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News Release: “Today, scientists from across the globe delivered the most up-to-date assessment of the ways in which the climate is changing. It is a sobering IPCC report that finds that human influence is, unequivocally, causing climate change, and it confirms the impacts are widespread and rapidly intensifying.

Chair Grijalva: Low Funding for Interior in Senate Budget Resolution Makes Certain Climate Goals Unreachable – Gathering Support to Increase the Topline

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) released the following statement on today’s newly released Senate budget resolution. Grijalva noted that this morning’s report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change illustrates the stark need to fund conservation, habitat protection and impact mitigation programs at a level that meets the increasing climate-related destruction the country is already facing.

Wyden, Neal, Casey, Bonamici Introduce Legislation to Reauthorize and Modernize Elder Justice Programs

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR), House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), Senate Special Committee on Aging Chairman Bob Casey (D-PA), and Co-Chair of the House Elder Justice Caucus Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) unveiled a bill to protect...

Neal, Wyden, Casey, Bonamici Introduce Legislation to Reauthorize and Modernize Elder Justice Programs

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR), Senate Special Committee on Aging Chairman Bob Casey (D-PA), and Co-Chair of the House Elder Justice Caucus Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) today unveiled a bill to protect...

Maloney, DeSaulnier, Warren, and Blumenthal Urge DOJ to Immediately Appeal Purdue Pharma’s Bankruptcy Plan that Would Shield Sackler Family from Accountability for Opioid Crisis

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.), Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, United States Representative Mark DeSaulnier (D-Calif.), and United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) sent a letter urging the Department of Justice (DOJ) ...

Westerman Visits Western United States

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - This week, House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) embarked on a tour of western states that included stops in California,Oregon, and Alaska. He was joined by Reps. David Valadao (R-Calif.), Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), Cliff Bentz (R-Ore.),and Don Young (R-Alaska) on the tour.

Wyden, Brown, Warren Probe Private Equity Ownership of Kindred at Home

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Senators Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., today launched an investigation into private equity ownership of for-profit hospice companies and subsequent reductions in the quality of care. The investigation centers on Kindred at Home and the period where the company was purchased and owned by Humana and two private equity firms, TPG Capital and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe.

Neal Statement on July 2021 Jobs Report

News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA-Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement on the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) July 2021 jobs report...

Energy and Commerce, Financial Services Republicans Demand Speaker Pelosi Bring House Back to Work to Find Permanent Solution for Renters

News Release: Washington, DC- Today, Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee and Financial Services Committee, led by Republican Leaders Cathy McMorris-Rodgers (WA-05) and Patrick McHenry (NC-10), sent a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (CA-12). The letter criticizes President Biden’s extension of the unconstitutional eviction moratorium and condemns House Democrats’ inability to find a permanent solution for American renters.

U.S. Department of Commerce Invests $2 Million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance to Capitalize Revolving Loan Fund to Serve Small Businesses in Aurora, Illinois

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 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to Invest Aurora, Aurora, Illinois, to capitalize and administer a Revolving Loan Fund, providing gap...

2019 E-Stats Report: Measuring the Electronic Economy

News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today releaseda report summarizing 2019 e-commerce statistics on shipments, sales and revenues from key sectors of the economy: manufacturing, wholesale, services and retail. These statistics are available dating back to 1999.

U.S. Department of Commerce Invests $2 Million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance to Support Healthcare and Workforce Training at Cossatot Community College in Arkansas

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 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to Cossatot Community College of the University of Arkansas, De Queen, Arkansas, to support a Medical Mobile Unit and create a healthcare simulation lab and telemedicine space at all four campuses. This EDA grant is expected to create 105 jobs.

Census Bureau to Hold News Conference on Release of 2020 Census Redistricting Data

News Release: What: The U.S. Census Bureau will hold a news conference to discuss the release of the first local level results from the 2020 Census. States use these data on race, Hispanic origin, and the voting-age population to redraw the boundaries of their congressional and state legislative districts. The news...

U.S. Department of Commerce Invests $2.4 Million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance to Support Tourism Recovery in Maine

News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.4 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development, Augusta, Maine, to boost the state’s tourism industry through promotion and marketing. This EDA grant, to be matched with $600,000 in local funds, is expected to retain 1,225 jobs.

Crapo to Yellen: Social Security and Medicare Trustees’ Reports Long Overdue

News Release: Dear Secretary Yellen: The Social Security Act requires that trustees’ reports for the Social Security and Medicare trust funds be issued annually, and no later than April 1st of each calendar year. According to a July 2019 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), 2008 was the last...

Census Bureau Announces Timeline for Additional 2020 Census Operational Quality Metrics

News Release: - The U.S. Census Bureau will release the next two rounds of 2020 Census operational quality metrics in August. On Aug. 18, the Census Bureau will provide summary county- and tract-level information by state for a limited set of previously released operational quality metrics. The metrics will not be available for individual counties or tracts, but rather they provide the average rates (mean), median and standard deviations for the state’s counties and tracts, respectively.

NIST’s Quantum Crystal Could Be a New Dark Matter Sensor

News Release: Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have linked together, or “entangled," the mechanical motion and electronic properties of a tiny blue crystal, giving it a quantum edge in measuring electric fields with record sensitivity that may enhance understanding of the universe.

U.S. Department of Commerce Invests $2 Million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance to Support Transportation, Business Development and Tourism in Taos, New Mexico

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 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the town of Taos, New Mexico, to build critical infrastructure to support the Taos Regional Airport and an adjacent business park. This EDA grant, to be matched with $500,000 in local funds, is expected to generate $11 million in private investment.

Subcommittee Requests Briefing from DHS After Allegations of Discrimination by Border Patrol Agents in Michigan

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Yesterday, Rep. Jamie Raskin, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a Member of the Subcommittee, sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas, seeking a briefing and information about serious allegations of discrimination by Michigan Customs and Border Patrol agents across administrations.

U.S. Department of Commerce Invests $2.5 Million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance to Support Business Development and Training at Stephen F. Austin State University