News from December 2021
By Press release submission | Dec 17, 2021
Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) released a report they requested from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) on the lack of equitable outcomes in disaster recovery programming across the Federal Government.
By Press release submission | Dec 17, 2021
The Subcommittee on Energy hearing entitled, "Securing our Energy Infrastructure: Legislation to Enhance Pipeline Reliability.
By Press release submission | Dec 17, 2021
House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer and Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney sent a letter to Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) Isabella Casillas Guzman requesting documents and information about SBA’s efforts to mitigate the longstanding problem of fraud in small business set-aside contracting programs and to improve the certification process of eligible businesses.
By Press release submission | Dec 17, 2021
The “Strategic Production Response Act” would require the Secretary of Energy to develop a plan to increase oil and gas production on Federal lands if the President uses the SPR for non-emergency reasons.
By Press release submission | Dec 17, 2021
Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and senior Committee Member Rep. Mark DeSaulnier, issued the following statements after the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York rejected Purdue Pharma’s plan of reorganization, which would have granted sweeping immunity to members of the Sackler family for their role in flooding American communities with OxyContin and fueling the nation’s opioid epidemic.
By Press release submission | Dec 17, 2021
The Biden administration, “woke” banks and activist investors want to make it impossible to invest in traditional American energy.
By Press release submission | Dec 17, 2021
Bipartisan legislation supports the deployment of advanced nuclear reactors, revitalizes communities affected by the closure of coal and other fossil generating facilities
By Press release submission | Dec 17, 2021
U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), sent a letter to members of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) calling on them to recommit to what the Supreme Court identified as the purpose of the Natural Gas Act: plentiful supplies at reasonable prices.
By Press release submission | Dec 17, 2021
U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and John Barrasso (R-WY), Ranking Member of the Committee, introduced the Fission for the Future Act, bipartisan legislation that would support the commercial deployment of advanced nuclear reactors.
By Press release submission | Dec 17, 2021
House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) was joined by every committee Republican in a letter to Council on Environmental Quality Chair Brenda Mallory, highlighting the necessity of streamlining the National Environmental Policy Act in a timely manner.
By Press release submission | Dec 17, 2021
Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) issued the following statement today on the bipartisan package of bills the House of Representatives approved in a series of votes over the last two weeks to address longstanding issues in Indian Country, including tribal cultural patrimony, the federal land into trust, and management of buffalo (also known as bison) on tribal lands.
By Press release submission | Dec 17, 2021
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following comment on the Senate Parliamentarian’s guidance finding the third iteration of the mass amnesty provisions of Democrats’ tax-and-spend reconciliation bill in violation of Senate budget rules.
By Press release submission | Dec 17, 2021
U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), ranking member and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement on the continued violence by Sudanese security forces against Sudanese citizens and the need for a comprehensive approach to post-coup Sudan.
By Press release submission | Dec 17, 2021
U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, led the entire Democratic bench of the Foreign Relations Committee in introducing the Department of State Inclusivity Act of 2021.
By Press release submission | Dec 17, 2021
U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today questioned David Brown, Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department (CPD), and Roseanna Ander, Founding Executive Director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab, during the second witness panel of the Senate Judiciary Committee field hearing entitled “Combating Gun Trafficking and Reducing Violence in Chicago.
By John Suayan | Dec 17, 2021
A 30-day public comment period on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) plan to clean up the Milford Contaminated Aquifer Site in Ohio began Dec. 8.
By Press release submission | Dec 17, 2021
House passed the Protecting Our Democracy Act on a bipartisan basis – a comprehensive package of reforms that will strengthen America’s democratic institutions against future presidents who could seek to abuse the power of their office for corrupt purposes.
By Press release submission | Dec 17, 2021
U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., called on the Biden Administration to sanction four mercenary hacking corporations under the Global Magnitsky Act, for enabling human rights violations by authoritarian regimes.
By Press release submission | Dec 17, 2021
The Senate will soon have the opportunity to vote on passage of the Fiscal Year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
By Press release submission | Dec 17, 2021
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