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Labor Department to give overtime protection to salaried workers - Roll Call

The Labor Department is proposing to make it more costly for employers to avoid paying overtime by making workers salaried employees.

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In a first, House Education and the Workforce panel’s Democratic staffers look to unionize

The campaign to unionize Capitol Hill took another step forward Thursday, as the Congressional Workers Union announced that committee staffers filed to hold union elections for the first time.

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In a first, House Education and the Workforce panel's Democratic staffers look to unionize - Roll Call

The campaign to unionize Capitol Hill took a step forward Thursday, as committee staffers filed to hold union elections for the first time.

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In play to GOP base, House votes to block student loan relief

The House approved a measure to block President Biden's plan to forgive up to $20,000 in student debt, which courts have already postponed.

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House panel moves to block Biden student loan forgiveness plan - Roll Call

Republicans on a House committee approved a measure Wednesday to overturn President Joe Biden's plan to forgive student loan debt.

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NC Republicans advocate for banning trans athletes from female sports teams

A two-week break from Congress didn’t relieve any tension between political parties as Democrats accused Republicans Monday of bullying transgender youth with a bill expected to pass the House Thursday.

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House passes parental school oversight measure

WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Friday passed a bill that would mandate local school systems give parents greater oversight over education, making good on a 2022 campaign pledge by Speaker Kevin McCarthy and providing fodder for a 2024 campaign battle over public schools.

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House passes parental school oversight measure - Roll Call

Republicans and Democrats in the House sparred over a parental oversight bill, setting up a 2024 election battle over public education.

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GOP sets vote on 'parents rights' in clash over schools

House Republicans are pressing forward with a vote on a midterm campaign promise

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‘Cowardly’: House Republicans revive national ban of trans women and girls from team sports

GOP lawmakers push alarming anti-trans rhetoric with federal legislation mirroring a wave of state-level measures aimed at trans youth

The Independent UK

Guide to House committee chairs for 118th Congress - Roll Call

These Republicans will use their gavels to advance a conservative agenda and ramp up probes of the Biden administration.

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Transgender ban, Biden loan program top House GOP’s education agenda

Republicans campaigned in the midterm election on undoing a student loan forgiveness program and banning transgender athletes.

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Republicans want working-class voters — without actually supporting workers

GOP courts blue collar voters but most favor anti-union ‘right to work’ laws and reject laws that would protect right to organize

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A Congresswoman Bought Double-Digit Dividend Stocks: Here's A Breakdown

Virginia Foxx is a Republican who serves as the U.S. representative for North Carolina's 5th Congressional District.

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McConnell "never needed free lunch"

Why have an expanded Child Tax Credit and universal free school meals both been stymied by Republicans in Congress?

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At conference short on GOP voices, Biden says US can end hunger

President Joe Biden told several hundred people Wednesday that he envisions a U.S. with fewer deaths from diet-related diseases and parents better able to put food on the table.

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At conference short on GOP voices, Biden says US can end hunger - Roll Call

President Biden also appeared to forget that a Republican lawmaker who backed the hunger conference was killed in a car accident last month.

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Cost of Biden's student debt relief plan exceeds $400 billion, CBO says

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s decision to forgive some federal student debt will cost the U.S. Treasury at least $400 billion, the Congressional Budget Office estimated.

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House Democrats add child nutrition to legislative menu

WASHINGTON — The House Education and Labor Committee is making a late-session push to renew child nutrition programs and incorporate changes made to cope with the pandemic, but disagreements could slow the reauthorization of a nutrition law that expired in 2015.

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House Democrats add child nutrition to legislative menu - Roll Call

Democrats say expanded school eligibility is needed to feed more children in communities with high poverty rates.

The Independent UK

NLRB's top prosecutor seeks big changes, faces uphill battle

As workers at major companies increasingly move to unionize, the political environment for labor couldn’t be more ripe

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Lawmakers reach bipartisan deal to aid school meal providers

WASHINGTON — A deal between Democratic and Republican committee leaders would help school meal providers facing higher food costs as well as ease a transition from federal government policies that provided universal free meals to many children during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Lawmakers reach bipartisan deal to aid school meal providers - Roll Call

A deal between committee leaders would help school meal providers facing higher food costs and ease transition from pandemic program.

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School meal waivers expire in 9 days. After axing them, Congress may try to save them

A group of lawmakers have agreed on a measure that would extend the school meal waivers that helped schools and families during the pandemic.

The Independent UK

US education chief seeks action to prevent school shootings

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona says he's ashamed the United States is "becoming desensitized to the murder of children” and he's calling for action to prevent more lives from being lost in school shootings like the one in Uvalde, Texas

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