By EPA Newswire | Aug 12, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - President Obama today signed into law H.R. 2715, a bill to provide the Consumer Product Safety Commission with greater authority and discretion in enforcing consumer product safety laws. The legislation makes immediate and targeted changes to a flawed 2008 law that would have forced...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 12, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA) released the following statements after the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the individual mandate included in President Obama’s health care law unconstitutional...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 10, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Mary Bono Mack (R-CA) sent a letter to McAfee, Inc. today seeking more information about the company’s alarming new report entitled “Revealed: Operation Shady RAT." The report summarizes McAfee’s findings regarding a widespread global hacking campaign taking place over the past five years.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 9, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Continuing its examination of harmful and onerous government regulations, the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL), today convened a field hearing in Orlando, Florida. The hearing, entitled “EPA’s Takeover of Florida’s...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 5, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement in response to the latest unemployment report...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 5, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders on the Energy and Commerce Committee today called on Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson to provide important information on the agency’s settlement with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), announced in April 2011, of claims alleging that the company...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 4, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today U.S. Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI), Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, and U.S. Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, wrote to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius urging HHS to provide 340,000 consumers in Michigan’s individual health insurance market a waiver from the onerous medical loss ratio (MLR) requirements enacted under the Democrats’ health care law.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 3, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee’s Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman, Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today called on Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko to once and for all affirm the NRC vote on the Atomic Safety Licensing Board’s denial of the Department...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 3, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today issued the following statement after the Federal Communications Commission released new program carriage rules and the “Measuring Broadband America" report...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 2, 2011
News Release: In Case You Missed It. Rep. Mary Bono Mack’s bill on consumer product safety passes Congress. Written by Paul C. Barton, Desert Sun Washington Bureau. Rep. Mary Bono Mack won overwhelming...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 1, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI), chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, made the following statement after tonight’s vote to avoid default on our national debt and put our fiscal house back in order. The Budget Control Act of 2011 passed the House by a vote of 269-161 and now heads to the Senate for consideration.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 1, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives voted today to protect jobs and reduce onerous regulations with passage of H.R. 2715, a bill to provide the Consumer Product Safety Commission with greater authority and discretion in enforcing the consumer product safety laws. The measure passed the House with strong bipartisan support by a vote of 421 to 2.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 1, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee today called on Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to explain what rights a person or entity would have to legally challenge a decision or recommendation made by the controversial Independent Payment Advisory Board...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 29, 2011
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 draft report from the Blue Ribbon Commission on Americas Nuclear Future. However, the committee leaders were disappointed that President...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 28, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today approved three bipartisian pieces of health legislation: H.R. 2405, the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act; H.R. 1254, the Synthetic Drug Control Act; and, H.R. 1852, the Children’s Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 28, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The bipartisan leadership of the Energy and Commerce Committee and its Communications and Technology Subcommittee today released data submitted by the Federal Communications Commission regarding the Universal Service Fund high-cost and low-income support programs. The data was supplied...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 28, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - To protect thousands of American jobs and preserve domestic cement manufacturing, bipartisan members of the U.S. House of Representatives today introduced H.R. 2681, the Cement Sector Regulatory Relief Act of 2011. The proposal directs EPA to develop achievable and workable standards...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 28, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) are pressing EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson for more information concerning the agency’s discretionary...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 27, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today approved legislation to improve the safety of our nation’s pipelines and save jobs. Both the Pipeline Infrastructure and Community Protection Act and the Energy and the Energy and Revenue Enrichment Act passed the subcommittee by voice vote.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 27, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today approved legislation to improve the safety of our nation’s pipelines and save jobs. Both the Pipeline Infrastructure and Community Protection Act and the Energy and the Energy and Revenue Enrichment Act passed the subcommittee by voice vote.
