Last Week in Congress and the Administration HOUSE and SENATE The House and Senate will be in recess until after the September 5th Labor Day Holiday. Senate Help, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) said that Tennessee’s free community college program is a model for other states. ADMINISTRATION Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton […]
August 16, 2016 Last Week in Congress and the Administration HOUSE and SENATE The House and Senate will be in recess until after the September 5th Labor Day Holiday. House Education and Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) along with higher education subcommittee chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Education (ED) Secretary […]
August 9, 2016 Last Week in Congress and the Administration HOUSE and SENATE The House and Senate will be in recess until after the September 5th Labor Day Holiday. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) along with 19 Senators sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education (ED) […]
August 2, 2016 Last Week in Congress and the Administration HOUSE and SENATE The House and Senate will be in recess until after the September 5th Labor Day Holiday. ADMINISTRATION The U.S. Department of Education (ED) released proposed regulations on the state authorization of distance education programs and foreign campus locations under the Higher Education Act […]
July 26, 2016 Last Week in Congress and the Administration HOUSE and SENATE The House and Senate will be in recess until after the September 5th Labor Day Holiday. ADMINISTRATION The White House announced its Advanced Wireless Research Initiative. This new program will enable the deployment and use of four city-scale testing platforms for advanced wireless […]
Last Week in Congress and the Administration HOUSE and SENATE The House and Senate will be in recess until after the September 5th Labor Day Holiday. The U.S. House of Representatives passed several higher education related bills for which RAMC issued a statement of support, that the House Education and the Workforce Committee had approved on a bipartisan […]
Below is an abridged version of RAMC’s weekly Washington Wrap Up. Find out more about Wrap Up and other RAMC resources here. HOUSE The House is in recess and will return on Tuesday, July 5. The House Education and Workforce Committee passed the following bills by voice vote: H.R. 5529, Accessing Higher Education Opportunities Act; […]
Below is an abridged version of RAMC’s weekly Washington Wrap Up. Find out more about Wrap Up and other RAMC resources here. ADMINISTRATION ED released a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) on borrower defense and related matters. Related to borrower defense, the NPRM would establish a new process for borrowers to assert a defense to […]
Below is an abridged version of RAMC’s weekly Washington Wrap Up. Find out more about Wrap Up and other RAMC resources here. HOUSE House Republicans released a new set of proposals focused on poverty, opportunity and upward mobility, the first piece of their policy agenda, A Better Way. This included recommendations for strengthening early childhood […]
Below is an abridged version of RAMC’s weekly Washington Wrap Up. Find out more about Wrap Up and other RAMC resources here. Last Week in Congress and the Administration HOUSE and SENATE The House Education and the Workforce Committee will hold a committee hearing on the Obama Administration’s overtime rule on Thursday, June 9. Witnesses […]