Today’s Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee hearing examined the actions of the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) under EBSA chief Lisa Gomez. Under Assistant Secretary Gomez, costly EBSA rules are burdening American workers and retirees. The expensive regulations include—but are not limited to—a woke investment rule, an expansive fiduciary rule, and myriad stifling... Read more »
Today, the Workforce Protections Subcommittee held a hearing that exposed antisemitic discrimination festering in the workplace—and notably in the university setting—in potential violation of the Civil Rights Act. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination in the workplace based on religion, national origin, or race. It applies to both direct antisemitic discrimination and ... Read more »
Today’s Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee hearing covered the partisan National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB or Board) systematic overreach and attack on employee rights. The NLRB is among the most activist federal agencies during the Biden reign. Beginning in January of 2021 with the President’s unheard-of firing of NLRB General Counsel Peter Robb, the Board has pursued a trea... Read more »
Today’s Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee hearing, led by Chairman Aaron Bean (R-FL), covered the consequences of Biden’s border chaos on K-12 education. The flood of illegal migrants across the Southern Border is a lose-lose-lose situation—for the school districts stretched thin, for the taxpayers footing the bill, and for the young migrants themselves. Chairman Be... Read more »
For the third time this Congress, the Committee held a hearing with university presidents to fight back against pervasive antisemitism on college campuses. Witnesses testifying included Mr. Michael Schill, President of Northwestern University; Dr. Jonathan Holloway, President of Rutgers University; and Dr. Gene Block, Chancellor of UCLA. Antisemitic encampments have broken out on campuses across t... Read more »
The Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee convened today to shed light on the nefarious tactics used by Big Labor to unionize workplaces. Chairman Bob Good (R-VA) kicked off the hearing by sorting the array of unfair union tactics into three main buckets: corporate campaigns, neutrality agreements, and salting. Each of these tactics are intended to give Big Labor an unfair leg up in... Read more »
The mission of the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs (OWCP) “is to protect the interests of workers who are injured or become ill on the job, their families and their employers by making timely, appropriate, and accurate decisions on claims, providing prompt payment of benefits and helping injured workers return to gainful work as early as is feasible.” However, ... Read more »
Today, the Committee on Education and the Workforce conducted an oversight hearing on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS or Department). Members held Secretary Xavier Becerra to account as he testified on behalf of the Fiscal Year 2025 budget request and his radical HHS policies. Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) opened the hearing on offense with her opening statement. She criticized ... Read more »
Today, the Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee tackled one of the most shocking and disheartening consequences of October 7: the rise of antisemitism in K-12 schools. Like a virus, antisemitism has infected every level of learning, from university campuses to elementary school classrooms. It should have no foothold in the American school system. Chairman Aaron Bean (R... Read more »
Today, Secretary Miguel Cardona appeared before the Committee to defend the Biden administration’s FY 2025 budget request and account for the Department’s failure to receive a “clean” financial audit in FY 2023—as well as his legacy. The hearing marked the fourth annual oversight hearing of the Biden Department of Education (Department). Attempts by Secretary Cardona to cast the Department in a po... Read more »
