The Biden National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) joint employer standard revives the Obama-era Browning-Ferris decision and implements a similarly broad and boundless standard that will only create more confusion, impose massive costs and liability on American businesses, and further destabilize the economy. The last time Democrats implemented this senseless rule, the effects were devastating. An... Read more »
Today, the Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Subcommittee held a hearing to discuss innovative health care solutions to bring down costs for small businesses and working Americans. As premium prices spike, business owners are turning to new and interesting ways to cut health care costs. One potential solution growing in popularity is direct contracting, which involves an employer that... Read more »
Today’s Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Subcommittee hearing covered the partisan National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB or the Board) systematic attack against long-standing employee rights. Under the Biden administration, the NLRB has weakened the union election secret ballot process, threatened the franchise model supporting millions of workers, and undermined independent contrac... Read more »
While it’s not uncommon for American institutions to have research and financial partnerships with foreign institutions, we know that our adversaries like the Chinese Communist Party often hijack these legitimate partnerships to steal research, indoctrinate students, and undermine our nation’s interests. H.R. 5933, the DETERRENT Act is a bipartisan solution to combat this problem and bring much ne... Read more »
A discussion draft containing technical corrections and other clarifications with respect to the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022, has been released by House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Ranking Member Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (D-VA), along with House Committee on Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith (R-MO) and Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA). Senate Finance ... Read more »
Today, the Committee called on the presidents of Harvard, UPenn, and MIT to answer for the rampant antisemitism engulfing their campuses and threatening their Jewish students. Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) opened with a moment of silence for the victims of the bloody war launched by Hamas on October 7th, then transitioned to scalding opening remarks which charged academia’s radical Left ideologi... Read more »
Today, Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Chairman Bob Good (R-VA) led a hearing which championed H.R. 1200, Rep. Joe Wilson’s (R-SC) National Right-to-Work Act¸ a bill to end compulsory union dues payments. Chairman Good kicked off the hearing by distilling the awful decision many Americans face every day in forced-unionism states: “Employees have two options: pay union dues or ... Read more »
Ask any emergency dispatch team to describe five-alarm fires, and they will likely say they’re rare and catastrophic no matter where they occur. AmeriCorps is a five-alarm fire of its own making. If you don’t believe us, feel free to peruse the latest Management Challenges report issued on November 15th by the AmeriCorps Office of Inspector General. What you’ll find is 26 pages chock full of rot a... Read more »
Today, the Workforce Protections Subcommittee held a hearing entitled “Bad for Business: DOL’s Proposed Overtime Rule.” Like many Biden administration regulations, the proposed overtime rule revives—and broadens—an Obama-era precedent. Whereas Obama’s poorly conceived and ultimately unlawful rule would have increased the overtime threshold to $47,676, President Biden’s rule increases it to a whopp... Read more »
American families have lost confidence in the public education system. According to the Washington Post, the number of homeschooled children in America has almost doubled from 1.5 million children in 2019 to up to 2.7 million in 2023. “What’s behind the increase in homeschooling,” Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), heedlessly posted on X. Weingarten needs to ... Read more »