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News Release: In studying the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on the health care workforce, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services found that allied health care professions were disproportionately impacted during the pandemic and that the health field is currently suffering a shortage of such workers.


News Release: Fact Check: GOP Tax Reform Helped American Workers.


Chairman Neal Opening Statement for Subtitle E Relating to Elder Justice at Markup of the Build Back Better Act

News Release: We now turn to Subtitle E, “Budget Reconciliation Recommendations Relating to Elder Justice," which will fund vital elder justice programs that help protect America’s seniors and people living with disabilities.


News Release: ATR: Dems’ Retirement Mandate Burdens Small Businesses & Undermines Bipartisan Efforts.


Wyden Unveils Proposal To Close Loopholes Allowing Wealthy Investors, Mega-Corporations To Use Partnerships To Avoid Paying Tax

News Release: Washington, D.C. -Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today unveiled draft legislation to close loopholes that allow wealthy investors and mega-corporations to use pass-through entities, primarily partnerships, to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.


BRADY: Dems Push Crippling Tax Hikes As Families & Main Street Struggle

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Top Republican on the Ways and Means Committee Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) joined Larry Kudlow on Fox Business and Yahoo Finance to discuss Democrats’ determination to ram through crippling tax hikes on working families and Main Street - even as President Biden’s latest jobs report showed little economic progress.


Chairman Neal Opening Statement for Subtitle A at Markup of the Build Back Better Act

News Release: We will now turn to our first order of business, Subtitle A, Budget Reconciliation Legislative Recommendations Relating to Universal Paid Family and Medical Leave. This is one of the most profoundly important pieces of this entire package.


News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Subcommittee on Government Operations Ranking Member Jody Hice (R-Ga.) released the following statements on President Biden’s expected executive order requiring all federal employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19.


Brady Blasts $3.5 Trillion Tax Hike & Spending Package in Hearing Opener

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) blasted Democrats’ crippling $3.5 trillion tax hike and spending package during the full committee markup...


News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $900,000 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the University of California, Riverside, to provide technical assistance to small businesses to bolster the region’s ability to withstand future economic disruptions. This EDA grant will be matched with $416,461 in local investment.


NIST/JILA Fellow Jun Ye Wins Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

News Release: BOULDER, Colo. - Physicist Jun Ye of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been awarded the 2022 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for his pioneering research on atomic clocks.


Democrats’ Reckless Tax and Spend Agenda Puts American Jobs on the Line

News Release: Democrats’ Reckless Tax and Spend Agenda Puts American Jobs on the Line.


News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $700,000 grant to the city of Brownsville, Texas, to renovate a former warehouse to create the Cannery Public Market, a multi-purpose community building in the Mitte Cultural District. This EDA grant will be matched with $1.1 million in local investment.


News Release: Op-Ed: Biden is Waving White Flag of Economic Surrender.


News Release: Brady: More than Covid to Blame for Terrible August Jobs Report-Biden’s Worker-less Recovery Hammering Main Street & Families.


Groundbreaking Technique Yields Important New Details on Silicon, Subatomic Particles and Possible ‘Fifth Force’

News Release: Using a groundbreaking new technique at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an international collaboration led by NIST researchers has revealed previously unrecognized properties of technologically crucial silicon crystals and uncovered new information about an important subatomic particle and a long-theorized fifth force of nature.


News Release: Our next order of business is Subtitle C. Budget Reconciliation Legislative Recommendations Relating to Childcare Access and Equity which will make investments to address an issue that too often causes American parents and guardians stress and anxiety.


News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, issued the following statement expressing their support for today’s announcement by President Biden about the steps his Administration is doing to end the pandemic, including requiring coronavirus vaccinations for most federal employees and government contractors...


News Release: Reminder: American Families and Small Businesses Left Shouldering Democrats’ $3.5 Trillion Tax Hikes.