By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) delivered the following remarks at the beginning of today’s subcommittee markup on 19 bills.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered the following remarks at the beginning of today’s Health Subcommittee markup on 19 bills.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Chairman Earl Blumenauer announced today that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing on “The Global Challenge of Forced Labor in Supply Chains: Strengthening Enforcement and Protecting Workers" on Wednesday, July 21, 2021 at 10:00 AM EDT using the Cisco Webex platform.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: Good afternoon and welcome to the Oversight Subcommittee’s hearing on Expanding Housing Access to All Americans.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: “Much of the scrutiny of fraud in the EIDL program during the Trump Administration has focused on the agency’s lack of anti-fraud controls and vulnerability to unwitting approval of fraudulent loan applications. But the recent indictment and guilty plea of Joel Greenberg-the former Tax Collector of Seminole...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- As Congress prepares to consider sweeping jobs and infrastructure legislation, noteworthy stakeholders are voicing their support for Ways and Means Committee Democrats’ urgently-needed proposal to provide American workers with universal paid leave and guaranteed child care. The Building an Economy for Families Act is a groundbreaking plan to provide working families with the essential supports that they need in order to participate fully in the U.S. economy.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today released new data from phase 3.1 of the experimental Household Pulse Survey. Phase 3.1 includes substantial revisions to the questionnaire. Additional questions address the following new topics: disability, child health access, telehealth and child care. Also included are...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources held a markup, reporting a total of 14 bills out of committee. Twelve of these bills were bipartisan - including U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks' (R-Iowa) recently-introduced Veterans in Parks (VIP) Act -and passed by unanimous consent.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Republican lawmakers today wrote the White House Counsel’s Office and the National Archives and Records Administration demanding documentation and communications related to the Biden family’s efforts to profit from proximity to the White House.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Jamie Raskin, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, sent a letter to Douglas Logan, Chief Executive Officer of Cyber Ninjas, requesting information on his companies’ role in the “audit" of nearly 2.1 million ballots cast in Maricopa County, Arizona in the 2020 election.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Committee Members Rep. Robin Kelly and Rep. Cori Bush released a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on the public health impact of America’s gun violence epidemic. Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senator Ed Markey joined the Members in highlighting the report and calling for Congress to act to protect Americans from gun violence.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Upton (R-MI) delivered opening remarks at today’s hearing on America’s changing nuclear power industry.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: Each year, the U.S. Census Bureau brings together cross-sector collaborators during The Opportunity Project ’s (TOP) technology development sprints to come up with ways to use data and technology to solve some of the world’s biggest challenges.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has made two awards totaling $153 million to the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL). The awards were announced today by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo at the NIIMBL annual meeting in Washington, D.C.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: Coastal communities across the U.S. saw record-setting high-tide flooding last year, forcing residents to deal with flooded shorelines, streets, and basements - a trend that is expected to continue into 2022 and beyond without improved flood defenses, according to a new NOAA report. High waters are affecting coastal economies and crucial infrastructure like waste and stormwater systems and roads.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a joint Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee and Energy Subcommittee hearing titled, “Keeping Us Safe and Secure: Oversight of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission:"
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.- Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) today released a discussion draft of the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act, proposed legislation that would help put an end to the unfair targeting and treatment of communities of color by removing cannabis from the federal list of controlled substances and empowering states to implement their own cannabis laws.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered remarks in today’s joint Subcommittee on Energy and Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change hearing with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Ben Cardin and Congressman Anthony G. Brown, Senator Chris Van Hollen and Congressman Dutch Ruppersberger (All-D-Md.), as well as Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.-12) and Chairman of the House Armed Services Readiness Subcommittee John...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - In an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Subcommittee on the Environment and Climate Change Republican Leader David B. McKinley (R-WV) questioned the Left’s motives when it comes to nuclear energy.
