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***MEDIA ADVISORY*** Secretary Duncan to Discuss Education Department’s Fiscal Year 2014 Budget and Policy Priorities
May 17, 2013 - On Tuesday, May 21 at 10:00 a.m., the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), will hold a hearing entitled, “Reviewing the President’s Fiscal Year 2014 Budget Proposal for the U.S. Department of Education.” The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Ra... More

Kline, Roe Applaud Passage of ObamaCare Repeal Bill
May 16, 2013 - House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Chairman Phil Roe (R-TN) issued the following statements today after the U.S. House of Representatives approved H.R. 45, legislation that would repeal Presi... More

Kline Statement: H.R. 45, To repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
May 16, 2013 - Our nation is mired in a jobs crisis and the president’s health care law is making it worse. Since ObamaCare was first enacted in 2010, federal bureaucrats have written nearly 20,000 pages of new regulations. Meanwhile, America’s job creators are struggling to manage the full effects of the law in t... More

Committee Approves Legislation to Prevent Student Loan Interest Rate Cliff
May 16, 2013 - The House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), today approved two pieces of legislation designed to address a pair of problems facing the nation’s higher education system. The Smarter Solutions for Students Act (H.R. 1911), introduced by Chairman Kline and Sub... More

Messer Statement: Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute for H.R. 1949
May 16, 2013 - Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am pleased to offer this Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute to H.R. 1949, the Improving Postsecondary Education Data for Students Act. Few decisions in life are bigger than whether to attend college and which college to attend. Yet many families struggle to wade throu... More

Foxx Statement: Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute for H.R. 1911
May 16, 2013 - Thank you, Chairman Kline, and thank you for your leadership on behalf of students and taxpayers to identify a sustainable solution to the student loan interest rate cliff. As many of us know, on July 1, today’s 3.4 percent subsidized Stafford Loan interest rate is set to double to 6.8 percent for m... More

Kline Statement: Mark up of H.R. 1911, The Smarter Solutions for Students Act, and H.R. 1949, the Improving Postsecondary Education Data for Students Act
May 16, 2013 - Today the committee will consider a pair of higher education bills designed to tackle two significant problems facing students. The first piece of legislation before us today is H.R. 1949, the Improving Postsecondary Education Data for Students Act. Introduced by Rep. Luke Messer of Indiana’s 6th Di... More

Getting Politicians out of the Business of Setting Student Loan Interest Rate
May 14, 2013 - Unless a long-term solution is enacted, millions of student loan borrowers will see their interest rates double on July 1, 2013. To prevent this interest rate cliff, House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training ... More

Committee Leaders Request Information on Allegations of Misconduct by IUOE Local 501
May 14, 2013 - Dear Acting Secretary Harris: We are seriously concerned by allegations that the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE), its officers, and their co-conspirators aided and abetted in and/or embezzled and/or withheld millions of dollars from IUOE Local 501 and its members, prevented IUOE L... More

Committee Leaders Request Information on Richard Griffin and IUOE Local 501
May 14, 2013 - Dear Ms. Ruemmler: We are deeply concerned by allegations that Richard Griffin, while serving as General Counsel of the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE), participated in a conspiracy to conceal the embezzlement of union funds from IUOE Local 501 and its members, as well as deprive ... More

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