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News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) released the following statement today after the Environmental Protection Agency released its perfluorinated compounds (PFAS) Management Plan...
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News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO), and Oversight and Investigations Ranking Member Brett Guthrie (R-KY) announced today that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a hearing on the current measles outbreak and response efforts on Wednesday, February 27. More information on timing, location and witnesses will be announced next week.
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News Release: In a district like mine that gives new meaning to the word “rural," coverage gaps engulf huge areas of the map, in places with as few as one person for every square mile. For Americans in some of these areas, who have been awaiting the promise of broadband for far too long, with the connectivity, educational and economic empowerment it brings, any news on this front is cause for great celebration.
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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 “Strengthening Our Health Care System: Legislation to Reverse ACA Sabotage and Ensure Pre-Existing Conditions Protections:"
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News Release: Madam Chair, I said it last week, and I’ll say it again: We need to work together to help states stabilize health markets damaged by the ACA, cut out-of-pocket costs, promote access to preventive services, encourage participation in private health insurance, and increase the number of options available through the market.
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing on “Protecting Consumers and Competition: An Examination of the T-Mobile and Sprint Merger:"
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News Release: Bipartisan Energy and Commerce leaders sent a letter to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb today requesting a briefing on a series of recalls that appear to involve drugs manufactured overseas that may have been contaminated with trace amounts of known carcinogens, which could lead to a shortage of drugs to treat high blood pressure.
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News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan Energy and Commerce leaders sent a letter to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb today requesting a briefing on a series of recalls that appear to involve drugs manufactured overseas that may have been contaminated with trace amounts of known carcinogens, which could lead to a shortage of drugs to treat high blood pressure.
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report today recommending that Congress develop comprehensive internet data privacy legislation to enhance consumer protections while maintaining flexibility to address a rapidly...
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News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) sent a letter to Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman...
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News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO), and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler...
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News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna Eshoo (D-CA) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) sent a letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma today raising a series of questions following an alarming new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) identifying serious Medicaid abortion coverage violations in 15 states.
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - Reps. Elijah E. Cummings, Jerrold Nadler, Frank Pallone Jr., and Adam Schiff, the Chairmen of the Committees on Oversight and Reform, the Judiciary, Energy and Commerce, and Intelligence, sent a letter to Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker seeking full compliance with their prior...
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr.’s (D-NJ) remarks as prepared today for a Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing on “Preserving an Open Internet for Consumers, Small Businesses, and Free Speech:"
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News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement following the death of former Energy and Commerce Chairman John Dingell...
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News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement on the death of former Congressman John Dingell, Jr., who passed away tonight
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News Release: The fact is, since its creation the internet has been the single most important driver of economic growth, job creation, and a better quality of life for all Americans. And I’d like to point out that the internet is working today, quite well in fact, despite hyperbolic warnings to the contrary.
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News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr.’s (D-NJ) remarks as prepared for delivery for today’s Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing on “Examining the Failures of the Trump Administration’s Inhumane Family Separation Policy" are below...
- Walden Remarks at Hearing on Management, Treatment, and Reunification Efforts of Children in Custody
News Release: Since 2014, this Committee has conducted rigorous oversight of issues related to Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) and the system put into place to care for UACs by the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Refugee and Resettlement (ORR). 2014 is when the first major influx of UAC...
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chairwoman Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) announced today that the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee will hold a hearing on the importance of diversity and inclusion in the technology...