By DOL Newswire | Feb 4, 2010
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), Senior Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, today urged Senators to reject the nomination of Service Employees International Union Associate General Counsel Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Previously, Kline called on the Senate ...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 4, 2010
News Release: “We are here today to take up the nomination of Craig Becker for the National Labor Relations Board. This is the second time the Committee has taken up this nomination, and the second time that I am proud to support it.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 4, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, today issued the following statement following Senate confirmation of Patricia Smith, of New York, to be Solicitor at the U.S. Department of Labor. The full Senate voted 60 to 37 for confirmation. The HELP Committee approved her nomination on October 7, 2009.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 3, 2010
News Release: Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis and congressional Democrats today continued to defend the Obama Administration’s job-killing agenda despite double-digit unemployment and widespread economic uncertainty. Secretary Solis’ testimony, delivered during her first ever appearance before the House Education and ...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 2, 2010
News Release: “We are here, today, to take the rather unusual step of holding a hearing on a nominee for the National Labor Relations Board. It has not been the standard practice of this Committee to hold hearings on NLRB nominations. In the past 25 years, we have confirmed 28 new members to the Board, and have held...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 2, 2010
News Release: With the national unemployment rate hovering at 10 percent, President Obama’s Labor Secretary, Hilda Solis, is scheduled tomorrow to make her first ever appearance before the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee. More than two months ago, the panel’s Republican members called for Secretary Solis to come before the committee to answer questions about rising unemployment and erroneous job creation data propagated by the Administration.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2010
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, commented today on President Obama’s FY 2011 budget request, applauding some key education investments and reform proposals while questioning a pervasive culture of favoritism that pits union leadership against rank-and-file workers while emphasizing “gotcha" policies that penalize job creators.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2010
News Release: Responding to new allegations that a leading official at the U.S. Department of Education was fired for raising concerns about proposals that could compromise student privacy, Rep. John Kline (R-MN) today spoke out about the importance of federal education privacy protection laws and highlighted a recent report calling into question data collection initiatives that could compromise students’ personal information.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 27, 2010
News Release: The U.S. House Education and Labor Committee’s Senior Republican, Minnesota Rep. John Kline, issued the following statement this evening on President Barack Obama’s first State of the Union address...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 27, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) today issued the following statement in response to President Obama’s State of the Union address. Harkin chairs the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, as well as the Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 22, 2010
News Release: In the wake of today’s announcement by the Bureau of Labor Statistics that there has been a decline in union membership, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis took the opportunity to highlight the Obama Administration’s support for the misnamed Employee Free Choice Act. The Administration currently faces bipartisan ...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 19, 2010
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), Senior Republican on the House Education and Labor Committee, announced today that Education and Labor Committee Republicans will hold a forum this week entitled “A Culture of Favoritism: The Obama Administration’s Labor Agenda."
By DOL Newswire | Jan 19, 2010
News Release: As more Americans express their frustration with a proposed government takeover of health care, the Democratic leadership in Washington continues to hold their partisan health care negotiations behind closed doors on Capitol Hill and at the White House. This is in direct opposition to the wishes of the American people and contradicts President Obama’spromises to bring much needed transparency to these proceedings.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 14, 2010
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), Senior Republican on the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following statement today in response to reports that the White House has negotiated with Big Labor to exempt union health care plans from a proposed excise tax. In recent days, congressional Democrats have ...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 8, 2010
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), Senior Republican on the House Education and Labor Committee, released the follow statement this morning as the Department of Labor announced an additional 85,000 jobs were lost in the month of December, and the unemployment rate remained at 10 percent.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 5, 2010
News Release: Flouting the transparency and accountability they promised the American people, members of the House and Senate Democrat leadership have been meeting behind closed doors on Capitol Hill to hash out the final version of their government takeover of health care. During an interview today on Fox Business, ...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 24, 2009
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee’s Senior Republican, issued the following statement today after Senate Democrats passed legislation to overhaul the nation’s health care system on a party-line vote...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 24, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) today joined the Democratic Senate majority in supporting The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The legislation passed the Senate by a vote of 60 to 39 and will now go on to conference with the House. Harkin is Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, one of the?two Senate committees charged with crafting health reform.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 21, 2009
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), Senior Republican on the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following statement today after Senate Democrats voted overnight, under the cover of darkness to advance the latest version of a government takeover of health care.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 15, 2009
News Release: U.S. Senators Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) and Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and U.S. Reps. John Kline (R-MN) and Brett Guthrie (R-KY) today wrote college and university presidents regarding their legislation that would preserve critical student loan options for another year. The Members are working to extend the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFEL) which has successfully helped millions of Americans realize the dream of a college education since 1965.
