[House Report 117-700]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]


                                            Union Calendar No. 516

117th Congress }                                          { Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 1st Session   }                                          { 117-700

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                        REPORT ON THE ACTIVITIES

                                 OF THE

                         COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

                               AND LABOR

                                FOR THE

                             117TH CONGRESS

                             together with

                             MINORITY VIEWS

[GRAPHIC(S) NOT AVAILABLE IN TIFF FORMAT]


January 1, 2023.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
              State of the Union and ordered to be printed              
              
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                    COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR

               ROBERT C. ``BOBBY'' SCOTT, Virginia, Chair
RAUL M. GRIJALVA, Arizona            VIRGINIA FOXX, North Carolina, 
JOE COURTNEY, Connecticut                Minority Ranking Member
GREGORIO KILILI CAMACHO SABLAN,      JOE WILSON, South Carolina
    Northern Mariana Islands         GLENN THOMPSON, Pennsylvania
FREDERICA S. WILSON, Florida         TIM WALBERG, Michigan
SUZANNE BONAMICI, Oregon             GLENN GROTHMAN, Wisconsin
MARK TAKANO, California              ELISE M. STEFANIK, New York
ALMA S. ADAMS, North Carolina        RICK W. ALLEN, Georgia
MARK DeSAULNIER, California          JIM BANKS, Indiana
DONALD NORCROSS, New Jersey          JAMES COMER, Kentucky
PRAMILA JAYAPAL, Washington          RUSS FULCHER, Idaho
SUSAN WILD, Pennsylvania             FRED KELLER, Pennsylvania
LUCY McBATH, Georgia                 MARIANNETTE MILLER-MEEKS, Iowa
JAHANA HAYES, Connecticut            BURGESS OWENS, Utah
ANDY LEVIN, Michigan                 BOB GOOD, Virginia
ILHAN OMAR, Minnesota                LISA C. McLAIN, Michigan
HALEY M. STEVENS, Michigan           DIANA HARSHBARGER, Tennessee
TERESA LEGER FERNANDEZ, New Mexico   MARY E. MILLER, Illinois
MONDAIRE JONES, New York             VICTORIA SPARTZ, Indiana
KATHY E. MANNING, North Carolina     SCOTT FITZGERALD, Wisconsin
FRANK J. MRVAN, Indiana              MADISON CAWTHORN, North Carolina
JAMAAL BOWMAN, New York, Vice Chair  MICHELLE STEEL, California
MARY SATTLER PELTOLA, Alaska         CHRIS JACOBS, New York
MARK POCAN, Wisconsin                BRAD FINSTAD, Minnesota
JOAQUIN CASTRO, Texas                JOSEPH SEMPOLINSKI, New York
MIKIE SHERRILL, New Jersey
ADRIANO ESPAILLAT, New York
KWEISI MFUME, Maryland
Vacancy
              Veronique Pluviose, Majority Staff Director
                  Cyrus Artz, Minority Staff Director

----------
February 4, 2021--Marjorie Taylor Greene, Georgia, was removed from the 
Committee.
February 7, 2021--Ron Wright, Texas, deceased.
February 3, 2021--John A. Yarmuth, Kentucky, was appointed to the 
Committee.
February 3, 2021--Adriano Espaillat, New York, was appointed to the 
Committee.
February 11, 2021--Kweisi Mfume, Maryland, was appointed to the 
Committee.
April 14, 2021--Julia Letlow, Louisiana, was appointed to the 
Committee.
January 25, 2022--Gregory Murphy, North Carolina, resigned from the 
Committee.
February 2, 2022--John A. Yarmuth, Kentucky, resigned from the 
Committee.
February 2, 2022--Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, Florida, was appointed to 
the Committee.
March 1, 2022--Chris Jacobs, New York, was appointed to the Committee.
May 12, 2022--Julia Letlow, Louisiana, resigned from the Committee.
September 13, 2022--Brad Finstad, Minnesota, was appointed to the 
Committee.
September 13, 2022--Joseph Sempolinski, New York, was appointed to the 
Committee.
September 14, 2022--Joseph D. Morelle, New York, resigned from the 
Committee.
September 29, 2022--Mary Sattler Peltola, Alaska, was appointed to the 
Committee.
November 17, 2022--Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, Florida, resigned from 
the Committee.
 
 SUBCOMMITTEE ON EARLY CHILDHOOD, ELEMENTARY, AND SECONDARY EDUCATION

    GREGORIO KILILI CAMACHO SABLAN, Northern Mariana Islands, Chair
JAHANA HAYES, Connecticut            BURGESS OWENS, Utah, 
RAUL M. GRIJALVA, Arizona                Minority Ranking Member
FREDERICA S. WILSON, Florida         GLENN GROTHMAN, Wisconsin
MARK DeSAULNIER, California          RICK W. ALLEN, Georgia
LUCY McBATH, Georgia                 FRED KELLER, Pennsylvania
ANDY LEVIN, Michigan                 MARY E. MILLER, Illinois
KATHY E. MANNING, North Carolina     MADISON CAWTHORN, North Carolina
JAMAAL BOWMAN, New York              MICHELLE STEEL, California
MARY SATTLER PELTOLA, Alaska         CHRIS JACOBS, New York
ROBERT C. ``BOBBY'' SCOTT, Virginia  JOSEPH SEMPOLINSKI, New York
Vacancy                              VIRGINIA FOXX, North Carolina, Ex 
                                         Officio

----------
February 2, 2022--John A. Yarmuth, Kentucky, resigned from the 
Subcommittee.
February 16, 2022--Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, Florida, was appointed 
to the Subcommittee.
March 16, 2022--Chris Jacobs, New York, was appointed to the 
Subcommittee.
April 20, 2021--Julia Letlow, Louisiana, was appointed to the 
Subcommittee.
May 12, 2022--Julia Letlow, Louisiana, resigned from the Subcommittee.
September 14, 2022--Joseph D. Morelle, New York, resigned from the 
Subcommittee.
September 15, 2022--Joseph Sempolinski, New York, was appointed to the 
Subcommittee.
November 17, 2022--Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, Florida, resigned from 
the Subcommittee.
November 17, 2022--Mary Sattler Peltola, Alaska, was appointed to the 
Subcommittee.

       SUBCOMMITTEE ON HIGHER EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE INVESTMENT

                  FREDERICA S. WILSON, Florida, Chair
MARK TAKANO, California              MARIANNETTE MILLER-MEEKS, Iowa, 
PRAMILA JAYAPAL, Washington              Minority Ranking Member
ILHAN OMAR, Minnesota                GLENN GROTHMAN, Wisconsin
TERESA LEGER FERNANDEZ, New Mexico   ELISE M. STEFANIK, New York
MONDAIRE JONES, New York             JIM BANKS, Indiana
KATHY E. MANNING, North Carolina     JAMES COMER, Kentucky
JAMAAL BOWMAN, New York              RUSS FULCHER, Idaho
MARK POCAN, Wisconsin                BOB GOOD, Virginia
JOAQUIN CASTRO, Texas                LISA C. McCLAIN, Michigan
MIKIE SHERRILL, New Jersey           DIANA HARSHBARGER, Tennessee
ADRIANO ESPAILLAT, New York          VICTORIA SPARTZ, Indiana
RAUL M. GRIJALVA, Arizona            CHRIS JACOBS, New York
JOE COURTNEY, Connecticut            BRAD FINSTAD, Minnesota
SUZANNE BONAMICI, Oregon             VIRGINIA FOXX, North Carolina, Ex 
ROBERT C. ``BOBBY'' SCOTT,               Officio
    Virginia, 
    Ex Officio

----------
April 20, 2021--Julia Letlow, Louisiana, was appointed to the 
Subcommittee.
January 25, 2022--Gregory Murphy, North Carolina, resigned from the 
Subcommittee.
February 16, 2022--Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Iowa, was appointed 
Minority Ranking Member of the Subcommittee.
March 16, 2022--Chris Jacobs, New York, was appointed to the 
Subcommittee.
May 12, 2022--Julia Letlow, Louisiana, resigned from the Subcommittee.
September 15, 2022--Brad Finstad, Minnesota, was appointed to the 
Subcommittee.
        SUBCOMMITTEE ON HEALTH, EMPLOYMENT, LABOR, AND PENSIONS

                   MARK DeSAULNIER, California, Chair
JOE COURTNEY, Connecticut            RICK W. ALLEN, Georgia, 
DONALD NORCROSS, New Jersey              Minority Ranking Member
SUSAN WILD, Pennsylvania             JOE WILSON, South Carolina
LUCY McBATH, Georgia                 TIM WALBERG, Michigan
ANDY LEVIN, Michigan                 JIM BANKS, Indiana
HALEY M. STEVENS, Michigan           DIANA HARSHBARGER, Tennessee
FRANK J. MRVAN, Indiana              MARY E. MILLER, Illinois
MARY SATTLER PELTOLA, Alaska         SCOTT FITZGERALD, Wisconsin
ROBERT C. ``BOBBY'' SCOTT,           VIRGINIA FOXX, North Carolina, Ex 
    Virginia,                            Officio
    Ex Officio

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September 14, 2022--Joseph D. Morelle, New York, resigned from the 
Subcommittee.
November 17, 2022--Mary Sattler Peltola, Alaska, was appointed to the 
Subcommittee.

                 SUBCOMMITTEE ON WORKFORCE PROTECTIONS

                  ALMA S. ADAMS, North Carolina, Chair
MARK TAKANO, California              FRED KELLER, Pennsylvania, 
DONALD NORCROSS, New Jersey              Minority Ranking Member
PRAMILA JAYAPAL, Washington          ELISE M. STEFANIK, New York
ILHAN OMAR, Minnesota                MARIANNETTE MILLER-MEEKS, Iowa
HALEY M. STEVENS, Michigan           BURGESS OWENS, Utah
MONDAIRE JONES, New York             BOB GOOD, Virginia
MARY SATTLER PELTOLA, Alaska         MADISON CAWTHORN, North Carolina
ROBERT C. ``BOBBY'' SCOTT, Virginia  MICHELLE STEEL, California
                                     VIRGINIA FOXX, North Carolina, Ex 
                                         Officio

----------
February 2, 2022--John A. Yarmuth, Kentucky, resigned from the 
Subcommittee.
February 16, 2022--Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, Florida, was appointed 
to the Subcommittee.
November 17, 2022--Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, Florida, resigned from 
the Subcommittee.
November 17, 2022--Mary Sattler Peltola, Alaska, was appointed to the 
Subcommittee.

            SUBCOMMITTEE ON CIVIL RIGHTS AND HUMAN SERVICES

                    SUZANNE BONAMICI, Oregon, Chair
ALMA S. ADAMS, North Carolina        RUSS FULCHER, Idaho, 
JAHANA HAYES, Connecticut                Minority Ranking Member
TERESA LEGER FERNANDEZ, New Mexico   GLENN THOMPSON, Pennsylvania
FRANK J. MRVAN, Indiana              LISA C. McCLAIN, Michigan
JAMAAL BOWMAN, New York              VICTORIA SPARTZ, Indiana
KWEISI MFUME, Maryland               SCOTT FITZGERALD, Wisconsin
ROBERT C. ``BOBBY'' SCOTT,           VIRGINIA FOXX, North Carolina, Ex 
    Virginia,                            Officio
    Ex Officio

----------
March 11, 2021--Kweisi Mfume, Maryland, was appointed to the 
Subcommittee.
March 11, 2021--Victoria Spartz, Indiana, was appointed to the 
Subcommittee.
                         LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL

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                  Committee on Education and Labor,
                                  House of Representatives,
                                   Washington, DC, January 1, 2023.
Hon. Cheryl L. Johnson,
Clerk of the House,
The Capitol, Washington, DC.
    Dear Ms. Johnson: Pursuant to rule XI, clause 1(d) of the 
Rules of the U.S. House of Representatives, I am hereby 
transmitting the Activities Report of the Committee on 
Education and Labor for the 117th Congress. This report 
summarizes the activities of the Committee and its 
Subcommittees with respect to its legislative and oversight 
responsibilities.
    I circulated this report to all Members of the Committee on 
December 15, 2022, and I received the Minority Views included 
in this report.
            Sincerely,
                                 Robert C. ``Bobby'' Scott,
                                                          Chairman.
                            C O N T E N T S

                                                                   Page
Introduction.....................................................     1
Hearings Held by the Full Committee..............................     6
Markups and Other Business Meetings Held by the Full Committee...     8
Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, 
  and Secondary Education........................................    15
Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Higher Education and 
  Workforce Investment...........................................    17
Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, 
  and Pensions...................................................    21
Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.......    23
Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human 
  Services.......................................................    27
Legislation Referred to the Committee That Passed the House......    31
Legislation Referred to the Committee That Passed the House in 
  Another Measure................................................    33
Legislation Within Committee Jurisdiction Not Referred to the 
  Committee That Passed the House................................    38
Legislation Referred to the Committee Enacted Into Law...........    39
Legislation Referred to the Committee Enacted Into Law in Another 
  Measure........................................................    40
Legislation Within Committee Jurisdiction Not Referred to the 
  Committee Enacted Into Law.....................................    41
Oversight Plan Summary and Activity..............................    41
Committee-Initiated Correspondence...............................    75
Official Committee Proceedings Conducted Entirely Remotely or 
  With Remote Participation......................................    85
Other Committee Activity (Briefing) Conducted Entirely Remotely 
  or With Remote Participation...................................   109
Conference Reports Filed With Committee Members Appointed as 
  Conferees......................................................   109
Committee Review of Draft Codification of Law Proposed by the 
  Office of the Law Revision Counsel.............................   109
Issue Reports Written by the Committee...........................   109
Amicus Briefs Supported by the Committee.........................   110
Committee Activity Statistics....................................   111
Minority Views...................................................   113



                                            Union Calendar No. 516

117th Congress }                                          { Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 1st Session   }                                          { 117-700

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REPORT ON THE ACTIVITIES OF THE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR DURING 
                           THE 117TH CONGRESS

                                _______
                                

January 1, 2023.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
              State of the Union and ordered to be printed

                                _______
                                

Mr. Scott, from the Committee on Education and the Workforce, submitted 
                             the following

                              R E P O R T

                             together with

                             MINORITY VIEWS

                              INTRODUCTION

    Representative Robert C. ``Bobby'' Scott (VA), Chair of the 
House Committee on Education and Labor (Committee), is 
committed to building an America where everyone can succeed, 
not just the wealthy few.
    During the 117th Congress, the Committee--with the 
leadership of Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary 
Education Subcommittee Chair Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan 
(Northern Mariana Islands), Higher Education and Workforce 
Investment Subcommittee Chair Frederica S. Wilson (FL), Health, 
Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Chair Mark 
DeSaulnier (CA), Workforce Protections Subcommittee Chair Alma 
S. Adams (NC), and Civil Rights and Human Services Subcommittee 
Chair Suzanne Bonamici (OR)--followed research and evidence to 
improve the lives of children, students, workers, families, and 
retirees.
    One of the Committee's most significant achievements 
occurred with the enactment of the American Rescue Plan Act of 
2021, which touched nearly every corner of the Committee's 
jurisdiction through education, labor, and health policy. Among 
other victories, this historic relief package: delivered the 
largest, one-time federal investment in K-12 education in the 
nation's history--targeted toward schools with the greatest 
need--to help students recover from the COVID-19 pandemic; 
rescued the child care system from the brink of collapse; 
helped reduce hunger among households with children by more 
than 40 percent in less than six months; and delivered a 
solution to the multiemployer pension crisis that saved the 
pensions of over one million workers and protected thousands of 
businesses from closing.
    In total, the Committee held 61 hearings and passed 30 
bills to achieve equity in education, expand access to 
affordable health care, and create safe and inclusive 
workplaces where workers can earn a living wage and 
collectively bargain. What follows is an overview of what the 
Committee accomplished in the 117th Congress in each policy 
area within its jurisdiction.

Achieving Equity in Education

    In the 117th Congress, the Committee advanced legislation 
that secured urgent relief for students, schools, and families, 
confronted the racial and economic resegregation of public K-12 
education, and rebuilt America's crumbling public schools.
    Equity and Inclusion Enforcement Act (H.R. 730) restores 
the right of students and parents to hold schools accountable 
for discrimination in education. [Ordered reported out of 
Committee on July 15, 2021]
    Strength in Diversity Act (H.R. 729) supports school 
districts in developing, implementing, or expanding voluntary 
initiatives to increase diversity in schools. [Ordered reported 
out of Committee on July 15, 2021]
    Consider Teachers Act (S. 848) fixes a broken system that 
improperly burdened teachers with loans. [Enacted on October 
13, 2021]
    Joint Consolidation Loan Separation Act (S. 1098) allows 
borrowers with uncommunicative or abusive spouses or former 
spouses to escape a financial connection with them by severing 
joint consolidation federal student loans into two separate 
federal direct student loans. [Enacted on October 11, 2022]
    School Shooting Safety and Preparedness Act (H.R. 5428) 
lays the groundwork necessary to provide uniform data on school 
shootings to policymakers and the public, allowing them to 
better measure the impact of policy solutions at the state and 
federal levels. [Ordered reported out of Committee on March 16, 
2022]
    Reopen and Rebuild America's Schools Act of 2022 (H.R. 604) 
invests in high-poverty schools with facilities that pose 
health and safety risks to students and staff, creates over 2 
million construction jobs, and expands schools' access to high-
speed broadband. [Ordered reported out of Committee on May 18, 
2022]

Fostering Safe and Inclusive Workplaces

    In the 117th Congress, the Committee advanced legislation 
to increase wages, promote the right to collectively bargain, 
and protect workers from injury and discrimination.
    National Apprenticeship Act of 2021 (H.R. 447) creates 
nearly one million new Registered Apprenticeship, youth 
apprenticeship, and pre-apprenticeship positions to help 
workers access in-demand jobs across a wide range of 
industries. [Passed the House on February 5, 2021]
    Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act of 2021 (H.R. 
842) protects workers' right to organize and bargain for higher 
pay, better benefits, and safer working conditions. [Passed the 
House on March 9, 2021]
    Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social 
Service Workers Act (H.R. 1195) provides health care and social 
service workers with the workplace protections they deserve. 
[Passed the House on April 16, 2021]
    Paycheck Fairness Act (H.R. 7) addresses pay inequity by 
holding companies accountable for gender-based wage 
disparities, strengthening the Equal Pay Act of 1963, and 
protecting the rights of workers to challenge systemic pay 
discrimination. [Passed the House on April 15, 2021]
    Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (H.R. 1065) establishes a 
pregnant worker's clear-cut right to reasonable workplace 
accommodations, provided they do not impose an undue burden on 
the employer. [Passed the House on May 14, 2021; enacted 
(substantially similar text was included) on December 23, 2022, 
as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023]
    Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act of 2021 
(H.R. 2062) restores legal protections for older workers so 
they can hold employers accountable for age discrimination. 
[Passed the House on June 23, 2021]
    Providing Urgent Maternal Protections (PUMP) for Nursing 
Mothers Act (H.R. 3110) expands and strengthens workplace 
protections for nursing mothers so they have the time and 
privacy to pump at work. [Passed the House on October 22, 2021; 
enacted (provisions were included) on December 23, 2022, as 
part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023]
    Protect Older Job Applicants (POJA) Act of 2021 (H.R. 3992) 
clarifies that older job applicants are protected from age 
discrimination under federal law. [Passed the House on November 
4, 2021]
    Black Lung Benefits Improvement Act of 2022 (H.R. 6102) 
helps disabled miners overcome barriers to the compensation and 
benefits for black lung disease that they are entitled to 
receive. [Ordered reported out of Committee on March 16, 2022]
    Longshore and Harbor Workers' COVID-19 Compensation Act of 
2022 (H.R. 3114) makes it easier for maritime workers who were 
diagnosed with COVID-19 to access the workers' compensation 
they deserve. [Ordered reported out of Committee on March 16, 
2022]
    Securing a Strong Retirement Act of 2022 (H.R. 2954) makes 
commonsense improvements to ensure that the retirement system 
better serves workers, retirees, and employers. [Passed the 
House on March 29, 2022, previously reported out of Committee 
as Retirement Improvement and Savings Enhancement (RISE) Act 
(H.R. 5891); enacted (provisions were included) on December 23, 
2022, as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023]
    Protecting America's Retirement Security Act (H.R. 7310) 
makes commonsense improvements to the retirement system to 
protect workers' retirement savings and support families and 
employers. [Ordered reported out of Committee on April 5, 2022; 
enacted (provisions were included) on December 23, 2022, as 
part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023]
    Federal Firefighters Fairness Act of 2022 (H.R. 2499) 
improves access to injury and illness benefits for federal 
firefighters. [Passed the House on May 11, 2022; enacted 
(substantially similar text was included) on December 23, 2022, 
as part of the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 2023]
    Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2022 (H.R. 
7309) invests in the workforce development system to meet the 
needs of workers and businesses, fill job openings with 
qualified workers, reduce supply chain shortage, and lower 
costs for families. [Passed the House on May 17, 2022]
    Wage Theft Prevention and Wage Recovery Act (H.R. 7701) 
ensures a worker's right to be paid all legally owed wages and 
holds unscrupulous employers accountable for violating the Fair 
Labor Standards Act. [Ordered reported out of Committee on May 
18, 2022]
    Improving Access to Workers' Compensation for Injured 
Federal Workers Act (H.R. 6087) expands federal employees' 
access to workers' compensation by restoring their choice of 
medical provider. [Passed the House on June 7, 2022]
    Asuncion Valdivia Heat Illness and Fatality Prevention Act 
of 2022 (H.R. 2193) helps protect indoor and outdoor workers 
against occupational exposure to excessive heat by requiring 
employers to provide paid breaks in cool spaces, access to 
water, limitations on time exposed to heat, and other life-
saving measures. [Ordered reported out of Committee on July 27, 
2022]
    Susan Muffley Act of 2022 (H.R. 6929) restores Delphi 
pension plan benefits for thousands of retirees. [Passed the 
House on July 27, 2022]
    Bridging the Gap for New Americans Act (S. 3157) 
commissions a study to help the U.S. Department of Labor better 
assist refugees and immigrants in finding a rewarding career. 
[Enacted on October 17, 2022]

Promoting Healthy Communities and Increasing Access to Health Care

    In the 117th Congress, the Committee advanced legislation 
to expand access to quality, affordable health care coverage, 
address and prevent child hunger, and improve access to mental 
health services.
    Stronger Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (H.R. 
485) addresses the recent rise in child abuse and neglect by 
funding networks of prevention services that are designed to 
strengthen families and improve the quality of child protective 
services. [Passed the House on March 16, 2021]
    Family Violence Prevention Services Improvement Act (H.R. 
2119) refocuses and enhances federal investments to prevent 
intimate partner violence and support survivors. [Passed the 
House on October 26, 2021]
    Community Services Block Grant Modernization Act of 2022 
(H.R. 5129) strengthens the Community Services Block Grant 
program to help local organizations reduce poverty in their 
communities. [Passed the House on May 13, 2022]
    Access to Baby Formula Act (H.R. 7791) provides flexibility 
to allow families to use their WIC benefits to purchase safe 
and available infant formula products in response to the infant 
formula shortage. [Enacted on May 21, 2022]
    Campus Prevention and Recovery Services for Students Act of 
2022 (H.R. 6493) updates and improves efforts to prevent 
substance misuse on campuses. [Passed the House on June 23, 
2022]
    Enhancing Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Through 
Campus Planning Act (H.R. 5407) requires the U.S. Department of 
Education to encourage institutions of higher education to 
develop and implement evidence-based comprehensive campus 
mental health and suicide prevention plans. [Passed the House 
on June 23, 2022]
    Keep Kids Fed Act (S. 2089) provides children with healthy 
meals over the summer and ensures that schools and daycares can 
respond to supply chain challenges and high food costs during 
the school year. [Enacted on June 25, 2022]
    Healthy Meals, Healthy Kids Act (H.R. 8450) helps address 
and prevent child hunger through a comprehensive, science-
driven reauthorization of federal child nutrition programs that 
meets the needs of children and families. [Ordered reported out 
of Committee on November 07, 2022; enacted (provisions were 
included) on December 23, 2022, as part of the Consolidated 
Appropriations Act, 2023]
    Mental Health Matters Act (H.R. 7780) takes wide-ranging 
steps to support the behavioral health of children and school 
staff, strengthen school-based behavioral health care, and 
ensure access to mental health and substance use disorder 
benefits for workers and families. [Passed the House on 
November 29, 2022]
    Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (H.R. 5376) takes historic 
steps to reduce the cost of health insurance, lower the cost of 
prescription drugs, create millions of good-paying jobs, make 
the most significant investment to address climate change in 
our history, and dramatically reduce the deficit. [Enacted on 
August 16, 2022, previously marked up and transmitted out of 
Committee to comply with the Reconciliation Directive included 
in Section 2002 of the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for 
Fiscal Year 2022, S. Con. Res. 14]

Conducting Oversight and Requiring Accountability

    The Committee rigorously exercised its Article I oversight 
authority through dozens of letters, meetings, and public 
hearings. [Discussed in detail in the report section titled 
``Oversight Plan Summary and Activity'']

Conclusion

    In the 118th Congress, the Committee will continue to put 
people over politics. The Committee will work with our 
colleagues across the aisle and the Biden Administration to 
address longstanding inequities in education and provide 
quality educational opportunities; expand access to quality and 
affordable health care; and promote safe and inclusive 
workplaces where workers can earn a living wage and 
collectively bargain. The Committee will also push for robust 
oversight on behalf of students, families, and workers.

                  Hearings Held by the Full Committee


April 20, 2021--Hearing titled ``For-Profit College Conversions: 
        Examining Ways to Improve Accountability and Prevent Fraud.''

    Purpose: To provide Committee members the opportunity to 
better understand the findings in a U.S. Government 
Accountability Office report on for-profit college conversions 
and the harm ``covert for-profits'' cause students and 
taxpayers.
    Witnesses: Ms. Melissa Emrey-Arras, Director of Higher 
Education, U.S. Government Accountability Office, Boston, MA; 
Ms. Yan Cao, Senior Fellow, The Century Foundation, New York, 
NY; Mr. Brian Galle, Professor of Law, Georgetown University 
Law Center, Washington, DC; and Dr. Andrew Gillen, Senior 
Policy Analyst, Texas Public Policy Foundation, Austin, TX.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

April 22, 2021--Hearing titled ``Members Day Hearing: Committee on 
        Education and Labor.''

    Purpose: To provide an opportunity for non-Committee 
Members to inform the Committee of their interests and 
priorities as they relate to the Committee's jurisdiction 
pursuant to Rule X of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives.
    Witnesses: Oral testimony provided by the Honorable Mary 
Gay Scanlon, Member of Congress, U.S. House of Representatives, 
Swarthmore, PA; and the Honorable James Langevin, Member of 
Congress, U.S. House of Representatives, Warwick, RI. Written 
testimony provided by the Honorable J. French Hill, Member of 
Congress, U.S. House of Representatives, Little Rock, AR; the 
Honorable Brenda Lawrence, Member of Congress, U.S. House of 
Representatives, Southfield, MI; the Honorable Angie Craig, 
Member of Congress, U.S. House of Representatives, Eagan, MN; 
the Honorable Matt Cartwright, Member of Congress, U.S. House 
of Representatives, Moosic, PA; and the Honorable Steve Cohen, 
Member of Congress, U.S. House of Representatives, Memphis, TN.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

April 28, 2021--Hearing titled ``Building Back Better: Investing in 
        Improving Schools, Creating Jobs, and Strengthening Families 
        and our Economy.''

    Purpose: To examine President Biden's American Jobs Plan 
(AJP) and American Families Plan (AFP), proposals which 
encompass a multi-year plan to transform the economy through 
infrastructure investment, job training, and addressing climate 
change. The hearing received testimony on proposals to expand 
child care, rebuild unsafe school buildings in areas of 
greatest need, help workers develop in-demand skills to prepare 
for rewarding careers, and update community college 
infrastructure.
    Witnesses: Mr. Rasheed Malik, Senior Policy Analyst, Center 
for American Progress, Washington, DC; Dr. Neal McCluskey, 
Director, Cato Institute's Center for Educational Freedom, 
Washington, DC; Mr. Mark Mitsui, President, Portland Community 
College; Portland, OR; Mr. Bob Lanter, Executive Director, 
California Workforce Association, Sacramento, CA; Mr. Brian 
Riedl, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute, New York, NY; and 
Ms. Mary Filardo, Executive Director, 21st Century School Fund, 
Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

June 9, 2021--Hearing titled ``Examining the Policies and Priorities of 
        the U.S. Department of Labor.''

    Purpose: To examine the policies and priorities of the U.S. 
Department of Labor as conveyed in President Biden's Budget for 
Fiscal Year 2022.
    Witness: The Honorable Martin Walsh, Secretary, U.S. 
Department of Labor, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

June 16, 2021--Hearing titled ``Examining the Policies and Priorities 
        of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.''

    Purpose: To examine the policies and priorities of the U.S. 
Department of Health and Human Services as conveyed in 
President Biden's Budget for Fiscal Year 2022.
    Witness: The Honorable Xavier Becerra, Secretary, U.S. 
Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

June 24, 2021--Hearing titled ``Examining the Policies and Priorities 
        of the U.S. Department of Education.''

    Purpose: To examine the policies and priorities of the U.S. 
Department of Education as conveyed in President Biden's Budget 
for Fiscal Year 2022.
    Witness: The Honorable Miguel Cardona, Secretary, U.S. 
Department of Education, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

December 1, 2021--Hearing titled ``Examining the Policies and 
        Priorities of the Corporation for National and Community 
        Service.''

    Purpose: To examine the policies and priorities of the 
Corporation for National and Community Service, including 
financial management concerns identified by the agency's 
auditors.
    Witnesses: The Honorable Deborah Jeffrey, Inspector 
General, Corporation for National and Community Service, 
Washington, DC; and Mr. Malcolm Coles, Acting Chief Executive 
Officer, Corporation for National and Community Service, 
Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

April 6, 2022--Hearing titled ``Examining the Policies and Priorities 
        of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.''

    Purpose: To examine the policies and priorities of the U.S. 
Department of Health and Human Services as conveyed in 
President Biden's Budget for Fiscal Year 2023.
    Witness: The Honorable Xavier Becerra, Secretary, U.S. 
Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

May 26, 2022--Hearing titled ``Examining the Policies and Priorities of 
        the U.S. Department of Education.''

    Purpose: To examine the policies and priorities of the U.S. 
Department of Education as conveyed in President Biden's Budget 
for Fiscal Year 2023.
    Witness: The Honorable Miguel Cardona, Secretary, U.S. 
Department of Education, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

June 14, 2022--Hearing titled ``Examining the Policies and Priorities 
        of the U.S. Department of Labor.''

    Purpose: To examine the policies and priorities of the U.S. 
Department of Labor as conveyed in President Biden's Budget for 
Fiscal Year 2023.
    Witness: The Honorable Martin Walsh, Secretary, U.S. 
Department of Labor, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

September 14, 2022--Hearing titled ``In Solidarity: Removing Barriers 
        to Organizing.''

    Purpose: To examine the increase in worker organizing 
activity across the country, the factors driving this activity, 
the need to increase funding for the National Labor Relations 
Board (NLRB) to handle the spike in this activity, and the need 
to enact the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act (H.R. 
842).
    Witnesses: Dr. Kate Bronfenbrenner, Director of Labor 
Education Research and Senior Lecturer, Cornell University 
School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Ithaca, NY; Mr. Mark 
Pearce, Visiting Professor and Executive Director of the 
Workers' Rights Institute, Georgetown University, Washington, 
DC; Mr. Roger King, Senior Labor and Employment Policy Counsel, 
HR Policy Association, Arlington, VA; and Ms. Michelle Eisen, 
Barista, Starbucks, Buffalo, NY.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

            Markups and Other Business Meetings Held by the
                             Full Committee


February 8, 2021--Full Committee Organizational Meeting to introduce 
        new Members of the Committee; consider and adopt the Rules of 
        the Committee for the 117th Congress; approve the Subcommittee 
        Chairs and Ranking Members as well as approve the assignment of 
        Members to Subcommittees; and share the Committee Oversight 
        Plan for the 117th Congress.

    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via Cisco Webex 
Meetings.

February 9, 2021--Markup of Committee Print to comply with the 
        reconciliation directive included in section 2001(b) of S. Con. 
        Res. 5, the concurrent resolution setting forth the 
        congressional budget for the United States Government for 
        fiscal year 2021 and setting forth the appropriate budgeting 
        levels for fiscal years 2022 through 2030.

    Sponsor: Rep. Robert C. ``Bobby'' Scott (VA)
    Disposition: The Committee Print was ordered to be 
favorably transmitted to the House Committee on the Budget, as 
amended, by a vote of 27 Yeas and 21 Nays.
    Committee Report: Transmitted on February 16, 2021.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via Cisco Webex 
Meetings.

March 11, 2021--Meeting to approve new Subcommittee assignments.

    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

March 24, 2021--Markup of H.R. 7, the Paycheck Fairness Act.

    Sponsor: Rep. Rosa DeLauro (CT)
    Disposition: H.R. 7 was ordered to be favorably reported to 
the House, as amended, by a vote of 25 Yeas and 22 Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-13 was filed on April 5, 
2021.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

March 24, 2021--Markup of H.R. 1065, the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act.

    Sponsor: Rep. Jerrold Nadler (NY)
    Disposition: H.R. 1065 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by a vote of 30 Yeas and 17 Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-27 (Part I) was filed on 
May 4, 2021.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

March 24, 2021--Markup of H.R. 1195, the Workplace Violence Prevention 
        for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act.

    Sponsor: Rep. Joe Courtney (CT)
    Disposition: H.R. 1195 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by a vote of 27 Yeas and 20 Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-14 (Part I) was filed on 
April 5, 2021.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

April 20, 2021--Meeting to approve new Subcommittee assignments.

    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

May 26, 2021--Markup of H.R. 3110, the Providing Urgent Maternal 
        Protections (PUMP) for Nursing Mothers Act.

    Sponsor: Rep. Carolyn Maloney (NY)
    Disposition: H.R. 3110 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by a vote of 28 Yeas and 19 Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-102 was filed on July 
22, 2021.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

May 26, 2021--Markup of H.R. 2062, the Protecting Older Workers Against 
        Discrimination Act of 2021 (POWADA).

    Sponsor: Rep. Robert C. ``Bobby'' Scott (VA)
    Disposition: H.R. 2062 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by a vote of 29 Yeas and 18 Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-63 was filed on June 17, 
2021.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

July 15, 2021--Markup of H.R. 2119, the Family Violence Prevention and 
        Services Improvement Act of 2021.

    Sponsor: Rep. Lucy McBath (GA)
    Disposition: H.R. 2119 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by a vote of 26 Yeas and 20 Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-126 was filed on 
September 23, 2021.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

July 15, 2021--Markup of H.R. 3992, the Protect Older Job Applicants 
        (POJA) Act of 2021.

    Sponsor: Rep. Sylvia Garcia (TX)
    Disposition: H.R. 3992 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by a vote of 26 Yeas and 19 Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-127 was filed on 
September 23, 2021.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

July 15, 2021--Markup of H.R. 729, the Strength in Diversity Act of 
        2021.

    Sponsor: Rep. Robert C. ``Bobby'' Scott (VA)
    Disposition: H.R. 729 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by a vote of 27 Yeas and 19 Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-176 was filed on 
November 23, 2021.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

July 15, 2021--Markup of H.R. 730, the Equity and Inclusion Enforcement 
        Act of 2021.

    Sponsor: Rep. Robert C. ``Bobby'' Scott (VA)
    Disposition: H.R. 730 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by a vote of 27 Yeas and 19 Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-177 (Part I) was filed 
on November 23, 2021.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

September 9, 2021--Markup of Committee Print to comply with 
        reconciliation directive included in section 2002(b) of S. Con. 
        Res. 14, a concurrent resolution setting forth the 
        congressional budget for the United States Government for 
        fiscal year 2022 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary 
        levels for fiscal years 2023 through 2031.

    Sponsor: Rep. Robert C. ``Bobby'' Scott (VA)
    Disposition: The Committee Print was ordered to be 
favorably transmitted to the House Committee on the Budget, as 
amended, by a vote of 28 Yeas and 22 Nays.
    Committee Report: Transmitted on September 14, 2021.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

November 10, 2021--Markup of H.R. 5891, the Retirement Improvement and 
        Savings Enhancement (RISE) Act.

    Sponsor: Rep. Robert C. ``Bobby'' Scott (VA)
    Disposition: H.R. 5891 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by voice vote.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-250 (Part I) was filed 
on February 25, 2022.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

February 16, 2022--Meeting to approve new Subcommittee assignments.

    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

March 16, 2022--Meeting to approve new Subcommittee assignments.

    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

March 16, 2022--Markup of H.R. 6102, the Black Lung Benefits 
        Improvement Act of 2021.

    Sponsor: Rep. Matt Cartwright (PA)
    Disposition: H.R. 6102 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by a vote of 28 Yeas and 22 Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-589 (Part I) was filed 
on December 2, 2022.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

March 16, 2022--Markup of H.R. 5129, the Community Services Block Grant 
        Modernization Act of 2022.

    Sponsor: Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (OR)
    Disposition: H.R. 5129 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by a vote of 35 Yeas and 14 Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-311 was filed on May 6, 
2022.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

March 16, 2022--Markup of H.R. 2499, the Federal Fire Fighters Fairness 
        Act of 2022.

    Sponsor: Rep. Salud Carbajal (CA)
    Disposition: H.R. 2499 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by a vote of 31 Yeas and 18 Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-306 was filed on May 6, 
2022.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

March 16, 2022--Markup of H.R. 5428, the School Shooting Safety and 
        Preparedness Act.

    Sponsor: Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL)
    Disposition: H.R. 5428 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by a vote of 27 Yeas and 21 Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-307 was filed on May 6, 
2022.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

March 16, 2022--Markup of H.R. 3114, the Longshore and Harbor Workers' 
        COVID-19 Compensation Act of 2022.

    Sponsor: Rep. Frank Mrvan (IN)
    Disposition: H.R. 6102 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by a vote of 27 Yeas and 21 Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-526 was filed on 
September 29, 2022.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

March 16, 2022--Markup of H.R. 6087, the Improving Access to Workers' 
        Compensation for Injured Federal Workers Act.

    Sponsor: Rep. Joe Courtney (CT)
    Disposition: H.R. 6087 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by voice vote.
    Committee Report: No Committee Report filed.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

April 5, 2022--Markup of H.R. 7309, the Workforce Innovation and 
        Opportunity Act of 2022.

    Sponsor: Rep. Robert C. ``Bobby'' Scott (VA)
    Disposition: H.R. 7309 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by a vote of 29 Yeas and 21 Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-321 was filed on May 12, 
2022.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

April 5, 2022--Markup of H.R. 7310, the Protecting America's Retirement 
        Security Act.

    Sponsor: Rep. Lucy McBath (GA)
    Disposition: H.R. 7310 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by a vote of 29 Yeas and 21 Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-557 (Part I) was filed 
on November 14, 2022.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

May 18, 2022--Markup of H.R. 604, the Rebuild America's Schools Act 
        (RASA) of 2022.

    Sponsor: Rep. Robert C. ``Bobby'' Scott (VA)
    Disposition: H.R. 604 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by a vote of 27 Yeas and 19 Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-607 (Part I) was filed 
on December 7, 2022.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

May 18, 2022--Markup of H.R. 7701, the Wage Theft Prevention and Wage 
        Recovery Act of 2022.

    Sponsor: Rep. Rosa DeLauro (CT)
    Disposition: H.R. 7701 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by a vote of 27 Yeas and 19 Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-540 was filed on October 
7, 2022.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

May 18, 2022--Markup of H.R. 5407, the Enhancing Mental Health and 
        Suicide Prevention Through Campus Planning Act.

    Sponsor: Rep. Susan Wild (PA)
    Disposition: H.R. 5407 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by voice vote.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-383 was filed on June 
23, 2022.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

May 18, 2022--Markup of H.R. 6493, the Campus Prevention and Recovery 
        Services for Students Act of 2022.

    Sponsor: Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez (NM)
    Disposition: H.R. 6493 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by voice vote.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-384 was filed on June 
23, 2022.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

May 18, 2022--Markup of H.R. 7780, the Mental Health Matters Act.

    Sponsor: Rep. Mark DeSaulnier (CA)
    Disposition: H.R. 7780 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by a vote of 26 Yeas 18 Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-484 was filed on 
September 22, 2022.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

July 27, 2022--Markup of H.R. 2193, the Asuncion Valdivia Heat Illness 
        and Fatality Prevention Act of 2022.

    Sponsor: Rep. Judy Chu (CA)
    Disposition: H.R. 2193 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by a vote of 27 Yeas and 19 Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-547 was filed on 
November 7, 2022.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

July 27, 2022--Markup of H.R. 8450, the Healthy Meals, Healthy Kids 
        Act.

    Sponsor: Rep. Robert C. ``Bobby'' Scott (VA)
    Disposition: H.R. 8450 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by a vote of 27 Yeas and 20 Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-548 was filed on 
November 7, 2022.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

September 15, 2022--Meeting to approve new Subcommittee assignments.

    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

September 15, 2022--Markup of H. Res. 1295, Of inquiry directing the 
        Secretary of Education to transmit certain documents to the 
        House of Representatives relating to the Department of 
        Education's cost estimates for the Secretary's waivers related 
        to public service loan forgiveness and income-driven repayment.

