As we celebrate National Charter School Week, watch Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Republican Leader Rep. Rick Allen (R-GA), talk about the importance of charter schools in giving families the opportunity to decide the best educational environment for their students. To watch Representative Allen's remarks, click here. Read more »
Last week, Democrats spent the better half of a day grilling Labor Secretary Acosta with shots aimed at undermining the roaring economy and bemoaning the additional hard-earned money sitting in American pockets. They followed up this week with a hearing hailing labor unions as the cure for many of society’s ills and pointing to union achievements from 80 years ago as evidence. Today, we’re seeing ... Read more »
Chairman Bobby Scott (VA-03) and Ranking Member Virginia Foxx (NC-05) released the following joint statement after the White House summit on surprise medical billing. “Last month, this Committee held the first-ever congressional hearing on surprise medical billing. That discussion revealed bipartisan support for a solution that protects patients and their families from the financial and emotional ... Read more »
Thank you for yielding. Thank you also, Mr. Chairman, for helping to make this a bipartisan bill. You and I have spoken several times over the past few weeks as the bill before the committee this morning has taken shape. When our roles were reversed, we worked closely in a similar fashion to produce, to report, and ultimately to pass much-needed bipartisan reforms to the Juvenile Justice Act and t... Read more »
Thank you for yielding. Organized labor has a long history in the American workforce. Their early advocacy for fairness and decent treatment left an important legacy, one unfortunately that the modern labor movement has appeared to have abandoned. I grew up in a union household. My father was a machinist and union organizer for part of his career, and upon graduating from high school, I went to wo... Read more »
The Committee on Education and Labor just unanimously reported H.R. 2480, the bipartisan Stronger Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (Stronger CAPTA). Next stop: the Floor of the House of Representatives. To watch the video, click here. To read the Stronger CAPTA fact sheet, click here. # # # Read more »
Today, four Democrats and four Republicans on the Committee on Education and Labor introduced legislation to strengthen federal efforts to prevent and treat child abuse. The Stronger Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (Stronger CAPTA) is a bold, bipartisan response to combat the rising rates of child maltreatment experienced as the opioid crisis has devastated families and communities across... Read more »
Thank you for yielding. Thank you, Secretary Acosta, for coming before the Committee today. It’s a pleasure having you here to talk about the Department of Labor’s policies and priorities on the heels of such excellent news about the booming U.S. economy. With record-low unemployment and a job seekers’ market, it’s a good time to be an American worker. The Department of Labor is responsible for ke... Read more »
It’s a good time to be an American worker. Job openings and wages are up, unemployment is down, and opportunities are vast. Today at a hearing on the policies and priorities of the Department of Labor (DOL), we got a better look at the American workforce and just how far we as a nation have come. Since the beginning of 2017, the economy has created 5.1 million jobs with 3.2 million created since t... Read more »
Democrats and health care legislation. Every time they get in a room together, American workers pay the price—in hard-earned money and peace of mind. Today, a Pelosi-controlled committee that doesn’t have expertise in or jurisdiction over health care is meeting to discuss the future of Medicare-for-All, the latest push in Democrat efforts to take away options and put the government in charge of ev... Read more »
