House Democrats are poised to pass the "PRO Union Bosses Act" (H.R. 842). Among the bill’s most harmful and sweeping provisions would apply California’s unworkable and discredited ABC test to determine employee status in every state in the union. Like many of the Democrats’ worst ideas, the ABC test was enacted in California in a law known as AB 5, which has caused significant pain to workers, ent... Read more »
Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement strongly criticizing the Biden administration’s unprecedented firing of Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) General Counsel Sharon Fast Gustafson, ending her Senate-confirmed, four-year appointment more than two years early, in contravention of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act: “T... Read more »
Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after Democrats passed their partisan budget reconciliation scheme, squandering $1.9 trillion while only allocating nine percent to support COVID-19 related public health initiatives: "We need to call this bill what it is - a payoff for progressives. Instead of targeted COVID-19 relief, this ... Read more »
Democrats are filling their partisan spending scheme with liberal wish lists unrelated to public health initiatives. This sham of a bill preys on an American crisis by senselessly spending taxpayer dollars while those same taxpayers can barely make ends meet. Democrats are struggling to grasp what true COVID-19 relief should look like. Of the $1.9 trillion in their latest spending bill, the CBO es... Read more »
Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement regarding the Senate Parliamentarian’s decision to exclude a radical provision mandating a federal wage hike from the Democrats’ budget reconciliation scheme: "Workers and small businesses face devastating days ahead if a radical $15 federal minimum wage is enacted, hurting most the people De... Read more »
Today, Education and Labor Committee Workforce Leaders Reps. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Fred Keller (R-PA) sent a letter to Acting Secretary of Labor Al Stewart requesting the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) give businesses and workers the formal opportunity to provide input before the Biden administration issues a burdensome and unnecessary Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) on... Read more »
Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after President Biden announced he was nominating Jennifer Abruzzo to be the new National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel: “After firing Peter Robb, the Senate-confirmed National Labor Relations Board General Counsel, President Biden now wants to replace him with Jennifer ... Read more »
Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after President Biden announced plans to close pathways to work for students, job seekers, and job creators by ending 131 innovative, employer-led apprenticeship programs, called Industry-Recognized Apprenticeship Programs (IRAPs): “President Biden’s move to end IRAPs will kill jobs. Period. Doublin... Read more »
Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after Democrats advanced their left wing partisan COVID-19 budget reconciliation scheme along party lines: “Once again, Democrats are ignoring vulnerable, hardworking Americans, choosing instead to favor left wing special interests and those who support their radical agenda. Forcing children to miss... Read more »
Today, Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Republican Leader Rick Allen (R-GA) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery, opposing the Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute at a committee markup of Democrats' partisan budget reconciliation scheme: "The bill before us today amounts to nothing more than a left wing wish list conveniently disguised as COVI... Read more »
