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The Biden administration is still colluding with teachers unions. After the nation’s largest teachers union sent the White House a threatening email on school masking policies, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just-so-happened to announce that wearing a mask, regardless of vaccination status, would remain necessary in schools. The CDC is supposed to be a leader in the scientifi... Read more »

Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after Committee Democrats voted to advance their radical, reckless $780 billion budget reconciliation package: “Democrats keep referring to this bill as ‘life-changing legislation.’ They’re right – every American’s life is at risk of becoming worse if this bill becomes law. It is embarrassing... Read more »

China has American students in its crosshairs, but Democrats can't be bothered to lift a finger. Democrats on the Education and Labor Committee just voted against three amendments offered by Republicans to ensure students, institutions, and our country are protected from the communist threat posed by this regime. What happened to the imperatives of putting students first and protecting the integri... Read more »

Americans have been horrified over the last month as we have witnessed the dangerous and inept withdrawal of America from Afghanistan. American education institutions may have students or employees who were evacuated after the fall of Kabul. They may have students or employees who had friends or family members evacuated. They may have veterans of the Afghanistan war suffering from trauma in the af... Read more »

Quick Take: Federal Takeover of Higher Education Instead of expanding all educational opportunities for students, Democrats intend to dictate what choices millions of students make along the path of their postsecondary education with the promise of “free” tuition. Not all students are best served through these traditional baccalaureate degree programs. Indeed, the data suggests that students are i... Read more »

Democrats won’t be receiving any “Thank You” cards from small and private businesses any time soon. The Democrat’s partisan spending spree includes a provision to increase civil monetary penalties radically under the Fair Labor Standards Act by 900 percent. The National Federation of Independent Business sent a letter opposing this radical legislation. Their letter rightly pointed out: “FLSA viola... Read more »

One of government’s most basic responsibilities is to defend fiercely freedom of religion. Unfortunately, Democrats often abandon that call and become religious freedom’s greatest threat. Their latest battleground against our first amendment rights is the budget. The Democrats’ plan allocates funding that could result in a rewriting of key Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) guidance on... Read more »

The inflation crisis is on track to hit the highest level since 1981 and is already up more than 7 percent since Biden took office. Democrats are pushing yet another irresponsible spending bill that will accelerate Biden’s inflation crisis. Congressional Democrats are asking Americans to pay for these socialist programs twice: once with taxes from their hard-earned paychecks and again at gas pumps... Read more »

Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) gave the following statement after the White House announced it will be ordering the Department of Labor to issue a national regulation on worker vaccination: “Biden has no business issuing a burdensome vaccine regulation that will further harm overworked and struggling businessowners. This is a Hail Mary attempt by... Read more »

One of the strong benefits of child care in this country is the fact that parents have the opportunity to choose a provider that works best for them – whether that involves placing a child in a provider’s home, a child care center, or a child care run by a faith-based provider. The child care community and parents who are rightfully worried that America’s diverse system built on parental preferenc... Read more »