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By Press release submission | Dec 13, 2022
Today, U.S. Representative Dan Bishop (R-NC) and Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-OH), alongside House Judiciary Committee Members Congressmen Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Tom McClintock (R-CA), Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI), and Cliff Bentz (R-OR), sent a letter to leaders of Climate Action 100+ requesting key documents surrounding the use of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) policies to advance their progressive goals.
By Press release submission | Dec 13, 2022
House Republicans launched an investigation Tuesday probing whether major climate groups that spearhead the “environmental, social, and governance” (ESG) movement are violating antitrust laws.
By Press release submission | Dec 13, 2022
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) is set to destroy firearms associated with the Obama-era Operation Fast and Furious scandal, sparking a rebuke from the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee.
By Press release submission | Dec 13, 2022
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler today delivered the following remarks, as prepared, during a markup of the American Music Fairness Act (H.R. 4130):
By Press release submission | Dec 13, 2022
Today, U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, announced that their bipartisan Metropolitan Areas Protection and Standardization (MAPS) Act, legislation to help protect communities across the country from possible consequences that may occur by changing the population threshold for metropolitan areas, has been signed into law.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 12, 2022
News Release: BOSTON – Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Regional Administrator David W. Cash celebrated significant federal and state infrastructure investments in the City of Fall River which will directly improve public health for city residents. Cash was joined by U.S. Senators Markey and Warren, ...
By Press release submission | Dec 12, 2022
Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), led 21 of her colleagues in sending a letter commenting on the Biden Administration’s proposal to reinstate the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) long-standing joint-employer standard to ensure that all corporations with control over workers’ health, safety, hours, pay, and other working conditions are at the bargaining table with workers.
By Press release submission | Dec 12, 2022
U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), released the following statement in response to news the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) approved relief to the Central States Pension Fund through the Special Financial Assistance (SFA) program, which Senator Murray fought to establish in the American Rescue Plan.
By Press release submission | Dec 12, 2022
U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) introduced the Reproductive Health Travel Fund Act, legislation to provide women the support they need to access reproductive health services by providing grants to organizations, including abortion funds, to offset the cost of travel-related expenses. Senator Murray also proposed creating a historic, new federal abortion fund in the FY23 LHHS funding bill in July.
By Press release submission | Dec 12, 2022
Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), joined Senators Bob Casey (D-PA) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) on the Senate floor to seek unanimous consent on a time agreement to pass their Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) this Congress to protect pregnant workers and ensure they have the basic workplace accommodations they need to have healthy pregnancies.
By Press release submission | Dec 12, 2022
U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), spoke on the Senate floor about the urgent need for Congress to take action on pandemic preparedness.
By Press release submission | Dec 12, 2022
Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), and Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, introduced legislation to clarify that victims of discrimination can seek damages for emotional harm under federal law after the Supreme Court curtailed their ability to do so in its April ruling in Cummings v. Premier Rehab Keller.
By Press release submission | Dec 12, 2022
Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) blasted the Biden administration for pushing regulations that will throttle the franchise model and undermine the path to the American Dream for many entrepreneurs.
By Press release submission | Dec 12, 2022
Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Civil Rights and Human Services Subcommittee Republican Leader Russ Fulcher (R-ID) sent a letter to Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Chair Charlotte A. Burrows to sound the alarm on the agency’s draft Strategic Plan, which misses opportunities for making EEOC more responsive to workers and employers.
By Press release submission | Dec 12, 2022
Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI) introduced the College Cost Transparency and Student Protection Act, which makes college cost decisions more consumer friendly.
By Press release submission | Dec 12, 2022
Today Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) released the following statement after Biden’s Department of Education disbanded its partisan national parents council following lawsuits from multiple parental rights groups:
By Press release submission | Dec 12, 2022
Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) released the following statement after the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) announced it approved the largest multiemployer pension bailout in history:
By Press release submission | Dec 12, 2022
A bicameral comment letter, spearheaded in the House by Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC), was sent yesterday to National Labor Relations Board (“the Board” or NLRB) Chairman Lauren McFerran to oppose the Biden administration’s proposed joint employer rule which would jeopardize businesses across the country.
By Press release submission | Dec 12, 2022
Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03) celebrated the U.S. House of Representatives passing the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2023, which included key initiatives spearheaded by Congressman Scott.
By Press release submission | Dec 12, 2022
On Friday, House and Senate education leaders wrote a letter urging the Department of Education to increase its oversight of online program managers (OPMs)—third-party companies that help colleges run and recruit students for online academic programs—to ensure they are not engaging in abusive recruiting practices.