    Sponsor: Rep. Virginia Foxx (NC)
    Disposition: H. Res. 1295 was ordered to be reported 
adversely to the House, as amended, by a vote of 28 Yeas and 21 
Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-549 was filed on 
November 10, 2022.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

September 15, 2022--Markup of H. Res. 1296, Of inquiry requesting the 
        President and directing the Secretary of Education to transmit, 
        respectively, certain documents to the House of Representatives 
        relating to the legal authority to forgive Federal student loan 
        debt.

    Sponsor: Rep. Virginia Foxx (NC)
    Disposition: H. Res. 1296 was ordered to be reported 
adversely to the House, as amended, by a vote of 28 Yeas and 21 
Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-550 was filed on 
November 10, 2022.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

September 15, 2022--Markup of H. Res. 1273, Of inquiry directing the 
        President to provide certain documents in the President's 
        possession to the House of Representatives relating to 
        communication between the executive branch and the American 
        Federation of Teachers regarding reopening schools and 
        supporting safe, in-person learning.

    Sponsor: Rep. John Joyce (PA)
    Disposition: H. Res. 1273 was ordered to be reported 
adversely to the House, as amended, by a vote of 28 Yeas and 21 
Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-539 was filed on 
September 30, 2022.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

November 17, 2022--Meeting to approve new Subcommittee assignments.

    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

 Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and 
                          Secondary Education


March 25, 2021--Hearing titled ``Lessons Learned: Charting the Path to 
        Educational Equity Post-COVID-19.''

    Purpose: To examine how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted 
communities and discuss the most effective methods of ensuring 
the nation's public schools reopen and recover equitably.
    Witnesses: Mr. Mark H. Morial, President and CEO, National 
Urban League, New York, NY; Mrs. Jennifer Dale, Parent, Lake 
Oswego, OR; Ms. Selene A. Almazan, Esq., Legal Director, 
Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates, Inc., Towson, MD; 
and Mr. Alberto M. Carvalho, Superintendent of Schools, Miami-
Dade County Public Schools, Miami, FL.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

May 6, 2021--Hearing titled ``Addressing the Impact of COVID-19 on 
        Students with Disabilities.''

    Purpose: To examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on 
students with disabilities and needed steps to support their 
educational recovery, life skills development, and social-
emotional well-being.
    Witnesses: Mr. Ronald M. Hager, Managing Attorney, National 
Disability Rights Network, Washington, DC; Ms. Kanika A. 
Littleton, Project Director, Michigan Alliance for Families, 
Lansing, MI; Mr. Reade Bush, Parent, Arlington, VA; and Dr. 
Danielle M. Kovach, Special Education Teacher, Tulsa Trail 
Elementary School, Hopatcong Board of Education, Hopatcong, NJ.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

May 19, 2021--Hearing titled ``Picking up the Pieces: Strengthening 
        Connections with Students Experiencing Homelessness and 
        Children in Foster Care.''

    Purpose: To examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on 
the educational experiences of children and students 
experiencing homelessness and children and students in foster 
care and the ways in which the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 
will support these populations.
    Witnesses: Ms. Jennifer Erb-Downward, MPH, Senior Research 
Associate, Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan, Ann 
Arbor, MI; Ms. Michelle Linder-Coates, Executive Director, 
School District of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Ms. Gretchen 
Davis, foster parent, Arlington, VA; and Dr. James F. Lane, 
Virginia Superintendent of Public Instruction, Virginia 
Department of Education, Richmond, VA.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

September 29, 2021--Hearing titled ``Back to School: Highlighting Best 
        Practices for Safely Reopening School.''

    Purpose: To examine how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted 
the return to school for the 2021-2022 school year.
    Witnesses: Dr. Jesus Jara, Superintendent of Schools, Clark 
County School District, Las Vegas, NV; Ms. Denise Forte, 
Interim Chief Executive Officer, The Education Trust, 
Washington, DC; Mr. David Zweig, Freelance Journalist, New 
York, NY; and Dr. Ashish Jha, Dean and Professor of Health 
Services, Policy and Practice, Brown University School of 
Public Health, Providence, RI.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

November 17, 2021--Hearing titled ``Examining the Implementation of 
        COVID-19 Education Funds'' (held jointly with the Subcommittee 
        on Higher Education and Workforce Investment).

    Purpose: To hear from senior U.S. Department of Education 
officials about the management and oversight of the Education 
Stabilization Fund (ESF).
    Witnesses: Ms. Cindy Marten, Deputy Secretary, U.S. 
Department of Education, Washington, DC; and Mr. James Kvaal, 
Under Secretary, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

February 16, 2022--Hearing titled ``Serving All Students: Promoting a 
        Healthier, More Supportive School Environment.''

    Purpose: To examine outdated discipline practices and to 
highlight evidence-based practices that schools can implement 
to create healthy school environments that support students' 
social, emotional, and academic development.
    Witnesses: Mr. Guy Stephens, Founder and Executive 
Director, Alliance Against Seclusion and Restraint, Lusby, MD; 
Ms. Morgan Craven, National Director of Policy, Advocacy, and 
Community Engagement, Intercultural Development Research 
Association, San Antonio, TX; Mr. Max Eden, Research Fellow, 
American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC; and Ms. Kristen 
Harper, Vice President for Public Policy and Engagement, Child 
Trends, Laurel, MD.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

May 24, 2022--Hearing titled ``Examining the Policies and Priorities of 
        the Bureau of Indian Education'' (held jointly with the 
        Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee for Indigenous 
        People of the United States) (hearing was adjourned before 
        witness testimony or Member questions due to technical 
        difficulties; subcommittees agreed to conduct a second hearing 
        and include an additional witness).

    Purpose: To examine the role of the Bureau of Indian 
Education in serving American Indian and Alaskan Native 
students.
    Witness: Mr. Tony Dearman, Director, Bureau of Indian 
Education, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

June 28, 2022--Hearing titled ``Examining the Policies and Priorities 
        of the Bureau of Indian Education'' (held jointly with the 
        Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee for Indigenous 
        People of the United States) (this hearing was a follow-up to 
        the hearing on May 24, 2022, above).

    Purpose: To examine the role of the Bureau of Indian 
Education in serving American Indian and Alaskan Native 
students.
    Witnesses: Ms. Beth Sirois, Assistant Director, U.S. 
Government Accountability Office, Washington, DC; and Mr. Tony 
Dearman, Director, Bureau of Indian Education, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

September 20, 2022--Hearing titled ``Back to School: Meeting Students' 
        Academic, Social, and Emotional Needs.''

    Purpose: To examine how states and school districts are 
approaching pandemic recovery this school year, including 
efforts to leverage evidence-based interventions to close 
achievement gaps exacerbated by the pandemic, as well as meet 
students' social and emotional needs.
    Witnesses: Ms. Phyllis Jordan, Associate Director, 
FutureEd, Washington, DC; Dr. Aaliyah Samuel, President and 
CEO, Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional 
Learning, Fairfax Station, VA; Dr. Penny Schwinn, Tennessee 
Commissioner of Education, Tennessee Department of Education, 
Nashville, TN; and Dr. Matthew Blomstedt, Commissioner of 
Education, Nebraska Department of Education, Lincoln, NE.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

  Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce 
                               Investment


March 17, 2021--Hearing titled ``Rising to the Challenge: The Future of 
        Higher Education Post COVID-19.''

    Purpose: To examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on 
institutions of higher education and students and to highlight 
the need for additional Administration and congressional 
action.
    Witnesses: Mr. Keith Thornton, Jr., Student, Florida 
International University, Miami, FL; Mr. Eloy Ortiz Oakley, 
Chancellor, California Community Colleges, Corona Del Mar, CA; 
Dr. Lindsey Burke, Director, Center for Education Policy, and 
Mark A. Kolokotrones Fellow in Education, The Heritage 
Foundation, Washington, DC; and Mr. Daniel Zibel, Vice 
President and Chief Counsel, National Student Legal Defense 
Network, Takoma Park, MD.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

May 13, 2021--Hearing titled ``Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act 
        Reauthorization: Creating Opportunities for Youth Employment.''

    Purpose: To examine how the Workforce Innovation and 
Opportunity Act (WIOA) currently serves the needs of in-school 
and out-of-school youth and what changes are needed to improve 
WOIA's youth services as part of reauthorization.
    Witnesses: Ms. Chekemma Townsend, President and CEO, 
Philadelphia Youth Network, Philadelphia, PA; Mr. Thomas 
Showalter, Senior Advisor, National Youth Employment Coalition, 
Washington, DC; Ms. Deb Lindner, Human Resources Manager, 
Precor, Whitsett, NC; and Mr. Byron Garret, President and CEO, 
National Job Corps Association, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

May 27, 2021--Hearing titled ``Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act 
        Reauthorization: Creating Employment Pathways for Dislocated 
        Workers.''

    Purpose: To examine how the Workforce Innovation and 
Opportunity Act (WIOA) currently serves the needs of dislocated 
workers and to consider improvements to improve outcomes for 
dislocated workers through the reauthorization of WIOA.
    Witnesses: Mr. Joseph Barela, Executive Director, Colorado 
Department of Labor and Employment, Denver, CO; Mr. PJ McGrew, 
Executive Director, Indiana Governor's Workforce Cabinet, 
Indianapolis, IN; Mr. Matt Sigelman, Chief Executive Officer, 
Burning Glass Technologies, Boston, MA; and Ms. Portia Wu, 
Managing Director, U.S. Public Policy, U.S. Government Affairs, 
Microsoft Corporation, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

June 15, 2021--Hearing titled ``Workforce Innovation and Opportunity 
        Act Reauthorization: Examining Successful Models of Employment 
        for Justice-Involved Individuals.''

    Purpose: To examine how the Workforce Innovation and 
Opportunity Act (WIOA) currently serves the needs of justice-
involved individuals and what changes are needed to improve the 
scope and effectiveness of the U.S. Department of Labor's 
Reentry Opportunities Program through the reauthorization of 
WIOA.
    Witnesses: Ms. Traci Scott, Vice President of Workforce 
Development Division, National Urban League, New York, NY; Mr. 
Gregg Keesling, President, DBA Recycle Force Workforce, Inc., 
Indianapolis, IN; Dr. Pamela Lattimore, Senior Director for 
Research Development, Division for Applied Justice Research, 
RTI International, Durham, NC; and Ms. Wendi Safstrom, 
Executive Director, SHRM Foundation, Alexandria, VA.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

July 20, 2021--Hearing titled ``Care for Our Communities: Investing in 
        the Direct Care Workforce'' (held jointly with the Subcommittee 
        on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions).

    Purpose: To examine the unmet need for direct care workers 
as well as the difficulty in recruiting, retaining, supporting, 
and training this critical and in-demand workforce; to discuss 
issues related to wages, Medicaid reimbursement rates, and 
working conditions; and to consider the role of the Direct CARE 
Opportunity Act (H.R. 2999) in addressing the problems 
identified.
    Witnesses: Mr. Robert Espinoza, Vice President of Policy, 
PHI, Bronx, NY; Ms. Zulma Torres, Home Health Aide, Cooperative 
Home Care Associates, Waterbury, CT; Mr. Paul Burani, Head of 
Business Development, North America Udacity, Inc., Mountain 
View, CA; and the Honorable Jessica Fay, State Representative, 
Maine House of Representatives, Raymond, ME.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

July 29, 2021--Hearing titled ``Keeping the Pell Grant Promise: 
        Increasing Enrollment, Supporting Success.''

    Purpose: To examine trends related to low enrollment of 
Pell Grant eligible students at four-year public institutions, 
best institutional and research-based practices to increase 
enrollment and success, and how proposed federal policies will 
support and advance these efforts.
    Witnesses: Dr. Justin Ortagus, Associate Professor, Higher 
Education Administration and Policy, and Director, Institute of 
Higher Education, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; Dr. 
Robert Jones, Chancellor, University of Illinois Urbana-
Champaign, Champaign, IL; Dr. Michael Poliakoff, President, 
American Council of Trustees and Alumni, Washington, DC; and 
Ms. Darleny Suriel, Student, City College of New York, Bronx, 
NY.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

September 30, 2021--Hearing titled ``Protecting Students and Taxpayers: 
        Improving the Closed School Discharge Process.''

    Purpose: To hear testimony from the U.S. Government 
Accountability Office about its findings related to the closed 
school discharge process and to provide Committee members the 
opportunity to better understand potential improvements to the 
closed school discharge process to protect students harmed by 
school closures.
    Witnesses: Ms. Melissa Emrey-Arras, Director of Higher 
Education, U.S. Government Accountability Office, Boston, MA; 
Ms. Karyn Rhodes, Student Borrower, Torrance, CA; Mr. Preston 
Cooper, Research Fellow, Foundation for Research on Equal 
Opportunity, Washington, DC; and Ms. Robyn Smith, Senior 
Attorney, Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

October 6, 2021--Hearing titled ``Homecoming: The Historical Roots and 
        Continued Contributions of HBCUs.''

    Purpose: To explore the important and unique role that 
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) play in 
the higher education landscape, the historical background that 
sets these institutions apart, challenges created by systemic 
underfunding of the sector, and the ongoing need for federal 
support.
    Witnesses: Dr. Lezli Baskerville, President and CEO, 
National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education, 
Washington, DC; Dr. Glenda Glover, President, Tennessee State 
University, Nashville, TN; Mrs. Angela Sailor, Vice President, 
The Edwin J. Feulner Institute, The Heritage Foundation, 
Washington, DC; and Dr. Andre Perry, Senior Fellow, The 
Brookings Institute, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

October 27, 2021--Hearing titled ``Examining the Policies and 
        Priorities of the Office of Federal Student Aid.''

    Purpose: To explore the plans of the Office of Federal 
Student Aid within the U.S. Department of Education in 
overseeing institutions of higher education and enforcing 
compliance with the requirements for participation in programs 
authorized under title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965.
    Witness: The Honorable Richard Cordray, Chief Operating 
Officer, Office of Federal Student Aid, U.S. Department of 
Education, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

November 17, 2021--Hearing titled ``Examining the Implementation of 
        COVID-19 Education Funds'' (held jointly with the Subcommittee 
        on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education).

    Purpose: To hear from senior U.S. Department of Education 
officials about the management and oversight of the Education 
Stabilization Fund.
    Witnesses: Ms. Cindy Marten, Deputy Secretary, U.S. 
Department of Education, Washington, DC; and Mr. James Kvaal, 
Under Secretary, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

March 2, 2022--Hearing titled ``Investing in Economic Mobility: The 
        Important Role of Hispanic Serving Institutions and Other 
        Minority Serving Institutions.''

    Purpose: To explore the important role that Minority 
Serving Institutions play in higher education, their ongoing 
need for federal support, and their implementation of 
federally-funded grant activities.
    Witnesses: Dr. Jose Luis Cruz Rivera, President, Northern 
Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ; Dr. Patricia Ramsey, 
President, Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn, NY; Dr. Janine 
Davidson, President, Metropolitan State University of Denver, 
Denver, CO; and Dr. Robert Teranishi, Professor of Education 
and Morgan and Helen Chu Endowed Chair in Asian American 
Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, CA.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

July 19, 2022--Hearing titled ``The History and Continued Contributions 
        of Tribal Colleges and Universities.''

    Purpose: The purpose of this hearing is to explore the 
important and unique role that Tribal Colleges and Universities 
(TCUs) play in the higher education landscape, including the 
historical background that sets these institutions apart from a 
policy standpoint, their accomplishments, the important role 
these institutions play in their communities, and their ongoing 
need for federal support.
    Witnesses: Ms. Carrie Billy, President and CEO, American 
Indian Higher Education Consortium, Alexandria, VA; Dr. Cynthia 
Lindquist, President, Cankdeska Cikana Community College, Fort 
Totten, ND; Dr. Beth Akers, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise 
Institute, Washington, DC; and Dr. Sandra Boham, President, 
Salish Kootenai College, Pablo, MT. (Dr. Lindquist was unable 
to provide oral testimony, but her written statement was made 
part of the hearing record via unanimous consent.)
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

December 14, 2022--Hearing titled ``Examining the Policies and 
        Priorities of the Corporation for National and Community 
        Service.''

    Purpose: To examine the policies and priorities of the 
Corporation for National and Community Service, including 
financial management concerns identified by the agency's 
auditors.
    Witnesses: The Honorable Deborah Jeffrey, Inspector 
General, Corporation for National and Community Service, 
Washington, DC; and Mr. Michael Smith, Chief Executive Officer, 
Corporation for National and Community Service, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

  Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and 
                                Pensions


April 15, 2021--Hearing titled ``Meeting the Moment: Improving Access 
        to Behavioral and Mental Health Care.''

    Purpose: To address barriers to access to behavioral health 
care, particularly limited coverage of mental health and 
substance use disorder treatment, and the importance of 
improving enforcement of mental health parity laws.
    Witnesses: Dr. Brian Smedley, Chief of Psychology in the 
Public Interest, American Psychological Association, 
Washington, DC; Dr. Christine Yu Moutier, Chief Medical 
Officer, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, New York, 
NY; Mr. James Gelfand, Senior Vice President, Health Policy, 
The ERISA Industry Committee, Washington, DC; and Dr. Meiram 
Bendat, Founder, Psych-Appeal, Santa Barbara, CA.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

May 5, 2021--Hearing titled ``Lower Drug Costs Now: Expanding Access to 
        Affordable Health Care.''

    Purpose: To explore the rising cost of prescription drugs 
in the United States and the impact of high drug prices on 
workers and businesses.
    Witnesses: Dr. Mariana P. Socal, Assistant Scientist, Johns 
Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD; Mr. 
David Mitchell, Founder, Patients for Affordable Drugs Now, 
Bethesda, MD; Dr. Douglas Holtz-Eakin, President, American 
Action Forum, Washington, DC; and Mr. Frederick Isasi, 
Executive Director, Families USA, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

June 23, 2021--Hearing titled ``Examining Pathways to Build a Stronger, 
        More Inclusive Retirement System.''

    Purpose: To examine the challenges facing retirement savers 
and explore options for congressional action to increase access 
to sustainable retirement income for categories of workers 
historically excluded from participation in retirement savings 
programs.
    Witnesses: Dr. Teresa Ghilarducci, Irene and Bernard L. 
Schwartz Professor of Economics and Policy Analysis, The New 
School for Social Research, New York, NY; Dr. Nari Rhee, 
Director, Retirement Security Program, University of California 
at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; Dr. Andrew Biggs, Resident Scholar, 
American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC; and Mr. David 
Certner, Legislative Counsel and Legislative Policy Director, 
AARP, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

July 20, 2021--Hearing titled ``Care for Our Communities: Investing in 
        the Direct Care Workforce'' (held jointly with the Subcommittee 
        on Higher Education and Workforce Investment).

    Purpose: To examine the unmet need for direct care workers 
as well as the difficulty in recruiting, retaining, supporting, 
and training this critical and in-demand workforce; to discuss 
issues related to wages, Medicaid reimbursement rates, and 
working conditions; and to consider the role of the Direct CARE 
Opportunity Act (H.R. 2999) in addressing the problems 
identified.
    Witnesses: Mr. Robert Espinoza, Vice President of Policy, 
PHI, Bronx, NY; Ms. Zulma Torres, Home Health Aide, Cooperative 
Home Care Associates, Waterbury, CT; Mr. Paul Burani, Head of 
Business Development, North America Udacity, Inc., Mountain 
View, CA; and the Honorable Jessica Fay, State Representative, 
Maine House of Representatives, Raymond, ME.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

September 28, 2021--Hearing titled ``How to Save a Life: Successful 
        Models for Protecting Communities from COVID-19'' (held jointly 
        with the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services).

    Purpose: To address barriers to COVID-19 vaccine and 
testing access and highlight resources provided by the American 
Rescue Plan Act of 2021 to increase vaccination rates and make 
testing more available in underserved communities.
    Witnesses: Dr. Leana Wen, Research Professor, The George 
Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, 
and Distinguished Fellow, Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health 
Workforce Equity, Washington, DC; Dr. Viviana Martinez-Bianchi, 
Director of Health Equity and Associate Professor, Department 
of Family Medicine and Community Health, Duke University School 
of Medicine, Durham, NC; Mr. Avik Roy, President, The 
Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, Washington, DC; 
and Dr. Chris Pernell, Chief Strategic Integration and Health 
Equity Officer, University Hospital, Newark, NJ.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

November 4, 2021--Hearing titled ``Closing the Courthouse Doors: The 
        Injustice of Forced Arbitration Agreements.''

    Purpose: To examine the impacts of forced arbitration and 
collective action waivers on workers' ability to enforce their 
rights under federal employment laws and to consider H.R. 4841, 
the Restoring Justice for Workers Act, a bill to make forced 
arbitration provisions and collective action waivers 
unenforceable in employment cases and to make the use of those 
provisions unlawful under the National Labor Relation Act.
    Witnesses: Dr. Alexander Colvin, Kenneth F. Kahn Dean and 
Martin F. Scheinman Professor of Conflict Resolution, Cornell 
University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Ithaca, 
NY; Ms. Glenda Perez, former Implementation Set-Up 
Representative, Cigna, Ruskin, FL; Mr. Roger King, Senior Labor 
and Employment Counsel, HR Policy Association, Arlington, VA; 
and Ms. Kalpana Kotagal, Partner, Cohen Milstein Sellers & 
Toll, PLLC, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

February 17, 2022--Hearing titled ``Exploring Pathways to Affordable, 
        Universal Health Coverage.''

    Purpose: To examine the need for and proposals to achieve 
universal health coverage in the United States.
    Witnesses: The Honorable Robert B. Reich, Chancellor's 
Professor of Public Policy, University of California at 
Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; Dr. Georges C. Benjamin, MD, Executive 
Director, American Public Health Association, Washington, DC; 
Dr. Brian Blase, President, Paragon Health Institute, Ponte 
Vedra, FL; and Ms. Katie Keith, Visiting Professor and Director 
of the Health Policy and the Law Initiative, O'Neill Institute 
for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law 
Center, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

March 1, 2022--Hearing titled ``Improving Retirement Security and 
        Access to Mental Health Benefits.''

    Purpose: To examine ways to strengthen access to retirement 
security and mental health benefits.
    Witnesses: Ms. Amy Matsui, Director of Income Security and 
Senior Counsel, National Women's Law Center, Washington, DC; 
Ms. Karen Handorf, Senior Counsel, Berger Montague, Alexandria, 
VA; Mr. Andrew Biggs, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise 
Institute, Washington, DC; and Mr. Aron Szapiro, Head of 
Retirement Studies and Public Policy, Morningstar, Inc. and 
Morningstar Investment Management LLC, Chicago, IL.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

September 21, 2022--Hearing titled ``Examining the Administration of 
        the Unemployment Insurance System.''

    Purpose: To hear testimony from the U.S. Government 
Accountability Office (GAO) about its findings related to the 
U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL) implementation of the 
temporary pandemic unemployment insurance (UI) programs, GAO's 
inclusion of the regular UI system on its High Risk List, and 
steps DOL and Congress can take to make improvements to the 
administration of the UI system.
    Witnesses: Mr. Thomas Costa, Director, Education, 
Workforce, and Income Security Team, U.S. Government 
Accountability Office, Washington, DC; Ms. Rebecca Dixon, 
Executive Director, National Employment Law Project, 
Washington, DC: Mr. Matt Weidinger, Senior Fellow, American 
Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC: and Ms. Veronica 
Robinson, individual affected by one of the temporary pandemic 
UI programs, Philadelphia, PA.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

                  Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on
                         Workforce Protections


March 11, 2021--Hearing titled ``Clearing the Air: Science-Based 
        Strategies to Protect Workers from COVID-19 Infections.''

    Purpose: To evaluate the best methods to protect workers 
from airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that 
causes COVID-19; to evaluate the need to strengthen 
Occupational Safety and Health Administration standards and 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Guidance to protect 
workers; and to establish a national strategy to measure the 
health impact on workers from the COVID-19 pandemic.
    Witnesses: Dr. Linsey Marr, Professor of Civil and 
Environmental Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and 
State University, Blacksburg, VA; Ms. Pascaline Muhindura, 
Registered Nurse, COVID Progressive Care Unit, Research Medical 
Center, Kansas City, MO; Mr. Manesh Rath, Partner, Keller and 
Heckman LLP, Washington, DC; and Dr. David Michaels, former 
Assistant Secretary, Occupational Safety and Health 
Administration, and Professor of Occupational and Environmental 
Medicine, The George Washington University, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

March 18, 2021--Hearing titled ``Fighting for Fairness: Examining 
        Legislation to Confront Workplace Discrimination'' (held 
        jointly with the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human 
        Services).

    Purpose: To consider three pieces of legislation to protect 
the civil rights of workers in the workplace: H.R. 1065, the 
Pregnant Workers Fairness Act; H.R. 7, the Paycheck Fairness 
Act; and H.R. 2062, the Protecting Older Workers Against 
Discrimination Act.
    Witnesses: Ms. Laurie McCann, Senior Attorney, AARP 
Foundation, Washington, DC; Ms. Dina Bakst, Co-Founder and Co-
President, A Better Balance, New York, NY; Ms. Camille A. 
Olson, Partner, Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Chicago, IL; and Ms. Fatima 
Goss Graves, President and CEO, National Women's Law Center, 
Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

May 3, 2021--Hearing titled ``From Excluded to Essential: Tracing the 
        Racist Exclusion of Farmworkers, Domestic Workers, and Tipped 
        Workers from the Fair Labor Standards Act.''

    Purpose: To examine the negative economic and social 
impacts of excluding farmworkers, domestic workers, and tipped 
workers from the full protections of the Fair Labor Standards 
Act, their exclusion having been rooted in the racist design of 
the legislation, and to consider congressional action to remedy 
the exclusion of these groups of workers.
    Witnesses: Ms. Rebecca Dixon, Executive Director, National 
Employment Law Project, Washington, DC; Mr. Paul DeCamp, 
Member, Epstein Becker & Green, P.C., Washington, DC; Ms. 
Teresa Romero, President, United Farm Workers, Lancaster, CA; 
and Ms. Haeyoung Yoon, Senior Policy Director, National 
Domestic Workers Alliance, New York, NY.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

July 21, 2021--Hearing titled ``Phasing Out Subminimum Wages: 
        Supporting the Transition to Competitive Integrated Employment 
        for Workers with Disabilities'' (held jointly with the 
        Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services).

    Purpose: To consider H.R. 2723, the Transformation to 
Competitive Integrated Employment Act, a bill that would phase 
out the subminimum wage for workers with disabilities and 
authorize funding to states and employers to transition workers 
with disabilities to competitive integrated employment.
    Witnesses: Ms. Nantanee Koppstein, Member, New Jersey 
Statewide Independent Living Council, Princeton Junction, NJ; 
Mr. John Anton, Legislative Specialist, Massachusetts Down 
Syndrome Congress, Haverhill, MA; Dr. Matthew Putts, CEO, 
Employment Horizons, Inc., Cedar Knolls, NJ; and Mr. Anil 
Lewis, Executive Director for Blindness Initiatives, National 
Federation of the Blind, Baltimore, MD.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

October 26, 2021--Hearing titled ``Protecting Lives and Livelihoods: 
        Vaccine Requirements and Employee Accommodations'' (held 
        jointly with the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human 
        Services).

    Purpose: To examine the civil rights and accommodations 
issues regarding employer vaccination policies, and to assess 
the policy issues related to the impending Occupational Safety 
and Health Administration's Emergency Temporary Standard that 
calls for employers with 100 or more employees to require 
employees to receive vaccination against COVID-19 or undergo 
routine testing.
    Witnesses: Dr. Sidney Shapiro, Frank U. Fletcher Chair in 
Administrative Law and Professor of Law, Wake Forest University 
School of Law, Winston-Salem, NC; Ms. Richelle T. Luther, 
Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, 
Columbia Sportswear Company, Portland, OR; Mr. Scott Hecker, 
Senior Counsel, Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Washington, DC; and Dr. 
Doron Dorfman, Associate Professor of Law, Syracuse University 
College of Law, Syracuse, NY.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

December 2, 2021--Hearing titled ``Strengthening the Safety Net for 
        Injured Workers.''

    Purpose: To assess the policies and priorities of the U.S. 
Department of Labor's Office of Workers' Compensation Programs; 
to assess the need for management reforms to the black lung 
benefits self-insurance program; and to consider four pieces of 
legislation to strengthen federal workers' compensation 
programs--H.R. 2499, the Federal Firefighters Fairness Act; 
H.R. 3314, the Longshore and Harbor Workers' COVID-19 
Compensation Act of 2021; H.R. 6102, the Black Lung Benefits 
Improvement Act of 2021; and H.R. 6087, the Improving Access to 
Workers' Compensation for Injured Federal Workers Act.
    Witnesses: Panel I--The Honorable Salud Carbajal, Member of 
Congress, U.S. House of Representatives, Santa Barbara, CA. 
Panel II--Mr. Christopher Godfrey, Director, Office of Workers' 
Compensation Programs, U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, 
DC; and Mr. Thomas Costa, Director, Education, Workforce, and 
Income Security, U.S. Government Accountability Office, 
Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

May 11, 2022--Hearing titled ``Standing Up for Workers: Preventing Wage 
        Theft and Recovering Stolen Wages.''

    Purpose: To examine the negative impacts of wage theft on 
workers and honest businesses as well as consider the Wage 
Theft Prevention and Wage Recovery Act (H.R. 7701), which would 
deter wage theft and help workers seek justice to recover lost 
wages.
    Witnesses: Ms. Karen Cacace, Labor Bureau Chief, The New 
York State Office of the Attorney General, New York, NY; Mr. 
Daniel Swenson-Klatt, Owner and Operator, Butter Bakery Cafe, 
Minneapolis, MN; Ms. Tammy McCutcheon, Senior Affiliate, 
Resolution Economics, Washington, DC; and Mr. Francisco 
Esparza, Representative, United Brotherhood of Carpenters, 
Upper Marlboro, MD.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

May 25, 2022--Hearing titled ``Examining the Policies and Priorities of 
        the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.''

    Purpose: To examine the policies and priorities of the 
Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
    Witnesses: The Honorable Douglas Parker, Assistant 
Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health, 
Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department 
of Labor, Washington, DC; and Mr. Thomas Costa, Director, 
Education, Workforce, and Income Security, U.S. Government 
Accountability Office, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

July 20, 2022--Hearing titled ``Second Class Workers: Assessing H2 Visa 
        Programs'' Impact on Workers.''

    Purpose: To examine the H-2A and H-2B visa programs and the 
U.S. Department of Labor's role in enforcing the labor 
standards in these programs.
    Witnesses: Mr. Daniel Costa, Director of Immigration Law 
and Policy Research, Economic Policy Institute, Washington, DC; 
Ms. Teresa Romero, President, United Farm Workers, Keene, CA; 
Mr. Leon Sequera, Attorney, Arlington, VA; and Mr. Ty Pinkins, 
Consumer Protection Attorney, Mississippi Center for Justice, 
Vicksburg, MS.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

July 28, 2022--Hearing titled ``Essential but Undervalued: Examining 
        Workplace Protections for Domestic Workers.''

    Purpose: To examine the role domestic workers play in our 
nation's households and economy and their exclusion from labor 
law protections, and to consider the Domestic Workers Bill of 
Rights Act (H.R. 4826), which would provide protections for 
domestic workers.
    Witnesses: Ms. Ai-Jen Poo, President, National Domestic 
Workers Alliance, New York, NY; Dr. C. Nicole Mason, President 
and CEO, Institute for Women's Policy Research, Washington, DC; 
Mr. Paul DeCamp, Member, Epstein Becker Green, Washington, DC; 
and Ms. Dana Barnett, Washington State Organizer, Hand in Hand: 
the Domestic Employers Network, Seattle, WA.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

September 7, 2022--Hearing titled ``Children at Risk: Examining 
        Workplace Protections for Child Farmworkers.''

    Purpose: To examine workplace protections for child 
farmworkers.
    Witnesses: Ms. Margaret Wurth, Senior Children's Rights 
Researcher, Human Rights Watch, Tarrytown, NY; Dr. Barbara Lee, 
Director/Senior Research Scientist, National Children's Center 
for Rural and Agriculture Health and Safety, Marshfield Clinic 
Research Institute, Marshfield, WI; Ms. Kristi Boswell, 
Counsel, Alston & Bird LLP, Washington, DC; and Ms. Norma 
Flores Lopez, Committee Chair, Child Labor Coalition, San Juan, 
TX.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

November 17, 2022--Hearing entitled ``Unsafe and Untenable: Examining 
        Workplace Protections for Warehouse Workers.''

    Purpose: To examine the workplace safety crisis in 
warehouses and employers' responsibility to protect the health 
and safety of workers.
    Witnesses: Mr. Sheheryar Kaoosji, Executive Director, 
Warehouse Workers Resource Center, Ontario, CA; Mr. Eric 
Frumin, Director of Health and Safety, Strategic Organizing 
Center, New York, NY; Mr. Manesh K. Rath, Partner, Keller & 
Heckman, Washington, DC; and Ms. Janeth Caicedo, sister of 
Edilberto Caicedo, a warehouse worker who died on the job, 
Elizabeth, NJ.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

  Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services


March 18, 2021--Hearing titled ``Fighting for Fairness: Examining 
        Legislation to Confront Workplace Discrimination'' (held 
        jointly with the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections).

    Purpose: To consider three pieces of legislation to protect 
the civil rights of workers in the workplace: H.R. 1065, the 
Pregnant Workers Fairness Act; H.R. 7, the Paycheck Fairness 
Act; and H.R. 2062, the Protecting Older Workers Against 
Discrimination Act.
    Witnesses: Ms. Laurie McCann, Senior Attorney, AARP 
Foundation, Washington, DC; Ms. Dina Bakst, Co-Founder and Co-
President, A Better Balance, New York, NY; Ms. Camille A. 
Olson, Partner, Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Chicago, IL; and Ms. Fatima 
Goss Graves, President and CEO, National Women's Law Center, 
Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

March 22, 2021--Hearing titled ``Ending the Cycle: Examining Ways to 
        Prevent Domestic Violence and Promote Healthy Communities.''

    Purpose: To discuss ways to update and strengthen the 
Family Violence Prevention and Services Act to prevent and 
address intimate partner violence.
    Witnesses: Mrs. Vanessa Timmons, Executive Director, Oregon 
Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, Portland, OR; 
Ms. Wendy I. Schlater, Vice Chair, La Jolla Band of Luiseno 
Indians, Pauma Valley, CA; Ms. Ami Novoryta, Chief Program 
Officer, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago, 
Chicago, IL; and Dr. Elizabeth Miller, Director, Adolescent and 
Young Adult Medicine, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, 
Pittsburgh, PA.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

May 12, 2021--Hearing titled ``Examining the Policies and Priorities of 
        the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition 
        Service.''

    Purpose: To examine the policies and priorities of the U.S. 
Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service as 
conveyed in President Biden's Budget for Fiscal Year 2022 as 
they relate to federal child nutrition programs.
    Witness: Ms. Stacy Dean, Deputy Under Secretary for Food, 
Nutrition, and Consumer Services, U.S. Department of 
Agriculture, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

June 10, 2021--Hearing titled ``Ending Child Hunger: Priorities for 
        Child Nutrition Reauthorization.''

    Purpose: To examine legislative solutions to end child 
hunger and discuss how Congress can bolster proven strategies 
to feed hungry children.
    Witnesses: Mr. Michael Wilson, Director, Maryland Hunger 
Solutions, Baltimore, MD; Ms. Crystal Cooper, Executive 
Director, Nutrition Support Services, Chicago Public Schools, 
Chicago, IL; Mr. Brandon Lipps, Principal, Caprock Strategies, 
Alexandria, VA; and Mr. Tom Colicchio, Chef and Owner, Crafted 
Hospitality, New York, NY.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

July 21, 2021--Hearing titled ``Phasing Out Subminimum Wages: 
        Supporting the Transition to Competitive Integrated Employment 
        for Workers with Disabilities'' (held jointly with the 
        Subcommittee on Workforce Protections).

    Purpose: To consider H.R. 2723, the Transformation to 
Competitive Integrated Employment Act, a bill that would phase 
out the subminimum wage for workers with disabilities and 
authorize funding to states and employers to transition workers 
with disabilities to competitive integrated employment.
    Witnesses: Ms. Nantanee Koppstein, Member, New Jersey 
Statewide Independent Living Council, Princeton Junction, NJ; 
Mr. John Anton, Legislative Specialist, Massachusetts Down 
Syndrome Congress, Haverhill, MA; Dr. Matthew Putts, CEO, 
Employment Horizons, Inc., Cedar Knolls, NJ; and Mr. Anil 
Lewis, Executive Director for Blindness Initiatives, National 
Federation of the Blind, Baltimore, MD.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

July 28, 2021--Hearing titled ``Food for Thought: Examining Federal 
        Nutrition Programs for Young Children and Infants.''

    Purpose: To examine federal child nutrition and related 
programs that support young children and opportunities to 
strengthen these laws.
    Witnesses: Ms. Teresa L. Turner, Nutritionist, Child and 
Youth Services, United States Army, Glen Burnie, MD; Ms. Paula 
N. Garrett, Division Director, Division of Community Nutrition, 
Virginia Department of Health, Richmond, VA; Mr. Trevor 
Farrell, Senior Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer, 
Americas, Schreiber Foods, Inc., Green Bay, WI; and Mrs. 
Jessica Burris, North Carolina WIC Participant and 
Breastfeeding Peer Counselor, WIC Department, Montgomery County 
Department of Health, Troy, NC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

September 28, 2021--Hearing titled ``How to Save a Life: Successful 
        Models for Protecting Communities from COVID-19'' (held jointly 
        with the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and 
        Pensions).

    Purpose: To address barriers to COVID-19 vaccine and 
testing access and highlight resources provided by the American 
Rescue Plan Act of 2021 to increase vaccination rates and make 
testing more available in underserved communities.
    Witnesses: Dr. Leana Wen, Research Professor, The George 
Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, 
and Distinguished Fellow, Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health 
Workforce Equity, Washington, DC; Dr. Viviana Martinez-Bianchi, 
Director of Health Equity and Associate Professor, Department 
of Family Medicine and Community Health, Duke University School 
of Medicine, Durham, NC; Mr. Avik Roy, President, The 
Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, Washington, DC; 
and Dr. Chris Pernell, Chief Strategic Integration and Health 
Equity Officer, University Hospital, Newark, NJ.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

October 26, 2021--Hearing titled ``Protecting Lives and Livelihoods: 
        Vaccine Requirements and Employee Accommodations'' (held 
        jointly with the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections).

    Purpose: To examine the civil rights and accommodations 
issues regarding employer vaccination policies, and to assess 
the policy issues related to the impending Occupational Safety 
and Health Administration's Emergency Temporary Standard that 
calls for employers with 100 or more employees to require 
employees to receive vaccination against COVID-19 or undergo 
routine testing.
    Witnesses: Dr. Sidney Shapiro, Frank U. Fletcher Chair in 
Administrative Law and Professor of Law, Wake Forest University 
School of Law, Winston-Salem, NC; Ms. Richelle T. Luther, 
Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, 
Columbia Sportswear Company, Portland, OR; Mr. Scott Hecker, 
Senior Counsel, Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Washington, DC; and Dr. 
Doron Dorfman, Associate Professor of Law, Syracuse University 
College of Law, Syracuse, NY.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

November 3, 2021--Hearing titled ``A Call to Action: Modernizing the 
        Community Services Block Grant.''

    Purpose: To examine reauthorization of the Community 
Services Block Grant.
    Witnesses: Mr. David Bradley, Chief Executive Officer, 
National Community Action Foundation, Fredericksburg, VA; Ms. 
Sharon Scott-Chandler, Executive Vice President and Chief 
Operating Officer, Action for Boston Community Development, 
Inc., Natick, MA; Mr. Clarence Carter, Commissioner, Tennessee 
Department of Human Services, Nashville, TN; and Ms. Katherine 
King Galian, Director of Family and Community Resources, 
Community Action, Hillsboro, OR.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

April 27, 2022--Hearing titled ``Examining the Policies and Priorities 
        of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Office 
        of Federal Contract Compliance Programs.''

    Purpose: To examine the policies and priorities of the U.S. 
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and U.S. Department of 
Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs as 
conveyed in President Biden's Budget for Fiscal Year 2023.
    Witnesses: The Honorable Charlotte Burrows, Chair, U.S. 
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, DC; and 
Ms. Jenny Yang, Director, Office of Federal Contract Compliance 
Programs, U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

May 17, 2022--Hearing titled ``Examining Ways to Improve the Juvenile 
        Justice System and Support America's Young People.''

    Purpose: To examine the current state of the juvenile 
justice and child welfare residential care systems by assessing 
the risk factors that lead to out-of-home placement, exploring 
treatment and service options for youth in these systems, and 
evaluating the role of federal funding.
    Witnesses: Ms. Lisette Burton, Chief Policy and Practice 
Advisor, Association of Children's Residential and Community 
Services (ACRC), Milwaukee, WI; Mr. A. Hasan Davis, Founder/
Director, Hasan Davis Solutions L.L.C., Lexington, KY; Mr. Alan 
Loux, President and CEO, Rawhide Youth Services, New London, 
WI; and Dr. Karen Kolivoski, Associate Professor, Howard 
University School of Social Work, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

June 23, 2022--Hearing titled ``Examining the Policies and Priorities 
        of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition 
        Service.''

    Purpose: To examine the policies and priorities of the U.S. 
Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service as 
conveyed in President Biden's Budget for Fiscal Year 2023.
    Witness: Ms. Cindy Long, Administrator, Food and Nutrition 
Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

September 8, 2022--Hearing titled ``An Ounce of Prevention: Investments 
        in Juvenile Justice Programs.''

