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News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today requested Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael Burgess (R-TX) schedule a hearing to examine misuse of the Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) program by pharmaceutical manufacturers in an effort to block, impede, or delay generic competitors from coming to market.

News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement this evening following the announcement that the Trump Administration would stop making risk adjustment payments to insurance companies...

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today following Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt’s resignation...

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Environment Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Gregg Harper (R-MS) today sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt seeking...

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), announced a hearing for Wednesday, July 11, 2018, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Opportunities to Improve the 340B Drug Pricing Program."

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) announced that Josh Trent has been named Chief Counsel for the Health Subcommittee.

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection, chaired by Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), announced today a hearing for Wednesday, July 11, 2018, at 1:00 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining Drug-Impaired Driving."

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), announced today a hearing for Wednesday, July 11, 2018, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Protecting Customer Proprietary Network Information in the Internet Age."

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee has received responses from Facebook to its written questions following its hearing with CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook submitted the responses to the committee shortly before midnight last night. The deadline for submission provided by the committee was close of business on June 29th.

News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today released Facebook’s long-awaited answers to the Committee’s outstanding questions for the record. Earlier this year, House members sent hundreds of follow up questions to Facebook after Mark Zuckerberg was unable to answer a number of questions during his hearing before the Committee in April.

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Senate yesterday passed five Energy and Commerce Committee bills aimed at boosting our nation’s energy infrastructure and improving energy efficiency. The bills now head to President Trump’s desk for his signature.

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans today sent a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regarding its Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) and the management, treatment, and reunification of unaccompanied alien children (UAC).

News Release: Today, Reps. Frank Pallone, Jr., Elijah E. Cummings, Jerrold Nadler, Bennie G. Thompson, and Bobby Scott, the Ranking Members of the House Committees on Energy and Commerce, Oversight and Government Reform, the Judiciary, Homeland Security, and Education and the Workforce, sent a letter to the Inspectors...

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Ranking Member Mike Doyle (D-PA), and Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Ranking Member Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) sent a letter to Data Propria President Matt Oczkowski...

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) issued the following statement after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced the release of grants to help aid in the country’s response to the opioid crisis.