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WASHINGTON – On Thursday, Chairman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (VA-03) will host a webinar—in coordination with the Office of Federal Student Aid and the Student Borrower Protection Center—to provide constituents with the resources and information they need to seek Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF). The PSLF program was designed to offer a pathway to loan forgiveness for eligible borrowers employed by a federal, state, local, or tribal government or nonprofit organization.
NEWPORT NEWS, VA – Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03) issued the following statement after media reports of a draft U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling: “Every woman, regardless of her background or socioeconomic status, deserves the right to make her own medical decisions. That is why I was proud to vote for the Women’s Health Protection Act last fall to protect reproductive rights at the federal level. These reports make it abundantly clear why the Senate must immediately pass that bill and send it to President Biden’s desk
Issues:Civil RightsHealth Care
NEWPORT NEWS, VA – TODAY, May 3rd, Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03) will be joining Congresswoman Elaine Luria (VA-02) for a tour of the USS George Washington and to discuss recent suicides and working conditions aboard the ship while it has been homeported at Newport News Shipbuilding for its midlife refueling and complex overhaul (RCOH). At least seven sailors stationed aboard the George Washington have committed suicide over the course of its RCOH.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Chairman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott and U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh visited Thomas Nelson Community College and The Apprentice School and hosted a roundtable with students, higher education professionals, and local business leaders to discuss the importance of workforce development programs.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (VA-03), the Chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, received the 2021 Legislator of the Year Award from the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers. Chairman Scott was presented the award at the Boilermakers’ Annual Legislative Education Action Program (LEAP) Conference. “I am honored to receive this year’s Legislator of the Year award,” said Congressman Scott.“Through the last few years, unions and Congress have met both the urgent challenges spurred by COVID-19, as well as our long-standing priorities to improve the lives of workers.
NEWPORT NEWS, VA – TOMORROW, FRIDAY, April 22nd, Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03) will mark Earth Day 2022 by convening a roundtable on climate and resilience at the Chrysler Museum of Art. The Museum has partnered with Old Dominion University’s Institute for Coastal Adaptation & Resilience to present a photography exhibition entitled Waters Rising: A View From Our Backyard. Communities across the Hampton Roads region are particularly vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change due to sea-level rise and land subsidence.
Issues:Energy & Environment
NEWPORT NEWS, VA – Today, Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03) met with Dr. George Parker, Superintendent of Newport News Public Schools (NNPS), Jacky Barber, Principal of Sedgefield Elementary School, and other NNPS officials to discuss how funding from the American Rescue Plan is helping students and schools recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. The American Rescue Plan delivered $2.1 billion to K-12 school districts across Virginia and more than $82 million to Newport News Public Schools to help schools reopen safely, stay open safely, and make up for lost learning time. After the meeting, Congressman Scott toured classrooms to learn about school programs that were supported by the American Rescue Plan.
NEWPORT NEWS — Trying on a virtual reality headset in a fifth-grade geology class, U.S. Rep. Robert C. Scott got a chance to see something he had told Newport News School Superintendent George Parker he had wanted to see from COVID-19 relief money: innovation.
He got to watch steam and pale-yellow sulfur racing out of a volcano, tilting his head and spinning around on his heels to get different views of the eruption.
As chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, the Newport News representative has advocated for what’s been the biggest federal aid program for K-12 schools ever.
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Students at Sedgefield Elementary got a warm welcome Tuesday morning from Congressman Bobby Scott. Scott toured the school and sat down with school leaders to discuss how the division transitioned back into the classroom.
"The American Rescue Funds constituted the biggest investment in K-12 education in the history of the federal government," he said. "We wanted to see if it was working or not.”
The division credits funds from the American Rescue Plan for helping students and staff safely return to the classroom and catch up on missed learning following months of virtual learning.
New Superintendent Dr. George Parker said the division focused a majority of that money on school safety and addressing learning loss.
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representative Bobby Scott (D-VA-03), Chair of the House Education and Labor Committee, and U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, wrote to U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to urge the Department of Education to extend the student loan payment pause until 2023 and use the intervening time to adopt meaningful and lasting reforms to the federal income-driven repayment (IDR) system—by finalizing a new, more generous IDR plan that is available to all federal student loan borrowers, and by correcting past harms by implementing a retroactive payment correction that delivers on the promise of loan relief for those enrolled in IDR.