By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Rep. Ro Khanna, Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Environment, held a hearing to examine how Congress can bring jobs and justice to Forgotten America.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House Committee on Ways and Means will hear testimony from Secretary Yellen on President Biden’s budget request, which includes crippling tax hikes on America’s working families and predicts slow economic growth for the next decade.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: GAITHERSBURG, Md. - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced a new competition for awards to support industry-driven consortia in developing technology roadmaps that will address high-priority research challenges to grow the advanced manufacturing sector in the U.S.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: Biden’s Global Tax Surrender Puts Foreign Companies, Workers Ahead of Americans.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today released new data from the fifth phase of the Small Business Pulse Survey (SBPS). Data collection began May 17. Results will be released weekly May 27 to July 22. The SBPS includes questions on small business operations and finances, requests and receipt of assistance, COVID-19 vaccinations and testing, measures of overall well-being, and expectations for recovery.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON- House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), Committee on House Administration Ranking Member Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), and Government Operations Subcommittee Ranking Member Jody Hice (R-Ga.) today released the following statement after learning the Election Assistance...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $5.5 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to help the state of Texas prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.8 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to McNeese State University Foundation, Lake Charles, Louisiana, to construct a Center of Excellence...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - In today’s Ways and Means Committee hearing with Secretary Yellen, top Republican on the Ways and Means Committee Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) corrected the record on the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) and warned against the Biden Administration’s “American Jobs Plan" - which will destroy good-paying U.S. jobs and raise taxes on American families.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: You know that part of your fridge that always freezes your lettuce? Or the section in your freezer door that leaves your popsicles a little mushy?
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Ranking Member Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, today introduced legislation to strengthen U.S. semiconductor supply chains by incentivizing domestic manufacturing of this critical technology.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) announced today that the Health Subcommittee will hold a legislative hearing on Thursday, June 24, at 10:30 a.m. (EDT) in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building, on public health data and social determinants of health. The hearing is entitled, “Empowered by Data: Legislation to Advance Equity and Public Health."
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: Richard (Rick) W. Spinrad, Ph.D., an internationally renowned scientist with four decades of ocean, atmosphere, and climate science and policy expertise, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate today as the under secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere and the 11th NOAA administrator.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: For the past year and a half, we have focused our energies on responding to the devastation, economic uncertainty, and tragic loss of life brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. But today we are meeting with renewed optimism and an eye toward the future: not just our next year of recovery, but also the next decade ahead.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.- Today, Republican Leader of the House Energy and Commerce Committee Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement regarding the Supreme Court holding that the plaintiffs didn’t have standing.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- Ways and Means Republican Leader Kevin Brady (R-TX) was briefed by IRS Commissioner Rettig on Monday afternoon regarding the massive leak of sensitive taxpayer information from the IRS to ProPublica.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: Brady: Biden’s Budget Is Self-Admission in Slowing American Growth.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement on the Supreme Court’s decision in California v. Texas to uphold the Affordable Care Act (ACA):
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $6.8 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to Dorchester County, South Carolina, to make roadway improvements at the Ridgeville Industrial Campus...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 16, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Rep. Carolyn Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, delivered an opening statement at today’s Subcommittee on Environment hearing on “Jumpstarting Main Street Bringing Jobs & Wealth Back to Forgotten America" in which she called for a robust environmental justice approach, starting with the Biden Administration’s Justice40 Initiative and seeking even more ambitious steps.
