By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) will hold a roundtable titled “Preparing For the Future By Learning From the Past: Examining COVID Policy Decisions.” At the roundtable, lawmakers will discuss COVID-19 policy decisions with renowned doctors to thoroughly examine the federal government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) announced a markup of legislation to protect speech from government censorship.
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Oversight Committee Republicans are calling on the federal government agencies administering more than $113 billion in U.S. taxpayer-funded assistance to Ukraine to provide documents and information to ensure that these dollars are being protected from waste, fraud, and abuse.
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) initiated an investigation into the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) pattern of bypassing fair competition and awarding sole source, no-bid contracts worth millions of taxpayer dollars. In a letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Chairman Comer raises concern that DHS’s reliance on no-bid contracts is jeopardizing taxpayer dollars for political expedience and is seeking all documents and communications to understand DHS’s justification to forego full and open competition for another taxpayer-funded contract.
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is calling on Mr. Vuk Jeremic, a former Serbian politician and former President of the United Nations General Assembly, to provide documents, communications, and records related to the Biden family’s involvement in foreign business ventures that included an individual with connections to the Chinese Communist Party and was convicted of international bribery schemes.
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
Carter Remarks at Military Construction & Veterans Affairs Subcommittee Hearing on Quality of Life in the Military (As Prepared)
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
First, I would like to welcome our two witnesses: Celeste Wallander, who serves as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, and Lieutenant General Douglas Sims II, the Director for Operations at the Joint Chiefs of Staff. We look forward to your testimony.
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), sent a letter to Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Jennifer Granholm regarding reports that DOE has determined the COVID pandemic began from a lab leak in China.
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), sent a letter to Department of Energy (DOE) Deputy Secretary David Turk regarding misleading claims about DOE’s vetting of Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) award recipients. Deputy Secretary Turk recently testified before ENR at a hearing to examine DOE’s implementation of the IIJA.
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, applauded the U.S. Department of Energy’s announcement last week of $2.52 billion in funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) for two programs meant to spur investment in carbon capture, transport and storage technologies.
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, applauded the cooperation between West Virginia and Form Energy Inc., to site Form Energy’s first iron-air battery manufacturing plant in Weirton, West Virginia.
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) introduced the bipartisan North American Transatlantic Resource Security Partnership Act of 2023 (NATRSPA).
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held a legislative hearing on a discussion draft of the Transparency and Production of American Energy (TAP American Energy) Act and H.R. 209, the Permitting for Mining Needs Act. Subcommittee Chairman Pete Stauber (R-Minn.) issued the following statement in response:
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
House Committee on Natural Resources held a full committee hearing on a discussion draft of the Building United States Infrastructure through Limited Delays and Efficient Reviews (BUILDER) Act of 2023.
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
After seven years of robust discussion and collaboration, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service finalized the Klamath Basin Integrated Fisheries Restoration and Monitoring Plan, which will serve as a living roadmap describing the highest priority watershed restoration and monitoring actions to help reverse the declines of multiple native Klamath Basin fish populations and ecosystems and communities.
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
Following a review of the best available scientific information, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) is listing prostrate milkweed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
As required by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA), the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) today announced it will hold an oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico on March 29, 2023.
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
In another step by the Biden-Harris administration to grow America’s clean energy economy, the Department of the Interior today is proposing the first-ever offshore wind lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico.
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
The Bureau of Reclamation is seeking public comment on the draft Glen Canyon Dam/Smallmouth Bass Flow Options Environmental Assessment that presents four potential operational flow options aimed at preventing smallmouth bass from successfully spawning and establishing downstream of Glen Canyon Dam.
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) delivered to Congress its Fiscal Year 2023 (FY 2023) Work Plan for the Army Civil Works program Feb. 27, 2023.
