By EPA Newswire | Jul 3, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Environment Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Gregg Harper (R-MS) today sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt seeking...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 3, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), announced a hearing for Wednesday, July 11, 2018, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Opportunities to Improve the 340B Drug Pricing Program."
By EPA Newswire | Jul 3, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) announced that Josh Trent has been named Chief Counsel for the Health Subcommittee.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 3, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection, chaired by Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), announced today a hearing for Wednesday, July 11, 2018, at 1:00 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining Drug-Impaired Driving."
By EPA Newswire | Jul 3, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), announced today a hearing for Wednesday, July 11, 2018, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Protecting Customer Proprietary Network Information in the Internet Age."
By EPA Newswire | Jun 30, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee has received responses from Facebook to its written questions following its hearing with CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook submitted the responses to the committee shortly before midnight last night. The deadline for submission provided by the committee was close of business on June 29th.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 30, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today released Facebook’s long-awaited answers to the Committee’s outstanding questions for the record. Earlier this year, House members sent hundreds of follow up questions to Facebook after Mark Zuckerberg was unable to answer a number of questions during his hearing before the Committee in April.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Senate yesterday passed five Energy and Commerce Committee bills aimed at boosting our nation’s energy infrastructure and improving energy efficiency. The bills now head to President Trump’s desk for his signature.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans today sent a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regarding its Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) and the management, treatment, and reunification of unaccompanied alien children (UAC).
By EPA Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: Today, Reps. Frank Pallone, Jr., Elijah E. Cummings, Jerrold Nadler, Bennie G. Thompson, and Bobby Scott, the Ranking Members of the House Committees on Energy and Commerce, Oversight and Government Reform, the Judiciary, Homeland Security, and Education and the Workforce, sent a letter to the Inspectors...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Ranking Member Mike Doyle (D-PA), and Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Ranking Member Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) sent a letter to Data Propria President Matt Oczkowski...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) issued the following statement after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced the release of grants to help aid in the country’s response to the opioid crisis.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A new report by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) is making seven recommendations that the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) take additional action to ensure all contract pharmacies are compliant with the 340B Drug Pricing Program (340B Program).
By EPA Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A new report by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) recommends that the Department of Energy (DOE) take several steps to modernize the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR).
By EPA Newswire | Jun 28, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A new report by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) recommends that the Department of Energy (DOE) take several steps to modernize the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR).
By EPA Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today held a markup considering five public health measures.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH) issued the following statement on the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation’s vote to approve the nominations of Heidi King to be Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and Peter Feldman to be a Commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).
By EPA Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Health markup on H.R. __, Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act of 2018, H.R. 959, H.R. 1676, H.R. 3728, and H.R. 5385...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the Democratic Ranking Members of eight House Committees with jurisdiction over the Department of Commerce sent a letter to the Agency’s Inspector General, Peggy Gustafson, requesting an investigation into Secretary Wilbur Ross’s compliance with federal ethics requirements, his ongoing issues with conflicts of interest, and his potentially false comments regarding certain financial holdings.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today advanced two bipartisan bills to the full committee that advance the Department of Energy’s environmental remediation efforts.