    Purpose: To examine the links between sustained investments 
in delinquency prevention and intervention programs and 
improved outcomes for young people and their communities.
    Witnesses: Dr. Stephanie Hawkins, Founding Director, 
Transformative Research Unit for Equity (TRUE), RTI 
International, Research Triangle Park, NC; Ms. Naomi Smoot 
Evans, Executive Director, Coalition for Juvenile Justice, 
Washington, DC; Fr. Steven Boes, National Executive Director, 
Boys Town, Boys Town, NE; and Mr. David Muhammad, Executive 
Director, National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform, 
Oakland, CA.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

           Legislation Referred to the Committee That Passed
                               the House

H.R. 1, the For the People Act of 2021, sponsored by Rep. John 
        Sarbanes (MD), passed the House by a vote of 220 Yeas 
        and 210 Nays on March 3, 2021.
H.R. 5, the Equality Act, sponsored by Rep. David Cicilline 
        (RI), passed the House by a vote of 224 Yeas and 206 
        Nays on February 25, 2021.
H.R. 6, the American Dream and Promise Act of 2021, sponsored 
        by Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA), passed the House by 
        a vote of 228 Yeas and 197 Nays on March 18, 2021.
H.R. 7, the Paycheck Fairness Act, sponsored by Rep. Rosa 
        DeLauro (CT), passed the House by a vote of 217 Yeas 
        and 210 Nays on April 15, 2021.
H.R. 447, the National Apprenticeship Act of 2021, sponsored by 
        Rep. Robert C. ``Bobby'' Scott (VA), passed the House 
        by a vote of 247 Yeas and 173 Nays on February 5, 2021.
H.R. 485, the Stronger Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment 
        Act, sponsored by Rep. Robert C. ``Bobby'' Scott (VA), 
        passed the House by a vote of 345 Yeas and 73 Nays 
        under suspension of the rules on March 16, 2021.
H.R. 842, the Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2021, 
        sponsored by Rep. Robert C. ``Bobby'' Scott (VA), 
        passed the House by a vote of 225 Yeas and 206 Nays on 
        March 9, 2021.
H.R. 1065, the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, sponsored by Rep. 
        Jerrold Nadler (NY), passed the House by a vote of 315 
        Yeas and 101 Nays on May 14, 2021.
H.R. 1195, the Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care 
        and Social Service Workers Act, sponsored by Rep. Joe 
        Courtney (CT), passed the House by a vote of 254 Yeas 
        and 166 Nays on April 16, 2021.
H.R. 1433, the Helen Keller National Center Reauthorization Act 
        of 2021, sponsored by Rep. Mark Pocan (WI), passed the 
        House under suspension of the rules pursuant to section 
        2 of H. Res. 1361, sponsored by Rep. Ed Perlmutter 
        (CO), which passed the House by a vote of 220 Yeas and 
        205 Nays, and a motion offered by Rep. Steny Hoyer 
        (MD), on September 20, 2022.
H.R. 1456, the Peace Corps Reauthorization Act of 2022, 
        sponsored by Rep. John Garamendi (CA), passed the House 
        by a vote of 290 Yeas and 125 Nays under suspension of 
        the rules on September 19, 2022.
H.R. 1603, the Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2021, 
        sponsored by Rep. Zoe Lofgren (CA), passed the House by 
        a vote of 247 Yeas and 174 Nays on March 18, 2021.
H.R. 1620, the Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization Act 
        of 2021, sponsored by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (TX), 
        passed the House by a vote of 244 Yeas and 172 Nays on 
        March 17, 2021.
H.R. 1916, the Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act, sponsored by Rep. 
        Anna Eshoo (CA), passed the House by a vote of 310 Yeas 
        and 110 Nays under suspension of the rules on April 4, 
        2022.
H.R. 2062, the Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination 
        Act of 2021, sponsored by Rep. Robert C. ``Bobby'' 
        Scott (VA), passed the House by a vote of 247 Yeas and 
        178 Nays on June 23, 2021.
H.R. 2116, the Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural 
        Hair Act of 2022, sponsored by Rep. Bonnie Watson 
        Coleman (NJ), passed the House by a vote of 235 Yeas 
        and 189 Nays on March 18, 2022.
H.R. 2119, the Family Violence Prevention and Services 
        Improvement Act of 2021, sponsored by Rep. Lucy McBath 
        (GA), passed the House by a vote of 228 Yeas and 200 
        Nays on October 26, 2021.
H.R. 2499, the Federal Firefighters Fairness Act of 2022, 
        sponsored by Rep. Salud Carbajal (CA), passed the House 
        by a vote of 288 Yeas and 131 Nays on May 11, 2022.
H.R. 2954, the Securing a Strong Retirement Act of 2022, 
        sponsored by Rep. Richard Neal (MA), passed the House 
        by a vote of 414 Yeas and 5 Nays under suspension of 
        the rules on March 29, 2022.
H.R. 3110, the PUMP for Nursing Mothers Act, sponsored by Rep. 
        Carolyn Maloney (NY), passed the House by a vote of 276 
        Yeas and 149 Nays on October 22, 2021.
H.R. 3617, the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and 
        Expungement Act, sponsored by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (NY), 
        passed the House by a vote of 220 Yeas and 204 Nays on 
        April 1, 2022.
H.R. 3992, the POJA Act of 2021, sponsored by Rep. Sylvia 
        Garcia (TX), passed the House by a vote of 224 Yeas and 
        200 Nays on November 4, 2021.
H.R. 4118, the Break the Cycle of Violence Act, sponsored by 
        Rep. Steven Horsford (NV), passed the House by a vote 
        of 220 Yeas and 207 Nays on September 22, 2022.
H.R. 4616, the Adjustable Interest Rate (LIBOR) Act of 2021, 
        sponsored by Rep. Brad Sherman (CA), passed the House 
        by a vote of 415 Yeas and 9 Nays under suspension of 
        the rules on December 8, 2021.
H.R. 5129, the Community Services Block Grant Modernization Act 
        of 2022, sponsored by Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (OR), 
        passed the House by a vote of 246 Yeas and 169 Nays on 
        May 13, 2022.
H.R. 5407, the Enhancing Mental Health and Suicide Prevention 
        Through Campus Planning Act, sponsored by Rep. Susan 
        Wild (PA), passed the House by a vote of 405 Yeas and 
        16 Nays under suspension of the rules on June 23, 2022.
H.R. 5715, To reauthorize the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. 
        Udall Trust Fund, and for other purposes, sponsored by 
        Rep. Raul Grijalva (AZ), passed the House by voice vote 
        under suspension of the rules on December 12, 2022.
H.R. 6087, the Improving Access to Workers' Compensation for 
        Injured Federal Workers Act, sponsored by Rep. Joe 
        Courtney (CT), passed the House by a vote of 325 Yeas 
        and 83 Nays under suspension of the rules on June 7, 
        2022.
H.R. 6493, the Campus Prevention and Recovery Services for 
        Students Act of 2022, sponsored by Rep. Teresa Leger 
        Fernandez (NM), passed the House by a vote of 371 Yeas 
        and 49 Nays under suspension of the rules on July 23, 
        2022.
H.R. 6552, the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims 
        Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2022, 
        sponsored by Rep. Christopher Smith (NJ), passed the 
        House by a vote of 401 Yeas and 20 Nays under 
        suspension of the rules on July 26, 2022.
H.R. 6833, the Affordable Insulin Now Act, sponsored by Rep. 
        Angie Craig (MN), passed the House by a vote of 232 
        Yeas and 193 Nays on March 31, 2022.
H.R. 6929, the Susan Muffley Act of 2022, sponsored by Rep. Dan 
        Kildee (MI), passed the House by a vote of 254 Yeas and 
        175 Nays on July 27, 2022.
H.R. 7309, the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 
        2022, sponsored by Rep. Robert C. ``Bobby'' Scott (VA), 
        passed the House by a vote of 220 Yeas and 196 Nays on 
        May 17, 2022.
H.R. 7688, the Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act, 
        sponsored by Rep. Kim Schrier (WA), passed the House by 
        a vote of 217 Yeas and 207 Nays on May 19, 2022.
H.R. 7780, the Mental Health Matters Act, sponsored by Rep. 
        Mark DeSaulnier (CA), passed the House by a vote of 220 
        Yeas and 205 Nays on September 29, 2022.
H.R. 7791, the Access to Baby Formula Act of 2022, sponsored by 
        Rep. Jahana Hayes (CT), passed the House by a vote of 
        414 Yeas and 9 Nays under suspension of the rules on 
        May 18, 2022.
H. Con. Res. 70, Condemning threats of violence against 
        historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) 
        and reaffirming support for HBCUs and their students, 
        sponsored by Rep. Alma Adams (NC), passed the House by 
        a vote of 418 Yeas and 0 Nays under suspension of the 
        rules on March 8, 2022.
H. Res. 1096, Approving certain regulations to implement 
        provisions of the Congressional Accountability Act of 
        1995 relating to labor-management relations with 
        respect to employees of the House of Representatives 
        covered under section 220(e) of the Act, and for other 
        purposes, sponsored by Rep. Andy Levin (MI), pursuant 
        to H. Res. 1097, sponsored by Rep. Jamie Raskin (MD), 
        is considered passed by the House by a vote of 217 Yeas 
        and 202 Nays on May 10, 2022.

Legislation Referred to the Committee That Passed the House in Another 
                                Measure

H.R. 3, the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act, 
        sponsored by Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ), as part of 
        H.R. 5376, the Build Back Better Act, sponsored by Rep. 
        John Yarmuth (KY), passed the House by a vote of 217 
        Yeas and 105 Nays on November 19, 2021 (substantially 
        similar text was included).
H.R. 447, the National Apprenticeship Act of 2021, sponsored by 
        Rep. Robert C. ``Bobby'' Scott (VA), as part of H.R. 
        4521, the America Creating Opportunities for 
        Manufacturing, Pre-Eminence in Technology, and Economic 
        Strength Act of 2022, sponsored by Rep. Eddie Bernice 
        Johnson (TX), passed the House by a vote of 222 Yeas 
        and 210 Nays on February 4, 2022 (substantially similar 
        text was included).
H.R. 636, the Promoting Apprenticeship through Regional 
        Training Networks for Employers Required Skills 
        (PARTNERS) Act of 2021, sponsored by Rep. Suzanne 
        Bonamici (OR), as part of H.R. 4521, the America 
        Creating Opportunities for Manufacturing, Pre-Eminence 
        in Technology, and Economic Strength Act of 2022, 
        sponsored by Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX), passed 
        the House by a vote of 222 Yeas and 210 Nays on 
        February 4, 2022 (substantially similar text was 
        included).
H.R. 1065, the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, sponsored by Rep. 
        Jerrold Nadler (NY), as part of H.R. 2617, the 
        Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, sponsored by 
        Rep. Gerald Connolly (VA), on the motion to concur in 
        the Senate amendment to the House amendment to the 
        Senate amendment, passed the House by a vote of 225 
        Yeas, 201 Nays, and 1 Present on December 23, 2022 
        (substantially similar text was included).
H.R. 1364, the Parity Enforcement Act of 2021, sponsored by 
        Rep. Donald Norcross (NJ), as part of H.R. 5376, the 
        Build Back Better Act, sponsored by Rep. John Yarmuth 
        (KY), passed the House by a vote of 217 Yeas and 105 
        Nays on November 19, 2021 (substantially similar text 
        was included).
H.R. 1364, the Parity Enforcement Act of 2021, sponsored by 
        Rep. Donald Norcross (NJ), as part of H.R. 7780, the 
        Mental Health Matters Act, sponsored by Rep. Mark 
        DeSaulnier (CA), passed the House by a vote of 220 Yeas 
        and 205 Nays on September 29, 2022 (substantially 
        similar text was included).
H.R. 1814, the Civics Secures Democracy Act of 2021, sponsored 
        by Rep. Rosa DeLauro (CT), as part of H.R. 4521, the 
        America Creating Opportunities for Manufacturing, Pre-
        Eminence in Technology, and Economic Strength Act of 
        2022, sponsored by Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX), 
        passed the House by a vote of 222 Yeas and 210 Nays on 
        February 4, 2022 (substantially similar text of some 
        provisions were included).
H.R. 2030, the College Transparency Act, sponsored by Rep. Raja 
        Krishnamoorthi (IL), as part of H.R. 4521, the America 
        Creating Opportunities for Manufacturing, Pre-Eminence 
        in Technology, and Economic Strength Act of 2022, 
        sponsored by Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX), passed 
        the House by a vote of 222 Yeas and 210 Nays on 
        February 4, 2022 (substantially similar text was 
        included).
H.R. 2037, the Jumpstart Our Businesses by Supporting Students 
        Act of 2021, sponsored by Rep. Andy Levin (MI), as part 
        of H.R. 4521, the America Creating Opportunities for 
        Manufacturing, Pre-Eminence in Technology, and Economic 
        Strength Act of 2022, sponsored by Rep. Eddie Bernice 
        Johnson (TX), passed the House by a vote of 222 Yeas 
        and 210 Nays on February 4, 2022 (substantially similar 
        text was included).
H.R. 2459, the Building U.S. Infrastructure by Leveraging 
        Demands for Skills (BUILDS) Act, sponsored by Rep. 
        Suzanne Bonamici (OR), as part of H.R. 4521, the 
        America Creating Opportunities for Manufacturing, Pre-
        Eminence in Technology, and Economic Strength Act of 
        2022, sponsored by Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX), 
        passed the House by a vote of 222 Yeas and 210 Nays on 
        February 4, 2022 (substantially similar text was 
        included).
H.R. 2499, the Federal Firefighters Fairness Act of 2022, 
        sponsored by Rep. Salud Carbajal (CA), as part of H.R. 
        7776, the James M. Inhofe National Defense 
        Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023, sponsored by 
        Rep. Peter DeFazio (OR), pursuant to H. Res. 1512, 
        sponsored by Rep. Adam Smith (WA), the House agreed to 
        the Senate amendment with an amendment, passed the 
        House by a vote of 350 Yeas and 80 Nays on December 8, 
        2022 (substantially similar text was included).
H.R. 2817, the Child Care for Working Families Act, sponsored 
        by Rep. Robert C. ``Bobby'' Scott (VA), as part of H.R. 
        5376, the Build Back Better Act, sponsored by Rep. John 
        Yarmuth (KY), passed the House by a vote of 217 Yeas 
        and 105 Nays on November 19, 2021 (substantially 
        similar text was included).
H.R. 2940, the Advancing International and Foreign Language 
        Education Act, sponsored by Rep. David Price (NC), as 
        part of H.R. 4521, the America Creating Opportunities 
        for Manufacturing, Pre-Eminence in Technology, and 
        Economic Strength Act of 2022, sponsored by Rep. Eddie 
        Bernice Johnson (TX), passed the House by a vote of 222 
        Yeas and 210 Nays on February 4, 2022 (substantially 
        similar text was included).
H.R. 2954, the Securing a Strong Retirement Act of 2022, 
        sponsored by Rep. Richard Neal (MA), as part of H.R. 
        2617, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, 
        sponsored by Rep. Gerald Connolly (VA), on the motion 
        to concur in the Senate amendment to the House 
        amendment to the Senate amendment, passed the House by 
        a vote of 225 Yeas, 201 Nays, and 1 Present on December 
        23, 2022 (provisions were included).
H.R. 2999, the Direct Creation, Advancement, and Retention of 
        Employment (CARE) Opportunity Act, sponsored by Rep. 
        Robert C. ``Bobby'' Scott (VA), as part of H.R. 5376, 
        the Build Back Better Act, sponsored by Rep. John 
        Yarmuth (KY), passed the House by a vote of 217 Yeas 
        and 105 Nays on November 19, 2021 (substantially 
        similar text was included).
H.R. 3110, the PUMP for Nursing Mothers Act, sponsored by Rep. 
        Carolyn Maloney (NY), as part of H.R. 2617, the 
        Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, sponsored by 
        Rep. Gerald Connolly (VA), on the motion to concur in 
        the Senate amendment to the House amendment to the 
        Senate amendment, passed the House by a vote of 225 
        Yeas, 201 Nays, and 1 Present on December 23, 2022 
        (provisions were included).
H.R. 3519, the Stop Child Hunger Act of 2021, sponsored by Rep. 
        Mike Levin (CA), as part of H.R. 5376, the Build Back 
        Better Act, sponsored by Rep. John Yarmuth (KY), passed 
        the House by a vote of 217 Yeas and 105 Nays on 
        November 19, 2021 (provisions were included).
H.R. 3519, the Stop Child Hunger Act of 2021, sponsored by Rep. 
        Mike Levin (CA), as part of H.R. 2617, the Consolidated 
        Appropriations Act, 2023, sponsored by Rep. Gerald 
        Connolly (VA), on the motion to concur in the Senate 
        amendment to the House amendment to the Senate 
        amendment, passed the House by a vote of 225 Yeas, 201 
        Nays, and 1 Present on December 23, 2022 (provisions 
        were included).
H.R. 3572, the Increasing Access to Mental Health in Schools 
        Act, sponsored by Rep. Judy Chu (CA), as part of H.R. 
        7780, the Mental Health Matters Act, sponsored by Rep. 
        Mark DeSaulnier (CA), passed the House by a vote of 220 
        Yeas and 205 Nays on September 29, 2022 (substantially 
        similar text was included).
H.R. 3729, the Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa 
        College Access Act, sponsored by Rep. Gregorio Kilili 
        Camacho Sablan (Northern Mariana Islands), as part of 
        H.R. 5376, the Build Back Better Act, sponsored by Rep. 
        John Yarmuth (KY), passed the House by a vote of 217 
        Yeas and 105 Nays on November 19, 2021 (substantially 
        similar text was included).
H.R. 4379, the School Food Modernization Act, sponsored by Rep. 
        Mark DeSaulnier (CA), as part of H.R. 5376, the Build 
        Back Better Act, sponsored by Rep. John Yarmuth (KY), 
        passed the House by a vote of 217 Yeas and 105 Nays on 
        November 19, 2021 (provisions were included).
H.R. 4786, the RISE Act of 2021, sponsored by Rep. Suzanne 
        Bonamici (OR), as part of H.R. 7780, the Mental Health 
        Matters Act, sponsored by Rep. Mark DeSaulnier (CA), 
        passed the House by a vote of 220 Yeas and 205 Nays on 
        September 29, 2022 (substantially similar text was 
        included).
H.R. 6214, the Elementary and Secondary School Counseling Act, 
        sponsored by Rep. Katherine Clark (MA), as part of H.R. 
        7780, the Mental Health Matters Act, sponsored by Rep. 
        Mark DeSaulnier (CA), passed the House by a vote of 220 
        Yeas and 205 Nays on September 29, 2022 (substantially 
        similar text was included).
H.R. 6509, the Early Childhood Mental Health Support Act, 
        sponsored by Rep. Mark DeSaulnier (CA), as part of H.R. 
        7780, the Mental Health Matters Act, sponsored by Rep. 
        Mark DeSaulnier (CA), passed the House by a vote of 220 
        Yeas and 205 Nays on September 29, 2022 (substantially 
        similar text was included).
H.R. 6553, the AI Jobs Act of 2022, sponsored by Rep. Darren 
        Soto (FL), as part of H.R. 4521, the America Creating 
        Opportunities for Manufacturing, Pre-Eminence in 
        Technology, and Economic Strength Act of 2022, 
        sponsored by Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX), passed 
        the House by a vote of 222 Yeas and 210 Nays on 
        February 4, 2022 (substantially similar text was 
        included).
H.R. 7310, the Protecting America's Retirement Security Act, 
        sponsored by Rep. Lucy McBath (GA), as part of H.R. 
        2617, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, 
        sponsored by Rep. Gerald Connolly (VA), on the motion 
        to concur in the Senate amendment to the House 
        amendment to the Senate amendment, passed the House by 
        a vote of 225 Yeas, 201 Nays, and 1 Present on December 
        23, 2022 (provisions were included).
H.R. 7318, the Navigating to Success Act, sponsored by Rep. 
        Joaquin Castro (TX), as part of H.R. 7309, the 
        Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2022, 
        sponsored by Rep. Robert C. ``Bobby'' Scott (VA), 
        passed the House by a vote of 220 Yeas and 196 Nays on 
        May 17, 2022 (substantially similar text was included).
H.R. 7342, the Diversifying Paths to Apprenticeships Act, 
        sponsored by Rep. Donald Norcross (NJ), as part of H.R. 
        7309, the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 
        2022, sponsored by Rep. Robert C. ``Bobby'' Scott (VA), 
        passed the House by a vote of 220 Yeas and 196 Nays on 
        May 17, 2022 (substantially similar text was included).
H.R. 7347, the Supporting Jobs through Evidence and Innovation 
        Act, sponsored by Rep. Mikie Sherrill (NJ), as part of 
        H.R. 7309, the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act 
        of 2022, sponsored by Rep. Robert C. ``Bobby'' Scott 
        (VA), passed the House by a vote of 220 Yeas and 196 
        Nays on May 17, 2022 (substantially similar text was 
        included).
H.R. 7370, the Student Mental Health Rights Act, sponsored by 
        Rep. Katie Porter (CA), as part of H.R. 7780, the 
        Mental Health Matters Act, sponsored by Rep. Mark 
        DeSaulnier (CA), passed the House by a vote of 220 Yeas 
        and 205 Nays on September 29, 2022 (substantially 
        similar text was included).
H.R. 7381, the YouthBuild for the Future Act, sponsored by Rep. 
        Jahana Hayes (CT), as part of H.R. 7309, the Workforce 
        Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2022, sponsored by 
        Rep. Robert C. ``Bobby'' Scott (VA), passed the House 
        by a vote of 220 Yeas and 196 Nays on May 17, 2022 
        (substantially similar text was included).
H.R. 7385, the TRAIN Act, sponsored by Rep. Lucy McBath (GA), 
        as part of H.R. 7309, the Workforce Innovation and 
        Opportunity Act of 2022, sponsored by Rep. Robert C. 
        ``Bobby'' Scott (VA), passed the House by a vote of 220 
        Yeas and 196 Nays on May 17, 2022 (substantially 
        similar text was included).
H.R. 7390, the Expanding Labor Representation in the Workforce 
        System Act, sponsored by Rep. Mikie Sherrill (NJ), as 
        part of H.R. 7309, the Workforce Innovation and 
        Opportunity Act of 2022, sponsored by Rep. Robert C. 
        ``Bobby'' Scott (VA), passed the House by a vote of 220 
        Yeas and 196 Nays on May 17, 2022 (substantially 
        similar text was included).
H.R. 7392, the Strengthening Job Corps Act of 2022, sponsored 
        by Frederica Wilson (FL), as part of H.R. 7309, the 
        Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2022, 
        sponsored by Rep. Robert C. ``Bobby'' Scott (VA), 
        passed the House by a vote of 220 Yeas and 196 Nays on 
        May 17, 2022 (substantially similar text was included).
H.R. 7740, the Employee and Retiree Access to Justice Act of 
        2022, sponsored by Rep. Mark DeSaulnier (CA), as part 
        of H.R. 7780, the Mental Health Matters Act, sponsored 
        by Rep. Mark DeSaulnier (CA), passed the House by a 
        vote of 220 Yeas and 205 Nays on September 29, 2022 
        (the text was included).
H.R. 7748, the Community-Based Workforce Development Act, 
        sponsored by Rep. Susie Lee (NV), as part of H.R. 7309, 
        the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2022, 
        sponsored by Rep. Robert C. ``Bobby'' Scott (VA), 
        passed the House by a vote of 220 Yeas and 196 Nays on 
        May 17, 2022 (substantially similar text was included).
H.R. 7767, the Strengthening Behavioral Health Benefits Act, 
        sponsored by Rep. Joe Courtney (CT), as part of H.R. 
        7780, the Mental Health Matters Act, sponsored by Rep. 
        Mark DeSaulnier (CA), passed the House by a vote of 220 
        Yeas and 205 Nays on September 29, 2022 (provisions 
        were included).
H.R. 7784, the Supporting Trauma-Informed Education of 2022, 
        sponsored by Rep. Jahana Hayes (CT), as part of H.R. 
        7780, the Mental Health Matters Act, sponsored by Rep. 
        Mark DeSaulnier (CA), passed the House by a vote of 220 
        Yeas and 205 Nays on September 29, 2022 (the text was 
        included).
H.R. 8150, the Keep Kids Fed Act, sponsored by Rep. Robert C. 
        ``Bobby'' Scott (VA), as part of S. 2089, the Keep Kids 
        Fed Act of 2022, sponsored by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (NH), 
        passed the House by a vote of 376 Yeas and 42 Nays on 
        June 23, 2022 (the text was included).
H.R. 8450, the Healthy Meals, Healthy Kids Act, sponsored by 
        Rep. Robert C. ``Bobby'' Scott (VA), as part of H.R. 
        2617, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, 
        sponsored by Rep. Gerald Connolly (VA), on the motion 
        to concur in the Senate amendment to the House 
        amendment to the Senate amendment, passed the House by 
        a vote of 225 Yeas, 201 Nays, and 1 Present on December 
        23, 2022 (provisions were included).
H.R. 8887, To direct the National Institute for Occupational 
        Safety and Health to establish an occupational research 
        program on mental health, sponsored by Rep. Frank Mrvan 
        (IN), as part of H.R. 7780, the Mental Health Matters 
        Act, sponsored by Rep. Mark DeSaulnier (CA), passed the 
        House by a vote of 220 Yeas and 205 Nays on September 
        29, 2022 (the text was included).
H.R. 9028, the 21st Century Assistive Technology Act, sponsored 
        by Rep. DeSaulnier (CA), as part of H.R. 7776, the 
        James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for 
        Fiscal Year 2023, sponsored by Rep. Peter DeFazio (OR), 
        pursuant to H. Res. 1512, sponsored by Rep. Adam Smith 
        (WA), the House agreed to the Senate amendment with an 
        amendment, passed the House by a vote of 350 Yeas and 
        80 Nays on December 8, 2022 (substantially similar text 
        was included).

Legislation Within Committee Jurisdiction Not Referred to the Committee 
                         That Passed the House

H.R. 1319, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, sponsored by 
        Rep. John Yarmuth (KY), passed the House by a vote of 
        219 Yeas and 212 Nays on February 27, 2021. On a motion 
        to agree to the Senate amendment, H.R. 1319 passed the 
        House by a vote of 220 Yeas and 211 Nays on March 10, 
        2021.
H.R. 2617, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, sponsored 
        by Rep. Gerald Connolly (VA), passed the House by a 
        vote of 225 Yeas, 201 Nays, and 1 Present on December 
        23, 2022.
H.R. 4350, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 
        Fiscal Year 2022, passed the House by a vote of 316 
        Yeas and 113 Nays on September 23, 2021.
H.R. 5305, the Extending Government Funding and Delivering 
        Emergency Assistance Act, sponsored by Rep. Rosa 
        DeLauro (CT), passed the House by a vote of 220 Yeas 
        and 211 Nays on September 21, 2021. On a motion to 
        agree to the Senate amendment, H.R. 5305 passed the 
        House by a vote of 254 Yeas and 175 Nays on September 
        30, 2021.
H.R. 5376, the Build Back Better Act, sponsored by Rep. John 
        Yarmuth (KY), passed the House by a vote of 217 Yeas 
        and 105 Nays on November 19, 2021. On a motion to agree 
        to the Senate amendment, H.R. 5376, the Inflation 
        Reduction Act of 2022, passed the House by a vote of 
        220 Yeas and 207 Nays on August 12, 2022.
H.R. 7666, the Restoring Hope for Mental Health and Well-Being 
        Act of 2022, sponsored by Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ), 
        passed the House by a vote of 402 Yeas and 20 Nays on 
        June 22, 2022.
H.R. 7776, the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization 
        Act for Fiscal Year 2023, sponsored by Rep. Peter 
        DeFazio (OR), pursuant to H. Res. 1512, sponsored by 
        Rep. Adam Smith (WA), the House agreed to the Senate 
        amendment with an amendment, passed the House by a vote 
        of 350 Yeas and 80 Nays on December 8, 2022.
S. 848, the Consider Teachers Act of 2021, sponsored by Sen. 
        Mike Braun (IN), passed the House by a vote of 406 Yeas 
        and 16 Nays under suspension of the rules on September 
        28, 2021.
S. 989, the Native Language Resource Center Act of 2021, 
        sponsored by Sen. Brian Schatz (HI), passed the House 
        by a vote of 342 Yeas and 71 Nays under suspension of 
        the rules on December 22, 2022.
S. 1098, the Joint Consolidation Loan Separation Act, sponsored 
        by Sen. Mark Warner (VA), passed the House by a vote of 
        232 Yeas and 193 Nays on September 21, 2022.
S. 1402, the Durbin Feeling Native American Languages Act of 
        2021, sponsored by Sen. Brian Schatz (HI), passed the 
        House by a vote of 337 Yeas and 79 Nays under 
        suspension of the rules on December 22, 2022.
S. 1605, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
        2022, sponsored by Sen. Rick Scott (FL), passed the 
        House by a vote of 363 Yeas and 70 Nays on December 7, 
        2021.
S. 2089, the Keep Kids Fed Act of 2022, sponsored by Sen. 
        Jeanne Shaheen (NH), passed the House by a vote of 376 
        Yeas and 42 Nays under suspension of the rules on June 
        23, 2022.
S. 2959, the Supplemental Impact Aid Flexibility Act, sponsored 
        by Sen. John Thune (SD), passed the House by a vote of 
        414 Yeas and 6 Nays under suspension of the rules on 
        January 18, 2022.
S. 3157, the Bridging the Gap for New Americans Act, sponsored 
        by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (MN), passed the House by a vote 
        of 363 Yeas and 52 Nays under suspension of the rules 
        on September 19, 2022.
S. 5329, A bill to amend the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food 
        Donation Act to improve the program, and for other 
        purposes, sponsored by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (CT), 
        passed the House by voice vote under suspension of the 
        rules on December 21, 2022.
S.J. Res. 13, Providing for congressional disapproval under 
        chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule 
        submitted by the Equal Employment Opportunity 
        Commission relating to ``Update of Commission's 
        Conciliation Procedures,'' passed the House by a vote 
        of 219 Yeas and 210 Nays on June 24, 2021.

         Legislation Referred to the Committee Enacted Into Law

H.R. 7791, the Access to Baby Formula Act of 2022, sponsored by 
        Rep. Jahana Hayes (CT), was enacted into law on May 21, 
        2022 (Public Law 117-129).

   Legislation Referred to the Committee Enacted Into Law in Another 
                                Measure

H.R. 1065, the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, sponsored by Rep. 
        Jerrold Nadler (NY), as part of H.R. 2617, the 
        Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, sponsored by 
        Rep. Gerald Connolly (VA), was enacted into law on 
        December 29, 2022 (substantially similar text was 
        included) (Public Law 117-__).
H.R. 2499, the Federal Firefighters Fairness Act of 2022, 
        sponsored by Rep. Salud Carbajal (CA), as part of H.R. 
        7776, the James M. Inhofe National Defense 
        Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023, sponsored by 
        Rep. Peter DeFazio (OR), was enacted into law on 
        December 23, 2022 (substantially similar text was 
        included) (Public Law 117-263).
H.R. 2954, the Securing a Strong Retirement Act of 2022, 
        sponsored by Rep. Richard Neal (MA), as part of H.R. 
        2617, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, 
        sponsored by Rep. Gerald Connolly (VA), was enacted 
        into law on December 29, 2022 (provisions were 
        included) (Public Law 117-__).
H.R. 3110, the PUMP for Nursing Mothers Act, sponsored by Rep. 
        Carolyn Maloney (NY), as part of H.R. 2617, the 
        Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, sponsored by 
        Rep. Gerald Connolly (VA), was enacted into law on 
        December 29, 2022 (provisions were included) (Public 
        Law 117-__).
H.R. 3519, the Stop Child Hunger Act of 2021, sponsored by Rep. 
        Mike Levin (CA), as part of H.R. 2617, the Consolidated 
        Appropriations Act, 2023, sponsored by Rep. Gerald 
        Connolly (VA), was enacted into law on December 29, 
        2022 (provisions were included) (Public Law 117-__).
H.R. 7310, the Protecting America's Retirement Security Act, 
        sponsored by Rep. Lucy McBath (GA), as part of H.R. 
        2617, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, 
        sponsored by Rep. Gerald Connolly (VA), was enacted 
        into law on December 29, 2022 (provisions were 
        included) (Public Law 117-__).
H.R. 8150, the Keep Kids Fed Act, sponsored by Rep. Robert C. 
        ``Bobby'' Scott (VA), as part of S. 2089, the Keep Kids 
        Fed Act of 2022, sponsored by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (NH), 
        was enacted into law on June 25, 2022 (the text was 
        included) (Public Law 117-158).
H.R. 8450, the Healthy Meals, Healthy Kids Act, sponsored by 
        Rep. Robert C. ``Bobby'' Scott (VA), as part of H.R. 
        2617, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, 
        sponsored by Rep. Gerald Connolly (VA), was enacted 
        into law on December 29, 2022 (provisions were 
        included) (Public Law 117-__).
H.R. 9028, the 21st Century Assistive Technology Act, sponsored 
        by Rep. DeSaulnier (CA), as part of H.R. 7776, the 
        James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for 
        Fiscal Year 2023, sponsored by Rep. Peter DeFazio (OR), 
        was enacted into law on December 23, 2022 
        (substantially similar text was included) (Public Law 
        117-263).

Legislation Within Committee Jurisdiction Not Referred to the Committee 
                            Enacted Into Law

H.R. 1319, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, sponsored by 
        Rep. John Yarmuth (KY), was enacted into law on March 
        11, 2021 (Public Law 117-2).
H.R. 2471, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022, sponsored 
        by Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (NY), was enacted into law on 
        March 15, 2022 (Public Law 117-103).
H.R. 2617, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, sponsored 
        by Rep. Gerald Connolly (VA), was enacted into law on 
        December 29, 2022 (Public Law 117-__).
H.R. 5305, the Extending Government Funding and Delivering 
        Emergency Assistance Act, sponsored by Rep. Rosa 
        DeLauro (CT), was enacted into law on September 30, 
        2021 (Public Law 117-43).
H.R. 7776, the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization 
        Act for Fiscal Year 2023, sponsored by Rep. Peter 
        DeFazio (OR), was enacted into law on December 23, 2022 
        (Public Law 117-263).
S. 848, the Consider Teachers Act of 2021, sponsored by Sen. 
        Mike Braun (IN), was enacted into law on October 13, 
        2021 (Public Law 117-49).
S. 1098, the Joint Consolidation Loan Separation Act, sponsored 
        by Sen. Mark Warner (VA), was enacted into law on 
        October 11, 2022 (Public Law 117-200).
S. 1605, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 
        Fiscal Year 2022, sponsored by Sen. Rick Scott (FL), 
        was enacted into law on December 27, 2021 (Public Law 
        117-81).
S. 2089, the Keep Kids Fed Act of 2022, sponsored by Sen. 
        Jeanne Shaheen (NH), was enacted into law on June 25, 
        2022 (Public Law 117-158).
S. 2959, the Supplemental Impact Aid Flexibility Act, sponsored 
        by Sen. John Thune (SD), was enacted into law on 
        January 21, 2022 (Public Law 117-83).
S.J. Res. 13, Providing for congressional disapproval under 
        chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule 
        submitted by the Equal Employment Opportunity 
        Commission relating to ``Update of Commission's 
        Conciliation Procedures,'' sponsored by Sen. Patty 
        Murray (WA), was enacted into law on June 30, 2021 
        (Public Law 117-22).

                  Oversight Plan Summary and Activity


                         OVERSIGHT PLAN SUMMARY

    The Committee adopted its oversight plan for the 117th 
Congress at its organizational meeting on February 8, 2021. The 
Committee outlined several priority areas for oversight in the 
plan including, but not limited to:
           COVID-19 Relief Funds
           Civil Rights
           Implementation of the Every Student Succeeds 
        Act
           Restarting Student Loan Payments
           Student Aid
           For-Profit Institution Conversions
           Borrower Defense
           Students and Workers with Disabilities
           Department of Labor's Workforce Development 
        Programs
           Worker Wages
           Workplace Safety and Health
           Mine Safety and Health
           Retirement Security and Pensions
           International Labor Rights
           Guestworker Programs
           Collective Bargaining Rights
           Child Nutrition
           Health Care
           Supporting Communities

                 ACTIONS TAKEN BASED ON OVERSIGHT PLAN

COVID-19 Relief Funds

     Hearings--The Committee held multiple hearings 
that addressed the U.S. Department of Education's (ED) 
implementation and oversight of COVID-19 relief funds. These 
included: (1) a hearing on June 24, 2021, with U.S. Department 
of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona titled ``Examining the 
Policies and Priorities of the U.S. Department of Education''; 
(2) a hearing on November 17, 2021, titled ``Examining the 
Implementation of COVID-19 Education Funds'' (held jointly by 
the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary 
Education and the Subcommittee on Higher Education and 
Workforce Investment); and (3) a hearing on May 26, 2022, again 
with Secretary Cardona titled ``Examining the Policies and 
Priorities of the U.S. Department of Education.''
     Oversight of Education Stabilization Fund (ESF)--
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, over $200 billion in 
funds was provided through ED to states and school districts to 
help mitigate the harm to students' education through three 
pieces of legislation: (1) the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and 
Economic Security Act (CARES Act); (2) the Coronavirus Response 
and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act (CRRSA); and (3) the 
American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA). These funds are 
collectively known as the Education Stabilization Fund (ESF). 
ED was tasked with distributing and monitoring the ESF. The 
Committee held oversight meetings with ED to understand its 
approval process for reviewing states' COVID-19 and ESF 
implementation plans, amendments of those state plans, any 
waivers ED provided to states and districts, and ED's routine 
monitoring of these funds.
     Oversight of Child Care Stabilization Grants--ARPA 
included nearly $24 billion in Child Care Stabilization Grants 
to be allocated to states, territories, and Tribes to provide 
rapid financial relief to childcare providers to help them pay 
for unexpected business costs they faced as a result of the 
COVID-19 pandemic. The Committee engaged in meetings with the 
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to conduct 
oversight on the implementation of the Stabilization Grants.
     Oversight of Occupational Safety and Health 
Administration's (OSHA) ARPA Spending--The Committee held 
meetings with OSHA to discuss OSHA's spending of the $100 
million in ARPA funding appropriated to the agency for COVID-19 
related activities. The Committee also held meetings with the 
U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL) Office of Inspector General 
(OIG) to request an audit of OSHA's spending of the ARPA 
funding.
     Oversight of DOL's ARPA Spending--The Committee 
has jurisdiction over the administration of DOL's programs, 
which includes the administration of the UI system. In March 
2021, ARPA provided $2 billion in funding to DOL for 
Unemployment Insurance (UI) Modernization, ``aimed at 
supporting the delivery of timely, accurate, and equitable UI 
payments'' and addressing the many ``deep-seated barriers'' to 
access to the UI system. In August 2021, DOL announced that it 
would use this funding to award equity grants to the states. 
The equity grants will enable states to carry out activities 
that promote equitable access to UI programs, which include, 
for example, improving claimant outreach and customer service 
processes, improving access for lower-income claimants, 
eliminating administrative barriers to benefit applications, 
reducing state workload backlogs, improving timeliness of UI 
payments to eligible individuals, and ensuring equity in fraud 
prevention, detection, and recovery activities. The Committee 
engaged in meetings with DOL to discuss the status of these 
equity grant awards. The Committee also requested that DOL's 
OIG include a review of the performance of these grants in its 
annual audit; for FY 2023, one of DOL's OIG's discretionary 
audits will focus on the ARPA equity grants and DOL's and the 
states' effectiveness in addressing the potential racial and 
ethnic disparities in the UI program.+
     Oversight of DOL's Implementation of the UI CARES 
Act Programs--In March 2020, Congress created temporary UI 
programs to supplement and support the regular UI system 
because of the widespread unemployment caused by the COVID-19 
pandemic. The programs, created by the CARES Act, include: the 
Pandemic Unemployment Compensation program, the Pandemic 
Emergency Unemployment Compensation program, and the Pandemic 
Unemployment Assistance program. The CARES Act UI programs 
successfully fulfilled their purpose by preventing the 
country's economic collapse during the pandemic. However, the 
U.S. Government Accountability Office's (GAO) examination of 
these pandemic UI programs found that DOL and the states 
struggled to consistently administer the programs efficiently 
and effectively. GAO also found that the implementation of 
these temporary programs highlighted several long-standing 
challenges in the regular UI system that need to be addressed 
expeditiously, including, for example, preventing improper 
payments and fraud, improving the modernization of states' UI 
information technology (IT) systems, and advancing equitable 
access to the UI system. Moreover, GAO concluded that because 
these challenges pose a significant risk to UI service delivery 
and expose the UI system to significant financial loss, the 
agency determined that the UI system should be added to its 
High Risk List--a designation that the program is vulnerable 
and susceptible to fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement. The 
Committee engaged in meetings with DOL's Employment and 
Training Administration (ETA) to discuss its oversight of, and 
lessons learned from, DOL's implementation of these UI CARES 
Act Programs.

