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WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-CA), chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, today issued the following statement after First Lady Michelle Obama announced her “Let’s Move” initiative to end childhood obesity. Miller will help lead the effort in Congress to reauthorize the federal school meal and child nutrition programs – one of four pillars of the First Lady’s initiative. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Last night, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced new efforts to improve the safety and quality of all foods purchased and served in the federal school meal programs, including changes recently called for by U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-CA). These initiatives come after recent investigations by USA Today revealed serious flaws in federal efforts to protect foods served in schools, including revelations that some fast-food chains, like McDonald’s, are stronger in checking the safety of their foods than the federal government. Miller, a leading advocate for school food safety in Congress and the chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, today applauded these initiatives: 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-CA), the chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following statement today after the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the nation’s unemployment rate fell from 10.0 percent in December to 9.7 in January.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House Education and Labor Committee today passed bipartisan legislation to make classrooms safer for students and school staff by preventing the misuse of restraint and seclusion.  The Committee passed the Preventing Harmful Restraint and Seclusion in Schools Act (H.R. 4247) by a vote of 34 to 10.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis told the House Education and Labor Committee today that the U.S. Department of Labor is both helping the economy recover and improving American workers’ lives by strengthening basic workplace protections, and training workers for new and better jobs.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-CA), chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee today met with First Lady Michelle Obama, Cabinet members and congressional leaders to discuss ending childhood obesity. Miller will help lead efforts in the House to rewrite the nation’s child nutrition laws this year. He issued the following statement:

WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-CA), chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, today announced new hires and changes to the Democratic staff of the committee. Two of the new hires, Jamie Pueschel Fasteau and Charmaine Mercer, will lead the Committee’s K-12 education policy team. They join the staff as the Committee begins working to rewrite the nation’s main federal education law, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-CA), the chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, released the following statement today on President Obama’s budget for Fiscal Year 2011:

“Last week President Obama presented his vision for how we can continue to rebuild our economy and our middle class. His budget delivers on that vision, making smart investments in working families while working to reduce the deficit responsibly.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In his first State of the Union address tonight, President Barack Obama discussed his administration’s efforts to rescue the economy and laid out a strong framework for rebuilding America’s middle class. President Obama also called on Congress to pass key pieces of legislation under the House Education and Labor Committee’s jurisdiction, including the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act, the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and comprehensive health insurance reform. U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-CA), the Chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following statement on the President’s remarks:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today the White House’s Task Force on Middle Class Families unveiled new proposals to help strengthen the middle class by helping families struggling to pay for college and save for retirement. Several of the proposals, including an initiative to further reduce student loan repayments and new protections to provide workers with greater transparency and disclosure on their 401(k) style retirement plans, build on bills championed by U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-CA), the chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee. Miller issued the following statement today:

“These proposals are welcome news for the millions of families whose retirement and college savings were devastated by the financial crisis. The painful financial insecurity facing middle class families is not new – the previous administration seriously eroded progress workers and families had fought for decades to achieve – but it has become much, much worse in this economy. We cannot rebuild a strong economy without rebuilding a strong middle class, which is why for the last several years the Education and Labor Committee has been laser-focused on recovering and growing our middle class. These proposals to make repaying student loans more affordable, to encourage employers and employees to do their part to strengthen workers’ retirement savings, and to help protect those savings from Wall Street middle men are an important step toward this goal. I look forward to working with the Obama administration and Congress on these and other initiatives that will rightly put the interests of Main Street and hardworking Americans first.”