By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 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 $639,789 grant to Erwin Utilities Authority, Erwin, Tennessee, for water infrastructure improvements needed to increase local manufacturing and spur...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the full Committee voted to favorably advance a resolution restoring the Obama-era methane pollution standards rolled back by the Trump Administration...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 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 $1.8 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Nebraska Tourism Commission, Lincoln, Nebraska, to boost the state’s tourism industry through coordination and marketing. This EDA grant, to be matched with $450,000 in local funds, is expected to retain 810 jobs.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Ways and Means Republican Leader Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) responded to May’s disappointing jobs report...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: STUDY: Dems’ Expanded Unemployment Benefits to Blame for Main Street’s Hiring Headache.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) blasted President Biden’s budget that would sabotage America’s economic recovery and harm workers, families, and small businesses...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Ways and Means Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX), House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-KY), House Committee on Education and Labor Ranking Member Virginia Foxx (R-NC), and House Committee on the Budget Ranking Member Jason...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: Dear Commissioner Rettig: We write to express serious concern about what appears to be an egregious and illegal breach of taxpayer privacy stemming from the apparent leak of confidential taxpayer information to the media outlet ProPublica. Confidential taxpayer information was allegedly published on...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ways and Means Republican Leader Kevin Brady (R-TX) opened today’s Ways and Means Committee Hearing highlighting the ways President Biden’s budget is a roadmap to sabotage America’s economic recovery and put Washington in control of Americans’ life-or-death medical decisions.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Committee on Natural Resources Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today said the new Department of the Interior inspector general report on the violent crackdown against peaceful protesters in Lafayette Square on June 1, 2020, lacks clear explanations...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House Committee on Ways and Means will hear testimony from Secretary Becerra on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) FY 2022 budget request. Prior to the hearing, Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX) wrote a letter to Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA) outlining his concerns with the Administration’s plan for the department.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Committee on the Judiciary Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) pressed Dr. Anthony Fauci to explain the discrepancy in his sworn congressional testimony about taxpayer-funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 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 nominees to the U.S. Department of Treasury.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-The top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady (R-TX) announced changes to his senior staff for the Committee, naming Joshua Snead as the new Republican chief trade counsel...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. House Ways and Means Republican Leader Kevin Brady (R-Texas) and U.S. Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) issued the following statement today regarding the G-7 nations agreement on new rules for taxing global companies...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 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 $1.6 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to The Water Institute of the Gulf, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to develop the Lower Mississippi SmartPort...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: The Finance Committee meets this morning to consider four nominations to key positions at the Treasury Department. Lily Batchelder is nominated to serve as Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy. Jon Davidson is nominated to serve as Deputy Under Secretary for Legislative Affairs. Ben Harris is nominated to serve as Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy. Nellie Liang is nominated to serve as Under Secretary for Domestic Finance.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), House Committee on Ways and Means Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-Texas), House Committee on Education and Labor Ranking Member Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), and House Committee on the Budget Ranking Member Jason Smith...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered opening remarks at Wednesday’s Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on President Joe Biden’s border crisis.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader for Oversight and Investigations Morgan Griffith (R-VA) delivered remarks in a subcommittee hearing about President Biden’s border crisis.
