Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after Education and Labor Committee Democrats unveiled their piece of the budget reconciliation scheme: “Acts of desperation will never yield substantive policy and progress. House Democrats are operating under the impression that their sole imperative for the beginning of the 117th Congress ... Read more »
Ahead of next week’s Education and Labor Committee markup of a budget reconciliation bill that will likely include a massive wish list from the far-left, the Committee’s Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget Rob Fairweather requesting details on unused COVID-19 relief funds. In the letter, Republican Leader Foxx writes: “The ... Read more »
Today, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee will hold a confirmation hearing for Miguel Cardona, President Biden’s nominee to lead the Department of Education. Ahead of today’s confirmation hearing, Education and Labor Committee Republicans have a few questions: Will Mr. Cardona work with states to safely reopen America’s schools? The CDC recently stated that America’s schoo... Read more »
House Committee on Education and Labor Ranking Member Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), Representative Tim Walberg (R-Mich.), and Representative Michael Cloud (R-Texas) today wrote to the Biden-Harris Transition Team and White House Counsel’s office about President Biden’s “unprecedented removal” of National Labor Relations Board (N... Read more »
Today, House Education and Labor Committee Ranking Member Virginia Foxx (R-NC), House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-KY), and House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent a letter to the President of the University of Pennsylvania, Amy Gutmann, expressing concerns over the university’s close relationship with the Biden family and recent revelatio... Read more »
Yesterday, the New York Times reported that “federal health officials weighed in with a call for returning children to the nation’s classrooms as soon as possible, saying the ‘preponderance of available evidence’ indicates that in-person instruction can be carried out safely as long as mask-wearing and social distancing are maintained.” Parents across America have been caught in an inescapable vic... Read more »
Today, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), the Republican Leader of the House Committee on Education and Labor, and Rep. John Moolenaar (R-MI), the co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on Education Innovation and Opportunity, announced their House Resolution celebrating this week as National School Choice Week. “A high-quality education is an indispensable tool, and America’s children deserve an education ... Read more »
Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), released the list of new Republican members who were selected by the Republican Steering Committee to serve on the Education and Labor Committee in the 117th Congress. “The Education and Labor Committee plays a foundational role in Congress, covering issues that impact Americans at all stages of life – from c... Read more »
K-12 Students The Education Department recently announced more than $54 billion in emergency relief funding is now available to support the safe reopening of K-12 schools. In addition to the money for public schools, there is an additional $2.75 billion to help private K-12 schools serve their students through this pandemic. Studies show that school closures have had damaging impacts on our nation... Read more »
Today, Republican Leader of the Committee on Education and Labor, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), criticized President-elect Joe Biden’s massive $1.9 trillion liberal wish list masquerading as a COVID-19 package: “President-elect Biden’s plan just throws around more taxpayer money with no regard for its efficacy and regurgitates left-wing policy priorities. This proposal calls for a job-killing $15 min... Read more »
