Foxx Report for the Week of July 31, 2015
Statement
This week the House approved several pieces of legislation designed to help veterans and increase accountability at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, including legislation to give the VA Secretary increased flexibility in removing employees who fail our veterans and to provide an annual cost-of-living adjustment for veterans receiving disability compensation.
Additionally, the House passed legislation to fund the nation's highway and transit programs for three months that also includes a provision that would temporarily relieve a $2.5 billion shortfall at the VA, preventing VA hospitals from closing in August.
It is critically important that we provide high-quality, timely care for those who have sacrificed so much in service to our country. While Congress continued its efforts to meet our responsibility to America's veterans this week, we cannot transform the VA alone. It is the president's responsibility to ensure changes are made within the agency and employees are held accountable for their actions. America's veterans deserve a meaningful, decisive plan from the Obama administration to right the many wrongs that have been committed.
Strengthening Transparency in America's Higher Education System
Currently students and families must wade through massive and often conflicting amounts of information in order to make an informed decision about college. As a result, taking time to fully understand the available data can be an aggravating task that may get put off and ultimately ignored, often with disastrous consequences.
That's why I have introduced legislation that would help students gain access to the facts they need to make an informed decision about where to pursue higher education.
My legislation would streamline the overwhelming maze of information with a consumer-tested College Dashboard that provides students with key information, including enrollment, completion, net price, average loan debt and Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data.
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