By EPA Newswire | Dec 3, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE), today held a hearing on “The FTC at 100: Where Do We Go From Here?" Today’s hearing kicked off a series examining the work of the Federal Trade Commission as the agency approaches its 100th anniversary...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 3, 2013
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 plans for the committee to examine and update the Communications Act. Upton and Walden made the announcement via Google Hangout, where...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 2, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today approved H.R. 3588, the Community Fire Safety Act, a bill to exempt fire hydrants from being considered a covered product under the Safe Drinking Water Act. Although fire hydrants are not considered a major source of drinking water, the current...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 2, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing to examine the health care law for Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is scheduled to testify.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 27, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today applauded the president’s signing of H.R. 3204, the Drug Quality and Security Act, into law. H.R. 3204 was the product of a yearlong investigation and bipartisan negotiation that led to this breakthrough agreement.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 27, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) released the following statement in response to the administration’s delay of the online small business exchange enrollment...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 27, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today applauded the news that the president had signed the PREEMIE Reauthorization Act into law. This is the second Energy and Commerce Committee bill to be signed into law in recent days. The president last week signed the...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of Dec. 2, 2013. The committee will convene three hearings, including comprehensive reviews of the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission as well as an examination of how the president’s health care law affects Medicare Advantage beneficiaries.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today announced that the subcommittee has scheduled a hearing on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013, to receive testimony from the five sitting Federal Communications Commission commissioners.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -The Government Accountability Office today released a report on the Department of Energy’s Work for Others (WFO) program, which allows the national laboratories to conduct work for other federal agencies and non-government entities provided that the work does not hinder DOE’s mission.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 25, 2013
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 welcomed the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA) endorsement of an agreement between the Department of Defense...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 25, 2013
News Release: President’s Hometown Paper Warns Of Next #BrokenPromise Shockwave that Could Impact Millions of Americans
By EPA Newswire | Nov 22, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement regarding the administration’s delay of the 2015 open enrollment period...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 22, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) expressed concern today over the news that Fisker Automotive filed for bankruptcy protection and that the Department of Energy sold its loan to a foreign investor for $25 million. DOE will have recovered a total of $53 million from the original $192 disbursed.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 22, 2013
News Release: Docs Uncovered Reveal Zients Milestone Set In September
By EPA Newswire | Nov 22, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee members Rep. Bill Johnson (R-OH) and Rep. Paul Tonko (D-NY) yesterday introduced H.R. 3588, the Community Fire Safety Act, a bipartisan bill to exempt fire hydrants from an Environmental Protection Agency determination on the regulation of lead in...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today released new documents uncovered in its investigation of the botched rollout of the president’s health care law, highlighting serious concerns among top administration IT officials in the week before launch. The documents are from September 26 to September 30.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today voted to approve H.R. 1900, the Natural Gas Pipeline Permitting Reform Act, by a bipartisan vote of 252 to 165. Authored by Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS), this bill will make commonsense reforms to the permitting process for interstate natural gas pipelines, ...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today continued its oversight of the development and build out of FirstNet and other emergency communications networks. FirstNet is a nationwide, interoperable broadband public safety network created...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: THE PRESIDENT : “We would not have rolled out something knowing very well that it wasn’t going to work the way it was supposed, given all the scrutiny that we knew was going to be on the website."
