By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: The Committee meets this morning to vote on three nominations for important roles within the Biden administration.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: The most accurate face recognition algorithms have demonstrated the capability to confirm airline passenger identities while making very few errors, according to recent tests of the software conducted at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- As Congress works to craft major infrastructure policy, leaders of the Ways and Means Committee’s Racial Equity Initiative (REI) shared their priorities and recommendations for the legislation. In a memorandum to Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), REI Co-Chairs Reps. Steven Horsford (D-NV),...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The Senate Finance Committee today voted to approve the nominations of Dr. Melanie Egorin to be the Assistant Secretary for Legislation at Health and Human Services (HHS) and Sarah Bianchi and Jayme White to be Deputy U.S. Trade Representatives. The nominations will head to the Senate floor for final confirmation.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
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 an executive session to vote on nominations for Deputy U.S. Trade Representatives (USTR) and the Assistant Secretary for Legislation at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today cheered the announcement that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) would soon begin to accept applications from states for planning grants to develop community-based mobile crisis intervention services for Americans with Medicaid. Wyden fought to include the grants, as well as an enhanced federal Medicaid funding for these services, in the American Rescue Plan earlier this year.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau released the total number of 2020 Census paid temporary workers that earned any pay June 27 - July 3, 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.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Subcommittee on Environment Ranking Member Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) and Representatives Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) and Yvette Herrell (R-N.M.) today wrote to Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm raising concerns that Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Kelly Speakes-Backman, may be using her position to advance the interests of the Energy Storage Association where she was most recently the CEO.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: With help from NOAA, a caucus of Chicago’s metropolitan mayors released today one of the first regional climate plans in the United States. It calls for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80% from 2005 levels by 2050, and highlights ways to equitably build climate resilience and a vibrant economy at the municipal level by 2050.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) announced today that the Health Subcommittee will hold a markup on Thursday, July 15, at 11 a.m. (EDT) in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Gerry Connolly, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, sent a letter to President Biden urging him to prioritize the appointment of a new Inspector General at the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), following the resignation of Inspector General Laura Wertheimer. Chairman Connolly first requested an investigation into Wertheimer’s conduct in April 2020.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced today that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a hearing on the rise of ransomware attacks on Tuesday, July 20, at 10:30 a.m. (EDT) in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Stopping Digital Thieves: The Growing Threat of Ransomware."
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at the Full Committee Member Day...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered remarks in today’s Member Day Hearing.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: Nicole LeBoeuf, a national leader in ocean conservation and management with more than two decades of experience at NOAA, has been appointed by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo as the assistant administrator for Ocean Services and Coastal Zone Management. In this capacity she will serve as director of the National Ocean Service, America’s ocean and coastal science agency. LeBoeuf, acting in this role since August 2018, also served as the deputy since December 2016.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. House Ways and Means Republican Leader Kevin Brady (R-TX) and U.S. Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-ID) issued the following statement on President Biden’s decision to fire Social Security Administration Commissioner Andrew Saul...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. House Ways and Means Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-Texas) and U.S. Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, ahead of a meeting of finance ministers from the G-20, outlining concerns with the high-level agreement reached at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2021
News Release: Even Experts Say Biden’s Global Tax Surrender Is Far From a Done Deal.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2021
News Release: Once Again, Biden Pushes to Supercharge an Increasingly Politicized IRS.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Biden Administration’s OECD/G20 global minimum tax announcement is hardly a “foreign policy victory" for the American people, argues the top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX)...
