President and Administration
The House plans to vote Tuesday 2/26 on legislation to formally block President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the southern border…
Acting OMB Director Russell Vought wrote in an Op-Ed for RealClearPolitics that the President’s upcoming FY20 budget proposal will adhere “to the spending caps already set in law”, which would necessitate a 5% reduction to non-defense spending. President Trump’s previous budgets have…
Department of Education
On 2/22 a federal judge ruled that the Department of Education had acted improperly when rejecting some student loan borrowers from the public service loan forgiveness program. The borrowers were initially told…
Congress
On 2/27 at 2pm the full Veterans' Affairs committee will have a hearing on "VA 2030: A Vision for the Future of VA" to discuss their plans and proposals for the VA…
On 2/27 the Budget Committee will have a hearing on the Republican tax reform bill. The hearing is expected to touch on the SALT cap as well as other issues…
This week the House will hold two hearings expected to examine President Trump’s immigration policies. Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-CA) will be an expert witness for the Foreign Affairs Committee…
Congress’ hopes to introduce a national privacy law early 2020 have been stalled due to dissent from California Democrats who are happy with the California Consumer Privacy Act. They are concerned that…
HEA Reauthorization
Senate Updates
The Senate HELP committee staff and members (D and R) are starting to exchange draft legislative language on a higher education reauthorization proposal. This would put them on track for a Spring committee markups of a reauthorization proposal…
Chairman of the Senate Education Committee, Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN), this month proposed that a single accountability system measuring students’ progress paying back their loans should apply to all colleges and majors…
House Updates
The House education committee announced that it plans to hold five hearings in the coming months on reauthorizing the Higher Education Act…The committee said that the five bipartisan hearings would be on the following topics…
Other
Last week the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Center for Education and the Workforce is launching the Jobs Data Exchange (JDX) to provide open source data for…