By EPA Newswire | Dec 20, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today took to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to speak in support of the Spending Reduction Act of 2012. Nearly $100 billion in savings over the next decade that the Energy and Commerce Committee identified were...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 19, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today approved with bipartisan support several key Energy and Committee initiatives that help children with rare pediatric and genetic diseases, support pediatric medical residency programs, and improve the nation’s preparedness infrastructure, fostering the development of medical countermeasures to better respond to terrorist attacks.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 14, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency today announced its final new rule for fine particulate matter, revising the National Ambient Air Quality Standard from 15 micrograms per cubic meter to a more stringent level of 12 micrograms per cubic meter. Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) issued the following statement in response to EPA’s announcement...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 14, 2012
News Release: As the 112th Congress comes to a close, Americans are looking for solutions to provide certainty in the new year. While there are plenty of issues where a consensus has not yet emerged, there is at least one remaining question where a bipartisan agreement has already been reached - how to best regulate...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce leaders today commended Ambassador Terry Kramer, Ambassador Philip Verveer and the rest of the U.S. Delegation’s decision not to sign an international telecommunications treaty that would expand the role for the UN on Internet issues. Reps. Fred Upton (R-MI), Greg Walden (R-OR), Mary Bono Mock (R-CA), Lee Terry (R-NE), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), and Bob Latta (R-OH) issued the following statement...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT) today sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on the administration’s major policy reversal on the Medicaid blended rate proposal.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) today wrote to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson concerning the agency’s use of secondary email accounts and aliases. It was recently revealed that Jackson...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health today will convene a hearing with federal and state officials to discuss the implementation and regulation of the health exchanges and Medicaid expansion established in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Governors, members of...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today congratulated incoming full committee Vice Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) upon her appointment to the House Budget Committee. The Budget Committee will work to provide a framework to address the trillion dollar...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) today wrote to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson concerning the agency’s use of secondary email accounts and aliases. It was recently revealed that Jackson...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health today heard from federal and state officials on the “State of Uncertainty: Implementation of PPACA’s Exchanges and Medicaid Expansion." Nearly 1,000 days after the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed into law, states and members of Congress...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 12, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today held a hearing with all five commissioners from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to discuss “Keeping the New Broadband Spectrum Law on Track." Members discussed...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 10, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today issued the following statement on the Federal Communications Commission’s newly created “Technology Transitions Policy Task Force":
By EPA Newswire | Dec 10, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -Rep. Fred Upton and Sen. Chuck Grassley today asked two health care companies for information on whether they would limit any potential conflicts of interest presented by their involvement in implementing and potentially providing services under the health care reform law.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 7, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders sent a letter to the International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists seeking information on the role of this industry association in assisting compounding pharmacies in their interactions with federal and state authorities. A bipartisan group...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 7, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its schedule for the week of Dec. 10, 2012. The committee will hold hearings to exercise oversight over new spectrum auction authority Congress gave the FCC this year and implementation of the health care law’s exchanges and Medicaid expansion.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 6, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today announced that Tom Hassenboehler will serve as the new Subcommittee on Energy and Power Chief Counsel. Outgoing chief counsel Maryam Brown will serve as policy advisor to House Speaker John Boehner.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 6, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today announced the Republican membership of the six Energy and Commerce subcommittees for the 113th Congress.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 5, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Department of Energy today released its study on the economic impacts of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports. DOE’s analysis finds that the U.S. economy will experience “net economic benefits" from allowing increased LNG exports.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 5, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today previewed some of the subcommittee’s 2013-2014 agenda during a keynote speech delivered at a forum hosted by the Villanova School of Business in Washington, D.C. Building on the successes of the last two years, Walden announced the subcommittee will continue to consider policies that foster innovation, encourage investment, and protect freedom through a job-focused lens.
