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Crapo Votes Against Democrats’ Damaging Tax-and-Spend Bill
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News Release: Washington, D.C.--U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today voted against the Democrats’ mislabeled “Inflation Reduction Act," a partisan, filibuster-proof budget proposal that does nothing to bring the economy out of stagnation and recession, and instead gives Americans higher taxes, more spending, higher prices and an army of IRS agents.


'Moral obligation': Rep. Greg Murphy pushing bill that would force universities to pull investments out of Chinese companies
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Legislation now before a U.S. House committee would discourage universities from rewarding endowments to Chinese companies and others from countries considered hostile


Barrasso Votes to Lower Prices at the Pump
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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), issued the following statement after voting in support of Senator Lindsey Graham’s (R-SC) amendment to lower prices at the pump:


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News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act, which includes key health care provisions that will lower the cost of health care and lifesaving prescription drugs for Americans...


Crapo Offers Amendment to Protect Middle Class, Small Businesses from Supersized IRS
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News Release: Washington, D.C.--U.S. Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) filed an amendment to the Democrats’ misleadingly-named “Inflation Reduction Act of 2022" to prevent the IRS from using its massive, $80 billion cash infusion on enforcement actions designed to squeeze more revenue out of American taxpayers who earn less than $400,000 per year.


Leader Rodgers Statement on Inflation and Recession Act
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement after the Senate passed President Joe Biden’s tax and spending spree that will make life even more unaffordable for Americans and their families.


Senator Murray Statement on IRA’s Historic Steps to Lower Americans’ Prescription Drug Costs
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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 Inflation Reduction Act’s historic provisions that will lower Americans’ prescription drug costs, empower Medicare to negotiate drug prices, and cap seniors’ out-of-pocket costs for prescriptions at $2000 a year and their insulin at $35 a month.


DOE announces new leader of energy jobs office
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced Betony Jones, previously Senior Advisor on Workforce in the Department’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, will lead the Office of Energy Jobs as Director.


Sen. Murray on IRA Keeping Health Care Costs Low: “Stress Off Patients’ Shoulders, Money in Their Pockets”
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News Release: (Washington, DC) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), issued the following statement on the measures included in the Inflation Reduction Act to extend the health care tax credits passed in the American Rescue Plan to lower patients’ health care costs and continue lowering the uninsured rate across the country.



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Chairwoman Maloney Subpoenas Smith & Wesson for Documents on the Use of Its Assault Weapons in Mass Shootings



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Wicker Comments on Federal Data Privacy Efforts at Committee’s Executive Session








Neal Opening Statement At Markup Of H.R. 8487 “Improving Seniors Timely Access To Care Act Of 2022”
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Neal Opening Statement At Markup Of H.R. 8487 “Improving Seniors Timely Access To Care Act Of 2022”