By EPA Newswire | Nov 15, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Members of the Energy and Commerce Committee met with leading energy policy experts this week to discuss the natural gas revolution. Hosted by Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), Monday’s bipartisan Jobs and Innovation Forum explored how new technologies to capture shale gas have transformed the...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 14, 2011
News Release: Subcommittees: * Energy and Power (112th Congress) . * Environment and the Economy (112th Congress) . Continuing this year’s focus on job creation and innovative U.S. industries, members of Congress hosted key energy policy experts to discuss the natural gas revolution that is creating American jobs...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 14, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today released the following statement after the Supreme Court agreed to hear challenges to the health care law...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee this afternoon received a series of internal White House documents and emails produced in response to subpoenas issued by the committee on Nov. 3, 2011. The committee served subpoenas to the Executive Offices of the President and Vice President...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 10, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) today released the following statement in response to the Senate’s vote on the resolution of disapproval for the EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 10, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) made the following statement today regarding the ongoing investigation into the $535 million loan guarantee to Solyndra and efforts by the White House to comply with a subpoena issued by the committee last week.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 10, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Continuing this year’s focus on job creation and innovative U.S. industries, members of Congress are announcing plans to host key energy policy experts to discuss the natural gas revolution that is creating American jobs and energy security. Scheduled for Monday, Nov. 14, 2011 at...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 10, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today expressed deep disappointment in response to President Obama’s delay of the Keystone XL pipeline decision. Instead of approving the pipeline, and allowing this construction project to move forward and create a massive infusion of American...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 9, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Republican and Democratic members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter to President Obama today urging him approve the Presidential Permit for construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline, a project they call an “urgent priority" needed to put tens of thousands of Americans to work.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 9, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - In the face of the White House Counsel’s threats to defy the Energy and Commerce Committee’s subpoena for documents related to Solyndra, full Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) today provided the White House...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 9, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee continue seeking answers from administration officials about the potential impacts of EPA’s power sector rules, sending a pair of letters today exploring how the rules could affect energy security and reliability of the electric grid...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 9, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today sent a bipartisan letter to the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) launching an investigation into the $267 million loan to Open Range Communications, made available by the 2002 Farm Bill. Open Range filed for bankruptcy on October 6, 2011.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 4, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) last evening served subpoenas to White House Chief of Staff William Daley and Vice President Joe Biden’s Chief of Staff Bruce Reed for documents related to the $535 million Solyndra loan guarantee. The issuance of the subpoenas...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 3, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations today voted to subpoena documents from the Executive Office of the President and the Office of the Vice President relating to the Solyndra loan guarantee. The issuance of the subpoena is the next investigative step...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 3, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Republican members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee took to the House floor today to urge President Obama to approve the Presidential Permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, which would bring much-needed jobs and secure energy supplies to the United States.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 3, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today approved bipartisan legislation to provide much-needed certainty and regulatory relief to America’s farmers, ranchers, and rural businesses. H.R. 1633, the Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act, passed the panel by a vote of 12-9 and now moves to the full Energy and Commerce Committee for consideration.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 2, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), chairman of the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, and Senator Dean Heller (R-NV) today unveiled legislation,H.R. 3309 and H.R. 3310, to improve the way the Federal Communications Commission operates by improving transparency, predictability, and consistency as part of Republicans’ ongoing effort to ensure the commission’s work encourages job creation, investment, and innovation.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 2, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) today met with White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler in the ongoing effort to gain White House cooperation and obtain internal White House communications...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 1, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA) today released the following statement in response to President Obama’s Executive Order to address the drug shortages crisis.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 1, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), chairman of the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, and Senator Dean Heller (R-NV) will host a press conference on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011, at 10:30 a.m. in the Senate Press Gallery. Chairman Walden and Senator Heller will unveil...
