Press Releases

On Wednesday, September 12th at 10:00 a.m., 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), will hold a joint hearing entitled “Expanding the Power of Big Labor: The NLRB’s Growing Intrusion into Higher Education.” The hearing will take place in room ... Read more »

U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) released the following statement on President Obama’s failure to comply with the Sequestration Transparency Act: Forty-three straight months of unemployment above 8 percent is a difficult reminder of President Obama’s failed economic policies. Now more than ever, job creators need certainty in order to invest in their b... Read more »

U.S. House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) today sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius asking the department to provide required information on the Head Start re-competition process. In an effort to improve the quality and accountability of the Head Start program, in 2007 Congress passed and ... 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 August: August marked the 43rd consecutive month unemployment remained above 8 percent. Today’s jobs report also reveals more than 360,000 Americans dropped out of the labor force and simply gave up searching for work. Instead of h... Read more »

Republican leaders on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce sent a letter to Labor Secretary Hilda Solis requesting documents, communications, and information on the Labor Department’s contract with McNeely, Pigott, & Fox Public Relations, LLC. In 2009, the Labor Department reportedly awarded nearly half a million dollars from the taxpayer-funded stimulus package to McNeely, Pigott, &... Read more »

U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement recognizing the sixteenth anniversary of the 1996 welfare reform law: It was sixteen years ago today that President Clinton signed into law historic welfare reform legislation. The bipartisan achievement ended welfare policies that fostered dependency and ushered in a new era of personal r... Read more »

U.S. House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) released the following statement after the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a new report on regulatory efforts to combat black lung disease: For years, Republican and Democrat administrations tried unsuccessfully to strengthen protections against black lung disease. The views and proposals of key stakeholder... 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 July: Forty-two straight months of unemployment above eight percent is a painful indictment of the president's failed policies. Whether it's implementing a government takeover of health care, rolling back successful welfare reforms... Read more »

House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN), along with Workforce Protections Subcommittee Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) and Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Chairman Phil Roe, M.D. (R-TN) today sent a letter to Labor Secretary Hilda Solis requesting documents and communications related to the development of controversial guidance concerning sequestrati... Read more »

U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement after a federal court decision to block the Obama administration’s contraception mandate: Religious liberty is a fundamental human right protected by the First Amendment. Private employers should never be forced to pay for services that violate their moral beliefs. Today’s federal court de... Read more »