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News Release: Dear Attorney General Holder: We write today to encourage the Department of Justice (the Department) to continue a vigorous review of potential payment fraud, anti-money-laundering violations, and other illegal conduct involving payments by banks and third-party payment processors. We believe this review...
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News Release: Dear Mr. Chairman: On Monday, you traveled to New Hampshire to attend a Republican political event and fundraiser, where you gave a speech on Benghazi.[1] You explained the goal of your trip as follows: “I came here to hopefully shape the debate for 2016."[2] After watching a video of your speech, I...
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News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) led a group of Republican committee members in sending a letter to U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary Deb Haaland and U.S. Forest Service (USFS) Chief Randy Moore, requesting their agencies finalize...
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News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - At the Organizing Meeting for the House Committee on Ways and Means, Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) laid out the agenda for the 118th Congress, including tax relief for middle-class families, fighting the inflation hitting family budgets, ending the labor shortage crushing small businesses, promoting trade policies that open markets to American goods, holding the IRS accountable, and lifting families out of poverty.
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News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) released the following statement after the Bureau of Economic Analysis issued its report for December’s personal consumption expenditures (PCE) showing prices increased 5.0 percent from one year ago...
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News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Vern Buchanan (FL-16) has been named Vice Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) announced today. As Vice Chairman, Congressman Buchanan will use his vast experience with the Committee and from the private sector to ensure Ways and...
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The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Feb. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew will appear before the House Energy and Commerce Committee to testify on TikTok’s consumer privacy and data security practices, the impact TikTok has on children and the relationship with the Chinese Communist Party, according to Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers.
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Alaska Marine Education and Training Mini-Grant Program grant opened on Feb. 10.
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News Release: The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced today it has awarded Universidad del Sagrado Corazón a $2,978,187.00 grant from the Connecting Minority Communities Pilot Program (CMC).
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News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., will convene a hearing on Wednesday, February 15th, 2023, on President Biden's nomination of Danny Werfel to serve as commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service. The hearing will take place at 10:30 a.m. in Room 215 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
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The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Feb. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As part of the Ways and Means Republicans ongoing aggressive oversight of the Biden Administration and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) sent a letter today to Acting IRS Commissioner Douglas O’Donnell demanding the agency provide the Committee with a copy of its soon to be completed plan on how it will allocate the $80 billion in funds Democrats provided in their Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)...
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy Rodgers (R-WA) delivered the following opening remarks at today’s full committee markup of Energy and Commerce’s Authorization and Oversight Plan for the 118th Congress.
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News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today premiered a new daily data product: the Index of Economic Activity (IDEA). The index effectively combines 15 of the primary economic data series produced by the Census Bureau to yield a single time series as a weighted combination. IDEA will live at the top of the Census Bureau Briefing Room webpage at .
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News Release: Chairman Smith Op-Ed: For America’s economy to work, we need a working-class agenda.
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News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) released the following statement after the Federal Reserve continued its interest rate increases at the fastest rate in 40 years - raising rates another 25 basis points, for a total of 4.5 percent, the eighth increase since March 2022 and cumulatively larger than the past 15 years combined...
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News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing titled"Dependence on Foreign Adversaries: America’s Critical Minerals Crisis." Subcommittee Chairman Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.)issued the following statement in response.
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News Release: Washington, DC - In another instance of President Biden violating his pledge not to use the newly supercharged IRS against workers earning less than $400,000 a year, the tax collection agency announced a new dragnet to ensure workers properly report their tips. The program, according to an IRS announcement,...
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News Release: Washington, D.C. -The House Committee on Ways and Means tomorrow will hold a hearing titled, “The Greatest Theft of Taxpayer Dollars: Unchecked Unemployment Fraud." The hearing will take place on Wednesday, February 8, 2023, at 10:00 AM in Longworth 1100.