By EPA Newswire | Jul 27, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing and vote schedule for the week of July 30. The committee will consider several pieces of legislation to eliminate government waste and protect taxpayers, families, and job-creators. The committee will also hold hearings to compare energy development on federal and non-federal lands, and to examine consumer product safety issues.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 27, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - With NFL players reporting for training camp this week, bipartisan leaders of the Energy and Commerce Committee today wrote to National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell and National Football League Players Association Executive Director DeMaurice Smith seeking information about...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 26, 2012
News Release: Under President Obama, the issuance of economically significant regulations - those regulations that cost the economy at least $100 million annually - has increased significantly. In fact, according to OMB data, President Obama has issued, on average, 35 percent more economically significant regulations...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 26, 2012
News Release: The House Energy and Commerce Committee released a report today on the Energy Department’s decision to subordinate taxpayers to private investors in the ill-fated Solyndra project. That is, the taxpayers would have to wait in line behind the private investors and let them recoup all of their losses first.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 26, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy today approved S. 710, the Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest Establishment Act, as amended. The legislation, which passed the Senate unanimously last summer, is a commonsense solution that will modernize the way the federal government...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 25, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As the Energy and Power Subcommittee prepares to vote on the “No More Solyndras Act," the House Energy and Commerce Committee this morning released an extensive report on the legality of the Department of Energy’s decision to move Solyndra’s wealthy investors ahead of taxpayers in the...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 25, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today approved a draft of the “No More Solyndras Act." The measure passed the subcommittee by a vote of 14 to 6 and now moves to the full committee for consideration, which could be as...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 25, 2012
News Release: China is looking to secure its foothold on Canada’s oil sands, an entirely unsurprising development as President Obama continues to ignore North America’s rich energy resources and delay construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. On Monday, China’s state-owned Cnooc offered to buy the Canadian energy...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 25, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today released a list of letters and statements showing the growing support for the “No More Solyndras Act," a signature piece of committee legislation co-authored by full committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 24, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Allison Macfarlane appeared before Congress today alongside NRC Commissioners Kristine Svinicki, William Magwood, and William Ostendorff at a joint hearing hosted by the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittees on Environment and the Economy and Energy and Power.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 24, 2012
News Release: In the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling that states are not required to participate in Obamacare’s massive Medicaid expansion, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office today released an updated report revealing that despite covering fewer individuals, the health care law actually increases federal spending, taxes, and premiums even more than previously estimated.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 24, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) sounded a note of caution following today’s announcement that the EPA will extend the deadline for issuing its final standards for cooling water intake structures, ...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 23, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - To help cut bureaucratic red tape and remove regulatory burdens on American businesses, the U.S. House of Representatives today approved H.R. 5859, a bipartisan bill to repeal an obsolete mandate requiring motor vehicle insurance cost reporting.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 23, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A group of Energy and Commerce Committee members today unveiled new legislation designed to expedite construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE) authored the bipartisan legislation, which calls for the approval of construction and operation of the northern portion...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 23, 2012
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 joined dozens of members in urging the Federal Communications Commission to avoid expansive interpretation of the “program carriage" rules. The members are concerned with unnecessary government red tape saddling the video marketplace.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 20, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the House Energy and Commerce Committee announced its schedule for the week of July 23, 2012. The committee will continue its commitment to sound energy policy with a hearing to examine policies and procedures at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and a markup of legislation to protect taxpayers from risky bets like Solyndra.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 19, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today approved drafts of the “U.S. Agricultural Sector Relief Act," and the “Asthma Inhalers Relief Act." The legislative proposals, relating to implementation of the Montreal Protocol, now move to the full committee for consideration.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 19, 2012
News Release: Earlier this week, the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power held a field hearing in Abingdon, Virginia, to examine the real world consequences of new EPA regulations on the nation’s coal communities. These regulations, which effectively ban construction of new coal-fired power plants, are contributing to job losses across the country.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 18, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today discussed permanent solutions to replace the outdated Medicare physician payment model, the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR). For the past decade, Congress has repeatedly implemented a temporary...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 18, 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 echoed the recent concerns expressed by governors across the nation about the uncertain future of Medicaid funding and pressed Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to outline all legislative and policy specifications on the president’s Medicaid “blended rate" proposal.
