Advancing Bold Solutions in September

Improving Career & Technical Education

A New Retirement Option for Workers

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Not So Fast …

For the past eight years, the Obama administration has shown it prefers executive overreach and regulatory schemes to bipartisanship and compromise. Time and again, they have proven their rulemaking is anything but responsible through measures including: An extreme and partisan overtime rule that will hurt those who need help the most; K-12 regulations that completely ignore the letter and intent of the law at the expense of students, schools, and taxpayers; and A misguided rule that will make i...

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Kline Statement on Annual Pension Report

House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement after the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) released its FY 2016 Annual Report, which shows the deficit in the agency’s multiemployer insurance program has increased from $52.3 billion to $58.8 billion: Once again, we are reminded of a serious threat facing workers, retirees, employers, and taxpayers. We took significant bipartisan steps in 2014 to address this threat and protect the f...

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Kline, Roe Statement on Federal Judicial Decision Blocking DOL Persuader Rule

Rep. John Kline (R-MN), chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, and Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN), chairman of the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, issued the following joint statement after a federal judge permanently blocked the Department of Labor from enforcing the "persuader" rule: The persuader rule is an assault on the right of workers to make informed union decisions, and it would have a chilling effect on the right of employers to seek legal advice...

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Fewer Options, Higher Costs

Retirement security is a difficult challenge facing millions of Americans. Unfortunately, misguided regulatory policies often make matters worse. The latest example is the Department of Labor’s flawed "fiduciary" rule. For years, many warned this rule would hurt the very people it’s intended to help. In fact, Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN) cautioned over a year ago: Make no mistake, if this rule goes into effect, a lot of people will quickly learn that their financial adviser—someone they may have known a...

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"CTE Benefits Everyone"

Technological advances. A persistent “skills gap.” Jobs that are available yet unfilled. These are some of the unique challenges that workers and communities across the country can face. Fortunately, career and technical education (CTE) can offer a positive solution. As the editorial board of the Daily Mining Gazette in Michigan writes: New workers know how to work a computer but lack the education to apply that knowledge to careers in demand in the current labor market. This skills gap is likel...

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25 Senate, House Education Committee Members: Education Department Should Withdraw Rule That Violates “the Unambiguously Expressed Intent of Congress”

Twenty-five Republican members of the Senate and House education committees today urged the Department of Education to withdraw its proposed “supplement not supplant” regulation, saying it “violates the unambiguously expressed intent of Congress,” and called on the department to instead work with Congress to implement the bipartisan Every Student Succeeds Act as it is written. The regulatory proposal would change the longstanding requirement that prevents school districts from using federal Titl...

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Kline Statement on October Jobs Report

WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement after the Department of Labor released unemployment data for October 2016: Our country needs a strong, vibrant economy that provides every man and woman an opportunity to work hard and achieve success. Unfortunately, years of failed policies have put us on the wrong path, limited our full potential, and denied many Americans the prosperity they desperately want for their famil...

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