By DOL Newswire | Sep 1, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration today announced a strategic partnership with Balfour Beatty's Washington Division and Smoot Construction Joint Venture to promote workplace safety and health by providing guidance and training to workers involved in the National Gallery of Art renovation project in the nation's capital.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 1, 2011
News Release: Region 1 News Release: 11-1216-BOS/BOS 2011-306
By DOL Newswire | Aug 30, 2011
News Release: Today, the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), held a field hearing in Nevada’s Third Congressional District to examine the need for responsible reforms to federal job training services. Reps. Joe Heck (R-NV) and Howard P. “Buck" McKeon (R-CA) joined Chairman Kline at the field hearing.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 30, 2011
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) released the following statement after President Obama’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced a series of decisions that will make sweeping changes to federal labor policy...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 24, 2011
News Release: On Tuesday, August 30th at 11:00 a.m. PDT, Chairman John Kline (R-MN) will join Rep. Joe Heck (R-NV) in Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District to host a field hearing entitled, “Examining Local Solutions to Strengthen Federal Job Training Programs." The field hearing will take place at the Opportunity Village, Ralph and Betty Englestad Campus, located at 6050 South Buffalo Drive in Las Vegas.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 12, 2011
News Release: On Tuesday, August 16th at 1:00 p.m. EST, Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) will join Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) in South Carolina’s 4th Congressional District for a field hearing entitled “Reviving our Economy: The Role of Higher Education in Job Growth ...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 12, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-IA) released the following statement on today’s ruling by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 12, 2011
News Release: U.S. House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement today after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled the individual mandate in the Democrats’ health care law unconstitutional...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 5, 2011
News Release: U.S. House Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement on the release of the latest unemployment data...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 2, 2011
News Release: “In the decade before the Affordable Care Act was passed, relentlessly increasing health insurance premiums imposed a heavy tax on families and small businesses. Over those ten years, premiums for family, employer-sponsored coverage more than doubled. Small businesses simply couldn’t afford it anymore and began dropping coverage.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 1, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, issued the following statement on Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’s acceptance of the Institute of Medicine’s guidelines for women’s preventive health services...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 29, 2011
News Release: U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement upon House passage of the Budget Control Act...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 27, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - In advance of tomorrow’s Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee first hearing on FDA User Fee legislation, the Committee’s Chairman and Ranking Member Senators Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Mike Enzi (R-WY) released the following joint statement expressing their commitment to a bipartisan reauthorization process...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 27, 2011
News Release: The U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce today held a hearing to examine state and local initiatives to improve teacher effectiveness. During the hearing, entitled “Education Reforms: Exploring Teacher Quality Initiatives," education leaders from Colorado, Tennessee, Connecticut, and Washington, D.C. discussed the importance of attracting and maintaining quality teachers in the nation’s classrooms.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 26, 2011
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, chaired by Rep. Phil Roe, M.D. (R-TN) today held a hearing to examine a proposal by the Department of Labor to dramatically alter the long-standing fiduciary definition. Members of the committee discussed bipartisan concerns with the policy and the process surrounding this controversial proposal.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 25, 2011
News Release: On Tuesday, July 26 at 10:00 a.m., the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions, chaired by Rep. Phil Roe, M.D. (R-TN), will hold a hearing entitled “Redefining ‘Fiduciary’: Assessing the Impact of the Labor Department’s Proposal on Workers and Retirees." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 25, 2011
News Release: On Wednesday, July 27 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, "Education Reforms: Exploring Teacher Quality Initiatives." The full committee hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 22, 2011
News Release: Today, House Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Representative Richard Hanna (R-NY) sent a letter to Gene Dodaro, Comptroller General of the U.S. Government Accountability Office, requesting more information about costly regulatory burdens facing states and school districts across the country.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 22, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - With next week’s 21st Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) approaching, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) introduced the IDEA Full Funding Act, which would fulfill the federal government’s 36-year-old commitment to cover 40% of the excess cost of educating students with disabilities.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 21, 2011
News Release: Today, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce approved the Protecting Jobs From Government Interference Act (H.R. 2587), legislation to prohibit the National Labor Relations Board from ordering any employer to relocate, shut down, or transfer a business under any circumstance.
