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News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) announced details today for the Health Subcommittee legislative hearing on Wednesday, Oct. 16, at 10:30 am in 2322 Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Legislation to Reverse the Youth Tobacco Epidemic."
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E&C Announces Additional Details for Hearing on Online Content Moderation and Section 230
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) announced today that the Communications and Technology and Consumer Protection and Commerce...
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Walden, Shimkus, and Upton Statement on President Trump Signing Safe Drinking Water Bill Into Law
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL), and Energy Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Upton (R-MI) released the following statement on the Water Infrastructure Funding Transfer Act, which was signed into law by President Trump...
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U.S. Trade Representative Lighthizer Invited to Testify at Hearing on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) has invited United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to testify at the joint Subcommittee hearing on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act on October 16. The invitation comes after Pallone and Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR) sent Lighthizer a letter in August expressing their concerns regarding the export of language mirroring Section 230 in trade agreements.
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Walden Statement on President Trump’s Medicare Executive Order
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement on the President’s Executive Order on “Protecting and Improving Medicare for our Nation’s Seniors" this afternoon...
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Pallone Requests GAO Investigation of Communication Failures in U.S. Territories Following Hurricane Maria
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) today urging the government watchdog to investigate and evaluate months-long communication failures and restoration efforts in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands following Hurricane Maria in 2017.
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Walden Statement on DEA OIG Report on Opioid Crisis Response
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement on the report from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) detailing the regulatory and enforcement efforts to control the diversion of opioids.
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Walden and Burgess on POTUS Signing Autism CARES Act Into Law
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX) released the following statement applauding the signing into law of the Autism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education and Support Act of 2019 or the “AUTISM Cares Act of 2019 (H.R. 1058) :
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Walden Seeks Details from E&C Majority on “100 by 50” Climate Plan
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) is seeking further details on the Democrat plan to “achieve a 100 percent clean economy by 2050." In a letter to Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Walden requests further information on the goals of the proposal and the means to achieve those goals, and calls for bipartisan solutions to protect the economy and the environment.
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Pallone & Doyle on Court's Net Neutrality Decision
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) issued the following statement today after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia vacated part of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) 2017 rules that repealed net neutrality protections and opened the door for states to pass net neutrality laws...
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GAO Report Finds ACA Significantly Improved Health Coverage and Expanded Access to Care for American Indians and Alaska Natives Since Passage of ACA
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Rep. Raul Ruiz, M.D. (D-CA) released the following joint statement today following the release of a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), which the two lawmakers requested in 2017, finding significant increases in health...
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Walden Statement on D.C. Circuit Net Neutrality Ruling
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement on the net neutrality ruling from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals...
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E&C Republicans Launch New Phase in Patient Brokering Investigation
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As the one-year-anniversary approaches of the historic SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act becoming law to combat the opioid crisis, Energy and Commerce Republicans are launching a new phase into the patient brokering investigation that began last Congress.
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E&C Health Subcommittee Announces Details for Chicago Field Hearing on Public Health Threat of Gun Violence on October 3
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) announced details of the Health Subcommittee field hearing this Thursday, Oct. 3, at 9:30 am CT at Kennedy-King College in Chicago, Illinois on the public health threat of gun violence.
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E&C Health Subcommittee to Hold Legislative Hearing to Address National Youth Tobacco Epidemic
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) announced today that the Health Subcommittee will hold a legislative hearing on Wednesday, Oct. 16, to consider Pallone’s legislation to respond to the national youth tobacco epidemic.
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Walden Remarks at Hearing on Securing the Country’s Communications Networks
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered the following remarks at a Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing titled, “Legislating to Secure America’s Wireless Future."
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Pallone Opening Remarks at Communications and Technology Legislative Hearing to Secure America’s Wireless Future
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing entitled “Legislating to Secure America’s Wireless Future:"
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Walden Opening Remarks at Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Markup of 15 Bills
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered the following remarks at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee markup today of 15 bills to address key environmental problems of the past, present, and future.
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Hearing Scheduled on Corporate Responsibility Online, Consumer Protection & the Pros and Cons of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) announced today that the Communications and Technology and Consumer...
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Walden Makes Staff Announcement for Energy and Commerce Committee
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) announces a new member of the senior staff for the committee Republicans.
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