By EPA Newswire | Nov 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -The House will vote tomorrow on a bill, H.R. 5682, authored by Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) that would immediately authorize construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today announced that the Communications and Technology Subcommittee will hold a hearing on FCC oversight, and specifically the commission’s consideration of Net Neutrality rules, on Wednesday, December 10.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee next week will continue its investigation of the ongoing Ebola outbreak and discuss the status of developing vaccines, diagnostics, and treatments for the virus. On Tuesday, Nov. 18, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will continue...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), and Vice Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH) offered the following statement on today’s announcement by President Obama supporting regulation of the Internet as a utility under Title II of the Communications Act...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Vice Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) issued the following statement regarding new expectations from the Department of Health and Human Services for the second open enrollment period under the president’s health care law. The second open enrollment period was delayed from its original start on Oct. 1, 2014, and will now begin this Saturday, Nov. 15, 2014.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today responded to new reports regarding the recalls of vehicles equipped with faulty Takata air bag inflators. The New York Times today reported that Takata may have been aware of the dangerous defect as early as 2004 but...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 5, 2014
News Release: The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), the organization charged with protecting America’s power supply, today warned that the Obama administration’s power plant proposal would threaten the nation’s electric reliability. In a new report, NERC raised concerns about EPA’s assumptions...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement regarding the committee’s priorities for the 114th Congress. Upton recently unveiled the #RecordOfSuccess webpage chronicling the committee’s bipartisan achievements in the 113th Congress.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Energy and Commerce Committee’s bipartisan 21st Century Cures initiative has travelled across the country for the past several months as members seek more ideas from medical innovators, patients, families, and health leaders from their states and districts in the effort to accelerate the pace of cures and save more lives.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today wrote to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) requesting a review of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The request follows the committee’s extensive investigation into the General Motors ignition switch recall.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement regarding the latest confirmed case of Ebola in the United States, a doctor in New York who recently returned from Guinea where he had treated patients for Doctors Without Borders. A group of...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 24, 2014
News Release: We live in an age where a savvy entrepreneur in Burlington or Omaha can create good jobs at a good profit by marketing a new idea or product through the Internet to a worldwide audience. Through an uninhibited flow of data, the Internet has truly empowered small and large businesses alike to fully participate in the global economy.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 23, 2014
News Release: House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) yesterday announced the committee would be taking a close look at the increasing number of recalls for defective airbags made by the auto supplier Takata. The committee has requested a briefing from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, who this week issued warnings to drivers about the potential danger of the defect.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 23, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Twenty-eight Republican members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today sent a letter to President Obama, Ebola Response Coordinator Ron Klain, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell, and Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson seeking further answers on the administration’s...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Over the past several months, Energy and Commerce Committee members have brought the bipartisan 21st Century Cures initiative across the country. These local roundtables have strengthened the initiative as members continue to gather ideas from patients, researchers, and health care experts from each of their home districts.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today responded to the expanded recall of vehicles equipped with faulty Takata air bag inflators and warnings by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration this week urging drivers to get their cars fixed over concerns that air bag rupture could lead to severe injuries.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee members have taken the bipartisan 21st Century Cures initiative around the country with roundtables in Colorado, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Florida, Ohio, Michigan, and North Carolina. The ongoing conversations have been instrumental in building...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today released documents obtained in its investigation of the ongoing Ebola outbreak. The documents were submitted to the committee by Texas Health Resources. One outlines the preparedness timeline from Aug. 1, 2014, through Sept. 24, 2014, and the other document details the sequence of events at Thomas Duncan’s first visit to the Emergency Department on Sept. 25, 2014.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) issued the following statements regarding the president’s naming of Ron Klain as the Ebola Response Coordinator, commonly referred to as “Ebola czar."
By EPA Newswire | Oct 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today launched its #RecordOfSuccess webpage, highlighting its bipartisan accomplishments in the 113th Congress to create jobs and spur economic growth, modernize government for the innovation era, and protect families, communities, and civic initiatives.
