By EPA Newswire | Jul 18, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today held a legislative hearing focused on the “U.S. Agricultural Sector Relief Act" and the “Asthma Inhalers Relief Act;" two pieces of legislation relating to implementation of the Montreal Protocol. These commonsense proposals will address critical shortages created by application of EPA regulations that affect American families and businesses.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 17, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy and the Subcommittee on Energy and Power have scheduled a joint hearing on Tuesday, July 24, 2012, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The title of the hearing is “NRC Policy and Governance Oversight." Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Allison Macfarlane will testify along with Commissioners Kristine Svinicki, William Magwood, and William Ostendorff.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 17, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Calling it vitally important to efforts by the federal government to fight online fraud, Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack (CA-45), Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade, and Ranking Member G.K. Butterfield (NC-1) today introduced bipartisan legislation (H.R. 6131) to reauthorize the U.S. SAFE WEB Act of 2006.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 16, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today held a field hearing in Abingdon, VA to discuss EPA’s proposed greenhouse gas New Source Performance Standard for utilities and the impact this regulation will have on jobs. This...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the House Energy and Commerce Committee announced its hearing schedule for the week of July 16. With far too many Americans still out of work, the committee will hold six hearings focused on a range of issues with economic implications, including additional scrutiny of the Obama...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 12, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittees on Energy and Power and Oversight and Investigations today held a joint hearing to discuss a draft of the “No More Solyndras Act." Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) co-authored the legislation to ensure taxpayers will never again be left on the hook for the administration’s risky bets.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 12, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - During today’s hearing on the Upton-Stearns “No More Solyndras Act," the Acting Executive Director of the DOE Loan Program Office, David G. Frantz, proclaimed the program responsible for Solyndra as an “enormous success." The statement comes a week after Abound Solar became the latest...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 12, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittees on Energy and Power and Oversight and Investigations today held a joint hearing to discuss a draft of the “No More Solyndras Act." Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) co-authored the legislation to ensure taxpayers will never again be left on the hook for the administration’s risky bets.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 12, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittees on Energy and Power and Oversight and Investigations today discussed a draft of the “Smart Energy Act, " bipartisan legislation authored by Reps. Charlie Bass (R-NH) and Jim Matheson (D-UT) aimed at increasing energy efficiency in both the federal government and private...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 12, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittees on Energy and Power and Oversight and Investigations today discussed a draft of the “Smart Energy Act, " bipartisan legislation authored by Reps. Charlie Bass (R-NH) and Jim Matheson (D-UT) aimed at increasing energy efficiency in both the federal government and private...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 11, 2012
News Release: The independent Health and Human Services Inspector General is sounding the alarm about potential misuse of taxpayer dollars, highlighting the same concerns Energy and Commerce Committee members have raised that federal dollars funneled through a key Obamacare “slush fund" may have been inappropriately used to finance lobbying campaigns in violation of federal bans on such activity.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 11, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health today examined how to ease the transition of military emergency medical technicians (EMTs) into civilian EMT jobs. The hearing focused on the Veteran Medical Technician Support Act of 2012 (H.R. 4124), authored by Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) and Rep. Lois Capps (D-CA), which would provide demonstration grants to states to assist veterans trained as EMTs in the military transfer into similar civilian medical occupations.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 11, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations today held a hearing on “RIN Fraud: EPA’s Efforts to Ensure Market Integrity in the Renewable Fuels Program." Today’s hearing examined the Environmental Protection Agency’s management of fraud in the production and...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 11, 2012
News Release: FDA reform a triumph for patients and jobs in Michigan
By EPA Newswire | Jul 10, 2012
News Release: Rep. Ed Whitfield, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Energy and Power, has scheduled a second, bipartisan forum on “State, Local and Federal Cooperation under the Clean Air Act," for Thursday, Aug. 2, at 2:00 p.m. This will be the committee’s second meeting on this subject, following the initial forum scheduled for Tuesday, July 31.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 10, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today made the following remarks on the House floor during debate of H.R. 6079, which fully repeals the president’s health care law...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 10, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s bipartisan Federal Spectrum Working Group today sent a letter to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to examine government spectrum use.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 10, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today welcomed all five commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission to discuss a number of issues before the Commission, including spectrum allocations, process reform, Internet governance, and the communications networks and 911 outages during the recent storms in the Mid-Atlantic region.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 10, 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 released the text of their draft bill the “No More Solyndras Act." The legislation is a product of the committee’s investigation into the $535 million...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 9, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today released the following statement after President Barack Obama signed the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act into law. The FDA Safety and Innovation Act, which is a key component of the committee’s...
