By EPA Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today announced the creation of a Medicaid Task Force to strengthen and sustain the critical program for the nation’s most vulnerable citizens. Upton announced that Health Subcommittee Vice Chairman Brett Guthrie (R-KY) will chair the Republican task force. Upton’s announcement builds upon the Health Subcommittee’s substantial legislative efforts over the last several months.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held an investigative hearing examining the failed Obamacare CO-OPs and the $2.4 billion in insurance loans paid out. To date, 12 of the original 23 CO-OPs have closed, bringing the total cost to taxpayers at more than $1.23 billion.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Building on the committee’s ongoing #RecordOfSuccess, the U.S. House of Representatives today approved five committee member bills as part of the broader highway bill. Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) stated, “These bills aim to boost our energy security at home...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power today was joined by the Chairman of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, Jerzy Buzek and members of the European Parliament in a roundtable discussion about energy policy and security. Earlier this year, bipartisan members of the committee...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today voted to include a number of important auto safety provisions as part of the House’s consideration of the DRIVE Act. The amendment, authored by Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), is the result of the committee’s extensive work to reform the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and keep families safe on American roads.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Democrats on the Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, led by full Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Gene Green (D-TX), offered legislation that would address mental health reform in a comprehensive and meaningful way.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), today advanced seven bills to be next considered by full committee. Six of the bills were approved by voice vote. H.R. 2646, the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act passed by a vote of 18 to 12.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Energy and Commerce Democrats attempted to improve a controversial mental health bill, the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act, introduced by Congressman Tim Murphy (R-PA) that further stigmatizes mental illness and threatens the rights and protections guaranteed to patients.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today wrote to Volkswagen Group of America President and CEO Michael Horn requesting additional information about VW’s emissions cheating scandal. The letter follows Horn’s October testimony to the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: #SubEnergyPower Chairman Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY) was featured in The Hill talking about the administration’s destructive #CapAndTrade rules. The committee’s work to say #Yes2Energy continures this week with consideration of two resolutions that would protect affordable and reliable electricity.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The number of failed Obamacare CO-OPs grew to one dozen today as Michigan became the latest to announce it was closing. To date, 12 of the original 23 CO-OPs have closed, bringing the total cost to taxpayers at more than $1.23 billion. This Thursday, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold a hearing on “Examining the Costly Failures of Obamacare’s CO-OP Insurance Loans."
By EPA Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Power Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today passed two resolutions, H.J. Res 71 and H.J. Res 72, disapproving of two final rules issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for new and existing power plants. The resolutions would provide for Congressional disapproval of each rule, and that the rules shall have no force or effect.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today announced the witnesses who will testify at Thursday’s hearing on “Examining the Costly Failures of Obamacare’s CO-OP Insurance Loans." The hearing comes just days after the...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade and the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology today held a joint hearing to review the status of United States and European Union safe harbor negotiations. The safe harbor agreement that allowed for data to be transferred...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), today continued its efforts to protect Medicare and Medicaid for the most vulnerable and to ensure government operates as effectively and efficiently as possible.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade and the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology today held a joint hearing to review the status of United States and European Union safe harbor negotiations. The safe harbor agreement that allowed for data to be transferred...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. today (R-TX) commented on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s announcement of a coordinated remedy program Takata Airbags.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders made the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency’s announcement today that it is expanding its investigation of Volkswagen’s emissions issues to include additional Porsche, VW, and Audi models, with three liter diesel...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA), and Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) today sent a letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy seeking further information concerning apparent efforts by the agency to prevent the codification of an important provision of the Clean Air Act.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders made the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency’s announcement today that it is expanding its investigation of Volkswagen’s emissions issues to include additional Porsche, VW, and Audi models, with three liter diesel...
