The Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, chaired by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), today held a hearing to examine the Department of Labor’s implementation of the Davis-Bacon Act. According to a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, a number of challenges affecting the department’s execution of the Act could potentially reduce earnings for workers or increase project costs to taxpayers... Read more »
Good morning and welcome to today’s hearing. I would like to thank our witnesses for joining us. Our panel has a wide range of knowledge and experience with the Davis-Bacon Act, and your testimony will provide important insight as we work to ensure the law is serving the interests of job-creators, workers, and taxpayers. We are in the middle of an important debate over the country’s fiscal future.... Read more »
Dear Secretaries Solis and Geithner and Commissioner Shulman: Recently, the Employee Benefits Security Administration ("EBSA") of the Department of Labor (the "Department") proposed to change the regulatory structure for and definition of the term "fiduciary" under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA"), Definition of the Term "Fichiciary," (RIN 1210-AB32) . The term fiduci... Read more »
U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) has released the following statement after President Obama’s speech on the national debt crisis: “I appreciate the president has finally acknowledged the severity of our nation’s debt crisis. However, words cannot hide his history of inaction on this issue. “Just two months ago, the president released a job-destroying b... Read more »
This week, Congress will consider a spending agreement that cuts $38.5 billion in federal spending while also taking significant steps to undermine ObamaCare. The agreement is not only a victory for taxpayers concerned about the nation’s unsustainable spending and debt, it is a victory for all Americans who join us in the fight to repeal the government takeover of health care. Here is how – Americ... Read more »
Dear Secretary Vilsack: Last year, Congress passed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 to reauthorize the Child Nutrition Act and the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act. One key provision included in the law requires the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to update the meal pattern and nutrition requirements of the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program.... Read more »
On Thursday, April 14 at 10:00 a.m., the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, chaired by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), will hold a hearing entitled, "Examining the Department of Labor’s Implementation of the Davis-Bacon Act." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The Davis-Bacon Act requires the payment of “prevailing wage rates” on federal construction projec... Read more »
Over the last several months, our committee has been actively examining the current state of education in the nation. We have listened to state and local leaders who are working to improve the quality of education our children receive. Through a series of hearings, we have heard stories of both challenges and opportunities facing schools. The opportunities are found in the determination of countle... Read more »
U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce today held the first in a series of hearings to examine specific education reform proposals. The hearing, entitled “Education Reforms: Promoting Innovation and Flexibility,” brought school superintendents and administrators to Washington, D.C. to discuss solutions needed to fix the problems in the nation’s education system. In his opening remarks... Read more »
Challenges surrounding the administration of the Davis-Bacon Act have long plagued the Department of Labor. In August of 2009, Chairman Kline requested the Government Accountability Office (GAO) conduct a new examination of the implementation of the Davis-Bacon Act. As Bloomberg highlights in the following article, the GAO report found “inadequate and sometimes inaccurate data has been used to set... Read more »
