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By EPA Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: DENVER – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 8 is announcing an upcoming virtual listening session on EPA’s PFAS Strategic Roadmap for Region 8 communities on March 8, 2023, and inviting members of the public to attend and to speak. EPA Region 8 includes the states of Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming and 28 Tribal Nations.

By Commerce Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) released the following statement after the Producer Price Index showed wholesale prices rising by 6 percent, higher than expectations. America’s small businesses are being forced to pay more for goods, leading to higher prices for families...

By DOE Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy Rodgers (R-WA) delivered opening remarks at today’s Energy, Climate, & Grid Security Subcommittee field hearing in Midland, Texas, titled: “American Energy Expansion: Improving Local Economies and Communities’ Way of Life."
By EPA Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy Rodgers (R-WA) delivered opening remarks at today’s Energy, Climate, & Grid Security Subcommittee field hearing in Midland, Texas, titled: “American Energy Expansion: Improving Local Economies and Communities’ Way of Life."
By EPA Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy Rodgers (R-WA) delivered opening remarks at today’s Energy, Climate, & Grid Security Subcommittee field hearing in Midland, Texas, titled: “American Energy Expansion: Improving Local Economies and Communities’ Way of Life."

By EPA Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: PHILADELPHIA (Feb. 16, 2023) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is holding a virtual listening session on EPA’s PFAS Strategic Roadmap for residents living in EPA’s Mid-Atlantic Region on Thursday, March 2 from 6-8 p.m.
By State Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Chris Coons (D-Del.), chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Agencies, yesterday reintroduced the Securing Allies Food ...

By EPA Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a proposed rule that would improve and modernize the pesticide Application Exclusion Zone (AEZ) requirements under the 2015 Agricultural Worker Protection Standard (WPS), reaffirming the Agency’s commitment to protecting farmworkers, pesticide handlers, their families, and agricultural communities from pesticide exposure during National Pesticide Safety Education Month.
By State Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Ben Cardin (D-Md.), co-chair of the U.S. Helsinki Commission and author of the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act, today reintroduced a resolution recognizing Russian actions in ...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Restoring public trust and accountability to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) must be a top priority for its next commissioner, said House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) ahead of today’s Senate confirmation hearing with Biden nominee Daniel Werfel.

By Press release submission | Feb 17, 2023
U.S. Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and John Thune (R-S.D.), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Communications, Media, and Broadband, today released the following joint statement ahead of the March 9th expiration of the Federal Communications Commission’s spectrum auction authority:

By Press release submission | Feb 17, 2023
In his opening statement at today’s full committee hearing titled “Bringing Transparency and Accountability to Pharmacy Benefit Managers,” Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) raised concerns about new powers being given to the Federal Trade Commission in light of the abrupt resignation announcement by Commissioner Christine Wilson. Ranking Member Cruz stressed that legislation regulating Pharmacy Benefit Managers, or PBMS, should be viewed with “extreme caution” given both the possibility the bill would raise drug prices and that the Commission will soon lack a single minority commissioner.

By Press release submission | Feb 17, 2023
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation finalized Ranking Members for Subcommittees today and announced the following Republican Ranking Members for the 118th Congress.

By Press release submission | Feb 17, 2023
In his opening statement at today’s full committee hearing on “the Federal Aviation Administration’s NOTAM System Failure and its Impacts on a Resilient National Airspace,” Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) criticized U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s failure to deliver any meaningful reforms to the FAA and discussed the need for upgrades to the FAA and its air traffic organization in light of the unprecedented NOTAM failure that stranded thousands of travelers.

By Press release submission | Feb 17, 2023
In his opening statement at today’s full committee hearing to consider the nomination of Gigi Sohn to be a Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) detailed Ms. Sohn’s lengthy record of extremism, poor ethics, bad judgment, and disdain for Congress.

By Press release submission | Feb 17, 2023
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, today sent a letter to the Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD) seeking information about its lengthy delays in reaching decisions on applications for deepwater ports for exporting oil and natural gas.

By Press release submission | Feb 17, 2023
In his opening statement at today’s full committee hearing titled, “Strengthening Airline Operations and Consumer Protection,” Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Biden administration efforts to micromanage airline fares and routes would result in higher overall fares, fewer routes, and leave consumers worse off.

By Press release submission | Feb 17, 2023
On February 15, 2023, the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works held a hearing to examine low carbon transportation fuels and consider the development of a national clean fuels policy.

By Press release submission | Feb 17, 2023
U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the EPW Committee, today announced the EPW subcommittee assignments for the 118th Congress.

By Press release submission | Feb 17, 2023
Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee held a hearing titled, “The Future of Low-Carbon Transportation Fuels and Considerations for a National Clean Fuels Program.”