By EPA Newswire | Nov 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Three years ago 21st Century Cures started as an idea. The goal: to bring our health care innovation infrastructure into the 21st century, delivering hope for patients and their loved ones, and providing the necessary resources to researchers who are looking to discover the next generation of cures and treatments.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 27, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The #Path2Cures has been a three-year journey, that all started with a simple idea. The goal: to bring our health care innovation infrastructure into the 21st century, delivering hope for patients and their loved ones, and providing the necessary resources to researchers who are looking to discover the next generation of cures and treatments.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 26, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House and Senate health committee leaders have released the final “21st Century Cures" bill and announced that the House of Representatives will vote Wednesday on a $6.3 Billion landmark medical innovation package that will accelerate the discovery, development, and delivery of new cures...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 26, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) today issued a statement on progress to advance landmark mental health reforms.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of November 28.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee’s Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today announced that the Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016 hearing entitled, “Volkswagen’s Emissions Cheating Settlement: Questions Concerning ZEV Program Implementation," has been postponed.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Energy and Power Subcommittee Vice Chairman Pete Olson (R-TX), and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL), today issued the following statement in response to EPA’s final rule setting out the 2017 requirements for the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).
By EPA Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016, at 10 a.m. in 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Volkswagen’s Emissions Cheating Settlement: Questions Concerning ZEV Program Implementation."
By EPA Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: With the election over, speculation is rampant on what this means for politics and policy in 2017. We need to take a step back however, and realize there is critical work to be completed by Congress in 2016, to set the stage for a new generation of medical innovation, and demonstrate to the American people that Washington is not broken.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Chairman John Thune (R-SD) today sent letters to both Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Edith Ramirez and Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Chairman Elliot Kaye requesting a pause on any controversial new regulations.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The 21st Century Cures Act, an unprecedented nonpartisan bill to deliver new cures and treatments to patients, continues to remain a top legislative priority. As lawmakers prepare for the lame duck session, here’s a quick refresher on the #Path2Cures. As House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) has repeatedly described, 21st Century Cures as “a once-in-a-generation, transformational opportunity to change the way we treat disease."
By EPA Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today responded to the FDA’s decision not to finalize guidance on laboratory developed tests (LDTs). LDTs have been an important area of concern for the committee. The committee has held multiple hearings on LDTs (September 2014, November 2015 ), and has done extensive work to find a bipartisan path forward.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT), today issued the following statement after the House sent the Senate its bipartisan proposal to the House-Senate energy bill.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Patients can’t wait. That’s the message from over 200 of the nation’s leading patient advocacy organizations. A letter spearheaded by the National Health Council is urging bipartisan Congressional leaders, as well as The White House, to move forward and pass the 21st Century Cures Act.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) submitted the following opening remarks for the record at a joint Subcommittee on Communications and Technology and Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade hearing titled “Understanding the Role of Connected Devices in Recent Cyber Attacks:"
By EPA Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The nonpartisan support for the 21st Century Cures Act continues to grow stronger by the day. In recent weeks, letters of support have come from Research!America and United for Medical Research, and One Voice Against Cancer. Most recently, the Association of Public & Land-Grant Universities (APLU) and the Association of American Universities (AAU) wrote expressing their continued support of the nonpartisan Cures bill.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), and the Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today held a hearing examining the recent series of Internet of Things (IoT) connected device-based distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler regarding possible FCC decisions during the presidential transition.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) submitted the following opening remarks for the record for a Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade hearing titled “Disrupter Series: Self-Driving Cars:"
By EPA Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Energy and Power Subcommittee Vice Chairman Pete Olson (R-TX), and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) today issued the following statement after the Interior Department issued new rules regulating methane emissions from existing oil and gas wells.
