By DOL Newswire | Mar 2, 2009
News Release: With American taxpayers on the hook to spend nearly $100 billion in “economic recovery" dollars on federal education programs-on top of the roughly $60 billion already spent each year-congressional Republicans are calling on the Obama Administration to cooperate with vigorous congressional oversight ...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 26, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, today released the following statement on President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2010 Budget...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 26, 2009
News Release: Rep. Howard P. “Buck" McKeon (R-CA), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following statement today on President Obama’s FY 2010 Budget...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 26, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Richard Burr (R-NC), along with U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA), introduced the Select Agent Program and Biosafety Improvement Act of 2009, to improve America’s approach to biosecurity by reauthorizing the Select Agent Program and enhancing the safety of biological research laboratories.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 26, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, today released the following statement on President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2010 Budget...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 25, 2009
News Release: The U.S. House of Representatives’ leading Republican voices on issues impacting American workers joined a key member of the U.S. Senate today to introduce legislation that will guarantee workers’ right to a secret ballot in union organizing elections. Their legislation, the Secret Ballot Protection ...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 25, 2009
News Release: Earlier today, top Republicans in the House and Senate introduced the Secret Ballot Protection Act, legislation that would create a firewall against the undemocratic “card check" scheme that congressional Democrats are expected to soon unveil. The Secret Ballot Protection Act would ensure that workers ...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 24, 2009
News Release: Rep. Howard P. “Buck" McKeon (R-CA), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following statement this evening on President Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 24, 2009
News Release: The U.S. House Education and Labor Committee today held a hearing on “Strengthening Worker Retirement Security," at least the third such hearing since last fall examining how turmoil in the financial markets has impacted retirement plans. Led by Rep. Howard P. “Buck" McKeon (R-CA), Republicans on the ...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 23, 2009
News Release: Rep. Howard P. “Buck" McKeon (R-CA), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, today condemned the omnibus spending plan for FY 2009 crafted by congressional Democrats as a partisan attack on programs that serve some of the most disadvantaged students in the country. McKeon ...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 13, 2009
News Release: The U.S. House of Representatives today gave final approval to the controversial spending package crafted by congressional Democrats under the guise of economic stimulus despite the fact that not a single Republican voted for the bill. Rep. Howard P. “Buck" McKeon (R-CA), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following statement...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 12, 2009
News Release: The U.S. House Education and Labor Committee today convened its first hearing of the 111th Congress to examine workers’ rights and violence against labor union leaders in Colombia. Noting that nearly 600,000 American workers lost their jobs in the month of January, the panel’s top Republican, Rep. Howard ...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 12, 2009
News Release: U.S. Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-CA), a member of the House Education and Labor Committee and House Committee on Armed Services, today introduced the Fairness for Military Recruiters Act. The legislation clarifies and strengthens existing law, ensuring that military recruiters are provided the same access to high schools and basic student contact information that is provided to colleges, universities and other recruiters.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 11, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, today released the following statement in response to the Committee’s approval of the nominee for the Secretary of Labor, Hilda Solis...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 11, 2009
News Release: The U.S. House Education and Labor Committee today approved legislation to strengthen protections for youth enrolled in residential treatment facilities. The Stop Child Abuse in Residential Programs for Teens Act (H.R. 911) was introduced after the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) uncovered ...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 11, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, today released the following statement in response to the Committee’s approval of the nominee for the Secretary of Labor, Hilda Solis...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 10, 2009
News Release: To help workers who are struggling to balance the demands of work and family, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) today introduced the Family-Friendly Workplace Act (H.R. 933), a bill that will eliminate barriers in federal law that prevent private sector workers from choosing more flexible work arrangements. McMorris Rodgers is a long-time advocate for working women and men and has proposed similar legislation in the past to ease federal restrictions on workplace flexibility.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 10, 2009
News Release: Responding to media reports that parental options in education are coming under fire by some in the education establishment, the House education committee’s top Republican has called on U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to ensure parental options are protected and expanded, particularly for students ...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 9, 2009
News Release: Rep. Howard P. “Buck" McKeon (R-CA), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, today called on House Democrats to hold hearings on legislation that would replace federally-supervised secret ballot organizing elections with a public sign-up process that makes workers’ votes public ...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 9, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, today released the following statement...
