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News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today issued the following statement on bipartisan House passage of the Don Young Recognition Act (S. 5066 ; Murkowski) and expected bipartisan House passage of five other Natural Resources tribal bills under suspension of the rules. Having already passed the Senate, all six bills will soon advance to President Biden’s desk to be signed into law.

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement on the U.S. International Trade Commission’s (Commission) report, U.S.-Haiti Trade: Impact of U.S. Preference Programs on Haiti’s Economy and Workers. Earlier this year, Chairman Neal requested...

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, outgoing Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) was elected to continue his tenure as top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee in the position of ranking member in the 118th Congress. Prior to becoming chair when Democrats won the House majority in 2018, Chair Grijalva had served as ranking member since 2014 and had been a member of the Committee since coming to Congress in 2003.

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-The Ways and Means Committee voted to publicly release the Committee’s investigation of the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) Mandatory Audit Program under the prior administration. The Committee’s investigation found the mandatory program was dormant, at best, with only one audit opened while the former President was in office, and none have been completed.

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) issued this statement after the House of Representatives passed the Fiscal Year 2023 omnibus government funding package...

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House passed the National Heritage Act (S. 1942 ) by a bipartisan vote of 326-95. Rep. Paul Tonko (D-N.Y.) introduced and championed the House version of the bill (H.R. 1316 ), which passed the House as an amendment to the bipartisan Protecting America’s Wilderness and Public Lands Act last year.

News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks as prepared for delivery today at a full Committee markup of a Republican resolution of inquiry...

Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced Peekskill Facilities Development Corporation, in Peekskill, N.Y., was awarded a $2.4 million grant to support the establishment of the Peekskill Commercial Kitchen Food Incubator.

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement on the passage of the bipartisan Low Power Protection Act out of the House...

News Release: The Capital Readiness Program grant competition marks the largest investment to support minority entrepreneurs and businesses from the Commerce Department

News Release: Yesterday, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo met with Panama’s Minister of Commerce and Industry Federico Alfaro and Minister of Foreign Affairs Janaina Tewaney. The three discussed how commercial relations between the United States and Panama could be strengthened, particularly in the areas of ...

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today welcomed Senate confirmation of Doug McKalip as the Chief Agricultural Negotiator within the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) and Rebecca Jones Gaston as Commissioner of the Administration on Children, Youth and Families within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Both nominees cleared the Senate today by voice vote.

News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL) released the following statement after the House passed S. 1541, the Martha Wright-Reed Just and Reasonable Communications Act of 2022, the companion bill to Rush’s H.R. 2489, the Martha Wright Prison Phone Justice Act...

News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the House passed H.R. 2617, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023...