By Commerce Newswire | Sep 23, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.75 million grant to Southwestern Oregon Community College, Coos Bay, Oregon, to support the renovation and modernization of existing instructional space. This EDA project, to be matched with $2.75 million in local funds, is expected to create 127 jobs, retain 314 jobs, and generate $160,000 in private investment.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, chaired by Rep. James E. Clyburn, held a hearing to examine the economic progress made by pandemic relief programs, such as the American Rescue Plan (ARP), and the need to build on these provisions to reduce longstanding disparities exposed and exacerbated by the pandemic.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2021
News Release: Madam President, today the Senate is debating Professor Lily Batchelder’s nomination by President Biden to serve as Assistant Treasury Secretary for Tax Policy. I want to take just a few minutes to talk about why the Senate ought to confirm her nomination as quickly as possible.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2021
News Release: “Mr. Chairman, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle plan to use this hearing as an opportunity to sell their misguided and reckless tax and spending bill.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Jackie Speier, Co-Chair of the Democratic Women’s Caucus, sent a letter to Gene L. Dodaro, Comptroller General of the Government Accountability Office (GAO), requesting a study on how the...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Reps. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) and Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) sent a letter today signed by 60 House Democrats to President Biden urging him to support the repeal of the oil and gas leasing program for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and a buyback of the leases issued in January 2021. The provision was recently passed through the House Natural Resources Committee in its portion of the larger Build Back Better Act.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, and Committee Members Reps. Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.--U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, delivered the following remarks at a hearing to consider the nominations of Neil MacBride to be General Counsel of the Treasury and Christi Grimm to be Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Administration officials from the Departments of State, Defense, and Homeland Security, as well as the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, provided Members of the Committee on Oversight and Reform and the Committee on Foreign Affairs with a classified briefing on...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today praised the bipartisan confirmation of Jayme White as deputy U.S. Trade Representative and Lily Batchelder as assistant secretary of Treasury for tax policy.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Finance Committee Ranking Member Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, today launched an effort to develop bipartisan legislation to address barriers to mental health care as the COVID-19 pandemic has worsened alarming trends in Americans’ mental health.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today applauded action by the Biden administration to continue a bold effort to make health care provider prices more readily available to consumers, and supported the additional steps proposed.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) announced today that the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Thursday, Sept. 30, at 10:30 a.m. (EDT) in the John D. Dingell...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2021
News Release: Madam President, today the Senate is considering the nomination of Jayme White for the position of Deputy United States Trade Representative. Senators likely know that Jayme is a member of my Finance Committee staff, so I won’t bury the lead in my remarks today. Jayme will make an exemplary Deputy USTR - a top-notch advocate for America’s workers, businesses, farmers and ranchers. Upon his confirmation, our loss on the Finance Committee will be the American people’s gain.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Oversight Republicans sent a letter to the Office of Presidential Personnel Director Catherine Russell requesting all documents and communications related to President Biden’s recent decision to abruptly...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing titled, “Putting Kids First: Addressing COVID-19’s Impacts on Children:"
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader for Oversight and Investigations Morgan Griffith (R-VA) delivered remarks in a subcommittee hearing about the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on America’s children.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis released a staff analysis outlining evidence that the American Rescue Plan’s (ARP) relief provisions have alleviated economic hardship, reduced poverty, and supported economic recovery in the wake of the pandemic. The report comes ahead of the Select Subcommittee’s September 22 hearing examining the effectiveness, efficiency, and equity of multiple pandemic relief programs.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today released new data from phase 3.2 of the experimental Household Pulse Survey. This phase of data collection includes new questions on the Child Tax Credit, sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI), rent/mortgage arrears, utility arrears and restrictions, summer catch-up education activities for grades K-12 and preventative health care for children.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2021
News Release: The Finance Committee meets this morning to discuss two nominations for key roles in the Biden administration - jobs that both deal with sound management and good government within major federal agencies.
