By EPA Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today advanced legislation intended to streamline Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reporting requirements by reducing the number of reports the commission is obligated to produce. Sponsored by Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) along with Communications...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a hearing on “Oversight of DOE’s Strategy for the Management and Disposal of Used Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste." Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz testified on the department’s...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee stood up for American jobs and affordable energy on the House floor tonight as debate kicked off on H.R. 1582, the Energy Consumers Relief Act. The commonsense legislation, authored by Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), will protect consumers...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today wrote to President Obama expressing concerns over “the continued delay and politicization of the approval process for the Keystone XL pipeline." Recent comments made by the president concerning the pipeline’s review and its potential...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today voted 51-0 to advance H.R. 2810, the Medicare Patient Access and Quality Improvement Act, to repeal the broken sustainable growth rate formula (SGR) and replace it with a system that promotes the highest quality of care for America’s seniors...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives will begin debate today on H.R. 1582, the Energy Consumers Relief Act, a bill to help protect consumers from new billion-dollar energy regulations that could lead to higher energy prices and job losses. With a number of expensive new regulations already proposed...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 30, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - This afternoon, the House Energy and Commerce Committee will begin consideration of H.R. 2810, the Medicare Patient Access and Quality Improvement Act of 2013. The bipartisan legislation is the product of more than two years of transparent work to transform the Medicare physician payment...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 30, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - On the latest leg of the president’s “jobs" tour, he criticized Republicans’ efforts to build the Keystone XL pipeline, charging, “Putting all your eggs in the basket of an oil pipeline that may only create about 50 permanent jobs… isn’t a jobs plan." The House has now voted seven times to expedite construction of the pipeline in the face of the administration’s continued delay of the critical jobs project.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 30, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Republican leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today wrote to EPA Administrator Gina McCarty seeking information related to the agency’s study of hydraulic fracturing and groundwater contamination. The members are specifically interested in how EPA’s experiences with site-specific studies at Pavillion, Wyoming, Parker County, Texas, and Dimock, Pennsylvania, are shaping the agency’s ongoing and comprehensive Hydraulic Fracturing Study.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The effort to streamline the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) reporting process is gaining momentum in Congress. Reps. Steve Scalise (R-LA) and Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) today introduced the FCC Consolidated Reporting Act, H.R. 2844, and Senator Dean Heller (R-NV) is set to introduce...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing and vote schedule for the week of July 29, 2013. Beginning on Tuesday and continuing into Wednesday, the full committee has scheduled a markup of the Medicare Patient Access and Quality Improvement Act and the FCC...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today approved H.R. 2218, the Coal Residuals Reuse and Management Act, with strong bipartisan support by a vote of 265 to 155. Sponsored by Rep. David McKinley (R-WV), the legislation will improve environmental protections and protect jobs by creating a state-based program that sets enforceable federal standards for coal ash.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today advanced two legislative proposals to improve transparency, efficiency, and accountability at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The FCC Process Reform Act, sponsored by Chairman Walden...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today examined the Department of Energy’s management structure and efforts underway at the agency to improve project management and mission performance. In testimony before the Energy and Power Subcommittee...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 24, 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 U.S. - E.U. Free Trade Agreement: Tipping Over the Regulatory Barriers?" The hearing explored the issues surrounding the negotiation of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or T-TIP.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power today wrapped up its two-day hearing on “Overview of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS): Stakeholder Perspectives." The hearing continued the committee’s bipartisan oversight of the RFS, following the release of a series of bipartisan white papers...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce leaders from the Health and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittees today sent a letter to the President and Chief Executive Office of Smithfield Foods, Inc., C. Larry Pope, requesting information regarding the pending acquisition of the company by Shuanghui...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 23, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - This afternoon, the Subcommittee on Health approved an advanced legislative framework to transform the Medicare physician payment system. The bill repeals the flawed sustainable growth rate (SGR) system and replaces it with a fair, stable, and simplified system of payments. Instead of...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 23, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee today advanced a draft, bipartisan proposal to repeal the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) and replace it with a fair, stable, simplified system of physician payment in the Medicare program. After more than two and a half years of transparent...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 23, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives is set to vote this week on H.R. 2218, the Coal Residuals Reuse and Management Act, sponsored by Rep. David McKinley (R-WV).
