By EPA Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Enclosed below are Ranking Member Diana DeGette's remarks as prepared for delivery at the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing titled "The ACA’s Cost Sharing Reduction Program: Ramifications of the Administration’s Decision on the Source of Funding for the CSR Program":
By EPA Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing examining updated text for H.R. 546, the Advancing Care for Exceptional Kids (ACE Kids) Act of 2015.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee on Health Hearing on “Examining the Advancing Care for Exceptional Kids Act":
By EPA Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Environment and the Economy Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a hearing entitled, “Federal, State, and Local Agreements and Economic Benefits for Spent Nuclear Fuel Disposal." Yucca Mountain, Nevada, was designated in 1987 as the sole site for a deep, ...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - One year ago this week, support was surging for H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act. As the House prepared to vote on the Cures legislation, over 700 groups encompassing patient advocacy groups, rare disease groups, cancer centers, technology groups, top universities, biopharmaceutical companies, medical device companies, and others from across the country rallied in support of the landmark bill. A list of those groups is below...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), and the House Ways and Means Committee, chaired by Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX), today released a new report, entitled, “Joint Congressional Investigative Report into the Source of Funding for the ACA’s Cost Sharing Reduction Program."
By EPA Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks at an Environment and the Economy Subcommittee hearing on “Federal, State, and Local Agreements and Economic Benefits for Spent Nuclear Fuel Disposal":
By EPA Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today responded to House Republicans’ release of an ‘investigative report’ on the cost-sharing reduction (CSR) subsidy program in the Affordable Care Act...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced that it will host a forum discussion on conscience rights on Friday, July 8, 2016, at 9 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The discussion will be led by Health Subcommittee Chairman Joseph Pitts (R-PA). Participants...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today passed landmark bipartisan legislation to reform our nation’s mental health system by a vote of 422-2. H.R. 2646, the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act, was introduced by Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) following an extensive subcommittee investigation into the nation’s failing mental health care system.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) submitted the following statement for the record at the opening of the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) Conference Committee...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: Energy and Power Subcommittee Ranking Bobby Rush delivered the following opening remarks at the hearing titled, "A Review of EPA's Regulatory Activity During the Obama Administration: Energy and Industrial Sectors":
By EPA Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - After this morning’s meeting of House and Senate opioid conferees, bicameral leaders announced that a conference report has been filed. The conference report will be considered by the House Rules Committee tonight, and is expected to be on the House floor on Friday.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks during Floor consideration of H.R. 2646, the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Environment and the Economy Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, July 13, 2016, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Oversight of CERCLA Implementation."
By EPA Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: After an 18-month-long investigation, the Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee and the Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold hearings this week on the Obama Administration’s unlawful funding of the cost sharing reduction (CSR) program, which was established under the Affordable Care Act.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Support continues to build for a comprehensive opioid package following this morning’s meeting of House and Senate opioid conferees who gathered to consider legislative text for the conference report to S. 524, the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016. The draft legislative...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: Energy and Power Subcommittee Ranking Bobby Rush delivered the following opening remarks at the hearing titled, "A Review of EPA's Regulatory Activity During the Obama Administration: Energy and Industrial Sectors":
By EPA Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, July 13, 2016, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “Disrupter Series: Health Care Apps."
By EPA Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: Text of Legislation. * S. 524, House and Senate Conference Draft . Amendments. * . Opening Statements. * . Documents. * Meeting Notice . * Background Memo . * Order of Recognition, Statements . * Proxy Form . Related Items: Upton Announces Opioid Conference Committee Meeting NEXT WEEK
