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Hearing Recap: College Sports Edition

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Today, the Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) and the Higher Education and Workforce Development (HEWD) subcommittees held a joint hearing covering the NLRB’s overreach into college athletics. In recent years, name, image, and likeness compensation has caused political controversy and legal uncertainty for college athletics. In the words of former Obama chief of staff Rahm Emmanuel, th... Read more »

Columbia University President and Board Chairs to Testify at Antisemitism Hearing

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On Wednesday, April 17, at 10:15 a.m., the Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Virginia Foxx (R-NC), will hold a full Committee hearing titled “Columbia in Crisis: Columbia University’s Response to Antisemitism.” “Some of the worst cases of antisemitic assaults, harassment, and vandalism on campus have occurred at Columbia University,” said Chairwoman Foxx. “Due to the severe and ... Read more »

Foxx on Julie Su's Failed Year as "Acting Labor Secretary"

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WASHINGTON – Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) spoke on the House Floor to mark the one-year anniversary of Julie Su's tenure as "Acting Secretary of Labor" and requested once again that President Biden withdraw Julie Su’s nomination for Secretary of Labor. Chairwoman Foxx's remarks (as prepared for delivery): "Today marks the one-year anniversary of Julie Su’s ... Read more »

Foxx: Biden’s FY25 Budget Is a Menagerie of Failed Policies

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WASHINGTON – Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement regarding the release of President Biden’s FY 2025 budget proposal: “President Biden’s FY25 budget is not a fiscal panacea – it will make the nation keel over from shouldering more unsustainable and irresponsible debt. Under his proposal, the Departments of Education, Labor, and... Read more »

Chairs Good, Owens to Hold Joint Hearing on Student Athletes — Tomorrow at 10:15 AM

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WASHINGTON– Tomorrow, at 10:15 a.m., the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, chaired by Rep. Bob Good (R-VA), and the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development, chaired by Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT), will hold a joint hearing titled "Safeguarding Student-Athletes from NLRB Misclassification." "The weaponized NLRB consistently misinterprets the National Labor R... Read more »

Foxx Subpoenas UAW Local 2325 After It Obstructs Committee Inquiry into Divisive, Antisemitic Resolution

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WASHINGTON – Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) served a subpoena on Association of Legal Aid Attorneys/UAW Local 2325 (Local 2325) President Lisa Ohta after the union failed to respond to Committee oversight inquiries relating to the contentious vote and subsequent adoption of the “Resolution Calling for a Ceasefire in Gaza, an End to the Israeli Occupati... Read more »

Foxx to Cardona and Su: The Pandemic is Over, Taxpayers Demand Federal Employees Return to the Office

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WASHINGTON – Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent letters to Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona and Department of Labor (DOL) Acting Secretary Julie Su raising concerns about the agencies’ extremely low utilization of in-person office space and failure to return to pre-pandemic attendance levels. In the letter to Cardona, Foxx writes: “The Govern... Read more »

@EdWorkforceCmte Continues Antisemitism Investigation with Letter to MIT

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WASHINGTON – Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) President Sally Kornbluth and MIT Corporation Chair Mark P. Gorenberg requesting documents and information regarding MIT’s response to numerous antisemitic incidents on campus and its administration’s failure to protect Jewish students and faculty. ... Read more »

Foxx Forecasts Biden’s SOTU: The Nation Will Tune Him Out

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WASHINGTON – Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement ahead of President Biden’s State of the Union address: "At 9 PM tonight, President Biden will stumble through his speech behind a set of dual teleprompters to tout his mangled, job-killing, and backwards vision for America. But in countless households across the nation, televisi... Read more »

Hearing Recap: DEI Edition

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Divisive. Excessive. Ineffective. These three themes carried the day as the Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee convened to discuss the outsized influence of DEI bureaucracies on college campuses. DEI is a term that garners lots of attention and maybe more definitions. To adherents, it stands for diversity, equity, and inclusion. To bureaucrats, it is a jobs program for social ... Read more »

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