By EPA Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As part of the Energy and Commerce Committee’s ongoing investigation of the Obama administration’s settlement offer to circumvent Congress, committee leaders today sent six letters to the insurance companies that have recently sued the government to recover shortfalls in risk corridors...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: Some of the faces behind the “Beyond the Diagnosis" traveling exhibit.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) today welcomed the announcement that Maria Korsnick has been named President and CEO of the Nuclear Energy Institute. The committee leaders also welcomed President Obama’s comments Tuesday regarding the importance of emissions-free nuclear power.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 3, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI.), chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Sen. John Thune (R-SD), chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and Sen.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today on news that four Republican state attorneys general have sued to halt the imminent transition of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA):
By EPA Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bicameral Republican leaders today shared a new report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) examining state resources for helping Medicaid beneficiaries find providers. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that approximately 77 million Americans are enrolled...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A group of bicameral Republican health care leaders are pointing to a new legal opinion issued on Obamacare’s controversial reinsurance program. The leaders urged the Comptroller General of the United States this spring to publish a legal opinion on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Ranking Member Anna Eshoo (D-CA), and committee member Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today sent a letter to National Telecommunications and Information Administration Administrator...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 29, 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 issued the following statement after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) delayed its vote on Chairman Wheeler’s set-top box vote.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leading House advocates for H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act, today issued a statement on progress to advance the landmark legislation that would accelerate the discovery, development, and delivery of new cures and treatments.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - In an effort to improve the value of federal research dollars, the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) today issued a report making 12 recommendations for agencies involved in the indirect cost rate-setting process. When the National Institutes of Health (NIH) provides...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today delivered remarks on the House floor in support of Rep. Dan Kildee’s (D-MI) amendment to the Water Resources Development Act providing aid to the city of Flint, Michigan.Listen, we all know what happened in Flint was a tragic failure at every level.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leading House advocates for H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act, today issued a statement on progress to advance the landmark legislation that would accelerate the discovery, development, and delivery of new cures and treatments.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) applauded the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) announcement today that the Agency initiated a public process to redefine the “healthy" claim on food labels. Pallone and DeLauro introduced legislation...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today unanimously amended and approved S. 253, the Communications Act Update Act of 2016. The bill contains eight Energy and Commerce Committee bills that have previously passed the House or have unanimously passed the committee. S. 253 now heads back to the Senate for final consideration.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing on bioresearch labs and the inactivation of dangerous pathogens. Taking center stage at the hearing was a new report by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO), which...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Building on the Energy and Commerce Committee’s bipartisan #RecordOfSuccess, the House of Representatives today passed two more bipartisan public health bills. To date, over 115 bipartisan Energy and Commerce bills and provisions have cleared the House in the 114th Congress.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of September 26.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Next Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit will hear oral arguments on the EPA’s “Clean Power Plan." Since the plan was proposed, the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power has held eight hearings examining the legality and implementation of this rule. Selected excerpts of testimony from these hearings, as well as links to the hearings and related information, are provided below.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a joint Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade and Subcommittee on Energy and Power hearing titled “Midterm Review and Update on the Corporate Average Fuel Economy Program and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Motor Vehicles:"
