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Subcommittee Markup Recap: E&C Advance Bipartisan Solutions to Strengthen American Leadership in Next-gen Communications Technologies

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee members today advanced 13 bipartisan solutions during a Communications and Technology Subcommittee markup.


News Release: Washington, D.C.-Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement after meeting with Robert Benmosche, the CEO of American International Group (AIG), who traveled to Washington, D.C. to apologize in person for equating congressional and public criticism of AIG’s excessive bonuses during the financial crisis with lynchings in the Deep South...


News Release: Washington, D.C. - Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce Chair Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) delivered opening remarks at today’s Full Committee markup of 20 bills.


News Release: President Biden and the Left’s rush-to-green agenda is making American dangerously reliant on China’s supply chains that use slave and child labor.


Crapo Statement at Hearing on Housing Tax Incentives

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, “Tax Policy’s Role in Increasing Affordable Housing Supply for Working Families.".


News Release: NEW DELHI - Today, Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo met with Indian Minister of Electronics & Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw ahead of the U.S.-India CEO Forum and U.S.-India Commercial Dialogue to discuss issues of importance to the U.S.-India commercial relationship, including our cooperation ...


U.S. Department of Commerce Invests $2 Million to Support Educational Training for Advanced Manufacturing in Central Wisconsin

News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.3 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture, Millheim, Pennsylvania, to help establish...


Chairs Rodgers, Latta Announce Communications and Technology Subcommittee Markup of 13 Bills

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chair Bob Latta (R-OH) today announced a subcommittee markup of 13 bills.


Chairs Rodgers, Guthrie Announce Health Subcommittee Markup

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy Rodgers (R-WA) and Subcommittee on Health Chair Brett Guthrie (R-KY) today announced a markup of five pieces of legislation.


News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials Subcommittee Chair Bill Johnson (R-OH) today announced a subcommittee hearing to address the environmental response to the train derailment in East Palestine, ...


Rodgers, Westerman, Graves Statement on H.R. 1, the Lower Energy Costs Act

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Natural Resources Committee Chair Bruce Westerman (R-AR), and Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chair Sam Graves (R-MO) released the following statements about H.R. 1, the Lower Energy Costs Act.


Rodgers, Pallone Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Encourage Investment & Innovation in Satellite Communications

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy Rodgers (R-WA) and Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today on forward-looking, bipartisan legislation seeking to promote competition, innovation, security, and American leadership in the thriving commercial satellite communications industry...


Wyden Hearing Statement on the Affordable Housing Crisis

News Release: In recent memory the Finance Committee has a proven record of working together, Democrats and Republicans, to solve big, national challenges. We’ve helped more Americans save for a dignified retirement. Cut taxes for families and small businesses. Updated the Medicare guarantee with the Chronic Care Act. Made progress on helping Americans get mental health care when they need it. Passed the Families First Act with groundbreaking new policies to promote kinship care.


News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chair Bob Latta (R-OH) commended the passage of H.R. 1123, the Understanding Cybersecurity of Mobile Networks Act, which was passed on the House floor by suspension yesterday...


Republicans Promote Solutions for Water Resources Access

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries held anoversight hearing on the necessity ofmultiple uses of American water resources. Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Bentz (R-Ore.) issuedthe following statement in response.


Chairs Rodgers, McCaul Urge Transparency from DOE and Intelligence Community on COVID-19 Origins

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Jennifer Granholm and National Intelligence Director Avril Haines requesting a briefing regarding the DOE’s assessment that concludes the COVID-19 pandemic was most likely caused by a lab leak in China.


Subcommittee Markup Recap: E&C Advances Bills to Halt Fentanyl, Secure the Border, Stop QALYs, and More

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans today advanced five solutions during a Subcommittee on Health markup...


Biden’s War on American Energy is Hurting Communities

News Release: Americans are currently struggling to afford some of the highest energy prices in decades. President Biden’s rush-to-green policies have led to skyrocketing prices across the board-from electricity and oil to natural gas. This is not a path we can afford to continue down.


Approval of Subzone Expansion; Swagelok Company; Valley City, Ohio discussed on March 9 by Commerce Department

The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on March 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: Dear Mr. Chairman: Yesterday, you went on national television and made extremely serious allegations against U.S. Chief Technology Officer Todd Park and White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, essentially accusing them of lying to the American people about the Healthcare.gov website. You then used these...