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News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) introduced H. J. Res. 17 to disapprove and challenge the D.C. Local Resident Voting Rights Amendment Act (D.C. Act 26-640), a new law advanced by the D.C. Council allowing non-citizens, including illegal aliens, the right to vote in the nation’s capital.
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Thompson: 'For small Alaska ports, electronic monitoring makes so much sense'

The unique characteristic of the pollock fishery in the Gulf of Alaska includes being rationalized so that permit holders are allocated a certain amount of catch for the season.
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Chair Rodgers Statement on COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Signal

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) issued the following statement after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a potential link between the Pfizer COVID-19 bivalent vaccine and strokes in adults over 65 years of age...
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Chair Rodgers Statement on COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Extension

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) issued the following statement after the Biden administration further extended the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) declaration...
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Chair Rodgers Welcomes Nine New Members to the Energy and Commerce Committee

News Release: Washington D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) today issued the following statement after the House Republican Steering Committee selected nine new members to serve on the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
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Comer on Hannity: Biden Family Influence Peddling is a National Security Risk

News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) joined Speaker Kevin McCarthy and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Oh.) on “Hannity" with host Sean Hannity on Fox News to discuss his efforts to investigate President Biden and the Biden family’s...
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Comer, McMorris Rodgers, Jordan Introduce Bill to Stop Biden Administration from Pressuring Social Media Companies to Censor Americans

News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman Member James Comer (R-Ky.), House Committee on Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), and House Committee on the Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) introduced the (H.R. 140). This bill prohibits Biden Administration officials and federal bureaucrats from using their authority or influence to promote censorship of speech or pressure social media companies to censor speech.
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Chair Rodgers Congratulates Kevin McCarthy on Becoming Speaker of the House

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) offered the following statement after Kevin McCarthy was elected to serve as Speaker of the House for the 118th Congress...
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Rodgers Named Chair of House Energy and Commerce Committee

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05) released the following statement on being named Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The committee, first created in 1795, is the oldest in the House of Representatives and has broad jurisdiction over health care, energy, environment, technology, data privacy and security, broadband, and much more.
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Comer: Biden’s Three Strikes Against Transparency Will Be Met with Swift Congressional Oversight

News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) issued the following statement on more classified documents found stashed at President Biden’s Wilmington residence...
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Chair Rodgers Responds to President Biden’s Comments on Big Tech

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement in response to President Joe Biden’s Wall Street Journal Op Ed today on Big Tech...
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Comer Takes Action to Require Federal Workforce to Return to the Office, Provide Prompt Service to the American People

News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) introduced H.R. 139, the Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems (SHOW UP) Act, to prevent the Biden Administration from cementing pandemic-era telework policies for the federal workforce until it...
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Comer Announces New Actions in Biden Family Investigation

News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is pressing Department of the Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen for information about the Biden family and their associates’ suspicious business transactions flagged by U.S. banks. Chairman Comer is also requesting several former Twitter executives who were responsible for censoring the reporting about the Biden family’s business schemes to testify at a hearing the week of February 6.
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Comer Announces First Hearing on Rampant Waste of Taxpayer Dollars in COVID Relief Programs

News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) announced the committee will hold its first hearing of the 118th Congress to investigate rampant waste of taxpayer dollars in COVID relief programs on Wednesday, February 1 at 10:00 a.m. ET.
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Chair Rodgers Applauds Passage of H.R. 22 to Prevent the Sale of SPR Oil to China

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement on the passage of H.R. 22, the Protecting America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve from China Act, out of the House, out of the House by a bipartisan vote of 331-97...
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Commerce Department publishes 39 notices in week ending Jan. 7

There were 39 notices published by the Commerce Department in week ending Jan. 7, according to the Federal Register.
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How many press releases or notices were published by U.S. Department of Commerce in December 2022?

There were 29 press releases or notices published by the U.S. Department of Commerce in December 2022.
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Fahey: 'Montreal Protocol is one of the most important and successful global environmental treaties ever'

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced a recent report from the United Nation confirms the Earth’s ozone layer is on track to regeneration.
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Castillo: 'EDA investment will help Indian Hills Community College expand its job training programs'

U.S. Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration announced a $725,000 grant to Indian Hills Community College.
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Commerce Department discusses Foreign-Trade Zone 18-San Jose, California; Application for Expansion of Subzone 18F; Lam Research Corporation; Stockton, California on Jan. 13

The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Jan. 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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