Civil Rights

     Discipline Disparities Guidance--The Committee 
received a report from GAO after it examined students' 
experiences with bullying, hate speech, hate crimes, and 
victimization in K-12 schools. As a result of the report, the 
Committee engaged with ED's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to 
understand how ED is addressing student complaints of hostile 
behavior by other students in schools that are inadequately 
addressed by the schools. The Committee requested information 
on how ED's OCR is processing complaints of violations of Title 
VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits 
discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin, 
as well as addressing a backlog of complaints dating back to 
2014. Further, the Committee engaged with ED's OCR on the need 
for ED to issue discipline disparities guidance and urged ED to 
be mindful of guidance that may result in school hardening 
measures, such as implementing surveillance cameras, metal 
detectors, door-locking systems, and even introducing armed 
guards and arming teachers in schools. School hardening 
measures negatively impact students of color and students with 
disabilities. ED's OCR has issued discipline guidance related 
to students with disabilities. However, more general discipline 
guidance is still pending and is being coordinated with the 
U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).
     United States v. Fordice Compliance--Since the 
passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal 
Educational Opportunities Act of 1974, ED's OCR has been 
working to address racially segregated systems of higher 
education in states. United States v. Fordice was a 1992 U.S. 
Supreme Court decision that held that eight public universities 
in Mississippi had not sufficiently integrated and ordered the 
state to take action to address this issue in order to comply 
with the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, which 
mandates that individuals in similar situations be treated 
equally under the law and has been interpreted by the Supreme 
Court to help dismantle racial segregation under the law. In 
Fordice, the Court found that while Mississippi had eliminated 
explicit prohibitions on the admission of black students to 
institutions, the state was still using discriminatory policies 
to suppress the enrollment of black students at these eight 
schools, known as de jure segregation. Since the Fordice 
decision, between 1998 and 2009, eight states--Florida, 
Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, and 
Virginia--entered into consent decrees and settlement 
agreements with ED's OCR in order to remedy their states' 
racially segregated systems of higher education. ED's OCR 
closed the matter with two states, Virginia and Kentucky, in 
January 2009. Due to concerns that the remaining agreements 
expired or were no longer being enforced by ED's OCR under or 
since the Trump Administration, the Committee engaged with OCR 
on how ED is monitoring and ensuring the remaining six states' 
compliance with the Fordice decision. Further, the Committee is 
concerned about de facto segregation (segregation in fact as 
compared with de jure segregation, which is segregation under 
the law). Investigative reporting has found that de facto 
racial segregation continues at state-operated colleges and 
universities, where the number of Black or Hispanic students 
attending the state institution is significantly fewer than the 
Black or Hispanic student population of the state. As such, the 
Committee also engaged with ED's OCR to inquire whether ED is 
considering any investigations of de facto segregation in the 
six states with ongoing Fordice settlement agreements or in any 
other states.
     Compliance with Brown v. Board of Education and 
School Resegregation--The Committee received a report from GAO 
after it examined the extent of student racial and economic 
isolation in public schools. The Committee had requested this 
report in order to understand patterns of racial and economic 
segregation and isolation in K-12 public schools in the U.S. 
The report concluded that even though the K-12 public school 
student population has grown significantly more diverse since 
2016 when GAO last examined this topic, schools remain divided 
along racial, ethnic, and economic lines throughout the U.S. 
Specifically, in the 2020-2021 school year, more than one-third 
of students attended a predominantly same-race/ethnicity 
school, defined as one where 75 percent or more of the student 
population is of a single race/ethnicity. Fourteen percent of 
students attended schools where 90 percent or more of the 
students were of a single race/ethnicity. Further, the report 
showed that cities and school districts engage in a process 
called ``district secession,'' a process by which schools sever 
governance ties from an existing district to form a new 
district. Usually, the goal of district secession is for the 
new district, which is often a smaller district, to achieve 
greater control over funding and school resources. The GAO 
report showed that between 2009 and 2020, 36 district 
secessions occurred, which generally resulted in shifts in 
racial/ethnic composition and wealth. Compared to remaining 
districts, new districts had roughly triple the share of white 
students, double the share of Asian students, two-thirds the 
share of Hispanic students, and one-fifth the share of Black 
students. Further, new districts were also generally wealthier 
than remaining districts, when using the percentage of students 
eligible for free or reduced price lunch as a proxy for 
poverty. The Committee utilized the findings in this report in 
the amicus curiae brief submitted on behalf of 65 Democratic 
Members of the House of Representatives to the Supreme Court 
for the Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and 
Fellows of Harvard College lawsuit. The report also highlights 
the continued need for desegregation efforts, which are 
reflected in two bills introduced by Chairman Scott: H.R. 729, 
the Strength in Diversity Act, and H.R. 730, the Equity and 
Inclusion Enforcement Act of 2021.
     Title IX Work Requests to GAO--Title IX of the 
Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX) is a landmark law 
intended to ensure that no person is discriminated against on 
the basis of sex in federally-funded education programs, 
including opportunities to participate in intercollegiate 
athletics. The Committee requested four Title IX related 
studies from GAO.
           The first study requested that GAO 
        examine ED's oversight of colleges' athletic programs 
        and sexual violence prevention activities within those 
        athletic programs. This study was requested due to the 
        number of high-profile cases related to sexual abuse in 
        college athletic programs, such as at the University of 
        Michigan and Pennsylvania State University. 
        Additionally, a recent survey found that more than one 
        in four current or former student athletes reported 
        being sexually assaulted or harassed by someone in a 
        position of power on campus, compared with one in ten 
        students in the general student population. The 
        Committee requested the study to better understand the 
        steps that ED is taking to protect student athletes 
        from sexual harassment, abuse, and violence.
           The second study requested that GAO 
        examine whether institutions of higher education (IHEs) 
        provide equitable opportunities to participate in 
        intercollegiate athletics as well equitable 
        scholarships, facilities, equipment, supplies, and 
        other benefits, in compliance with Title IX. This study 
        was requested due to media reports of disparate 
        treatment of female athletes, such as female athletes 
        having substantially inferior practice facilities 
        compared to their male peers during the NCAA Division I 
        Basketball Championships in 2020. The Committee 
        requested the study to better understand the current 
        opportunities and resources available to female college 
        athletes.
           The third study requested that GAO 
        examine how IHEs are providing protections for 
        individuals who are pregnant, have terminated a 
        pregnancy, or are parenting students in compliance with 
        Title IX. This study was requested due to the Supreme 
        Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health 
        Organization, which potentially endangers these Title 
        IX protections. The Committee requested the study to 
        better understand the current landscape of 
        institutions' compliance with Title IX protections for 
        individuals who are pregnant, have terminated a 
        pregnancy, or are parenting students.
           The fourth study requested that GAO 
        examine how K-12 schools that host Junior Reserve 
        Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) programs ensure 
        compliance with Title IX protections to protect 
        students from sexual harassment, abuse, and violence. 
        This study was requested due to recent investigative 
        reporting that found that 33 JROTC instructors were 
        criminally charged with sexual misconduct involving 
        students, and that JROTC instructors were accused of 
        such misconduct at a far higher rate than the rate of 
        civilian high school teachers. The Committee requested 
        the study to better understand the current landscape of 
        JROTC programs and their compliance with Title IX 
        protections.
     Section 504 Rulemaking (ED)--Section 504 of the 
Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504) ensures that 
individuals with disabilities are not discriminated against in 
programs that receive federal financial assistance. In May 
2022, ED announced plans to gather public input on possible 
amendments to Section 504 regulations in order to strengthen 
and protect the rights of students with disabilities. The 
Committee sent a letter to ED on August 25, 2022, to provide 
recommendations for needed updates to Section 504 requirements. 
Specifically, the Committee emphasized: (1) including 
disability protections in childcare settings for children with 
disabilities; (2) providing a clear framework for due process 
rights families have to receive a free appropriate public 
education (FAPE); (3) providing clear guidance on preventing 
the use of harmful restraint, seclusion, and therapy practices 
against students with disabilities; and (4) ensuring that 
students with disabilities are able to receive the 
accommodations they need in post-secondary education.
     Section 504 Rulemaking (HHS)--Pursuant to Section 
504, individuals with disabilities may not be discriminated 
against in programs that receive federal financial assistance 
in the delivery of health care services. The antidiscrimination 
requirements in the regulations for Section 504 require that 
health care providers that receive federal financial assistance 
provide full and equal access to their health care services and 
facilities. While many Americans can access health care 
services without issue, individuals with physical disabilities 
continue to face unique challenges receiving these services if 
their health care provider does not have accessible medical 
equipment such as examination tables, mammography equipment, x-
ray machines, and other equipment that is commonly used for 
diagnostic purposes by health professionals. The Affordable 
Care Act (ACA), enacted in 2010, required the Architectural and 
Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (Access Board) to 
develop standards for accessible medical diagnostic equipment 
(ADME) within two years of the statute's enactment. After years 
long delays, in January 2017, the Access Board finally 
published these standards, but they were not adopted before the 
transition to President Trump's Administration, which did not 
fully adopt them. Therefore, on June 28, 2022, the Committee 
sent a letter to HHS to encourage it to finally adopt the 
Access Board's 2017 ADME standards through the agencies' 
ongoing rulemaking. Adopting these standards will help to 
ensure that health care providers that receive federal 
financial assistance provide full and equal access to their 
health care services and facilities.
     Faith Based Regulations--In 2020, the Trump 
Administration issued final rules by nine departments--Equal 
Participation of Faith-Based Organizations in the Federal 
Agencies' Programs and Activities. These final rules changed 
the preexisting regulatory framework governing how the federal 
government contracts with faith-based organizations. The 2020 
rules included policies that threaten to undermine vulnerable 
individuals' access to federally-funded social service programs 
by allowing them to be subjected to religious discrimination 
and coercion in some circumstances. On August 5, 2022, the 
Committee sent a letter to President Biden expressing support 
for the Administration's plans to engage in rulemaking 
regarding the 2020 rules, urging President Biden's 
Administration to revisit the Trump-era rules and restore and 
strengthen protections against religious discrimination and 
coercion in federal social service programs.
     Section 1557 Rulemaking--The Committee, along with 
the Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Committee on Ways 
and Means, shares primary jurisdiction over the ACA. On October 
3, 2022, the three committees sent a joint letter to HHS in 
support of the proposed rule, Nondiscrimination in Health 
Programs and Activities. This proposed rule would effectuate 
statutory text and congressional intent in enacting Section 
1557 of the ACA to ensure that individuals' civil rights are 
protected while receiving health care services. The proposed 
rule would also rectify key gaps in prior iterations of the 
rule that were inconsistent with the ACA's statutory mandate 
and undermined the purpose of the law. Moreover, the proposed 
rule reflects both evolving judicial precedent and 
technological developments affecting patient access to care, 
and it is particularly imperative given the continually growing 
threats to reproductive health and LGBTQI+ health. In the joint 
letter, the committees noted their strong support for the 
proposed rule and urged HHS to swiftly finalize the rule 
following the public comment period.
     Diversity in Higher Education--The Committee sent 
a letter to GAO requesting a review of faculty diversity at 
IHEs. Specifically, the request asked GAO to examine the racial 
composition of faculty at IHEs and to what extent ED, the U.S. 
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and DOJ's Civil 
Rights Division (CRD) have taken steps to promote faculty 
diversity and prevent racial discrimination in faculty hiring, 
promotion, and compensation. The Committee is concerned about 
faculty diversity because research reports showed that, while 
the share of students of color among all undergraduate students 
increased from approximately 30 percent to approximately 45 
percent between 1996 and 2016, only approximately 17 percent of 
full-time professors are people of color. Relatedly, studies 
have shown that students benefit from having teachers who look 
like them, especially nonwhite students. The Committee sent 
this request to better understand the current state of faculty 
diversity as well as steps ED, EEOC, and DOJ are taking to 
promote diversity and protect minority faculty from 
discrimination.
     Workplace Accommodations and Vaccination 
Requirements--On October 26, 2021, the Subcommittee on 
Workforce Protections and the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and 
Human Services held a joint hearing titled ``Protecting Lives 
and Livelihoods: Vaccine Requirements and Employee 
Accommodations,'' during which the Members and witnesses 
discussed the interplay between COVID-19 vaccine requirements 
in the private employment sector and an employer's 
responsibility to provide modifications and/or accommodations 
to such requirements based on religion, disability, and/or 
pregnancy under federal civil rights laws.
     EEOC and OFCCP Hearing--On April 27, 2022, the 
Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services held a hearing 
titled ``Examining the Policies and Priorities of the Equal 
Employment Opportunity Commission and the Office of Federal 
Contract Compliance Programs[OFCCP],'' to explore the EEOC's 
and the OFCCP's civil rights enforcement activities. With 
regard to the EEOC, the hearing addressed the agency's capacity 
to combat racial injustice and systemic discrimination; its 
enforcement of protections for LGBTQI+ workers; and its ability 
to reduce its inventory of unprocessed charges, among other 
issues. With regard to the OFCCP, the hearing addressed the 
agency's efforts to increase its oversight of federal 
contractors and subcontractors with new initiatives such as the 
Mega Construction Project Program, a program designed to 
provide proactive compliance assistance to contractors to help 
expand access to jobs for historically underrepresented groups 
on large construction contracts; its proposed rulemaking 
related to its rescission of a Trump Administration-era 
religious exemption rule for religious-based federal 
contractors; and its efforts to address pay equity by issuing a 
directive that reaffirms the agency's commitment to conducting 
pay equity audits, among other issues.
     EEOC Oversight--The Committee held meetings with 
the EEOC to better understand its enforcement priorities, such 
as its response to the report issued on July 28, 2022, by the 
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 
which evaluated the integrity and utility of the pay data the 
EEOC collected from private sector employers and certain 
federal contractors during 2017 and 2018. The report found that 
pay data collection is an important tool to address pay 
discrimination and that the EEOC can use the pay data to 
prioritize investigations and help the agency allocate 
resources to identify potential pay discrimination. The report 
also recommended that the agency take several steps to improve 
its pay data collection efforts should the agency collect such 
data in the future. The agency acknowledged that it has already 
started to address some of the recommendations in the report 
that will help with pay discrimination enforcement efforts but 
stated that future pay data collections will need to be 
carefully considered. Additionally, during these meetings, 
agency officials discussed the agency's staffing challenges, 
which include hiring more frontline staff to help the agency 
process the approximately 250 charges it receives daily as well 
as addressing the length of its intake process. Also discussed 
during the meetings was the implementation of new initiatives 
during the Biden Administration, such as Hiring Initiative to 
Reimagine Equity (HIRE), which is a joint initiative with OFCCP 
that aims to reimagine hiring and recruitment practices in ways 
that will advance equal employment opportunity and help provide 
access to good jobs for workers. Discussions also included the 
agency's Artificial Intelligence and Algorithmic Fairness 
Initiative, which the agency launched to ensure that employers' 
use of software--including artificial intelligence (AI) machine 
learning--and other emerging technologies in employment 
decisions is done in ways that are consistent with requirements 
under federal civil rights laws.
     OFCCP Oversight--The Committee held meetings with 
OFCCP to understand its role in the implementation of the 
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA, also known as the 
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL)). Under BIL, Congress 
authorized significant investments in infrastructure projects, 
which means that the number of federal contractors under 
OFCCP's jurisdiction will significantly increase during the 
next few years. The anticipated growth in the number of federal 
contractors comes at a time when the agency has reached its 
lowest staffing levels in decades. Therefore, the agency 
discussed how it has been hiring additional staff during the 
past fiscal year while also acknowledging that it will need 
additional resources to adequately meet the demands of 
overseeing a larger contractor community. Discussions also 
included OFCCP's efforts to revamp its Mega Construction 
Project Program, a program designed to provide proactive 
compliance assistance to contractors to help expand access to 
jobs for historically underrepresented groups on large 
construction contracts, and its implementation of the 
Affirmative Action Program--Verification Initiative (AAVI), 
which requires contractors to annually verify that they are 
compliant with affirmative action program (AAP) requirements. 
Implementation of the AAVI is in response to a 2016 GAO report 
that found that OFCCP's oversight was limited by reliance on 
contractors' voluntary compliance with AAP requirements. 
Therefore, AAVI seeks to improve contractor compliance with AAP 
requirements. Additionally, the oversight meetings addressed 
OFCCP's response to litigation filed in 2019 against DOL by the 
Center for Investigative Reporting in which the organization is 
seeking all EEO 1 Type 2 Reports filed by contractors from 2016 
to 2020 under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). OFCCP 
discussed the steps it has taken to respond to this litigation, 
including publishing notices in the Federal Register on August 
19, 2022, and September 27, 2022, and informing contractors 
that the agency has received a FOIA request from CIR for the 
EEO 1 reports and that the contractors may submit an objection 
to the disclosure of this information by October 19, 2022. 
OFCCP sent out another notice on November 27, 2022, to 
contractors who did not submit an objection by the October 19th 
deadline to advise them that their EEO 1 reports may be subject 
to a disclosure.
     HHS Hearing--The Committee held a hearing on April 
6, 2022, titled ``Examining the Policies and Priorities of the 
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services'' (April 6th 
Hearing), which covered numerous issues including the 
enforcement of civil rights protections by HHS' Office for 
Civil Rights (OCR). For example, a Democratic Member asked U.S. 
Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier 
Becerra whether HHS' OCR could withdraw the Trump-era waivers 
issued to child welfare entities in South Carolina, Texas, and 
Michigan allowing them to use the Religious Freedom and 
Restoration Act (RFRA) to turn families away from participating 
in federally-funded foster care programs based on their 
religion or because of religious objections to the foster care 
parents' sexual orientation or gender identity. Additionally, 
in a Question for the Record (QFR) submitted after the hearing, 
a Democratic Member asked Secretary Becerra about the impact of 
his decision to rescind the Trump-era delegation of authority 
to HHS' OCR for RFRA compliance. On May 4, 2017, President 
Trump issued Executive Order 13798, Promoting Free Speech and 
Religious Liberty (E.O. 13798), which established the 
Administration's policy to protect and enforce religious 
exercise and political speech to the greatest extent 
practicable. In response to E.O. 13798, on October 6, 2017, 
Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued the Guidance on Federal 
Law Protections for Religious Liberty (Guidance) in which it 
purported to interpret and clarify existing religious liberty 
protections in federal law. Consistent with E.O. 13798 and the 
Guidance, on January 19, 2018, HHS announced that the HHS 
Secretary was delegating to HHS' OCR the authority over 
implementation of and compliance with RFRA relating to programs 
or activities funded, conducted, or administered by HHS. 
Critics of the delegation of authority expressed concerns that 
the delegation may have over-expanded HHS' OCR's authority; 
prior to that delegation there had not been a division within 
HHS that was singularly responsible for HHS' compliance with 
RFRA or First Amendment issues. On November 23, 2021, HHS 
announced the rescission of the Trump-era delegation of 
authority. In response to the QFR asking about the impact of 
the rescission, Secretary Becerra stated that the purpose of 
the rescission was to restore HHS' long-standing practice of 
allowing HHS components to determine ``how their programs must 
be run to comply with the Free Exercise Clause and the 
Establishment Clause of the First Amendment as well as RFRA.'' 
86 FR 67067 (Nov. 24, 2021). Secretary Becerra also stated that 
HHS components have the greatest knowledge about their 
respective programs and are the ones best positioned to engage 
in RFRA analysis. Finally, Secretary Becerra concluded by 
reaffirming that HHS takes its obligations to comply with the 
law seriously, and it will continue to follow those and all 
other applicable federal laws.

Implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)

     Implementation of ESSA--State education agencies 
(SEAs) are required by the Elementary and Secondary Education 
Act (ESEA), as amended by ESSA, to submit state plans to ED 
describing how SEAs have developed and are implementing 
accountability systems to support all public elementary school 
and secondary school students in meeting challenging state 
academic standards. Due to the extraordinarily adverse effects 
of the COVID-19 pandemic on K-12 education nationwide, ED 
permitted SEAs to amend their state plans to revise components 
of state accountability systems (known as an amendment). SEAs 
could submit multiple amendments to their state plans, which 
are collectively referred to as ``addenda.'' These addenda and 
amendments are meant to be temporary changes to the SEAs' 
previously approved plans. As of December 12, 2022, thirty-four 
SEAs revised at least one of the four key components of their 
accountability system through an approved addendum. As of 
December 12, 2022, eight SEAs revised at least one of the four 
key components of their accountability system through an 
approved amendment. ED reviewed and approved these addenda and 
amendments. The Committee conducted an in-depth analysis of 
ED's review process and the approved addenda and amendments. 
Based on the review, the Committee encouraged ED to take 
further steps to ensure faithful implementation of 
accountability systems it approved before the pandemic. The 
Committee will continue to conduct oversight over ED to ensure 
that low-performing schools are appropriately identified and 
provided support.
     Implementation of the ESSA One Percent Cap--ESSA 
requires states to test students annually in several subjects. 
However, ESSA allows states to administer alternative 
assessments aligned with alternate academic achievement 
standards for students with the most significant cognitive 
disabilities, capping participation in alternative assessments 
at one percent of tested students (known as the ``one percent 
cap''). States are permitted to request waivers of the one 
percent cap requirement one year at a time. The Committee held 
oversight meetings with ED to understand its approval process 
for reviewing states' applications for a waiver from the one 
percent cap. Further, based on information provided to the 
Committee from stakeholders in the disability education 
community, the Committee requested clarifying guidance from ED 
on the process through which states can request waivers from 
the one percent cap. The Committee requested that states be 
required to engage in a public comment period when a state 
requests its initial waiver from the one percent cap as well as 
when the state renews its waiver request for another year. In 
response to the Committee's inquiries, ED has provided updated 
guidance to states, which includes a requirement to engage in a 
public comment period during both the initial waiver request 
and a waiver extension request.

Restarting Student Loan Payments

    In March 2020, ED used its authority under the Higher 
Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act of 2003 (HEROES 
Act) to pause interest accrual on ED-held federal loans, 
suspend collections on defaulted loans, and allow borrowers to 
request their loans be placed in forbearance for up to 60 days 
(known as ``the payment pause''). Later that month, the CARES 
Act was signed into law and included provisions to extend the 
pause in interest accrual and collections and make the payment 
pause automatic for all borrowers with ED-held federal loans 
through September 30, 2020. ED extended these relief measures 
three more times through January 31, 2022, using HEROES Act 
authority. Most recently, ED extended these relief measures a 
fourth time until ED is permitted to implement the one-time 
debt relief program announced by the Biden Administration or 
until the current litigation about the one-time debt relief 
program is resolved, but no later than September 2023.
           Hearing--The Committee held a hearing on 
        October 27, 2021, titled ``Examining the Policies and 
        Priorities of the Office of Federal Student Aid,'' to 
        explore how ED's Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) 
        was preparing and communicating with student loan 
        servicers to restart student loan payments after the 
        payment pause is lifted.
           Oversight--The Committee held oversight 
        meetings with ED to understand the processes ED was 
        putting into place to return to repayment after the 
        payment pause is lifted, as well as the communication 
        ED was providing to both student loan servicers and 
        borrowers about return to repayment. The Committee also 
        engaged with several student loan servicers to 
        understand how the servicers were preparing for return 
        to repayment. The Committee provided feedback and 
        recommendations to ED to help improve the process for 
        return to repayment to ensure that student borrowers 
        are provided clear, consistent information about their 
        repayment obligations.

Student Aid

     Rulemaking--In 2021, ED announced its intention to 
re-regulate several important student aid issues as part of a 
negotiated rulemaking process, including total and permanent 
disability discharge, closed school discharge, interest 
capitalization, the public service loan forgiveness (PSLF) 
program, borrower defense adjudication and recovery, pre-
dispute arbitration, income-driven repayment plans, false 
certification discharge, gainful employment, and the 90/10 
rule. ED conducted negotiated rulemaking sessions in October 
2021 and January 2022. ED released two Notices of Proposed 
Rulemaking (NPRMs) on these student aid issues, and the 
Committee sent comment letters to ED in response to the NPRMs.
       Hearing--The Committee held a hearing on October 
27, 2021, titled ``Examining the Policies and Priorities of the 
Office of Federal Student Aid.'' FSA is the office within ED 
responsible for the management of Title IV federal financial 
aid programs provided under the Higher Education Act of 1965 
(HEA), including Pell Grants, campus-based aid, and federal 
student loans. FSA also plays a key role in overseeing IHEs and 
enforcing compliance with the requirements for Title IV 
participation. Title IV of HEA provides financial assistance to 
students to assist them in obtaining a postsecondary education 
at participating IHEs. The hearing covered the plans and 
priorities of ED generally, and FSA specifically, related to 
federal student loans, oversight of predatory for-profit 
institutions, and protections for student loan borrowers.
       Income Driven Repayment (IDR)--IDR plans were 
created by the Congress to provide financial relief for student 
loan borrowers who might otherwise be at risk of default as 
they try to pay their student loans. There are several types of 
IDR plans, but they all generally aim to decrease borrowers' 
monthly payments (including down to zero), forgive a borrower's 
loan after a certain period of consistent payment, or subsidize 
interest on the borrower's student loan. The first IDR plan was 
established in 1994 and required payment for 25 years before a 
borrower's loan could be forgiven. As such, the first set of 
student loans that could be forgiven under an IDR plan arose in 
2019. To better understand ED's implementation of IDR plans and 
whether eligible borrowers were receiving timely loan 
forgiveness, the Committee requested a GAO study on IDR plans. 
The Committee received a report based on an examination by GAO 
of ED's implementation and oversight of the IDR plans. The 
report found that there were long-standing flaws in ED's 
implementation of the IDR plans, which left thousands of 
student loan borrowers without the loan forgiveness for which 
they may be eligible. The report found that at least 3,000 
student loan borrowers who may be eligible for loan forgiveness 
under their respective IDR plan have not received forgiveness 
yet. If left unaddressed, by the year 2030, the number of 
borrowers that might be left without forgiveness would balloon 
to approximately 600,000 borrowers and approximately 1.5 
million loans. According to the GAO report, the reason 
borrowers were not receiving the loan forgiveness was due to 
mismanagement of student loan repayment data, which caused loan 
servicers and ED to miscount repayments and inaccurately track 
borrowers' progress toward forgiveness (known as ``payment 
counts''). The Committee met with ED to discuss GAO's findings. 
In particular, the Committee was concerned about how the 
miscounting of payment counts impacts the most vulnerable 
borrowers such as those in default or sending $0 payments. The 
Committee wrote a letter to ED on April 15, 2022, urging the 
implementation of several changes to ED's implementation of IDR 
plans to address the findings in the GAO report. On April 19, 
2022, ED proposed several changes to address the findings. ED 
announced that it will conduct a one-time revision of IDR 
payment counts to address past inaccuracies for borrowers. ED 
will also conduct a one-time account adjustment to count 
certain long-term forbearances toward IDR. Historically, ED and 
other regulatory agencies have found that borrowers who were 
inappropriately placed into long-term forbearances (instead of 
IDR) are unable to take advantage of forgiveness programs 
(known as ``forbearance steering''). For borrowers who had 
forbearances of more than 12 consecutive months and more than 
36 cumulative months, ED will do a one-time correction to count 
those months toward forgiveness under IDR. Borrowers who had 
shorter-term forbearances will be able to seek individual 
account reviews with the FSA Ombudsman. ED is also working to 
permanently fix IDR payment counts by requiring FSA to track 
payments and implementing borrower friendly reforms to help 
borrowers track their payment counts to ensure accuracy. ED 
committed to increase oversight of servicers' using forbearance 
as an option for borrowers by conducting external reviews and 
audits of forbearance use. Lastly, ED is working on an IDR 
rulemaking, with the intent to simplify payment counts by 
allowing more loan statuses, including certain types of 
deferment and forbearance, to count toward IDR. The Committee 
continues to engage with ED on the implementation of the 
proposed changes.
       Closed School Discharge GAO Work--HEA requires 
ED to hold students harmless and discharge their student loan 
debts if their colleges close. Students affected by college 
closures have three options: (1) continue pursuing their 
degrees either through teach-out plans offered by their own 
institution or agreements with other institutions; (2) transfer 
to another institution of their choice; or (3) apply for a 
discharge of their federal student loans. ED is responsible for 
coordinating with colleges, state agencies, and accreditors to 
mitigate the impact of school closures. To ease the 
bureaucratic burden on students based on findings that about 
half of eligible borrowers do not apply for a discharge even 
three years after their schools closed, in 2016 ED finalized 
regulations that automatically discharged loans for students 
who neither continued their education nor applied for discharge 
within three years of their school closure if their school 
closed on or after November 1, 2013. However, in September 
2019, the Trump Administration reversed these regulations and 
eliminated automatic loan discharge stating that ED was no 
longer required to provide automatic discharges to students 
whose institutions closed on or after July 1, 2020. At the 
time, little was known about student outcomes following school 
closures, related taxpayer liabilities, and ED's processes for 
coordinating with relevant entities when a school closure is 
announced. Accordingly, in 2019, the Committee requested GAO 
investigate these topics. In September 2021, the Committee 
received a report with the results of GAO's examination of ED's 
implementation and oversight of the Closed School Discharge 
program. The report found that ED has not been able to 
implement this program in a way that helps student borrowers 
receive the relief to which they are legally eligible when 
their institution of higher education precipitously closes. 
Further, the changing regulations between the Obama and Trump 
Administrations was confusing to borrowers, who could not 
easily determine what type of relief, if any, was applicable to 
them.
       Closed School Discharge Hearing--The Committee 
held a hearing in the Subcommittee on Higher Education and 
Workforce Investment titled ``Protecting Students and 
Taxpayers: Improving the Closed School Discharge Process'' on 
September 30, 2021, to hear testimony from GAO about its report 
as well as from experts who proposed solutions that ED could 
take into consideration as it undertook rulemaking on the 
subject of closed school discharge.
       Closed School Discharge Rulemaking--In July 
2022, ED released a NPRM, which included new rules about the 
Closed School Discharge program, aimed to address the problems 
raised in the GAO report. ED proposed: (1) reinstituting the 
automatic closed school discharge process one year after a 
college's closure; (2) establishing a longer eligibility period 
for students who withdrew before the college closed; (3) 
expanding the list of examples of reasons why a student would 
be eligible for a closed school discharge; and (4) removing the 
requirement that a student affirm that they did not complete a 
``comparable program'' at another school. The Committee sent a 
letter with recommendations to ED as part of the rulemaking 
process, encouraging ED to provide immediate relief to 
borrowers once their school closes, regardless of their 
transfer status, and without a one-year wait period. The 
Committee's letter also encouraged ED to conduct more robust 
oversight over the teach-out process, so that students who 
could complete their degree at their current college or at 
another college are able to do so with minimal disruption.
       Next Generation Federal Student Aid (Next Gen 
FSA)--In 2014, the Obama Administration began an effort--known 
as Next Gen FSA--to streamline and simplify the student loan 
repayment system, which is both confusing for borrowers to 
navigate and expensive for ED to administer. Unfortunately, the 
implementation of Next Gen FSA has been repeatedly delayed by 
bid protests, which must be resolved before the procurement can 
continue. Every solicitation between 2014 and 2021 by ED to 
procure vendors to build and service the Next Gen FSA systems 
has faced bid protests by the vendors competing for the 
contract. In 2022, ED issued a solicitation for the Unified 
Servicing and Data Solution (USDS), an important servicing 
component of Next Gen FSA. The vendor that wins the USDS 
solicitation will need to service student loans; process 
special types of student loans (such as PSLF and IDR); perform 
financial and operational reporting requirements under the law; 
as well as build data integration systems with other, existing 
FSA systems. ED hopes to finalize the solicitation and 
contracting with a vendor for USDS by December 2023. The 
Committee held meetings with ED to conduct oversight over the 
USDS bid process, including how ED will avoid the solicitation 
issues of the past and ensure that Next Gen FSA is implemented 
quickly and properly with performance metrics that ensure that 
the vendor is providing accurate information to borrowers and a 
quality service to both borrowers and FSA.
       Letters of Credit--Title IV of HEA provides 
financial assistance to students to assist them in obtaining a 
postsecondary education at IHEs. HEA requires IHEs to submit 
financial statements to ED when applying to participate in 
Title IV programs. HEA regulations establish general standards 
of financial responsibility and provide rules for how ED 
determines the financial responsibility of an IHE each year. If 
ED determines that an IHE does not meet sufficient standards of 
financial responsibility and/or does not comply with other 
regulatory requirements under HEA, ED can require an IHE to 
remit a letter of credit (LOC) to ED. An LOC is a financial 
instrument issued by a financial institution (e.g., a bank) on 
behalf of an IHE, which is generally secured by collateral held 
by the bank. The LOC mitigates the monetary risk to ED and 
students from IHEs that have insufficient standards of 
financial responsibility or other regulatory issues. After 
securing an LOC, ED can permit the IHE to continue Title IV 
participation, while the IHE remediates its underlying 
financial and regulatory issues. The bank will pay the LOC 
funds to ED if ED initiates collection because the IHE fails to 
remediate its underlying financial and regulatory issues and 
causes ED to incur a financial liability (e.g., because the IHE 
closes and ED is required to provide closed school discharges 
to students or because the IHE misrepresents information to 
students and ED is required to discharge students' loans 
(called borrower defense discharge)). LOCs are issued for a 
specific period of time, and they expire unless ED requires the 
IHE to renew the LOC. Media reports have highlighted that ED 
permitted LOCs to expire even though ED should have either 
initiated collection of the LOC or required an extension of the 
LOC due to ongoing financial and regulatory issues with the 
IHE. Based on this reporting, the Committee requested ED's OIG 
review how ED implements LOCs and monitors their use, 
especially for IHEs that have a history of inappropriate 
student recruitment practices and ongoing financial and 
regulatory concerns.

For-Profit Institution Conversions

    HEA includes regulatory requirements for for-profit 
colleges, above and beyond those for non-profit and public 
institutions, as a condition of becoming eligible for federal 
student aid under Title IV of HEA. One such requirement, the 
90/10 rule, requires for-profit institutions to derive at least 
10 percent of their revenue from funds other than Title IV 
program funds; non-profit institutions are not subject to the 
90/10 rule. For-profit colleges are also generally ineligible 
for institutional grant programs and subsidized lending 
programs. For-profit colleges have begun to convert to non-
profit institutions to distance themselves from the fraud 
associated with the for-profit sector; avoid heightened 
regulatory scrutiny; and access additional Title IV funds, 
grant aid, and tax benefits.
           Hearing on GAO Report--GAO examined and 
        issued a report about how for-profit IHEs convert to 
        non-profit IHEs and ED's oversight of the conversion 
        process. The report found that while only a small 
        number of conversions involved insiders (owners or 
        executives controlling both the non-profit and for-
        profit simultaneously), insider conversions accounted 
        for the vast majority of federal student loan aid 
        received by converted institutions (called ``converted 
        non-profits'' or ``covert for-profits''). GAO further 
        found that these converted non-profits perform worse 
        financially than converted IHEs that do not involve 
        insiders, putting students and taxpayers at risk, and 
        that existing regulations fail to prevent these 
        institutions from improperly channeling benefits to 
        insiders. After the release of GAO's report, the 
        Committee conducted a hearing titled ``For-Profit 
        College Conversions: Examining Ways to Improve 
        Accountability and Prevent Fraud'' on April 20, 2021. 
        The hearing provided an opportunity for Committee 
        members to better understand GAO's findings and 
        recommendations and hear from experts on how ED can 
        better regulate and conduct oversight of converted non-
        profits.
           Information and Data Sharing--The Committee 
        sent a letter to ED regarding ED's process for 
        reviewing, approving, and monitoring for-profit college 
        conversions to non-profit institutions. Specifically, 
        the letter identified several issues demonstrating that 
        ED and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) must take 
        steps to reform their respective processes for 
        reviewing conversions and halt the approval of all 
        conversions until ED and the IRS finalize those 
        reforms. The letter requested responses to several 
        questions related to these issues.
           Reconsideration of Conversions--The 
        Committee sent three letters related to specific for-
        profit entities that converted to non-profit status.
                   Two letters were sent to the 
                IRS--one about University of Arizona Global 
                Campus and another about Grand Canyon 
                University. The letters requested the IRS 
                reconsider its previous approval of non-profit 
                status to each institution. The IRS can 
                reconsider an institution's non-profit status 
                based on information it receives about the 
                institution's relationships with for-profit 
                corporations.
                    The third letter was sent to ED 
                requesting its review of Everglades College's 
                non-profit status for the purposes of Title IV 
                funding and application of the 90/10 rule. In 
                the letter, the Committee outlined conduct by 
                Everglades College--which operates two 
                universities, Everglades University and Keiser 
                University--that raised questions as to whether 
                Everglades College qualifies as a nonprofit for 
                Title IV eligibility under HEA because the 
                institution's earnings seemed to benefit 
                private shareholders, individuals, and related 
                businesses, which contravenes the Title IV 
                definition of a nonprofit institution. ED can 
                reconsider an institution's non-profit status 
                when the institution's program participation 
                agreement (PPA)--which outlines the terms for 
                how the institution participates in Title IV 
                programs under HEA to access federal student 
                aid funds--is renewed.

Borrower Defense

    Under HEA, borrowers can seek loan forgiveness of their 
student loans if their IHE misled them or engaged in other 
misconduct in violation of certain state laws. This is known as 
``borrower defense to repayment'' or ``borrower defense.'' In 
order to receive loan forgiveness, the borrower has to submit 
an application to ED requesting forgiveness. ED then completes 
a detailed investigation into the borrower's application, the 
IHE, and the allegations of misconduct. During this 
investigation process, the IHE is permitted to respond to the 
allegations of misconduct. ED can review borrower defense 
claims individually or as a group if a group of borrowers all 
attended the same IHE and are alleging similar misconduct in 
the same time period. The group claims, if approved, are called 
``group discharges.'' Unfortunately, tens of thousands of 
borrowers with borrower defense claims have been waiting years 
to have their claims reviewed by ED. Borrowers and advocates 
sued ED in a case titled Sweet v. Cardona (formerly Sweet v. 
DeVos), arguing that under the Trump Administration ED 
deliberately and illegally stopped processing borrower defense 
claims and wrongfully denied other borrowers' claims without 
considering the merits of their cases. The Biden Administration 
has been working to review applications both individually and 
for groups of students, and so far it has approved relief of 
more than $2 billion for more than 100,000 borrowers.
           Oversight--The Committee held oversight 
        meetings with ED to understand the processes ED was 
        putting into place to address borrower defense claims 
        from IHEs that have defrauded students and then closed 
        precipitously, including ED's process to review and 
        grant group discharges. The Committee continued to 
        press ED to hold owners, executives, and board members 
        of defunct for-profit and converted non-profit IHEs 
        individually responsible for liabilities of the 
        institution to the federal government, including those 
        arising from borrower defense claims. Pursuing personal 
        liability against these individuals could permit ED to 
        recoup taxpayer dollars that had been provided to the 
        IHE through Title IV student aid funds.
           Sweet v. Cardona Settlement Agreement--On 
        June 22, 2022, ED and the plaintiffs reached a proposed 
        settlement in the Sweet v. Cardona case. The final 
        settlement was approved by a federal court order on 
        November 16, 2022. Under this settlement, $6 billion in 
        student loan debt discharges will be provided for 
        approximately 200,000 borrowers. Additionally, more 
        than 60,000 borrowers will have their fraud claims 
        reconsidered on the merits between six and 30 months, 
        depending on when the borrower filed their borrower 
        defense claim. The settlement identifies over 100 IHEs, 
        many of which are for-profit or converted non-profit 
        institutions, against whom these borrower defense 
        claims were initiated. Several of these IHEs remain 
        open, such as DeVry University, University of Phoenix, 
        Everglades University, and Keiser University. The 
        Committee wrote a letter to ED on August 09, 2022, 
        requesting information about how ED is going to recoup 
        funds from the IHEs that are included in this 
        settlement agreement and are still open, including 
        whether ED is considering holding the IHEs' executives 
        personally liable for the costs paid out by ED to 
        resolve the borrower defense claims.

Students and Workers with Disabilities

     Work Request to GAO--The Committee commissioned 
GAO to examine school districts' compliance with the 
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and the 
requirement to provide access to assistive technology (AT) as 
part of a student's Individualized Education Program (IEP). The 
Committee also requested a review of the compatibility of AT 
with other technology that school districts have been using to 
teach or work with students, including students with 
disabilities, during the COVID-19 pandemic. This report will 
help the Committee understand the impact of the COVID-19 
pandemic on students with disabilities and how technology can 
be used to help these students.
       Work Request to GAO--Individuals with 
disabilities face several barriers to employment, and their 
employment rate has historically been far lower than that of 
individuals without disabilities. The Workforce Innovation and 
Opportunity Act of 2014 (WIOA) made updates to the country's 
primary employment and training programs, including the network 
of one-stop centers that provide a variety of employment 
training services. WIOA also prohibits disability 
discrimination against people who apply to or participate in 
DOL-supported programs. DOL has issued guidance to help states 
and one-stop centers comply with this antidiscrimination 
requirement; this guidance has, for example, addressed how one-
stop centers can adopt practices that promote inclusion and 
effective services to ensure equal access for one-stop 
participants with disabilities. In 2004, GAO completed a 
comprehensive review of one stop centers' accessibility for 
people with disabilities. The report found that the centers had 
gaps in addressing accessibility issues and that DOL only 
monitored a small fraction of the one stop centers nationwide 
to determine whether they were complying with the disability 
antidiscrimination requirement. Given that it has been close to 
twenty years since GAO conducted a comprehensive assessment of 
this issue, the Committee requested a review of the 
accessibility of one-stop centers and WIOA services for 
individuals with disabilities. This report will help the 
Committee understand what efforts states and one-stop centers 
have made since WIOA's enactment to reach out to individuals 
with disabilities about the availability of WIOA services 
delivered through one-stop centers, and what challenges states 
have faced related to marketing and outreach to the disability 
community. This report will also help the Committee understand 
to what extent individuals with disabilities have sought and 
been enrolled in WIOA services and their employment outcomes, 
including job placements and average earnings.

