Press Releases

Teachers unions wield almost total control over traditional government school reopenings and mask mandates across the country. Read more »

Today, House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (NC-05), Congressman Rick W. Allen (GA-12), House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (NY-21), Republican Study Committee Chairman Jim Banks (IN-03), and Senator Mike Braun (R-IN) led 136 Representatives and 47 Senators in filing an amicus brief to the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) in the upcoming case ... Read more »

Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) released the following statement after the Department of Labor issued a final rule to eliminate a Trump-era reporting requirement that added transparency to labor organization finances and union boss spending: “Secretary Walsh receives his paycheck from the American people, yet he is taking orders from Big Labor. Ev... Read more »

Democrats have been claiming for months that Critical Race Theory (CRT) is not taught in K-12 schools. They have called claims to the contrary by concerned parents a red herring. We now have even more evidence that liberal teachers unions and the leftist media have been misleading the American people all along. According to journalist John Murawski, lesson plans, school curricula, teacher surveys,... Read more »

Democrats are still hawking their so-called Build Back Better Act to the American people, but they aren’t telling them the whole story. Biden’s radical bill treats small business owners like criminals. In Case You Missed It via Fox Business, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Small Business Committee Republican Leader Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO) wrote an op-ed a... Read more »

Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after the Biden administration announced it would extend the pause on student loan repayments yet again: “The president is continuing to use the pandemic to push his preferred progressive policies. Rather than adequately preparing and working with stakeholders to ensure a smooth transition in... Read more »

Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement on President Biden’s remarks: “The Biden administration’s focus on wrong-headed policy, like the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) authoritarian vaccination-and-testing diktat, has directly contributed to the COVID-19 testing shortage now plaguing the country. But rather ... Read more »

Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Oversight and Reform Committee Republican Leader James Comer (R-KY) sent a follow-up letter to the Secretary of the Department of Labor (DOL) Marty Walsh to reiterate numerous concerns about DOL operations, including how the majority of DOL employees have yet to return to in-person work and that the Secretary himself h... Read more »

Many institutions of higher education are not taking the threat of China seriously. A recent report by the Foundation For Defense of Democracies (FDD) makes clear that Confucius Institutes (CIs) are not the only way the Communist Chinese Party (CCP) is trying to gain a foothold in the United States. There are multiple other ways the CCP is infiltrating college campuses, including leveraging Chines... Read more »

Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (NC-05) and Congressman Chris Jacobs (NY-27) released the following statements after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced today it was endorsing a test-to-stay option for students to remain in the classroom following the Members' successful advocacy. “Keeping children out of the classroom for months on end was a majo... Read more »