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By Commerce Newswire | Sep 16, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) opened today’s hearing on the Democrats’ radical climate agenda by slamming Democrats for funneling Committee resources into a sham, politically motivated investigation of America’s leading oil and gas producers.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 16, 2022
News Release: Today, we are here to examine how the health sector is contributing to the climate crisis, the ways extreme weather events are disrupting the health care delivery system nationwide, and what’s needed to safeguard our health care infrastructure from these changing conditions.
By State Newswire | Sep 16, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Yesterday, the House Foreign Affairs Committee marked up and passed H.R. 8446, the Global Food Security Reauthorization Act of 2022 led by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN), and cosponsored by House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Chairman Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY).
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 16, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today issued the following statement on the announcement that the Senate will vote next week to proceed to consider the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, a global treaty to phase down hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 16, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-The Ways and Means Committee released a new report detailing the role the U.S. health system plays in the climate crisis. After issuing a request for information back in March 2022, this Majority Staff Report analyzes responses from health systems, hospitals, dialysis companies, nursing...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 16, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The House has passed bipartisan legislation authored by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Ron Johnson (R-WI) that would help save taxpayer dollars by directing the General Services Administration (GSA) to install...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 16, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Committee Chairman David Scott delivered the following statement after today's hearing titled “A 2022 Review of the Farm Bill: Broadband."
By DOL Newswire | Sep 16, 2022
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), issued the following statement on the tentative agreement reached by rail unions and carriers following years of negotiations.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 16, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Today, the first day of Hispanic Heritage Month, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 16, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Ro Khanna, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Environment, held a hearing to hear firsthand accounts from survivors of severe weather events induced by climate change and to examine the adequacy of climate pledges made by Exxon, Chevron, BP, and Shell.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 16, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - In an op-ed published today in The Washington Times , U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, discussed the need for the bipartisan infrastructure law to be implemented as it was written, and outlined transportation priorities Congress can tackle together moving forward.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 16, 2022
News Release: (Washington, DC) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Chair of the Senate Rules Committee, Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), Chair of...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 16, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, released the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 302, the Preventing a Patronage System Act...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 16, 2022
News Release: BOSTON (Sept. 15, 2022) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has A recent settlement between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and a power control system manufacturer in Hingham, Mass. means the facility is now performing the training and inspections necessary to comply with federal and state laws regulating the management of hazardous waste. The company has also agreed pay a penalty of $121,546 under the terms of the settlement.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 16, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), delivered remarks at a full committee hearing to examine the federal government’s role in supporting the commercialization of fusion energy.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 16, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, released the following statement after the House passed H.R. 8326, the Ensuring a Fair and Accurate Census Act...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 16, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing the selection of six recipients that will receive a total of $780,000 from the Pesticide Environmental Stewardship Program (PESP) grant competition. The selected grantees will explore the use of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in agriculture over the course of two years to reduce the risk of pests and pesticides.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 16, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, announced that their bipartisan Civilian Reservist Emergency Workforce Act to protect Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Reservists...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 16, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Bipartisan legislation authored by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Mitt Romney (R-UT), Richard Burr (R-NC), and Bill Hagerty (R-TN) to ensure government agencies are properly using and recycling batteries from...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 15, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) delivered remarks at today’s Health Subcommittee markup on five bills.
