At the opening of today's markup of the Democrats' Fiscal Year 2022 Education and Labor budget reconciliation package, Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) delivered the following remarks, as prepared for delivery, slamming Democrats' socialist, reckless, and un-American spending proposals: "2021 is already one of the most expensive years on record for working Americans. Inflation is up more tha... Read more »
Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after the Department of Health and Human Services and the White House unveiled their drug pricing scheme: “The costs of prescription drugs are a major concern for workers and families, especially now as Biden’s failed economic policies are raising the cost of just about everything. “We know w... Read more »
Democrats are artificially lowering Medicare drug prices and asking employers to pay the difference. Their plan, known as H.R. 3, is being rolled into the budget reconciliation process to advance socialized medicine and deliver another blow to employer-sponsored insurance. Under H.R. 3, drug companies will be forced to negotiate with the Secretary of Health and Human Services to lower drug costs o... Read more »
Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after Education and Labor Democrats unveiled their piece of President Biden’s $3.5 trillion partisan spending package: “This monstrous spending package recklessly increases what was already the highest sustained spending spree in American history. It asks taxpayers, their children, and grandc... Read more »
Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) gave the following statement after reports that only 235,000 jobs were added in August, falling nearly 500,000 short of expectations: “Failing to meet expectations is the new normal in Biden’s America. Despite widespread vaccine availability, the August jobs report was the worst in Biden’s presidential history,... Read more »
Parents are fed up with our educational system, and rightly so. During an especially torturous year for students and parents, the left pushed ahead with its race-based educational agenda that sacrifices facts on the altar of “wokeness.” As parents’ frustrations and fears for the quality of their children’s education pour over in school board meetings across the country, it is clear that Critical R... Read more »
Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Congressman Scott Fitzgerald (WI-05) introduced the Curriculum Review of Teachings (CRT) Transparency Act. This legislation would require local school districts to post the curriculum for each grade of their elementary and secondary schools on a publicly accessible website. Lack of awareness and accountability for what... Read more »
Today, every Republican Member of the Education and Labor Committee, led by Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC), sent a letter to Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA) requesting he provide all Members of the Committee with draft text of the reconciliation legislation as soon as possible in advance of next week’s anticipated Budget Resolution markup. The Members write: “It is no exaggeration to state tha... Read more »
Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) led a letter to Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona seeking additional information about the Office for Civil Rights' (OCR) decision to investigate five states that respect parents’ choices on in-school masking. In the letter, the Members write: “Using threats to infringe on states’ authorities to protect stud... Read more »
Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) gave the following statement after the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announced it would investigate five states that respect parents’ choices on in-school masking: “This is what happens when an administration gets in bed with teachers unions and left-wing special interests. It is inappropriate fo... Read more »
