By EPA Newswire | Oct 28, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) today responded to news reports that the White House is conducting a 60-day review of Energy Department loan guarantees in the wake of the high-profile bankruptcy of the program’s first recipient, Solyndra. Energy...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 28, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today announced the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations is preparing to hold a business meeting on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011, to consider a resolution authorizing the issuance of a subpoena for internal White House communications relating...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 27, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders are pressing the Food and Drug Administration for answers as part of their investigation of the now 3-year unsolved case of toxic and sometimes lethal contaminated heparin supplies that were imported from China and given to U.S. patients. Committee...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 27, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) today announced that Energy Secretary Steven Chu will testify on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011, regarding the ongoing investigation of the $535 million loan guarantee to now-bankrupt Solyndra. Further details for the hearing will be announced when they are available.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 27, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Reiterating longstanding concerns about a controversial plan to impose new government rules for the Internet, Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) today urged the president to pull back the Federal Communications Commission’s...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 26, 2011
News Release: #WeCantWait. On July 26, 2011, the U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly in favor of a bill to require President Barack Obama to make a final decision on the presidential permit for the Keystone XL pipeline. It may seem unusual for Congress to have to publicly vote on a bill that simply...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 25, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - In the ongoing effort to conduct oversight of federal spending, the House Energy and Commerce Committee is continuing its examination of four government agencies and their efforts to implement the president’s pledge to conduct a “page by page, line by line" review of the federal budget...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 25, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), held a hearing to discuss legislation to provide much-needed regulatory certainty to rural America. H.R. 1633, the Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act of 2011, will prevent EPA from changing...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 21, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today sent a bipartisan letter to Jensen Farms to request a staff briefing on the recent outbreak of Listeria that originated in cantaloupe at the farm in Granada, Colorado.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 21, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Key members of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee today praised a bipartisan proposal introduced in the U.S. Senate to establish a framework for the safe management and disposal of coal combustion residuals. Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Environment and the Economy Subcommittee...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 21, 2011
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Members of the Bicameral Repeal CLASS Working Group sent a letter October 20 to Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Kathleen Sebelius reiterating earlier questions about her knowledge of the flawed financial structure of the controversial Community Living Assistance Services...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) are urging Energy Secretary Steven Chu to make DOE officials available for transcribed interviews under oath as part of the committee’s ongoing Solyndra...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 19, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) wrote to White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler renewing their request for all internal White House communications related to Solyndra. The White House recently...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 17, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) responded to the recent letter from White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler that the White House would not provide internal White House communications related...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 17, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Reps. Greg Walden (R-OR) and Lee Terry (R-NE), the chairman and vice chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Communications and Technology Subcommittee, today welcomed news of an agreement reached by the Federal Communications Commission and the wireless industry to avert “bill shock" ...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 14, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The United States for decades has led the global medical device industry, providing life-saving and life-improving devices to patients and employing more than two million people in device-related jobs. However, the Food and Drug Administration’s unpredictable, inconsistent, and non-transparent...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 14, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today approved a common-sense new approach to regulation today that will improve environmental protections while protecting jobs and access to affordable electricity. H.R. 2273, the Coal Residuals Reuse and Management Act, provides for the safe management and disposal of coal ash in a way that preserves jobs and encourages recycling. The legislation passed the House with strong bipartisan support by a vote of 267 to 144.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 14, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee today heard startling testimony and released illuminating new documents regarding the unfolding Solyndra investigation. Officials from the Department of the Treasury were called to testify about that agency’s belief that...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 13, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), continued its American Energy Initiative series with a hearing to discuss electric transmission issues. Today’s hearing examined a path forward toward building the electric infrastructure necessary to support a strong economy for future generations.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 13, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today approved another bipartisan proposal to save jobs. The Obama administration recently issued a series of multi-billion dollar regulations affecting tens of thousands of manufacturing and industrial facilities nationwide. H.R. 2250, the EPA Regulatory...
