By EPA Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: “I welcome the court’s rejection of this premature legal challenge to EPA’s proposed Clean Power Plan. This is still just a proposal, and we must allow EPA finish its work. When it does, I am confident that we will see that the rule is a reasonable, flexible approach to regulating greenhouse gas emissions...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-WI) today sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office requesting a review of multiplex Point-of-Care Testing (POCT). Upton...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today announced that it will vote Wednesday this week on H.R. 805, the Domain Openness Through Continued Oversight Matters Act. The legislation authored by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL) will protect...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), has scheduled a hearing for Friday, June 12, at 9:30 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “EPA’s Proposed Ozone Rule."
By EPA Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing schedule for the week of June 8. The committee will discuss the FCC’s proposal to close field offices, review bipartisan legislation to continue support for 9/11 victims and families, investigate a radiological incident at a DOE site, and examine EPA’s burdensome ozone rule.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today issued the following statement regarding yesterday’s announcement that the integrity of four million government employee records had been compromised by a recent data breach.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: Currently, only extended-release and long-acting opioids have prominently displayed warnings, known as “black box warnings," that indicate the significant potential for abuse, overdose, addiction, and neonatal abstinence syndrome. The Democratic Committee leaders asked that these same warnings be placed on immediate release opioids, which have the same risks and accounted for over 90% of the opioids prescribed in the United States in 2009, according to FDA.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA) today issued the following statement applauding the Republican Study Committee’s commitment to increased research funding at the National Institutes of Health. The RSC, led...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 5, 2015
News Release: “The announcement that up to four million federal workers may have had their personal information stolen in this cyber breach represents the latest failure to protect American data against cyber threats.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement in response to the Environmental Protection Agency’s draft assessment that concluded “Hydraulic fracturing activities have not led to widespread, systemic impacts on drinking water resources."
By EPA Newswire | Jun 4, 2015
News Release: “I am deeply troubled by the contamination incident at NIH. We rely on NIH as our premiere medical research agency to conduct its work safely and effectively, and this episode raises concerns about whether proper protocols are in place to guarantee patient safety. Our number one priority should be the...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Concluding a banner week for the committee’s Architecture of Abundance efforts, the Subcommittee on Energy and Power today concluded a two-day hearing that examined Title IV’s Subtitle A on Energy Efficiency and Subtitle B on Accountability. Both government and non-government witnesses...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 4, 2015
News Release: “While the current draft indicates that the overall percentage of contamination cases may be small, it acknowledges there have been contamination events. When it comes to the water we drink, every instance of contamination must be considered serious.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing to discuss bipartisan legislation regarding the health law’s menu-labeling requirements. H.R. 2017, the Common Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act, authored by committee member and GOP Conference Chair Rep.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today advanced key legislation to modernize and reform the Federal Communications Commission. H.R. 2583, the FCC Process Reform Act, authored by Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), ...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA), and Subcommittee Ranking Member Diana DeGette (D-CO) issued the following statement today on the joint Department...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Highlighting a multi-year, multi-Congress effort, the House Energy and Commerce Committee today approved landmark bipartisan legislation to reform the Toxic Substances Control Act to help improve chemical safety and management. H.R. 2576, the TSCA Modernization Act, passed the committee...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today examined the Takata airbag recalls - the largest auto safety recall in U.S. history. The hearing continued the subcommittee’s push for a faster resolution of the recalls now...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today held a hearing on the “Quadrennial Energy Review and Related Discussion Drafts." Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz touched on the findings of the administration’s Quadrennial Energy Review (QER), which highlighted...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing to discuss the continued and growing issue of waste and fraud in the Medicaid program. Subcommittee members heard testimony from the Government Accountability Office and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
