WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 -- Rep. Bob Good, R-Virginia, chair of the House Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, issued the following news release on Nov. 23, 2023: On Thursday, November 30, at 10:15 a.m., the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, chaired by Rep. Bob Good (R-VA), will hold a hearing titled "Safeguarding Workers' Rights and Liberties." "Forcing workers to pay union dues is wrong," said Chairman Good. "The Committee on Education and the Workforce has a mandate to stand more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 -- The Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee issued the following information for a nomination hearing at 10 a.m. on Nov. 30, 2023, at 328A Russell Senate Office Building: Nominees * Dr. Basil Ivanhoe Gooden, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development, vice Xochitl Torres Small * The Honorable Summer K. Mersinger, of South Dakota, to be a Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for a term expiring April 13, 2028 (Reappointment) * * * Original text here: https: more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following opening remarks at a hearing on Nov. 2, 2023, entitled "Opportunities and Challenges in Deploying CCUS and DAC Technologies on Federal and Non-Federal Lands." CCUS are carbon capture utilization and sequestration while DAC stands for direct air capture. * * * The committee will come to order. Before we begin today's hearing, I want to just say that we are thinking and praying for the families and loved more PR