WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- Rep. Burgess Owens, R-Utah, chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development, issued the following news release: Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee Chairman Burgess Owens (R-UT) delivered the following remarks, as prepared for delivery, at a hearing titled "Strengthening WIOA: Improving Outcomes for Jobseekers, Employers, and Taxpayers": "Welcome to today's hearing on strengthening the Wor  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 -- Rep. Burgess Owens, R-Utah, chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development, issued the following news release on Sept. 21, 2023: On Thursday, September 28, at 10:15 a.m., the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development, chaired by Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT), will hold a hearing titled "How SCOTUS's Decision on Race-Based Admissions is Shaping University Policies." "The Supreme Court delivered a   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 -- Rep. Burgess Owens, R-Utah, chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development, issued the following news release on Sept. 19, 2023: Tomorrow, September 20, at 10:15 a.m., the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development, chaired by Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT), will hold a hearing titled "Strengthening WIOA: Improving Outcomes for Jobseekers, Employers, and Taxpayers." "It's been nearly a decade since  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 -- Rep. Burgess Owens, R-Utah, issued the following news release: Rep. Burgess Owens (UT-04) co-sponsored the Social Security Fairness Act, legislation to eliminate the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO), two provisions of the Social Security Act that unfairly reduce or eliminate Social Security benefits for millions of Americans who have devoted much of their careers to public service, including federal employees, police officers,   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- Rep. Burgess Owens, R-Utah, issued the following news release: Rep. Burgess Owens (UT-04) was selected by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (CA-20) to serve as a conferee and negotiator on the House-Senate Conference Committee to reconcile bicameral differences in the Fiscal Year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). "I am honored to be selected by Speaker McCarthy to serve as a conferee to negotiate the Fiscal Year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act," said Re  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- Rep. Blake Moore, R-Utah, issued the following news release on Sept. 20, 2023: Today, after months of work preparing a balanced budget, Congressman Moore and the other Republican members of the House Budget Committee voted to pass a budget resolution that aims to reverse our nation's debt culture, sending it to the House floor for consideration. With the national debt recently reaching an unprecedented $33 trillion, this budget counters the Biden Administration's tax-and  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON--U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs (HSGAC) Emerging Threats and Spending Oversight Subcommittee, today led a bipartisan hearing with Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Subcommittee Chair, to examine how advanced technologies--such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and bioengineering--may pose risks to national s  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- The Senate Rules and Administration Committee issued the following information for a hearing entitled "AI and the Future of our Elections" at 3:30 p.m. on Sept. 27, 2023, at 301 Russell Senate Office Building: Witnesses * Mr. Neil Chilson, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University, Logan, UT * Mr. Ari Cohn, Free Speech Counsel, TechFreedom, Washington, DC * The Honorable Trevor Potter, Former Commissioner and Chairman of the Fe  more