By DOL Newswire | Jun 24, 2009
News Release: Republicans proposed comprehensive reforms to improve retirement savings opportunities for workers today, arguing that workers need access to understandable and meaningful information about their 401(k) and other retirement savings vehicles. Congressional Democrats rejected the GOP proposals, instead advancing partisan legislation that Republicans warned could drive up costs for workers while reducing access to individualized investment advice.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 24, 2009
News Release: Led by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), Republicans on the House Education and Labor Committee today raised alarm about new grant funding being offered under the economic stimulus package enacted earlier this year, arguing that the Administration is unnecessarily limiting opportunities for workers by providing funding only to union-affiliated recipients.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 24, 2009
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN) was elected today to serve as the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee. Kline was recommended for the post last week by members of the House Republican Steering Committee and received the endorsement of the full GOP Conference in a vote held this morning.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 23, 2009
News Release: The ranking members of the House Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, and Budget committees today sent a letter to Congressional Budget Office Director Doug Elmendorf asking for his office to analyze the cost of the House Democrats’ health care bill released on Friday.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 23, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), senior Democrats on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, held a press conference today to discuss The Affordable Health Choices Act and the need for health reform legislation that enables individuals with...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 23, 2009
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, today called Democrats’ partisan health care overhaul a huge missed opportunity and repeated his calls for a bipartisan approach to reforming American’s health care system. Kline and his fellow Republicans have ...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 22, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, today released the following statement praising the signing of H.R. 1256, legislation to empower the FDA to regulate tobacco products...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 20, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Today, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Chairman of the HELP Committee, and Senator Max Baucus, Chairman of the Finance Committee, issued the following statement affirming their commitment to seek common ground on health reform legislation, despite some media reports to the contrary...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 19, 2009
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, joined the leaders of seven other congressional committees to demand a full, fair, and open debate of pending climate tax legislation.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 19, 2009
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee’s Senior Republican Member, today sharply criticized the latest health care overhaul released by congressional Democrats, arguing that millions of Americans could lose their current coverage even as taxpayers face a sea of new red ink. Kline issued the following statement...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 17, 2009
News Release: The Republican Health Care Solutions Group today unveiled a health care reform plan that will make health care more affordable, reduce the number of uninsured Americans, and increase quality at a price our country can afford. The GOP plan makes sure that Americans who like their health care coverage can keep it - a stark contrast with the Democratic plan, which the Congressional Budget Office has said will shift millions of Americans out of their current coverage.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 17, 2009
News Release: Over GOP objections, Democrats on the Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee today approved a pair of partisan proposals that would impact Americans’ ability to save for retirement by making 401(k) plans more complex and costly while reducing workers’ access to individualized investment advice.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 16, 2009
News Release: BOSTON, MA - Senators Edward M. Kennedy and John F. Kerry announced today that fifteen biomedical research and research training institutions in Massachusetts will receive twenty-five grants from the National Institute of Health totaling $4,263,924, made under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 16, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Senior Democrats on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee held a press conference today to discuss The Affordable Health Choices Act and the urgent need for health reform that reduces costs, protects choice and guarantees quality, affordable health care for all Americans. Nurses, medical students, and individuals with firsthand experience joined them in support of reforming our broken health care system.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 11, 2009
News Release: With an additional 345,000 Americans out of work last month and unemployment reaching its highest level in more than a quarter-century, congressional Democrats are contemplating a pair of proposals that will drive up costs for employers and taxpayers and erode job creation at a time when it is needed ...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 10, 2009
News Release: Led by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), Republicans on the Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee today strongly rejected calls for a government-controlled single payer health care system, one of the most radical proposals on the table as Democrats craft their partisan health overhaul. Just days ...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 9, 2009
News Release: The three top Republican members of the House Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, and Ways and Means committees today asked the respective chairmen to hold bipartisan hearings on the health care reform legislation from which Democrats have excluded their Republican counterparts.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 9, 2009
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the top Republican on the Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee, today raised serious questions about tomorrow’s scheduled hearing on “Examining the Single Payer Health Care Option." Kline noted the hearing - which will examine one of the most radical options on ...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 9, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - For the past year, Chairman Edward M. Kennedy and Democratic Members and staff of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) have been working to develop legislation that reduces health care costs, allows Americans to keep the coverage they have if they want it, and makes health insurance affordable to those who do not have it today.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 4, 2009
News Release: The U.S. House Education and Labor Committee’s top Republican today applauded charter school leaders for their success in improving student academic achievement, but argued that major reforms are needed to allow these innovative schools to serve more students and build on the most effective education ...
