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When MasterBrand Cabinets announced plans in December 2022 to close its Newton, Kansas location, the area lost one of its largest employers, displacing more than 400 workers.
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Foxx Blasts DOL For Putting Up Roadblocks to Oversight Inquiries

Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Marty Walsh to demand accountability from the Department on its failure to respond to several Committee inquiries.
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Chair Foxx Reacts to Biden’s Online Education Guidance

Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement in reaction to the Education Department’s announcement regarding online education
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Foxx, Cassidy Lead Effort to Stop Harmful Proposal that will Explode College Costs

House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Republican Leader Bill Cassidy, M.D., (R-LA) led 32 House Republicans and 35 Republican Senators in calling on U.S. Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to rescind the Biden administration’s radical income-driven repayment proposal, which will severely exacerbate rising college costs and excessive borrowing.
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ICYMI: Biden Lacks Legal Rationale to Push Student Loan Scheme, Says Chairwoman Foxx

President Biden continues to use the COVID-19 pandemic as the justification behind implementing his student loan bailout scheme. The same pandemic he claims is “over.” Every dollar that the Biden administration “forgives” or “cancels” is simply transferred from those who willingly took on this student loan debt to those who did not.
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Chair Foxx: OFCCP is Surrendering Employee Privacy to the Left

Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs Director Jenny R. Yang to lambast the agency’s imminent release of job creators’ sensitive employee data.
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PREPARED REMARKS: Chairman Sanders Holds HELP Committee Hearing on the Health Care Workforce Crisis in America

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today led a committee hearing titled, “Examining Health Care Workforce Shortages: Where Do We Go From Here?”
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Sanders and Cassidy Announce Subcommittee Rosters for the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee

Ahead of the committee’s first hearing in the new session of the 118th Congress, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Ranking Member Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-La.) on Thursday released the full roster of the panel’s subcommittees.
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Moderna CEO Agrees to Testify in Senate HELP Committee

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, announced on Wednesday that Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel will testify next month in front of the committee for a hearing entitled, “Taxpayers Paid Billions For It: So Why Would Moderna Consider Quadrupling the Price of the COVID Vaccine?”
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Sanders Statement on Starbucks CEO Refusal to Testify

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, today issued the following statement after Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz refused to appear in front of the committee to testify about his company’s long-running noncompliance with federal labor law
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Ranking Member Cassidy, Thune, Colleagues Reintroduce Bill to End Biden’s Student Loan Pause

U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) committee, and John Thune (R-SD) reintroduced the Stop Reckless Student Loan Actions Act, which would end President Biden’s current student loan pause and prohibit the president from cancelling any outstanding federal student loan due to a national emergency.
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Ranking Member Cassidy Delivers Remarks During Hearing on Health Care Workforce Shortages

U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) committee, delivered remarks during the hearing “Examining Health Care Workforce Shortages: Where Do We Go From Here?” He discussed the ongoing shortage of health care providers, including nurses, in Louisiana and around the country.
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Ranking Member Cassidy Opposes Biden Labor, Education Nominees

U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, expressed his opposition to four Biden administration nominees following an off-the-floor HELP committee executive session.
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Cassidy, Foxx, Colleagues Urge Biden Administration to Revoke their Reckless Student Loan Scheme

U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) committee, U.S. Representative Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce committee, and 67 lawmakers called on the Biden administration to rescind their reckless Income Driven Repayment (IDR) rule proposal, which would reduce the amount of student loan debt borrowers will have to pay back by 40 percent.
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Labor, Health And Human Services, Education Announces Public Witness Hearing Date

The Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies will hold a public witness hearing on Thursday, March 23, 2023.
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Interior and Environment Subcommittee Announces American Indian and Alaska Native Public Witness Hearing Dates

The Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies will hold American Indian and Alaska Native public witness hearings on Wednesday, March 8, 2023, and Thursday, March 9, 2023.
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Senator Collins Named Top Republican on Defense Appropriations Subcommittee

The Subcommittee sets funding levels for the Pentagon, including for shipbuilding programs
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Murray, Collins Announce Appropriations Subcommittees Leadership and Rosters for 118th Congress

U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-WA) and Susan Collins (R-ME), Chair and Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee respectively, announced the Appropriations Subcommittees chairs, ranking members, and full rosters for the 118th Congress.
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Department of Labor recovers more than $98K in back wages, damages for 137 employees of Florida electrical contractor who denied proper overtime

Release: Employer: Tri-City Electrical Contractors Inc. Investigation sites: 430 West Drive, Altamonte Springs, FL, 32714 (Headquarters). 13891 Jetport Loop Road, Fort Myers, FL 33913. 5911 Breckenridge Parkway, Tampa, FL 33610. Investigation findings: Investigators with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and ...
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Federal investigation finds Barberton toolmaker failed to properly protect drill press operators; three workers suffered preventable injuries

News Release: BARBERTON, OH ‒ In less than two years, three workers at a leading tool manufacturer in Barberton suffered injuries from unguarded machinery.
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