Today, the House is considering H.R. 2694, the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. While well-intentioned, this legislation unfortunately does not include a long-standing provision from the Civil Rights Act which protects religious organizations from being forced to make employment decisions that conflict with their faith. On the House floor today, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Republican Leader of the Ed... Read more »
House Democrats are advancing legislation they falsely characterize as an education bill. In reality, it’s a bill that radically rewrites the Civil Rights Act without any debate. Specifically, it creates a private right of action, which could lead to additional burdens on school systems and does nothing to eliminate the state’s ability to trap students in low-performing schools. On the House floor... Read more »
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Republican Leader of the Committee on Education and Labor, slammed Committee Democrats after they issued a politically motivated subpoena to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB): “This politically motivated subpoena is a fishing expedition masquerading as legitimate Congressional oversight. Committee Democrats are fixated on their misguided effort to relitigate the ... Read more »
House Democrats are advancing partisan legislation that imposes a top-down, big government approach that would have the federal government decide how best to address local issues of diversity in America’s schools. On the House floor today, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee, delivered the following remarks: "Republicans and Democrats agree that discri... Read more »
Today, Rep. Ben Cline (R-VA), Republican Leader of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services, delivered the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at a subcommittee hearing to discuss gender-based protections: "Prior to coming to Congress, I was proud to serve as a prosecutor of domestic violence cases to ensure justice was carried out. Additionally, during my time as a D... Read more »
Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), issued the following statement after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), per Foxx’s urging, announced it will extend nationwide school nutrition program waivers through the end of the calendar year: “As instruction for the upcoming school year begins, schools and families should have the flexibilities they ne... Read more »
Today, House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC), along with 24 Republican Members from the Education and Labor Committee and the Agriculture Committee, sent a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue urging the implementation of child nutrition program flexibilities allowed under law so schools have the flexibility they need to feed s... Read more »
Today, House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC), House Oversight and Reform Committee Republican Leader James Comer (R-KY), and Republican members of the Oversight Committee sent a letter to Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos probing the lawfulness of local orders prohibiting private and parochial schools from safely reopening and providing in-person in... Read more »
Today, Republican Workforce Leaders on the Education and Labor Committee, Reps. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Tim Walberg (R-MI), submitted a comment letter to Department of Labor (DOL) Secretary Eugene Scalia responding to DOL’s proposed class exemption and final rule to reinstate the 1975 fiduciary rule. In the comment letter, Reps. Foxx and Walberg write: “We are encouraged by the proposed class exe... Read more »
More than 55 million students were affected by COVID-19-related school closures this past spring, and there is no question that this has harmed students’ ability to learn successfully. Recently, the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education held a hearing on reopening America’s schools safely, and despite Democrats’ false claims that the Trump administration is “politici... Read more »
