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Foxx Subpoenas UAW Local 2325 After It Obstructs Committee Inquiry into Divisive, Antisemitic Resolution

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WASHINGTON – Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) served a subpoena on Association of Legal Aid Attorneys/UAW Local 2325 (Local 2325) President Lisa Ohta after the union failed to respond to Committee oversight inquiries relating to the contentious vote and subsequent adoption of the “Resolution Calling for a Ceasefire in Gaza, an End to the Israeli Occupati... Read more »

Foxx to Cardona and Su: The Pandemic is Over, Taxpayers Demand Federal Employees Return to the Office

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WASHINGTON – Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent letters to Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona and Department of Labor (DOL) Acting Secretary Julie Su raising concerns about the agencies’ extremely low utilization of in-person office space and failure to return to pre-pandemic attendance levels. In the letter to Cardona, Foxx writes: “The Govern... Read more »

@EdWorkforceCmte Continues Antisemitism Investigation with Letter to MIT

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WASHINGTON – Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) President Sally Kornbluth and MIT Corporation Chair Mark P. Gorenberg requesting documents and information regarding MIT’s response to numerous antisemitic incidents on campus and its administration’s failure to protect Jewish students and faculty. ... Read more »

Foxx Forecasts Biden’s SOTU: The Nation Will Tune Him Out

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WASHINGTON – Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement ahead of President Biden’s State of the Union address: "At 9 PM tonight, President Biden will stumble through his speech behind a set of dual teleprompters to tout his mangled, job-killing, and backwards vision for America. But in countless households across the nation, televisi... Read more »

Hearing Recap: DEI Edition

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Divisive. Excessive. Ineffective. These three themes carried the day as the Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee convened to discuss the outsized influence of DEI bureaucracies on college campuses. DEI is a term that garners lots of attention and maybe more definitions. To adherents, it stands for diversity, equity, and inclusion. To bureaucrats, it is a jobs program for social ... Read more »

Chair Owens Delivers Opening Remarks at Hearing Exposing Hypocrisy and Divisiveness of DEI Initiatives

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WASHINGTON – Today, Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee Chairman Burgess Owens (R-UT) delivered the following statement, as prepared for delivery, at a hearing titled "Divisive, Excessive, Ineffective: The Real Impact of DEI on College Campuses": "Today’s hearing addresses a long-growing cancer that resides at the heart of American academic institutions. Unfortunately, it has s... Read more »

Foxx Slams Biden’s Student Voter Registration Scheme

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WASHINGTON – Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) slammed the Biden administration for paying college students through the Federal Work-Study program to register voters ahead of the 2024 election Chairwoman Foxx's remarks (as prepared for delivery): “The Biden administration is desperate to shore up support before the November election. “It’s so desperate, in fact,... Read more »

Owens to Hold Hearing Exposing Hypocrisy and Divisiveness of DEI Initiatives — Tomorrow at 10:15 AM

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WASHINGTON — Tomorrow, at 10:15 a.m., the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development, chaired by Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT), will hold a hearing titled "Divisive, Excessive, Ineffective: The Real Impact of DEI on College Campuses." "As a child growing up in segregation, I experienced separate bathrooms, water fountains, and schools. America has made significant strides, and it's app... Read more »

Chair Bean Delivers Opening Remarks at Hearing Championing Charter School Success

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WASHINGTON – Today, Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee Chairman Aaron Bean (R-FL) delivered the following statement, as prepared for delivery, at a hearing titled "Proven Results: Highlighting the Benefits of Charter Schools for Students and Families": "This is a special time of year. And no, not because cherry blossom season is almost upon us. For children across t... Read more »

Kiley, Cassidy Introduce CRA to Overturn New Biden Regulation Threatening 27 Million American Independent Contractors

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WASHINGTON –Today, U.S. Representative Kevin Kiley (R-CA), chairman of the Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, introduced a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to overturn the Department of Labor’s (DOL) final worker classification rule that threatens the gig economy and jeopardizes the ability of 27 million Americans to work as independent contractors. This c... Read more »

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