By DOL Newswire | Jul 23, 2007
News Release: I am pleased to join my colleague, Senator Enzi, and all the Members of our Committee, inputting forth legislation to renew the Higher Education Act of 1965.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 20, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON D.C.-Today, Senator Kennedy and Senator Kerry introduced legislation aimedat protecting nurses from forced overtime at the demand of their employers. The bill setsstrict limits on health care facilities that are requiring nurses to work mandatory overtime,which can put the patients they care...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 20, 2007
News Release: Washington, DC: Today, a bipartisan group of fourteen Senators, led by Senators Kennedyand Specter introduced a bill to overturn the Supreme Court’s recent 5-4 decision in Ledbetterv. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, which undermined the basic protection against paydiscrimination under the Civil Rights...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 19, 2007
News Release: Education has always been the engine of the American dream.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 18, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C-Today, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Chairman of the Senate Health,Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, released the following report, “Students andFamilies: Opening the Door to College for All."
By DOL Newswire | Jun 29, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Chairman of the Health, Education,Labor and Pensions Committee, announced that the nomination hearing for Surgeon Generalnominee Dr. James Holsinger, Jr. will be held on Thursday, July 12th at 10:00am.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 28, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C-Today, Senator Edward M. Kennedy released the following statement inresponse to the decision made today by the Supreme Court.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 28, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C- Today, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Chairman of the Health, Education,Labor and Pensions Committee, released the following statement in response to the FDA’scountrywide import alert for a wide variety of farm-raised seafood from China."Today's announcement underscores the necessity of...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 27, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C-Today, the Department of Labor issued a report on its Request forInformation on the Family and Medical Leave Act regulations. Senator Kennedy, Chairman ofthe Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, a long-standing advocate for the rightsof working men and women to have time off from their jobs to care for themselves and theirfamilies, released the following statement.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 27, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Approaching the Anniversary of the Americans withDisabilities Act, U.S. Senators Pat Roberts (R-KS) and Edward Kennedy (D-MA) todayintroduced legislation aimed at reducing the high unemployment rate for people with severedisabilities.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 27, 2007
News Release: CONTACT: Laura Capps/Melissa WagonerJune 27, 2007 (202) 224-2633Executive Session of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and PensionsToday, our Committee considers important legislation to carry on the work begun overtwo decades ago when the landmark Hatch-Waxman law was enacted in 1984. That bipartisaninitiative...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 27, 2007
News Release: HEALTH IT PASSES SENATE COMMITTEE. United States Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee reports billWASHINGTON, D.C-Today, the United States Senate Health, Education, Labor and PensionsCommittee passed The Wired for Health Care Quality Act. Chairman Edward M. Kennedy andSenators Mike Enzi, ...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 27, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, the United States Senate Health, Education, Labor and PensionsCommittee passed The Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act. The measure issponsored by Chairman Edward M. Kennedy, Senators Orrin Hatch, Hillary Clinton, Mike Enziand Charles Schumer. The legislation includes...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 26, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C-Today, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Chairman of the Senate Health,Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, released the following statement in response to thecloture vote on the Employee Free Choice Act.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 25, 2007
News Release: Over the years, the American workplace has changed immensely for the better. It was not so long ago that the normal workday was 10 hours or even more. The workweek was six days. There was no overtime pay or minimum wage. Workers regularly risked injury or death on the job because there were no workplace laws. There was no workers compensation.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 22, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C- Today, Senators Kennedy, Hatch, Clinton, and Enzi announced anagreement on legislation authorizing the FDA to approve a follow-on version of biologictherapies. The legislation includes standards for the FDA to approve follow-on biologics, amechanism to resolve patents in an expedited way, and strong but responsible incentives toencourage innovation and the development of new therapies. A summary of the legislation willfollow.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 21, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C- Today, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Chairman of the Senate Health,Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, released the following statement in response to theDepartment of Education’s report “Evaluation of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program:Impacts After One Year."
By DOL Newswire | Jun 21, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C- Today, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Chairman of the Senate Health,Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, released the following statement in response to theDepartment of Education’s report “Evaluation of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program:Impacts After One Year."
By DOL Newswire | Jun 21, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C- Today, legislation put forth by Senator Edward M. Kennedy andcolleagues, Senators Mike Enzi, Hillary Clinton and Orrin Hatch to modernize health care forthe 21st century successfully was introduced in the United States Senate. Patient care declinesin quality when physicians do not have...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 20, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C-Today, Senator Edward M. Kennedy released the following statement inresponse to the Republican remarks on the Employee Free Choice Act.
