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By Commerce Newswire | Feb 17, 2023

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Rather than keep Congress waiting for the Biden Administration’s plans for how it will use $80 billion in new funding for audits and tax enforcement or details on the myriad of other ways in which the Administration will saddle middle class families with higher taxes and more debt...

By DOE Newswire | Feb 17, 2023

News Release: Midland, TX - Subcommittee on Energy, Climate, and Grid Security Chairman Jeff Duncan (R-SC) and Congressman August Pfluger (R-TX) delivered the following opening remarks today at the Energy Subcommittee Field Hearing in Midland, Texas, on “American Energy Expansion: Improving Local Economies and Communities’ Way of Life."

By State Newswire | Feb 17, 2023

News Release: Austin, TX - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul has hired Olivia Late to serve as a press assistant. Late served as an intern in McCaul’s personal office in 2021 before going on to serve as McCaul’s campaign manager in 2022. She is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin.

By DOL Newswire | Feb 17, 2023

News Release: WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today led a committee hearing titled, “Examining Health Care Workforce Shortages: Where Do We Go From Here?"

By EPA Newswire | Feb 17, 2023

News Release: LENEXA, KAN. (FEB. 16, 2023) – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) invoked the additional work clause of the 2018 Administrative Settlement Agreement and Order on Consent (ASAOC) for Operable Unit 4 (OU4) of the Findett Corp. Superfund Site in St. Charles, Missouri. Under the ASAOC, EPA is requiring Ameren to conduct additional investigation and interim cleanup actions at the site to address contamination.

By DOL Newswire | Feb 17, 2023

News Release: WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 - As Republicans threaten cuts to Social Security and other essential federal programs, Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), along with Reps. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) and Val Hoyle (D-Ore.) in the U.S. House of Representatives, introduced legislation that would...

By DOL Newswire | Feb 17, 2023

News Release: Company Features Prominently in New Majority Staff Report on “Pharma Pandemic Profiteers"

By DOL Newswire | Feb 17, 2023

News Release: Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Marty Walsh to demand accountability from the Department on its failure to respond to several Committee inquiries.

By USDA Newswire | Feb 17, 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: Nutrition Programs."

By Commerce Newswire | Feb 17, 2023

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Nineteen months after a massive leak of confidential taxpayer information was published by ProPublica, the American people are still in the dark, charged House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) in a letter sent today to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) J. Russell George.

By Commerce Newswire | Feb 17, 2023

News Release: Washington, D.C.--U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, delivered the following remarks at a hearing entitled, “Ending Trade that Cheats American Workers By Modernizing Trade Laws and Enforcement, Fighting Forced Labor, Eliminating Counterfeits, and Leveling the Playing Field.".

By EPA Newswire | Feb 17, 2023

News Release: Midland, TX - Subcommittee on Energy, Climate, and Grid Security Chairman Jeff Duncan (R-SC) and Congressman August Pfluger (R-TX) delivered the following opening remarks today at the Energy Subcommittee Field Hearing in Midland, Texas, on “American Energy Expansion: Improving Local Economies and Communities’ Way of Life."

By State Newswire | Feb 17, 2023

News Release: Austin, TX - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul has hired Olivia Late to serve as a press assistant. Late served as an intern in McCaul’s personal office in 2021 before going on to serve as McCaul’s campaign manager in 2022. She is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin.

By EPA Newswire | Feb 17, 2023

News Release: WASHINGTON (Feb. 16, 2023) – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $18,914,000 from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to address emerging contaminants, like Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in drinking water in Oregon. This investment, which is allocated ...

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.