By EPA Newswire | Oct 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Health Subcommittee Chairman Joseph Pitts (R-PA), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) today sent a letter to CMS Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt requesting information on the amount of federal dollars being spent to subsidize Obamacare’s rising premiums.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today issued the following statement regarding the administration’s admission that there will be double-digit rate hikes for Obamacare plans next year.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today issued the following statement regarding the ongoing cyberattacks against global Internet routing company Dyn.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Representatives Jan Schakowsky, Ranking Member on the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade (IL-09); Frank Pallone, Jr., Ranking Member of the Energy and Commerce Committee (NJ-06); G. K. Butterfield (NC-01); and Lois Capps (CA-24) wrote Administrator...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 18, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Ranking Member Paul Tonko (D-NY) released a report today from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), detailing the state of water infrastructure in selected midsize and large cities with declining...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: Vice President Joe Biden this afternoon issued the administration’s plan for how the cancer moonshot will launch into orbit. Among the action items included in the report are recommendations offered by the Cancer Moonshot Blue Ribbon Panel last month.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 17, 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) Inspector General David Hunt expressing concerns with the apparent erosion of the Inspector General’s independence by FCC action.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today on Vice President Biden’s Cancer Moonshot Report, which comes nine months after President Obama asked Vice President Biden to lead a national Cancer Moonshot focused on making a decade of progress in preventing, diagnosing, and treating cancer in five years, with the ultimate goal of ending cancer as we know it...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), and Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today applauded the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) announcement regarding...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), and Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today applauded the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) announcement regarding...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released a report on federal expenditures related to harmful algal blooms. The report was requested as part of Rep. Bob Latta’s (R-OH) H.R. 212, the Drinking Water Protection Act, which was signed into law in August of 2015...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 12, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - Select Investigative Panel Chairman Marsha Blackburn issued the following statement regarding the lawsuit filed by Orange County, California, District Attorney Tony Rackauckas against DaVinci Biosciences and its sister company DV Biologics...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 7, 2016
News Release: Last week, the committee released a report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO), which identified cybersecurity vulnerabilities at the FDA. Over the course of the GAO’s audit, serious concerns were raised about FDA’s network security, and through a process of collaboration, the committee worked with FDA to initiate a focused and ongoing effort to address those concerns.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today on Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler’s consumer privacy proposal for internet service providers...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, all 23 Democratic members of the Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt, voicing concern about states that are seeking Medicaid waivers based on ideological and misguided policies that...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI), Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health Ranking Member Jim McDermott (D-WA) and Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade Ranking...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - With the National Hockey League (NHL) 2016 season set to begin next week, four leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today sent a letter to NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman urging the league to take a more active role in reducing the risk of head injuries and concussions and make the game safer.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: As all Texans and many Americans know, thanks to innovative technologies, we are the No. 1 producer of oil and gas in the world. It wasn’t too long ago that the world view saw negative, powerless words like “peak oil" or an “energy crisis." However, simply having vast resources does not immediately translate into benefits at home and abroad. To achieve that, policy changes must be made.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today applauding the Obama Administration’s continued actions to tackle climate change. Today, the Obama Administration announced new actions that the U.S. Departments of Agriculture (USDA), ...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. D-N.J., today issued a statement following a letter from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt regarding the misclassification of EpiPen as a generic drug for nearly two decades...
