Today’s Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee hearing, led by Chairman Aaron Bean (R-FL), covered the consequences of Biden’s border chaos on K-12 education. The flood of illegal migrants across the Southern Border is a lose-lose-lose situation—for the school districts stretched thin, for the taxpayers footing the bill, and for the young migrants themselves. Chairman Be... Read more »
For the third time this Congress, the Committee held a hearing with university presidents to fight back against pervasive antisemitism on college campuses. Witnesses testifying included Mr. Michael Schill, President of Northwestern University; Dr. Jonathan Holloway, President of Rutgers University; and Dr. Gene Block, Chancellor of UCLA. Antisemitic encampments have broken out on campuses across t... Read more »
The Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee convened today to shed light on the nefarious tactics used by Big Labor to unionize workplaces. Chairman Bob Good (R-VA) kicked off the hearing by sorting the array of unfair union tactics into three main buckets: corporate campaigns, neutrality agreements, and salting. Each of these tactics are intended to give Big Labor an unfair leg up in... Read more »
The mission of the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs (OWCP) “is to protect the interests of workers who are injured or become ill on the job, their families and their employers by making timely, appropriate, and accurate decisions on claims, providing prompt payment of benefits and helping injured workers return to gainful work as early as is feasible.” However, ... Read more »
Today, the Committee on Education and the Workforce conducted an oversight hearing on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS or Department). Members held Secretary Xavier Becerra to account as he testified on behalf of the Fiscal Year 2025 budget request and his radical HHS policies. Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) opened the hearing on offense with her opening statement. She criticized ... Read more »
Today, the Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee tackled one of the most shocking and disheartening consequences of October 7: the rise of antisemitism in K-12 schools. Like a virus, antisemitism has infected every level of learning, from university campuses to elementary school classrooms. It should have no foothold in the American school system. Chairman Aaron Bean (R... Read more »
Today, Secretary Miguel Cardona appeared before the Committee to defend the Biden administration’s FY 2025 budget request and account for the Department’s failure to receive a “clean” financial audit in FY 2023—as well as his legacy. The hearing marked the fourth annual oversight hearing of the Biden Department of Education (Department). Attempts by Secretary Cardona to cast the Department in a po... Read more »
There is bipartisan agreement that student loan debt is too high, completion rates are too low, and far too many students are left worse off after paying for postsecondary education than if they had never enrolled in the first place. House Republicans have stepped up to fix the underlying problems by introducing H.R. 6951, the College Cost Reduction Act (CCRA), which will lower college costs for s... Read more »
Today, Acting Secretary Julie Su stepped into the Committee arena for the second time in the 118th Congress to fight for yet another bloated budget request. Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) opened the hearing by addressing the elephant in the room—Acting Secretary Su’s still-pending Senate nomination. She is the longest pending nominee since at least the Civil War. Her status as President Biden’s “... Read more »
In case you missed it, during congressional testimony, Department of Labor (DOL) Acting Secretary Julie Su inadvertently admitted to not giving taxpayers adequate notice for a hearing on the administration’s far-reaching regulatory changes that will impact countless retirement plans, retirees, and savers. On Wednesday, in testimony before the Appropriations Committee, Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC) que... Read more »
