Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after Democrats passed their partisan budget reconciliation scheme, squandering $1.9 trillion while only allocating nine percent to support COVID-19 related public health initiatives: "We need to call this bill what it is - a payoff for progressives. Instead of targeted COVID-19 relief, this ... Read more »
Democrats are filling their partisan spending scheme with liberal wish lists unrelated to public health initiatives. This sham of a bill preys on an American crisis by senselessly spending taxpayer dollars while those same taxpayers can barely make ends meet. Democrats are struggling to grasp what true COVID-19 relief should look like. Of the $1.9 trillion in their latest spending bill, the CBO es... Read more »
Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Civil Rights and Human Services Subcommittee Republican Leader Russ Fulcher (R-ID) sent a letter to U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Chair Charlotte Burrows requesting information about her questionable and rushed decision to end the Commission’s successful mediation and conciliation pilot programs. ... Read more »
Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement regarding the Senate Parliamentarian’s decision to exclude a radical provision mandating a federal wage hike from the Democrats’ budget reconciliation scheme: "Workers and small businesses face devastating days ahead if a radical $15 federal minimum wage is enacted, hurting most the people De... Read more »
Today, the House passed H.R. 5, the so called ‘Equality’ Act, a partisan ploy that undermines the constitutional religious freedoms guaranteed to all Americans. Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee, said on the House floor prior to the vote: "…[H.R. 5] claims to strive for equality, but in practice this bill undermines the constitutional religious freed... Read more »
Today, Republican Leader of the House Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Republican Leader of the House Energy and Commerce Committee Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), and Congresswoman Jackie Walorski (R-IN) introduced an amendment to apply the Hyde Amendment to the entire $1.9 trillion reconciliation bill, the most expensive single bill in history. The Hyde Amendment prohibits taxp... Read more »
Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Republican Leader Burgess Owens (R-UT) sent a letter to the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) requesting information on how states are helping school districts reopen schools, including the monitoring of COVID-19 aid expenditures. In the ... Read more »
Today, Education and Labor Committee Workforce Leaders Reps. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Fred Keller (R-PA) sent a letter to Acting Secretary of Labor Al Stewart requesting the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) give businesses and workers the formal opportunity to provide input before the Biden administration issues a burdensome and unnecessary Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) on... Read more »
Despite CDC research concluding that schools can reopen with proper safety measures, the lights are still off in too many schools across America. Students are falling behind, parents are overwhelmed, and student’s mental health is declining. This week, the Biden administration admitted the $2 trillion liberal wish list they are pushing has nothing to do with reopening schools this year. Just like ... Read more »
Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) spoke on the House floor in opposition to Democrats’ H.R. 5, the so-called Equality Act, which destroys religious freedom protections for educational institutions and employers. Republican Leader Foxx’s remarks as delivered: "Government intervention often causes more harm than good. I’ve spent my time in Congress working to prote... Read more »
