WASHINGTON – Today, Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee Chairman Burgess Owens (R-UT) delivered the following statement, as prepared for delivery, at a hearing titled "Confronting the Scourge of Antisemitism on Campus": "Thank you for joining us today for this very timely and consequential hearing. I want to begin by expressing sympathy for the Jewish members of our community ... Read more »
WASHINGTON — Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC), joined by six House Republicans, sent a letter to Minnesota Commissioner of Education Willie Jett questioning the Minnesota Department of Education’s role in what has been described as the “largest COVID-19 fraud scheme in the nation.” The letter comes after the U.S. Attorney charged 60 individuals associate... Read more »
Today, the Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee convened to discuss the modern manifestation of one of history’s greatest evils: the scourge of antisemitism on college campuses. The American founding is defined by its commitment to the values of political liberty, equality, and toleration. Recent pro-Hamas university demonstrations have shown that not even the great American exp... Read more »
WASHINGTON – Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) submitted a comment letter to Department of Labor (DOL) Acting Secretary Julie Su urging the Department to withdraw the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) proposed rule which would undermine and politicize workplace safety and open the door for unions and left-wing activists to weaponize O... Read more »
Tomorrow, November 14, 2023, at 10:00 a.m., the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development, chaired by Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT), will hold a hearing titled "Confronting the Scourge of Antisemitism on Campus." "A wave of unabashed antisemitism at colleges and universities is leading to harassment and violence against the Jewish community, and it must be met with swift condemnation,... Read more »
Republicans and Democrats overwhelmingly agree classrooms should be safe havens for learning, not political battlegrounds. Through faulty study findings and tens of millions of dollars’ worth of political gamesmanship, opportunistic leftist groups and a complicit media have now distorted the efforts of parents to keep sexually explicit and inappropriate material off the shelves of school librarie... Read more »
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Representatives John James (R-MI), Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, and Mike Johnson (R-LA), Speaker of the House, as well as U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Joe Manchin (D-WV), and Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Senate Minority Leader... Read more »
WASHINGTON – Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement in response to the U.S. Senate’s vote of 51-47 to confirm Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Chair Charlotte Burrows to a new term as a commissioner: “Under Chair Burrows, the EEOC shed its skin as a federal agency and took on a new role as a weaponized, partisan arb... Read more »
WASHINGTON – Today, the Education and the Workforce Committee passed H.R. 5993, the Defending Education Transparency and Ending Rogue Regimes Engaging in Nefarious Transactions (DETERRENT) Act, legislation that brings clarity to foreign gift reporting requirements for colleges and universities and protects American education from malicious foreign influence. On the passage of H.R. 5933, Chairwoman... 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.R. 5933, the Defending Education Transparency and Ending Rogue Regimes Engaging in Nefarious Transactions (DETERRENT) Act: "Before turning to the legislative agenda today, I would like to first take a moment to address... Read more »
