By EPA Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As part of the committee’s broad review of concussions, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), announced today it will hold a hearing on concussions in youth sports next Friday. The hearing will build upon the committee’s first roundtable...
By EPA Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) today responded to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) announcement that it is expanding the recall of an additional estimated 35 million Takata airbags.
By EPA Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the Energy and Commerce Committee today sent a letter to Department of Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz seeking further information on the current status of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Nuclear Smuggling Detection and Deterrence programs (NSDD).
By EPA Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the Energy and Commerce Committee today sent a letter to Department of Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz seeking further information on the current status of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Nuclear Smuggling Detection and Deterrence programs (NSDD).
By EPA Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Member John Shimkus (R-IL), House Ways and Means Committee Member and Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price, M.D. (R-GA), and House Ways and Means Committee Member Charles Boustany Jr, M.D. (R-LA) spearheaded a letter sent today demanding Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt to withdraw the Administration’s proposed Part B Drug Payment Model.
By EPA Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - Chairman Marsha Blackburn has sent a letter to Cate Dyer, CEO of StemExpress, requesting full cooperation with the Select Investigative Panel ’s efforts to obtain all business and accounting documents from the fetal tissue procurement organization.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 30, 2016
News Release: A seven-year-old angel from Louisville, Kentucky, is capturing the hearts of millions with her dance moves. Meet Audrey Nethery, who has made a name for herself as she sings karaoke, dances, and works out at Zumba classes.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - On the heels of announcing six bills to bring needed reforms to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today unveiled five more bills authored by subcommittee members to spur innovation...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), and 32 Republican committee Members sent a letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt regarding a new agency rule that will affect how health care plans are designed and sold on the Obamacare exchange.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Power Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today held a legislative hearing examining two energy bills to improve our nuclear power landscape. Nuclear energy generates 20 percent of our electricity and produces zero greenhouse gas emissions. Unfortunately, ...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today unveiled a number of bills to bring needed reforms to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Leading up to the rollout of these bills, #SubCMT launched The Disrupter Series, which...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the Energy and Commerce Committee approved a dozen bills to combat the growing epidemic of opioid abuse across the nation. The 12 bills address a wide spectrum of issues related to the opioid abuse crisis by expanding access to substance abuse treatment services, increasing access to overdose reversal medication, improving provider education, and increasing public awareness of the problems of substance abuse.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, at an Energy and Commerce Committee markup focused on bills to combat the growing opioid addiction epidemic, Democrats denounced the harmful impacts of cut-go, the House Republican Conference budget rule that requires funding increases be offset by spending cuts. A similar rule...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Concerned with depleting U.S. capabilities to respond to bioterror threats, House and Senate leaders today pressed HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell on plans within the administration’s emergency spending request on the Zika virus to raid the BioShield Special Reserve Fund for threats unrelated...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: The Energy and Commerce Committee today approved the Securing Access to Networks in Disasters Act - or the SANDy Act, which was introduced in November by Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ).
By EPA Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today welcomed the proposed rule issued by CMS that stems from the committee’s bipartisan repeal of the flawed SGR formula.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today approved 12 more bills as part of a multi-day markup of 22 bills. Three of the bills passed today will help address the opioid and drug abuse crisis facing our nation, adding to the eight passed during Wednesday’s portion of the markup. The committee today also passed 9 bills to improve public safety and FCC transparency.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Building on the momentum of yesterday’s approval of nine #SubHealth bills to fight opioid abuse and streamline EMT requirements for veterans, and one #SubEnergyPower bill to reauthorize pipeline safety, the Energy and Commerce Committee today passed nine #SubCommTech bills to boost public...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leading off a marathon markup of 22 bills, the Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today unanimously passed H.R. 5050, the Pipeline Safety Act of 2016. The committee has a long, bipartisan tradition of working to enact pipeline safety reform into law. In...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today welcomed the proposed rule issued by CMS that stems from the committee’s bipartisan repeal of the flawed SGR formula.
