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JOLTS Report: President Biden Has a Serious Worker Shortage

News Release: JOLTS Report: President Biden Has a Serious Worker Shortage.


Ways and Means Racial Equity Initiative Co-Chairs Praise ACF Equity Call to Action

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Today, Ways and Means Committee Racial Equity Initiative Co-Chairs, Reps. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), Steven Horsford (D-NV), and Terri Sewell (D-AL), released the following statement applauding the Administration for Children and Families’ (ACF) National Call to Action on racial equity...


NIST Researchers Resurrect and Improve a Technique for Detecting Transistor Defects

News Release: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have revived and improved a once-reliable technique to identify and count defects in transistors, the building blocks of modern electronic devices such as smartphones and computers. Over the past decade, transistor components have...


Republicans Raise Serious Concerns with Intrusive IRS Identity Verification Measures

News Release: Dear Commissioner Rettig: . On Nov. 17, 2021, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced a major expansion of its collaboration with ID.me that will require, starting in the summer of 2022, taxpayers to have an ID.me account in order to access key IRS online resources. While we understand the IRS's...


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - This week, House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) led a letter signed by members of the House Committee on Natural Resources to Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary Deb Haaland urging DOI to consider the impacts of current international crises...


News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.), and House Committee on the Judiciary Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) called on seven scientists who...


Census Bureau Releases New Report on Living Arrangements of Children

News Release: According to a new report released today by the U.S. Census Bureau, the majority (70.1%) of the nation’s childrenunder age 18 lived with two parents, 21.4% lived with their mother, 4.4% with their father, and 4.0% did not live with a parent in 2019. While most of the children living with two parents...


DOC offers new grant application process starting Feb. 3

NMFS West Coast Region Education and Outreach Program grant opened on Feb. 3.


News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) opened today’s roundtable on “Examining the Washington Football Team’s Toxic Workplace Culture" by emphasizing the need for Democrats to redirect their focus towards conducting proper oversight over the Biden Administration’s...


News Release: Washington, D.C. (Feb. 3, 2022)-Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, held a roundtable to discuss sexual harassment and verbal abuse at the Washington Commanders...


News Release: Washington, D.C. -Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Oversight and Reform Committee, and Rep. Ro Khanna, Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Environment, sent letters to the five members of the Boards of Directors of four fossil fuel companies the Chairs previously invited to a hearing scheduled...


The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Feb. 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


“RECOGNIZING THE HONORABLE DANIEL A. MANION ON HIS 80TH BIRTHDAY“ was published in the Extensions of Remarks section on page E75 on Jan. 28


Commerce Department publishes notice on Feb. 1

The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Feb. 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Feb. 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: Today, following her participation in a signing ceremony for Qatar Airways’ purchase of Boeing Aircraft, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina M. Raimondo released the following statement: “I’m honored and excited to celebrate this new development in the thriving trade relationship between the United States and ...


Leader Rodgers Opening Remarks in Health Hearing on FDA User Fee Reauthorization

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers delivered the following remarks in the Health Subcommittee Hearing entitled “FDA User Fee Reauthorization: Ensuring Safe and Effective Drugs and Biologics."


The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Feb. 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


WHAT THEY ARE SAYING: Industry and Labor Leaders Agree: America COMPETES Act is Essential Step Forward

News Release: Following introduction of the House’s America COMPETES Act, industry and labor leaders continue to call for swift passage of the President’s proposed $52 billion in chips funding. The calls from industry come on the heels of an alarming report released by the Department of Commerce last week, which confirmed ...


The US Commerce Department published a three page notice on Feb. 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.