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Foxx, Comer, Wenstrup Investigate Misuse of COVID Education Funds on Left-Wing Agendas
By DOL Newswire | Apr 5, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-KY) and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) are continuing their investigation into the misuse of pandemic-era...
Ranking Member Cassidy, Chair Sanders Seek Answers on Child Labor Violations
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 4, 2023
U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Bernie Sanders (I-VT), chair of the HELP Committee, requested answers from Packers Sanitation Services, Inc. (PSSI) following reports that the company had employed more than 102 children between 13 to 17 years of age in hazardous conditions.
Ranking Member Cassidy Opposes Biden Labor Policy Nominees During Executive Session Vote
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 4, 2023
U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, voted in opposition to six Biden administration nominees to the Department of Labor (DOL) and other labor-related independent agencies during an off-the-floor HELP Committee executive session.
Ranking Member Cassidy Delivers Floor Speech on Nomination of Julie Su for DOL Secretary
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 4, 2023
U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered a speech on the Senate floor expressing concern over the nomination of Department of Labor (DOL) Deputy Secretary Julie Su to be Secretary of DOL.
Ranking Member Cassidy, Cornyn, Ernst, Colleagues Introduce CRA to Overturn Biden’s Reckless Student Loan Schemes
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 4, 2023
U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, John Cornyn (R-TX), Joni Ernst (R-IA), and 36 Republican colleagues introduced a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to overturn President Biden’s student loan cancelation scheme, which would transfer up to $20,000 in student loan debt per borrower onto taxpayers, costing an estimated $400 billion.
Ranking Member Cassidy Delivers Remarks During Moderna Hearing
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 4, 2023
U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered remarks during today’s hearing on the price of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine. Specifically, he talked about Operation Warp Speed during the COVID-19 pandemic and how private companies stepped up to develop and distribute a life-saving vaccine in under a year.
Ranking Member Cassidy Releases Statement on Loren Sweatt to be Republican Nominee to National Mediation Board
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 4, 2023
U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement after President Biden announced that Loren Sweatt, current Senior Professional Staff Member for the HELP Committee GOP staff, will be nominated to serve as a member of the National Mediation Board (NMB), an independent federal agency that works with the railroad and airline industries on labor relations.
Ranking Member Cassidy Condemns Biden’s Veto of Environmental Social Governance (ESG) Resolution
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 4, 2023
U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, condemned President Biden’s veto of the Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution overturning a rule authorizing asset managers to prioritize environment, social and governance (ESG) factors over the financial success of their clients’ retirement savings.
Ranking Member Cassidy Requests Answers over Stanford University’s Failure to Protect Free Speech on Campus
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 4, 2023
U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, raised concerns about Stanford University’s failure to protect freedom of speech after a student-led protest disrupted an event headlined by Judge Kyle Duncan, who serves on U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Judge Duncan was originally invited by the Stanford Law School’s Federalist Society to discuss his views on Fifth Circuit cases that were before the Supreme Court for review.
PREPARED REMARKS: Chairman Sanders Questions Howard Schultz in HELP Committee Hearing and Calls on Starbucks to End the Illegal Union Busting
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 3, 2023
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, today led the committee in a hearing titled, “No Company Is Above the Law:
Help Majority Staff Report On Starbucks
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 3, 2023
No Company is Above the Law: Myth-Busting Starbucks’ Claims That it Has Not Violated Federal Labor Law with Impunity
Chairman Sanders, Ranking Member Cassidy Seek Answers on Child Labor Violations
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 3, 2023
Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee (HELP) Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Ranking Member Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-La.) today requested answers from Packers Sanitation Services, Inc. (PSSI) following reports that the company had employed more than 102 children between 13 to 17 years of age in hazardous conditions.
Hearing Recap: Free Speech on Campus Edition
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 3, 2023
Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee hearing covered the degradation of constitutionally protected free speech on college campuses.
Hearing Recap: Workforce Edition
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 3, 2023
Education and the Workforce Committee hearing covered the Biden administration’s heavy-handed mandates and out-of-touch regulatory policies that have led to high inflation, shortages in skilled labor, and supply chain disruptions.
Owens Delivers Opening Remarks at Hearing on Free Speech at College Campuses
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 3, 2023
Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee Chair Burgess Owens (R-UT) delivered the following remarks, as prepared for delivery, at a hearing on how free speech rights are continuously being violated on college campuses:
Chair Foxx Delivers Opening Remarks at Hearing on America’s Workforce
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 3, 2023
Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) delivered the following statement, as prepared for delivery, at a hearing on how the Biden administration's heavy-handed mandates and out-of-touch regulatory policies are hurting America’s workforce:
Foxx Calls Out FTC For Exceeding Authority With Non-Compete Clause Rule
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 3, 2023
Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to Lina Khan, Chair of the Federal Trade Commission, to express concerns with the agency’s proposed “Non-Compete Clause Rule” which would impose a ban on non-compete clauses in employment contracts.
Foxx to Cardona: Don’t Trample on Religious Student Organizations’ Rights
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 3, 2023
Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx, joined by Reps. Tim Walberg, Glenn Grothman, Elise Stefanik, Rick Allen, Jim Banks, Burgess Owens, Lisa McClain, Mary Miller, Aaron Bean, Nathaniel Moran, and Erin Houchin, sent a comment letter to the Department of Education urging the Department to withdraw a proposed rule that removes protections provided to religious student organizations at public institutions of higher education:
Chairwoman Foxx Celebrates House Passage of the Parents Bill of Rights
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 3, 2023
House passed H.R. 5, the Parents Bill of Rights Act, which delivers on a key promise of the Commitment to America and puts in place concrete legal protections that will ensure parents always have a seat at the table when it comes to their child’s education.
Foxx, Owens Denounce Stanford Law School’s Culture of Illiberalism
By DOL Newswire Report | Apr 3, 2023
Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Higher Education and Workforce Development Chairman Burgess Owens (R-UT) sent a letter to the American Bar Association (ABA) Chair Joseph West urging the accreditor to make a determination whether Stanford Law School is out of compliance with the ABA’s academic freedom standard in light of the school’s treatment of U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan.