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WASHINGTON – House Education and Workforce Committee Ranking Member Bobby Scott (VA-03) and Subcommittee on Workforce Protections Ranking Member Ilhan Omar (MN-05) are demanding the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) share how the reductions in staffing and program funding at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) will impact worker safety.
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine and U.S. Reps. Bobby Scott, Gerry Connolly, Don Beyer, Jennifer McClellan, Suhas Subramanyam and Eugene Vindman (all D-VA) pushed the Trump administration to reverse staffing cuts at the National Park Service (NPS), outlining the effect directives to eliminate employees and rescind and delay job offers will have on safety at Virginia’s 22 national park units, which serve 22 million visitors and contribute $1.5 billion to local economies each year.
NEWPORT NEWS, VA – Today, Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03) joined Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries and House Democrats announcing a new effort to hear directly from Americans harmed by the Trump-Musk Administration. “Donald Trump and Elon Musk have unleashed chaos and confusion on the American people.
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.
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Elon Musk’s blitz through the US federal government has triggered a “constitutional emergency”, a senior Democrat has warned, demanding the launch of an impartial investigation into billionaire tycoon’s access to sensitive data. Robert C “Bobby” Scott, ranking member of the House committee on education and workforce and the Democratic leader on the committee, sounded the alarm over a “void of oversight” as the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge), led by the world’s richest man, accesses information within a string of agencies including the Departments of Education, Labor, and Health and Human Services.
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.