By EPA Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power today unanimously approved a draft of its long-awaited energy package, an effort to modernize our laws to reflect America’s energy abundance and take full advantage of our potential to be an energy superpower in the 21st century.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Due to a scheduling change in the House of Representatives, committee activity scheduled for Friday, July 24, has been postponed.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health has scheduled a markup on Thursday, July 23, 2015, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building to consider four bipartisan bills to strengthen the public health. The Energy and Commerce Committee looks to build upon its #RecordOfSuccess in health care after having over two dozen bills to improve the public health become law last Congress.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Energy and Power Subcommittee Ranking Member Bobby Rush (D-IL) issued the following statement today regarding the subcommittee’s scheduled markup of a bipartisan Committee Print released yesterday. The markup is set for tomorrow, July 22nd...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, July 28, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Continuing Concerns with the Federal Select Agent Program: Department of Defense Shipments of Live Anthrax."
By EPA Newswire | Jul 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today requested a report from the Government Accountability Office on the efficacy of providing credit monitoring for consumers following data breaches. With more and more Americans’ information put at risk by data breaches...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 20, 2015
News Release: Continuing its work on policies to realize the full potential of the nation’s newfound energy abundance, the Subcommittee on Energy and Power has scheduled a markup on Wednesday, July 22, 2015, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building to consider a Committee Print that includes...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives is set to vote this week on Rep. David McKinley’s (R-WV) bipartisan H.R. 1734, the Improving Coal Combustion Residuals Regulation Act. The legislation builds on the committee’s bipartisan, bicameral work from previous Congresses and incorporates the EPA’s...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 17, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), has scheduled a hearing for Friday, July 24, at 9:00 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “E-manifest: An Update on Implementation"
By EPA Newswire | Jul 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of July 20.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today requested Planned Parenthood Federation of America make Dr. Deborah Nucatola available to brief the committee. Dr. Nucatola, Planned Parenthood’s Senior Director of Medical Services, appeared in a recently released video discussing the sale of fetal body parts. Committee leaders launched an investigation on Wednesday.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 17, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Friday, July 24, at 9:15 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “An Overdue Checkup: Examining the ACA’s State Insurance Marketplaces." Subcommittee members will hear testimony from a handful of states about their experiences implementing the president’s law.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 16, 2015
News Release: Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) spoke on behalf of H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act, at the leadership press conference on July 8, 2015.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Homeland Security & Government Affairs Committee (HSGAC) Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) Chairman Rob Portman (R-Ohio), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.), House Ways and Means Committee...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today began an investigation following the release of a video revealing the Planned Parenthood Senior Director of Medical Services discussing the sale of fetal body parts. The sale of fetal body parts for profit is illegal.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today announced that Mike Bloomquist has been named Deputy Staff Director for the committee. Bloomquist succeeds Alexa Marrero, a longtime Capitol Hill veteran who is leaving the committee, and the nation’s capital, as she and her husband relocate to Chicago. Bloomquist, who previously served as the committee’s General Counsel, returns from the private sector.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing to examine ways to strengthen and sustain Medicare Part D for our nation’s seniors. Members and witnesses discussed recent reports from the Department of Health and Human Services Office...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - On May 19, 2015, a pipeline operated by Plains Pipeline, L.P., ruptured and spilled an estimated 2,400 barrels of crude oil along the California coastline and into the Pacific Ocean. The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today held a hearing examining...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today wrote to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler regarding the last-minute addition of significant data into the record ahead of the commission’s consideration of procedures for the upcoming spectrum incentive auction.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives is set to vote today on H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act. H.R. 6 is a nonpartisan bill originating from the Energy and Commerce Committee’s 21st Century Cures initiative, launched over a year ago by Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO).
