By DOL Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC), House Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN), and Rep. Alcee L. Hastings (D-FL) today introduced the Supporting Academic Freedom through Regulatory Relief Act (H.R. 2637).
By DOL Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: “Today is an historic day in the HELP Committee, where we have the opportunity to move forward with landmark civil rights legislation that will make us a stronger, better, fairer country. Today’s proceedings are the culmination of a long history of work by this Committee - the Employment Non-Discrimination...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement applauding the Committee’s passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), a bill that would prohibit workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement after Senate Democrats once again blocked action on a long-term, market-based student loan interest rate solution...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: Republican committee leaders asked the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to analyze the budgetary effects of delaying ObamaCare’s employer mandate and reporting requirements.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 9, 2013
News Release: The decision to delay enforcement of the employer mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) has created a host of new questions and concerns that need to be addressed, according to a letter sent today to President Obama from House Republican leaders.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 9, 2013
News Release: Region 9 News Release: 13-1281-SAN (SF-91)
By DOL Newswire | Jul 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, released the following statement on the anticipated vote on a bill to ensure that the interest rate for federal subsidized Stafford loans remains at 3.4 percent. In June, Harkin...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 8, 2013
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) today joined House Republican leaders and college students on the steps of the U.S. Capitol and called on Senate Democrats to pass a long-term, market-based solution to the student loan interest rate problem.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 8, 2013
News Release: On Wednesday, July 10 at 10:00 a.m., the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, chaired by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), will hold a hearing entitled “Examining the Labor Department’s Proposed Reforms to the FECA Program." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 8, 2013
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Republicans today released the third in a series of videos highlighting the four key principles of the Student Success Act (H.R. 5), legislation to reform federal K-12 education law.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 5, 2013
News Release: On Tuesday, July 9 at 10:00 a.m., the House Education and the Workforce Committee, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), will hold a hearing entitled, “Keeping College Within Reach: Improving Higher Education through Innovation." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 2, 2013
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement after the Obama administration announced plans to delay implementation of the health care law’s employer mandate until 2015...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 1, 2013
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Republicans today released the second in a series of videos highlighting the four key principles of the Student Success Act (H.R. 5), legislation to rewrite the nation’s K-12 education law.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement after the Senate adjourned without taking up legislation to address the July 1 student loan interest rate increase...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, released the following statement in response to a New York City council decision to override a mayoral veto and enact a law that would allow workers to earn up to five paid sick days per year...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - In an effort to protect taxpayers and prevent the interest rate on need-based student loans from doubling on millions of Americans, U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today joined 38 Senate Democrats to introduce a fully paid for bill to lock in the rate at 3.4 percent for one year.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: The Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education, chaired by Rep. Todd Rokita (R-IN), today held a hearing to examine the effects of new federal school meal program regulations issued by the Department of Agriculture under the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. During the hearing, a panel of school nutrition experts described the challenges these regulations have created for schools and districts.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, chaired by Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN), today held a hearing to examine reforms to improve the National Labor Relations Act. During the hearing, members discussed legislative proposals to protect workers’ access to secret ballot union elections and prevent the proliferation of micro-unions.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: “Today marks the 75th anniversary of the signing of the Fair Labor Standards Act by President Franklin Roosevelt on June 25th, 1938. The FLSA was a landmark achievement. After years of struggle, this national law set a floor under wages, limited working hours by requiring overtime pay, and set out to eliminate child labor. It was born out of the Great Depression, a time of falling wages, falling consumption, widespread unemployment, and pervasive poverty and hunger.
