WASHINGTON –Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) served a subpoena on Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) Director Gordon Hartogensis after PBGC failed to provide adequate responses to the Committee’s previous inquiries regarding the agency’s gross negligence in overpaying $127 million in taxpayer money to the Central States Pension Fund for decease... Read more »
WASHINGTON – Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a follow-up letter to Department of Labor (DOL) Acting Secretary Julie Su requesting information about workplace safety protocols in the White House following reports that the number of dog bite incidents involving President Biden’s dog, Commander, has risen to 24. In the letter Foxx writes: "The Committ... Read more »
WASHINGTON – Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement on the Department of Education’s continued blunders in its rollout of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA): "Biden’s Education Department is at it again—today announcing it botched hundreds of thousands of aid packages for families with no timeline on fixing thos... Read more »
WASHINGTON –Today, the Education and the Workforce Committee advanced four bills to support students and workers: H.J. Res. 116, a Congressional Review Act(CRA) resolution to nullify the Biden administration’s independent contractor rule; H.R. 6418, the Empower Charter School Educators to Lead Act; H.R. 3724, the Accreditation for College Excellence Act of 2023; and H.R. 7683, the Respecting the ... Read more »
WASHINGTON – Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) delivered the following statement, as prepared for delivery, at the Committee's markup of H.J. Res. 116, a Congressional Review Act resolution to nullify the Biden administration’s independent contractor rule; H.R. 6418, Empower Charter School Educators to Lead Act; H.R. 3724, Accreditation for College Excell... Read more »
WASHINGTON – Tomorrow, at 10:15 a.m., the Education and the Workforce Committee will mark up H.J. Res. 116, a Congressional Review Act resolution to nullify the Biden administration’s independent contractor rule; H.R. 6418, the Empower Charter School Educators to Lead Act; H.R. 3724, the Accreditation for College Excellence Act of 2023; and H.R. 7683, the Respecting the First Amendment on Campus A... Read more »
WASHINGTON –Today, Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Chairman Bob Good (R-VA) delivered the following statement, as prepared for delivery, at a hearing titled: "Examining the Policies and Priorities of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation": "Mr. Hartogensis, as you near the end of your five-year term as the Director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), the da... Read more »
Today’s Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee hearing covered the gross mismanagement of taxpayer dollars by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC). The hearing featured a lone witness, PBGC Director Gordon Hartogensis. PBGC was created to protect private pension plans from insolvency and was intended to be solely funded by employer premiums. However, under poor leadership ... Read more »
WASHINGTON –Today on the House Floor, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) highlighted the Committee’s extensive oversight efforts that resulted in the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) taking action to recover $127 million in taxpayer money sent to pension plans for dead participants. Chairwoman Foxx’s remarks (as prepared for delivery): “A Biden agency... Read more »
WASHINGTON –Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) Chancellor Dr. Carol T. Christ, President Michael V. Drake, and Board of Regents Chair Richard Leib requesting documents and information regarding UC Berkeley’s response to numerous antisemitic incidents on campus and its administration’s failu... Read more »
