In case you missed it, the following op-ed by Rep. Howard P. “Buck” McKeon (R-CA) appears in The Hill newspaper today as part of a special section on health care reform. McKeon is the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee and a member of the House Republican Health Care Task Force. Cure should not be worse than disease By Rep. Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) Healthcare reform is at... Read more »
Adding his voice to a growing chorus of opinion leaders, legal experts, and hardworking Americans, the Republican Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives has penned a compelling defense of secret ballot voting rights for American workers. The op-ed from Rep. John Boehner (R-OH), slated for publication in the March 2009 issue of U.S. News and World Report, exposes the misnamed Employee Free Cho... Read more »
To help workers who are struggling to balance the demands of work and family, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) today introduced the Family-Friendly Workplace Act (H.R. 933), a bill that will eliminate barriers in federal law that prevent private sector workers from choosing more flexible work arrangements. McMorris Rodgers is a long-time advocate for working women and men and has proposed simila... Read more »
Responding to media reports that parental options in education are coming under fire by some in the education establishment, the House education committee’s top Republican has called on U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to ensure parental options are protected and expanded, particularly for students in struggling schools. Rep. Howard P. “Buck” McKeon (R-CA) wrote to Secretary Duncan yesterda... Read more »
Rep. Howard P. “Buck” McKeon (R-CA), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, today called on House Democrats to hold hearings on legislation that would replace federally-supervised secret ballot organizing elections with a public sign-up process that makes workers’ votes public for all to see. Numerous media accounts have indicated that Democrats are on the verge of int... Read more »
The Department of Labor reported this morning that the U.S. economy shed 598,000 jobs in the month of January, the largest single-month total since 1974, bringing the unemployment rate to 7.6 percent. In response to these staggering figures, the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee’s top Republican, Rep. Howard P. “Buck” McKeon (R-CA), issued the following statement: “There is no doubt about t... Read more »
For the third time in less than two years, congressional Democrats today advanced the most fundamental shift in civil rights law in decades while preventing Republicans from offering a single amendment. With final passage of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, the bill now goes to the President without a single Republican amendment ever having received the consideration of the full U.S. Hous... Read more »
Rep. Howard P. “Buck” McKeon (R-CA), the senior Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, today harshly criticized Democrats’ $825 billion stimulus package, arguing that it fails to create jobs and provide necessary tax relief to working families and small businesses. Instead, McKeon noted, the bill is little more than a bloated government spending package cobbled together in the... Read more »
The following op-ed, penned by Rep. John Kline (R-MN) and published in the Star Tribune, explains how the anti-worker card check plan would undermine workers’ basic democratic rights. Kline is the senior Republican member of the Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee and a leading voice in the fight to protect the secret ballot for workers. A recent article characterized the debate s... Read more »
Rep. Howard P. “Buck” McKeon (R-CA), the senior Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, today announced the Republican leadership for the panel’s five subcommittees. Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) has been named Senior Republican on the Workforce Protections Subcommittee. Rep. Price has served on the Education and Labor Committee since coming to Congress in 2005 and has been a leading v... Read more »
