HOUSE and SENATE The House and Senate are both in recess and will return the week of September 9th. ADMINISTRATION The President signed an executive order directing the U.S. Department of Education (ED) and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to simplify the process for permanently disabled veterans to receive student loan forgiveness. The […]

HOUSE and SENATE The House and Senate are both in recess and will return the week of September 9th. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chair Lamar Alexander (R-TN) sent a letter to the other HELP Committee members asking for bipartisan proposals within the Committee’s jurisdiction that could help prevent future mass shootings, […]

HOUSE and SENATE The House and Senate are both in recess and will return the week of September 9th. ADMINISTRATION The President signed into law a budget that would raise the U.S.’s debt limit and increase the budget caps for Fiscal Years (FYs) 2020 and 2021. The U.S. Department of Education (ED) updated its recent […]

HOUSE and SENATE The House passed legislation embodying the deal (H.R. 3877) to raise the U.S.’s debt limit and increase the budget caps for Fiscal Years (FYs) 2020 and 2021 on a 284 to 149 vote. The bill would raise limits on non-defense discretionary spending by $24.5 billion and defense discretionary spending by $19.5 billion […]

HOUSE and SENATE Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin have stated that negotiations on an extension of the Federal debt limit as well as increases for the Fiscal Year 2020 and 2021 spending caps for Defense and Non-Defense discretionary spending are continuing. It has been reported that the […]

HOUSE and SENATE The Senate confirmed Robert King as the Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education (ED) on a 56 to 37 vote. The Senate confirmed John Pallasch as the Assistant Secretary of Labor for the Employment and Training Administration at the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) on a 54 […]

HOUSE and SENATE The House and Senate were in recess this week and will return next week. ADMINISTRATION The President signed a $4.6 billion emergency border relief package into law. The bill provides $2.9 billion for the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement, which takes custody of migrant children from the U.S. Customs and […]

ADMINISTRATION The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) completed its review of the U.S. Department of Education’s (ED’s) final regulatory action on Gainful Employment (GE). ED is appealing a Federal judge’s ruling that ED’s delay of the Obama-era State Authorization regulation was improper. A group of students who attended for-profit institutions of higher education […]

HOUSE and SENATE The House passed its Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (LHHS) appropriations bill as part of a larger package of appropriations bills (H.R. 2740) on a 226 to 203 vote. The measure was combined with the Defense, Energy and Water, and State and Foreign Operations appropriations bills. […]