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News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) sent a letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to request a briefing on efforts to improve the integrity of the application and assignment process of the National Provider Identifier (NPI).


Walden Statement on Legislation to Fight Fentanyl

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement on the Stop the Importation and Manufacturing of Synthetic Analogues (SIMSA) Act, bipartisan legislation introduced today by Reps. John Katko (R-NY) and Kathleen Rice (D-NY) to combat illicit fentanyl, of which Walden is an original cosponsor.


News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Health Subcommittee hearing on “Safeguarding the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain in a Global Economy:"


Pallone Remarks at Climate Hearing on Decarbonizing the  U.S. Power Sector

News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks today at an Energy Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Building a 100 Percent Clean Economy: Solutions for the U.S. Power Sector." The hearing is the fifth hearing in the Committee’s climate change series aimed at developing comprehensive legislation to achieve a 100 percent clean economy by 2050...


News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to President Trump today urging the President to fulfill a promise he made last month in an Oval Office press conference that his Administration would ban all harmful flavored e-cigarette products, including those with mint and menthol.


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at a Subcommittee on Health hearing to examine safety and national security concerns over growing reliance of drugs manufactured abroad.


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at a Subcommittee on Communications and Technology hearing titled, “Repurposing the C-Band to Benefit all Americans."


News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks today at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Protecting the RFS: The Trump Administration’s Abuse of Secret Waivers:"


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing on the Renewable Fuel Standard program waiver process for exemptions to small refineries.


News Release: Washington, D.C. - Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky delivered the following opening remarks today at a Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee hearing entitled “Reauthorizing Brand USA and the U.S. SAFE WEB Act:"


News Release: House Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) today called on the Trump administration to detail how and why it has presided over an unprecedented rise in the number of uninsured children in the United States, and what...


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at a Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce hearing titled, “Reauthorizing Brand USA and the U.S. SAFE WEB Act."


Walden and Burgess Statement on Bipartisan Bills to Advance Public Health

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX) released the following statement applauding House passage of five bipartisan Energy and Commerce bills to advance public health.


News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing entitled “Repurposing the C-Band to Benefit All Americans:"


News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR) announced that he will retire from the House at the end of the 116th Congress...


Pallone and Eshoo on House Passage of Five Health Bills

News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) released the following joint statement today upon passage of five bills on the House Floor today to improve our nation’s health care system...


News Release: Today, Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-KY) introduced H.R. 4866, the National Centers of Excellence in Continuous Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Act of 2019. The bipartisan legislation would allow the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to partner with universities...


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today marks the one-year anniversary of the signing into law of the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment (SUPPORT) for Patients and Communities Act - a bipartisan response to the nation’s opioid crisis that has been called the most significant congressional effort against a single drug crisis in history.


Pallone Remarks at Hearing on Building 100 Percent Clean Economy for Planes, Trains and Everything Beyond Automobiles

News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks today at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Building a 100 Percent Clean Economy: Solutions for Planes, Trains and Everything Beyond Automobiles." This is the fourth hearing in a series of climate change hearings aimed at achieving the Committee’s goal of a 100 percent clean economy by 2050...


Pallone Opening Remarks at Oversight Hearing with CMS Administrator Verma

News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at an Oversight and Investigations hearing on “Sabotage: The Trump Administration's Attack on Health Care:"