By EPA Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) will take the #Path2Cures to the Newseum Wednesday morning for The Hill’s “Targeted Cures: A Policy Discussion on Treating Patients with Rare Diseases." Doors open at 8:15 a.m. and Upton and The Hill’s Editor in Chief Bob Cusack will kick off the program with a conversation on 21st Century Cures at approximately 8:45 a.m.
By EPA Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: Opioid addiction doesn’t discriminate. To share two local stories, and highlight the work of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) takes to the House Republicans blog to share the heartbreaking stories of two young women from Kalamazoo, Michigan, and highlight the committee’s...
By EPA Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today released a new report chronicling misleading testimony offered by CMS Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on December 8, 2015. The report entitled, ...
By EPA Newswire | May 10, 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 announced a closed briefing on Thursday, May 19, 2016, to discuss the vulnerabilities of the SS7 protocol. The briefing will be given by technical experts from U.S. wireline and wireless network operators.
By EPA Newswire | May 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - In comments filed with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today, the four original co-sponsors of the Food Labeling Modernization Act - U.S. Representative Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), U.S. Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and U.S. Senator Edward J. Markey (D-MA) - urged the agency to finalize a new rule clarifying the use of “natural" on food labeling.
By EPA Newswire | May 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), has scheduled a markup for Wednesday, May 11, 2016, at 5 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building to consider two bills. H.R. 4775 would facilitate implementation of ozone and other national air...
By EPA Newswire | May 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), full committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL), and subcommittee Ranking Member Paul Tonko (D-NY) commented on today’s announcement by Senate...
By EPA Newswire | May 7, 2016
News Release: Saturday evening marks the running of the 142nd Kentucky Derby, “The Greatest Two Minutes in Sports," but it’s the activity at Churchill Downs on Friday that’s worthy of mention. For the eighth consecutive year, the Kentucky Oaks Survivors Parade took place honoring breast and ovarian cancer survivors. This year, 142 survivors walked in the parade directly before the 142nd running of the Longines Kentucky Oaks race.
By EPA Newswire | May 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of May 9.
By EPA Newswire | May 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), has announced the witnesses for the Wednesday, May 11, 2016, hearing entitled, “Daily Fantasy Sports: Issues and Perspectives."
By EPA Newswire | May 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), full committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL), and subcommittee Ranking Member Paul Tonko (D-NY) commented on today’s announcement by Senate...
By EPA Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Last week, members of the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), introduced 11 bills that will bring innovation-friendly reform to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Collectively, the bills modernize the FTC for the 21st...
By EPA Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today commended the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for finalizing a tobacco rule that will allow the agency to regulate e-cigarettes, cigars, and hookah just as it does cigarettes. This rule comes seven years after passage of the Family...
By EPA Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - The Select Investigative Panel has issued subpoenas to two financial entities - Scinto Group, LLP and Five Star Bancorp - in an effort to obtain StemExpress accounting and banking records, which the fetal tissue procurement business has failed to produce pursuant to previous subpoenas.
By EPA Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), has announced a hearing for Wednesday, May 11, 2016, at 10 a.m. in Room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building, entitled “Health Care Solutions: Increasing Patient Choice and Plan Innovation."
By EPA Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) today responded to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) announcement that it was expanding the Takata airbag recall.
By EPA Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), has announced a hearing for Wednesday, May 11, 2016, at 10:15 a.m. in 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “Daily Fantasy Sports: Issues and Perspectives."
By EPA Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As youth Spring football games begin around the nation, Democratic leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today sent letters to collegiate and youth football leaders asking how they plan to prevent and mitigate the risks of degenerative brain disorders for student-athletes.
By EPA Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) and Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today released the following statement in response to partisan subpoenas issued by Chairmen Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Fred Upton (R-MI), requiring the U.S.
By EPA Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - After requesting information and documents for over a year regarding the administration’s unlawful payments to insurance companies, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) today issued subpoenas to...
