Leave it to a kid to succinctly get to the heart of a complicated issue. When asked for his thoughts on his city’s ongoing teacher strike, Chicago charter school student Andy Anderson told CBS News the strike forces his friends at traditional public schools to spend the day "sitting at home, frying their brains" when they should have the chance to "come to school and get to learn more, and get a g... Read more »
On Thursday, September 13 at 10:00 a.m., the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), will hold a markup of H.J.Res. 118, a resolution of disapproval of the Obama administration’s proposed plan to waive successful welfare work requirements. The markup will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building. In 1996, Congress passed and Presi... Read more »
Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN), and Republican Study Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) today introduced H.J.Res. 118, a resolution disapproving of President Obama’s effort to roll back the work requirements critical to the success of the bipartisan welfare reform law enacted in 1996. "It is unfortunate, but no... Read more »
Courtesy of the Committees on Ways and Means and Education and the Workforce. BACKGROUND: Sixteen years ago, a Republican-led Congress worked with a Democratic president to fix a broken welfare system. President Bill Clinton rallied the nation to “end welfare as we know it” and his call to action was well founded. Under the old system, 65 percent of families were dependent on welfare for an avera... Read more »
Today, U.S. Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI), Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, and U.S. Rep. John Kline (R-MN), Chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee announced that they will hold a conference call for members of the media tomorrow, September 11, 2012 at 3:00 PM. On the call, Chairman Camp, R... Read more »
On Wednesday, September 12th at 10:00 a.m., the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, chaired by Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN), and the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), will hold a joint hearing entitled “Expanding the Power of Big Labor: The NLRB’s Growing Intrusion into Higher Education.” The hearing will take place in room ... Read more »
U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) released the following statement on President Obama’s failure to comply with the Sequestration Transparency Act: Forty-three straight months of unemployment above 8 percent is a difficult reminder of President Obama’s failed economic policies. Now more than ever, job creators need certainty in order to invest in their b... Read more »
U.S. House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) today sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius asking the department to provide required information on the Head Start re-competition process. In an effort to improve the quality and accountability of the Head Start program, in 2007 Congress passed and ... Read more »
Dear Secretary Sebelius: The Head Start Act requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to ensure the designation renewal system (DRS) put in place in 2007 to increase program accountability is “fair, consistent, and transparent.” However, the department has refused to release any information, including basic facts and figures, during the implementation of the process, falling far ... Read more »
U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement after the Department of Labor released employment data for August: August marked the 43rd consecutive month unemployment remained above 8 percent. Today’s jobs report also reveals more than 360,000 Americans dropped out of the labor force and simply gave up searching for work. Instead of h... Read more »
