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Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Marty Walsh to request that his office retain records to ensure DOL staff have the necessary materials to respond to the Committee’s oversight inquiries.

In the letter, Foxx writes: “As you prepare to leave federal employment, I remind you that your office—whether it be in Washington, D.C., or in Boston—may contain materials that are relevant to requests made by the Committee on Education and the Workforce.”

Foxx continues: “[T]hese materials may be critical in providing answers to the Committee’s inquiries related to ethics advice you received about your participation in labor-management activities and about your search for employment outside of the federal government. They may also be critical in providing answers to the Committee’s inquiries related to your tenure as Vice-Chairman of the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment, your personal attendance at its meetings, and your communications with the private-sector parties involved with its recommendations to the President and implementation of those recommendations.”

Foxx concludes: “I request that you retain such materials in a manner that can be easily accessed by DOL staff and future Secretaries of Labor so that they can respond to Committee inquiries.”

Read the full letter here.

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