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Commerce Department discusses Initiation of Five-Year (Sunset) Reviews on Feb. 1

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


News Release: Dear Mr. Speaker: Yesterday, I sent you a letter conveying an independent legal analysis from two of the nation’s preeminent experts in Constitutional law and congressional contempt proceedings concluding that Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa compromised any House contempt action against Lois...


Chairs Rodgers’ Opening Remarks on Strengthening American Competitiveness and Beating China

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered opening remarks at today’s Innovation, Data, and Commerce subcommittee hearing titled “Economic Danger Zone: How America Competes to Win the Future Versus China."


News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Innovation, Data, and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) delivered opening remarks at today’s subcommittee hearing titled “Economic Danger Zone: How America Competes to Win the Future Versus China."


Notice published by Commerce Department on Feb. 1

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


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) sent a letter to Chair Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), inquiring into the indefinite postponement of Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary Deb Haaland's testimony before the committee. In part, Westerman wrote.


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


News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee passed bipartisan measures to modify the savings program for federal workers contributing toward retirement and to improve whistleblower protections.


Chair Rodgers Opening Remarks at Health Subcommittee Hearing

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered the following opening remarks at today’s Health Subcommittee hearing titled: “Lives Worth Living: Addressing the Fentanyl Crisis, Protecting Critical Lifelines, and Combatting Discrimination Against Those with Disabilities."


Westerman Announces Subcommittee Vice Chairs

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources held votes on the Sustaining America's Fisheries for the Future Act of 2022, finishing a markup begun on Sept. 22, 2022. Committee Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) issued the following statement in response.


Comer Opens Hearing Investigating Billions Lost to Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in Pandemic Programs

News Release: Washington, D.C. -Following the issuance by the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Inspector General of a report finding that the DOJ has not prioritized the investigation of mortgage fraud and has reported unreliable and inflated statistics regarding the scope of its prosecutorial efforts, Rep. Elijah E.


Chair Rodgers Opening Remarks on Investigating Pandemics

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy Rodgers (R-WA) delivered opening remarks at today’s Oversight and Investigations subcommittee hearing titled “Challenges and Opportunities to Investigating the Origins of Pandemics and Other Biological Events. "



Op-Ed by Deputy Secretary Don Graves: America's Hidden Tool is Hobbling Russia's War Machine with Multilateral Impact

Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce is continuing to take action against Russia and those who enable Russia’s war in Ukraine. We added trade restrictions to seven Iranian entities involved in Iran’s drone program for supporting Russia’s war efforts and trying to use U.S. items to do it. They join ...


News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Morgan Griffith (R-VA) delivered opening remarks at today’s subcommittee hearing titled “Challenges and Opportunities to Investigating the Origins of Pandemics and Other Biological Events. "


DOC offers new grant application process starting Feb. 1

Building Capacity for Environmental Literacy grant opened on Feb. 1.


News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) held the Committee’s organizing meeting today, its first meeting in the 118th Congress.


The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Jan. 31, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), House Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith (R-MO), and GOP Doctors Caucus Co-Chairs Rep. Brad Wenstrup, D.P.M. (R-OH), and Rep. Michael Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), announced introduction of H.R. 485, the Protecting...


Chairman Comer Delivers Opening Remarks at Organizational Meeting

News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released opinions from 25 legal experts across the country and the political spectrum concluding that Committee Chairman Darrell Issa compromised any House contempt action against former IRS official Lois Lerner when he rushed to adjourn the Committee’s hearing on March 5, 2014.