Dear Mr. Dodaro: On July 1, 2010, the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) program was eliminated and replaced by 100 percent direct lending. Since 1965, the FFEL program leveraged hundreds of billions of dollars in private sector capital to help Americans pay for college. However, with the elimination of FFEL, the government now originates and oversees every single new federal higher education l... Read more »
On Tuesday, March 27 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 hearing entitled “Learning from the Upper Big Branch Tragedy.” The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building. On April 5, 2010, an explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine in Montcoal, West Virginia killed 29 miners and severely i... Read more »
On Wednesday, March 28 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 hearing entitled “Reviewing the President’s Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Proposal for the U.S. Department of Education.” The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building. In his Fiscal Year 2013 budget proposal, President Obama reques... Read more »
U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement after the Office of Inspector General for the National Labor Relations Board issued a report documenting allegations of ethical misconduct by recess appointee Terence Flynn: “The Inspector General’s report makes serious allegations that Terence Flynn engaged in ethical misconduct while an ... Read more »
Two years ago today, President Obama signed his health care reform plan into law. His decision reflects the Democrats’ fatal error in believing that one day the public would support their health care scheme. In fact, not even the president is taking the time today to tout what the administration hails as one of his signature achievements. It hasn’t happened and, according to the Wall Street Journa... Read more »
Dear Mr. Secretary: Last Spring, the President signed into law the SOAR Act which reauthorized, for five years, the highly successful Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP). The program, created in response to years of a crisis with respect to the quality of education in the nation's capital, provides low-income District families with scholarships to attend private scholastic institutions in the D... Read more »
Dear Ms. London: We are very pleased that Congress passed, and the President signed into law, the SOAR Act which reauthorized the highly successful D.C. Opportunity Scholarships Program (OSP) as part of "three-sector" approach to educational improvement in the District. We know that as the current Administrator of the OSP, the DC Children and Youth Investment Trust Corporation (the Trust) is uniq... Read more »
Tomorrow marks two years since President Obama signed his government takeover of health care into law. Nancy Pelosi once said Congress had to pass ObamaCare before the public could learn what was in it. Two years later, the nation’s workers and employers are still learning new details and living with the harmful consequences of the law. Since enactment, numerous studies and personal testimony conf... Read more »
U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Chairman Phil Roe (R-TN) released the following statements marking the two-year anniversary of President Obama signing his health care reform plan into law: “Two years ago, President Obama sent the nation down a costly path of bureaucracy and broken promises,” ... Read more »
Today, House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) joined House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA), House Committee on Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers (R-KY), and Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Joe Lieberman (I-CT) in requesting a required evaluation of the Opportu... Read more »