U.S. Department of Labor's Workforce Development Programs

     Oversight of Job Corps Hearing--The Committee held 
a hearing on June 14, 2022, titled ``Examining the Policies and 
Priorities of the U.S. Department of Labor (June 14th 
Hearing),'' which addressed, among several topics, DOL's 
administrative action to exempt Job Corps from the McNamara-
O'Hara Service Contract Act (SCA). The SCA applies to every 
contract with the United States or the District of Columbia, 
where the principal purpose of the contract is to furnish 
services in the United States through the use of service 
employees. Contractors and subcontractors performing on such 
federal contracts must observe certain minimum wage standards 
and provide certain fringe benefits to the service employees 
unless an exemption applies. Until recently, DOL has 
interpreted the SCA to exclude from coverage those contracts 
between DOL and private firms that operate Job Corps 
facilities. This exemption was reflected in DOL's Field Office 
Handbook (FOH), which provides informal regulatory guidance on 
the laws enforced by DOL. During the June 14th Hearing, a 
Democratic Member of the Committee noted that due to the 
exemption from the SCA, it is challenging to get high-quality 
instructional staff at Job Corps Centers because local school 
districts can pay more and draw away talent. The Member asked 
U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Martin Walsh about DOL's 
willingness to revisit this exemption so that Job Corps Centers 
can recruit and retain high quality instructional staff. At the 
time, Secretary Walsh responded by indicating that DOL is 
looking to realign, reevaluate, and strengthen Job Corps, which 
includes looking at the contracts to ensure that Job Corps 
staff is being treated fairly and paid good wages. 
Subsequently, on June 23, 2022, DOL announced that it deleted 
the exemption under SCA for federal contracts to operate Job 
Corps Centers by removing a section of the FOH. The effect of 
the change is that covered contractors now must pay the minimum 
wages and fringe benefits mandated by the SCA to all covered 
workers, making the Job Corps Centers' wages and benefits more 
competitive with other organizations in the local area.
     Oversight of Job Corps' Annual Reporting 
Requirement--The Committee requested information from ETA 
regarding the Job Corps Annual Reports under WIOA. Under 
Section 159 of WIOA, DOL's Secretary is required to conduct an 
annual assessment of the performance of each Job Corps center 
and based on the assessment, the Secretary is required to take 
measures to continuously improve the performance of the Job 
Corps program. DOL must annually submit this performance report 
to the authorizing committees (the Committee on Education and 
Labor in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Committee on 
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions in the U.S. Senate). In 
2022, DOL submitted, for the first time, the performance 
reports for 2017 through 2019. The Committee requested 
additional information explaining the delay in the reporting 
requirement, the status of the outstanding reports, and how Job 
Corps obtained information for the performance reporting.
     Oversight of Job Corps Minimum Wage--On April 27, 
2021, President Biden issued Executive Order 14026 (E.O. 
14026), Increasing the Minimum Wage for Federal Contractors, 
which, among other things, increased the minimum wage for 
workers performing work on or in connection with covered 
federal contracts to $15 per hour beginning January 30, 2022, 
with annual adjustments for inflation thereafter as determined 
by DOL's Secretary. The Committee requested information from 
ETA: (1) about the reimbursements for Job Corps contractors to 
increase the minimum wage; (2) to better understand how the 
minimum wage increase is impacting Job Corps contractors; and 
(3) what steps ETA is taking to address the potential negative 
impacts of the wage increase, such as wage compression issues 
and the increased costs of performing the Job Corps contract.
     Apprenticeships--The June 14th Hearing addressed, 
among several topics, expanding registered apprenticeships and 
pre-apprenticeships to help underrepresented groups obtain more 
opportunities in the workforce.

Worker Wages

     Hearing--The June 14th Hearing addressed, among 
several topics, increasing the staff of DOL's Wage and Hour 
Division (WHD) to better safeguard workers' pay; recover back 
wages to ensure that employers that have violated federal wage 
laws make up the difference between what employees were paid 
and the amount they should have been paid; and conduct 
rulemaking regarding employee misclassification and independent 
contractor issues.
     Oversight--On September 30, 2021, DOL's OIG issued 
a report titled ``COVID-19: The Pandemic Highlighted the Need 
to Strengthen Wage and Hour Division's Enforcement Controls.'' 
In March 2020, Congress passed the Families First Coronavirus 
Response Act (FFCRA), which provided paid leave benefits for 
workers for COVID-19 related reasons. WHD was responsible for 
implementing and enforcing FFRCA's paid leave provisions. DOL's 
OIG conducted an audit to determine whether WHD implemented 
effective controls for enforcing FFCRA's paid leave provisions. 
DOL's OIG found that even though WHD had existing controls that 
the agency used when enforcing FFCRA's paid leave provisions, 
these controls were not always effective and could have been 
stronger. Specifically, WHD failed to fully consider how 
different enforcement strategies may have been needed for the 
pandemic-specific benefits. In addition, WHD did not require 
staff to document all incoming inquires and did not implement 
controls to ensure the proper handling of all complaints. The 
Committee held meetings with WHD and conducted follow-up 
regarding the findings in the report.
     Work Request to GAO--On June 6, 2018, the 
Committee requested that GAO evaluate WHD's practices, and, 
where appropriate, conduct a forensic audit of WHD's 
enforcement actions. In December 2020, GAO released a report 
titled ``Fair Labor Standards Act: Tracking Additional 
Complaint Data Could Improve DOL's Enforcement,'' which 
addressed some, but not all, of the inquiries from the 
Committee's 2018 request. GAO noted that while completing the 
2020 report, its forensic audit of WHD's enforcement actions 
was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, the 
Committee met with GAO to discuss the need to complete the 
forensic audit, which is focused on the extent to which WHD 
consistently applies its enforcement tools to process wage and 
hour complaints.

Workplace Safety and Health

     OSHA Hearing--On May 25, 2022, the Subcommittee on 
Workforce Protections held a hearing titled ``Examining the 
Policies and Priorities of the Occupational Safety and Health 
Administration'' (May 25th Hearing). During the hearing, 
Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA, Douglas Parker, 
discussed the agency's current priorities, including proposed 
rulemaking to address infectious diseases, occupational heat 
illness, and protecting health care workers from workplace 
violence. OSHA's priorities also include restoring the agency's 
enforcement capacity by hiring more staff and continuing to 
respond to the threat of COVID-19.
     Oversight of OSHA's Rulemaking and Enforcement 
Activities--The Committee held meetings with OSHA to discuss 
the Trump Administration's failure to issue an Emergency 
Temporary Standard (ETS) to protect workers from COVID-19, the 
Biden Administration's efforts to develop an ETS, OSHA's 
response to the reported increase in injuries in the 
warehousing industry, and OSHA's oversight of correctional 
facility workers and employers during the pandemic.
     Oversight of OSHA's Recordkeeping Requirement--The 
Committee met with GAO to discuss its February 2021 report 
titled ``Workplace Safety and Health: Actions Needed to Improve 
Reporting of Summary Injury and Illness Data.'' The report 
detailed GAO's examination of: (1) how and why recordkeeping 
violations changed from fiscal years 2005 to 2019; and (2) the 
extent to which employers report summary injury and illness 
data and how OSHA has taken steps to ensure compliance with 
this requirement. GAO found that the number of recordkeeping 
violations has fluctuated over the past 15 years and that 
employers did not report any summary injury and illness data on 
more than one-half of their establishments. Further, GAO 
concluded that OSHA has limited procedures for encouraging 
compliance with this reporting requirement and for penalizing 
employers for non-compliance. As a result of the report, the 
Committee met with GAO to discuss how and why OSHA needs to 
increase oversight of employers' recordkeeping requirements. 
During the May 25th Hearing, a Democratic Member of the 
Committee asked Assistant Secretary Parker about OSHA's 
capacity to enforce the recordkeeping requirement given that 
the agency's current staffing levels only permit it to inspect 
each workplace every 100 years. Assistant Secretary Parker 
acknowledged the limitations of the agency's reliance on 
employer-provided records and confirmed that the agency is 
doing what it can to ensure that employers comply with the 
recordkeeping requirement. He also indicated that the agency 
needs to expand the type of data that it is collecting because 
there is underutilized information that would be helpful to the 
agency's enforcement efforts.
     Oversight of Enforcement of Civil Rights 
Protections for Warehouse Workers--There have been consistent 
reports about worker safety issues in Amazon's warehouse 
facilities, and recently the U.S. Attorney's Office in the 
Southern District of New York and OSHA have initiated a joint 
investigation to examine ``potential workplace hazards related, 
among other things, to Amazon's required pace of work for its 
warehouse employees.'' In October 2022, the Committee sent a 
letter to the EEOC's New York District Office to request that 
the office file a Commissioner's charge to investigate whether 
the Amazon facilities within its jurisdiction are failing to 
accommodate workers who may need a modification to their pace 
requirements and/or to determine whether the facilities are 
using such requirements in a way that disadvantages workers 
with disabilities in violation of the Americans with 
Disabilities Act of 1990.
     Work Request to GAO--Recent reports have raised 
concerns that online retailers' use of certain workplace 
surveillance tools, algorithmic systems, and/or robotics 
programs to monitor and increase workers' productivity may be 
connected to an increase in worker health and safety issues in 
warehouses, fulfillment centers, and delivery systems. As a 
result, the Committee sent a request to GAO to examine the 
extent to which retailer-operated warehouses, fulfillment 
centers, and delivery systems are using surveillance tools, 
algorithm-based performance tracking systems, and/or robotics 
programs to track and increase worker productivity and whether 
the use of such tools has any link to worker injuries in these 
environments. The request asked GAO to also examine the extent 
to which OSHA's enforcement efforts have addressed the 
connection between the use of these workplace tools and the 
impact on worker health and safety.

Mine Safety and Health

     Oversight of MSHA's Personnel Issues--The 
Committee met with stakeholders to discuss operational issues 
at the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) within DOL 
that may impact the agency's short and long-term ability to 
fulfill its mission, such as the aging inspectorate workforce, 
the lengthy hiring process for new inspectors, and the nearly 
two-year process for inspectors to obtain their Authorized 
Representative Status credentials (AR cards), which authorizes 
the right of entry to any coal or other mine.
     DOL Hearing--The June 14th Hearing addressed, 
among several topics, President Biden's Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 
proposed budget for MSHA. The funding is necessary to restore 
MSHA's enforcement capabilities to help ensure miners' health 
and safety amid an expected increase in their workload due to 
BIL, which will likely cause an increase in production at, or 
an expansion of, existing mines and facilities. After the 
hearing, Chairman Scott submitted additional Questions for the 
Record regarding the agency's plans to streamline its hiring 
practices for its inspectorate workforce. In response, U.S. 
Department of Labor Secretary Martin Walsh explained some of 
the process improvements DOL has implemented to streamline the 
hiring process, including waiving the pre-employment physical 
requirement for certain employees for up to a year to avoid the 
delays associated with scheduling the physical, reducing the 
number of employees on the hiring panels while also increasing 
the number of hiring panels to make scheduling interviews 
easier, and assigning dedicated staff to perform different 
aspects of the hiring process.
     DOL's OIG--The Committee held a meeting with DOL's 
OIG to discuss its FY 2023 Audit Workplan. DOL's OIG prepares 
the Audit Workplan to inform DOL agencies and Congress of 
audits and reviews that will be initiated or completed each 
year. During the meeting, the Committee requested an audit of 
MSHA's hiring policies and/or procedures for new inspectors to 
determine whether there are ways to streamline the hiring 
process.

Retirement Security and Pensions

     DOL Hearing--The June 14th Hearing addressed, 
among several topics, the Employment Benefits Security 
Administration's (EBSA) recovery of over $2.5 billion in 
retirement savings and health care benefits owed to workers in 
2021. The hearing also addressed how President Biden's FY 2023 
proposed budget for EBSA would allow the agency to restore 
front-line enforcement and regulatory staff to help ensure the 
security of retirement benefits. The enforcement staff 
enforces, among other laws, the Employee Retirement Income 
Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), which ensures the integrity of 
the country's private employee benefit plan system. The 
agency's oversight authority includes nearly 734,000 retirement 
plans, 2 million health plans, and 662,000 other welfare 
benefits plans, such as life and disability insurance. The 
enforcement staff also investigates benefit plan violations 
under ERISA, such as financial misconduct in retirement plans 
and medical claims that have been incorrectly denied. EBSA's 
regulatory staff carries out the agency's interpretive 
activities concerning the provisions of ERISA and related 
statutes by issuing advisory opinions, field assistance 
bulletins, guidance, and regulations. In addition, during the 
June 14th Hearing, U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Martin 
Walsh discussed how ARPA authorized a Special Financial 
Assistance Program (SFA) through the Pension Benefit Guaranty 
Corporation (PBGC) to help save severely underfunded 
multiemployer plans that enabled over three million 
participants and beneficiaries to continue to receive their 
pension benefits now and in the future.
     Work Requests to GAO--In May 2021, GAO released a 
report titled ``Employee Benefits Security Administration: 
Enforcement Efforts to Protect Participants' Rights in 
Employer-Sponsored Retirement and Health Benefit Plans.'' After 
the release of the report, the Committee held meetings with GAO 
to discuss the remaining evaluative questions outlined in the 
Committee's March 2019 letter to the Comptroller General at GAO 
about EBSA's enforcement efforts. As a result of these 
discussions, GAO agreed it will complete and release a second 
part to the report, which will focus on how EBSA's resources 
and responsibilities have changed over time, and it will 
include recommendations so that EBSA can be more effective in 
protecting the health and retirement benefits of American 
workers.

International Labor Rights

     DOL Hearing--The June 14th Hearing addressed DOL's 
Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB), which works to 
ensure dignity at work in the U.S. and abroad. In his testimony 
to the Committee, U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Martin 
Walsh discussed ILAB's role in supporting the first independent 
union elections at the General Motors plant in Silao, Mexico, 
and the Tridonex auto parts facility in Matamoros, Mexico. 
During the hearing, questions were posed about a legislative 
proposal to statutorily establish ILAB within DOL--where it 
already exists but is not codified in statute--and authorize 
the agency to carry out its work. Additionally, questions were 
asked about the steps DOL has taken to support the enforcement 
of Mexico's new labor laws and what DOL is doing to protect the 
rights of independent workers.

Guestworker Programs

     DOL Hearing--DOL's WHD administers various 
provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 
(INA), as amended, which authorizes the establishment of the H-
2A and H-2B visa categories (the guest worker program) allowing 
employers to bring nonimmigrant workers to the United States to 
perform temporary, agricultural and non-agricultural work or 
services. The June 14th Hearing addressed DOL's June 2022 joint 
guidance with the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Agency 
for International Development titled ``Guidance on Fair 
Recruitment Practices for Temporary Migrant Workers,'' which 
discusses how to prevent abusive recruitment practices of 
prospective workers in the H-2A and H-2B visa programs. The 
agencies wanted the guidance to highlight and promote 
implementation of key best practices by governments in 
countries seeking to increase participation in the H-2 visa 
programs and by employers relying on these programs. During the 
hearing, U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Martin Walsh was 
asked whether DOL plans to include H-2 visa reform in its 
regulatory agenda. In response, Secretary Walsh stated that DOL 
is in the processing of reviewing the H-2 programs and noted 
that DOL had already strengthened some of the worker 
protections in the H-2B worker requirements.

Collective Bargaining Rights

     Oversight--The Committee engaged in meetings with 
the National Relations Labor Board (NLRB) to discuss several 
issues, including the status of cases in which former NLRB 
Board Member William J. Emanuel participated while he had a 
financial conflict of interest that the NLRB's Designed Agency 
Ethics Official determined should have disqualified him from 
participation in those cases. The NLRB also provided updates on 
the prosecution of an NLRB employee who was charged with honest 
services fraud and bribery for engaging in a scheme in which 
she provided nonpublic NLRB documents to a co-conspirator in 
exchange for the regular payment of cash bribes. Additionally, 
the NLRB provided a detailed overview of the internal 
administrative error that resulted in the delay of the 
commencement of NLRB Board Member David Prouty's term with the 
agency as well as the agency's response to correct the error to 
avoid future lapses. The NLRB also described the challenges 
associated with the flat funding of the agency for the past 8 
years; this flat funding has negatively impacted the agency's 
ability to increase staff capacity during a time in which the 
agency has experienced a surge in the volume of cases. 
Additionally, the Committee asked the NLRB to explain its 
management's ongoing dispute with one of the agency's unions 
regarding telework issues; in the past, the agency has sought 
to reduce the number of telework days for field staff while the 
union is trying to maintain or increase the number of telework 
days for field staff. The NLRB also discussed new agency 
initiatives such as the joint initiative with DOL and the EEOC 
to combat employer retaliation under the federal laws each 
agency enforces. Pursuant to this initiative, the agencies plan 
to coordinate efforts to investigate and litigate against 
employers that engage in retaliatory conduct. The agencies also 
hope that this initiative will encourage workers who fear 
employer retaliation to come forward to express their concerns 
about workplace violations.
     Meetings with NLRB's OIG--The Committee met with 
the NLRB's OIG to discuss the status of investigations that may 
impact the agency's operations such as the financial conflict-
of-interest investigation of former NLRB Board Member Emanuel, 
the delay associated with NLRB Board Member Prouty's status 
with the agency, the criminal investigation of an employee who 
sold confidential agency information to an outside consultant, 
and a request from an employer that NLRB's OIG investigate 
whether NLRB employees engaged in misconduct related to a mail-
in ballot election.
     Stakeholder Outreach--The Committee engaged in 
outreach with relevant stakeholders to discuss operational and 
personnel issues within the NLRB such as how the agency plans 
to address, and whether it will bargain with the union 
regarding, the centralization of compliance work. This work 
involves NLRB staff securing compliance with NLRB Board orders, 
court judgments, and informal settlement agreements and had 
usually been handled by staff in several Regional Offices. In 
2020, however, the former General Counsel centralized this work 
without bargaining with the union. Stakeholders expressed 
concerns that the centralization of this work has meant that 
staff without relevant experience have been performing this 
work. Another ongoing personnel issue discussed with 
stakeholders was the staffing levels at the agency, which are 
the lowest they have been in a half century. This impacts the 
agency's ability to effectively execute its mission to protect 
the rights of workers to organize and seek better working 
conditions. Additionally, the agency has experienced internal 
disagreements with field staff over the ability to telework; 
the stakeholders believe that further limitations on telework 
will have a long-term negative impact on the agency's ability 
to recruit and retain qualified employees.

Child Nutrition and Related Issues

     U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Hearing--On 
June 23, 2022, the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human 
Services held a hearing titled ``Examining the Policies and 
Priorities of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and 
Nutrition Service'' to explore President Biden's FY 2023 
proposed budget for infant and child nutrition programs under 
USDA's Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) and the Biden 
Administration's priorities regarding federal child nutrition 
programs.
     Oversight of FNS' Data Collection Methods--USDA 
enforces Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI) 
among its federally assisted programs, including the Child and 
Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) and the Summer Food Service 
Program (SFSP). Title VI prohibits discrimination on the basis 
of race, color, and national origin. FNS, state and local 
agencies, and other subrecipients of federal financial 
assistance must maintain a system to collect the racial and 
ethnicity data consistent with FNS policy. These data are used 
to determine how effectively FNS programs are reaching 
potential eligible persons and beneficiaries, identify areas 
where additional outreach is needed, assist in the selection of 
locations for civil rights compliance reviews, and complete 
reports as required. These data are also used to analyze the 
impact of policy changes on participants and for investigating 
program discrimination complaints. In previous FNS Guidance 
describing the data collection and reporting requirements, the 
Guidance stated that ``visual identification may be used by 
institutions/sponsors to determine a beneficiary's racial or 
ethnic category.'' This data collection method was consistent 
with 1997 Guidance issued by the Office of Management and 
Budget (OMB), which also stated that visual observer 
identification for racial and ethnicity data may be more 
practical in certain circumstances. Upon further review of this 
issue, however, USDA concluded that the 1997 OMB policy was 
inapplicable to CACFP and SFSP programs and that the use of 
visual observation and identification by CACFP institutions and 
facilities and SFSP sponsors is not an appropriate method for 
collecting race or ethnicity data in these programs. Therefore, 
in May 2021, FNS, FNS' Child Nutrition Programs, and FNS' Civil 
Rights Division, issued a memorandum to provide guidance to 
state agencies and program operators on removing visual 
observation and identification as an allowable practice in 
obtaining race and ethnicity data from the participants in 
CACFP and SFSP. Instead, state agencies and program operators 
have been directed to use data collection methods based on 
self-identification and self-reporting. The Committee engaged 
in meetings with FNS to discuss the implications of this 
memorandum such as whether it will have a negative impact on 
the collection of the data, alternative sources that may be 
available for this kind of data, and guidance that FNS is 
providing to state agencies and program operators as they 
adjust to the removal of the visual observer data collection 
method. The Committee also discussed with FNS the supplemental 
memorandum the agency issued in June 2022 to provide 
clarification on questions related to the May 2021 memorandum 
such as the purpose of the requirement to collect racial and 
ethnicity data, which programs are covered by the change in the 
data collection, and how program operators should respond if 
they are unable to collect this data for all participants.
     Oversight of FNS' Role in Responding to the 
Formula Shortage--Between September 2021 and January 2022, the 
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) received information 
about four cases of illness or death in infants who had 
consumed powered infant formula. After investigating and 
learning that each of these infants had consumed powered 
formula manufactured at Abbott Nutrition's (Abbott) formula 
production facility in Sturgis, Michigan, and that there were 
unsanitary conditions at the facility, on February 17, 2022, 
the FDA warned consumers not to use certain Abbott powdered 
infant formula products from the Sturgis facility. That same 
day, Abbott voluntarily ceased production of formula products 
at the Sturgis facility and initiated a voluntary recall of 
certain formula products. Although the recall and temporary 
pause in formula production was a necessary public health 
measure, it further exacerbated supply chain issues impacting 
the availability of formula products due to the COVID-19 
pandemic. As a result, within weeks of the recall announcement, 
members of the public around the country expressed difficulty 
finding sufficient formula in retail stores and in online 
marketplaces. FNS oversees the Special Supplemental Nutrition 
Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), which provides 
federal grants to states for, among other things, supplemental 
foods for low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and non-
breastfeeding postpartum women and to infants and children up 
to age 5. WIC serves about half of all infants born in the 
United States, which means that the disruption to the formula 
supply directly impacted many WIC participants. Because WIC 
state agencies have rebate contracts with infant formula 
manufacturers, shortly after Abbott announced the recall of 
certain powered formulas, FNS issued waivers to the WIC state 
agencies to give them the flexibility they needed to increase 
access to infant formula for WIC participants. The Committee 
engaged in meetings with FNS to discuss the implementation of 
the waivers, the technical assistance FNS was providing to 
state agencies related to the waiver process, whether the 
waivers would be extended, and how the waivers were helping WIC 
participants obtain more access to infant formula given the 
ongoing supply shortages in certain areas of the country.
     Oversight of USDA's Response to the Formula 
Shortage--Abbott's February 2022 voluntary recall of certain 
formula products and temporary pause in the production of those 
products created a ripple effect that resulted in a supply 
shortage of formula products across the country. This shortage 
caused many families, particularly rural and low-income 
families, to manage their children's formula needs without 
reliable, alternative sources of quality formula. As a result, 
on June 2, 2022, the Committee sent a letter to U.S. Department 
of Agriculture Secretary Thomas Vilsack requesting that USDA 
coordinate with HHS to conduct a feasibility study to consider 
whether additional measures can be taken by the manufacturers 
who contract with WIC or the USDA to ensure the availability of 
a continuous 30-day supply of formula products, including 
specialty formula products consumed by individuals with 
metabolic or gastrointestinal disorders, in case of future 
emergencies such as another formula recall event, a public 
health emergency or disaster, or a supply chain disruption.
     Oversight of Infant Formula Price Gouging--During 
the past few months, media reports have shown that unscrupulous 
third-party vendors on online marketplaces are selling infant 
formula at significantly higher prices, advertising fake 
products, and employing other deceptive tactics to scam 
consumers during the infant formula shortage. On June 13, 2022, 
the Committee sent a joint letter with the Committee on Energy 
and Commerce to Chair Lina Khan of the Federal Trade Commission 
(FTC) to request that the agency take swift action to prevent 
and deter exploitative and deceptive practices by third-party 
vendors that use online marketplaces to sell infant formula.

Health Care

     HHS Hearing--The April 6th Hearing explored 
President Biden's FY 2023 proposed budget for HHS that included 
investments to improve the affordability of health coverage, 
cut the costs of prescription drugs, address the mental health 
and substance abuse crises, and advance health equity, among 
other priorities.
     Vaccine Requirement Implementation--In Questions 
for the Record submitted after the April 6th Hearing, a 
Democratic Member of the Committee requested information 
regarding compliance with, and enforcement of, the Centers for 
Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) rule requiring health 
care providers participating in Medicare and Medicaid to ensure 
that 100 percent of their staff are vaccinated against COVID-
19, unless they are exempt for medical or religious reasons. In 
response, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 
Secretary Xavier Becerra stated that the implementation of the 
rule will help save lives. Secretary Becerra also stated that 
CMS believes that the vaccination rule helps stabilize the 
health care system and eliminate potential incentives for staff 
to migrate to different care settings or across state lines. 
CMS also believes that the vaccination rule will ensure that a 
significant number of health care staff are vaccinated across 
settings, reducing staff quarantines and improving safety no 
matter where patients seek care. Finally, Secretary Becerra 
indicated that CMS will be conducting surveys to assess 
facilities' compliance with the vaccination rule, and it will 
take additional steps, as needed, to ensure compliance.
     No Surprise Act Implementation--The Committee 
played a leading role in the development of the No Surprises 
Act (NSA) during the 116th Congress to protect consumers in 
situations in which they receive unexpected and expensive 
medical bills for out-of-network care. On November 19, 2021, 
the Committee sent a letter to DOL, HHS, and the U.S. 
Department of the Treasury (jointly, the Departments) to 
express support for the Departments' rulemaking to implement 
the NSA--this rule established an independent dispute 
resolution process that will help protect patients from 
surprise medical bills and allow providers and health plans to 
resolve payment disputes, subject to key guardrails that 
encourage negotiation and ensure a fair payment amount is 
achieved. On January 1, 2022, a nationwide ban on surprise 
billing took effect, eliminating many of the most egregious 
billing practices and providing peace of mind for tens of 
millions of consumers so that they will not be subject to 
devastating out-of-network bills. The NSA included $500 million 
in total appropriations for FY 2021 through FY 2024. Congress 
appropriated these funds to the Departments to implement the 
NSA. The Committee engaged in meetings with DOL, HHS, and OMB 
to discuss the allocation of the $500 million appropriation 
between the Departments and how each has been using the 
appropriated funds to implement the requirements under the NSA. 
The Committee also engaged in meetings with HHS to discuss the 
implementation of provisions in the NSA, such as the 
requirement that the Departments establish an advisory 
committee for reviewing options to improve disclosure of 
charges and fees for ground ambulance services, inform 
consumers of insurance options for such services, and protect 
consumers from surprise billing. The Departments have taken 
some steps to set up this advisory committee but have not 
established the committee to date. On December 9, 2022, the 
Committee sent a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human 
Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to urge him to take immediate 
action to establish the advisory committee as required by the 
NSA.
     Formula Shortage--Abbott's February 2022 voluntary 
recall of certain formula products and temporary pause in the 
production of those products created a ripple effect that 
resulted in a supply shortage of formula products across the 
country. This shortage caused many families, particularly rural 
and low-income families, to face difficult choices regarding 
their formula needs. As a result, on June 2, 2022, the 
Committee sent a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human 
Services Secretary Xavier Becerra requesting that HHS 
coordinate with USDA to conduct a feasibility study to consider 
whether additional measures can be taken by HHS to ensure the 
availability of a continuous 30-day supply of infant formula 
products, including specialty formula products consumed by 
individuals with metabolic or gastrointestinal disorders, in 
case of future emergencies such as another formula recall 
event, a public health emergency or disaster, or a supply chain 
disruption.
     Formula Recall--The Committee engaged in several 
meetings with the FDA to discuss the agency's oversight of 
Abbott's formula recall and how the agency plans to mitigate 
the collateral impact of the recall on members of the public 
who have been experiencing issues with obtaining access to 
reliable sources of formula. The Committee also met with HHS' 
OIG to discuss the audit of FDA's oversight of formula 
manufacturers.
     Work Request to GAO--The ACA instituted crucial 
consumer protections that have made health coverage more 
reliable and affordable for consumers. These reforms include: 
prohibitions on preexisting condition exclusions and 
discrimination based on health status; requiring plans to cover 
essential health benefits; and allowing dependents to stay on 
their parents' coverage until age 26. However, in contrast to 
ACA plans, plans such as those offered by Farm Bureaus and 
health care sharing ministries may be able to avoid the law's 
consumer protections and therefore could pose a risk to those 
who purchase such offerings. As a result, the Committee 
requested that GAO study the impact of health care offerings by 
state Farm Bureaus, health care sharing ministries, and other 
arrangements that are exempt from certain federal and state 
requirements for health insurance to help federal policymakers 
develop a better understanding of how such plans operate and 
how they impact the regulated markets.
     Work Request to GAO--Students in higher education 
face economic challenges that can impact their ability to 
afford and complete a college degree or credential. One of 
these challenges is navigating the process of finding and 
enrolling in health insurance and then paying for health care. 
The ACA and ARPA increased the number of affordable--and often 
free--coverage options available to students and their 
families. The Committee is interested in understanding the 
extent to which students in higher education have successfully 
enrolled in health insurance and what opportunities may exist 
to increase health care coverage and lower costs. As such, the 
Committee sent a request to GAO to study college students' 
access to health insurance.
     Oversight--The Committee engaged in meetings with 
HHS to discuss, among other topics, HHS' response to the 
Committee's June 2022 request that HHS coordinate with USDA to 
conduct a feasibility study regarding a stockpile of formula 
products in the event of future emergencies. Discussions also 
included HHS' implementation of the Bipartisan Safer 
Communities Act such as the provisions that require that: (1) 
HHS provide technical assistance and issue guidance to states 
on improving access to Medicaid and CHIP telehealth services; 
(2) HHS issue updated school-based services guidance; and (3) 
HHS and ED establish a Technical Assistance Center to support 
the delivery of Medicaid-covered school-based services.
     Contraception Coverage--On October 6, 2021, the 
Committee joined with the Committee on Energy and Commerce, the 
Committee on Ways and Means, and the Committee on Oversight and 
Reform (jointly, the Committees) to send a letter to HHS, DOL, 
and the U.S. Department of the Treasury (jointly, the 
Departments) expressing concerns because the Committees were 
receiving information regarding numerous denials of coverage 
and extensive medical management requirements that have limited 
individuals' access to the full range of U.S. Food and Drug 
Administration (FDA)-approved contraceptives. The Committees 
expressed that these denials and medical management 
requirements appear to violate the ACA's regulations, which 
mandate that group health plans and all issuers of group or 
individual health insurance coverage (other than grandfathered 
health plans) cover without cost-sharing the full range of FDA-
approved contraceptives. The Committees requested the 
Departments' assistance in ensuring appropriate consumer access 
to the full range of FDA-approved contraceptives as required by 
law and that the Departments determine whether additional 
enforcement actions or issuance of additional guidance may be 
necessary to address this issue.

Supporting Communities

     AmeriCorps--The Committee held two hearings about 
the Corporation for National and Community Service 
(AmeriCorps): (1) on December 1, 2021, titled ``Examining the 
Policies and Priorities of the Corporation for National and 
Community Service''; and (2) on December 14, 2022, titled 
``Examining the Policies and Priorities of the Corporation for 
National and Community Service.'' Both hearings examined the 
financial management concerns identified by the AmeriCorps' 
external auditors and AmeriCorps' OIG. These hearings satisfied 
the requirement under Rule XI, clause 2(o) of the Rules of the 
U.S. House of Representatives that each committee hold a 
hearing when an agency under its jurisdiction has received a 
disclaimed financial audit. In addition to the hearing, the 
Committee held quarterly meetings with AmeriCorps leadership 
and AmeriCorps' OIG to ensure that progress was being made by 
the agency to implement the recommendations of the external 
auditors.

            ADDITIONAL OVERSIGHT ACTIVITIES OF THE COMMITTEE

K-12 Education

     Bureau of Indian Education (BIE)--The Committee 
held a hearing on June 28, 2022, titled ``Examining the 
Policies and Priorities of the Bureau of Indian Education,'' to 
examine the financial management concerns identified by GAO's 
placement of BIE on GAO's High Risk List. Since 2013, GAO has 
issued reports on significant concerns at BIE schools and 
placed them on the High Risk List in 2017. GAO's findings 
include: lack of management and accountability of BIE in 
managing and using federal funds; lack of clear roles and 
coordination between BIE and the Board of Indian Affairs (BIA); 
inadequate internal procedures and controls; lack of leadership 
team members, staff, and personnel, with high turnover of 
personnel, especially in rural areas; inadequate oversight of 
school spending, especially as it relates to education 
facilities and school construction projects; and insufficient 
support for students with disabilities. This hearing satisfied 
the requirement under Rule XI, Clause 2(p) of the Rules of the 
U.S. House of Representatives that each committee hold a 
hearing on issues under its jurisdiction that are included on 
GAO's High Risk List.
     Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) 
Compliance--The Committee conducted oversight related to 
information sharing between Pasco County School District in 
Florida and local law enforcement agencies. Investigative 
reporting showed that the school district was sharing 
information with local law enforcement to identify potential 
``at-risk'' youth, but this resulted in law enforcement 
harassing those students and their families. As a result, the 
Committee sent two letters to ED relating to compliance with 
FERPA, which is a federal law that affords parents the right to 
have access to their children's education records, the right to 
seek to have the records amended, and the right to have some 
control over the disclosure of personally identifiable 
information from the education records. In the first letter, 
the Committee requested ED's OIG follow up on its 2018 audit of 
ED's implementation of FERPA and conduct another audit to 
assess ED's implementation of FERPA and ED's enforcement and 
monitoring process of states' and school districts' compliance 
with FERPA. In the second letter, the Committee recommended 
changes to ED's implementation of FERPA, including the guidance 
ED provides to states and school districts on compliance with 
FERPA. Specifically, the Committee requested ED issue guidance 
related to how school districts should assess data sharing 
agreements with law enforcement agencies such as the one in 
Pasco County.

Higher Education

     Online Program Managers--The Committee received a 
GAO report based on its examination of ED's oversight of Online 
Program Managers (OPMs). OPMs are third-party entities that are 
contracted by IHEs to handle the management and operations of a 
variety of online education programs and support services. 
OPMs' contracted duties often include the recruitment of 
students. In the 1992 reauthorization of HEA, Congress included 
what is known as the ``incentive compensation ban'' to ensure 
that postsecondary recruiters and admissions counselors are not 
incentivized based on per-student enrollment quotas. OPMs are 
exempted from the incentive compensation ban but are subject to 
safeguards required of OPMs and other third parties pursuant to 
a guidance from ED called the ``bundled services exception.'' 
ED is tasked with ensuring compliance with the incentive 
compensation ban and the safeguards of the bundled services 
exception. In its investigation, GAO found that ED uses two 
tools to monitor IHEs and OPMs and their compliance with the 
incentive compensation ban and the bundled services exception, 
respectively--independent compliance audits by external 
auditors and program compliance reviews by ED--and that these 
tools are most likely not effective. The Committee sent a 
letter to ED on December 2, 2022, supporting ED's decision to 
implement GAO's recommendations to better enforce the incentive 
compensation ban and requesting that ED conduct a review of the 
bundled services exception.
     Personal Liability--The Committee wrote two 
letters to ED, on August 16, 2021, and August 9, 2022, 
requesting that ED use its existing authority under HEA to hold 
owners, executives, and board members of defunct for-profit and 
converted non-profit colleges individually responsible for 
liabilities of the institution to the federal government. In 
January 2022, ED announced a new policy requiring private 
colleges and companies with at least a 50 percent ownership 
interest in them to sign Program Participation Agreements 
(PPAs). According to ED, this new policy will ensure that 
companies that own IHEs are held responsible for funds owed to 
the federal government, including liabilities arising from 
closed school loan discharges and borrower defense to repayment 
claims, even if the IHE closes.

Juvenile Justice

     Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act 
(JJDPA) Compliance--The Committee held oversight meetings with 
DOJ's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention 
(OJJDP) on their monitoring of states' compliance with Title II 
of JJDPA. Title II requires states to establish plans for the 
administration of juvenile justice in their states and submit 
annual reports to OJJDP concerning their progress in 
implementing the plans in order to receive grant funding from 
OJJDP. According to OJJDP, no states were in compliance with 
the requirements of Title II, mostly because previous 
administrations were not reviewing compliance strictly and 
states were providing vague information for review. As a 
result, OJJDP withheld grants to all states until they were in 
compliance with the Title II requirements. The Committee 
requested that OJJDP keep the Committee informed of OJJDP's 
activities to hold states accountable to Title II requirements. 
The Committee urged OJDDP to provide additional guidance and 
technical assistance to states on how states can become 
compliant with the Title II requirements. OJJDP has engaged 
with and provided technical assistance to states; OJJDP has 
also reviewed and approved states' revised compliance plans and 
released grant funding.
     COVID-19 in Juvenile Justice Facilities--The 
Committee wrote a letter to OJJDP on November 18, 2021, about 
states' compliance with JJDPA requirements during the COVID-19 
pandemic. The Committee was concerned that due to policies and 
practices implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic, OJJDP and 
state oversight agencies were not able to properly monitor 
juvenile facilities to review: (1) whether basic safety 
measures were being implemented; (2) whether the facilities 
were in compliance with the core protections found in JJDPA; 
and (3) whether the facilities' practices to combat COVID-19 
resulted in harm to the juveniles in the facilities, such as 
increased use of solitary confinement, juveniles having limited 
contact with their families, suspension of education classes, 
and lack of access to hygiene products and personal protective 
equipment (PPE). Prior to the Committee's letter, OJJDP issued 
two guidance documents to assist juvenile justice facilities 
during the pandemic: (1) OJJDP Guidance for Juvenile Justice 
Facilities During COVID-19 Pandemic, and (2) Detection and 
Mitigation of COVID-19 in Confinement Facilities Guidance. In 
response to the Committee's letter, OJJDP highlighted guidance 
they provided to states in May 2020 about designating 
compliance monitors as essential workers and providing them 
vaccinations and PPE so that these compliance monitors could 
conduct monitoring activities at juvenile facilities. 
Additionally, OJJDP held four regional meetings between October 
and November 2021 in order to train state juvenile justice 
agencies about JJDPA requirements.
     Youth PROMISE Act and Prevention Programs--The 
Committee conducted oversight of how OJJDP was providing grants 
to juvenile justice prevention programs and whether the grants 
were in compliance with congressional intent pursuant to the 
Youth PROMISE Act passed as part of the Juvenile Justice Reform 
Act in 2018.

Child Care

     Maltreatment of Youth in Residential Facilities--
The Committee received a GAO report after it examined the 
maltreatment of youth in residential facilities and identified 
a lack of oversight by two federal agencies with primary 
responsibility over such facilities: HHS and ED. As a result of 
the report, the Committee engaged with both HHS and ED to urge 
the agencies to provide better guidance to states and 
facilities regarding proper treatment of youth in their care as 
well as to facilitate information sharing among states on 
practices for preventing and addressing maltreatment in 
residential facilities.
     Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) and 
Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Oversight--The Committee 
engaged in meetings with HHS on CCDBG and CCDF, which is 
authorized under CCDBG. Administered by states, territories, 
and Tribes, CCDF is federal funding that provides financial 
assistance to low-income families to access childcare. Under 
CCDBG, states are required to annually submit a CCDF state plan 
to HHS. These state plans must show how the state is allocating 
CCDF dollars and how the state is complying with the health and 
safety requirements under CCDBG. States are permitted to 
request waivers from certain CCDBG requirements as part of the 
state plan review process. The Committee conducted oversight of 
how HHS was reviewing states' requests for such waivers. The 
Committee also requested that HHS' OIG include a comprehensive 
review of HHS' state plan waiver review process in its audit 
plans.

Unemployment Insurance (UI)

     UI Hearing--On September 21, 2022, the 
Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions held a 
hearing titled ``Examining the Administration of the 
Unemployment Insurance System.'' This hearing focused on GAO's 
recent reports examining the implementation of the temporary UI 
CARES Act programs, which addressed long-standing challenges in 
the UI system exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, such as 
meeting the needs of unemployed workers and mitigating 
financial loss. The hearing also addressed why GAO included the 
UI system on its High Risk List in June 2022. Other testimony 
during the hearing discussed how the pandemic UI programs 
helped marginalized workers and communities, the need for 
structural reforms in the UI system, and personal experiences 
when applying for and receiving pandemic benefits from one of 
the UI CARES Act programs.
     DOL's OIG's UI Report--The Committee met with 
DOL's OIG to discuss the findings from its September 2022 Alert 
Memorandum titled ``Potentially Fraudulent Unemployment 
Insurance Payments in High-Risk Areas Increased to $45.6 
Billion.'' The report found that between March 2020 and April 
2022, there has been $45.6 billion in potentially fraudulent UI 
benefits paid in four specific high-risk areas to individuals 
with Social Security numbers: (1) filed in multiple states; (2) 
of deceased persons; (3) used to file UI claims with suspicious 
email accounts; and (4) of federal prisoners. The report also 
found that ETA has not taken sufficient action to control 
fraud, and notes that ETA has failed to implement DOL's OIG's 
prior recommendations with respect to fraud, including 
establishing effective controls in collaboration with state 
workforce agencies (SWAs) and working with Congress to 
establish legislation requiring SWAs to cross-match high-risk 
areas. Moreover, the report states that despite DOL's OIG's 
continued efforts to identify potentially fraudulent payments 
to ineligible claimants, it continues to experience delays in 
obtaining the needed UI data because DOL interprets its UI 
regulations as prohibiting ETA from informing SWAs that they 
are required to provide UI data to DOL's OIG for both audit and 
investigative purposes.
     Response to DOL's OIG's UI Report--The Committee 
held a meeting with ETA to discuss the agency's response to 
DOL's OIG's UI report. During the meeting, ETA described the 
agency's ongoing and evolving efforts to combat fraud within 
the UI system and confirmed that the agency and DOL's OIG 
disagree on the requirements for disclosure of SWA UI data to 
DOL's OIG. ETA indicated that the agency plans to address the 
disagreement over the disclosure requirement by updating the 
agency's regulations but also acknowledged that the agency will 
need, and is planning to provide, an interim solution for this 
issue since the proposed rules may not be finalized before 
early 2025.

