Press Releases

WASHINGTON – Ranking Member Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (VA-03), House Committee on Education and Workforce, released the following statement after President Trump’s Department of Education released a Dear Colleague threatening to withhold funding from schools for common practices beyond what the Supreme Court has considered. “In Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court decided that ‘separate but equal’ had no place in our school system.

WASHINGTON – Ranking Member Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (VA-03), House Committee on Education and Workforce, and Ranking Member Ilhan Omar (MN-05), House Subcommittee on Workforce Protections demanded accountability from the Trump Administration’s Department of Labor (DOL) amidst concerning reports that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has removed and potentially destroyed several key documents related to worker-safety.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Education and Workforce, issued the following statement after being named a Congressional Education and Workforce Leader from the Career Schools Private Education Network (CSPEN) at their 7th Annual Higher Education Policy Meeting. CSPEN is a non-profit organization promoting workforce-oriented education and the benefits career training programs provide to students and the businesses that employ their graduates. Congressman Scott received the award for his work on job training initiatives, especially the Bipartisan Workforce Pell Act.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03) delivered opening remarks at the House Budget Committee markup of the Fiscal Year 2025 Republican budget—a proposal that undermines the middle class by cutting essential programs that help millions of families. This plan prioritizes tax cuts for corporations and the ultra-wealthy at the expense of America’s working families: “The budget resolution exemplifies my colleagues' willingness to betray the American people in the name of so-called fiscal responsibility.

WASHINGTON – House Education and Workforce Committee Ranking Member Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (VA-03) requested the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to immediately assess the security of information technology (IT) systems at the Department of Education (ED), the Department of Labor (DOL), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) following reports of President Trump and Elon Musk’s unsanctioned Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) illegally accessing data from various government agencies.

WASHINGTON – Ranking Member Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (VA-03) released the following statement after the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the economy added 143,000 jobs in January, and the unemployment rate slightly ticked down to 4.0 percent from 4.1 percent. Under President Biden, the economy added 16.2 million jobs.  That is more jobs in four years than any President on record.  And more jobs than any Republican President, whether they served four or eight years.  He has also made history as the first President of the United States on record to not have a single month of seasonally adjusted job loss during his entire term.

WASHINGTON – Reps. Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (D-Va.), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Education and Workforce and Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee alongside Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health, and Human Services, sent a letter warning against the Trump administration’s reported plans to unilaterally dismantle the Department of Education.

WASHINGTON – House Education and Workforce Committee Ranking Member Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (VA-03) issued the following statement after the National Center for Education Statistics released the results of the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Mathematics and Reading Assessments. “COVID-19 was a once in a century pandemic that highlighted existing inequities in our nation’s education system.  Regrettably, today’s report from the National Center for Education Statistics shows that we have not been able to close achievement gaps, which existed even before the pandemic.