WASHINGTON, May 4 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, released the following opening statement from a hearing dated April 17, 2024, entitled "Columbia in Crisis: Columbia University's Response to Antisemitism": * * * Since October 7, this Committee and the nation have watched in horror as so many of our college campuses, particularly the most expensive, so-called elite schools, have erupted into hotbeds of antisemitism and hat  more

WASHINGTON, May 4 -- Rep. Bob Good, R-Virginia, chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions, released the following opening statement from a hearing dated April 16, 2024, entitled "ERISA's 50th Anniversary: the Path to Higher Quality, Lower Cost Health Care." ERISA is the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. * * * Fifty years ago, President Ford signed into law the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, better k  more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Rep. Jennifer McClellan, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: In honor of National Small Business Week, Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan (VA-04) toured local small businesses in the Tri-Cities area of Virginia's Fourth Congressional District. During the tour, McClellan met with local small business owners and entrepreneurs to hear their priorities and concerns, share updates about her work in and underscore the historic investments the Biden-Harris Administration   more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: This week, U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, joined U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Patty Murray (D-WA) to introduce the Access to Birth Control Act, legislation that would guarantee timely access to birth control at pharmacies nationwide. The bill comes two years after it was leaked that the Supreme Court's ruling in D  more