By EPA Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) sent a letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt regarding CMS’s plan to illegally divert as much...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today continued its oversight of the Federal Communications Commission. Members examined various issues related to the FCC’s policy decisions and the process by which it reaches them, including FCC process reform, the FCC’s actions regarding set top boxes, and Commissioner Wheeler’s proposal to impose new privacy rules on Internet service providers (ISPs).
By EPA Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Power Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), and the Environment and the Economy Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a hearing with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy on the administration’s fiscal year 2017...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), and Ranking Member John Conyers (D-MI) today announced the creation of an encryption working group to examine the complicated...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), and Ranking Member John Conyers (D-MI) today announced the creation of an encryption working group to examine the complicated...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 19, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today issued the following statement on the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) announcement of proposed regulations to update safety requirements for natural gas transmission pipelines...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives passed twelve Energy and Commerce Committee bills this week, further advancing the committee’s ongoing bipartisan #RecordOfSuccess. The bills continue the committee’s efforts to create jobs, boost the economy, protect small businesses from burdensome red tape, and embrace policies that say yes to energy.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of March 21.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today announced a “Conversation on Child Cures" panel discussion for next Wednesday, March 23, 2016, at 9:30 a.m. in Room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The “Conversation On Child Cures" will feature patients and advocates, ...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing examining the implementation of Medicare payment reforms. The hearing focused on the repeal of the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula, which was a flawed payment system for doctors that required...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 17, 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 welcomed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) announcement on the deal reached to place automatic braking systems in most vehicles by 2022.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Building on the committee’s ongoing work examining the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) revisions to the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for ground-level ozone, Energy and Power Subcommittee Vice Chairman Pete Olson (R-TX), committee member Rep. Bill Flores (R-TX), House...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today held a hearing examining the recent proposal from the multi-stakeholder community to transition stewardship of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) to the Internet community.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) today sent a letter to Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz seeking information relating to DOE’s nuclear waste management policy. The committee has been at...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 17, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) issued the following statement today in reaction to recently announced studies showing significant progress in finding potential cures for Zika and Dengue, two viruses that are closely related.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), and Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) issued the following statement following a meeting at the White House with Vice President Joe Biden on H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act. Senate HELP Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) also attended this afternoon’s meeting.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Power Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today unanimously approved a discussion draft of the Pipeline Safety Act of 2016 to the full committee for consideration. The committee has a long, bipartisan tradition of working to enact pipeline safety reform. In 2011, the committee worked in conjunction with the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to enact the Pipeline Safety Act of 2011 into law.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Adding to the Energy and Commerce Committee’s bipartisan #RecordOfSuccess, the House of Representatives today passed H.R. 4596, the Small Business Broadband Deployment Act, authored by subcommittee Chairman Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), by a bipartisan vote of 411-0. The bipartisan bill would...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today continued its Disrupter Series with a review of digital currency and blockchain technology. Today’s hearing follows previous discussions of Internet of Things, sharing economy, drones, mobile payments, and 3D printing.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 15, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - Select Investigative Panel Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) issued the following statement regarding the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing held this morning on Late-Term Abortion: Protecting Babies Born Alive and Capable of Feeling Pain...
