WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following news release on Dec. 8, 2023: On Tuesday, December 12, at 10:15 a.m., the Education and the Workforce Committee will mark up H.R. 6585, the Bipartisan Workforce Pell Act; H.R. 6655, A Stronger Workforce for America Act; H.J. Res. 98, a Congressional Review Act resolution to nullify the National Labor Relations Board's (NLRB) joint employer rule; and H.R  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following news release: Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to Department of Labor (DOL) Acting Secretary Julie Su expressing concerns with the Mine Safety and Health Administration's (MSHA) proposed silica rule. While Chairwoman Foxx supports reducing miners' exposure to silica, she warns that the regulation's comp  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 -- Rep. Jen Kiggans, R-Virginia, issued the following news on Dec. 8, 2023: Today, Congresswoman Jen Kiggans released the following statement after voting in favor of H.R. 5933, the Defending Education Transparency and Ending Rogue Regimes Engaging in Nefarious Transactions (DETERRENT) Act. The DETERRENT Actwould severely limit foreign nations' influence on the U.S. education system by bringing much-needed transparency, accountability, and clarity to foreign gift reporting re  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Charleston, WV - Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) visited the U.S. Postal Service's (USPS) Charleston Processing and Distribution Center (P&DC) to support the postal workers and reaffirm his commitment to keeping West Virginia mail services in the state. The visit follows USPS's November announcement to conduct a Mail Processing Facility Review on the facility and Senator Manchin's recent conversat  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 -- Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger joined an effort urging the Biden Administration to expand access to contraception by requiring health insurance plans to fully cover over-the-counter (OTC) contraceptives at no cost to the patient and without a prescription. In a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, U.S. Department of the Treasury Secretary Janet Yelle  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release on Dec. 8, 2023: In a joint op-ed published today in Fox News, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, Miss America 2023 Grace Stanke, and American Conservation Coalition Action President Chris Barnard write about the need to reestablish America as t  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 -- Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Peter Welch (D-VT), and Laphonza Butler (D-CA) and U.S. Representatives Norma J. Torres (D-CA-35) and Delia C. Ramirez (D-IL-3) released the following statement regarding the Guatemalan Attorney General's attempt to nullify the fair election of anti-corruption reformist President-elect Bernardo Arevalo and Vice Pr  more