By EPA Newswire | Jun 19, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released two new reports today confirming the Obama Administration is ill-equipped for the implementation of the federally facilitated health insurance and the Small Business Health Option Program (SHOP) exchanges created under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). The reports state the programs’ implementation delays and missed deadlines show potential for “implementation challenges going forward."
By EPA Newswire | Jun 19, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Broad support continues to build ahead of today’s House Energy and Commerce Committee vote on H.R. 2218, the Coal Residuals Reuse and Management Act, authored by Rep. David McKinley (R-WV). This commonsense, bipartisan legislation provides a workable alternative to EPA’s proposal to...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Continuing the Energy and Commerce Committee’s ongoing oversight of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) today announced that the subcommittee has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, June 26, 2013. The hearing is entitled “Overview of the Renewable Fuel Standard: Government Perspectives." Witnesses to be announced.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing examining concerns over the BioWatch program and the surveillance of bioterrorism. This hearing continues an ongoing committee investigation opened last summer...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today continued its look into opportunities to expand U.S. energy exports with a hearing focused on regulatory, market, and legal barriers to the export of American coal and natural gas. America is entering a...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - At today’s Energy and Power Subcommittee hearing on “U.S. Energy Abundance: Regulatory, Market, and Legal Barriers to Export," Jennifer Moyer, Acting Chief of the Regulatory Program for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, testified that the Corps has decided against issuing a single, regional...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 14, 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) released the following statement today in response to the Obama administration’s spectrum initiative...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Kicking off a new hearing series, the Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing on “Examining the Federal Government’s Response to the Prescription Drug Abuse Crisis." Prescription drug abuse has plagued the U.S. for many years and continues to be...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing and vote schedule for the week of June 17, 2013. Beginning on Tuesday, the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will continue its investigation into the Biowatch program. Also on Tuesday, the Energy and Power Subcommittee...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 14, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) and Ranking Member Diana DeGette (D-CO) today requested the Government Accountability Office (GAO) review the federal government’s mental health programs as well as examine oversight of specific...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) released the following statement in response to today’s announcement that the main Energy and Commerce Committee hearing room will be named in honor of former Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman John D. Dingell (D-MI).
By EPA Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - President Obama today signed into law S.622, the Animal Drug and Animal Generic Drug User Fee Reauthorization Act of 2013. The legislation would reauthorize the Animal Drug User Fee Act (ADUFA) and the Animal Generic Drug User Fee Act (AGDUFA) that expire at the end of Fiscal Year 2013.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today welcomed the nation’s new Secretary of Energy, Dr. Ernest Moniz, in a hearing focused on the president’s proposed FY2014 budget for the Department of Energy. Members questioned Secretary Moniz over the department’s budget requests and expenditures and discussed a new vision for the nation’s energy future, especially in light of the country’s new era energy abundance.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a hearing examining the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 (TSCA) to gain a better understanding of this complex statute and its impacts on the economy and public heath and safety.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: The Subcommittees on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade and Energy and Power have scheduled a joint hearing for Thursday, June 20, 2013, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “A Competitive Edge for American Manufacturing: Abundant American Energy." Witnesses to be announced.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As part of the Energy and Commerce Committee’s continuing efforts to reform the Medicaid program, the Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing on “The Need for Medicaid Reform: A State Perspective." The hearing coincides with the release of an IDEA...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today held the second in its ongoing hearing series this Congress on the satellite television law, portions of which are set to sunset on Dec. 31, 2014. Members today examined...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Acting Administrator Daniel Werfel requesting information about a March 2011 IRS search and seizure of as many as 60 million medical records from a California health care provider. The letter...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton issued the following statement in honor and recognition of his friend, Michigan colleague, and former Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman John D. Dingell, who today became the longest-serving Member of Congress in the history of the United States.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing schedule for the week of June 10, 2013. Beginning on Wednesday, the Subcommittee on Health will continue its Medicaid reform efforts, and the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology will continue its examination...
