By EPA Newswire | Jul 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement upon the release of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s findings that “beyond a reasonable doubt" the Russian government was involved in the doping of...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement upon the release of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s findings that “beyond a reasonable doubt" the Russian government was involved in the doping of...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 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 Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) Chief Executive Officer Chris Henderson. The letter builds upon the committee’s ongoing investigation into the waste, fraud, and abuse in the Lifeline program.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: This week, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Ranking Paul Tonko (D-NY) introduced the Brownfields Authorization Increase Act (H.R. 5782) to boost funding to clean up and redevelop brownfield sites across the country.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 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 Commissioner Ajit Pai requesting a briefing from Commissioner Pai’s staff regarding his current investigation...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler urging the FCC to take action to ensure that the United States maintains its global leadership in mobile broadband distribution and innovation.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), has advanced four bills that will modernize the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for the 21st century. Throughout the last year, the Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) has conducted the Disrupter Series to discover how federal policies both help and hinder the growth of emerging technologies and the jobs they create.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - Chairman Marsha Blackburn and Majority Members of the Select Investigative Panel today released their Interim Update to the House of Representatives at a press conference with House Majority Whip Steve Scalise.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Following the Senate’s passage of the opioid package yesterday, by a vote of 92 to 2, the bill was sent today to Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) before moving to the White House for the president’s signature. The House passed the package on July 8, by a vote of 407 to 5.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: I want to thank the Majority Whip - Steve Scalise - for joining us today to accept this Interim Update as prepared by the Select Investigative Panel.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler urging the FCC to take action to ensure that the United States maintains its global leadership in mobile broadband distribution and innovation.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Hearing on “Disrupter Series: Health Care Apps:"
By EPA Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy hearing on Oversight of Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) Implementation...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - TOMORROW, Thursday, July 14, 2016, at 9:30am Eastern Time, Chairman Marsha Blackburn and Majority Members of the Select Investigative Panel will hold a Press Conference with House Majority Whip Steve Scalise to provide an update on the Panel’s investigation. The press conference will be held in the Capitol Visitor Center, HVC Studio A (access through HVC-117).
By EPA Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Building upon its bipartisan #RecordOfSuccess, the House Energy and Commerce Committee today advanced three public health bills.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today held a hearing as part of the ongoing Disrupter Series to examine how mobile health care apps are disrupting the ways that doctors and patients engage in the health system and...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Environment and the Economy Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a hearing examining implementation of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). CERCLA was enacted by Congress in 1980 and governs the cleanup of hazardous waste sites, as well as accidents, spills, and other emergency releases of pollutants and contaminants into the environment.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today issued the following statement on the Senate’s overwhelming passage of the conference report to S. 524, the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016. The House passed the package on July 8, by a vote of 407 to 5.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee today passed by voice vote Rep. Adam Kinzinger’s (R-IL) H.R. 1301, the Amateur Radio Parity Act of 2015, advancing the bill to the full House of Representatives. The bill, which originated out of #SubCommTech, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), would instruct the FCC to adopt rules that protect the rights of amateur radio operators to use radio equipment in deed-restricted communities.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today passed S. 304, the Conscience Protection Act. S. 304 has a clear and simple goal of preventing government discrimination against health care entities that refuse to participate in abortion. The legislation passed by a vote of 245-182.
