In honor of National Apprenticeship Week, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) spoke on the House floor to offer solutions to improve our nation’s workforce development programs. Republican Leader Foxx's remarks: “This week, we celebrate the 8th Annual National Apprenticeship Week. It is the perfect time to reflect on what is and what isn’t working in our nation’s w... Read more »
In a new survey by Tyton Partners, 52 percent of parents said they want more ownership of their child’s education. Parents are fed up with the status quo in K-12 education. During the pandemic, many parents got a firsthand look at what students were being taught; many were appalled. Parents are engaged and fighting back. In response, the education bureaucracy is fighting tooth and nail to maintain... Read more »
Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Republican Leader Rick Allen (R-GA) sent a letter to U.S. Comptroller General Gene L. Dodaro requesting the Government Accountability Office (GAO) examine the Office of Labor-Management Standards’ (OLMS) enforcement of worker protection laws as the Biden administrati... Read more »
Tonight, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement in response to U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman’s newest ruling that effectively incapacitates President Biden’s student loan bailout: “Yet another nail has been added to the coffin of President Biden’s illegal student loan bailout, and hardworking taxpayers across the country are rightfull... Read more »
Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Republican Leader Rick Allen (R-GA) sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra urging HHS to withdraw its proposed rule, titled “Nondiscrimination in Health Programs and Activities,” which radically reinterprets the defini... Read more »
Recently, The Atlantic published an article calling for a pandemic amnesty for “what we did and said when we were in the dark about COVID.” Yet amnesty won’t eliminate the learning loss suffered by students kept out of the classroom, nor will it help the workers fired from their jobs for refusing vaccination. Government officials do not need amnesty; they need accountability. As an early and vocal... Read more »
Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement in response to a new proposal put forth by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) that would allow its own officials to subvert the will of American workers based on purely subjective grounds: “When union bosses say ‘jump’, the NLRB asks, ‘How high?’ Rather than adhering to the commonsense... Read more »
President Biden spoke in South Florida on Tuesday, touting the so-called Inflation Reduction Act’s price controls on prescription drugs. He stated, “This year, we finally beat pharma. … Big pharma lost and Americans won.” This is blatantly false. While Democrats might have “won” a legislative victory—this was no win for Americans with rare diseases who may now never see cures for their disease bro... Read more »
It may no longer be Halloween, but it is still a frightening time to be an independent contractor or a franchisee. The Biden administration recently unveiled two new proposed rules which jeopardize the independent contractor and franchise models. As usual, the president wants to satisfy the progressive policy demands of Big Labor and to push as many workers as possible into unions, regardless of t... Read more »
The Biden administration is practically asking for fraud. The rushed rollout of the student loan cancelation application fails to provide any kind of income verification—despite making the handout contingent on earning less than $125,000 annually. But we’ve seen similar scenarios before. During the pandemic, identity verification requirements for unemployment insurance were significantly loosened,... Read more »
