By EPA Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, October 28 at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Breaking Down Barriers to Broadband Infrastructure Deployment."
By EPA Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade held a legislative hearing to discuss a draft auto bill prepared by Committee Republicans. Unfortunately, even in wake of a spike in traffic fatalities and a record number of vehicle recalls, the draft fails make improvements to auto safety, and instead, weakens current environmental and consumer protections already in place.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, Oct. 27, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Common Carrier Regulation of the Internet: Investment Impacts."
By EPA Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: The news continues to get worse for the president’s health care law. Amidst the news of low enrollment estimates, exchange failures, and collapse of one-third of Obamacare co-ops, the Washington Examiner editorialized that the problems have only just begun. The editors write, “The important thing is...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: The news continues to get worse for the president’s health care law. Amidst the news of low enrollment estimates, exchange failures, and collapse of one-third of Obamacare co-ops, the Washington Examiner editorialized that the problems have only just begun. The editors write, “The important thing is...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Health Subcommittee today continued its review and discussion of several bipartisan bills that would help combat the growing drug abuse crisis - both with prescription and synthetic drugs - unfolding in communities throughout America. Earlier this month subcommittee members heard...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Building on its previous work examining the EPA’s new cap and trade rules, the Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), will hold a hearing on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015, examining the legal issues relating to the EPA’s carbon dioxide (CO2) regulations for new and existing power plants.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today regarding a new study that found that women have higher levels of triphenyl phosphate (TPHP), a potentially harmful chemical used in a number of popular nail polish brands, in their bodies just 10 to 14...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 17, 2015
News Release: Oregon and Colorado CO-Ops Latest to Collapse - Eight out of Original 23 Out of Business for 2016
By EPA Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), has scheduled a hearing for Friday, October 23 at 9:15 am in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “Fighting Fraud Against the Elderly, an Update."
By EPA Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of October 19.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Building off its work to examine drinking water challenges for small and rural communities, the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), has scheduled a legislative hearing for Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Technical Assistance for Rural Water Systems: S. 611, the Grassroots Rural and Small Community Water Systems Assistance Act."
By EPA Newswire | Oct 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today previewed a number of topics to be examined by the subcommittee in the coming weeks. Highlights include oversight of the Federal Communications Commission, the economic impacts of the FCC’s net neutrality rules, and a hearing on broadband infrastructure.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders this week sent letters to 17 state health exchanges as the committee continues its investigation of the federal government’s oversight of state health exchanges established under Obamacare. The Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee recently held a hearing to review how the federal government spent more than 5 billion taxpayer dollars on failed or failing exchanges.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today released a number of staff drafted proposals as part of the committee’s ongoing work to keep families safe on America’s roads. The subcommittee has...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 14, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, Oct. 21, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining the Medicare Part D Medication Therapy Management Program."
By EPA Newswire | Oct 14, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) and Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.), the chairman and ranking member of the House Committee on...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Vice Chair Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) issued the following statement in reaction to Planned Parenthood’s announcement that they would no longer accept reimbursements for donating fetal tissue.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The United States House of Representatives today passed Rep. Joe Barton’s (R-TX) H.R. 702, bipartisan legislation that would #LiftTheBan on crude oil exports. The measure passed by a vote of 261 - 159. Studies have shown that lifting the antiquated ban on crude oil exports would lower...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the U.S. House of Representatives will look to say #Yes2Energy and vote to lift the nearly 40-year-old ban on crude oil exports. H.R. 702, sponsored by Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), would #LiftTheBan on crude oil exports, lower prices at the pump, create jobs, and make America more energy independent and energy secure. Support has poured in from numerous organizations ahead of the vote and it’s time we make the current ban on crude oil a thing of the past.
