coe-staff: Washington Wrap Up

[Lisa Fortin]

Forwarded on behalf of Randy Kamphaus.


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Washington Wrap Up
March 11, 2016
Compiled by Penn Hill Group

HOUSE

The House will return from recess on Monday, March 14.

The House Education and the Workforce Committee will hold a committee hearing<http://edworkforce.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=400398> on the policies and priorities of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Tuesday, March 15. HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell will testify.

The House Education and the Workforce Committee will hold a committee hearing<http://edworkforce.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=400399> on the policies and priorities of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) on Wednesday, March 16. DOL Secretary Thomas Perez will testify.

The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies will hold a subcommittee hearing<http://appropriations.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=394438> on DOL's Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 budget request on Tuesday, March 15. Secretary Perez will testify.

The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies will hold a subcommittee hearing<http://appropriations.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=394450> on the National Science Foundation's (NSF's) FY2017 budget request on Wednesday, March 16. NSF Director France Cordova will testify.

SENATE

The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee voted<http://www.help.senate.gov/hearings/s1878-s1077-s1101-s2055-s1767-s1597-s2512-and-nomination-of-dr-john-king> 16-6 to advance Dr. John King's nomination to be U.S. Secretary of Education. The full Senate is scheduled<http://democrats.senate.gov/2016/03/14/schedule-for-monday-march-14-2016/#.VuJDufA8KrU> to vote on King's nomination on Monday, March 14, at 5:30pm.

The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies will hold a subcommittee hearing<http://www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/majority/hearing-schedule-for-the-week-of-march-14-2016> on DOL's FY2017 budget request on Thursday, March 17. Secretary Perez will testify.

Thirty-five Senate Democrats sent<http://www.help.senate.gov/ranking/newsroom/press/senate-dems-students-deserve-immediate-debt-relief-after-attending-schools-engaged-in-deceptive-and-predatory-practices> a letter to President Obama urging the U.S. Department of Education (ED) to adopt changes to draft regulations on defense of repayment. House Education and the Workforce Committee Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA) and House Financial Services Committee Ranking Member Maxine Waters (D-CA) also sent<http://democrats.edworkforce.house.gov/press-release/ranking-members-scott-and-waters-student-borrowers-deserve-immediate-debt-relief-after> a letter. The negotiated rulemaking panel developing regulations on this issue reconvenes next Wednesday, March 16, for its third and final session.

ADMINISTRATION

The White House announced<http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/key-education-dept-official-steps-down/109377> James Kvaal, Deputy Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council (DPC), is departing after nearly seven years of serving the Administration at DPC and ED. DPC's Chief of Staff, Katherine Kochman, will replace him.

President Obama announced<https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/03/09/fact-sheet-president-obama-announces-connectall-initiative> the ConnectALL Initiative, an effort to connect 20 million more Americans to broadband by 2020.

Following the Inspector General's report<http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oig/misc/scrareport02292016.pdf> of student loan servicers' compliance with the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, ED announced<http://www.help.senate.gov/ranking/newsroom/press/at-murrays-urging-department-of-education-to-refund-military-borrowers-on-overcharges> it would refund money to all military borrowers who were charged more than six percent interest on their federal student loans between 2009 and July 2014.

EVENTS

Penn Hill Group plans to provide clients with summaries of the following events next week:

  *   March 15<http://edworkforce.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=400398> House Education and the Workforce Committee Hearing on "Examining the Policies and Priorities of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services"
  *   March 15<http://appropriations.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=394438> House Appropriations Subcommittee Hearing on "Budget Hearing - Department of Labor"
  *   March 16<http://edworkforce.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=400399> House Education and the Workforce Committee Hearing on "Examining the Policies and Priorities of the U.S. Department of Labor"
  *   March 16<http://appropriations.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=394450> House Appropriations Subcommittee Hearing on "Budget Hearing - National Science Foundation"
  *   March 17<http://www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/majority/hearing-schedule-for-the-week-of-march-14-2016> Senate Appropriations Subcommittee Hearing on "Fiscal Year 2017 Budget Request for the U.S. Department of Labor"
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