Workplace Surveillance Tools

     Work Request to GAO--The shift to remote work 
during the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted a rise in employers' 
digital surveillance of workers through the use of surveillance 
technology or ``bossware'' in both telework and office 
settings. The use of this kind of technology has implications 
for workers' privacy rights and civil rights. Therefore, the 
Committee requested that GAO assess employers' use of bossware 
to monitor workers in telework and office settings and how the 
use of the technology impacts workers. Additionally, the 
Committee requested that GAO examine the extent to which the 
enforcement efforts of federal labor and employment agencies 
such as DOL, the NLRB, and the EEOC, have addressed the 
connection between employers' use of bossware and the impact on 
workers' rights.
     Oversight of Civil Rights Protections--Employers 
are increasingly using sophisticated automated technology 
systems and artificial intelligence (AI) to assess and monitor 
job candidates and workers. These systems can, for example, 
track workers' locations, activate webcams and microphones on 
workers' devices, use facial recognition to assess workers' 
attention to their computer screens, and store sensitive data 
about workers. Employers' use of these systems and technology 
to make employment decisions implicates federal 
antidiscrimination protections, including, for example, those 
under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII). 
Therefore, in December 2022, the Committee sent a letter to the 
EEOC to request that the agency issue guidance discussing the 
ways in which employers' use of these systems and AI technology 
can impact workers' rights under Title VII. The EEOC has 
already issued similar guidance to explain how employers' use 
of AI can impact workers' rights under the ADA.

                   Committee-Initiated Correspondence

January 11, 2021--Letter to the Honorable Russell Vought, 
    Director, Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and Mr. 
    Jeffrey Rosen, Acting Attorney General, U.S. Department of 
    Justice (DOJ), expressing concern regarding a draft final 
    rule titled Amendment of the Title VI Regulations and 
    requesting that OMB provide the text of the draft final 
    rule as well as any justification DOJ has articulated for 
    bypassing the normal notice and comment period. This was a 
    joint letter with House Committee on the Judiciary Chair 
    Jerrold Nadler and House Committee on Oversight and 
    Government Reform Chair Carolyn Maloney.
January 11, 2021--Letter to the Honorable Gene Dodaro, 
    Comptroller General of the United States, U.S. Government 
    Accountability Office (GAO), requesting to join as an 
    addressee on any current or future studies of labor and 
    worker protection issues that GAO conducts in response to 
    section 19010 of Title IX of Public Law 116-136, the 
    Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act.
January 19, 2021--Letter to the Honorable Mitchell Zais, Acting 
    Secretary, U.S. Department of Education, raising concerns 
    regarding reports that a public-school district is 
    transmitting student education records to a local sheriff's 
    office so that the sheriff's office can develop a list of 
    students ``destined for a life of crime.''
March 1, 2021--Letter to Mr. Jeffrey Zients, Coordinator and 
    Counselor to the President of the United States, Executive 
    Office of the President; Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Director, 
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); and Mr. 
    Al Stewart, Acting Secretary, U.S. Department of Labor 
    (DOL), urging the CDC and DOL to adequately address the 
    risk of aerosol transmission of COVID-19 in guidance and 
    regulations. This was a joint letter with House Committee 
    on Appropriations Chair Rosa DeLauro, House Energy and 
    Commerce Chair Frank Pallone, Jr., House Committee on 
    Oversight and Reform's Select Subcommittee on the 
    Coronavirus Chair James Clyburn, and House Committee on 
    Education and Labor's Subcommittee on Workforce Protections 
    Chair Alma Adams.
March 25, 2021--Letter to the Honorable Martin Walsh, 
    Secretary, U.S. Department of Labor, urging the Department 
    to adjust the Fair Labor Standards Act's overtime salary 
    test threshold to its historical high point to ensure 
    salaried workers receive adequate overtime protections. 
    This was a joint letter with Rep. Mark Takano (CA), Rep. 
    Alma Adams (NC), and Sen. Sherrod Brown (OH).
April 6, 2021--Letter to the Honorable Xavier Becerra, 
    Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 
    encouraging the Department to announce the availability of 
    a Special Enrollment Period (SEP) for qualified eligible 
    individuals following the conclusion of the American Rescue 
    Plan Act of 2021's premium support program for job-based 
    coverage. This was a joint letter with House Committee on 
    Energy and Commerce Chair Frank Pallone, Jr., House 
    Committee on Ways and Means Chair Richard Neal, Senate 
    Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Chair 
    Patty Murray, and Senate Committee on Finance Chair Ron 
    Wyden.
April 12, 2021--Letter to the Honorable Martin Walsh, 
    Secretary, U.S. Department of Labor, supporting the 
    Department's proposal to withdraw the January 2021 final 
    interpretive rule entitled Independent Contractor Status 
    under the Fair Labor Standards Act. This was a joint letter 
    with 79 other Members of the House of Representatives.
April 12, 2021--Letter to the Honorable Martin Walsh, 
    Secretary, U.S. Department of Labor, supporting the 
    Department's proposal to withdraw the January 2020 final 
    interpretative rule entitled Joint Employer Status Under 
    the Fair Labor Standards Act. This was a joint letter with 
    84 other Members of the House of Representatives.
April 16, 2021--Letter to the Honorable Gloria Steele, Acting 
    Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development 
    (USAID), requesting that the agency suspend all pending 
    actions related to the restructuring and redesign of 
    USAID's Global Labor Program. This was a joint letter with 
    House Committee on Foreign Relations Chair Gregory Meeks, 
    House Committee on Ways and Means Chair Richard Neal, and 
    House Committee on Appropriations' Subcommittee on State 
    and Foreign Operations Chair Barbara Lee.
April 19, 2021--Letter to the Honorable JooYeun Chang, Acting 
    Assistant Secretary, Administration for Children and 
    Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 
    regarding congressional intent of Section 2204(c) of the 
    American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, which provides resources 
    for ``culturally specific community-based organizations.'' 
    This was a joint letter with Rep. Pramila Jayapal (WA).
May 6, 2021--Letter to the Honorable Gene Dodaro, Comptroller 
    General, U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), 
    requesting GAO review target date funds to determine if 
    these retirement investments to which millions of families 
    now entrust their financial futures are working as 
    advertised and providing the retirement security promised. 
    This was a joint letter with Senate Committee on Health, 
    Education, Labor, and Pensions Chair Patty Murray.
May 12, 2021--Letter to the Honorable Xavier Becerra, 
    Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 
    (HHS), urging the Department to revoke harmful waivers that 
    have promoted discrimination and to expeditiously re-
    regulate to restore the full antidiscrimination protections 
    for HHS programs.
June 2, 2021--Letter to the Honorable Miguel Cardona, 
    Secretary, U.S. Department of Education, requesting 
    responses to outstanding questions for the record from the 
    116th congressional session.
June 2, 2021--Letter to the Honorable Martin Walsh, Secretary, 
    U.S. Department of Labor, regarding the Department's 
    implementation of President Biden's January 21, 2021, 
    Executive Order 13999, Protecting Worker Health and Safety, 
    requesting information concerning the Occupational Safety 
    and Health Administration's consideration of an Emergency 
    Temporary Standard to protect workers from COVID-19.
June 2, 2021--Letter to the Honorable Sandra Bruce, Deputy 
    Inspector General Delegated the Duties of Inspector 
    General, U.S. Department of Education, requesting the 
    Office of Inspector General follow up its 2018 audit of the 
    Department's implementation of the Family Educational 
    Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).
June 2, 2021--Letter to the Honorable Sandra Bruce, Deputy 
    Inspector General Delegated the Duties of Inspector 
    General, U.S. Department of Education, requesting the 
    Office of Inspector General provide information underlying 
    its May 13, 2021, analysis that demonstrated that the 
    Department improperly awarded nearly $5,000,000 in Higher 
    Education Emergency Relief Fund Grants.
June 3, 2021--Letter to the Honorable Miguel Cardona, 
    Secretary, U.S. Department of Education, regarding the 
    Department's process for reviewing, approving, and 
    monitoring for-profit college conversions to non-profit 
    institutions; raising several issues demonstrating that the 
    Department and the Internal Revenue Service must take steps 
    to reform their processes and halt the approval of all 
    conversions until they finalize those reforms; and 
    requesting responses to several questions related to these 
    issues.
June 7, 2021--Letter to the Honorable Gene Dodaro, Comptroller 
    General of the United States, U.S. Government 
    Accountability Office (GAO), requesting that GAO examine 
    the extent of college student food insecurity, enrollment 
    in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) 
    among eligible college students, and how college students 
    were affected by the removal of certain eligibility 
    restrictions to SNAP for college students during the COVID-
    19 national emergency. The letter also requests that GAO 
    assess the considerations and implications of extending 
    this policy after the COVID-19 emergency ends. This was a 
    joint letter with House Agriculture Committee Chair David 
    Scott.
June 25, 2021--Letter to the Honorable Gene Dodaro, Comptroller 
    General of the United States, U.S. Government 
    Accountability Office (GAO), requesting a review of faculty 
    diversity at institutions of higher education (IHEs). 
    Specifically, the letter requested GAO examine what is 
    known about the racial composition of faculty at IHEs and 
    to what extent the U.S. Department of Education and the 
    U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission have taken 
    steps to promote faculty diversity and prevent racial 
    discrimination in faculty hiring, promotion, and 
    compensation.
June 30, 2021--Letter to the Honorable Joseph R. Biden, Jr., 
    President of the United States, regarding an extension on 
    the pause on federally-held student loan payments, 
    interest, and collections through early 2022. This was a 
    joint letter with Senate Committee on Health, Education, 
    Labor, and Pensions Chair Patty Murray.
July 27, 2021--Letter to the Honorable Gene Dodaro, Comptroller 
    General of the United States, U.S. Government 
    Accountability Office (GAO), requesting GAO examine how the 
    2020 2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) have been 
    promoted and implemented within federal agencies. This was 
    a joint letter with House Committee on Agriculture Chair 
    David Scott.
August 9, 2021--Letter to the Honorable Miguel Cardona, 
    Secretary, U.S. Department of Education, recommending 
    changes in the Department's implementation of the Family 
    Educational Rights and Privacy Act, especially when 
    considering data sharing agreements with law enforcement 
    agencies.
August 11, 2021--Letter to the Honorable Charles Rettig, 
    Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service, requesting a review 
    of the non-profit tax-exempt status under Section 501(c)(3) 
    of the Internal Revenue Code of Grand Canyon University, 
    which is a former for-profit that converted to become a 
    non-profit institution of higher education.
August 11, 2021--Letter to the Honorable Charles Rettig, 
    Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service, requesting a review 
    of the non-profit tax-exempt status under Section 501(c)(3) 
    of the Internal Revenue Code of University of Arizona 
    Global Campus, which is former for-profit that converted to 
    become a non-profit institution of higher education.
August 16, 2021--Letter to the Honorable Miguel Cardona, 
    Secretary, U.S. Department of Education, requesting a 
    review of the authority granted under the Higher Education 
    Act that permits the Secretary to pursue personal liability 
    for debts owed by institutions against the owners and 
    executives of those institutions.
August 23, 2021--Letter to Dr. Michale McComis, Executive 
    Director, Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and 
    Colleges (ACCSC), requesting information about ACCSC's 
    reported accreditation of two institutions--University of 
    Northern New Jersey and University of Farmington--as part 
    of two sting operations run by the U.S. Department of 
    Homeland Security.
August 23, 2021--Letter to the Honorable Martin Walsh, 
    Secretary, U.S. Department of Labor, submitting comments 
    supporting the Department's proposed rule published June 
    23, 2021, regarding use of the tip credit for workers 
    performing ``dual jobs'' under the Fair Labor Standards 
    Act. This was a joint letter with House Committee on 
    Education and Labor's Subcommittee on Workforce Protections 
    Chair Alma Adams and Reps. Mark Takano (CA), Suzanne 
    Bonamici (OR), and Pramila Jayapal (WA).
September 15, 2021--Letter to the Honorable Gene Dodaro, 
    Comptroller General of the United States, U.S. Government 
    Accountability Office (GAO), requesting that Chairman Scott 
    be added as a co-requestor of GAO's study concerning 
    performance information in Workforce Innovation and 
    Opportunity Act programs. This study was originally 
    requested by Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, 
    and Pensions Chair Patty Murray.
September 29, 2021--Letter to Ms. Lori Ketcham, Associate 
    General Counsel and Designated Agency Ethics Official, 
    National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), requesting a 
    document related to the NLRB Office of the Inspector 
    General's investigation of former NLRB Board Member William 
    Emanuel.
September 29, 2021--Letter to Ms. Lori Ketcham, Associate 
    General Counsel and Designated Agency Ethics Official, 
    National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), requesting the 
    production of former NLRB Member William Emanuel's Public 
    Financial Disclosure Reports. These reports served as the 
    basis of the NLRB Office of the Inspector General's May 
    2021 investigation into former Member Emanuel's conflicts 
    of interest.
October 1, 2021--Letter to the Honorable Miguel Cardona, 
    Secretary, U.S. Department of Education, regarding states' 
    compliance with policies derived from the United States v. 
    Fordice decision and their impacts on Historically Black 
    Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). This was a joint letter 
    with House Committee on Education and Labor's Subcommittee 
    on Higher Education and Workforce Investment Chair 
    Frederica Wilson.
October 6, 2021--Letter to the Honorable Xavier Becerra, 
    Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 
    the Honorable Martin Walsh, Secretary, U.S. Department of 
    Labor, and the Honorable Janet Yellen, Secretary, U.S. 
    Department of the Treasury, urging strong enforcement of 
    the Affordable Care Act's requirements that ensure 
    consumers have access to the full range of U.S. Food and 
    Drug Administration-approved contraceptives without any 
    cost-sharing. This was a joint letter with House Committee 
    on Energy and Commerce Chair Frank Pallone, Jr. and House 
    Committee on Ways and Means Chair Richard Neal.
October 14, 2021--Letter to the Honorable Gene Dodaro, 
    Comptroller General of the United States, U.S. Government 
    Accountability Office (GAO), requesting that GAO study the 
    impact of health care offerings by state Farm Bureaus, 
    health care sharing ministries, and other health care 
    arrangements that are exempt from certain federal and state 
    requirements for health insurance. This was a joint letter 
    with House Committee on Education and Labor's Subcommittee 
    on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Chair Mark 
    DeSaulnier.
October 15, 2021--Letter to the Honorable Gene Dodaro, 
    Comptroller General of the United States, U.S. Government 
    Accountability Office (GAO), requesting a GAO study on the 
    implementation and enforcement of Title IX of the Education 
    Amendments of 1972 in athletics at the collegiate level. 
    This was a joint letter with House Committee on Education 
    and Labor's Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services 
    Chair Suzanne Bonamici.
November 4, 2021--Letter to the Honorable Gene Dodaro, 
    Comptroller General of the United States, U.S. Government 
    Accountability Office (GAO), requesting Chairman Scott be 
    added as a co-requestor of GAO's review of how the federal 
    government's equal opportunity complaint process and anti-
    harassment programs can better prevent and remedy unlawful 
    employment discrimination and advance equal opportunity in 
    the workplace.
November 18, 2021--Letter to Ms. Chyrl Jones, Acting 
    Administrator, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency 
    Prevention, U.S. Department of Justice, regarding the 
    office's oversight of juvenile detention centers during 
    COVID-19, balancing compliance with the Juvenile Justice 
    and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA), and navigating the 
    realities of the COVID-19 pandemic.
November 19, 2021--Letter to the Honorable Martin Walsh, 
    Secretary, U.S. Department of Labor, the Honorable Xavier 
    Becerra, Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human 
    Services, and the Honorable Janet Yellen, Secretary, U.S. 
    Department of the Treasury, expressing support for the 
    recent Interim Final Rule entitled Requirements Related to 
    Surprise Billing; Part II. This was a joint letter with 
    Ranking Member Virginia Foxx.
December 8, 2021--Letter to Ms. Tina Williams, Director, 
    Division of Policy and Program Development, Office of 
    Federal Contract Compliance Programs, U.S. Department of 
    Labor, expressing support for the agency's Proposal to 
    Rescind Rule Implementing Legal Requirements Regarding the 
    Equal Opportunity Clause's Religious Exemption.
December 14, 2021--Letter to the Honorable Doug Parker, 
    Assistant Secretary, Occupational Safety and Health 
    Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, requesting 
    information about the decision to publish a final COVID-19 
    standard to protect health care workers.
January 26, 2022--Letter to the Honorable Xavier Becerra, 
    Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 
    and the Honorable Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Administrator, 
    Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, expressing strong 
    support for the policies included in the proposed Notice of 
    Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2023. This was a joint 
    letter with House Committee on Energy and Commerce Chair 
    Frank Pallone, Jr., House Committee on Ways and Means Chair 
    Richard Neal, Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, 
    and Pensions Chair Patty Murray, and Senate Committee on 
    Finance Chair Ron Wyden.
January 31, 2022--Letter to the Honorable Miguel Cardona, 
    Secretary, U.S. Department of Education, requesting a 
    review of the nonprofit status of Everglades College for 
    the purpose of Title IV funding eligibility of a converted 
    non-profit institution of higher education under the Higher 
    Education Act of 1965.
February 3, 2022--Letter to the Honorable Gene Dodaro, 
    Comptroller General of the United States, U.S. Government 
    Accountability Office (GAO), requesting that GAO study how 
    state agencies are using state administrative expense funds 
    to support the administration of federal child nutrition 
    programs for schools and institutions. This was a joint 
    letter with Ranking Member Virginia Foxx.
February 15, 2022--Letter to the Honorable Joseph R. Biden, 
    Jr., President of the United States, requesting that the 
    presidential budget request for Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 
    include $355 million for the National Labor Relations 
    Board, a level that would restore the agency's funding to 
    its FY 2010 level when adjusted for inflation. This was a 
    joint letter with House Committee on Education and Labor's 
    Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions 
    Chair Mark DeSaulnier.
February 22, 2022--Letter to the Honorable Gene Dodaro, 
    Comptroller General of the United States, U.S. Government 
    Accountability Office (GAO), requesting underlying 
    documents and workpapers that GAO reviewed as part of a 
    study on income-based repayment.
March 10, 2022--Letter to the Honorable Miguel Cardona, 
    Secretary, U.S. Department of Education, providing comments 
    to the Department's negotiated rulemaking proposals as they 
    relate to holding executives of for-profit colleges 
    personally liable.
April 11, 2022--Letter to the Honorable Thomas Vilsack, 
    Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture, providing 
    comments to the transitional rule entitled Child Nutrition 
    Programs: Transitional Standards for Milk, Whole Grains, 
    and Sodium published in the Federal Register on February 7, 
    2022. This was a joint letter with 17 Democratic Members of 
    the Committee.
April 12, 2022--Letter to the Honorable Gene Dodaro, 
    Comptroller General of the United States, U.S. Government 
    Accountability Office (GAO), requesting that GAO study 
    minors under 18 years of age serving as a primary or 
    secondary caregiver for a family member, known as 
    caregiving youth, and how the federal government can 
    support this growing population. This was a joint letter 
    with Reps. Barbara Lee (CA) and Lois Frankel (FL).
April 13, 2022--Letter to the Honorable Gene Dodaro, 
    Comptroller General of the United States, U.S. Government 
    Accountability Office (GAO), requesting that GAO study one-
    stop centers' accessibility for job seekers with 
    disabilities.
April 15, 2022--Letter to the Honorable Miguel Cardona, 
    Secretary, U.S. Department of Education, requesting that 
    the Department make changes needed to fix the income-driven 
    repayment program. This was a joint letter with Senate 
    Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Chair 
    Patty Murray.
April 29, 2022--Letter to the Honorable Gene Dodaro, 
    Comptroller General of the United States, U.S. Government 
    Accountability Office (GAO), requesting a GAO study on the 
    utilization of Assistive Technology (AT) by K-12 schools in 
    order to support students with disabilities, including the 
    compatibility of AT with other technology used by schools 
    during the COVID-19 pandemic.
June 13, 2022--Letter to Ms. Linda Khan, Chair, Federal Trade 
    Commission (FTC), requesting the agency issue a public 
    advisory to encourage online marketplaces to implement 
    measures to detect and prevent exploitative and deceptive 
    practices by third-party vendors selling formula, and to 
    continue to highlight that the FTC can and will use its 
    authority to enforce federal consumer protection laws in 
    order prevent fraud, deception, and unfair business 
    practices.
June 28, 2022--Letter to the Honorable Xavier Becerra, 
    Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 
    expressing support for the Department's efforts to pursue 
    rulemaking to adopt the Architectural and Transportation 
    Barriers Compliance Board's 2017 Standards for Accessible 
    Medical Diagnostic Equipment.
July 8, 2022--Letter to Mr. Ali Khawar, Acting Assistant 
    Secretary, Employee Benefits Security Administration, U.S. 
    Department of Labor, requesting clarification regarding 
    enforcement processes of the Employee Benefits Security 
    Administration. This was a joint letter with House 
    Committee on Education and Labor's Subcommittee on Health, 
    Employment, Labor, and Pensions Chair Mark DeSaulnier.
August 4, 2022--Letter to the Honorable Gene Dodaro, 
    Comptroller General of the United States, U.S. Government 
    Accountability Office (GAO), requesting GAO study the 
    factors that impact access to health insurance coverage for 
    college students. This was a joint letter with Senate 
    Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Chair 
    Patty Murray.
August 5, 2022--Letter to the Honorable Joseph R. Biden, Jr., 
    President of the United States, supporting the 
    Administration's plans to engage in rulemaking with regard 
    to the Equal Participation of Faith-Based Organizations in 
    the Federal Agencies' Programs and Activities final rules 
    for nine departments and agencies.
August 9, 2022--Letter to the Honorable Miguel Cardona, 
    Secretary, U.S. Department of Education, requesting 
    additional information about the actions the Department is 
    taking to hold owners, executives, and board members of 
    for-profit and converted non-profit institutions 
    accountable and personally liable, and specifically about 
    institutions that have had borrower defense claims approved 
    by the Department--including in the Sweet v. Cardona 
    settlement--and continue to operate.
August 10, 2022--Letter to the Honorable Miguel Cardona, 
    Secretary, U.S. Department of Education, providing comments 
    to a Notice for Proposed Rulemaking on seven topics: 
    borrower defense to repayment, pre-dispute arbitration and 
    class action waivers, interest capitalization, closed 
    school discharge, total and permanent disability discharge, 
    false certification discharge, and public service loan 
    forgiveness.
August 25, 2022--Letter to the Honorable Miguel Cardona, 
    Secretary, U.S. Department of Education, providing comments 
    to a Notice for Proposed Rulemaking on three topics: prison 
    education programs, closing the 90/10 loophole, and 
    institutional conversions.
September 12, 2022--Letter to the Honorable Miguel Cardona, 
    Secretary, U.S. Department of Education, providing comments 
    to a Notice for Proposed Rulemaking on Title IX of the 
    Educational Amendments of 1972.
October 3, 2022--Letter to the Honorable Xavier Becerra, 
    Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 
    commenting on the proposed rule, Nondiscrimination in 
    Health Programs and Activities, implementing Section 1557 
    of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. This was 
    a joint letter with House Committee on Energy and Commerce 
    Chair Frank Pallone, Jr. and House Committee on Ways and 
    Means Chair Richard Neal.
October 3, 2022--Letter to Timothy Riera, Acting District 
    Director for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity 
    Commission's New York District Office, requesting that the 
    office file a Commissioner's Charge to determine whether 
    the Amazon facilities within its jurisdiction that have 
    been using surveillance tools and productivity requirements 
    have been complying with the reasonable accommodation 
    requirements under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 
    1990, as amended.
October 5, 2022--Letter to the Honorable Gene Dodaro, 
    Comptroller General of the United States, U.S. Government 
    Accountability Office (GAO), requesting a GAO study on 
    employers' increasing use of digital surveillance in and 
    outside of the workplace.
October 7, 2022--Letter to the Honorable Gene Dodaro, 
    Comptroller General of the United States, U.S. Government 
    Accountability Office (GAO), requesting a GAO study on the 
    implementation and enforcement of Title IX of the Education 
    Amendments of 1972 by institutions of higher education, 
    focusing on the pregnancy and parenting protections 
    provided by Title IX. This was a joint letter with House 
    Committee on Education and Labor's Subcommittee on Civil 
    Rights and Human Services Chair Suzanne Bonamici.
October 7, 2022--Letter to the Honorable Gene Dodaro, 
    Comptroller General of the United States, U.S. Government 
    Accountability Office (GAO), requesting a GAO study on how 
    state and local education agencies identify students that 
    are English Language Learners and students with 
    disabilities and the effectiveness of guidance provided by 
    the U.S. Department of Education to state and local 
    education agencies on how to best identify these students. 
    This was a joint letter with Reps. Raul Grijalva (AZ) and 
    Adriano Espaillat (NY).
October 27, 2022--Letter to the Honorable Miguel Cardona, 
    Secretary, U.S. Department of Education, requesting 
    information about the Federal Work Study Experimental Site.
October 27, 2022--Letter to the Honorable Gene Dodaro, 
    Comptroller General of the United States, U.S. Government 
    Accountability Office (GAO), requesting a GAO study on 
    students' access to sexual and reproductive health care and 
    how the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization 
    decision impacted access to such care.
November 3, 2022--Letter to the Honorable Gene Dodaro, 
    Comptroller General of the United States, U.S. Government 
    Accountability Office (GAO), requesting that GAO provide a 
    comprehensive assessment of the COBRA premium assistance 
    program established by the American Rescue Plan Act of 
    2021.
December 2, 2022--Letter to the Honorable Miguel Cardona, 
    Secretary, U.S. Department of Education, requesting a 
    review of the bundled services exception guidance to the 
    incentive compensation ban as well as information about the 
    Department's plans to conduct more robust oversight over 
    institutions of higher education and their relationships 
    with online program managers (OPMs). This was a joint 
    letter with House Committee on Appropriations Chair Rosa 
    DeLauro, Senate Committee on Health, Employment, Labor and 
    Pensions Chair Patty Murray, and Senators Elizabeth Warren 
    (MA) and Tina Smith (MN).
December 7, 2022--Letter to Ms. Roxanne Rothschild, Executive 
    Secretary, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), 
    expressing support for the NLRB's proposed rule that would 
    return to the traditional standard for determining when 
    employees have joint employers under the National Labor 
    Relations Act. This was a joint letter with 52 other 
    Members of the House of Representatives.
December 7, 2022--Letter to the Honorable Gene Dodaro, 
    Comptroller General of the United States, U.S. Government 
    Accountability Office (GAO), requesting that GAO review 
    school districts that host the Junior Reserve Officer 
    Training Corps (JROTC) program and these school districts' 
    compliance with the requirements of Title IX of the 
    Education Amendments of 1972. This was a joint letter with 
    House Committee on Education and Labor's Subcommittee on 
    Civil Rights and Human Services Chair Suzanne Bonamici.
December 9, 2022--Letter to the Honorable Xavier Becerra, 
    Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 
    urging establishment of the Advisory Committee on Ground 
    Ambulance and Patient Billing. This was a joint letter with 
    Ranking Member Virginia Foxx.
December 14, 2022--Letter to the Honorable Lisa Gomez, 
    Assistant Secretary, Employee Benefits Security 
    Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, encouraging the 
    issuance of guidance to clarify the application of 
    compensation disclosure requirements with respect to group 
    health plan service providers. This was a joint letter with 
    Ranking Member Virginia Foxx.
December 19, 2022--Letter to the Honorable Miguel Cardona, 
    Secretary, U.S. Department of Education, providing informal 
    comment on the nonregulatory guidance document Frequently 
    Asked Questions (FAQ) issued in support of the Stronger 
    Connections Grant Program.
December 20, 2022--Letter to the Honorable Gene Dodaro, 
    Comptroller General of the United States, U.S. Government 
    Accountability Office (GAO), requesting GAO study the need 
    for federal data privacy laws for retirement plans. This 
    was a joint letter with Senate Committee on Health, 
    Education, Labor, and Pensions Chair Patty Murray.
December 21, 2022--Letter to the Honorable Gene Dodaro, 
    Comptroller General of the United States, U.S. Government 
    Accountability Office (GAO), requesting that GAO conduct a 
    study on Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE)-funded 
    programs, which are programs funded by the U.S. government 
    that teach abstinence only until marriage (AOUM) education. 
    This request asks GAO to study the effectiveness and 
    medical accuracy of SRAE-funded programs, the U.S. 
    Department of Health and Human Services' ability to 
    effectively conduct oversight of these programs, and 
    whether these programs are in compliance with federal anti-
    discrimination law.

  Official Committee Proceedings Conducted Entirely Remotely or With 
                          Remote Participation


February 8, 2021--Full Committee Organizational Meeting to introduce 
        new Members of the Committee; consider and adopt the Rules of 
        the Committee for the 117th Congress; approve the Subcommittee 
        Chairs and Ranking Members as well as approve the assignment of 
        Members to Subcommittees; and share the Committee Oversight 
        Plan for the 117th Congress.

    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via Cisco Webex 
Meetings.

February 9, 2021--Full Committee Markup of Committee Print to comply 
        with the reconciliation directive included in section 2001(b) 
        of S. Con. Res. 5, the concurrent resolution setting forth the 
        congressional budget for the United States Government for 
        fiscal year 2021 and setting forth the appropriate budgeting 
        levels for fiscal years 2022 through 2030.

    Sponsor: Rep. Robert C. ``Bobby'' Scott (VA)
    Disposition: The Committee Print was ordered to be 
favorably transmitted to the House Committee on the Budget, as 
amended, by a vote of 27 Yeas and 21 Nays.
    Committee Report: Transmitted on February 16, 2021.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via Cisco Webex 
Meetings.

March 11, 2021--Full Committee Meeting to approve new Subcommittee 
        assignments.

    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

March 11, 2021--Subcommittee on Workforce Protections Hearing titled 
        ``Clearing the Air: Science-Based Strategies to Protect Workers 
        from COVID-19 Infections.''

    Purpose: To evaluate the best methods to protect workers 
from airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that 
causes COVID-19; to evaluate the need to strengthen 
Occupational Safety and Health Administration standards and 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Guidance to protect 
workers; and to establish a national strategy to measure the 
health impact on workers from the COVID-19 pandemic.
    Witnesses: Dr. Linsey Marr, Professor of Civil and 
Environmental Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and 
State University, Blacksburg, VA; Ms. Pascaline Muhindura, 
Registered Nurse, COVID Progressive Care Unit, Research Medical 
Center, Kansas City, MO; Mr. Manesh Rath, Partner, Keller and 
Heckman LLP, Washington, DC; and Dr. David Michaels, former 
Assistant Secretary, Occupational Safety and Health 
Administration, and Professor of Occupational and Environmental 
Medicine, The George Washington University, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

March 17, 2021--Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce 
        Investment Hearing titled ``Rising to the Challenge: The Future 
        of Higher Education Post COVID-19.''

    Purpose: To examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on 
institutions of higher education and students and to highlight 
the need for additional Administration and congressional 
action.
    Witnesses: Mr. Keith Thornton, Jr., Student, Florida 
International University, Miami, FL; Mr. Eloy Ortiz Oakley, 
Chancellor, California Community Colleges, Corona Del Mar, CA; 
Dr. Lindsey Burke, Director, Center for Education Policy, and 
Mark A. Kolokotrones Fellow in Education, The Heritage 
Foundation, Washington, DC; and Mr. Daniel Zibel, Vice 
President and Chief Counsel, National Student Legal Defense 
Network, Takoma Park, MD.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

March 18, 2021--Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services and 
        Subcommittee on Workforce Protections Joint Hearing titled 
        ``Fighting for Fairness: Examining Legislation to Confront 
        Workplace Discrimination.''

    Purpose: To consider three pieces of legislation to protect 
the civil rights of workers in the workplace: H.R. 1065, the 
Pregnant Workers Fairness Act; H.R. 7, the Paycheck Fairness 
Act; and H.R. 2062, the Protecting Older Workers Against 
Discrimination Act.
    Witnesses: Ms. Laurie McCann, Senior Attorney, AARP 
Foundation, Washington, DC; Ms. Dina Bakst, Co-Founder and Co-
President, A Better Balance, New York, NY; Ms. Camille A. 
Olson, Partner, Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Chicago, IL; and Ms. Fatima 
Goss Graves, President and CEO, National Women's Law Center, 
Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

March 22, 2021--Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services Hearing 
        titled ``Ending the Cycle: Examining Ways to Prevent Domestic 
        Violence and Promote Healthy Communities.''

    Purpose: To discuss ways to update and strengthen the 
Family Violence Prevention and Services Act to prevent and 
address intimate partner violence.
    Witnesses: Mrs. Vanessa Timmons, Executive Director, Oregon 
Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, Portland, OR; 
Ms. Wendy I. Schlater, Vice Chair, La Jolla Band of Luiseno 
Indians, Pauma Valley, CA; Ms. Ami Novoryta, Chief Program 
Officer, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago, 
Chicago, IL; and Dr. Elizabeth Miller, Director, Adolescent and 
Young Adult Medicine, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, 
Pittsburgh, PA.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

March 24, 2021--Full Committee Markup of H.R. 7, the Paycheck Fairness 
        Act.

    Sponsor: Rep. Rosa DeLauro (CT)
    Disposition: H.R. 7 was ordered to be favorably reported to 
the House, as amended, by a vote of 25 Yeas and 22 Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-13 was filed on April 5, 
2021.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

March 24, 2021--Full Committee Markup of H.R. 1065, the Pregnant 
        Workers Fairness Act.

    Sponsor: Rep. Jerrold Nadler (NY)
    Disposition: H.R. 1065 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by a vote of 30 Yeas and 17 Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-27 (Part I) was filed on 
May 4, 2021.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

March 24, 2021--Full Committee Markup of H.R. 1195, the Workplace 
        Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers 
        Act.

    Sponsor: Rep. Joe Courtney (CT)
    Disposition: H.R. 1195 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by a vote of 27 Yeas and 20 Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-14 (Part I) was filed on 
April 5, 2021.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

March 25, 2021--Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and 
        Secondary Education Hearing titled ``Lessons Learned: Charting 
        the Path to Educational Equity Post-COVID-19.''

    Purpose: To examine how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted 
communities and discuss the most effective methods of ensuring 
the nation's public schools reopen and recover equitably.
    Witnesses: Mr. Mark H. Morial, President and CEO, National 
Urban League, New York, NY; Mrs. Jennifer Dale, Parent, Lake 
Oswego, OR; Ms. Selene A. Almazan, Esq., Legal Director, 
Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates, Inc., Towson, MD; 
and Mr. Alberto M. Carvalho, Superintendent of Schools, Miami-
Dade County Public Schools, Miami, FL.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

April 15, 2021--Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions 
        Hearing titled ``Meeting the Moment: Improving Access to 
        Behavioral and Mental Health Care.''

    Purpose: To address barriers to access to behavioral health 
care, particularly limited coverage of mental health and 
substance use disorder treatment, and the importance of 
improving enforcement of mental health parity laws.
    Witnesses: Dr. Brian Smedley, Chief of Psychology in the 
Public Interest, American Psychological Association, 
Washington, DC; Dr. Christine Yu Moutier, Chief Medical 
Officer, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, New York, 
NY; Mr. James Gelfand, Senior Vice President, Health Policy, 
The ERISA Industry Committee, Washington, DC; and Dr. Meiram 
Bendat, Founder, Psych-Appeal, Santa Barbara, CA.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

April 20, 2021--Full Committee Meeting to approve new Subcommittee 
        assignments.

    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

April 20, 2021--Full Committee Hearing titled ``For-Profit College 
        Conversions: Examining Ways to Improve Accountability and 
        Prevent Fraud.''

    Purpose: To provide Committee members the opportunity to 
better understand the findings in a U.S. Government 
Accountability Office report on for-profit college conversions 
and the harm ``covert for-profits'' cause students and 
taxpayers.
    Witnesses: Ms. Melissa Emrey-Arras, Director of Higher 
Education, U.S. Government Accountability Office, Boston, MA; 
Ms. Yan Cao, Senior Fellow, The Century Foundation, New York, 
NY; Mr. Brian Galle, Professor of Law, Georgetown University 
Law Center, Washington, DC; and Dr. Andrew Gillen, Senior 
Policy Analyst, Texas Public Policy Foundation, Austin, TX.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

April 22, 2021--Full Committee Hearing titled ``Members Day Hearing: 
        Committee on Education and Labor.''

    Purpose: To provide an opportunity for non-Committee 
Members to inform the Committee of their interests and 
priorities as they relate to the Committee's jurisdiction 
pursuant to Rule X of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives.
    Witnesses: Oral testimony provided by the Honorable Mary 
Gay Scanlon, Member of Congress, U.S. House of Representatives, 
Swarthmore, PA; and the Honorable James Langevin, Member of 
Congress, U.S. House of Representatives, Warwick, RI. Written 
testimony provided by the Honorable J. French Hill, Member of 
Congress, U.S. House of Representatives, Little Rock, AR; the 
Honorable Brenda Lawrence, Member of Congress, U.S. House of 
Representatives, Southfield, MI; the Honorable Angie Craig, 
Member of Congress, U.S. House of Representatives, Eagan, MN; 
the Honorable Matt Cartwright, Member of Congress, U.S. House 
of Representatives, Moosic, PA; and the Honorable Steve Cohen, 
Member of Congress, U.S. House of Representatives, Memphis, TN.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

April 28, 2021--Full Committee Hearing titled ``Building Back Better: 
        Investing in Improving Schools, Creating Jobs, and 
        Strengthening Families and our Economy.''

    Purpose: To examine President Biden's American Jobs Plan 
(AJP) and American Families Plan (AFP), proposals which 
encompass a multi-year plan to transform the economy through 
infrastructure investment, job training, and addressing climate 
change. The hearing received testimony on proposals to expand 
child care, rebuild unsafe school buildings in areas of 
greatest need, help workers develop in-demand skills to prepare 
for rewarding careers, and update community college 
infrastructure.
    Witnesses: Mr. Rasheed Malik, Senior Policy Analyst, Center 
for American Progress, Washington, DC; Dr. Neal McCluskey, 
Director, Cato Institute's Center for Educational Freedom, 
Washington, DC; Mr. Mark Mitsui, President, Portland Community 
College; Portland, OR; Mr. Bob Lanter, Executive Director, 
California Workforce Association, Sacramento, CA; Mr. Brian 
Riedl, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute, New York, NY; and 
Ms. Mary Filardo, Executive Director, 21st Century School Fund, 
Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

May 3, 2021--Subcommittee on Workforce Protections Hearing titled 
        ``From Excluded to Essential: Tracing the Racist Exclusion of 
        Farmworkers, Domestic Workers, and Tipped Workers from the Fair 
        Labor Standards Act.''

    Purpose: To examine the negative economic and social 
impacts of excluding farmworkers, domestic workers, and tipped 
workers from the full protections of the Fair Labor Standards 
Act, their exclusion having been rooted in the racist design of 
the legislation, and to consider congressional action to remedy 
the exclusion of these groups of workers.
    Witnesses: Ms. Rebecca Dixon, Executive Director, National 
Employment Law Project, Washington, DC; Mr. Paul DeCamp, 
Member, Epstein Becker & Green, P.C., Washington, DC; Ms. 
Teresa Romero, President, United Farm Workers, Lancaster, CA; 
and Ms. Haeyoung Yoon, Senior Policy Director, National 
Domestic Workers Alliance, New York, NY.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

May 5, 2021--Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions 
        Hearing titled ``Lower Drug Costs Now: Expanding Access to 
        Affordable Health Care.''

    Purpose: To explore the rising cost of prescription drugs 
in the United States and the impact of high drug prices on 
workers and businesses.
    Witnesses: Dr. Mariana P. Socal, Assistant Scientist, Johns 
Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD; Mr. 
David Mitchell, Founder, Patients for Affordable Drugs Now, 
Bethesda, MD; Dr. Douglas Holtz-Eakin, President, American 
Action Forum, Washington, DC; and Mr. Frederick Isasi, 
Executive Director, Families USA, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

May 6, 2021--Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary 
        Education Hearing titled ``Addressing the Impact of COVID-19 on 
        Students with Disabilities.''

    Purpose: To examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on 
students with disabilities and needed steps to support their 
educational recovery, life skills development, and social-
emotional well-being.
    Witnesses: Mr. Ronald M. Hager, Managing Attorney, National 
Disability Rights Network, Washington, DC; Ms. Kanika A. 
Littleton, Project Director, Michigan Alliance for Families, 
Lansing, MI; Mr. Reade Bush, Parent, Arlington, VA; and Dr. 
Danielle M. Kovach, Special Education Teacher, Tulsa Trail 
Elementary School, Hopatcong Board of Education, Hopatcong, NJ.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

May 12, 2021--Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services Hearing 
        titled ``Examining the Policies and Priorities of the U.S. 
        Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service.''

