House Committee on Education and Labor
U.S. House of Representatives
Republicans
Rep. Howard P. “Buck” McKeon
Ranking Member
Fiscally responsible reforms for students, workers and retirees.
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- Recent Postings:
- Real Financial Aid Reform
- Scholarships vs. Politics
- GAO on Enforcement of Wage and Hour Laws
- Budgets Are About Priorities
- Can't We Agree on Reading?
- WTOP on D.C. Opportunity Scholarships
- Editorial Pages Defend D.C. Scholarship Program
- Save D.C. Scholarships!
- Suggestions for the Budget
- Parental Choice as Crime?
- Dept. of Education Faces an Important Choice
- The True Cost of the so-called Economic Stimulus Package
- Washington Post: Propping up Education Status Quo Wastes More Than Money
- Gates Foundation Calls for Lifting State Charter School Caps
- Davis-Bacon Should be a Provision of the Past
- Meet the NEW Members of the Committee
- Marking the 7th Anniversary of NCLB
- Even with Rising Unemployment Rates, Democrats Continue Pushing Big Labor Agenda
- "Thank the Lord" for Secret Ballots, Unless You are an American Worker
- Latest OLMS Enforcement Info Available
- Card Check = Recession?
- USA Today Criticizes 'Card Check'
- Who Wants to be a Teacher? Survey says...
- What's Really Behind the "Middle Class Squeeze"?
- Paycheck Fairness?
- Energy Costs Hitting Schools Hard
- Video Clip: Food Costs & Energy Policy
- Speaking of student loan interest rates...
- School Choice in the Nation's Capital
- Standing Up for School Choice
- Minimum Wage and Unemployment?
- More Big Labor Paybacks
- Card Check Fallacy Exposed
- More Bad Press for Card Check
- DC School Choice in the Spotlight
- Education (Still) Pays
- March Jobs Report
- New McKeon Interview, Now Online
- Save Reading First!
- Interview with Secretary Spellings
- House to Vote on College Costs
- Wash Times on Teacher Performance Pay
- Wash Post on 'Card Check'
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Blog
Real Financial Aid Reform
Posted by: Education Policy Staff (05-05-2009, 11:37 AM)
Congressional Republicans have been fighting for years to shine a spotlight on the drastic increases in the cost of college and target student financial assistance in manner that ensures the funds are being spent on America’s neediest students. We have issued reports, held multiple hearings, and introduced several bills (see here, here, and here). And in response to these efforts, we were met with stiff resistance each step of the way.
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Scholarships vs. Politics
Posted by: Press Staff (04-14-2009, 01:56 PM)
About 200 low-income children and their families in the District of Columbia were hit with bad news last week courtesy of the U.S. Department of Education. Although the children had been planning to use federally-funded scholarships to attend the private school of their choice for the upcoming school year, the Department decided after the fact that no new students would be welcome in the scholarship program, despite its growing track record of success and parental satisfaction.
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GAO on Enforcement of Wage and Hour Laws
Posted by: Press Staff (03-25-2009, 02:50 PM)
McKeon: Rather than trying to score political points, let’s get serious about protecting workers and enforcing the law
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Budgets Are About Priorities
Posted by: Education Policy Staff (03-25-2009, 06:19 AM)
This morning, the House Budget Committee will consider the budget resolution for fiscal year 2010, which is a blueprint for determining tax and spending policy for the upcoming fiscal year. While all of the talk in Washington has been on the President’s budget request that was released in February (filled with massive tax increases, mammoth new government programs, and trillions – not billions – of dollars added to the national debt), the budget resolution passed by the House and Senate is of much greater consequence in the real world. That’s because the policies it sets out are binding as Congress sets funding levels for each agency of the federal government. You can see our views on the budget here.
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Can't We Agree on Reading?
Posted by: Education Policy Staff (03-12-2009, 11:05 AM)
Yesterday, President Obama signed into law a massive omnibus spending bill that contains funding for the nine appropriations bills that were not completed last year, including programs at the Department of Education. While the bill includes funding for a whole host of programs that have been singled out for elimination by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), it eliminates funding for the highly successful Reading First program.
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