By EPA Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) announced today that the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee will hold a hearing on the Paris Climate Agreement on Thursday, Feb. 28, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH) and Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) sent a letter to Chairman Frank Pallone, ...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: House Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr., D-N.J., and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today warned the Trump Administration against the ongoing promotion and approval of harmful Medicaid waivers, citing the significant coverage losses taking place in states like Arkansas and the Administration’s failure to appropriately track or evaluate the impact of the misguided policies.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced today that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, Feb. 27, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building, on the current measles outbreak and response efforts. The hearing is entitled, “Confronting a Growing Public Health Threat: Measles Outbreaks in the U.S."
By EPA Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, and Congressman...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL) announced today that the Energy Subcommittee will hold a legislative hearing on the Blue Collar to Green Collar Jobs Development Act of 2019, on Wednesday, Feb. 27, at 10:30 am in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The legislative hearing is entitled “Clean Energy Infrastructure and the Workforce to Build It."
By EPA Newswire | Feb 19, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) announced today that the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, Feb. 26, at 10:00 am in the John D. Dingell...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 19, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today wrote to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg demanding a briefing from the company following a troubling consumer complaint filed with the Federal Trade Commission that personal health information of certain Facebook users who were participating...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 19, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced today that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, Feb. 26, at 10:30 am in room 2322 of the Rayburn House...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: Eight House Committee leaders sent a letter to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Mick Mulvaney today requesting an immediate extension of public comment periods, hearings and meetings that were affected by the government shutdown earlier this year.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO), and Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) announced today that the Oversight...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL) sent a letter to Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change Chair Paul Tonko (D-NY) requesting the committee work together to find bipartisan climate solutions.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) released the following statement today after the Environmental Protection Agency released its perfluorinated compounds (PFAS) Management Plan...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO), and Oversight and Investigations Ranking Member Brett Guthrie (R-KY) announced today that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a hearing on the current measles outbreak and response efforts on Wednesday, February 27. More information on timing, location and witnesses will be announced next week.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: In a district like mine that gives new meaning to the word “rural," coverage gaps engulf huge areas of the map, in places with as few as one person for every square mile. For Americans in some of these areas, who have been awaiting the promise of broadband for far too long, with the connectivity, educational and economic empowerment it brings, any news on this front is cause for great celebration.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Health Subcommittee hearing on “Strengthening Our Health Care System: Legislation to Reverse ACA Sabotage and Ensure Pre-Existing Conditions Protections:"
By EPA Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: Madam Chair, I said it last week, and I’ll say it again: We need to work together to help states stabilize health markets damaged by the ACA, cut out-of-pocket costs, promote access to preventive services, encourage participation in private health insurance, and increase the number of options available through the market.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing on “Protecting Consumers and Competition: An Examination of the T-Mobile and Sprint Merger:"
By EPA Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: Bipartisan Energy and Commerce leaders sent a letter to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb today requesting a briefing on a series of recalls that appear to involve drugs manufactured overseas that may have been contaminated with trace amounts of known carcinogens, which could lead to a shortage of drugs to treat high blood pressure.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan Energy and Commerce leaders sent a letter to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb today requesting a briefing on a series of recalls that appear to involve drugs manufactured overseas that may have been contaminated with trace amounts of known carcinogens, which could lead to a shortage of drugs to treat high blood pressure.
