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News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) announced today that the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee will hold a markup on Thursday, Nov. 14, at 9:30 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 Rayburn House Office Building.
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - Eleven Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai today expressing growing concern that the FCC is failing to protect consumers’ privacy by refusing to hold wireless carriers accountable for unauthorized disclosures of consumers’ real-time location data.
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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 today that the Health Subcommittee will hold a markup on Wednesday, Nov. 13, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 Rayburn House Office Building.
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News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL) today demanded answers from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) about its efforts to change key provisions of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA).
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced it has approved the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint...
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News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) criticized the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) announcement today that it is pursuing a rollback of Obama-era coal ash rules, put in place in 2015 to protect Americans from coal ash - the toxic byproduct of burning coal...
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News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) blasted the Trump Administration today for submitting a formal notification to the United Nations initiating the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Climate Accord...
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News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement on President Trump’s nomination of Dr. Stephen M. Hahn to serve as Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner...
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News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) sent a letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to request a briefing on efforts to improve the integrity of the application and assignment process of the National Provider Identifier (NPI).
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News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement on the Stop the Importation and Manufacturing of Synthetic Analogues (SIMSA) Act, bipartisan legislation introduced today by Reps. John Katko (R-NY) and Kathleen Rice (D-NY) to combat illicit fentanyl, of which Walden is an original cosponsor.
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News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Health Subcommittee hearing on “Safeguarding the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain in a Global Economy:"
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News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks today at an Energy Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Building a 100 Percent Clean Economy: Solutions for the U.S. Power Sector." The hearing is the fifth hearing in the Committee’s climate change series aimed at developing comprehensive legislation to achieve a 100 percent clean economy by 2050...
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News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to President Trump today urging the President to fulfill a promise he made last month in an Oval Office press conference that his Administration would ban all harmful flavored e-cigarette products, including those with mint and menthol.
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News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at a Subcommittee on Health hearing to examine safety and national security concerns over growing reliance of drugs manufactured abroad.
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News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at a Subcommittee on Communications and Technology hearing titled, “Repurposing the C-Band to Benefit all Americans."
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News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks today at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Protecting the RFS: The Trump Administration’s Abuse of Secret Waivers:"
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News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing on the Renewable Fuel Standard program waiver process for exemptions to small refineries.
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky delivered the following opening remarks today at a Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee hearing entitled “Reauthorizing Brand USA and the U.S. SAFE WEB Act:"
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News Release: House Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) today called on the Trump administration to detail how and why it has presided over an unprecedented rise in the number of uninsured children in the United States, and what...
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News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at a Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce hearing titled, “Reauthorizing Brand USA and the U.S. SAFE WEB Act."