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News Release: UPDATE: This previously postponed Health Subcommittee hearing has been rescheduled for Wednesday, December 8, at 10:30 a.m. (EST). Details have been updated below.

New York Times: Trump’s Price Transparency Policies Helping Patients

News Release: New York Times: Trump’s Price Transparency Policies Helping Patients.

Testing 1-2: New Laser-Based Microphone Calibration Measures Up

News Release: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have conducted the first demonstration of a faster and more accurate way to calibrate certain kinds of microphones.

ATR: President Biden’s Largest Tax Hikes in History Will Fall on Small Businesses and Working Families

News Release: ATR: President Biden’s Largest Tax Hikes in History Will Fall on Small Businesses and Working Families.

Chairs Pallone and Maloney Request Answers from FDA on the Approval Process for Alzheimer’s Drug Aduhelm

News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Reform Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) sent a letter to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Acting Commissioner Dr. Janet Woodcock seeking information regarding the review process and accelerated approval of Biogen Inc.’s Alzheimer’s...

Census Bureau Announces Release Date for Easier-to-Use Formats for Redistricting Data

News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau will release easier-to-use formats of the 2020 Census Redistricting Data (Public Law 94-171) Summary File on September 16.

Comer, Bacon Raise Red Flag with Department of Agriculture for Unprecedented Increase in SNAP Benefits

News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer and House Committee on Agriculture Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations Ranking Member Don Bacon (R-Neb.) wrote Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack about the 27% increase in Supplemental...

Crapo Statement on 2021 Medicare and Social Security Trustees Reports

News Release: Washington, D.C.-- U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement on yesterday’s 2021 Social Security Trustees Report and 2021 Medicare Trustees Report...

Maloney and DeSaulnier Condemn Legal Releases for Members of the Sackler Family

News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and senior Committee Member Rep. Mark DeSaulnier, issued the following statement following the confirmation of Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy plan of reorganization, which granted sweeping immunity to members of the Sackler family for their role in flooding American communities with OxyContin and fueling the nation’s opioid epidemic.

Chairwoman Maloney’s Statement on Supreme Court Inaction Allowing Texas 6-Week Abortion Ban to Take Effect

News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued the following statement regarding the Supreme Court’s failure to enjoin Texas’ six-week abortion ban (S.B. 8), allowing the law to take effect today...

Census Bureau to Announce Findings for 2020 Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage and Supplemental Poverty Measure

News Release: What: The U.S. Census Bureau is scheduled to hold an online news conference to announce the findings of three reports - Income and Poverty in the United States: 2020; Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2020; and The Supplemental Poverty Measure: 2020. The income and poverty report and...

E&C Republicans to CDC: Public Health Must Be Based on Science and Data, Not Fear.

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans, led by Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), sent a letter Thursday to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle P. Walensky on the CDC’s reversal of its guidance on mask-wearing for vaccinated individuals.

Pallone Blasts Supreme Court’s Refusal to Intervene on Implementation of Texas’ Unconstitutional Abortion Ban

News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the U.S. Supreme Court failed to intervene to block the implementation of Texas’ unconstitutional abortion law, SB 8, which now takes effect and bans all abortions after six weeks of pregnancy...

NOAA breaks ground on project to rebuild the agency's Ketchikan, Alaska port facility

News Release: Federal, state and local officials joined NOAA today at a groundbreaking ceremony marking the start of a project to revitalize the agency’s port facility in Ketchikan, Alaska.

2020 Census Paid Temporary Workers

News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau released the total number of 2020 Census paid temporary workers that earned any pay Aug. 15 - Aug. 21, 2021. The data tables include national totals for all 50 states and the District of Columbia by Census Bureau regional geography. A weekly number of paid temporary workers for Puerto Rico is also available. The weekly release will occur 10 days after the end of the weekly period.

Wyden Statement on Medicare and Social Security Trustees Report

News Release: Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement after the Medicare and Social Security Board of Trustees released its annual outlook for the programs...

Crapo, Brady, Walorski Urge GAO to Investigate Scope and Severity of Fraudulent Activity in COVID Unemployment Insurance Programs

News Release: Washington, D.C.--The Government Accountability Office (GAO) must investigate the greatest theft of American tax dollars in the nation’s history, according to a new letter by U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, and U.S. Representatives Kevin Brady (R-Texas),...

Comer: Republicans Will Gain Answers on Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal With or Without White House

News Release: WASHINGTON-House Oversight and Reform Committee Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) released the following statement after the committee received a briefing from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR). Republicans pressed SIGAR for a briefing on Aug. 19, 2021. The briefing is a result of their request.

First-Ever Census Bureau Report Highlights Growing Childless Older Adult Population

News Release: A new, first-ever report of its kind released today by the U.S. Census Bureau shows 15.2 million, nearly 1 in 6 (16.5%), adults age 55 and older are childless, and the levels of childlessness among older adults are expected to increase. The report Childless Older Americans: 2018 uses data from the 2018...

SIGAR Sopko Briefs Oversight Committee Following U.S. Withdrawal From Afghanistan