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News Release: Dems’ Small Business Tax Hike Targets Main Street Job Creators.


News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy Ranking Member Michael Cloud (R-Texas) and several Republican lawmakers wrote Secretary of State Antony Blinken regarding the massive delays Americans are experiencing in renewing or applying for a new passport. Currently a backlog of more...


News Release: Democrat Tax Hikes Hit Millions of American Small Businesses, Kill Jobs, Slash American Wages.


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ways and Means Republican Member Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) opened today’s Trade Subcommittee hearing examining the importance of leveraging the power of U.S. markets to help free millions of people around the world who are enslaved by forced labor.


House Republicans Urge Biden to Rescind Stone-Manning Nomination

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) led 75 members - including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) and 14 committee ranking members...


News Release: Bidenflation Won’t Stop Democrats’ Runaway Spending.


Wyden Statement at Finance Committee Hearing on Retirement Legislation

News Release: Before anybody ever heard of COVID-19, it was already far too difficult for Americans to save for a dignified retirement. According to the National Institute on Retirement Security, as of 2018, more than 100 million working-age Americans had no pension or any retirement assets.


WaPo: Another Fact Check on Democrats’ False Claim About Tax Reform

News Release: WaPo: Another Fact Check on Democrats’ False Claim About Tax Reform.


News Release: Robotic equipment expenditures totaled $7,524 million and accounted for 0.7% of total equipment expenditures in 2019, according to new Annual Capital Expenditures Survey (ACES) estimates released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. ACES estimates by kind of business add detail to the national-level estimates of investment in machinery and equipment.


Crapo Statement at Retirement Hearing

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 entitled, “Building on Bipartisan Retirement Legislation: How Can Congress Help?".


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR) released new data requested from the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) on the prevalence of mega-IRA accounts.


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Top Republican on the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Worker and Family Support Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-IN) highlighted the success of Republicans’ 1996 welfare reform and addressed new ways Congress can better support working Americans.


Rodgers, Jordan Release New Legislation to Rein in Big Tech Abuses of Section 230

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers and House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-OH) released the following statement regarding their draft discussion bill to rein in Big Tech abuses of Section 230 protections.


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) today joined Bloomberg Business to warn that while Republicans want an infrastructure bill, they won’t support a $3.5 trillion expansion of the welfare state.


News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers issued the following statement on a comprehensive package of discussion draft bills to hold Big Tech accountable by improving transparency and content moderation accountability, reforming Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, promoting competition, and preventing illegal and harmful activity on their platforms.


Chairman Krishnamoorthi Requests Information from Johnson & Johnson on Talc Bankruptcy  Plan and Impact on Injured Consumers

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, sent a letter to Johnson & Johnson CEO Alex Gorsky, seeking information about the company’s reported plans to pursue bankruptcy protection for a dedicated subsidiary the company would create to assume liability for injuries allegedly caused by Johnson & Johnson talc Baby Powder.


DOE, CISA, and FERC Officials Testified About the Cybersecurity of the U.S. Electrical Grid

News Release: Washington, D.C. -Yesterday, Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, Chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security, held a hearing to examine the cybersecurity of the U.S. electrical grid, the Biden Administration’s efforts to secure this critical component of our nation’s infrastructure, and whether additional actions are needed to address vulnerabilities in the electrical grid.


News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader for Consumer Protection and Commerce Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) delivered opening remarks at today’s subcommittee hearing with the members of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).


Pallone Opening Remarks at Legislative Hearing with FTC Commissioners

News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks as prepared for delivery today at a Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee hearing titled, “Transforming the FTC: Legislation to Modernize Consumer Protection:"


News Release: Arrington: Biden’s Unprecedented Spending and Taxes Will Cut Workers’ Wages and Devastate Family Farms.