Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) spoke on the House Floor in opposition to President Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine-and-testing mandate for American employers and employees. Republican Leader Foxx’s Remarks: “The Biden administration’s unprecedented OSHA vaccine mandate is a massive power grab. This national diktat was recently found likely to be unlawful by th... Read more »
Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) spoke on the House Floor to celebrate National Apprenticeship Week and the importance of these programs. Below are key excerpts from Rep. Foxx’s remarks (as prepared for delivery): “In recent years, more and more Americans have found that apprenticeship programs are an effective option to help achieve their career goals. “... Read more »
Over the past nearly two years, we have seen a troubling trend take root in the Democrat Party. Their elected officials want to take power away from parents and hand over more control to politicians and teachers unions to dictate what our children should be taught in classrooms. We saw it when school districts, especially those in blue areas of the country, worked to keep our schools closed for mo... Read more »
Today, Higher Education and Workforce Investment Subcommittee Republican Leader Greg Murphy, M.D. (R-NC) delivered the following remarks, as prepared for delivery, at a joint subcommittee hearing on examining the implementation of COVID-19 education funds: “Congressional oversight of the federal government is one of this committee’s most important duties. This includes, among other things, ensurin... 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 joint subcommittee hearing on examining the implementation of COVID-19 education funds: “The Biden administration has been so wrapped up in trying to implement its radical agenda that the real problems facing K-12 educatio... Read more »
WASHINGTON – Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) joined every Republican Committee Member in cosponsoring a Congressional Review Act resolution, introduced by Workforce Protections Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Keller (R-PA), to nullify the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) COVID-19 vaccine-and-testing mandate for American employer... Read more »
Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Subcommittee on Workforce Protections Republican Leader Fred Keller (R-PA) sent a letter to Department of Labor (DOL) Secretary Marty Walsh questioning the Wage and Hour Division’s (WHD) move to abandon important compliance assistance measures. These activities help workers and businesses understand confusing regulator... Read more »
President Biden knew that concerned parents would not let their voices be silenced at school boards across the country so he decided that the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) would do his dirty work for him. After the National School Boards Association (NSBA) collaborated with Biden Administration officials in sending an inflammatory letter to Attorney General ... Read more »
President Biden knew that he didn’t have the authority to issue a national vaccine mandate, yet he instructed the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to move forward with this diktat as a “work around.” This case and others are now consolidated in the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals and we hope that the judges and the American people will take the great arguments from the Fift... Read more »
Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Higher Education and Workforce Investment Subcommittee Republican Leader Greg Murphy, M.D. (R-NC), and Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Republican Leader Burgess Owens (R-UT) sent a letter to Committee Democrats expressing support for parental involvement in American education. In the letter, the Membe... Read more »
