House Education and the Workforce Committee Republicans today released the final video in a series highlighting the four key principles of the Student Success Act (H.R. 5), legislation to rewrite federal K-12 education law. Watch Rep. Luke Messer (R-IN) explain how the bill will encourage state and local efforts to improve education options and empower parents: Parents should have more opportuniti... Read more »
Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Chairman Phil Roe (R-TN) and Workforce Protections Subcommittee Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) have invited a senior official with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to testify at a joint hearing on the delay of the ObamaCare employer mandate. The hearing will take place on Tuesday, July 23 at 10 a.m. in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office... Read more »
The chairmen of a pair of House subcommittees want to question the Obama administration's regulations chief over the decision to delay a key component of the Affordable Care Act. For Howard Shelanski, the June 23 grilling would be a baptism under fire, since he reported for duty less than a week ago. Shelanski began work as director of the little known but influential White House Office of Inform... Read more »
House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN), Small Business Committee Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO), and Subcommittee on Workforce Protections Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) today sent a letter to the Department of Labor requesting documents and communications concerning its recent decision to overturn decades of policy and apply Davis-Bacon wage requirements to survey technic... Read more »
No one understands the needs of students better than the parents, teachers, and school administrators who spend time with them every day. Yet current law assumes Washington knows best, mandating one-size-fits-all accountability requirements that restrict states’ ability to effectively evaluate and improve student achievement. It’s time to end this top-down approach and give state and local leaders... Read more »
House Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement after Senate Democrats once again blocked action on a long-term, market-based student loan interest rate solution: The stubbornness of Senate Democrat leadership is astonishing. We have a near perfect opportunity for bipartisan, bicameral agreement on an issue affecting students and their families, yet Majo... Read more »
Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC), House Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN), and Rep. Alcee L. Hastings (D-FL) today introduced the Supporting Academic Freedom through Regulatory Relief Act (H.R. 2637). Building on bipartisan legislation that passed the House last year, H.R. 2637 will repeal three unnecessary federal regulat... Read more »
Republican committee leaders asked the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to analyze the budgetary effects of delaying ObamaCare’s employer mandate and reporting requirements. Last week, the Obama administration decided to ignore specific requirements in the health care law as mandated by Congress, conceding their signature legislative achievement is unworkable. This action will alter previous CBO ... Read more »
The Senate is set to consider on Wednesday the Keep Student Loans Affordable Act, in what could be the chamber’s only reaction to the recent doubling of a low student-loan interest rate. We are all for taming college costs. But lawmakers should reject this pathetic non-solution and put their effort instead into finalizing a compromise plan that is well within their reach. The Senate vote is on wh... Read more »
Today’s hearing is part of an effort that began last Congress to improve the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act. In 2011 the House passed with strong bipartisan support a package of reforms that would have strengthened the FECA program. Among other provisions, the bill would have improved administrative efficiency, modernized various benefits, and strengthened the overall integrity of the law. Wh... Read more »
