The Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), today held a hearing entitled, “Keeping College Within Reach: Improving Access and Affordability through Innovative Partnerships.” “America is home to the greatest higher education system in the world,” Rep. Foxx said, noting our nation’s top-ranked research universities and diverse postsecondary opp... Read more »
House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Chairman Phil Roe (R-TN) today asked the Department of Labor (DOL) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to provide information surrounding a regulatory proposal that was recently posted and later removed from OMB’s website. A press report suggests the withdrawn regul... Read more »
The House of Representatives today approved the E. Clay Shaw Jr. Missing Children’s Assistance Reauthorization Act (H.R. 3092) with strong bipartisan support. Introduced by Representative Brett Guthrie (R-KY), H.R. 3092 will fund the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children through Fiscal Year 2018 and strengthen programs under current law to prevent the abduction and sexual exploitation... Read more »
House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Subcommittee on Workforce Protections Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) issued the following joint statement after the Department of Labor finalized changes to the companion care exemption under the Fair Labor Standards Act: Today’s regulatory action by the Department of Labor will raise costs and limit access to in-home care for... Read more »
House Republican leaders today sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder expressing concerns about the Obama administration’s effort to shut down a successful private school choice program in Louisiana that is providing hope to students and families. Signed by House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), Republican Conference Chair... Read more »
This week the House Education and the Workforce Committee will hold three subcommittee hearings. Each hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building. On Wednesday, September 18th at 10:00 a.m., the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training will hold a hearing entitled, “Keeping College Within Reach: Improving Access and Affordability through Innovative Part... Read more »
House Education and the Workforce Committee Republicans, led by Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-KY), today introduced H.R. 3092, the Missing Children’s Assistance Reauthorization Act. Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI) signed on as original cosponsors of the bill, which will fund the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and includes language from H.R. 3081, legislation intr... Read more »
The Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), today held a hearing to examine the steps higher education institutions are taking to better support servicemembers and veterans who are working to earn a postsecondary degree or obtain valuable job training skills. “Since 2009 the Post-9/11 GI Bill has helped nearly one million veterans and their fa... Read more »
The House of Representatives today approved the Streamlining Claims Processing for Federal Contractor Employees Act (H.R. 2747). Introduced by Subcommittee on Workforce Protections Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) and Ranking Member Joe Courtney (D-CT), the bill moves responsibility for wage claims adjustments for federally-contracted workers from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to the Depar... Read more »
The House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), today held a hearing to examine opportunities to improve education research and the Institute of Education Sciences (IES). Established in 2002 under the Education Sciences Reform Act, the Institute of Education Sciences gathers information on education progress, conducts research on educational practices in the ... Read more »
