By DOL Newswire | Feb 6, 2009
News Release: The Department of Labor reported this morning that the U.S. economy shed 598,000 jobs in the month of January, the largest single-month total since 1974, bringing the unemployment rate to 7.6 percent. In response to these staggering figures, the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee’s top Republican, Rep. Howard P. “Buck" McKeon (R-CA), issued the following statement...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 4, 2009
News Release: Today the following statement on the signing of the Children’s Health Insurance Program into law was released...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 27, 2009
News Release: For the third time in less than two years, congressional Democrats today advanced the most fundamental shift in civil rights law in decades while preventing Republicans from offering a single amendment. With final passage of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, the bill now goes to the President without a single Republican amendment ever having received the consideration of the full U.S. House of Representatives.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 26, 2009
News Release: Rep. Howard P. “Buck" McKeon (R-CA), the senior Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, today harshly criticized Democrats’ $825 billion stimulus package, arguing that it fails to create jobs and provide necessary tax relief to working families and small businesses. Instead, McKeon ...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 21, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- A hearing on the role of states in keeping Americans healthy will be held tomorrow, Thursday, January 22nd at 10am. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) will chair the hearing that will take place in the HELP Committee’s hearing room, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 430.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 15, 2009
News Release: Rep. Howard P. “Buck" McKeon (R-CA), the senior Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, today announced the Republican leadership for the panel’s five subcommittees.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 9, 2009
News Release: Rep. Howard P. “Buck" McKeon (R-CA), the senior Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, today announced the lineup of Republican members selected to serve on the committee for the 111th Congress.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 9, 2009
News Release: Later today, the U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on a pair of bills that will dramatically increase the number and cost of pay discrimination lawsuits filed against American businesses, including small businesses. These bills-H.R. 11, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and H.R. 12, the ...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 9, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Today’s report shows a loss of 524,000 jobs - it’s now a full year of consecutive monthly job losses. The national unemployment rate rose to 7.2% and the number of unemployed Americans rose to 11.1 million.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 8, 2009
News Release: It is an honor to welcome our members to our first hearing of the new Congress. I particularly welcome our very special witness today - a valued friend and former colleague, Tom Daschle. Tom Daschle is a leader of great integrity and strong dedication. He has served his nation with distinction, both in uniform and in the Senate. He has admirers all across the country and on both sides of the aisle.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 5, 2009
News Release: On the eve of the 111th Congress being gaveled into session, the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee has unveiled key legislative priorities to help students, workers, and families in the struggling economy. Led by Rep. Howard P. “Buck" McKeon (R-CA), Committee Republicans will once again pursue an agenda of economic growth and educational innovation - goals they will hold the Democratic majority in Congress accountable to as well.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 18, 2008
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, today released the following statement on today’s CBO report on report on financing health care...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 15, 2008
News Release: Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), today announced that Senator Jeff Bingaman will lead the committee’s health care reform working group on insurance coverage.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 20, 2008
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, released the following statement on the Senate’s passage of extended unemployment benefits.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 19, 2008
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member
By DOL Newswire | Oct 3, 2008
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Today’s report showed a loss of 159,000 jobs, the ninth consecutive month of job losses. The number of unemployed Americans rose to 9.5 million, and the number of workers unemployed for over six months rose to 2 million (an increase of 728,000 over the past year). Anthony Coley, spokesman for Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, released the following statement...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 12, 2008
News Release: New York City, NY - Today, Senators Edward M. Kennedy, Orrin Hatch, Barack Obama, John McCain, Chris Dodd, Thad Cochran and Hillary Rodham Clinton introduced new legislation, the "Serve America Act," to expand opportunities for service for all Americans. The legislation will ask 175,000 more Americans to give a year of service to address specific national challenges, thereby expanding the number of national service participants to 250,000.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 5, 2008
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Today, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Chairman of the Senate Health,Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and Representative George Miller, Chairman of theCommittee on Education and Labor, will hold a meeting between the House and SenateConferees on the conference of H.R. 2669, the College...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 31, 2008
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Melissa Wagoner, spokeswoman for Senator Edward M. Kennedy (DMA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, released the following statement by the Senator today on a letter he sent to Massachusetts students and families suggesting options for federal...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 29, 2008
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions today praised the action of Senate and House conferees in approving a Conference Report to reconcile legislation passed in the Senate and the House of Representatives to reauthorize...
