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Hearing Recap: College Sports Edition

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Today, the Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) and the Higher Education and Workforce Development (HEWD) subcommittees held a joint hearing covering the NLRB’s overreach into college athletics. In recent years, name, image, and likeness compensation has caused political controversy and legal uncertainty for college athletics. In the words of former Obama chief of staff Rahm Emmanuel, th... 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 »

Hearing Recap: Charter School Edition

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Today’s Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee hearing, led by Chairman Aaron Bean (R-FL), covered the role charter schools play in the thriving school choice ecosystem. Charter schools are relatively new in terms of the American K-12 education system but already having a profound impact on many young lives. Today’s parents have decided to send nearly four million studen... Read more »

Hearing Recap: Retirement Edition

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Today’s Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee hearing covered the partisan Department of Labor’s (DOL) attempt to limit retirement options for millions of American workers. In proposing the so-called “Retirement Security Rule,” the administration is out way over its skis. DOL has jurisdiction over employer-managed retirement accounts, or 401(k)s, but not the entire retirement invest... Read more »

Hearing Recap: Wage and Hour Division Edition (Part II)

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Today, the Workforce Protections Subcommittee held an oversight hearing covering the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division (WHD). The hearing’s lone witness, WHD Administrator Jessica Looman, undertook the tall task of answering for her federal office’s job-killing, burdensome regulations. Subcommittee Chairman Kevin Kiley (R-CA) laid out the case against WHD overregulation with his o... Read more »

Hearing Recap: Missing Children Edition

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Today’s Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee hearing, led by Chairman Aaron Bean (R-FL), covered national efforts to prevent the abduction and exploitation of children. Chairman Bean opened the hearing by expressing his support for The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), the national clearinghouse and resource center protecting missing and exploit... Read more »

Hearing Recap: CTE Edition

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Today’s Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education (ECESE) Subcommittee hearing, led by Chairman Aaron Bean (R-FL), covered the role career and technical education (CTE) plays in filling America’s 8.8 million open jobs. With support from the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act, CTE programs help K-12 students across the country develop new skills and prepare for the workfo... Read more »

The Facts on Biden’s Anti-Freedom, Anti-Growth Joint Employer Rule

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Today, the House will vote on H.J. Res. 98, a Congressional Review Act resolution that will nullify the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) final joint employer rule, which recklessly holds a company liable for employees it does not employ or directly supervise. Here’s what you need to know about H.J. Res. 98 and the Biden NLRB’s anti-freedom, anti-growth joint employer scheme: BACKGROUND: · T... Read more »

What They’re Saying: Biden NLRB’s Joint Employer Standard Will Stymie Businesses and Destabilize the Economy

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The Biden National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) joint employer standard revives the Obama-era Browning-Ferris decision and implements a similarly broad and boundless standard that will only create more confusion, impose massive costs and liability on American businesses, and further destabilize the economy. The last time Democrats implemented this senseless rule, the effects were devastating. An... Read more »

Hearing Recap: Innovative Health Care Edition

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Today, the Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Subcommittee held a hearing to discuss innovative health care solutions to bring down costs for small businesses and working Americans. As premium prices spike, business owners are turning to new and interesting ways to cut health care costs. One potential solution growing in popularity is direct contracting, which involves an employer that... Read more »

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