By EPA Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: Oversight and Investigations Subcomittee Ranking Member Diana DeGette (D-CO) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor during consideration of the so-called "Conscience Protection Act":
By EPA Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The news keeps getting worse for taxpayers on the hook for the Obamacare CO-OP mess. The Illinois Department of Insurance announced yesterday evening that Land of Lincoln Health would shutter, forcing its nearly 50,000 participants to find new coverage. Illinois brings the total to 16...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today wrote to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) regarding its anti-doping efforts heading into the Olympic Games in Rio next month. The letter was signed by full committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA), and subcommittee Ranking Member Diana DeGette (D-CO).
By EPA Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Full Committee markup of H.R. 5510, FTC Process and Transparency Reform Act of 2016; H.R. 5111, Consumer Review Fairness Act; H.R. 5092, Reinforcing American Made Products Act; H.R. 5104, Better...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks at a Subcommittee on Health Hearing titled, “Strengthening our National Trauma System: "
By EPA Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today held a hearing continuing its ongoing oversight of the Federal Communications Commission. All five FCC commissioners testified and members examined the waste, fraud, and abuse within the Universal Service Lifeline program, the agency’s proposed privacy rules, and the FCC’s set-top box proposal, among other things.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Health Subcommittee Chairman Joseph Pitts (R-PA) today held a hearing examining ways to strengthen our national trauma system. The hearing reviewed a recent report and recommendations by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM), as well as H.R. 4365, the Protecting Patient Access to Emergency Medications Act of 2016, authored by committee member Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC).
By EPA Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today wrote to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) regarding its anti-doping efforts heading into the Olympic Games in Rio next month. The letter was signed by full committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA), and subcommittee Ranking Member Diana DeGette (D-CO).
By EPA Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Hearing on “Oversight of the Federal Communications Commission:"
By EPA Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released a report.pdf) today concluding that recent Republican allegations of $500 million of waste, fraud, and abuse in the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC’s) Lifeline program are based on faulty assumptions and bad data.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today welcomed the approval of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 11, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Oregon’s Department of Consumer and Business Services announced Friday evening that Oregon’s Health CO-OP would shutter, forcing its approximately 40,000 participants to find new coverage. This is the second CO-OP in Oregon to fail as Health Republic Insurance of Oregon closed last year.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 10, 2016
News Release: “On to the Senate," those were our #CuresIn4Words one year ago today as the House overwhelmingly passed H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act by a vote of 344 to 77. While patients and advocates continue to push to see #CuresNow cross the finish line, incredible progress has been made.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: PARTICIPANTS. Marie-Alberte Boursiquot - M.D., F.A.C.P., President-elect of the Catholic Medical Association. Prepared remarks . William J. “Bill" Cox - President of the Alliance of Catholic Health Care. Prepared remarks . Cathy DeCarlo - Nurse, New York. Prepared remarks . Richard Doerflinger - Former...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today hosted a forum discussion on conscience rights led by Health Subcommittee Chairman Joseph Pitts (R-PA). The discussion focused on the importance of preventing government discrimination against doctors, nurses, hospitals, and other health care entities that refuse to participate in abortions. Participants echoed a unified theme - #NoAbortionCoercion - that no American should be forced to participate in an abortion.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman today kicked off debate on the conference report to S. 524, the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act, the product of bicameral negotiations to advance a unified package of legislation to combat the opioid epidemic.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks during House Floor consideration of the Conference Report to Accompany S. 524 - Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing and vote schedule for the week of July 11.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today passed the conference report to S. 524, the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act by a vote of 407-5. House and Senate opioid conferees met on Wednesday of this week to finalize legislative text and vote on amendments. With the support of well over...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing examining the implications of the Obama administration’s decision to unlawfully fund Obamacare’s cost sharing reduction (CSR) program. The program was the focus of a joint report issued by the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee yesterday.
