News from January 2023

By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05) released the following statement on being named Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) offered the following statement after Kevin McCarthy was elected to serve as Speaker of the House for the 118th Congress.

By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) issued the following statement after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a revision to the Risk Evaluation Mitigation Strategy (REMS) for abortion-inducing drugs:

By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) offered the following statement after the Government Accountability Office issued a report titled “HHS Could Improve Oversight of Research Involving Enhanced Potential Pandemic Pathogens,” which is commonly referred to as “gain-of-function" research.

By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
Chair Rodgers Statement on COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Signal

By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement on the passage of H.R. 22, the Protecting America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve from China Act, out of the House, out of the House by a bipartisan vote of 331-97:

By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) spoke on the House floor in favor of H.R. 22, the Protecting America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve from China Act.

By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
House Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement in response to President Joe Biden’s Wall Street Journal Op Ed today on Big Tech:

By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) issued the following statement after the Biden administration further extended the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) declaration:

By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
House Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) today issued the following statement after the House Republican Steering Committee selected nine new members to serve on the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05) released the following statement on being named Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) offered the following statement after Kevin McCarthy was elected to serve as Speaker of the House for the 118th Congress:

By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore.

By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
Congressman Jason Smith (MO-08) released the following statement after being selected to serve as the Chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means for the 118th Congress:

By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
Ways and Means Republican Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-TX) detailed how restoring fiscal responsibility in Washington will require Congress to rein in runaway spending and return to policies that strengthen and grow the economy in a new op-ed in the Washington Examiner.To read Rep. Arrington’s full op-ed, click here.

By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) offered the following statement after the Government Accountability Office issued a report titled “HHS Could Improve Oversight of Research Involving Enhanced Potential Pandemic Pathogens,” which is commonly referred to as “gain-of-function" research.

By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08),

By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
“President Biden and Washington Democrats created a vicious cycle of deficit spending leading to higher prices and rising interest rates the American people cannot afford.

By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08)

By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
Treasury’s own proposal published in 2021 shows that the IRS would add 86,852 full-time equivalent employees by 2031. When CBO analyzed the proposal, it acknowledged the IRS would more than double its head count.