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This is the Fiscal Year 2025 Legislative Branch Subcommittee Member Day Hearing.
I’d like to thank Ranking Member Espaillat, Committee Members, Representative Kilmer, and Representative Crockett for being here today.
In addition to our two witnesses here this morning, Representative Mark Takano (CA-39) and Representative Sylvia Garcia (TX-29) submitted testimony for the record. I would also like to make note that this hearing also serves as a vehicle for Public Witnesses to submit testimony for the record and nine testimonies were submitted and may be found online.
Good morning, Acting Secretary Su. I welcome you to the Subcommittee on Labor, Health & Human Services, and Education and thank you for joining us this morning. I’m pleased to have you this year for a budget hearing and look forward to your testimony.
The role of the Department of Labor is to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of wage earners in the United States; to improve their working conditions; and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment.
The purpose of this hearing is to review the Department’s fiscal year 2025 budget request.
While there are many open jobs in the economy, persistent and painful high‑inflation, driven by Democrats’ out-of-control spending and regulatory overreach has burdened the American workforce and their families for more than two years.
Washington, D.C. - House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole (R-OK), House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee Chairman Ken Calvert (R-CA), House Appropriations State and Foreign Operations Subcommittee Chairman Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL), House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-AL), House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX), and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH) released a statement in support of Speaker Johnson’s plan to pass the full national security supplemental.
Washington, D.C. – House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole (R-OK) today announced that Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN) will join the Defense Subcommittee. Additional changes to the subcommittee rosters are forthcoming.
