By EPA Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), announced a hearing for Tuesday, July 18, 2017, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining HRSA’s Oversight of the 340B Drug Pricing Program."
By EPA Newswire | Jul 10, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today shared an important message regarding H.R. 2430, the FDA Reauthorization Act (FDARA) of 2017, legislation to reauthorize FDA’s critically important user fee programs. Watch the video below to learn more about why this bill is a win for patients, drug and device manufacturers, and the millions of Americans who work in the health care industry.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 7, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Democratic Leaders of the Energy and Commerce and Oversight and Government Reform committees today sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) asking it to examine the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) information technology and information security practices.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) and House Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released a new state-by-state analysis today on what is at risk if the Prevention and Public Health Fund is eliminated under the Senate Republican Trumpcare bill.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), announced a hearing for Wednesday, July 12, 2017, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Combating the Opioid Crisis: Battles in the States."
By EPA Newswire | Jul 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), announced a hearing for Wednesday, July 12, 2017, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining Medical Product Manufacturer Communications."
By EPA Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today held a markup examining four bipartisan public health bills.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to a report released by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) on the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC’s) Lifeline Program, a program that has provided discounted and no-charge phone service for low-income Americans for over three decades...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA), Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law Subcommittee Chairman Tom Marino (R-PA), and Environment Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL), today sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Health Subcommittee markup on four public health bills...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) today issued the following statement after Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) released a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report detailing waste, fraud, and abuse within the FCC’s Lifeline program.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today following the release of new analysis from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on the Senate Trumpcare bill’s long term impact on Medicaid...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee is set to pass H.R. 3017, Brownfields Enhancement Economic Redevelopment and Reauthorization Act of 2017, authored by #SubEnvironment Vice Chairman David McKinley (R-WV). H.R. 3017 would reauthorize and make improvements to the EPA Brownfields Program, encourage EPA, states, and local governments to work together to redevelop properties, create jobs, and provide for economic development.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee today will vote on H.R. 3053, the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 2017, authored by #SubEnvironment Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL). H.R. 3053 provides practical reforms to the nation’s nuclear waste management policy to ensure the federal government’s legal obligations to dispose of spent nuclear fuel and high-level waste be fulfilled.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Full Committee markup of several energy and environmental bills...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today urged the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) to investigate whether federal law was violated by the submission of fake comments - using stolen identities - to the Federal Communications...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today passed eight #SubEnergy and #SubEnvironment bills aimed at modernizing the nation’s energy infrastructure, environmental laws and enhances the nation’s energy security.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today commented on a new report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector general (OIG) regarding the Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System (T-MSIS), a new data system that is designed to “improve the completeness, accuracy, and timeliness of Medicaid data."
By EPA Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) released a joint staff report today on the Trump Administration and Congressional Republicans’ intentional sabotage of the individual insurance markets to justify passage of Trumpcare.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: TO: Health Reporters. FROM: Ways & Means and Energy & Commerce Committees Democrats. MEMO: Highlights of CBO Report on Senate Trumpcare Bill. DATE: June 27, 2017. The facts are unchanged. The Senate Republican Plan remains a bad deal for consumers. It penalizes older Americans, those with pre-existing...
