WASHINGTON, July 17 -- 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 July 16, 2024: On Tuesday, July 23, at 2:00 p.m., the House Committee on Natural Resources' Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), and the Committee on Education and the Workforce's Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development, chaired by Rep. B  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, July 19 -- Rep. Jason Smith, R-Missouri, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, issued the following news release: Inside of a diagnostic testing center in the heart of Utah's "Silicon Slope," the Ways and Means Committee heard how medical innovation is vital to the nation's health and economic prosperity. A Utah father shared the story of how advanced treatments and curative therapies saved his young son's life from a rare kidney disease. Medical innovators, incl  more

WASHINGTON, July 17 -- Rep. Blake Moore, R-Utah, issued the following news release on July 16, 2024: On Friday, July 12th, Congressman Blake Moore welcomed the House Ways and Means Committee to Utah's First District for a field hearing on medical innovation and health care access as well as a tour of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Welfare Square. Titled "Access to Health Care in America: Unleashing Medical Innovation and Economic Prosperity," the field hearing took place at A  more

WASHINGTON, July 17 -- Sen. Katie Britt, R-Alabama, issued the following news release: Senators Katie Britt (R-Ala.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) introduced the Childcare Worker Opportunity Act in the Senate, a bill to alleviate the escalating childcare crisis in the District of Columbia. The proposed legislation seeks to repeal the stringent 2016 regulation that mandates childcare workers to hold a college degree, a rule that has significantly contributed to the shortage of childcare providers and t  more