By EPA Newswire | Mar 8, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Representative Fred Upton (R-Mich.), Chairman of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee, and U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, called on Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to release the agency’s annual...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 7, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), hosted a hearing today to examine rising gasoline prices and discuss solutions to help bring relief at the pump.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 6, 2012
News Release: “The only way we are going to solve this problem is with an all-of-the-above strategy."
By EPA Newswire | Mar 6, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today approved the Medicare Decisions Accountability Act (H.R. 452), the Federal Communications Commission Process Reform Act (H.R. 3309), and the Federal Communications Commission Consolidated Reporting Act (H.R. 3310).
By EPA Newswire | Mar 5, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Joe Pitts, Sen. Chuck Grassley, Sen. Michael Enzi, and Sen. Orrin Hatch today asked a wide range of stakeholders for a detailed accounting of how they operate the 340B program, a discount drug program that’s meant to supply federally funded grantees and other safety net health care providers but whose exploding growth raises questions about program integrity.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 5, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -The House Energy and Commerce Committee today began consideration of the Federal Communications Commission Process Reform Act and the Federal Communications Commission Consolidated Reporting Act, which aim to improve the way the FCC operates by strengthening transparency and predictability.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 1, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing to examine the Department of Health and Human Services’ Fiscal Year 2013 budget. Members focused on how the government takeover of our nation’s health care system is exacerbating...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 1, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-CA), hosted a hearing today to examine the nation’s growing prescription drug problem and discuss ways to fight diversion of controlled painkillers, which are now causing more deaths in this country than heroin and cocaine combined.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 29, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today appointed members of the subcommittee to serve on a bipartisan Communications and Technology Cybersecurity Working Group to examine the current landscape and lay the foundation for the subcommittee’s efforts to address cybersecurity.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 29, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Continuing a troubling recent trend of power plant closures, leading power producer GenOn announced today it would shutter 13 percent of its generating capacity by 2015 due to new environmental regulations. The company stated it would close eight coal-fired power plants located in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, “because forecasted returns on investments necessary to comply with environmental regulations are insufficient."
By EPA Newswire | Feb 29, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today approved the bipartisan Medicare Decisions Accountability Act, H.R. 452, to repeal the controversial Independent Payment Advisory Board. IPAB was created by the health care law and has drawn widespread bipartisan opposition because it threatens to reduce seniors’ access to treatments and services in Medicare. The bill was approved by a vote of 17 to 5.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 28, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), and the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), held a hearing with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson today to discuss the agency’s FY 2013 budget request.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 28, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today requested additional information regarding the interference dispute between LightSquared and GPS and the actions taken by federal agencies, including the Federal Communications Commission, in approving LightSquared’s terrestrial...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 28, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today requested additional information regarding the interference dispute between LightSquared and GPS and the actions taken by federal agencies, including the Federal Communications Commission, in approving LightSquared’s terrestrial...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 28, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations today continued its hearing series examining current cyber threats and vulnerabilities to our nation’s infrastructure. The hearing entitled, “Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity: Assessments of Smart Grid Security" ...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 28, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations today continued its hearing series examining current cyber threats and vulnerabilities to our nation’s infrastructure. The hearing entitled, “Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity: Assessments of Smart Grid Security" ...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 27, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today released the following statement after TransCanada announced it would begin construction on the southern segment of the Keystone XL pipeline.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 23, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A bipartisan majority of the House of Representatives today wrote to Jeffery Zients, Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget, expressing concern over EPA’s plans to regulate greenhouse gases at power plants through New Source Performance Standards. The letter, spearheaded...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 23, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Mary Bono Mack (R-CA) today released the following statement after the White House released its report on online privacy.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 22, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Republican members of the Energy and Power Subcommittee today wrote to White House Chief of Staff Jacob Lew to ask that EPA disclose the cost of its recent Utility MACT regulation. Members are asking Lew to ensure EPA adheres to President Obama’s Executive Order 13563, which requires...
