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Committee Republicans Urge Flexibility on School Lunch Requirements

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House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN), Representative Kristi Noem (R-SD), and Representative Phil Roe, M.D. (R-TN) today urged U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack to reexamine the new meal pattern and nutrition requirements for the National School Lunch and School Breakfast programs. According to recent reports, the USDA’s new regulations ha... Read more »

Kline and Coburn Question Costs, Delays Surrounding Unreleased Head Start Report

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U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) today sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius requesting answers on a significantly delayed report intended to shed light on the long-term efficacy of the Head Start program. “The Head Start program is designed to help prepare children for ... Read more »

Kline and Coburn Ask HHS for Answers on Delayed Head Start Report

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Dear Secretary Sebelius: Head Start is one of the federal government’s largest initiatives to improve the lives of the estimated 900,000 children it serves, who are among the most at-risk in our society. Since taxpayers spend more than $14,000 for each child who is enrolled in the program for a full two years, totaling almost $8 billion in FY 2012, it is absolutely critical to ensure this investm... Read more »

Committee Members Ask USDA Secretary Vilsack to Reexamine Controversial School Lunch Requirements

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Dear Secretary Vilsack: Over the last month, state and local food service personnel, teachers, parents, and students have expressed concern about the recent meal pattern and nutrition requirements for the National School Lunch and School Breakfast programs proposed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). According to recent reports, high school students, especially athletes, are going hungr... Read more »

Where are the jobs from ObamaCare?

| Posted in Left Turns

“So this bill is not only about the health security of America. It's about jobs. In its life it will create 4 million jobs…” – Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), 02/25/2010 More jobs – one of many promises made by Washington Democrats trying to sell the public a government takeover of health care. Yet more than two years since ObamaCare became law the American people are still asking: Where are ... Read more »

Committee Expands Oversight of Administration’s Controversial WARN Act Guidance

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House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN), along with Workforce Protections Subcommittee Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) and Representative Phil Roe, M.D. (R-TN), expanded the committee’s oversight of the Obama administration’s controversial actions concerning sequestration and the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act. In a letter to Jeffrey Zients, Act... Read more »

Committee Demands Information on OMB's WARN Act Guidance

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Dear Acting Director Zients: We are greatly concerned about the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) September 28, 2012 guidance regarding “Allowable Contracting Costs Associated with the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act.”Specifically, we are concerned by OMB’s reliance on the Department of Labor’s (DOL) July 30, 2012 misleading and incomplete guidance relating to the a... Read more »

Kline Statement on September Jobs Report

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U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement after the Department of Labor released employment data for September: Creating 104,000 private sector jobs is certainly welcome news, but more than three years into the so-called ‘recovery,’ these modest gains are simply not enough. Millions of families across the country still face seriou... Read more »

Kline Urges MSHA to Strengthen Accountability Program, Adopt IG Recommendations

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U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) responded today to a Department of Labor Office of Inspector General report on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s (MSHA) internal accountability program. Chairman Kline requested the review last year to determine the agency’s progress in implementing the recommendations of a 2007 Inspector General report, as we... Read more »

ICYMI: Micro-Unions: Washington's Newest Threat to Business

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The Democrat-led Senate continues to block action on more than 30 House-passed jobs bills. One of the commonsense proposals stuck in the Senate’s stack of unfinished business is the Workforce Democracy and Fairness Act (H.R. 3094). This important legislation would rein in the National Labor Relations Board by reinstating a decades-old standard for determining which employees will vote in union el... Read more »

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