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WASHINGTON – Ranking Member Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (VA-03) released the following statement after the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the economy added 139,000 jobs in May, and the unemployment rate remained the same at 4.2 percent. "Since returning to office, the Trump Administration has jeopardized jobs, endangered the rights and protections of workers, and undermined the financial security of retirees. Instead of focusing on kitchen table issues— like the cost of housing, the cost of health care, and the cost of food— the Trump Administration has rolled back key consumer protections that would have saved working families money.

NEWPORT NEWS, VA – Congressman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (VA-03) issued the following statement on the passing of former Delegate and retired Norfolk Circuit Court Judge Jerrauld C. Jones: “I am deeply saddened by the passing of my longtime friend, Judge Jerrauld Jones of Norfolk. Jerrauld and I have known each other for many years. We served together in the Virginia General Assembly and shared the same commitment to justice and equality. That commitment to justice was inherited from our fathers, who served on the school boards of Newport News and Norfolk respectively during the public school integration controversies following the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision in 1954. Our families have remained friends from that time.

WASHINGTON – Ranking Member Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (VA-03), House Committee on Education and Workforce, released the following statement after the Trump Administration ordered the effective closure of all Job Corps centers across the United States. “Once again, the Trump Administration is harming those most in need. The Department of Labor sent notices to all 99 Job Corps centers with which it directly contracts, stating they are going to ‘pause’ operations. Let’s be clear: these are not pauses.

WASHINGTON – Over 70 years after the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, Ranking Member Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (VA-03), House Committee on Education and Workforce, Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (MD-08), House Committee on the Judiciary and Representative Pramila Jayapal (WA-07) reintroduced two key pieces of legislation aimed at advancing educational equity and addressing modern challenges to school integration and civil rights enforcement.

WASHINGTION - Ranking Member Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (VA-03), House Committee on Education and Workforce, House Assistant Minority Leader Joe Neguse (CO-02), Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (MD-08), House Committee on Judiciary, and Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), House Committee on Appropriations issued the following statement after a federal judge blocked the Trump Administration from dismantling the Department of Education. The Court also ordered the immediate rehiring of unlawfully terminated staff—a thinly veiled effort to dismantle the entire department without congressional approval.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Education and Workforce and a member of the House Committee on the Budget, issued the following statement after voting against the Republicans’ Big, Bad Billionaires’ Bill: “House Republicans have voted to add $3.8 trillion to the national debt in order to shovel massive tax breaks to billionaires and corporations. And they will make America’s middle class and working families pay the price.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03), the Dean of the Virginia Congressional Delegation, led a moment of silence on the House floor to honor the passing of Congressman Gerry Connolly (VA-11). “Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to speak out of order for one minute... I gather here with colleagues from the Commonwealth of Virginia, and others, with a heavy heart to announce to the House the passing of our friend and colleague Congressman Gerry Connolly.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03), the Dean of the Virginia Congressional Delegation, issued the following statement on the passing of Congressman Gerry Connolly (VA-11): “It was with immense sadness that I learned of Gerry’s passing. He was a relentless advocate for his constituents and a true public servant who loved America, the Commonwealth of Virginia and his hometown of Fairfax.