Today's Education and the Workforce Committee hearing covered the emerging shift among employers to hire employees based on competencies—not degrees. This was the first full Committee hearing focusing solely on skills-based education and hiring. Previously, in May, the Higher Education and Workforce Development (HEWD) Subcommittee held a hearing entitled “Examining America’s Workforce Challenges: ... Read more »
Today’s Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Subcommittee hearing addressed issues of health care competition and transparency, key areas in which legislation can bring costs down for American working families and small businesses. Health care costs are on the rise, but neither the hospitals, the insurers, the drug manufacturers, nor the Pharmaceutical Benefit Managers (PBMs) want to ta... Read more »
WASHINGTON – Today, the House passed H.R. 3799, the CHOICE Arrangement Act, delivering a win for job creators and workers. During debate of the legislation, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) gave the following remarks on the House Floor: “I am certain of two things. “One, health care costs present a significant burden on small businesses, and two, inaction is no... Read more »
WASHINGTON – Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) spoke on the House Floor in support of overriding President Biden’s veto on H.J. Res. 45, a Congressional Review Act resolution that will bar the administration from implementing its student loan cancellation scheme and prevent any further extension of the student loan repayment pause. Chairwoman Foxx’s remar... Read more »
WASHINGTON – Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) spoke on the House Floor in support of H.R. 3799, the CHOICE Arrangement Act, a Republican package that takes the first step towards addressing rising health care costs for small businesses. The package is comprised of several innovative health care solutions. One is the Association Health Plans Act, which al... Read more »
For more than 30 years, small businesses have cited health care costs as their number one issue. Republicans have solutions that would provide immediate relief to job creators and working Americans. First, the Self-Insurance Protection Act (SIPA) protects small businesses’ access to stop-loss insurance, a financial tool that helps employers self-insure and protects them from catastrophic costs. Se... Read more »
Tomorrow, June 22, at 10:15 a.m., the Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Virginia Foxx (R-NC), will hold a full Committee hearing titled “Competencies Over Degrees: Transitioning to a Skills-Based Economy.” “America is moving towards a skills-based economy in which individuals’ skills and competencies are what matter, not where or how they obtained them,” said Chairwoman Foxx. “F... Read more »
WASHINGTON — Today, Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Subcommittee Chair Bob Good (R-VA), delivered the following remarks as prepared for delivery, at a hearing titled "Competition and Transparency: The Pathway Forward for a Stronger Health Care Market": "While everyone seems to recognize that health care costs in the United States are continuing to rise at alarming rates, it seems that no one... Read more »
WASHINGTON – Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) revealed that math and reading scores fell by 9 points and 4 points respectively from 2020 to 2023: “Today’s NAEP scores for math and reading are a stark reminder of the challenges facing K-12 public schools. Across th... Read more »
WASHINGTON – Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee Chairman Burgess Owens (R-UT) sent a letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona calling for the Department to abandon its proposed Gainful Employment rule, a sweeping regulatory package that imposes burdensome requirements on postsecondary educatio... Read more »
