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Roe Statment: Hearing on “Challenges Facing Multiemployer Pension Plans: Evaluating PBGC’s Insurance Program and Financial Outlook”

| Posted in Committee Statements

Today’s hearing is our second opportunity in recent months to examine the multiemployer pension system. In June, we discussed broadly the policies governing the system and its structural challenges. Since that hearing, news reports have reminded us of the problems plaguing many pension plans and the need for reforms that will help promote a stronger system. Hostess Brands, an iconic American compa... Read more »

Committee Leaders Request Information on Health Care Law’s Employer Mandate

| Posted in Correspondence

Dear Secretary Geithner, Secretary Solis, and Secretary Sebelius: We write to request information concerning the administration’s implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). Specifically, we request clarification concerning how an employer determines the average number of hours worked per week under PPACA. Sections 1513 and 10106 of PPACA create new tax penalties, be... Read more »

Kline Renews Demand for WARN Act Information

| Posted in Correspondence

Dear Secretary Solis: Thank you for taking the time on October 17, 2012 to discuss the committee’s ongoing oversight of the Department of Labor. As we discussed, I am concerned by the department’s pattern of untimely and inadequate response to the committee’s oversight requests. In many cases, the department’s lack of response has obstructed the committee’s constitutional authority to oversee the... Read more »

Kline Statement on Connecticut School Shooting

| Posted in Press Releases

U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement on the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School: I am horrified and deeply saddened to learn of the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School. My prayers are with the victims, their fellow students and families, and the community of Newtown, Connecticut. # # # Read more »

***MEDIA ADVISORY*** PBGC Director Joshua Gotbaum to Testify on Multiemployer Pension System

| Posted in Press Releases

On Wednesday, December 19 at 10:00 a.m., the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, chaired by Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN), will hold a hearing entitled, “Challenges Facing Multiemployer Pension Plans: Evaluating PBGC’s Insurance Program and Financial Outlook.” Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) Director Joshua Gotbaum will testify. The hearing will take place in room 2175 of t... Read more »

Exploring the Opposition to a Worker’s Right to Choose

| Posted in Left Turns

We have to get past this whole situation where we manufacture crises because of politics. That actually leads to less certainty, more conflict, and we can't all focus on coming together to grow. – President Barack Obama, 12/10/12 If the president followed his own advice, there would be less confusion over Michigan’s effort to strengthen workers rights. Leaders in the Wolverine State have approved... Read more »

Roe Statement on November Jobs Report

| Posted in Press Releases

U.S. House Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Chairman Phil Roe (R-TN) issued the following statement after the Department of Labor released employment data for November: Job creation remains slow as economic uncertainty continues to weigh down the nation’s workforce. The difficult reality reflected today’s jobs report will worsen if we plunge over the fiscal cliff. It’s time ... Read more »

House Republicans Continue Legal Effort to Block NLRB’s Unlawful Poster Regulation

| Posted in Press Releases

House Republicans have filed an amicus brief in support of legal efforts to overturn the National Labor Relation Board’s (NLRB) poster regulation. Issued by the board in August 2011, the controversial regulation requires virtually every private employer to post in the workplace a biased and vague notice of employees’ labor rights. In response to the board’s action, organizations representing worke... Read more »

ICYMI: Packing the NLRB

| Posted in In Case You Missed It

One hallmark of the Obama Presidency is its habit of running roughshod over Congressional prerogatives. A test of that arrogation of power comes Wednesday when the Administration has to defend its imperial treatment of recess appointments in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. We have long supported such appointments as long as they are made when Congress is genuinely in recess. Yet in January Mr.... Read more »

"Most Transparent Ever"? Administration Continues to Ignore Congressional Oversight

| Posted in Left Turns

Late last week, the Obama administration’s Department on Health and Human Services (HHS) quietly informed a Wisconsin newspaper that it would not announce the results of the Head Start re-competition process this year. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Grants were expected to be awarded in November or December, but Kenneth Wolfe, a spokesman for the Administration for Children and Famil... Read more »

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