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News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) released the following joint statement today calling on Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert R. Redfield, M.D. to brief members of the Committee on a series of announcements affecting the nation’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.

News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL) wrote to Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Dan Brouillette today demanding answers for DOE’s delay in implementing the survey and other procedures that serve as the basis for the upcoming 2021...

News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) today introduced a bill to promote diversity among the broadcast media industry and support local broadcasters across U.S. communities.

News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee members held a bipartisan teleconference briefing with Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Stephen Hahn, M.D., today about the agency’s ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Commissioner Hahn was joined on the teleconference by Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) Director Peter Marks M.D., PhD., and Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) Acting Director Patrizia Cavazzoni M.D.

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement after the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it has requested data from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan on their COVID-19 response in public nursing homes. DOJ is considering an investigation under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act.

News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) today sent a letter to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Stephen Hahn calling on him to ensure that sound science and the protection of public health alone drive FDA’s COVID-19 vaccine approval process.

News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) sent a series of oversight letters to pharmacies, pharmacy benefit managers and the relevant trade associations today as...

News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today following an announcemen t from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) allowing lab developed COVID-19 tests to come to market without Food and Drug Administration (FDA) review...

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) published the third and final report as part of E&C Republicans’ Second Wave Preparedness Project. Today’s report makes many recommendations related to the health care supply chain.

News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) today sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai urging him to give tribes more time to apply for broadband licenses in the 2.5 GHz Band.

News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette wrote to Government Accountability Office (GAO) Comptroller General Gene Dodaro today requesting a review of the changes that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has made to COVID-19 hospital capacity reporting systems and requirements during the pandemic.

News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) today announced plans to investigate the impacts the U.S. Postal Service’s organizational and operational changes are having on the safe and timely delivery of prescription drugs, particularly in the midst of the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic...

News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today condemning the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) final rule to gut methane pollution standards...

News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) sent oversight letters to nine health and dental insurance companies today seeking information on their policies and practices amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Chairman Pallone first announced the Committee investigation last week.

News Release: Fifteen members of the Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter today to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai urging him to provide unlimited voice minutes and mobile data to Lifeline recipients, with a corresponding increase in the support amount to cover incremental costs, for...