By EPA Newswire | Mar 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today announced a hearing for Thursday, March 16, 2017, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Reinvestment and Rehabilitation of Our Nation’s Safe Drinking Water Delivery Systems."
By EPA Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection, chaired by Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), today announced a hearing for Wednesday, March 15, 2017, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is titled, “Disrupter Series: Advanced Materials and Production.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today announced a hearing for Wednesday, March 15, 2017, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Modernizing Energy Infrastructure: Challenges and Opportunities to Expanding Hydropower Generation"
By EPA Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at the full Committee markup of the Republican’s proposal to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA):
By EPA Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: ‘ObamaCare is collapsing," President Trump said during his address to Congress last week, “and we must act decisively to protect all Americans." House Republicans have heard the president’s message loud and clear. On Monday night the congressional committees we lead released the American Health Care Act, which will rescue those hurt by ObamaCare’s failures and lay the groundwork for a patient-centered health-care system.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today issued the following statement after Exxon announced yesterday their plan to invest billions of dollars in Gulf Coast projects.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) offered the following statement in response to the introduction of a resolution of disapproval by Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) that would roll back Federal Communications Commission (FCC) broadband privacy protections and prevent the commission from instituting similar protections in the future...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today released a new report, entitled, “Obamacare Oversight: 112-114th Congress."
By EPA Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) released legislation as part of House Republicans effort to repeal and replace Obamacare through a budget process known as reconciliation. The legislation, part of House Republicans’ American Health Care Act, creates...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) released the following joint statement tonight after Congressional Republicans proposed their bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and noticed the two committees will mark up the bill beginning Wednesday morning...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - TOMORROW, Tuesday, March 7, 2017, at 11 a.m., House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) will hold a press conference to discuss the American Health Care Act.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today held a hearing examining the Generic Drug User Fee Amendments of 2012 (GDUFA) and the Biosimilar User Fee Act of 2012 (BsUFA), both of which expire in September of 2017 and must be reauthorized for the...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Democratic members of the Energy and Commerce Committee introduced three bills to update U.S. cybersecurity policies and protect consumers. In recent years, millions of Americans have had their personal data stolen and high profile attacks-like the denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Dyn last year-have raised serious questions about our cybersecurity laws and our ability to prevent similar attacks in the future.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Energy Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today sent a letter to President Donald Trump urging him to fill the existing vacancies at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
By EPA Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD) issued a detailed district-by-district staff report summarizing the progress made under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the potential negative impacts of repealing the law in all 435 congressional districts and the District of Columbia.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) submitted the following remarks for the record on the importance of reauthorizing the generic and biosimilar user fee agreements and urged Congress to address rising prescription drug costs at a Health Subcommittee hearing this morning titled, “Examining FDA’s Generic Drug and Biosimilar User Fee Programs:"
By EPA Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee started the week recognizing #RareDiseaseDay, where we honored every patient living with a rare disease via video. The same day, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hosted a hearing featuring Olympic athletes Adam Nelson and Michael Phelps to examine the international anti-doping system. We rounded out our week with the Health Subcommittee hosting a hearing on the reauthorization of important user fee programs.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today issued the following statement on repealing and replacing Obamacare.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As part of the Energy and Commerce Committee’s ongoing oversight to ensure efficient Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) operations; committee members, in June of 2015, requested that the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) review the NRC’s budget development process and fee collection determination in order to increase agency accountability.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Energy Subcommittee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and Environment Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL), today issued the following statement after the U.S. Senate voted to confirm former Texas Governor Rick Perry as Secretary of Energy.
