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News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) released the following joint statement today after the House of Representatives passed three consumer protection and commerce bills...


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News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following statement on the House Floor today during consideration of H.R. 4040, the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID-19 Act of 2022...


Gibbs Statement from Hearing on Coast Guard Personnel Issues
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News Release: Opening remarks, as prepared, of Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Ranking Member Bob Gibbs (R-OH) from today’s hearing entitled, “Enhancing Personnel Resources to Support a Stronger, More Resilient Coast Guard":


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Durbin Delivers Opening Statement at Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing on Decriminalizing Cannabis at the Federal Level


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Durbin, Leahy call on Administration to take an Unequivocal Position Against the use of Torture-Derived Evidence


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Durbin Questions Witnesses in Judiciary Committee Hearing on the Threat America's Gun Violence Epidemic Poses to Law Enforcement



House Republicans to Biden: Put American Energy Workers First, Don’t Reward Foreign Oil Producers
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Republicans are demanding President Biden abandon his anti-American energy agenda, including any plans to cut off America’s access to global energy markets by imposing a ban on oil exports. In a new letter, Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers...


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News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) released the following statement commending the passing of bipartisan legislation that protects Americans’ consumer safety and strengthens online security.


At Committee Hearing, Gun Manufacturers Refuse to Take Responsibility for Fueling America’s Gun Violence Epidemic
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, held a hearing to examine the role of the firearms industry in America’s gun violence epidemic. Ahead of the hearing, the Committee released new findings from the Committee’s investigation into five...


Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means Members Lead on Telehealth Expansions
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - On the heels of a raging pandemic and a terrible recession, Americans deserve greater access and choice in the health care they are relying on, which is why Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Ways and Means Republican Leader Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) and issued the following statement...


House Republicans to Biden: Put American Energy Workers First, Don’t Reward Foreign Oil Producers
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Republicans are demanding President Biden abandon his anti-American energy agenda, including any plans to cut off America’s access to global energy markets by imposing a ban on oil exports. In a new letter, Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers...


EPW Committee Advances NRC Nominations
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News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) voted unanimously to advance the nominations of Bradley Crowell and Annie Caputo to be members of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The nominations will now head to the full Senate for consideration.


Foxx: Biden’s Nomination for DOL’s Wage and Hour Division Means More of the Same Terrible Policies
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News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement regarding President Biden’s nomination of Jessica Looman to serve as head of the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD)...


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News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released a statement following the Senate’s advancement of the CHIPS-Plus government subsidy legislation, which falls short of lifting tax burdens and removing costly regulatory and permitting barriers that are hampering American industries and their ability to innovate and compete with China.


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News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following statement on the House Floor today during consideration of H.R. 4040, the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID-19 Act of 2022...


Rodgers, Bilirakis Commend Bipartisan Solutions to Protect Americans’ Safety and Online Security
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) released the following statement commending the passing of bipartisan legislation that protects Americans’ consumer safety and strengthens online security.


Graves Raises Concerns that Biden Administration is Diverting FEMA Disaster Resources to Assist Illegal Immigrants
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News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Republican leader Sam Graves (R-MO) today raised questions about the diversion of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) resources, workforce, and expertise to deal with illegal immigration and the Biden Administration’s crisis at the southern border.


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News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Rob Portman (R-OH), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, introduced a bipartisan bill to enhance the Department of Homeland Security’s ability combat human trafficking. The legislation would make...


House Agriculture Committee Holds Farm Bill Listening Session in Minnesota
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News Release: Northfield, MN - Today, the House Agriculture Committee held the fourth in a series of listening sessions entitled “A 2022 Review of the Farm Bill: Perspectives from the Field" at Far-Gaze Farms in Northfield, Minnesota.