By EPA Newswire | Aug 28, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Republican Energy and Commerce Committee leaders are pressing the Administration for an update on the implementation of a key provision of the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act (H.R. 6), the historic, committee-led bill signed into law in October 2018 to combat the nationwide opioid crisis.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 26, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Surgeon General of the United States, and Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 26, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today requested a joint briefing from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on their response to the growing number of pulmonary illnesses related to e-cigarette use and a death recently reported in Illinois. To date, 193 potential cases in 22 states have been reported to CDC between June 28 and August 20 of this year...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX) voice support for the Trump administration’s proposal to reform substance use disorder (SUD) confidentiality law known as 42 CFR Part 2.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent oversight letters to the four dominant e-cigarette manufacturers today requesting information on each of the companies’ research into the public health impacts of their products, their marketing practices, and their role in the promotion of...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chair Paul Tonko (D-NY) today demanded answers from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regarding potential changes to Environmental...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 19, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after Planned Parenthood announced that it would have to withdraw from the Title X family planning program...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: Today, Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement on the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) proposed rule to require health warnings with color images for cigarette packages and advertisements...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: Today, Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) Education and Labor Committee Chairman Bobby Scott (VA-03), and Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal (MA-01) sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar urging the Department to withdraw a proposal that would severely undermine civil rights protections under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
By EPA Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- A bipartisan group of Energy and Commerce Committee leaders sent a letter to Government Accountability Office (GAO) Comptroller General Gene Dodaro requesting an examination of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) new biodetection technology system called BioDetection 21 (BD21) ...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement in response to the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) new special report on Climate Change and Land Use...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: A bipartisan group of Energy and Commerce Committee leaders sent a letter to Government Accountability Office (GAO) Comptroller General Gene Dodaro requesting an examination of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) new biodetection technology system called BioDetection 21 (BD21) as well as an evaluation...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer expressing their concerns regarding the export of language mirroring Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act in trade agreements.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR) sent a letter today to United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer expressing their concerns regarding the export of language mirroring Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act in trade agreements.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chair Paul Tonko (D-NY) today pushed back against the Trump Administration’s rollback of offshore drilling safety regulations, requesting that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigate the federal government’s readiness to respond to oil spills.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Democratic Health leaders sent a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar today seeking documents and raising a series of questions regarding the Trump Administration’s refusal of care rule, which drastically expands the types of health care providers that can...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) made the following statement after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced their new action plan for the safe importation of certain prescription drugs.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert R. Redfield, M.D., today requesting a briefing following reports that the agency is reorganizing its environmental health division in ways that could diminish the effectiveness of critical public health programs, including the Climate and Health Program.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders sent a letter to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Acting Commissioner Dr. Norman E. “Ned" Sharpless requesting briefings on the potential threat to the U.S. supply of heparin, the only anticoagulant drug used for open-heart surgeries and kidney dialysis.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee leaders sent a letter to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Acting Commissioner Dr. Norman E. "Ned" Sharpless requesting briefings on the potential threat to the U.S. supply of heparin, the only anticoagulant drug used for open-heart surgeries and kidney dialysis.
