By EPA Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Leaders today sent letters to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and four government contractors involved with implementation of the exchanges regarding rising security concerns surrounding the Federally Facilitated Marketplace.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - During today’s House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on PPACA Implementation Failures: Answers from HHS, Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS) questioned Secretary Kathleen Sebelius about a presentation made by lead contractor CGI Federal (CGI) on Oct. 11, 2013. Secretary Sebelius testified...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) provided a brief recap following today’s full committee hearing on PPACA Implementation Failures: Answers from HHS with Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. Now five weeks into the botched rollout, administration officials have set...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 29, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Power Subcommittee today began its review of H.R. 3301, the North American Energy Infrastructure Act, legislation authored by Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Rep. Gene Green (D-TX). The bill aims to create a more modern, efficient, and transparent cross-border approval process for oil pipelines, natural gas pipelines, and electric transmission lines that traverse the borders of the United States.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 29, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing on “EPA’s Regulatory Threat to Affordable, Reliable Energy: The Perspective of Coal Communities." Today’s hearing featured witnesses from communities particularly reliant on coal...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) will introduce legislation this evening to protect the many Americans whose health plans are being cancelled because of the health law. Time and again, in selling the health law to the American people, President Obama promised, ...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) today unveiled draft legislation to address Environmental Protection Agency rules affecting electricity generation. The bipartisan legislation will ensure America can maintain a diverse and affordable electricity portfolio, which...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - In the Weekly Republican Address, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) highlighted efforts to provide fairness for all Americans under the president’s health care law, and get to the bottom of what went wrong with its rollout. The committee will hear from Health...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of Oct. 28, 2013. Beginning on Tuesday, the Energy and Power Subcommittee will hold a legislative hearing on the North American Energy Infrastructure Act, an important component of the architecture...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 24, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today followed up on requests to multiple federal agencies for information related to their current and planned climate activities and their role in the president’s Climate Action Plan. The committee invited 13 federal agencies to testify at...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 22, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing next week to examine the effects of the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulatory actions on jobs and local communities particularly reliant upon the coal. The hearing on “EPA’s...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 22, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Rep. Gene Green (D-TX) today formally introduced bipartisan legislation to modernize and reform the approval process for energy infrastructure projects that cross the borders of the United States. At the time of introduction, ...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced that it has invited several of the health care law’s top contractors to testify at this Thursday’s hearing - PPACA Implementation: Didn’t Know or Didn’t Disclose? For months, administration officials and contractors alike assured...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of Oct. 21, 2013. On Wednesday, the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology will examine of the impact of regulations on the change from traditional voice over copper networks to newer...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced a full committee hearing - PPACA Implementation Failures: Didn’t Know or Didn’t Disclose? - to examine the health care law’s troubled rollout on Thursday, October 24 in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. Thus far, the...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent letters to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Quality Software Services, Inc. (QSSI) Chairman Tony Singh, and CGI President and CEO Michael Roach regarding the “glitches" that have defined the start of open...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power today held a forum on “The Geopolitical Implications and Mutual Benefits of U.S. LNG exports." Diplomats and energy advisors from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Haiti, India, Lithuania, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, Thailand, and the Commonwealth of...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Joseph Pitts (R-PA) yesterday sent a letter Comptroller General of the United States Gene Dodaro regarding jail inmates’ qualification under the health care law’s Medicaid expansion. A presentation...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 10, 2013
News Release: Subcommittees: * Energy and Power (113th Congress) . The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power hosted a forum entitled “Geopolitical Implications and Mutual Benefits of U.S. LNG Exports." Representatives from several foreign countries and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico participated in...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement in advance of tomorrow’s scheduled meeting with President Obama at the White House...
