Congress Has Bipartisan ‘Concerns’ Over DOL Misuse of Funds (1)

The Republican and Democratic leaders of the appropriations panels that fund the Labor Department warned Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia Nov. 20 about his department’s recent admission that it misused congressionally appropriated apprenticeship funding—and House Democrats later cranked up the heat.

The bipartisan group of four House and Senate appropriators wrote to Scalia to express “serious concerns regarding the Department’s internal financial controls and accountability on the use of appropriated funds.” The letter was sent just before the Labor Department’s top job-training official faced tough questions on the financial misstep from members of the House Labor Committee.

In both instances, the ...