WASHINGTON – Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) today served a subpoena on the Acting Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), Julie Su, seeking information about the Biden-Harris administration’s efforts to undercut the livelihoods of tens of millions of Americans who choose to work as independent contractors. The Biden-Harris administration has repeated... Read more »
WASHINGTON – Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter today to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona lambasting the Biden-Harris administration for obstructing the Committee’s congressional oversight efforts regarding student loans. The letter follows the Committee’s subpoenas of five loan servicers. The Biden-Harris administration’s Education Department is ... Read more »
WASHINGTON – Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) released a report detailing how unions put politics over members while pursuing antisemitic activism. The report includes a thorough accounting of rampant antisemitic activity within the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys (ALAA), a United Auto Workers local union, following ALAA’s passage of an anti-Israel re... Read more »
WASHINGTON – On Monday, September 23, at 6:30 p.m., Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party Chairman John Moolenaar (R-MI) will speak on a panel at the Alexander Hamilton Society's event "Back in Class: Foreign Funding & Malign Influence on U.S. Higher Education." The panel discussion will focus on malign foreign eff... Read more »
WASHINGTON – Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) today celebrated the U.S. House of Representatives' move to protect students from indoctrination on college campuses and return to a marketplace of ideas. The House voted in favor of H.R. 3724, the End Woke Higher Education Act, a bill to ensure colleges and universities are not forced to meet diversity, equity, and... Read more »
WASHINGTON – As part of House Republicans’ effort to ensure the next generation is able to engage meaningfully in the marketplace of ideas, today Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) spoke on the House Floor in support of H.R. 3724, the End Woke Higher Education Act. The bill protects First Amendment freedoms on campuses and ensures that colleges and universities a... Read more »
WASHINGTON — On Wednesday, September 25, at 10:15 a.m., the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education, chaired by Rep. Aaron Bean (R-FL), will hold a hearing titled “Innovative Teacher Preparation: Properly Equipping America’s Educators.” “Communities across the U.S. are facing teacher shortages. In the 2023-2024 school year, 86 percent of public schools struggled to hir... Read more »
WASHINGTON – Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) today celebrated the U.S. House of Representatives’ move to protect Americans’ retirements from “woke” standards that jeopardize their goals. With a tally of 217 to 206, the House voted to advance H.R. 5339, the Protecting Americans’ Investments from Woke Policies Act, which seeks to ensure financial institutions ar... Read more »
WASHINGTON – Today, as part of House Republicans’ fight to save Americans from wokeism, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) spoke on the House Floor in support of H.R. 5339, the Protecting Americans’ Investments from Woke Policies Act. The bill protects Americans’ savings from radical left-wing policies by ensuring financial advisors are focused on maximizing retu... Read more »
WASHINGTON — Tomorrow, September 19, at 10:30 a.m., Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Republican members of the Committee will meet with University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill fraternity brothers who protected the American flag during antisemitic campus protests. What: A meeting with Committee Republican members and four UNC fraternity brothers to discuss ... Read more »
