CONGRESS Earlier this week, Congressional leadership released bill text for a package that included a continuing resolution (CR) through March 14, 2025, disaster relief, additional farm aid (including an extension of the Farm bill through September 2025), Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) and Older Americans Act (OAA) reauthorization measures, $500 million for the Child […]
CONGRESS The House Republican Steering Committee selected Tim Walberg (R-MI) to be the Chair of the House Education and the Workforce Committee for the 119th Congress. The U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 8070, the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2025, by a 281 to 140 margin. This bill included some education- and workforce- […]
CONGRESS House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) published the House’s legislative calendar for 2025. Incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) announced the Senate’s legislative calendar for 2025. Sen. Thune (R-SD) announced a potential budget reconciliation plan focused on border security, defense and energy matters, signaling that a separate reconciliation bill for tax issues would […]
Meet Penn Hill Group’s Fall interns, Ariana Jimenez and Ian Akers. Ariana is a recent graduate from the University of Pennsylvania, Class of 2024. She majored in Economics with concentrations in Business Economics and Public Policy (BEPP) and Management. Ian is currently a Junior at Claremont McKenna College, Class of 2026. He is majoring in […]
CONGRESS The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee and the House Education and the Workforce Committee released a bipartisan, bicameral bill to reauthorize and make amendments to the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). ADMINISTRATION The Institute of Education Sciences published a report titled “Participation in School Activities by Spanish- and English-speaking Parents of […]
