The Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, chaired by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), held a hearing this week to explore how the Obama administration’s unprecedented onslaught of regulations is affecting American workers and job creators. “Federal policies play an important role in ensuring safe and healthy workplaces and protecting the basic rights of hardworking men and women,” Chairman Walberg stated... Read more »
House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement today after the Senate passed a bipartisan, bicameral bill to replace No Child Left Behind and improve K-12 education: Senators Murray and Alexander are to be commended for their leadership on a vitally important issue. They were the partners we needed in the Senate to get the job done. After year... Read more »
Republican and Democratic lawmakers today expressed strong optimism that they will soon introduce a legislative proposal to help strengthen the retirement security of working families and ensure retirement advisors protect their clients' best interests. As bipartisan concerns continue to grow over a regulatory proposal by the Department of Labor that many fear will make it harder for low- and midd... Read more »
The Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, chaired by Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN), held a hearing this week on principles guiding a bipartisan effort to strengthen the retirement security of workers and ensure retirement advisors protect their clients’ best interests. Members also discussed widespread concerns regarding a recent Department of Labor (DOL) proposal that will make it harde... Read more »
House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Ranking Member Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (D-VA) issued the following statements today after the House passed a bipartisan, bicameral bill to replace No Child Left Behind and improve K-12 education. Known as the Every Student Succeeds Act (S. 1177), the bill passed the House by a vote of 359 to 64. “Today, we helped turn the p... Read more »
On Wednesday, December 2 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, “Principles for Ensuring Retirement Advice Serves the Best Interests of Working Families and Retirees.” The hearing will take place in room 2261 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The Department of Labor has proposed a rule that will... Read more »
Today bipartisan leaders on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions released the final legislative text for improving K-12 education and replacing No Child Left Behind. The final bill is being released after legislative proposals passed separately by the House and Senate in July and embodies the reforms agreed to by memb... Read more »
Today, the House-Senate conference committee reached agreement on a proposal to improve K-12 education and replace No Child Left Behind. The agreement represents a compromise between the House-passed Student Success Act (H.R. 5) and the Senate-passed Every Child Achieves Act of 2015 (S. 1177). “No Child Left Behind has been failing students, parents, teachers, and state and local education leaders... Read more »
The Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), and the Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations, chaired by Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC), today held a hearing to review the Department of Education’s Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA), a performance-based organization responsible for managing the financial aid system. Mem... Read more »
On Thursday, November 19th, at 10:00 a.m., the House and Senate conference committee to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act will hold a second meeting in HVC-201 of the Capitol Visitor Center. At the conference committee’s next meeting, members are expected to consider amendments to the House-Senate proposed framework. WHAT: House-Senate joint conference committee on K-12 educat... Read more »
