By DOL Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON-Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, applauded President Obama for signing the Animal Drug User Fee Agreement (ADUFA) and Animal Generic Drug User Fee Agreement (AGDUFA) reauthorizations into law today. ADUFA and AGDUFA allow the...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON--Chairman Tom Harkin released the following statement after the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee today approved Harkin's Strengthening America's Schools Act (SASA), a bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).
By DOL Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chair of the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, issued the following statement on the Obama administration’s decision to continue pursuing the widely-panned ‘gainful employment’ regulation...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: “Today we will mark up the Strengthening America’s Schools Act of 2013, a bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, or ESEA. Our actions today are crucial and long overdue-the last reauthorization of this law expired in 2007. With this mark-up, we have the opportunity to improve on the lessons of the past and ensure a brighter future for our children and the nation.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON-Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on the Committee’s completion of the first day of markup of the Strengthening America’s Schools Act, S. 1094.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-As the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee prepares to mark up the Strengthening America’s Schools Act (SASA), Chairman Tom Harkin’s bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), advocates and experts have expressed support for the bill’s provisions...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: On Thursday, June 13 at 10:00 a.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: Discussing Program Quality Through Accreditation." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-IA) - joined by Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) - sent a letter to Nickelodeon and its parent company Viacom urging them to help address the nation’s...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 10, 2013
News Release: On Wednesday June 12, at 10:00 a.m., the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, chaired by Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN), will hold a hearing entitled, “Strengthening the Multiemployer Pension System: What Reforms Should Policymakers Consider?" The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 10, 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 on the 50th anniversary of the enactment of the Equal Pay Act.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Senators Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, along with Committee members Richard Burr (R-NC) and Bob Casey (D-PA), today applauded the Obama administration for using its...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 6, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee and co-author of the Student Loan Affordability Act, released the following statement after Republicans filibustered the measure...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 6, 2013
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee Chairman Todd Rokita (R-IN) today introduced legislation to reform the nation’s K-12 education system. Based on proposals advanced through the committee in the 112th Congress, the Student Success Act (H.R. 5) will restore local control, support more effective teachers, reduce the federal footprint, and empower parents.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration is launching a local emphasis program in Idaho aimed at reducing injuries and fatalities associated with the operation of powered industrial trucks, including forklifts and lift trucks.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement on the Senate’s upcoming vote on student loan interest rate proposals...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, was joined today by Senators Barbara A. Mikulski (D-MD), Richard Burr (R-NC), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging,and Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Ranking...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: During Tuesday’s Education and the Workforce Committee hearing, Republican committee members took Americans’ questions about the implementation of the president’s health care law straight to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 4, 2013
News Release: Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today answered questions regarding the solicitation of private funds to implement the president’s health care law.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 4, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, introduced the Strengthening America’s Schools Act of 2013, a bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), and replace the failed tenets of No Child Left Behind (NCLB). Harkin will hold a markup of the bill, which has been co-sponsored by every Democratic member of the HELP Committee, starting next Tuesday, June 11th.
By DOL Newswire | May 31, 2013
News Release: On Tuesday, June 4 at 10:00 a.m., the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), will hold a hearing entitled, "Reviewing the President’s Fiscal Year 2014 Budget Proposal for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