    Purpose: To examine the policies and priorities of the U.S. 
Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service as 
conveyed in President Biden's Budget for Fiscal Year 2022 as 
they relate to federal child nutrition programs.
    Witness: Ms. Stacy Dean, Deputy Under Secretary for Food, 
Nutrition, and Consumer Services, U.S. Department of 
Agriculture, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

May 13, 2021--Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Investment 
        Hearing titled ``Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act 
        Reauthorization: Creating Opportunities for Youth Employment.''

    Purpose: To examine how the Workforce Innovation and 
Opportunity Act (WIOA) currently serves the needs of in-school 
and out-of-school youth and what changes are needed to improve 
WOIA's youth services as part of reauthorization.
    Witnesses: Ms. Chekemma Townsend, President and CEO, 
Philadelphia Youth Network, Philadelphia, PA; Mr. Thomas 
Showalter, Senior Advisor, National Youth Employment Coalition, 
Washington, DC; Ms. Deb Lindner, Human Resources Manager, 
Precor, Whitsett, NC; and Mr. Byron Garret, President and CEO, 
National Job Corps Association, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

May 19, 2021--Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and 
        Secondary Education Hearing titled ``Picking up the Pieces: 
        Strengthening Connections with Students Experiencing 
        Homelessness and Children in Foster Care.''

    Purpose: To examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on 
the educational experiences of children and students 
experiencing homelessness and children and students in foster 
care and the ways in which the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 
will support these populations.
    Witnesses: Ms. Jennifer Erb-Downward, MPH, Senior Research 
Associate, Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan, Ann 
Arbor, MI; Ms. Michelle Linder-Coates, Executive Director, 
School District of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Ms. Gretchen 
Davis, foster parent, Arlington, VA; and Dr. James F. Lane, 
Virginia Superintendent of Public Instruction, Virginia 
Department of Education, Richmond, VA.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

May 26, 2021--Full Committee Markup of H.R. 3110, the Providing Urgent 
        Maternal Protections (PUMP) for Nursing Mothers Act.

    Sponsor: Rep. Carolyn Maloney (NY)
    Disposition: H.R. 3110 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by a vote of 28 Yeas and 19 Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-102 was filed on July 
22, 2021.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

May 26, 2021--Full Committee Markup of H.R. 2062, the Protecting Older 
        Workers Against Discrimination Act of 2021 (POWADA).

    Sponsor: Rep. Robert C. ``Bobby'' Scott (VA)
    Disposition: H.R. 2062 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by a vote of 29 Yeas and 18 Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-63 was filed on June 17, 
2021.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

May 27, 2021--Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Investment 
        Hearing titled ``Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act 
        Reauthorization: Creating Employment Pathways for Dislocated 
        Workers.''

    Purpose: To examine how the Workforce Innovation and 
Opportunity Act (WIOA) currently serves the needs of dislocated 
workers and to consider improvements to improve outcomes for 
dislocated workers through the reauthorization of WIOA.
    Witnesses: Mr. Joseph Barela, Executive Director, Colorado 
Department of Labor and Employment, Denver, CO; Mr. PJ McGrew, 
Executive Director, Indiana Governor's Workforce Cabinet, 
Indianapolis, IN; Mr. Matt Sigelman, Chief Executive Officer, 
Burning Glass Technologies, Boston, MA; and Ms. Portia Wu, 
Managing Director, U.S. Public Policy, U.S. Government Affairs, 
Microsoft Corporation, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

June 9, 2021--Full Committee Hearing titled ``Examining the Policies 
        and Priorities of the U.S. Department of Labor.''

    Purpose: To examine the policies and priorities of the U.S. 
Department of Labor as conveyed in President Biden's Budget for 
Fiscal Year 2022.
    Witness: The Honorable Martin Walsh, Secretary, U.S. 
Department of Labor, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

June 10, 2021--Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services Hearing 
        titled ``Ending Child Hunger: Priorities for Child Nutrition 
        Reauthorization.''

    Purpose: To examine legislative solutions to end child 
hunger and discuss how Congress can bolster proven strategies 
to feed hungry children.
    Witnesses: Mr. Michael Wilson, Director, Maryland Hunger 
Solutions, Baltimore, MD; Ms. Crystal Cooper, Executive 
Director, Nutrition Support Services, Chicago Public Schools, 
Chicago, IL; Mr. Brandon Lipps, Principal, Caprock Strategies, 
Alexandria, VA; and Mr. Tom Colicchio, Chef and Owner, Crafted 
Hospitality, New York, NY.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

June 15, 2021--Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce 
        Investment Hearing titled ``Workforce Innovation and 
        Opportunity Act Reauthorization: Examining Successful Models of 
        Employment for Justice-Involved Individuals.''

    Purpose: To examine how the Workforce Innovation and 
Opportunity Act (WIOA) currently serves the needs of justice-
involved individuals and what changes are needed to improve the 
scope and effectiveness of the U.S. Department of Labor's 
Reentry Opportunities Program through the reauthorization of 
WIOA.
    Witnesses: Ms. Traci Scott, Vice President of Workforce 
Development Division, National Urban League, New York, NY; Mr. 
Gregg Keesling, President, DBA Recycle Force Workforce, Inc., 
Indianapolis, IN; Dr. Pamela Lattimore, Senior Director for 
Research Development, Division for Applied Justice Research, 
RTI International, Durham, NC; and Ms. Wendi Safstrom, 
Executive Director, SHRM Foundation, Alexandria, VA.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

June 16, 2021--Full Committee Hearing titled ``Examining the Policies 
        and Priorities of the U.S. Department of Health and Human 
        Services.''

    Purpose: To examine the policies and priorities of the U.S. 
Department of Health and Human Services as conveyed in 
President Biden's Budget for Fiscal Year 2022.
    Witness: The Honorable Xavier Becerra, Secretary, U.S. 
Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

June 23, 2021--Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions 
        Hearing titled ``Examining Pathways to Build a Stronger, More 
        Inclusive Retirement System.''

    Purpose: To examine the challenges facing retirement savers 
and explore options for congressional action to increase access 
to sustainable retirement income for categories of workers 
historically excluded from participation in retirement savings 
programs.
    Witnesses: Dr. Teresa Ghilarducci, Irene and Bernard L. 
Schwartz Professor of Economics and Policy Analysis, The New 
School for Social Research, New York, NY; Dr. Nari Rhee, 
Director, Retirement Security Program, University of California 
at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; Dr. Andrew Biggs, Resident Scholar, 
American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC; and Mr. David 
Certner, Legislative Counsel and Legislative Policy Director, 
AARP, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

June 24, 2021--Full Committee Hearing titled ``Examining the Policies 
        and Priorities of the U.S. Department of Education.''

    Purpose: To examine the policies and priorities of the U.S. 
Department of Education as conveyed in President Biden's Budget 
for Fiscal Year 2022.
    Witness: The Honorable Miguel Cardona, Secretary, U.S. 
Department of Education, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

July 15, 2021--Full Committee Markup of H.R. 2119, the Family Violence 
        Prevention and Services Improvement Act of 2021.

    Sponsor: Rep. Lucy McBath (GA)
    Disposition: H.R. 2119 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by a vote of 26 Yeas and 20 Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-126 was filed on 
September 23, 2021.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

July 15, 2021--Full Committee Markup of H.R. 3992, the Protect Older 
        Job Applicants (POJA) Act of 2021.

    Sponsor: Rep. Sylvia Garcia (TX)
    Disposition: H.R. 3992 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by a vote of 26 Yeas and 19 Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-127 was filed on 
September 23, 2021.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

July 15, 2021--Full Committee Markup of H.R. 729, the Strength in 
        Diversity Act of 2021.

    Sponsor: Rep. Robert C. ``Bobby'' Scott (VA)
    Disposition: H.R. 729 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by a vote of 27 Yeas and 19 Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-176 was filed on 
November 23, 2021.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

July 15, 2021--Full Committee Markup of H.R. 730, the Equity and 
        Inclusion Enforcement Act of 2021.

    Sponsor: Rep. Robert C. ``Bobby'' Scott (VA)
    Disposition: H.R. 730 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by a vote of 27 Yeas and 19 Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-177 (Part I) was filed 
on November 23, 2021.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

July 20, 2021--Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions 
        and Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Investment 
        Joint Hearing titled ``Care for Our Communities: Investing in 
        the Direct Care Workforce.''

    Purpose: To examine the unmet need for direct care workers 
as well as the difficulty in recruiting, retaining, supporting, 
and training this critical and in-demand workforce; to discuss 
issues related to wages, Medicaid reimbursement rates, and 
working conditions; and to consider the role of the Direct CARE 
Opportunity Act (H.R. 2999) in addressing the problems 
identified.
    Witnesses: Mr. Robert Espinoza, Vice President of Policy, 
PHI, Bronx, NY; Ms. Zulma Torres, Home Health Aide, Cooperative 
Home Care Associates, Waterbury, CT; Mr. Paul Burani, Head of 
Business Development, North America Udacity, Inc., Mountain 
View, CA; and the Honorable Jessica Fay, State Representative, 
Maine House of Representatives, Raymond, ME.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

July 21, 2021--Subcommittee on Workforce Protections and Subcommittee 
        on Civil Rights and Human Services Joint Hearing titled 
        ``Phasing Out Subminimum Wages: Supporting the Transition to 
        Competitive Integrated Employment for Workers with 
        Disabilities.''

    Purpose: To consider H.R. 2723, the Transformation to 
Competitive Integrated Employment Act, a bill that would phase 
out the subminimum wage for workers with disabilities and 
authorize funding to states and employers to transition workers 
with disabilities to competitive integrated employment.
    Witnesses: Ms. Nantanee Koppstein, Member, New Jersey 
Statewide Independent Living Council, Princeton Junction, NJ; 
Mr. John Anton, Legislative Specialist, Massachusetts Down 
Syndrome Congress, Haverhill, MA; Dr. Matthew Putts, CEO, 
Employment Horizons, Inc., Cedar Knolls, NJ; and Mr. Anil 
Lewis, Executive Director for Blindness Initiatives, National 
Federation of the Blind, Baltimore, MD.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

July 28, 2021--Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services Hearing 
        titled ``Food for Thought: Examining Federal Nutrition Programs 
        for Young Children and Infants.''

    Purpose: To examine federal child nutrition and related 
programs that support young children and opportunities to 
strengthen these laws.
    Witnesses: Ms. Teresa L. Turner, Nutritionist, Child and 
Youth Services, United States Army, Glen Burnie, MD; Ms. Paula 
N. Garrett, Division Director, Division of Community Nutrition, 
Virginia Department of Health, Richmond, VA; Mr. Trevor 
Farrell, Senior Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer, 
Americas, Schreiber Foods, Inc., Green Bay, WI; and Mrs. 
Jessica Burris, North Carolina WIC Participant and 
Breastfeeding Peer Counselor, WIC Department, Montgomery County 
Department of Health, Troy, NC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

July 29, 2021--Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce 
        Investment Hearing titled ``Keeping the Pell Grant Promise: 
        Increasing Enrollment, Supporting Success.''

    Purpose: To examine trends related to low enrollment of 
Pell Grant eligible students at four-year public institutions, 
best institutional and research-based practices to increase 
enrollment and success, and how proposed federal policies will 
support and advance these efforts.
    Witnesses: Dr. Justin Ortagus, Associate Professor, Higher 
Education Administration and Policy, and Director, Institute of 
Higher Education, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; Dr. 
Robert Jones, Chancellor, University of Illinois Urbana-
Champaign, Champaign, IL; Dr. Michael Poliakoff, President, 
American Council of Trustees and Alumni, Washington, DC; and 
Ms. Darleny Suriel, Student, City College of New York, Bronx, 
NY.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

September 9, 2021--Full Committee Markup of Committee Print to comply 
        with reconciliation directive included in section 2002(b) of S. 
        Con. Res. 14, a concurrent resolution setting forth the 
        congressional budget for the United States Government for 
        fiscal year 2022 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary 
        levels for fiscal years 2023 through 2031.

    Sponsor: Rep. Robert C. ``Bobby'' Scott (VA)
    Disposition: The Committee Print was ordered to be 
favorably transmitted to the House Committee on the Budget, as 
amended, by a vote of 28 Yeas and 22 Nays.
    Committee Report: Transmitted on September 14, 2021.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

September 28, 2021--Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services and 
        Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Joint 
        Hearing titled ``How to Save a Life: Successful Models for 
        Protecting Communities from COVID-19.''

    Purpose: To address barriers to COVID-19 vaccine and 
testing access and highlight resources provided by the American 
Rescue Plan Act of 2021 to increase vaccination rates and make 
testing more available in underserved communities.
    Witnesses: Dr. Leana Wen, Research Professor, The George 
Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, 
and Distinguished Fellow, Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health 
Workforce Equity, Washington, DC; Dr. Viviana Martinez-Bianchi, 
Director of Health Equity and Associate Professor, Department 
of Family Medicine and Community Health, Duke University School 
of Medicine, Durham, NC; Mr. Avik Roy, President, The 
Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, Washington, DC; 
and Dr. Chris Pernell, Chief Strategic Integration and Health 
Equity Officer, University Hospital, Newark, NJ.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

September 29, 2021--Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and 
        Secondary Education Hearing titled ``Back to School: 
        Highlighting Best Practices for Safely Reopening School.''

    Purpose: To examine how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted 
the return to school for the 2021-2022 school year.
    Witnesses: Dr. Jesus Jara, Superintendent of Schools, Clark 
County School District, Las Vegas, NV; Ms. Denise Forte, 
Interim Chief Executive Officer, The Education Trust, 
Washington, DC; Mr. David Zweig, Freelance Journalist, New 
York, NY; and Dr. Ashish Jha, Dean and Professor of Health 
Services, Policy and Practice, Brown University School of 
Public Health, Providence, RI.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

September 30, 2021--Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce 
        Investment Hearing titled ``Protecting Students and Taxpayers: 
        Improving the Closed School Discharge Process.''

    Purpose: To hear testimony from the U.S. Government 
Accountability Office about its findings related to the closed 
school discharge process and to provide Committee members the 
opportunity to better understand potential improvements to the 
closed school discharge process to protect students harmed by 
school closures.
    Witnesses: Ms. Melissa Emrey-Arras, Director of Higher 
Education, U.S. Government Accountability Office, Boston, MA; 
Ms. Karyn Rhodes, Student Borrower, Torrance, CA; Mr. Preston 
Cooper, Research Fellow, Foundation for Research on Equal 
Opportunity, Washington, DC; and Ms. Robyn Smith, Senior 
Attorney, Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

October 6, 2021--Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce 
        Investment Hearing titled ``Homecoming: The Historical Roots 
        and Continued Contributions of HBCUs.''

    Purpose: To explore the important and unique role that 
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) play in 
the higher education landscape, the historical background that 
sets these institutions apart, challenges created by systemic 
underfunding of the sector, and the ongoing need for federal 
support.
    Witnesses: Dr. Lezli Baskerville, President and CEO, 
National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education, 
Washington, DC; Dr. Glenda Glover, President, Tennessee State 
University, Nashville, TN; Mrs. Angela Sailor, Vice President, 
The Edwin J. FeulnerInstitute, The Heritage Foundation, 
Washington, DC; and Dr. Andre Perry, Senior Fellow, The 
Brookings Institute, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

October 26, 2021--Subcommittee on Workforce Protections and 
        Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services Joint Hearing 
        titled ``Protecting Lives and Livelihoods: Vaccine Requirements 
        and Employee Accommodations.''

    Purpose: To examine the civil rights and accommodations 
issues regarding employer vaccination policies, and to assess 
the policy issues related to the impending Occupational Safety 
and Health Administration's Emergency Temporary Standard that 
calls for employers with 100 or more employees to require 
employees to receive vaccination against COVID-19 or undergo 
routine testing.
    Witnesses: Dr. Sidney Shapiro, Frank U. Fletcher Chair in 
Administrative Law and Professor of Law, Wake Forest University 
School of Law, Winston-Salem, NC; Ms. Richelle T. Luther, 
Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, 
Columbia Sportswear Company, Portland, OR; Mr. Scott Hecker, 
Senior Counsel, Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Washington, DC; and Dr. 
Doron Dorfman, Associate Professor of Law, Syracuse University 
College of Law, Syracuse, NY.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

October 27, 2021--Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce 
        Investment Hearing titled ``Examining the Policies and 
        Priorities of the Office of Federal Student Aid.''

    Purpose: To explore the plans of the Office of Federal 
Student Aid within the U.S. Department of Education in 
overseeing institutions of higher education and enforcing 
compliance with the requirements for participation in programs 
authorized under title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965.
    Witness: The Honorable Richard Cordray, Chief Operating 
Officer, Office of Federal Student Aid, U.S. Department of 
Education, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

November 3, 2021--Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services 
        Hearing titled ``A Call to Action: Modernizing the Community 
        Services Block Grant.''

    Purpose: To examine reauthorization of the Community 
Services Block Grant.
    Witnesses: Mr. David Bradley, Chief Executive Officer, 
National Community Action Foundation, Fredericksburg, VA; Ms. 
Sharon Scott-Chandler, Executive Vice President and Chief 
Operating Officer, Action for Boston Community Development, 
Inc., Natick, MA; Mr. Clarence Carter, Commissioner, Tennessee 
Department of Human Services, Nashville, TN; and Ms. Katherine 
King Galian, Director of Family and Community Resources, 
Community Action, Hillsboro, OR.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

November 4, 2021--Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and 
        Pensions Hearing titled ``Closing the Courthouse Doors: The 
        Injustice of Forced Arbitration Agreements.''

    Purpose: To examine the impacts of forced arbitration and 
collective action waivers on workers' ability to enforce their 
rights under federal employment laws and to consider H.R. 4841, 
the Restoring Justice for Workers Act, a bill to make forced 
arbitration provisions and collective action waivers 
unenforceable in employment cases and to make the use of those 
provisions unlawful under the National Labor Relation Act.
    Witnesses: Dr. Alexander Colvin, Kenneth F. Kahn Dean and 
Martin F. Scheinman Professor of Conflict Resolution, Cornell 
University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Ithaca, 
NY; Ms. Glenda Perez, former Implementation Set-Up 
Representative, Cigna, Ruskin, FL; Mr. Roger King, Senior Labor 
and Employment Counsel, HR Policy Association, Arlington, VA; 
and Ms. Kalpana Kotagal, Partner, Cohen Milstein Sellers & 
Toll, PLLC, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

November 10, 2021--Full Committee Markup of H.R. 5891, the Retirement 
        Improvement and Savings Enhancement (RISE) Act.

    Sponsor: Rep. Robert C. ``Bobby'' Scott (VA)
    Disposition: H.R. 5891 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by voice vote.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-250 (Part I) was filed 
on February 25, 2022.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

November 17, 2021--Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and 
        Secondary Education and Subcommittee on Higher Education and 
        Workforce Investment Joint Hearing titled ``Examining the 
        Implementation of COVID-19 Education Funds.''

    Purpose: To hear from senior U.S. Department of Education 
officials about the management and oversight of the Education 
Stabilization Fund (ESF).
    Witnesses: Ms. Cindy Marten, Deputy Secretary, U.S. 
Department of Education, Washington, DC; and Mr. James Kvaal, 
Under Secretary, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

December 1, 2021--Full Committee Hearing titled ``Examining the 
        Policies and Priorities of the Corporation for National and 
        Community Service.''

    Purpose: To examine the policies and priorities of the 
Corporation for National and Community Service, including 
financial management concerns identified by the agency's 
auditors.
    Witnesses: The Honorable Deborah Jeffrey, Inspector 
General, Corporation for National and Community Service, 
Washington, DC; and Mr. Malcolm Coles, Acting Chief Executive 
Officer, Corporation for National and Community Service, 
Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

December 2, 2021--Subcommittee on Workforce Protections Hearing titled 
        ``Strengthening the Safety Net for Injured Workers.''

    Purpose: To assess the policies and priorities of the U.S. 
Department of Labor's Office of Workers' Compensation Programs; 
to assess the need for management reforms to the black lung 
benefits self-insurance program; and to consider four pieces of 
legislation to strengthen federal workers' compensation 
programs--H.R. 2499, the Federal Firefighters Fairness Act; 
H.R. 3314, the Longshore and Harbor Workers' COVID-19 
Compensation Act of 2021; H.R. 6102, the Black Lung Benefits 
Improvement Act of 2021; and H.R. 6087, the Improving Access to 
Workers' Compensation for Injured Federal Workers Act.
    Witnesses: Panel I--The Honorable Salud Carbajal, Member of 
Congress, U.S. House of Representatives, Santa Barbara, CA. 
Panel II--Mr. Christopher Godfrey, Director, Office of Workers' 
Compensation Programs, U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, 
DC; and Mr. Thomas Costa, Director, Education, Workforce, and 
Income Security, U.S. Government Accountability Office, 
Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

February 16, 2022--Full Committee Meeting to approve new Subcommittee 
        assignments.

    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

February 16, 2022--Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and 
        Secondary Education Hearing titled ``Serving All Students: 
        Promoting a Healthier, More Supportive School Environment.''

    Purpose: To examine outdated discipline practices and to 
highlight evidence-based practices that schools can implement 
to create healthy school environments that support students' 
social, emotional, and academic development.
    Witnesses: Mr. Guy Stephens, Founder and Executive 
Director, Alliance Against Seclusion and Restraint, Lusby, MD; 
Ms. Morgan Craven, National Director of Policy, Advocacy, and 
Community Engagement, Intercultural Development Research 
Association, San Antonio, TX; Mr. Max Eden, Research Fellow, 
American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC; and Ms. Kristen 
Harper, Vice President for Public Policy and Engagement, Child 
Trends, Laurel, MD.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

February 17, 2022--Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and 
        Pensions Hearing titled ``Exploring Pathways to Affordable, 
        Universal Health Coverage.''

    Purpose: To examine the need for and proposals to achieve 
universal health coverage in the United States.
    Witnesses: The Honorable Robert B. Reich, Chancellor's 
Professor of Public Policy, University of California at 
Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; Dr. Georges C. Benjamin, MD, Executive 
Director, American Public Health Association, Washington, DC; 
Dr. Brian Blase, President, Paragon Health Institute, Ponte 
Vedra, FL; and Ms. Katie Keith, Visiting Professor and Director 
of the Health Policy and the Law Initiative, O'Neill Institute 
for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law 
Center, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

March 1, 2022--Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions 
        Hearing titled ``Improving Retirement Security and Access to 
        Mental Health Benefits.''

    Purpose: To examine ways to strengthen access to retirement 
security and mental health benefits.
    Witnesses: Ms. Amy Matsui, Director of Income Security and 
Senior Counsel, National Women's Law Center, Washington, DC; 
Ms. Karen Handorf, Senior Counsel, Berger Montague, Alexandria, 
VA; Mr. Andrew Biggs, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise 
Institute, Washington, DC; and Mr. Aron Szapiro, Head of 
Retirement Studies and Public Policy, Morningstar, Inc. and 
Morningstar Investment Management LLC, Chicago, IL.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

March 2, 2022--Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce 
        Investment Hearing titled ``Investing in Economic Mobility: The 
        Important Role of Hispanic Serving Institutions and Other 
        Minority Serving Institutions.''

    Purpose: To explore the important role that Minority 
Serving Institutions play in higher education, their ongoing 
need for federal support, and their implementation of 
federally-funded grant activities.
    Witnesses: Dr. Jose Luis Cruz Rivera, President, Northern 
Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ; Dr. Patricia Ramsey, 
President, Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn, NY; Dr. Janine 
Davidson, President, Metropolitan State University of Denver, 
Denver, CO; and Dr. Robert Teranishi, Professor of Education 
and Morgan and Helen Chu Endowed Chair in Asian American 
Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, CA.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

March 16, 2022--Full Committee Meeting to approve new Subcommittee 
        assignments.

    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

March 16, 2022--Full Committee Markup of H.R. 6102, the Black Lung 
        Benefits Improvement Act of 2021.

    Sponsor: Rep. Matt Cartwright (PA)
    Disposition: H.R. 6102 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by a vote of 28 Yeas and 22 Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-589 (Part I) was filed 
on December 2, 2022.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

March 16, 2022--Full Committee Markup of H.R. 5129, the Community 
        Services Block Grant Modernization Act of 2022.

    Sponsor: Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (OR)
    Disposition: H.R. 5129 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by a vote of 35 Yeas and 14 Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-311 was filed on May 6, 
2022.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

March 16, 2022--Full Committee Markup of H.R. 2499, the Federal Fire 
        Fighters Fairness Act of 2022.

    Sponsor: Rep. Salud Carbajal (CA)
    Disposition: H.R. 2499 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by a vote of 31 Yeas and 18 Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-306 was filed on May 6, 
2022.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

March 16, 2022--Full Committee Markup of H.R. 5428, the School Shooting 
        Safety and Preparedness Act.

    Sponsor: Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL)
    Disposition: H.R. 5428 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by a vote of 27 Yeas and 21 Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-307 was filed on May 6, 
2022.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

March 16, 2022--Full Committee Markup of H.R. 3114, the Longshore and 
        Harbor Workers' COVID-19 Compensation Act of 2022.

    Sponsor: Rep. Frank Mrvan (IN)
    Disposition: H.R. 6102 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by a vote of 27 Yeas and 21 Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-526 was filed on 
September 29, 2022.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

March 16, 2022--Full Committee Markup of H.R. 6087, the Improving 
        Access to Workers' Compensation for Injured Federal Workers 
        Act.

    Sponsor: Rep. Joe Courtney (CT)
    Disposition: H.R. 6087 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by voice vote.
    Committee Report: No Committee Report filed.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

April 5, 2022--Full Committee Markup of H.R. 7309, the Workforce 
        Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2022.

    Sponsor: Rep. Robert C. ``Bobby'' Scott (VA)
    Disposition: H.R. 7309 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by a vote of 29 Yeas and 21 Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-321 was filed on May 12, 
2022.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

April 5, 2022--Full Committee Markup of H.R. 7310, the Protecting 
        America's Retirement Security Act.

    Sponsor: Rep. Lucy McBath (GA)
    Disposition: H.R. 7310 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by a vote of 29 Yeas and 21 Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-557 (Part I) was filed 
on November 14, 2022.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

April 6, 2022--Full Committee Hearing titled ``Examining the Policies 
        and Priorities of the U.S. Department of Health and Human 
        Services.''

    Purpose: To examine the policies and priorities of the U.S. 
Department of Health and Human Services as conveyed in 
President Biden's Budget for Fiscal Year 2023.
    Witness: The Honorable Xavier Becerra, Secretary, U.S. 
Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

April 27, 2022--Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services Hearing 
        titled ``Examining the Policies and Priorities of the Equal 
        Employment Opportunity Commission and the Office of Federal 
        Contract Compliance Programs.''

    Purpose: To examine the policies and priorities of the U.S. 
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and U.S. Department of 
Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs as 
conveyed in President Biden's Budget for Fiscal Year 2023.
    Witnesses: The Honorable Charlotte Burrows, Chair, U.S. 
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, DC; and 
Ms. Jenny Yang, Director, Office of Federal Contract Compliance 
Programs, U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

May 11, 2022--Subcommittee on Workforce Protections Hearing titled 
        ``Standing Up for Workers: Preventing Wage Theft and Recovering 
        Stolen Wages.''

    Purpose: To examine the negative impacts of wage theft on 
workers and honest businesses as well as consider the Wage 
Theft Prevention and Wage Recovery Act (H.R. 7701), which would 
deter wage theft and help workers seek justice to recover lost 
wages.
    Witnesses: Ms. Karen Cacace, Labor Bureau Chief, The New 
York State Office of the Attorney General, New York, NY; Mr. 
Daniel Swenson-Klatt, Owner and Operator, Butter Bakery Cafe, 
Minneapolis, MN; Ms. Tammy McCutcheon, Senior Affiliate, 
Resolution Economics, Washington, DC; and Mr. Francisco 
Esparza, Representative, United Brotherhood of Carpenters, 
Upper Marlboro, MD.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

May 17, 2022--Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services Hearing 
        titled ``Examining Ways to Improve the Juvenile Justice System 
        and Support America's Young People.''

    Purpose: To examine the current state of the juvenile 
justice and child welfare residential care systems by assessing 
the risk factors that lead to out-of-home placement, exploring 
treatment and service options for youth in these systems, and 
evaluating the role of federal funding.
    Witnesses: Ms. Lisette Burton, Chief Policy and Practice 
Advisor, Association of Children's Residential and Community 
Services (ACRC), Milwaukee, WI; Mr. A. Hasan Davis, Founder/
Director, Hasan Davis Solutions L.L.C., Lexington, KY; Mr. Alan 
Loux, President and CEO, Rawhide Youth Services, New London, 
WI; and Dr. Karen Kolivoski, Associate Professor, Howard 
University School of Social Work, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

May 18, 2022--Full Committee Markup of H.R. 604, the Rebuild America's 
        Schools Act (RASA) of 2022.

    Sponsor: Rep. Robert C. ``Bobby'' Scott (VA)
    Disposition: H.R. 604 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by a vote of 27 Yeas and 19 Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-607 (Part I) was filed 
on December 7, 2022.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

May 18, 2022--Full Committee Markup of H.R. 7701, the Wage Theft 
        Prevention and Wage Recovery Act of 2022.

    Sponsor: Rep. Rosa DeLauro (CT)
    Disposition: H.R. 7701 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by a vote of 27 Yeas and 19 Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-540 was filed on October 
7, 2022.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

May 18, 2022--Full Committee Markup of H.R. 5407, the Enhancing Mental 
        Health and Suicide Prevention Through Campus Planning Act.

    Sponsor: Rep. Susan Wild (PA)
    Disposition: H.R. 5407 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by voice vote.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-383 was filed on June 
23, 2022.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

May 18, 2022--Full Committee Markup of H.R. 6493, the Campus Prevention 
        and Recovery Services for Students Act of 2022.

    Sponsor: Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez (NM)
    Disposition: H.R. 6493 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by voice vote.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-384 was filed on June 
23, 2022.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

May 18, 2022--Full Committee Markup of H.R. 7780, the Mental Health 
        Matters Act.

    Sponsor: Rep. Mark DeSaulnier (CA)
    Disposition: H.R. 7780 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by a vote of 26 Yeas 18 Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-484 was filed on 
September 22, 2022.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

May 24, 2022--Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and 
        Secondary Education Hearing titled ``Examining the Policies and 
        Priorities of the Bureau of Indian Education'' (held jointly 
        with the Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee for 
        Indigenous People of the United States) (hearing was adjourned 
        before witness testimony or Member questions due to technical 
        difficulties; subcommittees agreed to conduct a second hearing 
        and include an additional witness).

    Purpose: To examine the role of the Bureau of Indian 
Education in serving American Indian and Alaskan Native 
students.
    Witness: Mr. Tony Dearman, Director, Bureau of Indian 
Education, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

May 25, 2022--Subcommittee on Workforce Protections Hearing titled 
        ``Examining the Policies and Priorities of the Occupational 
        Safety and Health Administration.''

    Purpose: To examine the policies and priorities of the 
Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
    Witnesses: The Honorable Douglas Parker, Assistant 
Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health, 
Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department 
of Labor, Washington, DC; and Mr. Thomas Costa, Director, 
Education, Workforce, and Income Security, U.S. Government 
Accountability Office, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

May 26, 2022--Full Committee Hearing titled ``Examining the Policies 
        and Priorities of the U.S. Department of Education.''

    Purpose: To examine the policies and priorities of the U.S. 
Department of Education as conveyed in President Biden's Budget 
for Fiscal Year 2023.
    Witness: The Honorable Miguel Cardona, Secretary, U.S. 
Department of Education, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

June 14, 2022--Full Committee Hearing titled ``Examining the Policies 
        and Priorities of the U.S. Department of Labor.''

    Purpose: To examine the policies and priorities of the U.S. 
Department of Labor as conveyed in President Biden's Budget for 
Fiscal Year 2023.
    Witness: The Honorable Martin Walsh, Secretary, U.S. 
Department of Labor, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

June 23, 2022--Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services Hearing 
        titled ``Examining the Policies and Priorities of the U.S. 
        Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service.''

    Purpose: To examine the policies and priorities of the U.S. 
Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service as 
conveyed in President Biden's Budget for Fiscal Year 2023.
    Witness: Ms. Cindy Long, Administrator, Food and Nutrition 
Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

June 28, 2022--Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and 
        Secondary Education Hearing titled ``Examining the Policies and 
        Priorities of the Bureau of Indian Education'' (held jointly 
        with the Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee for 
        Indigenous People of the United States) (this hearing was a 
        follow-up to the hearing on May 24, 2022, above).

    Purpose: To examine the role of the Bureau of Indian 
Education in serving American Indian and Alaskan Native 
students.
    Witnesses: Ms. Beth Sirois, Assistant Director, U.S. 
Government Accountability Office, Washington, DC; and Mr. Tony 
Dearman, Director, Bureau of Indian Education, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

July 19, 2022--Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce 
        Investment Hearing titled ``The History and Continued 
        Contributions of Tribal Colleges and Universities.''

    Purpose: The purpose of this hearing is to explore the 
important and unique role that Tribal Colleges and Universities 
(TCUs) play in the higher education landscape, including the 
historical background that sets these institutions apart from a 
policy standpoint, their accomplishments, the important role 
these institutions play in their communities, and their ongoing 
need for federal support.
    Witnesses: Ms. Carrie Billy, President and CEO, American 
Indian Higher Education Consortium, Alexandria, VA; Dr. Cynthia 
Lindquist, President, Cankdeska Cikana Community College, Fort 
Totten, ND; Dr. Beth Akers, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise 
Institute, Washington, DC; and Dr. Sandra Boham, President, 
Salish Kootenai College, Pablo, MT. (Dr. Lindquist was unable 
to provide oral testimony, but her written statement was made 
part of the hearing record via unanimous consent.)
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

July 20, 2022--Subcommittee on Workforce Protections Hearing titled 
        ``Second Class Workers: Assessing H2 Visa Programs' Impact on 
        Workers.''

    Purpose: To examine the H-2A and H-2B visa programs and the 
U.S. Department of Labor's role in enforcing the labor 
standards in these programs.
    Witnesses: Mr. Daniel Costa, Director of Immigration Law 
and Policy Research, Economic Policy Institute, Washington, DC; 
Ms. Teresa Romero, President, United Farm Workers, Keene, CA; 
Mr. Leon Sequera, Attorney, Arlington, VA; and Mr. Ty Pinkins, 
Consumer Protection Attorney, Mississippi Center for Justice, 
Vicksburg, MS.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

July 27, 2022--Full Committee Markup of H.R. 2193, the Asuncion 
        Valdivia Heat Illness and Fatality Prevention Act of 2022.

    Sponsor: Rep. Judy Chu (CA)
    Disposition: H.R. 2193 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by a vote of 27 Yeas and 19 Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-547 was filed on 
November 7, 2022.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

July 27, 2022--Full Committee Markup of H.R. 8450, the Healthy Meals, 
        Healthy Kids Act.

    Sponsor: Rep. Robert C. ``Bobby'' Scott (VA)
    Disposition: H.R. 8450 was ordered to be favorably reported 
to the House, as amended, by a vote of 27 Yeas and 20 Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-548 was filed on 
November 7, 2022.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

July 28, 2022--Subcommittee on Workforce Protections Hearing titled 
        ``Essential but Undervalued: Examining Workplace Protections 
        for Domestic Workers.''

    Purpose: To examine the role domestic workers play in our 
nation's households and economy and their exclusion from labor 
law protections, and to consider the Domestic Workers Bill of 
Rights Act (H.R. 4826), which would provide protections for 
domestic workers.
    Witnesses: Ms. Ai-Jen Poo, President, National Domestic 
Workers Alliance, New York, NY; Dr. C. Nicole Mason, President 
and CEO, Institute for Women's Policy Research, Washington, DC; 
Mr. Paul DeCamp, Member, Epstein Becker Green, Washington, DC; 
and Ms. Dana Barnett, Washington State Organizer, Hand in Hand: 
the Domestic Employers Network, Seattle, WA.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

September 7, 2022--Subcommittee on Workforce Protections Hearing titled 
        ``Children at Risk: Examining Workplace Protections for Child 
        Farmworkers.''

    Purpose: To examine workplace protections for child 
farmworkers.
    Witnesses: Ms. Margaret Wurth, Senior Children's Rights 
Researcher, Human Rights Watch, Tarrytown, NY; Dr. Barbara Lee, 
Director/Senior Research Scientist, National Children's Center 
for Rural and Agriculture Health and Safety, Marshfield Clinic 
Research Institute, Marshfield, WI; Ms. Kristi Boswell, 
Counsel, Alston & Bird LLP, Washington, DC; and Ms. Norma 
Flores Lopez, Committee Chair, Child Labor Coalition, San Juan, 
TX.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

September 8, 2022--Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services 
        Hearing titled ``An Ounce of Prevention: Investments in 
        Juvenile Justice Programs.''

    Purpose: To examine the links between sustained investments 
in delinquency prevention and intervention programs and 
improved outcomes for young people and their communities.
    Witnesses: Dr. Stephanie Hawkins, Founding Director, 
Transformative Research Unit for Equity (TRUE), RTI 
International, Research Triangle Park, NC; Ms. Naomi Smoot 
Evans, Executive Director, Coalition for Juvenile Justice, 
Washington, DC; Fr. Steven Boes, National Executive Director, 
Boys Town, Boys Town, NE; and Mr. David Muhammad, Executive 
Director, National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform, 
Oakland, CA.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

September 14, 2022--Full Committee Hearing titled ``In Solidarity: 
        Removing Barriers to Organizing.''

    Purpose: To examine the increase in worker organizing 
activity across the country, the factors driving this activity, 
the need to increase funding for the National Labor Relations 
Board (NLRB) to handle the spike in this activity, and the need 
to enact the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act (H.R. 
842).
    Witnesses: Dr. Kate Bronfenbrenner, Director of Labor 
Education Research and Senior Lecturer, Cornell University 
School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Ithaca, NY; Mr. Mark 
Pearce, Visiting Professor and Executive Director of the 
Workers' Rights Institute, Georgetown University, Washington, 
DC; Mr. Roger King, Senior Labor and Employment Policy Counsel, 
HR Policy Association, Arlington, VA; and Ms. Michelle Eisen, 
Barista, Starbucks, Buffalo, NY.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

September 15, 2022--Full Committee Meeting to approve new Subcommittee 
        assignments.

    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

September 15, 2022--Full Committee Markup of H. Res. 1295, Of inquiry 
        directing the Secretary of Education to transmit certain 
        documents to the House of Representatives relating to the 
        Department of Education's cost estimates for the Secretary's 
        waivers related to public service loan forgiveness and income-
        driven repayment.

    Sponsor: Rep. Virginia Foxx (NC)
    Disposition: H. Res. 1295 was ordered to be reported 
adversely to the House, as amended, by a vote of 28 Yeas and 21 
Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-549 was filed on 
November 10, 2022.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

September 15, 2022--Full Committee Markup of H. Res. 1296, Of inquiry 
        requesting the President and directing the Secretary of 
        Education to transmit, respectively, certain documents to the 
        House of Representatives relating to the legal authority to 
        forgive Federal student loan debt.

    Sponsor: Rep. Virginia Foxx (NC)
    Disposition: H. Res. 1296 was ordered to be reported 
adversely to the House, as amended, by a vote of 28 Yeas and 21 
Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-550 was filed on 
November 10, 2022.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

September 15, 2022--Full Committee Markup of H. Res. 1273, Of inquiry 
        directing the President to provide certain documents in the 
        President's possession to the House of Representatives relating 
        to communication between the executive branch and the American 
        Federation of Teachers regarding reopening schools and 
        supporting safe, in-person learning.

    Sponsor: Rep. John Joyce (PA)
    Disposition: H. Res. 1273 was ordered to be reported 
adversely to the House, as amended, by a vote of 28 Yeas and 21 
Nays.
    Committee Report: House Report 117-539 was filed on 
September 30, 2022.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

September 20, 2022--Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and 
        Secondary Education Hearing titled ``Back to School: Meeting 
        Students'' Academic, Social, and Emotional Needs.''

    Purpose: To examine how states and school districts are 
approaching pandemic recovery this school year, including 
efforts to leverage evidence-based interventions to close 
achievement gaps exacerbated by the pandemic, as well as meet 
students' social and emotional needs.
    Witnesses: Ms. Phyllis Jordan, Associate Director, 
FutureEd, Washington, DC; Dr. Aaliyah Samuel, President and 
CEO, Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional 
Learning, Fairfax Station, VA; Dr. Penny Shinny, Tennessee 
Commissioner of Education, Tennessee Department of Education, 
Nashville, TN; and Dr. Matthew Blomstedt, Commissioner of 
Education, Nebraska Department of Education, Lincoln, NE.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

September 21, 2022--Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and 
        Pensions Hearing titled ``Examining the Administration of the 
        Unemployment Insurance System.''

    Purpose: To hear testimony from the U.S. Government 
Accountability Office (GAO) about its findings related to the 
U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL) implementation of the 
temporary pandemic unemployment insurance (UI) programs, GAO's 
inclusion of the regular UI system on its High Risk List, and 
steps DOL and Congress can take to make improvements to the 
administration of the UI system.
    Witnesses: Mr. Thomas Costa, Director, Education, 
Workforce, and Income Security Team, U.S. Government 
Accountability Office, Washington, DC; Ms. Rebecca Dixon, 
Executive Director, National Employment Law Project, 
Washington, DC; Mr. Matt Weidinger, Senior Fellow, American 
Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC; and Ms. Veronica 
Robinson, individual affected by one of the temporary pandemic 
UI programs, Philadelphia, PA.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

November 17, 2022--Full Committee Meeting to approve new Subcommittee 
        assignments.

