Press Releases

WASHINGTON – Today, on Workers’ Memorial Day, Ranking Member Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (VA-03) and Rep. Joe Courtney (CT-02), a senior member of the House Committee on Education and Workforce reintroduced the Protecting America’s Workers Act as the Trump Administration dismantles workplace protections. This bill would meaningfully strengthen and modernize the Occupation Safety and Health Act (OSH-Act) for the first time in over 50 years by ensuring employers promptly correct hazardous working conditions, protect whistleblowers from retaliation, and hold unscrupulous employers accountable for violations that cause illness, serious injury, or death to workers.

WASHINGTON – Today, Rep. Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (VA-03), Ranking Member of the Committee on Education and Workforce, and Rep. Gerald E. Connolly (VA-11), Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to Catherine Eschbach, Director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) regarding the Trump Administration’s drastic cuts to OFCCP staff.  These cuts will leave millions of federal contract workers vulnerable to discrimination in the workplace, and without the resources to advocate for themselves.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03), Ranking Member of the Committee on Education and Workforce and Dean of the Virginia Congressional Delegation, issued the following statement after Congressman Gerry Connolly (VA-11) announced that he will not seek re-election and will step down as Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform:

NEWPORT NEWS, VA – Congressman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (VA-03), Ranking Member of the Committee on Education and Workforce, issued the following statement on the passing of former Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman: “I am deeply saddened to learn of the passing of my friend Alexis Herman. In 1977, President Carter appointed her director of the Women’s Bureau at the age of 29 – the youngest director in the history of the Department of Labor.

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Committee Democrats are forcing Committee Republicans to take a stand and hold the Administration accountable after it proposed eliminating the Administration for Community Living (ACL). The Trump Administration has already taken action to eliminate more than 40 percent of the ACL staff, directly affecting federal programs that support aging and disabled populations.  The elimination of these positions leaves critical services, such as Meals on Wheels, elder abuse prevention, and independent living services vulnerable to further disruption.  Now, the administration is proposing to go even further by eliminating ACL altogether.

Washington, D.C. — The Litigation and Rapid Response Task Force led 192 House Democrats in filing an amicus brief challenging the Trump Administration’s efforts to close the Department of Education in the matter of the State of New York v. Linda McMahon. A case in which 20 states moved to sue the administration for its plans to place fifty percent of the Department’s workforce on administrative leave, effectively shuttering a congressionally authorized agency by way of executive fiat.

NEWPORT NEWS, VA – On Monday, April 14th, Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03) held a town hall in Newport News. Congressman Scott provided an update on what is happening in Washington and provided constituents the opportunity to ask him questions. This was a chance to discuss the chaos coming from the Trump Administration, President Trump’s tariffs and trade wars, Elon Musk’s DOGE, the dismantling of the Department of Education, the Republican budget proposal and more.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03), Co-Chair of Congressional Voting Rights Caucus, released the following statement after voting against H.R. 22, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act: “House Republicans’ so-called SAVE Act is nothing more than a shameful attempt to silence the voices of millions of Americans.