By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Energy Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Upton (R-MI), and Environment and Climate Change Republican Leader David B. McKinley (R-WV) have released the following statement...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published DNA Mixture Interpretation: A Scientific Foundation Review. This draft report, which will be open for public comment for 60 days before being published in final form, reviews the methods that forensic laboratories use to interpret evidence containing a mixture of DNA from two or more people.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau’s Data Stewardship Executive Policy Committee (DSEP) announced it has selected the settings and parameters for the Disclosure Avoidance System (DAS) for the 2020 Census redistricting data (PL-94-171). The DAS uses a mathematical algorithm to ensure that the privacy of individuals is sufficiently protected while maintaining high levels of accuracy in the statistics we produce.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing titled, “A Humane Response: Prioritizing the Well-Being of Unaccompanied Children:"
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: Brady Statement on Strong Bipartisan Senate Support for MTB and GSP.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) released the following statement following the news that TC Energy, the Canadian company behind the Keystone XL Pipeline, will terminate the project.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today announced a June 16 hearing on legislation focused on Puerto Rico’s political status. The hearing follows the April 14 panel the full Committee held to examine two bills to resolve the issue.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - With billions in taxpayer funds reallocated, hundreds of volunteers deployed to the border, and the U.S. foster care system reaching a breaking point, the consequences of President Biden’s border crisis are intensifying.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - At a U.S. Senate Finance Committee hearing with Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) Commissioner Rettig, Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) reiterated his request for detailed information on the IRS’s recent “tax gap" estimates. “When you testified earlier before the committee, you estimated...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, held a hearing to examine the Sackler family’s role in fueling America’s opioid epidemic and policies to promote accountability, like the SACKLER Act.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2021
News Release: House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Chairman John B. Larson announced today that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing on “Equity in Social Security: In Their Own Words," on Tuesday, June 15, at 2:00 PM EST.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - In honor of World Oceans Day, Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today introduced the Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act, an updated version of a bill he initially offered in the previous Congress to modernize federal ocean management policy to account for climate change. The bill limits...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-The House Committee on Oversight and Reform today held its second hearing on the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma to review their role in the opioid epidemic. Republicans criticized Democrats for using another hearing for show rather than taking any action on the drug crisis at the southern...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 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 a hearing entitled, “The IRS’s Fiscal Year 2022 Budget.".
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) opened today’s hearing purportedly about holding the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma accountable by criticizing Democrats for using it to promote Democrat donor Patrick Radden Keefe’s book about the family. Given the...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2021
News Release: After nearly a year and a half of devastation, economic uncertainty, and the loss of more than half a million American lives, we meet today at a moment of renewed optimism as our nation continues to make significant strides in eradicating COVID-19. Thanks to President Biden’s leadership - and the diligence of public health officials, health workers, and everyday Americans - coronavirus cases, hospitalizations, and deaths have dropped dramatically.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau released the total number of 2020 Census paid temporary workers that earned any pay May 23 - May 29, 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 | Jun 8, 2021
News Release: Colleagues, I’ll have prepared remarks in a moment. First, a brief comment on the breaking news. This morning there is what appears to be a massive, unauthorized disclosure of taxpayer records. The source of this information is unclear. Given the IRS’s responsibility to protect taxpayer data, it has a responsibility to investigate the source of this disclosure.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks as prepared for delivery today at a Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee hearing titled, “The Fiscal Year 2022 Department of Commerce Budget:"
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) announced today that the Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a full Committee markup on Thursday, June 10 at 11 a.m. via Cisco Webex video conferencing. The Committee will mark up legislation to reestablish common sense methane emissions standards, reinforce our nation’s energy cybersecurity, and restore the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) 13(b) consumer protection powers.
