By Commerce Newswire | Jan 18, 2023
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today released new Business Formation Statistics (BFS) for December 2022. The BFS provide timely and high frequency information on new business applications and formations in the United States. The BFS are a standard data product of the Census Bureau, developed in research collaboration...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 18, 2023
News Release: In a first-of-its-kind deployment under Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funds, today NOAA announced the award of approximately $20.5 million for the coordinated management of ocean and coastal resources around the country. The recommended federal funds will significantly enhance existing collaboration between states, tribal governments and the federal government, and provide needed capacity to advance their work.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 18, 2023
News Release: Jainey K. Bavishi, a distinguished expert in the field of climate adaptation and resilience, started today as the assistant secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere and deputy NOAA administrator. The U.S. Senate confirmed her nomination on December 22.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 17, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - This week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed three Republican bills under suspension of the rules. House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) issued the following statement in response.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 17, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Republican Conference ratified a resolution confirmingU.S. Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) as chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources for the 118th Congress. Westerman issued the following statement in response.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 16, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) issued the following statement on the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Hur to investigate President Biden’s mishandling of classified documents.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 16, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is requesting information from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and the White House Counsel’s Office about President Biden’s failure to return highly classified records from his time...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 16, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) today is calling on White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain to release the visitor log for President Biden’s Wilmington residence and provide documents and communications about all properties and locations searched, including the identities of the Biden aides conducting the searches.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 16, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) introduced H. J. Res. 17 to disapprove and challenge the D.C. Local Resident Voting Rights Amendment Act (D.C. Act 26-640), a new law advanced by the D.C. Council allowing non-citizens, including illegal aliens, the right to vote in the nation’s capital.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 16, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) issued the following statement after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a potential link between the Pfizer COVID-19 bivalent vaccine and strokes in adults over 65 years of age...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 16, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) issued the following statement after the Biden administration further extended the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) declaration...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 16, 2023
News Release: Washington D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) today issued the following statement after the House Republican Steering Committee selected nine new members to serve on the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 16, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) joined Speaker Kevin McCarthy and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Oh.) on “Hannity" with host Sean Hannity on Fox News to discuss his efforts to investigate President Biden and the Biden family’s...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 16, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman Member James Comer (R-Ky.), House Committee on Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), and House Committee on the Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) introduced the (H.R. 140). This bill prohibits Biden Administration officials and federal bureaucrats from using their authority or influence to promote censorship of speech or pressure social media companies to censor speech.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 16, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) offered the following statement after Kevin McCarthy was elected to serve as Speaker of the House for the 118th Congress...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 16, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05) released the following statement on being named Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The committee, first created in 1795, is the oldest in the House of Representatives and has broad jurisdiction over health care, energy, environment, technology, data privacy and security, broadband, and much more.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 16, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) issued the following statement on more classified documents found stashed at President Biden’s Wilmington residence...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 16, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement in response to President Joe Biden’s Wall Street Journal Op Ed today on Big Tech...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 16, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) introduced H.R. 139, the Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems (SHOW UP) Act, to prevent the Biden Administration from cementing pandemic-era telework policies for the federal workforce until it...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 16, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is pressing Department of the Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen for information about the Biden family and their associates’ suspicious business transactions flagged by U.S. banks. Chairman Comer is also requesting several former Twitter executives who were responsible for censoring the reporting about the Biden family’s business schemes to testify at a hearing the week of February 6.
