{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://fulcher.house.gov/2022/12/05/id-622a72f4-316a-49f1-b647-f0cfc90d6b50/", "Dr. Foxx and Rep. Fulcher: EEOC Strategic Plan Falls Short", "2022-12-05", "2022", "2022-12", "Republican", "House", "ID", "Russ Fulcher", "F000469", "fulcher.house.gov", "fulcher", "https://fulcher.house.gov/category/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Civil Rights and Human Services Subcommittee Republican Leader Russ Fulcher (R-ID) sent a letter to Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Chair Charlotte A. Burrows to sound the alarm on the agency\u2019s draft Strategic Plan, which misses opportunities for making EEOC more responsive to workers and employers.\n\nIn the letter, Foxx and Fulcher write: \u201cWe are concerned the Strategic Plan refuses to reinstate EEOC\u2019s mediation and conciliation pilot programs, omits a specific plan to address EEOC\u2019s current failure to return its employees to regular in-person work, and does not fully address issues highlighted by the findings of a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on EEOC\u2019s charge intake and outreach efforts. Unfortunately, these are all troubling issues we have raised previously with EEOC. Without properly addressing these issues, the Strategic Plan will fail to meet its stated commitments to equal employment opportunity, accountability, and integrity.\u201d\n\nThe Members continue: \u201cMediation and conciliation are vitally important functions of EEOC that lead to just and timely resolutions of cases for workers and employers in lieu of costly litigation. In July 2020, EEOC launched mediation and conciliation pilot programs. However, within the first week of the Biden administration, EEOC discontinued these successful pilot programs with little explanation or justification.\u201d\n\nThe Members also write: \u201cAs 2022 will soon draw to a close, EEOC has still failed to implement a plan to return its employees to the kind of onsite, in-person work that resembles its operations before the pandemic. The damage done by this unreasonable delay was conceded by Chair Burrows in testimony before the Committee.\u201d\n\nRead the full letter here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T03:32:05Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://fulcher.house.gov/2022/12/05/id-622a72f4-316a-49f1-b647-f0cfc90d6b50/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.3490389101207256, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}