By DOL Newswire | Sep 20, 2009
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee today defeated anamendment from Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) that would have protected Americans fromdramatic increases in health care costs caused by the health care bill being considered bythe committee.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 17, 2009
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, today strongly criticized legislation that would dramatically expand the federal government by eliminating the private sector-based federal student loan program and spending tens of billions of dollars on a range of new entitlement programs. The legislation, H.R. 3221, was approved by the House in a vote today largely along party lines.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 17, 2009
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) praised the U.S. House of Representatives today for passing the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act by a vote of 253 to 171. Consistent with the momentous agenda to increase education success laid out by President Obama, the House legislation provides...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 16, 2009
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, spoke this afternoon on the floor of the House about pending legislation that would eliminate the private sector-based Federal Family Education Loan program - the lending model chosen by a large majority of colleges and universities. The bill, H.R. 3221, also creates or expands numerous entitlement spending programs, including a number unrelated to higher education or college access.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 15, 2009
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following statement this afternoon in response to reports that compromise proposals are being developed to engineer passage of the Employee Free Choice Act...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 10, 2009
News Release: A new analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office adds to mounting evidence that pending legislation to overhaul college lending will cost taxpayers billions more than Democrats have acknowledged. At the request of Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the Education and Labor Committee’s top Republican, ...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 9, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) today issued the following statement regarding President Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 9, 2009
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee’s Senior Republican, responded this evening to President Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress on health care reform. Kline, whose panel is one of three House committees with jurisdiction over health care legislation, issued the following statement...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 4, 2009
News Release: The U.S. Department of Labor reported this morning a loss of 216,000 jobs in the month of August, bringing the national unemployment rate to a 26-year high of 9.7 percent. Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee’s top Republican, issued the following statement...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 4, 2009
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee’s Senior Republican Member, today delivers the weekly Republican address on the Democrats’ health care legislation moving through Congress “like a runaway freight train." In his address, Kline calls on congressional Democrats and President ...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 3, 2009
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee’s Senior Republican, was joined by House Republican Policy Committee Chairman Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI) in requesting public release of President Barack Obama’s upcoming national address to elementary and secondary school students. Citing ...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 26, 2009
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, today expressed new doubts about pending legislation to eliminate the private sector’s role in student lending, arguing that the bill’s massive new entitlement spending initiatives may cost taxpayers far more ...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 17, 2009
News Release: Six months to the day after enactment of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Rep. John Kline (R-MN) - the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee - highlighted America’s continued job losses and plummeting public opinion about the legislation as proof that the nearly trillion dollar federal spending spree has failed to achieve its objectives.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 4, 2009
News Release: The so-called Employee Free Choice Act was a bad idea in the spring, when it was re-introduced in Congress, and it is still a bad idea now.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 4, 2009
News Release: Washington, D.C. - A new report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) shows that the House of Representatives’ appropriations bill would raid HIV/AIDS treatment funds from every metropolitan area in the country to direct money to San Francisco and New York. “Under the House bill, ...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 3, 2009
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) today said negotiators on the Senate Finance Committee have not set a mid-September deadline for bipartisan health care reform talks, and he reiterated that getting health care legislation right is more important than getting it done quickly.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 28, 2009
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the top Republican on the House Education and Labor Committee, today expressed alarm at a new analysis from the Congressional Budget Office that shows tens of billions of dollars in hidden costs lurking in the Democrats’ pending legislation to orchestrate a complete government takeover of student loan programs.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 24, 2009
News Release: Congressman John Kline (R-MN) today criticized congressional Democrats’ refusal to increase funding for special education programs, arguing that Congress has ignored its obligation to fully fund its share of expenses under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) for far too long. Kline, ...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 23, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Today, Senator Kennedy delivered the following statement on the floor of the United States Senate in advance of the minimum wage increase that will go into effect tomorrow, July 24th. Senator Kennedy led the fight for this increase and his bill was passed earlier this year and signed into law in May. Below is a transcript of his statement and a fact sheet on the legislation and the issue.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 23, 2009
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee’s Senior Republican Member, today joined fellow members of the House GOP Health Care Solutions Group for a hearing that examined patient and doctor experiences with other countries’ government-run health care systems.
