By DOL Newswire | Jul 11, 2012
News Release: The House of Representatives will vote today on legislation to strike down the president’s job-destroying health care law. House Education and the Workforce Committee Republicans spoke in support of private-sector job growth and lower health care costs by urging a “yes" vote on the Repeal of ObamaCare Act (H.R. 6079)...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 11, 2012
News Release: The House of Representatives will vote today on legislation to strike down the president’s job-destroying health care law. House Education and the Workforce Committee Republicans spoke in support of private-sector job growth and lower health care costs by urging a "yes" vote on the Repeal of ObamaCare Act (H.R. 6079)...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 11, 2012
News Release: U.S. House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement today after the U.S. House of Representatives approved the Repeal of ObamaCare Act (H.R. 6079) with bipartisan support...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 10, 2012
News Release: As the House of Representatives prepares to consider legislation to strike down the president’s job-destroying health care law, Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Chairman Phil Roe, M.D. (R-TN) testified in front of the House Rules Committee to urge support for the Repeal of ObamaCare Act (H.R. 6079)...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 10, 2012
News Release: The House of Representatives is currently considering legislation to strike down the president’s job-destroying health care law. As chairman of a committee with jurisdiction over the 2010 health care law, Rep. John Kline (R-MN) urged his colleagues to stand with the American people and support the Repeal of ObamaCare Act (H.R. 6079).
By DOL Newswire | Jul 6, 2012
News Release: U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement after the Department of Labor released employment data for June...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 2, 2012
News Release: U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) released the following joint statement after the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia struck down portions of the Department of Education’s controversial “gainful employment" regulation...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 28, 2012
News Release: U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement today after the U.S. Supreme Court announced its decision on the 2010 health care law...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 28, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, released the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Affordable Care Act...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 27, 2012
News Release: On Thursday, June 28th at 9:30 a.m., the Workforce Protections Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), will hold a hearing entitled, “Promoting Safe Workplaces Through Voluntary Protection Programs." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 26, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, heralded final passage of the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act (S.3187), bipartisan HELP Committee legislation that...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 26, 2012
News Release: This week House Education and the Workforce Committee business includes a full committee markup and a Workforce Protections Subcommittee hearing. Both the markup and hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 25, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON--Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, spoke on the floor of the Senate to urge his colleagues to invoke cloture on the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 25, 2012
News Release: House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) on Sunday appeared on C-SPAN’s Newsmakers program to discuss the Supreme Court’s pending decision on ObamaCare, as well as House Republicans’ commitment to repeal the law and advance commonsense, step-by-step reforms that lower health care costs.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 25, 2012
News Release: House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) appeared on Sunday’s edition of C-SPAN’s Newsmakers program to discuss student loans and Republican efforts to prevent a scheduled rate increase on subsidized Stafford Loans without raising taxes or adding to the deficit.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 20, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Ranking Member Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) today released the following statement after the House of Representatives passed the bipartisan Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act (S.3187), which would reauthorize the user fee programs for the Food and Drug Administration...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 19, 2012
News Release: On Wednesday, June 20 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 “Assessing the Challenges Facing Multiemployer Pension Plans." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 18, 2012
News Release: U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement after House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) announced an agreement had been reached with the Obama administration to fully implement the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP) in accordance with the law signed last year to renew and expand the program...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 18, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-IA), Ranking Member Mike Enzi (R-WY), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman (D-CA) today announced a bipartisan agreement on the Food and Drug Administration...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 7, 2012
News Release: Today the House Education and the Workforce Committee is considering legislation to fix a broken workforce development system and help put Americans back to work. The Workforce Investment Improvement Act of 2012 (H.R. 4297) will eliminate dozens of ineffective programs; create a single, flexible Workforce Investment Fund; strengthen the role of job creators in workforce development decisions; and increase accountability over the use of taxpayer dollars.
