Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Agriculture Committee Republican Leader Glenn “GT” Thompson (R-PA), Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Oversight and Reform Republican Leader James Comer (R-KY), and Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee Republican Leader Andy Harris (R-MD) sent a letter to the White House Dir... Read more »
Today, Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Republican Leader Rick Allen (R-GA) delivered the following statement, as prepared for delivery, at a subcommittee hearing on the massive fraud and mismanagement in the unemployment insurance (UI) programs: “Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, we had economic shutdowns and the nation experienced historic levels of unemployment, job loss. In... Read more »
Today, the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education held a hearing to discuss the learning loss experienced by students during COVID-19 and made worse by disastrous school closures which, at their peak, affected 97 percent of K-12 students. The learning loss has been catastrophic. The most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress report states that 9-year-olds... Read more »
Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) spoke on the House floor in opposition to S. 1098, the Joint Consolidation Loan Separation Act, because of its flawed design, inability to provide borrowers stuck in joint consolidated loans immediate relief, and failure to protect taxpayers: “While I fully support the underlying intent of S. 1098, the Joint Consolidation ... Read more »
Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC), joined by many colleagues, introduced the Simplified Joint Consolidation Separation Act (H.R. 8909), which will establish a more efficient process for separating joint consolidation loans to ensure timely relief for borrowers. Foxx’s legislation is a commonsense alternative to S. 1098, a bill being considered on the House... Read more »
Today, Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee Republican Leader Burgess Owens (R-UT) delivered the following statement, as prepared for delivery, at a hearing on meeting the academic and emotional needs of students in light of prolonged school closures: "The near-total shutdown of schools at the beginning of the COVID pandemic caused historic disruptions in K-12 educatio... Read more »
Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after the House passed H.R. 1456, the Peace Corps Reauthorization Act of 2022, that includes a costly Peace Corps payout: “Not a single member of Congress has put forward any rationale as to why an arbitrary increase in Federal Employees’ Compensation Act benefits for Peace Corps Volunteers i... Read more »
Ahead of today’s House consideration of H.R. 1456, the Peace Corps Reauthorization Act of 2022, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) submitted the following statement for the Congressional Record slamming a flawed provision in the bill: “I won’t mince words: H.R. 1456 includes a Peace Corps payout. Section 16 of this bill gives injured Peace Corps Volunteers an arbi... Read more »
Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) applauded the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) announcement that it will repeal its mask mandate for children as young as two in Head Start programs across the United States. The announcement comes after Foxx wrote HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra calling for an end to HHS’ interim final rule with comments. “HHS’... Read more »
Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) led 17 of their Republican colleagues in calling on the U.S. Department of Education to release the data it recently collected on how schools have used COVID-19 funding to combat learning loss. In a letter to U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, the members expressed concern over a sig... Read more »
