U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Ranking Member Mike Enzi (R-WY), and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT) today sent a letter to members of the Obama administration requesting two overdue reports on the multiemployer... Read more »
House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN), Representative Kristi Noem (R-SD), and Representative Phil Roe, M.D. (R-TN) today urged U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack to reexamine the new meal pattern and nutrition requirements for the National School Lunch and School Breakfast programs. According to recent reports, the USDA’s new regulations ha... Read more »
U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) today sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius requesting answers on a significantly delayed report intended to shed light on the long-term efficacy of the Head Start program. “The Head Start program is designed to help prepare children for ... Read more »
House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN), along with Workforce Protections Subcommittee Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) and Representative Phil Roe, M.D. (R-TN), expanded the committee’s oversight of the Obama administration’s controversial actions concerning sequestration and the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act. In a letter to Jeffrey Zients, Act... Read more »
U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement after the Department of Labor released employment data for September: Creating 104,000 private sector jobs is certainly welcome news, but more than three years into the so-called ‘recovery,’ these modest gains are simply not enough. Millions of families across the country still face seriou... Read more »
U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) responded today to a Department of Labor Office of Inspector General report on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s (MSHA) internal accountability program. Chairman Kline requested the review last year to determine the agency’s progress in implementing the recommendations of a 2007 Inspector General report, as we... Read more »
House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN), along with Workforce Protections Subcommittee Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) and Representative Phil Roe, M.D. (R-TN) today renewed a request for documents and communications related to the development of guidance concerning sequestration and the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act. In a letter to Labor Secre... Read more »
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 »
