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House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) appeared on Sunday’s edition of C-SPAN’s Newsmakers program to discuss student loans and Republican efforts to prevent a scheduled rate increase on subsidized Stafford Loans without raising taxes or adding to the deficit. Education Week’s Alyson Klein and Congressional Quarterly’s Rich Cohen asked Chairman Kline about the on... Read more »

House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) on Sunday appeared on C-SPAN’s Newsmakers program to discuss the Supreme Court’s pending decision on ObamaCare, as well as House Republicans’ commitment to repeal the law and advance commonsense, step-by-step reforms that lower health care costs. Congressional Quarterly’s Richard Cohen asked Chairman Kline what he thinks wil... Read more »

On Wednesday, June 20 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 “Assessing the Challenges Facing Multiemployer Pension Plans.” The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building. An estimated 10.3 million Americans participate in the multiemployer pension system. Multiemployer... Read more »

U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement after House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) announced an agreement had been reached with the Obama administration to fully implement the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP) in accordance with the law signed last year to renew and expand the program: “I a... Read more »

The House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), today approved legislation to fix the nation’s broken workforce training system and help ensure workers have the skills and education they need to succeed. The Workforce Investment Improvement Act of 2012 (H.R. 4297) will reauthorize the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) and was approved in a vote of 23 to ... Read more »

Today the House Education and the Workforce Committee is considering legislation to fix a broken workforce development system and help put Americans back to work. The Workforce Investment Improvement Act of 2012 (H.R. 4297) will eliminate dozens of ineffective programs; create a single, flexible Workforce Investment Fund; strengthen the role of job creators in workforce development decisions; and ... Read more »

U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia decided to strike down portions of the Obama administration’s “program integrity” regulations: “Tackling the issue of rising college tuit... Read more »

The House Committee on Education and the Workforce will on Thursday consider legislation introduced by Reps. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Howard “Buck” McKeon (R-CA), and Joe Heck (R-NV) that will help unemployed Americans gain the skills and education necessary to fill in-demand jobs. Today, more than 47 job training programs are scattered across the federal government, a bureaucratic mess that fails to... Read more »

On Thursday, June 7 at 10:00 a.m., the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), will hold a markup of the Workforce Investment Improvement Act of 2012 (H.R. 4297). The markup will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building. According to the Department of Labor, nearly 13 million Americans are unemployed despite 3.7 million job openin... 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 May: “News that the unemployment rate ticked back up to 8.2 percent is nothing short of devastating for millions of Americans desperate for jobs. The economy is losing steam and much of the blame lies in the Obama administration’s ... Read more »