career and Technical Education and Training Programs." The hearing will provide members an opportunity to explore ways the federal government can help support state and local initiatives to improve career and technical education.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 18, 2013
News Release: The Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), today held a hearing entitled, “Keeping College Within Reach: Improving Access and Affordability through Innovative Partnerships."
By DOL Newswire | Sep 18, 2013
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 after the Committee voted to pass the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 2013 (CCDBG), a bill that will expand access to and improve the quality of child care for the more than 1.5 million children and families that benefit from the federal child care subsidy program...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 18, 2013
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Chairman Phil Roe (R-TN) today asked the Department of Labor (DOL) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to provide information surrounding a regulatory proposal that was ...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 17, 2013
News Release: Dear Higher Education Stakeholder: In preparation for the upcoming reauthorization of the Higher Education Act (HEA), the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) will embark on a series of hearings over the next several months to examine important policy issues facing postsecondary...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 17, 2013
News Release: The House of Representatives today approved the E. Clay Shaw Jr. Missing Children’s Assistance Reauthorization Act (H.R. 3092) with strong bipartisan support. Introduced by Representative Brett Guthrie (R-KY), H.R. 3092 will fund the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children through Fiscal Year 2018 and strengthen programs under current law to prevent the abduction and sexual exploitation of children.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 17, 2013
News Release: House Republican leaders today sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder expressing concerns about the Obama administration’s effort to shut down a successful private school choice program in Louisiana that is providing hope to students and families.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 17, 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 after the U.S. Department of Labor finalized a critical rule to ensure fair wages for workers providing in-home care and support to seniors...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 17, 2013
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Subcommittee on Workforce Protections Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) issued the following joint statement after the Department of Labor finalized changes to the companion care exemption under the Fair Labor Standards Act...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 16, 2013
News Release: This week the House Education and the Workforce Committee will hold three subcommittee hearings. Each hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 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 today to mark World Sepsis Day and to announce that the HELP Committee will convene on September 24th at 10:00 a.m. to discuss efforts to reduce healthcare-associated infections, including sepsis.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 12, 2013
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Republicans, led by Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-KY), today introduced H.R. 3092, the Missing Children’s Assistance Reauthorization Act. Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI) signed on as original cosponsors of the bill, which will fund the National ...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: The Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), today held a hearing to examine the steps higher education institutions are taking to better support servicemembers and veterans who are working to earn a postsecondary degree or obtain valuable job training skills.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 10, 2013
News Release: The House of Representatives today approved the Streamlining Claims Processing for Federal Contractor Employees Act (H.R. 2747). Introduced by Subcommittee on Workforce Protections Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) and Ranking Member Joe Courtney (D-CT), the bill moves responsibility for wage claims adjustments for federally-contracted workers from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to the Department of Labor.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 10, 2013
News Release: The House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), today held a hearing to examine opportunities to improve education research and the Institute of Education Sciences (IES).
By DOL Newswire | Sep 9, 2013
News Release: MCDONOUGH, Ga. - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Atlanta Health Careers Institute LLC for one serious and one failure-to-abate health violation following a May inspection at the company's facility in McDonough. The agency initiated the inspection as a follow-up to an August 2012 inspection and has proposed penalties of $62,000.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) today hailed an announcement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that the “Tips From a Former Smoker" (“Tips") 2012 national ad campaign led an estimated 1.6 million smokers to attempt to quit smoking and helped more than 200,000 Americans...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 9, 2013
News Release: On Wednesday, September 11th at 12:00 p.m., the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), will hold a hearing entitled, “Keeping College Within Reach: Supporting Higher Education Opportunities for America’s Servicemembers and Veterans." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 6, 2013
News Release: On Tuesday, September 10th 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 “Education Research: Exploring Opportunities to Strengthen the Institute of Education Sciences." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 5, 2013
News Release: Amid news reports the administration is crafting new regulations to appease union critics of the health care law, House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) today requested the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and ...
