House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives approved with bipartisan support H.J.Res. 118, a resolution disapproving of the Obama administration’s attempt to roll back key welfare reforms: We can’t move our country forward by returning to the failed policies of the past. Welfare reform and its strong ... Read more »
The U.S. House of Representatives is currently considering legislation to block the Obama administration's attempt to waive the work requirements of the bipartisan welfare reform law. While leading debate on the House floor, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) urged his colleagues to preserve successful welfare reforms and reject the president's executive overreach by ... Read more »
The Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), today held a hearing entitled, “Assessing College Data: Helping to Provide Valuable Information to Students, Institutions, and Taxpayers.” In preparation for the next reauthorization of the Higher Education Act (HEA), the hearing explored whether the federal higher education data collection system is... Read more »
On Thursday, September 20 at 10:00 a.m., the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), will hold a hearing entitled, “Assessing College Data: Helping to Provide Valuable Information to Students, Institutions, and Taxpayers.” The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building. In an effort to improve transparency, the 2... Read more »
Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) today issued the following statements on a National Labor Relations Board Inspector General report alleging NLRB Acting General Counsel Lafe Solomon committed ethical and criminal violations when he failed to recuse himself from a case in which he had a financ... Read more »
The House Committee on Education and the Workforce today approved legislation to block the Obama administration from unilaterally weakening welfare reform. H.J.Res. 118 will protect the work requirements key to the success of the 1996 welfare reform law, which has helped countless families move out of government dependency and into the workforce. In the videos below, committee Republicans urge the... Read more »
The House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), today approved legislation to prevent President Obama from implementing his plan to waive the work requirements at the heart of the 1996 welfare reform law. "Today the committee has taken an important step toward preserving policies that help American families in need," said Chairman Kline. "The president’s cont... Read more »
Despite claims to the contrary, governors from Pennsylvania to Alaska have expressed significant concerns about the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) July memorandum announcing states could waive the work requirements at the heart of the 1996 welfare reform law. As the House Committee on Education and the Workforce continues today’s markup of H.J.Res. 118, legislation to block the adm... Read more »
Members of the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce today sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Director Joshua Gotbaum requesting documents and communications regarding the Obama administration’s involvement in closed door deals that resulted in Delphi union employees receiving more favorable treatment than their non-union coworke... Read more »
The Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, chaired by Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN), and the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), today held a joint hearing entitled, “Expanding the Power of Big Labor: The NLRB’s Growing Intrusion into Higher Education.” The hearing explored the potential consequences of the National Labor Relation... Read more »