    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

November 17, 2022--Subcommittee on Workforce Protections Hearing 
        entitled ``Unsafe and Untenable: Examining Workplace 
        Protections for Warehouse Workers.''

    Purpose: To examine the workplace safety crisis in 
warehouses and employers' responsibility to protect the health 
and safety of workers.
    Witnesses: Mr. Sheheryar Kaoosji, Executive Director, 
Warehouse Workers Resource Center, Ontario, CA; Mr. Eric 
Frumin, Director of Health and Safety, Strategic Organizing 
Center, New York, NY; Mr. Manesh K. Rath, Partner, Keller & 
Heckman, Washington, DC; and Ms. Janeth Caicedo, sister of 
Edilberto Caicedo, a warehouse worker who died on the job, 
Elizabeth, NJ.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

December 14, 2022--Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce 
        Investment Hearing titled ``Examining the Policies and 
        Priorities of the Corporation for National and Community 
        Service.''

    Purpose: To examine the policies and priorities of the 
Corporation for National and Community Service, including 
financial management concerns identified by the agency's 
auditors.
    Witnesses: The Honorable Deborah Jeffrey, Inspector 
General, Corporation for National and Community Service, 
Washington, DC; and Mr. Michael Smith, Chief Executive Officer, 
Corporation for National and Community Service, Washington, DC.
    Platform: Conducted in person in 2175 Rayburn HOB with 
remote participation via ZoomGov.

Other Committee Activity (Briefing) Conducted Entirely Remotely or With 
                          Remote Participation


April 21, 2021--Full Committee Bipartisan Briefing titled ``Workforce 
        Innovation and Opportunity Act Reauthorization.''

    Purpose: To provide Committee Members with a briefing on 
the reauthorization of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity 
Act.
    Experts: Dr. David Bradley, Analyst in Labor Economics, 
Congressional Research Service, Washington, DC; Ms. Dawn Locke, 
Acting Director, Education, Workforce, and Income Security, 
U.S. Government Accountability Office, Washington, DC; Mr. Ron 
Painter, President and CEO, National Association of Workforce 
Boards, Washington, DC; and Ms. Maria Flynn, President and CEO, 
Jobs for the Future, Boston, MA.
    Platform: Conducted entirely remotely via ZoomGov.

 Conference Reports Filed With Committee Members Appointed as Conferees

    No Committee Members were named as conferees to any 
conference reports in the 117th Congress.

Committee Review of Draft Codification of Law Proposed by the Office of 
                        the Law Revision Counsel

    The Office of the Law Revision Counsel prepared a draft of 
a bill to enact certain laws relating to territories and 
insular possessions as new positive law title 48, ``Territories 
and Insular Possessions'', of the United States Code. Upon 
request by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel, the 
Committee reviewed the draft. The Committee had no comments.

                 Issue Reports Written by the Committee

June 10, 2022--Report analyzing the economic benefits of unions 
    for workers and families. This report was released with the 
    Joint Economic Committee.
September 29, 2022--Report highlighting the importance of the 
    Affordable Care Act's requirement for health plans to 
    provide preventive care without cost-sharing. The report 
    details the Committee's concerns with attempts to erode 
    access to preventive care.

                Amicus Briefs Supported by the Committee

January 24, 2022--Brief submitted to the National Labor 
    Relations Board in support of reinstating a policy under 
    the Specialty Healthcare precedent to prevent employers 
    from gerrymandering union representation elections. This 
    brief was led by Chairman Scott and signed by 13 additional 
    Members of the House of Representatives.
April 1, 2022--Brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court in 
    Joseph A. Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, urging the 
    Supreme Court to uphold First Amendment protections by 
    reaffirming limitations on the ability of school staff to 
    lead students in, or pressure students into participating 
    in, school prayer or other religious activity. This brief 
    was signed by Chairman Scott and ten other Members of the 
    House of Representatives.
August 1, 2022--Brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court in 
    Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows 
    of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. 
    v. University of North Carolina, et. al., supporting 
    institutions of higher education considering race and 
    ethnicity as one narrowly tailored factor among many when 
    making admissions decisions. This brief was led by Chairman 
    Scott and signed by 64 additional Members of the House of 
    Representatives.
August 19, 2022--Brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court in 
    303 Creative LLC, et al., v. Aubrey Elenis, et al., in 
    support of antidiscrimination laws that fulfill the 
    government's compelling interest in eliminating 
    discrimination to ensure that everyone can participate 
    freely in all aspects of public life, including accessing 
    goods and services without discriminatory barriers. This 
    brief was signed by Chairman Scott, 122 other Members of 
    the House of Representatives, and 14 Members of the Senate.
September 26, 2022--Brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court 
    in the case of Health and Hospital Corp. of Marion County 
    v. Talevski, in support of the ability of individuals to 
    use federal courts to enforce the requirements of certain 
    federal programs, including Medicaid, the Supplemental 
    Nutrition Assistance Program, Section 504 of the 
    Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Fair Housing Assistance 
    Program, the Children's Health Insurance Program, Head 
    Start, and the Veterans Rehabilitation program. This brief 
    was signed by Chairman Scott, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 
    House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, House Majority Whip 
    James Clyburn, House Committee on Energy and Commerce Chair 
    Frank Pallone, Jr., House Committee on Ways and Means Chair 
    Richard Neal, House Committee on Financial Services Chair 
    Maxine Waters, House Committee on the Judiciary Chair 
    Jerrold Nadler, House Committee on Agriculture Chair David 
    Scott, House Committee on Veterans' Affairs Chair Mark 
    Takano, Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, Senate Committee 
    on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Chair Patty 
    Murray, Senate Committee on Finance Chair Ron Wyden, Senate 
    Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Chair 
    Sherrod Brown, and Senate Committee on Aging Chair Bob 
    Casey, Jr.

                     Committee Activity Statistics*

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Total Number of Bills and Resolutions Referred to the 
    Committee--1358
Total Number of Hearings Held by the Committee--61
Total Number of Hearings Held by the Full Committee--11
Total Number of Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Early 
    Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education (including 3 
    joint hearings)--9
Total Number of Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Higher 
    Education and Workforce Investment (including 2 joint 
    hearings)--13
Total Number of Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Health, 
    Employment, Labor, and Pensions (including 2 joint 
    hearings)--9
Total Number of Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Workforce 
    Protections (including 3 joint hearings)--12
Total Number of Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Civil 
    Rights and Human Services (including 4 joint hearing)--13
Total Number of Field Hearings (Held by the Subcommittee on 
    Higher Education and Workforce Investment jointly with the 
    House Committee on Veterans' Affairs' Subcommittee on 
    Economic Opportunity)--0
Total Number of Markup Sessions Held by the Committee--11
Total Number of Markup Sessions Held by the Full Committee--11
Total Number of Legislation Ordered Reported (including Two 
    Transmissions to the Committee on the Budget to Comply with 
    Reconciliation Directives) by the Full Committee--30
Total Number of Committee Reports Filed for Legislation Ordered 
    Reported by the Full Committee--27
Total Number of Legislation Referred to the Committee that 
    Passed the House (including each time legislation passed)--
    38
Total Number of Legislation Referred to the Committee that 
    Passed the House in Another Measure (including each time 
    legislation passed in another measure)--42
Total Number of Legislation Within Committee Jurisdiction Not 
    Referred to the Committee that Passed the House (including 
    each time legislation passed)--17
Total Number of Legislation Referred to the Committee Enacted 
    Into Law--1
Total Number of Legislation Referred to the Committee Enacted 
    Into Law in Another Measure--9
Total Number of Legislation Within Committee Jurisdiction Not 
    Referred to the Committee Enacted Into Law--11
Total Number of Committee-Initiated Correspondence--75
Total Number of Official Committee Proceedings Conducted 
    Entirely Remotely or with Remote Participation--79
Total Number of Hearings Held by the Committee Conducted 
    Entirely Remotely or with Remote Participation--61
Total Number of Hearings Held by the Full Committee Conducted 
    Entirely Remotely or with Remote Participation--11
Total Number of Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Early 
    Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Conducted 
    Entirely Remotely or with Remote Participation--9
Total Number of Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Higher 
    Education and Workforce Investment Conducted Entirely 
    Remotely or with Remote Participation--13
Total Number of Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Health, 
    Employment, Labor, and Pensions Conducted Entirely Remotely 
    or with Remote Participation--9
Total Number of Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Workforce 
    Protections Conducted Entirely Remotely or with Remote 
    Participation--12
Total Number of Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Civil 
    Rights and Human Services Conducted Entirely Remotely or 
    with Remote Participation--13
Total Number of Markup Sessions Held by the Full Committee 
    Conducted Entirely Remotely or with Remote Participation--
    11
Total Number of Other Committee Activity (Briefing) Conducted 
    Entirely Remotely or with Remote Participation--1
Total Number of Conference Reports Filed with Committee Members 
    Appointed as Conferees--0
Total Number of Issue Reports Written by the Committee--2
Total Number of Amicus Briefs Supported by the Committee--5

                             MINORITY VIEWS

                              Introduction

    Committee Republicans in the 117th Congress stood firm in 
their efforts to oppose the destructive policies that defined 
the Committee Democrats' legislative agenda. In stark contrast 
to the hopeful words of bipartisanship the Chairman offered 
when he assumed the gavel, Committee Democrats pushed through 
radical, one-size-fits-all legislation benefiting left-wing 
special interests, including Big Labor and trial lawyers. More 
troubling, Democrats ceded legislating to the White House, 
essentially abdicating their responsibility to the Executive 
Branch. These Democrat-led efforts resulted in policies that 
will stifle the American economy, reduce opportunities for 
workers, punish small businesses, and hurt students. In stark 
contrast, Committee Republicans offered pro-growth, pro-worker, 
and pro-student reforms so that all Americans have the 
opportunity to succeed.

                              Policy Goals

                               EDUCATION

    Committee Republicans worked to promote access to high-
quality education and lifelong learning in order to prepare 
students to compete in the 21st century economy.
Fighting for K-12 Students
    In the 117th Congress, Democrats consistently put the 
interests of teachers unions above students. During Committee 
hearings on K-12 issues, Republicans highlighted the harm done 
to students by school closures championed by Democrats and 
their union allies. On May 6, 2021, the Early Childhood, 
Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee held a hearing 
titled ``Addressing the Impact of COVID-19 on Students with 
Disabilities.'' One witness highlighted the harm done to his 
son, saying:

          ``Our son is diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder 
        and ADHD. Before school closed due to the pandemic, he 
        was a very happy boy who loved school, especially being 
        around his friends. But things changed quickly after 
        schools closed. The lack of social contact and the 
        routine of a normal school day, which are incredibly 
        important to children with Autism, caused him to create 
        an imaginary world [in the] Spring [of 2020] with ``52 
        friends,'' as he told us. By summer, his imaginary 
        world had become so real to him that he struggled to 
        differentiate real from the pretend, causing him to 
        have visual, auditory, and tactile hallucinations which 
        became so bothersome that on his [ninth] birthday, he 
        asked me, `Daddy, can I die for my birthday?'. . . The 
        doctors told us that his symptoms were from a massive 
        deterioration of his Autism due to the social 
        isolation.''\1\
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    \1\https://republicans-edlabor.house.gov/uploadedfiles/
congressional_testimony_reade.pdf.

    Learning loss data also demonstrates the profound academic 
harm caused by Democrats' policies. Results on the National 
Assessment of Educational Progress showed historic declines in 
math and reading achievement during the pandemic. Nine-year-
olds suffered the first ever decline in math scores and the 
largest decline in reading scores in 30 years.\2\ These 
declines could cause lifelong harm to students. Harvard's 
Center for Education Policy Research estimated such declines 
would represent a $43,800 loss in expected lifetime earnings 
for each student affected.\3\
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    \2\https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/highlights/ltt/2022/.
    \3\https://www.the74million.org/article/analysis-pandemic-learning-
loss-could-cost-u-s-students-2-trillion-in-lifetime-earnings-what-
states-schools-can-do-to-avert-this-crisis/.
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    Unfortunately, Democrats rejected Republican proposals to 
get students back in the classroom. During consideration of the 
Committee's portion of what would become the American Rescue 
Plan Act, Republicans offered the following five proposals to 
ensure that funds would be used to get students back in school 
or to provide families choices to meet students' needs:
    1. Rep. Rick Allen (R-GA) offered an amendment to require 
school districts accepting COVID aid to offer in-person 
instruction.
    2. Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC) offered an amendment to require 
school districts accepting COVID aid to offer in-person 
instruction to high-risk students.
    3. Rep. Michelle Steel (R-CA) offered an amendment 
requiring school districts to reopen once all teachers had 
access to the COVID vaccine.
    4. Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) offered an amendment requiring 
school districts that did not offer in-person instruction to 
place COVID aid in education savings accounts for parents to 
use for private school tuition or other educational expenses 
such as technology or tutoring.
    5. Rep. Bob Good (R-VA) offered an amendment to require 
school districts to document in writing and make public all 
negotiations between the district and the teachers union 
regarding school reopening.
    Unfortunately, Democrats rejected each of these proposals.
    Democrats' unwillingness to put families first was a trend 
throughout the 117th Congress. Families are growing 
increasingly frustrated that too many schools are focused more 
on left-wing indoctrination than on academic instruction. In 
response, Republicans introduced H.R. 6056, the Parents Bill of 
Rights Act. This bill would require school districts to be 
transparent with parents about curriculum and how taxpayer 
funds are spent and would strengthen protections for student 
privacy and parental access to information about their 
children's well-being. Democrats refused to consider this bill.
    Democrats also rejected greater educational freedom for 
families. A high-quality education is the path out of poverty 
for millions and provides students with the tools and skills 
they need to build a successful life. Every child should have 
access to an excellent education. No child should be limited by 
circumstances out of their control, such as where they live.
    Rather than respond to families' overwhelming desire for 
better educational options, Democrats provided a rubber stamp 
for the Biden administration's illegal actions to shut down 
charter schools, which are providing a high-quality education 
to millions of students, mostly low-income and minority 
students, who would otherwise be trapped in failing traditional 
public schools. This is shameful. Equally shameful is 
Democrats' refusal to consider proposals that would expand 
families' access to all educational options.
Fighting for Better Postsecondary Education
    The need for reform to our nation's postsecondary education 
system is more necessary now than it ever has been. During the 
first Higher Education and Workforce Investment Subcommittee 
hearing of the 117th Congress, former Ranking Member Greg 
Murphy (R-NC) encapsulated the issue and Committee Republicans 
goals, saying:

          ``Four in ten baccalaureate-degree recipients are 
        underemployed in their first jobs after school. Roughly 
        60 percent of students complete their degree program 
        within six years . . . With these unprecedented levels 
        of taxpayer money being funneled into educational 
        institutions, combined with valid concerns about return 
        on investment, it is imperative that Congress take a 
        close look at how the Department of Education and 
        institutions of higher learning spent hard-earned 
        taxpayer dollars, and consider necessary structural 
        reforms to the Higher Education Act to serve students 
        better . . . any conversation surrounding postsecondary 
        education must aim to reduce the cost of attendance and 
        boost graduation rates, while also supporting students 
        to pursue the type of education that works for them--
        whether it be seeking a baccalaureate degree or 
        pursuing equally valuable, skills-based 
        alternatives.''\4\
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    \4\https://republicans-edlabor.house.gov/news/
documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=407303.

    In contrast, Democrats did not hold hearings focused on 
foundational and innovative reforms to the Higher Education 
Act, but instead reexamined support for issues that many on the 
Committee already agree upon. Democrats also missed the 
opportunity to convene hearings regarding rising college costs 
and essential reforms to the loan and repayment program so 
institutions of higher education no longer have an incentive to 
saddle students with excessive debt for degrees that provide 
little to no return on investment. Instead, Democrats conceded 
policymaking to the Biden administration and did not join with 
Committee Republicans in calls for oversight as the 
administration took unilateral action to push unlawful 
expansions of loan forgiveness programs.
    Over the 117th Congress, the Biden administration refused 
to resume student loan repayment, costing taxpayers 
approximately $4.3 billion per month, for a total of over $100 
billion. The administration also enacted illegal waivers 
rewriting the rules far beyond congressional intent for the 
Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program and Income Drive 
Repayment (IDR) plan, resulting in immediate loan cancellation 
available for over 3 million borrowers holding as much as $145 
billion in loans through these changes to PSLF and $211 billion 
in loans under IDR. The Department of Education embarked on 
regulatory overhauls to the Borrower Defense to Repayment 
process, permanent changes to Public Service Loan Forgiveness 
and other areas regarding federal student loans that are 
estimated to cost at least $85 billion. The mounting costs of 
the Executive branch's actions were all detailed in Ranking 
Member Virginia Foxx's ``Letter to America.''\5\ The 
administration has yet to release the full details of its new 
income-driven repayment plan, but from what has been previewed, 
it is clear the administration is attempting to provide 
backdoor ``free'' college through the loan program.
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    The unprecedented cost of these executive changes is 
exacerbated by the July 2022 Government Accountability Office's 
(GAO) report which found the Department of Education has 
significantly underestimated the true cost of the Direct Loan 
program for decades.\6\ GAO's analysis concluded that the 
Department of Education's budget estimate was off by $311 
billion between 1997 and 2021 and that over half of the error 
was due to inaccurate and faulty assumptions about 
borrowers.\7\ In light of the administration's inaccurate 
understanding of the cost of the loan program and unfettered 
willingness to discharge loans through program changes and mass 
debt cancellation, Ranking Member Virginia Foxx, (R-NC) Rep. 
Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) introduced H.R. 
8655, the Responsible Education Assistance through Loan (REAL) 
Reforms Act. This legislation ends uncapped borrowing in the 
Grad PLUS program and institutes reasonable loan limits, gives 
institutions the flexibility to adjust borrowing limits, 
eliminates regressive loan forgiveness, provides targeted 
relief for borrowers in the most need, and creates the 
Workforce Pell Grant which will allow the Pell Grant to be used 
for short-term, career-focused programs that provide valuable 
credentials for in-demand jobs. Committee Democrats offered no 
legislation to address the failure of the student loan program, 
but introduced H.R. 8872, the Lowering Obstacles to Achievement 
Now (LOAN) Act, which would only double down on the failed 
policies of the past that will exacerbate the problems of 
rising costs and diminishing quality that plague our 
postsecondary education system costing students, families, and 
taxpayers billions in the process.
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    Unfortunately, on August 24, 2022, the Biden administration 
announced their student loan bailout which would require 87 
percent of adults who do not have loans to pay the student loan 
debts of the 13 percent who chose to take on student loans. The 
Congressional Budget Office estimated that debt cancellation 
would cost $400 billion,\8\ while outside experts estimate 
that, when combined with administration's new IDR plan, the 
cost of the administration's student debt scheme could reach $1 
trillion.\9\ This illegal action by the Executive branch 
required examination by the legislative branch. On September 7, 
2022, Committee Republicans sent a letter to Chairman Bobby 
Scott (D-VA) requesting a hearing to examine the implementation 
of the administration's reckless student loan bailout, stating, 
``when the executive branch walks so far outside of its lane, 
we can come together in Congress and demand 
accountability.''\10\ The majority did not invite the 
Department nor any administration officials to testify on these 
unprecedented actions.
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    \8\https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2022-09/58494-Student-
Loans.pdf.
    \9\https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2022/8/26/biden-
student-loan-forgiveness.
    \10\https://republicans-edlabor.house.gov/uploadedfiles/
loanactionslettertorcs_final_.pdf.
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    Committee Republicans are focused on responsible policy 
solutions that protect the interests of students and taxpayers 
to reform our nation's postsecondary education system into a 
driving force for the American economy.
Fighting for a Better Workforce Development System
    Building a more resilient workforce development system has 
long been a priority for Committee Republicans.
    On May 13, 2021, Democrats brought H.R. 447, the National 
Apprenticeship Act of 2021, to the floor. The Democrats' bill 
will force job creators to deal with overly prescriptive 
requirements and will close pathways to new innovative 
apprenticeship models. Committee Republicans offered an 
amendment that would create more pathways to work by giving job 
creators the flexibility to innovate and develop high-quality 
earn-and-learn programs without Washington overreach. Democrats 
claimed their bill expanded apprenticeship opportunities while 
maintaining a check on quality. However, giving unions what 
they want, as the Democrat bill did, does not amount to 
quality. In reality, their bill limits opportunities and 
stifles innovation in the field. Alternatively, Republicans 
offered a complete substitute amendment that could have been 
signed into law and would have delivered on the promise of 
expanding apprenticeship opportunities.
    During the 117th Congress, Democrats also marked up H.R. 
7309, the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2022, and 
brought it to the Floor for a vote. This bill failed to make 
critical reforms to the nation's public workforce system that 
are needed to close the skills gap and connect job seekers with 
family-sustaining jobs. Instead of modernizing an outdated 
system to address current economic needs, the bill moved 
backwards--increasing union involvement, Washington 
bureaucracy, and burdens on employers.
    Republicans offered a complete substitute amendment that 
would inject needed innovation into the workforce system and 
offer upward mobility for job seekers. With more than 10 
million unfilled jobs and 6 million unemployed individuals, 
steps need to be taken to connect unemployed or underemployed 
individuals with new education and work opportunities. The 
Republican substitute refocused WIOA on skills development, 
rather than needless bureaucracy, so that job seekers can 
receive the education needed to qualify for open jobs. The 
substitute also encouraged innovative programs to participate 
in WIOA and clarified that online programs can participate. 
These programs offer lifelong learners flexibility to continue 
upskilling while also caring for their family or working 
another job.
    Since competition drives better results, the Republican 
substitute also encouraged programs with a proven track record 
of successfully helping American workers succeed. The 
Republican proposal used real outcomes to measures success and 
encouraged states to focus on successful programs through pay-
for-performance funding.
    While the Democrats' bill missed an opportunity to meet the 
needs of job seekers and to rely on employers to determine the 
kind of skills needed for in-demand jobs, the Republican 
substitute offered American workers an opportunity to grow 
their skills without crippling student debt and to quickly 
enter the workforce equipped with the experience and knowledge 
employers are looking for. The Republican proposal also added 
important accountability mechanism to ensure taxpayer dollars 
are being put to effective use and job seekers are able to 
access programs with a track record of success.
Supporting Child Nutrition
    Despite schools just beginning the return to regular 
operation of the school meal programs, Democrats offered a 
reauthorization proposal that would add significant complexity 
and costs to the programs. Republicans opposed that bill, 
believing it was the wrong time to reauthorize these programs. 
The Democrats' bill largely legislates by looking backwards and 
puts forward their policy wish list.
    This bill dramatically increases costs and burdens by 
unnecessarily expanding existing programs. The Committee did 
not have a cost estimate for the bill prior to the markup, but 
it is anticipated to add tens of billions of dollars to 
taxpayers' debt. One program which the bill expands is 
Community Eligibility. This expansion will increase costs for 
taxpayers by providing more free meals to those families that 
can afford to pay their fair share. Additionally, the bill 
significantly expands the summer food service program by 
expanding the Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer program. This 
change is not accompanied by any off-setting cuts or changes to 
the current summer program, creating significant integrity 
concerns by potentially providing duplicate meals for many 
children rather than working to provide meals to as many 
children as possible.
    The bill also expands the authority of the federal 
government unnecessarily. The bill first does this by 
overstepping the appropriate limits of the federal government 
by requiring the Secretary of the U.S. Department of 
Agriculture (USDA) to issue guidance on the school day 
schedule, specifically the length of lunch. Scheduling the 
school day is a local issue, not the concern of the USDA 
Secretary. The bill also creates a new advisory committee on 
unpaid meal debt. While unpaid debt certainly harms both 
schools and students, a task force in D.C. is not going to 
solve the problem.
    The Democrats' bill also misses opportunities which could 
in fact be addressed at this time. First, the bill fails to 
simplify child nutrition programs, but instead requires 
additional and overlapping regulations that will increase 
program costs and complexity. Requiring new regulations on 
additives and ``other potentially harmful substances'' 
increases complexity and costs, and it leaves schools and other 
program providers unsure about what foods are allowable in the 
program. Second, the bill fails to address significant and 
long-time administrative issues in the programs. This includes 
limiting unnecessary administrative reviews, preventing the 
challenges created by the last school meal programs' 
regulations, and removing onerous requirements like paid meal 
equity. While Republicans did not offer a comprehensive 
substitute, there were several amendments offered that would 
improve the bill and the program overall if enacted. Those 
include the following:
    1. Reps. McClain (R-MI) and Fulcher (R-ID) offered--and 
withdrew--an amendment to ensure potatoes remain allowable as 
vegetable under the programs.
    2. Rep. McClain offered an amendment to prohibit all new 
changes from being enacted unless an independent study is 
conducted to ensure the program won't increase inflation or the 
changes can be implemented once inflation drops to 2 percent. 
This amendment was defeated in a roll call vote.
    3. Rep. Thompson (R-PA), along with Reps. Stefanik, 
Fulcher, and Keller (R-PA), offered an amendment to address 
whole milk and chocolate milk in school meals and allow greater 
choice of milk in the Women, Infant and Children (WIC) program. 
This amendment was defeated by a voice vote.
    4. Rep. Stefanik offered an amendment that would address 
the infant formula contracting requirements in WIC by requiring 
two manufacturers per state or state consortia. While it 
received bipartisan support, the amendment failed by roll call 
vote.
    5. Reps. Good and Miller offered--and withdrew--an 
amendment to require nutrition regulations promulgated under 
the bill to make grain-based desserts eligible for 
reimbursement.
    6. Rep. Walberg (R-MI) offered an amendment to ensure food 
substitutions for religious needs are allowed. This amendment 
was adopted.
    7. Reps. Miller and Good offered an amendment to eliminate 
the change the Democrats made to the definition of woman and 
therefore to re-define pregnant woman, breastfeeding woman, and 
postpartum woman as a woman. This amendment was defeated on a 
party line vote.
    8. Reps. Grothman (R-WI) and Harshbarger (R-TN) offered an 
amendment to prohibit enforcement of the May 5, 2022, memo on 
Title IX enforcement as it relates to child nutrition programs. 
This amendment was defeated on a partisan vote.
    9. Rep. Harshbarger offered an amendment to require a 
feasibility study before issuing new regulations. This study 
would determine the cost increase these potential standards 
would impose, the timeline for availability of food meeting 
these standards, and the increase to plate waste these 
standards might cause. This amendment was also defeated on a 
party line vote.

Fighting to Protect Religious Organizations

    Committee Democrats convened a markup of H.R. 5129, the 
Community Services Block Grant Modernization Act of 2021, on 
March 16, 2022, and brought it to the floor on May 13, 2022. In 
this bill, Democrats sought to strip longstanding protections 
for faith-based providers from the Community Services Block 
Grant (CSBG) program. Over 19,000 faith-based organizations 
participate in the CSBG program and provide critical services 
to low-income Americans. Eliminating protections for these 
providers flies in the face of the valuable work they do and 
risks harming low-income Americans. Rep. Tim Walberg offered an 
amendment to reinstate the current law protections, affirming 
that any faith-based organization that participates in the CSBG 
program can continue to live out their faith, in keeping with 
the First Amendment. However, the Democrats continued their 
attack on religious liberty and rejected the amendment. This 
bill was not taken up by the Senate for consideration, so the 
important protections for religious organizations sought by the 
Walberg amendment remain in place.
    Democrats also marked up H.R. 2119, the Family Violence 
Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA) this Congress and brought 
the legislation to the floor for a vote. This bill strikes 
longstanding non-discrimination provisions and replaces them 
with a cross-reference to the Violence Against Women Act, a 
provision that expands protected classes to include actual or 
perceived sexual orientation and gender identity. Under this 
change, religious organizations could be forced to hire 
individuals who do not share their beliefs and/or be required 
to jump through additional hoops to hire individuals of the 
same faith. In response, Republicans offered a complete 
substitute amendment that would have reauthorized FVPSA without 
harming religious organizations. These organizations play a 
vital role in serving individuals who have suffered from abuse, 
and under the Republican substitute, they would be able to 
continue offering services without compromising their faith.

                               WORKFORCE

    Committee Republicans are committed to providing the best 
outcomes for workers, small businesses, and job creators 
through policies that will allow the workforce to flourish 
without overly burdensome government intrusion.

Fighting to Protect Workers and Small Businesses

    Democrats consistently pander to union bosses and other 
special interests at the expense of American workers. This was 
most apparent in their bill, H.R. 842, the Protecting the Right 
to Organize Act, a sweeping and socialist backward-looking bill 
that would harm the economy and provide a political gift to 
self-interested labor-union leaders, while diminishing or 
extinguishing the rights of workers and employers alike. This 
bill included a far-reaching wish list of radical labor policy 
changes which benefit union bosses and punish job creators, 
including a card-check-style union-election voting scheme, 
provisions undermining the privacy rights of employees, 
nationwide adoption of California's unworkable and discredited 
``ABC'' worker classification test, a repeal of 27 states' 
right-to-work laws, and reinstatement of discredited, punitive 
Obama-era regulations.
    On September 14, 2022, the Committee held a hearing titled 
``In Solidarity: Removing Barriers to Organizing.'' At the 
hearing, the Democrats' distaste for worker freedom and free 
enterprise was obvious. Their rhetoric during the hearing 
pushed the tired narrative that Democrats believe all workers 
want to unionize and that without union representation, workers 
are exploited. Republicans countered these falsehoods by citing 
survey data showing only 11 percent of non-union employees 
describe themselves as ``extremely interested'' in joining a 
union while 58 percent say they are ``not interested at 
all.''\11\ American workers' lack of interest in labor unions 
is well-documented by the decades-long decline in private-
sector union membership, reaching the lowest recorded level of 
6.1 percent in 2021.\12\ Rather than coerce workers to join 
unions, Committee Republicans took a more balanced approach and 
stated their commitment to ensuring workers have the freedom to 
choose whether they want to join a union or not.
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    \11\Justin McCarthy, U.S. Approval of Labor Unions at Highest Point 
Since 1965, Gallup, Aug. 30, 2022, https://news.gallup.com/poll/398303/
approval-labor-unions-highest-point-1965.aspx.
    \12\Sean P. Redmond, U.S. Chamber Of Com., Union Membership Drops 
to Previous Low in 2021 (Jan. 26, 2022), https://www.uschamber.com/
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    Committee Republicans also strongly opposed H.R. 7701, the 
Wage Theft and Wage Recovery Act, which amends the Fair Labor 
Standards Act (FLSA) to expand pay-related reporting mandates 
on employers, create new compensatory rights for workers, and 
expand civil and criminal enforcement penalties. When opposing 
this bill, Republicans emphasized that H.R. 7701 would impose 
punitive and excessive penalties on employers for technical or 
unintentional FLSA violations that could bankrupt a small 
business for a mere technical error. The legislation's 
burdensome recordkeeping mandates, monetary penalties, and 
litigation risks on job creators would also have a chilling 
impact on independent contracting and business-to-business 
relationships like the franchise model. The risk of litigation 
and monetary penalties under H.R. 7701 for potential technical 
or disputed FLSA violations would cause companies to avoid 
these alternative business models that are key drivers of 
economic growth and job creation.
    In addition, Committee Republicans fought back against 
President Biden's illegal and authoritarian COVID-19 
vaccination-and-testing mandate for private sector workers.\13\ 
On November 17, 2021, led by Workforce Protections Subcommittee 
Republican Leader Fred Keller (R-PA), Republican Members of the 
Committee introduced a Congressional Review Act resolution of 
disapproval (H.J. Res. 65) to nullify the Occupational Safety 
and Health Administration's (OSHA) mandate. Further, Committee 
Republicans submitted numerous letters to OSHA questioning the 
agency's statutory authority to promulgate the rule.\14\ 
Republican Leader Foxx and Reps. Rick Allen (R-GA), Elise 
Stefanik (R NY), and Jim Banks (R-IN) led 136 Republican 
Members of the House in filing an amicus brief with the U.S. 
Supreme Court arguing that Congress did not give OSHA the 
authority to impose a vaccine mandate and urging SCOTUS to stay 
the mandate.\15\ The Court agreed, and the mandate was defeated 
in a win for America's workers.\16\
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    \13\COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing; Emergency Temporary Standard, 
86 Fed. Reg. 61402 (Nov. 5, 2021).
    \14\See, e.g., letter from Reps. Virginia Foxx & Fred Keller to Al 
Stewart, Acting Sec'y of Lab. (Feb. 25, 2021), https://republicans-
edlabor.house.gov/uploadedfiles/02.25.21_foxx_keller_osha_ets _letter_-
_signed.pdf.
    \15\NFIB v. OSHA, No. 21A244 (U.S. Dec. 2021) (brief of Members of 
Congress as amici curiae in support of applicants), https://
allen.house.gov/uploadedfiles/moc_amicus_final.pdf.
    \16\NFIB v. OSHA, 142 S. Ct. 661 (2022).
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    Finally, Committee Republicans led the fight to preserve 
the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC) rule 
facilitating the speedy resolution of discrimination charges 
filed by individuals with the agency. The Civil Rights Act 
requires EEOC to attempt to ``conciliate''--or work with 
employers to resolve a discrimination claim--before litigation 
begins. However, EEOC had not updated its conciliation 
procedures in 43 years. A January 2021 rule fixed the failed 
EEOC conciliation process by enhancing fairness and 
transparency, avoiding expensive and time-consuming litigation, 
and ensuring that EEOC honors its statutory obligation to 
engage in good faith conciliation efforts before filing 
lawsuits.\17\ Republican Leader Foxx led unanimous Republican 
opposition on the House Floor against S.J. Res. 13, a Democrat 
Congressional Review Act resolution of disapproval overturning 
the 2021 conciliation rule.
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    \17\Update of Commission's Conciliation Procedures, 86 Fed. Reg. 
2974 (Jan. 14, 2021).
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Fighting to Protect Religious Contractors

    Committee Republicans fought to preserve the freedom of 
religion. In November 2021, the Department of Labor (DOL) 
published a proposed rule to rescind the Trump administration's 
rule clarifying the rights and obligations of religious 
organizations participating in federal contracting.\18\ In 
December 2021, Republican Leader Foxx and Rep. Russ Fulcher, 
Republican Leader of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human 
Services, wrote to Secretary of Labor Walsh strongly opposing 
this proposed rule.\19\ The letter noted that the Trump-era 
rule provides clarity and certainty and encourages wider 
participation in the federal contracting system. The letter 
also recognized that the Trump-era rule affirms the importance 
of protecting the free exercise of religion. Committee 
Republicans encourage the Biden administration to change course 
by not rescinding the Trump administration's rule.
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    \18\Proposal To Rescind Implementing Legal Requirements Regarding 
the Equal Opportunity Clause's Religious Exemption, 86 Fed. Reg. 62,115 
(proposed Nov. 9, 2021).
    \19\Letter from Reps. Virginia Foxx & Russ Fulcher to Martin J. 
Walsh, Sec'y of Lab. (Dec. 8, 2021), https://republicans-
edlabor.house.gov/uploadedfiles/proposed_rescission_of_religious_ 
contractor_rule_-_comment_letter_dec_8_2021.pdf.
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Fighting to Empower Patients, Families, and the Employer-Based Health 
        Care System

    Committee Republicans support affordable, employer-
sponsored health care options that cover 159 million Americans. 
We have rallied behind efforts to ban surprise medical billing, 
increase price transparency in the health care market, and 
preserve the Trump administration's actions to lower health 
care costs.
    Committee Republicans are further committed to protecting 
employer-sponsored coverage by rejecting attempts by the Biden 
administration and Democrats to increase health costs by moving 
workers from the group markets to the Obamacare exchanges. We 
rejected Democrats' attempts to expand their radical drug-
pricing scheme and price caps under the Employee Benefits 
Income Security Act (ERISA), which would hide the true costs of 
prescription drugs like insulin and increase premiums.\20\ We 
also fought against Democrat efforts to advance H.R. 7780, the 
Mental Health Matters Act, which would create civil monetary 
penalties for employers who violate vague mental health parity 
requirements. The bill would additionally expand the ability of 
trial lawyers, plan participants, and the DOL to sue plans that 
voluntarily offer mental health benefits. Lastly, Committee 
Republicans fought to protect ERISA plans from a Department of 
Health and Human Services mandate requiring them to cover 
abortion and transgender benefits or face penalties for 
violating Obamacare discrimination laws.\21\
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    \20\See, e.g., Press Release, Comm. on Educ. & Lab. Republicans, 
Democrats' Drug Pricing Scheme Jeopardizes Future Cures (Dec. 9, 2021), 
https://republicans-edlabor.house.gov/news/
documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=407961; Press Release, Comm. on Educ. & 
Lab. Republicans, Foxx Opposes Democrats' Radical Drug Pricing Scheme 
(Mar. 31, 2022), https://republicans-edlabor.house.gov/news/
documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=408193.
    \21\See Nondiscrimination in Health Programs and Activities, 87 
Fed. Reg. 47,824 (proposed Aug. 4, 2022).
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Fighting to Protect Retirement Savers

    Committee Republicans worked in a bipartisan fashion to 
advance H.R. 5891, the Retirement Improvement and Savings 
Enhancement Act, to expand access to workplace retirement plans 
and to ensure that the nation's retirement system better serves 
workers, retirees, and employers. H.R. 5891 was incorporated 
into H.R. 2954, the Securing a Strong Retirement Act, which 
passed the House on March 29, 2022, with an overwhelming 
majority.
    Unfortunately, Committee Democrats rushed ahead with a more 
partisan retirement bill, H.R. 7310, the Protecting America's 
Retirement Security Act. This proposal takes a heavy-handed, 
government-knows-best approach to retirement saving by second-
guessing workers' decisions. It also increases government waste 
by spending taxpayer dollars on new and unnecessary government 
programs. H.R. 7310 would also make it more difficult--
sometimes impossible--for workers to access savings during 
emergencies or hardships.
    Committee Republicans opposed the American Rescue Plan 
Act's (ARPA) taxpayer bailout of failing and insolvent 
multiemployer pension plans, which neglected much-needed 
reforms to protect workers and retirees from future 
underfunding. In August 2021, Republican Leader Foxx and Rep. 
Rick Allen (R-GA), Republican Leader of the Subcommittee on 
Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), submitted a 
comment letter in response to the Pension Benefit Guaranty 
Corporation's (PBGC) interim final rule implementing ARPA's 
irresponsible bailout.\22\ In response to a request from 
Republican Leader Foxx and Budget Committee Republican Leader 
Jason Smith (R-MO), the Congressional Budget Office found that 
Democrats' multiemployer pension bailout will cost taxpayers 
more than $90 billion.\23\
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    \22\Letter from Reps. Virginia Foxx & Rick Allen to Gordon 
Hartogensis, Dir., PBGC (Aug. 11, 2021), https://republicans-
edlabor.house.gov/uploadedfiles/pbgc_letter.pdf.
    \23\Letter from Phillip L. Swagel, Dir., Cong. Budget Off., to 
Reps. Virginia Foxx & Jason Smith (Sept. 30, 2022), https://
www.cbo.gov/system/files/2022-09/58540-PBGC.pdf.
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    Committee Republicans also fought Democrat efforts to 
impose their political and ideological preferences on workers' 
retirement savings. Republican Leaders Foxx and Allen sent a 
letter opposing DOL's proposed rule which would jeopardize 
retirement savings by effectively requiring retirement plans to 
consider specific environmental, social, and governance factors 
when selecting and monitoring retirement investments.\24\
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    \24\Letter from Reps. Foxx & Allen to Martin J. Walsh, Sec'y of 
Lab. (Dec. 13, 2021), https://republicans-edlabor.house.gov/
uploadedfiles/12.13.21_comment_letter_on_esg_investing.pdf.
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                               Oversight

    During the 117th Congress, Committee Republicans have 
conducted vigorous oversight on its key workforce agencies--
DOL, the National Labor Relations Board, EEOC, and PBGC. 
Through its submission of more than 75 oversight and comment 
letters, Committee Republicans held the Biden administration 
accountable. These oversight letters highlighted numerous 
instances of the Biden administration's executive overreach, 
its constant demonstration of union favoritism, its agencies' 
preferences for enforcement-only policies, and examples of 
ethical lapses made by senior administration officials.
    Additionally, Committee Republicans focused oversight on 
the Department of Education's mishandling of the student loan 
portfolio. Republicans have sent more than 25 letters to the 
Department regarding the repayment pause, the cost of the 
student loan portfolio, and other issues impacting federal 
student aid. In addition to student aid, Republicans sent 10 
requests to GAO to examine other programs under the 
jurisdiction of the Committee. One request asked for an 
examination of the Head Start program which revealed continued 
potential fraud in the program leading Republicans to formally 
request a hearing on the topic. Finally, Republicans have 
continued efforts to examine the woeful administration of 
AmeriCorps and the agency's repeated failures surrounding its 
audits.

                               Conclusion

    Committee Democrats' priorities during the 117th Congress 
focused on dangerous, socialist policies that amounted to 
little more than a government-endorsed power grab.
    While Committee Democrats continue to pursue Washington-
knows-best policies that limit choice, opportunity, and 
freedom, Committee Republicans continue to offer policies that 
give students the choice to learn in a classroom that fits 
their needs, empower workers with the tools they need to 
succeed, and give job creators the flexibility they need to 
thrive.

                                   Virginia Foxx,
                                            Ranking Member.
                                   Glenn ``GT'' Thompson.
                                   Tim Walberg.
                                   Glenn Grothman.
                                   Rick W. Allen.
                                   Jim Banks.
                                   James Comer.
                                   Fred Keller.
                                   Burgess Owens.
                                   Lisa C. McClain.
                                   Diana Harshbarger.
                                   Scott Fitzgerald.
                                   Madison Cawthorn.
                                   Chris Jacobs.
                                   Brad Finstad.

                                  [all]