By EPA Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection, chaired by Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), today held a hearing to get answers for consumers on the Equifax data breach.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), announced a “Member Day" on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) issued the following statement regarding the Trump administration’s decision to withdraw the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation’s (CMMI) proposal to dramatically change how Medicare pays for Part B drugs...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee hearing on “Oversight of the Equifax Data Breach: Answers for Consumers:"
By EPA Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: All 24 Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats sent a letter to Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today requesting immediate hearings to consider measures to stabilize the insurance markets.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), posted details for a markup on Wednesday, October 4, 2017, at 1 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) released the following statement after the Senate voted to reconfirm Ajit Pai as Chairman of the FCC.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 29, 2017
News Release: Today, Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Ron Wyden (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, Bob Casey (D-PA), Ranking Member of the Senate Aging Committee, and Representative Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ranking...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 29, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today following news that Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price has resigned...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 29, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Democratic leaders wrote to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai today requesting answers to a series of questions that he failed to address in his response to the lawmakers’ August 14th inquiry regarding Sinclair Broadcast Group.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today passed H.R. 3823, the Disaster Tax Relief and Airport and Airway Extension Act of 2017, which included some short-term extensions of health policies that would expire on Sept. 30, 2017. These provisions can be found in sections 301, 302, and 303.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Judiciary Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) held a joint Democratic Forum to review recent studies highlighting the advances in sports research on traumatic brain injuries due to contact sports and pathways to move forward.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) are requesting a briefing from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and sports companies involved in the evolving college basketball bribery scandal. They released the following statement this afternoon...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) are requesting a briefing from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and sports companies involved in the evolving college basketball bribery scandal. They released the following statement this afternoon...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), has announced it will markup a bill to extend federal funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and important public health programs next week.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Environment Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today announced a hearing for Wednesday, October 4, 2017, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Air Quality Impacts of Wildfires: Perspectives of Key Stakeholders."
By EPA Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) today requesting an expansion of the ongoing audit of Administrator Pruitt’s travel to also investigate the Administrator’s use of private planes and government aircraft...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to new reports that Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price has been using taxpayer funds to book private jets to visit colleagues and spend time with family...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A bipartisan group of committee leaders today asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) Comptroller General Gene Dodaro to examine certain Department of Energy (DOE) oversight practices that may impede mission performance. Specifically, committee leaders requested GAO examine contractor data calls - requests for various information from the contractors running the national labs and performing other projects for the Department.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after Senate Republican Leadership canceled plans to take up consideration of the latest version of Trumpcare...
