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By USDA Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today released the following opening statement at a hearing titled “Farm Bill 2023: Commodity Programs, Crop Insurance, and Credit." Live Video of the hearing is available here.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: Chairman Smith Op-Ed: For America’s economy to work, we need a working-class agenda.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) released the following statement after the Federal Reserve continued its interest rate increases at the fastest rate in 40 years - raising rates another 25 basis points, for a total of 4.5 percent, the eighth increase since March 2022 and cumulatively larger than the past 15 years combined...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing titled"Dependence on Foreign Adversaries: America’s Critical Minerals Crisis." Subcommittee Chairman Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.)issued the following statement in response.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: Washington, DC - In another instance of President Biden violating his pledge not to use the newly supercharged IRS against workers earning less than $400,000 a year, the tax collection agency announced a new dragnet to ensure workers properly report their tips. The program, according to an IRS announcement,...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: MEDIA ADVISORY: EPA to hold Public Meeting to Discuss the Smokey Mountain Smelters Site Cleanup in Knoxville, TN Contact: EPA Region 4 Press Office - (404) 562-8400, region4press@epa.gov KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (February 9, 2023) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will hold a virtual and in person public ...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - 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 Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. -The House Committee on Ways and Means tomorrow will hold a hearing titled, “The Greatest Theft of Taxpayer Dollars: Unchecked Unemployment Fraud." The hearing will take place on Wednesday, February 8, 2023, at 10:00 AM in Longworth 1100.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: NEW YORK – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will host a virtual community meeting for residents of Kingsbury and Queensbury, New York to share information about health risks from the chemical ethylene oxide, or EtO, which is being emitted from the Sterigenics commercial sterilization facility located in Kingsbury, New York.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) released the following statement after the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published guidance on February 2 regarding the treatment of tax credits and allocation of tax among countries within its global minimum tax project...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - In response to the Biden Administration’s failure to provide timely accountings of the size, scope, and severity of pandemic fraud perpetrated on the American public, House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) sent a letter to Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Galdo, the acting “Chief Pandemic Prosecutor," inviting him to testify at a Ways and Means committee hearing on unemployment insurance (UI) fraud on February 8, 2023.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) shined a spotlight today on how Democrats, at every turn, blocked investigations into the greatest theft of taxpayer dollars in American history. In the new majority, Republicans are investigating what exactly is being done or not done to determine the size, scope, and severity of stolen unemployment insurance funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH) sent letters to various intelligence officials about the public statement signed in October 2020 that falsely implied the New York Post’s reporting about Hunter Biden was the product of Russian disinformation.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Biden did not let the facts get in the way of his speech Thursday in Springfield, VA. While Biden claimed the economy is growing strong, the latest report on economic growth reveals that the economy under his Administration’s policies has fallen short of expectations on seven...
By State Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - Following a fatal earthquake that has killed thousands of people in Syria and Turkey, U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), ranking member and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) ...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, released the following opening remarks, as prepared, at the hearing entitled “Farm Bill 2023: Commodity Programs, Crop Insurance, and Credit."
By State Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul’s resolution, H.Res.104, condemning China over its use of a spy balloon violating U.S. sovereignty. Prior to the resolution’s passage, Chairman McCaul gave the following...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: PETERSBURG, WV - Today, at the first hearing of the Ways and Means Committee under a new Republican majority, Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) spoke about how policymakers must put the interests of American workers first by hearing directly from them about their struggles and their ideas to improve the lives and livelihoods of their families and communities after two years of crisis under one-party Democrat rule.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Rising energy prices, the cost of living crisis, and generous government benefits fueling a labor shortage are the major challenges facing workers and local business owners who testified before the first hearing of the House Committee on Ways and Means held in Petersburg, West Virginia.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: PETERSBURG, WV - Today, at the first hearing of the Ways and Means Committee under a new Republican majority, Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) spoke about how the Committee and Congress must put the interests of American workers first by hearing directly from Americans about their struggles and their ideas to improve the lives and livelihoods of their families and communities after two years of crisis under one-party Democrat rule.
