The disturbing trend of low reading and math scores reported by the Nation’s Report Card (NAEP) took center stage at today’s Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education subcommittee hearing. These latest results continue a decades-long pattern, with NAEP Long-Term Trend scores showing little to no improvement since 1971. Subcommittee Chairman Kevin Kiley (R-CA) started off by giving a syn... Read more »
In Case You Missed It, so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts have crushed merit in America’s higher education system. At schools like Cornell University, left-wing dogma unfairly targets scholars for their race—encouraging the exact kind of race-based discrimination DEI demagogues claim to fight. In fact, the problem has gotten so bad that the Subcommittee on Higher Education a... Read more »
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the workforce by automating routine tasks, streamlining operations, and creating new opportunities across nearly every industry. While AI can be a powerful tool to help businesses cut costs, improve operations, and increase innovation it is also creating concern among workers who are worried about how these changes impact their jobs. As technolo... Read more »
Today, the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions held a hearing to examine how the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) can better protect the retirement savings of American workers. Subcommittee Chairman Rick Allen (R-GA) outlined how the Biden-Harris administration failed to uphold this mission and keep the trust of the American people. “EBSA ran burdensome and inef... Read more »
In Case You Missed It… Education and Workforce Committee Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) joined Newsmax’s Jon Glasgow to discuss the Supreme Court’s ruling allowing the Trump administration to move forward with rightsizing the Department of Education. On Republicans returning power to students and states: “The people in November gave us a mandate to address this nation’s education crisis. That’s what ... Read more »
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) compliance assistance programs, such as the Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP), provide incentives to employers to reduce workplace injuries and illnesses without punishing job creators. Today, the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections held a hearing to examine how to better support these programs. Subcommittee Chairman Ryan Mackenzie (R-... Read more »
In Case You Missed It...Education and Workforce Committee Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) joined NewsNation to discuss the Committee’s hearing with the leaders of Georgetown University, UC Berkeley, and The City University of New York (CUNY) to examine the root causes of antisemitism on America’s college campuses. Why were Georgetown, UC Berkeley, and CUNY selected to testified? “We wanted to make su... Read more »
Today, the Education and Workforce Committee held a hearing to examine the main drivers of antisemitism on college campuses such as polices on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), foreign funding, unions, and faculty members that espouse antisemitism. Committee Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) discussed how DEI policies perpetuate antisemitic ideology. “The DEI ideology embraced by so many universit... Read more »
In Case You Missed It, Education and Workforce Committee Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) and House Republican Leadership Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) sent a letter to Columbia University Acting President Claire Shipman requesting clarification on a variety of texts and emails sent by Shipman appearing to drown out Pro-Israel voices on campus and downplay fears of Jewish students. The letter also a... Read more »
Today, the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education held a hearing to examine the impacts of child care on today’s economy. Subcommittee Chairman Kevin Kiley (R-CA) started the hearing by highlighting how costly and inaccessible child care has disastrous effects. “The high standards in health, safety, and caregiver to child ratios are necessary to provide for the needs ... Read more »
