Today’s Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Subcommittee hearing addressed Republican solutions to rising health care costs, a top issue for workers and small business owners. This is the first HELP hearing of the 118th Congress. Republicans used the opportunity to chart a path forward on health care reform that cuts red tape and allows free market principles to bring costs down. In his... Read more »
Tomorrow, April 26, 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 “Reducing Health Care Costs for Working Americans and Their Families.” “Rising health care costs are a top issue for millions of American families, workers, and businesses, especially as the cost of living is skyrocketing due to the misguided a... Read more »
WASHINGTON – Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee Chairman Burgess Owens (R-UT) sent a letter to Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona questioning whether the Department is ready to restart student loan repayments. In the letter, Reps. Foxx and Owens write: “As you know, on March 20, 2020... Read more »
At Wednesday’s Axios event titled “Skills over Status: The Shift Towards Skills-Based Hiring,” Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) joined business reporter Erica Pandey in a conversation focused on how the education and workforce development systems can be aligned better to equip our workforce with skills needed to be successful in a 21st century economy. Language... Read more »
WASHINGTON – Today, 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 the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) expressing concerns over the agency’s handling of the taxpayer-funded bailout of multiemployer pension plans following the Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) issu... Read more »
WASHINGTON – Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) made the following statement following the passage of the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, which delivers on a key promise of the Commitment to America and protects female athletes from the Biden administration’s radical regulatory scheme: “Women can rejoice in the fact that House Republicans are ... Read more »
Today’s Workforce Protections Subcommittee hearing featured a six-witness panel covering the Biden administration’s multi-pronged assault on the livelihoods of millions of independent contractors across America. Subcommittee Chair Kevin Kiley’s (R-CA) opening statement highlighted the similarities of his home state’s failed policies to the Biden administration’s actions, such as the proposed Depar... Read more »
WASHINGTON – Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) made the following statement on the Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023, House Republicans’ plan to restore fiscal sanity in America: “America is $31 trillion in debt. What has President Biden done to defuse this ticking timebomb? Absolutely nothing. Instead, the President continues to double down on reckless polic... Read more »
WASHINGTON – Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) spoke on the House floor today in support of H.R. 734, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. The bill strengthens existing protections for women, ensures a level playing field for female athletes, and protects women and girls from the Biden administration’s radical regulatory scheme. Chairwoman Foxx’s rem... Read more »
On Wednesday, April 26, 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 “Reducing Health Care Costs for Working Americans and Their Families.” “Rising health care costs are a top issue for millions of American families, workers, and businesses, especially as the cost of living is skyrocketing due to the misguid... Read more »
