At the historic White House health care summit, Republican Leader John Boehner made it clear that ObamaCare would lead to taxpayer funding of abortion. In response, Speaker Pelosi declared “there is no public funding of abortion” in the bills that would become law. Despite Speaker Pelosi’s bold assurance, some states aren’t convinced. According to Newsweek, the health care fight on Capitol Hill ma... Read more »
Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, today said federal and state investigations of the tragic explosion that killed 29 miners in the Upper Big Branch mine must carefully scrutinize the actions of the federal mine safety agency, particularly amid troubling indications that the agency failed to increase oversight of the mine despite repeat viol... Read more »
Statement of Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-KY) Remarks as Prepared for Delivery Thank you Madam Chair, and good morning. We’re here today to examine corporal punishment in schools and its effect on academic success. We’ll look not only at questions of how corporal punishment is currently used in some states and schools, but also broader issues such as the definition of what constitutes corporal punishmen... Read more »
Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee’s senior Republican member, today warned sensitive student information could be at risk through vast data warehouses that collect private, personally identifiable information on school children. The committee heard testimony on the risks to students’ personal information during a hearing on data collection in the K-12 education s... Read more »
Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee’s senior Republican member, delivered the following statement this afternoon on H.Res. 1236, a congressional resolution honoring the coal miners who perished in the Upper Big Branch Mine-South in Raleigh County, West Virginia. Read more »
I rise today to honor the memory of the 29 miners who lost their lives in the Upper Big Branch mine and to express our gratitude to the rescue teams who bravely pursued a tragic recovery mission. The nation watched in collective apprehension last week as mine rescue teams rushed from the coal fields of Appalachia to the small town of Whitesville to help their own. For a week, we all clung to the h... Read more »
We’re here this morning to examine how data can be used to inform educational outcomes. To be sure, educational data systems play an integral role in efforts to create more sophisticated academic performance measures. In other words, data help us understand how our students – and their teachers – are performing. Yet no conversation about educational data systems would be complete without a discuss... Read more »
Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee’s senior Republican member, today warned new Obama Administration rules for federal construction projects will reduce competition and drive up costs for taxpayers. The federal procurement agencies announced the final rule – slated for publication in the Federal Register tomorrow – implementing President Obama’s Executive Order ca... Read more »
Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following statement after reports that 25 miners lost their lives at the Upper Big Branch mine in Whitesville, West Virginia, and another four miners remain missing: “My thoughts and prayers are with the families whose loved ones have died or are still missing. The entire Whitesville community ha... Read more »
Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following statement today after the Department of Labor announced 162,000 jobs were created in the month of March and the national unemployment rate remained at 9.7 percent: “Today’s report offers some welcome news for our economy, but the numbers remain far short of what American workers and job... Read more »
