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By State Newswire | Jul 23, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (TX-10) and U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sent a letter today to Secretary Blinken expressing concern that a mandated State Department report failed to address the Assad regime’s role in narco-trafficking of Captagon.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 23, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today announced Representative Yvette Herrell (R-N.M.) as the new ranking member of the Subcommittee on the Environment.
By Press Release | Jul 22, 2022
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) yesterday announced a Notice of Intent (NOI) to provide $225 million for states and local governments to expand the implementation of the latest building energy codes and support the development of buildings that use less energy.
By Press Release | Jul 22, 2022
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced a $96 million funding opportunity to support decarbonizing the domestic transportation sector. The funding will focus on expanding electric vehicle (EV) charging accessibility, create cleaner non-road vehicles through electrification and the use of alternative fuels, and develop electric drive components and materials to maximize EV efficiency and affordability.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 22, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Morgan Griffith (R-VA) sent a letter to the Acting Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Lawrence A. Tabak asking why the NIH has failed to convene the Scientific Management Review Board (SMRB) as required by the NIH Reform Act.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 22, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and James Lankford (R-OK) introduced bipartisan legislation to ensure that guidance, instructions, and other public information published by the federal government is written in plain language. The bill updates existing laws to expand the types of information agencies must publish publicly in plain writing.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 22, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-OR), and Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), today introduced the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act (CAOA), comprehensive legislation that would end the harmful and out-of-touch federal prohibition...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 22, 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 the following remarks at a business meeting to consider the nomination of Ms. Laura Daniel-Davis to be assistant secretary of Land and Minerals Management at the Department of the Interior; and to consider a number of legislative items.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 22, 2022
News Release: Today, House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to Labor Department Secretary Marty Walsh regarding ignored requests for Labor Department Chief of Staff Daniel Koh’s calendar...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 22, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) have introduced the bipartisan Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act to strengthen national security by preparing the federal government’s...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 22, 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 the following remarks at a business meeting to consider the nomination of Ms. Laura Daniel-Davis to be assistant secretary of Land and Minerals Management at the Department of the Interior; and to consider a number of legislative items.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 22, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Morgan Griffith (R-VA) sent a letter to the Acting Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Lawrence A. Tabak asking why the NIH has failed to convene the Scientific Management Review Board (SMRB) as required by the NIH Reform Act.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 22, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered the following remarks about H.R. 8373, the Democrats’ “Payouts for Planned Parenthood Act."
By DOL Newswire | Jul 22, 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), sought unanimous consent to pass her bill with Senators Tina Smith (D-MN) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) to protect and expand access to family planning services-but Republican Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) blocked the legislation.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 22, 2022
News Release: DETROIT, MI - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, will convene a field hearing titled “Reviewing the 2020 Census: Local Perspectives in Michigan" on MONDAY, July 25, 2022 at 10:00 AM at the Wayne County Community College’s Campus in Downtown...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 22, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - On the Senate floor, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, urged his colleagues to support his amendment to include his bipartisan Safeguarding American Innovation Act, or SAIA, which passed the Senate last year on a bipartisan basis as a part of the CHIPS Plus package currently under consideration.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 22, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) passed four pieces of legislation that include key Wyoming priorities. They are:
By EPA Newswire | Jul 22, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered the following remarks about H.R. 8373, the Democrats’ “Payouts for Planned Parenthood Act."
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 22, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, held a hearing to examine the necessary actions to recruit and retain top talent in the federal government and to rebuild, strengthen, and transform the federal workforce to meet the needs of the country in the 21st century.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 22, 2022
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. 8373, the Right to Contraception Act...
