Today, House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) spoke on the House floor to condemn the Biden administration’s proposed rule that will pressure retirement plan fiduciaries to incorporate low-yield environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investments into workers’ retirement savings. Republican Leader Foxx's remarks: “The Left’s woke agenda is putting the retire... Read more »
Today, House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Republican Leader Richard Burr (R-NC) sent a letter to Education Department Secretary Miguel Cardona following the Department’s release of its 750-page Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM), requesting additional time for public comment on the far-reaching—an... Read more »
Today, House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) spoke on the House floor to highlight the necessity of employer-driven apprenticeships in building a strong workforce development system. Republican Leader Foxx's remarks: “We must equip workers with the tools for success by empowering employers to play a more influential role in our nation’s workforce development sy... Read more »
Last week, members of America’s largest teachers union, the National Education Association (NEA), met to discuss their priorities for the upcoming year. Unsurprisingly, the NEA spent its time pushing for a slew of radical progressive policies instead of focusing on the needs of students. Whereas the NEA should have focused on addressing learning loss exacerbated by school shutdowns, the organizati... Read more »
Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC), issued the following statement blasting the Biden administration’s proposed regulations regarding federal student loans: “Only this administration could find a way to justify adding at least $85 billion to the tax burden of hardworking Americans while they are already being crushed by Democrats’ inflation crisis and reckl... 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) released this statement in response to the White House’s summary of the final rule issued by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) implementing the taxpayer-funded bailout of insolvent and failing multiemployer pension pl... Read more »
Today, House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Republican Leader Richard Burr (R-NC) issued the following statement in response to the Biden administration’s final charter school rule which will limit options for students and families: “Union bosses have long held that charter schools are a threat to thei... Read more »
Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Workforce Protections Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Keller (R-PA) sent a letter to Labor Department Secretary Marty Walsh opposing the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) proposed rule which ignores worker privacy and revives controversial Obama-era recordkeeping regulations. In the letter, the... Read more »
Earlier this week, Arizona made headlines with a significant win for school choice. Under a new law, every Arizona student will soon be eligible for an education savings account (ESA). Parents across the United States are working to end the vise grip teachers unions and progressive school boards exercise over schools. Over the past two years the education bureaucracy ignored parental concerns over... Read more »
Today, Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee Republican Leader Burgess Owens (R-UT) delivered the following statement, as prepared for delivery, at a rescheduled joint subcommittee hearing to examine the policies and priorities of the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE): “BIE has long been plagued by problems and has been on the Government Accountability Office (GAO) high-... Read more »
