WASHINGTON – Tomorrow, September 10, at 10:15 a.m., the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, chaired by Rep. Bob Good (R-VA), will hold a hearing titled: “ERISA’s 50th Anniversary: The Value of Employer-Sponsored Health Benefits.” “For 50 years, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) has been the legislative foundation that protects Americans’ access to employer-sp... Read more »
Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement in response to the Biden-Harris administration’s Executive Order that serves up a piping hot platter of pre-election giveaways to its union allies to buy votes ahead of the November election: “It’s less than two months until Election Day, and the Biden-Harris administration’s union allies ar... Read more »
Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx today issued the following statement regarding the Georgia Institute of Technology’s (Georgia Tech) decision to end its partnership with Tianjin University, a blacklisted institution with known ties to the Chinese Communist Party and its military: “The captain of the Titanic didn’t get a gold star for passing out life vests, and it sho... Read more »
WASHINGTON – Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) today issued a subpoena to Governor Tim Walz’s administration to hold it accountable in what has been called the “largest COVID-19 fraud scheme in the nation.” Subpoenas were also issued to the Biden-Harris administration’s U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and its Office of Inspector General (OIG). In 2022, a U... Read more »
WASHINGTON – On Tuesday, September 10, at 10:15 a.m., the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, chaired by Rep. Bob Good (R-VA), will hold a hearing titled: “ERISA’s 50th Anniversary: The Value of Employer-Sponsored Health Benefits.” “For 50 years, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) has been the legislative foundation that protects Americans’ access to employer-... Read more »
Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) released the following statement regarding the Supreme Court’s decision to block, once again, the Biden-Harris administration’s illegal student loan scheme: “I don’t know how many times the Biden-Harris administration needs to hear this before the message sinks in: its student loan schemes are illegal. Quit trying to force SAVE ... Read more »
Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Rep. Keith Self (R-TX) in a letter to Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger are demanding an investigation into whether Education Secretary Miguel Cardona violated the Hatch Act. In the letter, Foxx and Self write: “In recent communications to borrowers and the general public, paid for by taxpayers, Secretary of Education Miguel... Read more »
Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Chairman Bob Good (R-VA) sent a letter to President Biden and Vice President Harris after the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) made historic revisions to recent jobs data. While the Biden-Harris administration has touted job growth throughout its tenure, BLS’s revised data... Read more »
Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Workforce Protections Subcommittee Chairman Kevin Kiley (R-CA) sent a letter to Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Chair Charlotte Burrows regarding potential gross mismanagement of congressionally appropriated funds, which nearly resulted in an administrative furlough for EEOC employees to “offset a funding shor... Read more »
WASHINGTON – Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC), joined by Committee Members, Tim Walberg (R-MI), Glenn Grothman (R-WI), Jim Banks (R-IN), Burgess Owens (R-UT), and Michael Rulli (R-OH), sent a comment letter to Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona urging the Department to halt its proposed rulemaking that allows illegal aliens to access a collection ... Read more »
