Today, House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a third letter to Labor Department Secretary Marty Walsh demanding information about his participation in the picket line at a Kellogg’s plant in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, last October.
In the letter, Foxx writes: “Last month the Committee on Education and Labor held a hearing where you testified about the policies and priorities of the Department of Labor (DOL). During the hearing, I asked you directly about your participation in strike activity at the Kellogg’s plant in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on October 27. Following this exchange, I expected you to promptly send me the information we discussed at the hearing. However, after several weeks of silence from DOL, I find myself again needing to request this information.”
Foxx continues: “I asked you to provide me any written guidance or advice you received on either the legality of this visit or on your ethical obligations related to the visit, and you responded in the affirmative. I am dismayed that you have not provided any of the promised information.”
Foxx concludes: “Your disregard for Congress and its oversight responsibilities is inexcusable. I have been seeking answers to my questions on this matter for more than eight months.”
Background: Foxx wrote to Secretary Walsh on November 3, 2021, and February 23, 2022, requesting information about his unprecedented and inappropriate involvement in strike activity. Not only has the Secretary failed to respond to the two previous letters, but during a June hearing he failed to answer questions from those letters, which he had in his possession for more than seven months.
