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By Commerce Newswire | Aug 23, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Tomorrow, Thursday, July 28, the House is expected to consider and vote on H.R. 5118, the Wildfire Response and Drought Resiliency Act (WRDR Act), led by National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands Subcommittee Chair Joe Neguse (D-Colo.). The legislative package includes text from 49...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 23, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement after Dr. Anthony Fauci announced his plans to step down from the positions of Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and Chief of the NIAID Laboratory of Immunoregulation, as well as the position of Chief Medical Advisor to President Joe Biden.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 23, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today issued the following statement on House passage of H.R. 263, the Big Cat Public Safety Act, by a bipartisan vote of 278-134. This legislation, introduced by Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) on Jan. 11, 2021, will prohibit private possession and breeding of big cats (e.g., lions and tigers) and restrict direct contact between the public and big cats.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 23, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) released the following statement after Dr. Fauci announced his intent to retire from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in December 2022...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 23, 2022
News Release: Twice As Many Independent Voters Believe Biden’s Bill Will Make Inflation Worse Than Better.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 23, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Washington, D.C. - Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Katie Porter (D-Calif.) today sent a second letter to oil and gas public relations (PR) firm FTI Consulting requesting any of the firm’s PR work, marketing...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 23, 2022
News Release: In advance of this morning’s Natural Resources Committee markup on the Environmental Justice For All Act, Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Chairwoman Janet Alkire published the following opinion piece in The Hill...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 23, 2022
News Release: Brady: Middle Class Four Times More Likely to Be Hit With a Tax Hike Under Biden’s Bill Than Get Any Relief.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 23, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Natural Resources Committee Chairman Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today introduced the Great Bend of the Gila Conservation Act to protect one of the most culturally significant and ecologically fragile landscapes in the southwestern United States. The bill will establish the 330,000-acre Great Bend of the Gila National Conservation Area, the 47,000-acre Paolo Verde National Conservation Area, and nearly 60,000 acres of new wilderness.
By Press Release | Aug 23, 2022
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) introduced companion legislation to House Armed Services Committee Member Jim Banks’ bill, the Sanctioning Supporters of Slave Labor Act, to expand the current scope of sanctions on those committing human rights abuses against Uyghurs.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 23, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement after Dr. Anthony Fauci announced his plans to step down from the positions of Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and Chief of the NIAID Laboratory of Immunoregulation, as well as the position of Chief Medical Advisor to President Joe Biden.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 23, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - This week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed two Republican natural resources bills. House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) issued the following statement in response.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 23, 2022
News Release: Fact Check: Independent Studies Debunk Key Claims About Democrats’ Inflation Bill.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 23, 2022
News Release: “Middle-Class Families Ought to Be Worried" - Shoppers on Tight Budgets to Face 710,000 Additional Audits by Supercharged IRS.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 23, 2022
News Release: Democrats Fail to Protect Middle Class From IRS Audits.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 23, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - This Wednesday, July 27 at 9:30 a.m. Eastern time, H.R. 2021, the Environmental Justice For All Act, will go before the full House Natural Resources Committee for markup for the first time in the bill’s legislative history....
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 23, 2022
News Release: New Opinion Piece in Newsweek by Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.)...
By Lucas Nava | Aug 23, 2022
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan commended the House of Representatives for advancing the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 following its earlier advancement in the Senate.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 23, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) sent a letter to Inspector General Mark Greenblatt, following up on a request to audit the Departmental Ethics Office. In part, the member wrote.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 23, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Natural Resources Democrats held a markup on H.R. 2021, the Environmental Justice for All Act, sponsored by Chair RaúlGrijalva (D-Ariz.). Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) issued the following statement in response.
