By EPA Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today responded to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s release of Volume 3 of the Yucca Mountain Safety Evaluation Repor (SER). The report is the most important, independent technical evaluation of whether the Department of Energy’s license...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) released the following statements regarding the ongoing Ebola outbreak. The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold a hearing, Examining the U.S. Public Health Response to the Ebola Outbreak, this Thursday, Oct. 16, at 12:00 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The 21st Century Cures initiative continues today as Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) hosts an event in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The roundtable features an all-star lineup including the Director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis Collins. Prior to the event this morning, Dr. Collins and Upton discussed the important initiative with Kalamazoo’s CBS affiliate WWMT Newschannel 3.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 7, 2014
News Release: U.S. consumers are enjoying some welcome relief at the gas pump this fall, providing more evidence of the transformative power of the U.S. shale revolution. Despite global unrest, gasoline prices have continued to decline in recent weeks thanks to a surge in U.S. crude production. USA Today reports, ...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Energy and Commerce Committee’s bipartisan 21st Century Cures initiative maintains momentum this month as members continue hosting roundtables in their home states. Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) is hosting an event in Kalamazoo, Michigan, tomorrow, Tuesday, October 7, 2014, and Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC) will host an event Thursday, October 9, 2014, in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: An energy transformation is underway in America and technology is leading the charge. Advances in hydraulic fracturing and directional drilling have completely shattered prior expectations about our nation’s energy future by unlocking vast amounts of shale resources that were previously considered off...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014, at 12:00 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. Dr. Tom Frieden, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, ...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 2, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The 21st Century Cures initiative is on the road again as Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) prepares to host a roundtable discussion next Tuesday, October 7, 2014, at the Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Previous roundtables and hearings...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 1, 2014
News Release: And More to Come from Second Open Enrollment Period
By EPA Newswire | Oct 1, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) today wrote to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy seeking additional information about the presence of harmful...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement regarding the confirmed case of Ebola in the United States. The committee has been receiving regular, bipartisan briefings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for the last...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The bipartisan 21st Century Cures initiative has encouraged a rich, robust discussion over the past several months, with multiple hearings and roundtables in both Washington and around the country. Next week, the effort will continue with a roundtable in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Energy and...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office today issued a legal opinion demonstrating that the administration lacks a congressional appropriation to use taxpayer dollars to cover insurance company losses in 2015 under the health law’s risk corridor program. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Jeff Sessions (R-AL) requested the report.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee continues to build upon its bipartisan #RecordOfSuccess. On Friday, President Obama signed into law H.R. 594, the Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Community Assistance, Research and Education Amendments of 2014. Health Subcommittee Vice Chairman...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Chairmen and Ranking Members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and Senate Finance Committee today sent letters to organizations representing Medicaid health plans seeking input on best practices related to access to and quality of care. The leaders hope to gain a better understanding of the role of managed care plans in Medicaid and learn from innovative methods used to serve different populations covered under the program.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee is continuing its investigation into whether certain federal agency decisions concerning clean coal technology have complied with the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct05). The committee has been particularly interested in whether or not EPA adhered...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement regarding the ongoing Ebola outbreak and recent updates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Committee leaders recently sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 19, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing to review the growing threat of antibiotic resistance and discuss ways to foster new drug development. Members heard from the Director of the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Drug Evaluation and...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 19, 2014
News Release: Today marks six years since the application to build the job-creating Keystone XL pipeline was first submitted. For the past six years, the project has been extensively studied and debated, but President Obama has yet to make a decision on whether or not to approve the Presidential Permit needed to allow...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Republican leaders of the House and Senate Committees of jurisdiction today sent a letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Marilyn Tavenner regarding the ongoing challenges states are facing while implementing the health law’s changes to Medicaid.
