A quick look at the news from last week: HOUSE and SENATE The House and Senate are in recess until September 8. House education committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Senate education committee Ranking Member Lamar Alexander (R-TN) have requested that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) look into the Department of Education’s waiver policies for […]

A quick look at the news from last week: SENATE and HOUSE The House and Senate were in recess last week. The House is scheduled to take up H.R. 803, the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, on Wednesday, July 9. The bill, which is a bipartisan compromise between House and Senate leaders on two pieces […]

A quick look at the news from last week: SENATE The Senate passed H.R. 803, the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act by a vote of 95-3 on Thursday, with Senators Coburn (R-OK), Johnson (R-WI) and Lee (R-UT) voting against it. The bill represents a bipartisan compromise between House and Senate leaders on two pieces of […]

A quick look at the news from last week: HOUSE  Current House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) lost his Republican primary race in Virginia  and announced that he will step down from the Majority Leader position at the end of July. In a vote on Thursday, Republicans chose current Majority Whip Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), […]

A quick look at the news from last week (May 26-30): HOUSE  The House Science Committee finished marking up, and passed by a vote of 20 to 16, the “Frontiers in Innovation, Research, Science, and Technology Act of 2014” (the FIRST Act, H.R. 4186). The committee began marking up the bill on May 20. The bill […]

Here’s a quick look at the news from last week (May 12 – May 16): HOUSE and SENATE The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee approved the Strong Start for America’s Children Act, by a partisan vote of 12-10. The bill is Chairman Tom Harkin’s (D-IA) version of the President’s proposed state Pre-K […]

Here’s a quick look at the news from last week (May 5– May 9): HOUSE The House of Representatives passed H.R. 4366, the Strengthening Education through Research Act, a bill to reauthorize the Education Sciences Reform Act (ESRA) by a voice vote. The House of Representatives passed H.R. 10, the Success and Opportunity through Quality […]

Here’s a quick look at the news from last week (April 14 – April 18).  ADMINISTRATION The Department of Labor published the notice for the fourth and final round of the TAACCCT grant competition (Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training grants). There is $450 million available for this round of the competition for job-training partnerships […]

Here’s a quick look at the news from last week (April 7 – April 11).   BUDGET The House of Representatives voted 219-205 to pass a Fiscal Year 2015 budget resolution, which was originally introduced by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI). Twelve Republicans and all Democrats voted against the budget resolution. The budget […]

Here’s a quick look at the news from last week (March 31 – April 4).  BUDGET House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) released a Fiscal Year 2015 budget resolution last week, which the House Budget Committee marked up and passed on Wednesday. The budget resolution proposes no change to the overall cap on discretionary spending and the individual caps […]