By EPA Newswire | Feb 1, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, today announced that Mike Bloomquist has been named General Counsel for the committee. Bloomquist succeeds Jim Barnette, who has served as General Counsel under four GOP chairmen during his time on the...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 1, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -Committee leaders today expressed concern that President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency is seeking to impose a back door energy tax though its proposal to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, despite the rejection of cap-and-trade legislation by both Congress...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 1, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today urged the Senate to follow the House’s action and repeal the CLASS Act after the House approved the Fiscal Responsibility and Retirement Security Act, H.R. 1173, with a bipartisan vote of 267 to 159.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 1, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), held a hearing today to discuss the final recommendations of the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future. Members welcomed several of the commission’s recommendations, which propose a series of reforms to help solve our nation’s growing nuclear waste challenge.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 31, 2012
News Release: “(Q)uestions will be asked as to why the Administration made a bad investment not just once but twice"
By EPA Newswire | Jan 31, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Last week, Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA) outlined a 2012 agenda that focuses on job creation and medical innovation, with Congress continuing to dismantle a broken and unpopular law and creating in its place the framework for a health care system that puts patients first. The agenda includes...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 30, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) are seeking collaboration from former Treasury official Herbert Allison as he concludes his 60-day review of DOE’s 1705 loan guarantee program. Two...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 30, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Mary Bono Mack (R-CA) and Ranking Member G.K. Butterfield (D-NC) sent a letter to Google requesting a briefing on the company’s recently announced privacy changes. Members have concerns over how the changes will impact Google’s users, specifically users’ ability to opt out of information sharing and data collection.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 27, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and Senate Committee on Finance today sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services requesting an update on plans to change the calculation used to determine reimbursement rates for prescription drugs in Medicaid. The...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 27, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) are pressing the Department of Defense for Solyndra related documents. Documents gathered during the investigation reveal that Solyndra officials and investors were seeking DOD contracts as a lifeline for the company. The request comes on the heels of a similar document request to the General Services Administration.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 26, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) today welcomed the final report from the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future. While disappointed that President Obama prohibited the commission...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 26, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The latest casualties of President Obama’s costly power sector rules were revealed today with the announcement that another six power plants are shutting down. The plants -located in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Maryland -are closing down because of the high cost, uncertainty, and unachievable...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 26, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Cliff Stearns (R-FL), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, is sounding alarm bells in response to today’s news that battery maker Ener1 has filed for bankruptcy. Ener1 was previously awarded a $118.5 million stimulus grant...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 25, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Responding to President Obama’s State of the Union address, members of the Energy and Commerce committee last night underscored the harmful consequences of the president’s decision to reject the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, a project that would bring 20,000 direct jobs and significant...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 25, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leading members of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee are formally requesting that the White House turn over internal memoranda previously kept shrouded from Congress and the public’s view after the information was disclosed to The New Yorker for a Jan. 30, 2012, article...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 24, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Encouraging the Obama Administration to follow its own directives regarding transparency in regulations, members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today wrote to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson to request that EPA release an estimate of the total cost of EPA’s recently finalized Utility MACT rule.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 24, 2012
News Release: “Some technologies don’t pan out; some companies fail."
By EPA Newswire | Jan 24, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), chairman of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee, delivered the following remarks this afternoon at the meeting of the House-Senate Conference Committee on H.R. 3630, the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 24, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement this evening following President Obama’s State of the Union address...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 20, 2012
News Release: Rep. Cliff Stearns, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, expressed outrage upon learning of the news report...
