Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Workforce Protections Subcommittee Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) and Senior Democratic Member Joe Courtney (D-CT) today introduced the Streamlining Claims Processing for Federal Contractor Employees Act (H.R. 2747), legislation that moves responsibility for wage claims adjustments for federally contracted workers from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to the Department of Labor. |
Washington, D.C. – Today Rep Walberg voted in favor of H.R. 5, the Student Success Act, to reform the nation's K-12 education system by putting control back in the hands of parents, school leaders and local communities.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Chairman Phil Roe (R-TN) and Workforce Protections Subcommittee Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) released the following joint statement today after Howard Shelanski, administrator for the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), declined to testify at an upcoming hearing on the employer mandate delay: |
WASHINGTON, D.C.– House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN), Small Business Committee Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO), and Subcommittee on Workforce Protections Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) today sent a letter to the Department of Labor requesting documents and communications concerning its recent decision to overturn decades of policy and apply Davis-Bacon wage requirements to survey technicians. |
Rep Walberg Helps Introduce Legislation to Repeal Obamacare Definition of Full-Time Employment
Washington, D.C. - Today Rep Walberg helped introduce the Save American Workers (SAW) Act with Representatives Todd Young (IN), Pete Olson (TX), and Mike Kelly (PA) to repeal the 30-hour definition of "full-time employment" under the Affordable Care Act and replace it with the traditional 40-hour definition.
Rep Walberg released the following on the legislation's introduction:
Rep Walberg Welcomes 2013 Congressional Art Competition Winner to Washington, D.C
Washington, D.C. - Rep Tim Walberg welcomed the 2013 Congressional Art competition winner for the 7th district to Washington D.C. this week. Emily Phillips is a senior at Airport High School and her acrylic painting entitled, "St Patrick's Rectory" will be part of a yearlong display in the Cannon Tunnel to the U.S. Capitol with other winning pieces from high school students around the country.