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Manchin Responds to Podesta Comments on the Role of Chinese Companies in US Energy Expansion
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News Release: Washington, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, released the below statement following comments made by White House senior adviser John Podesta that Chinese companies will be “big players" in growing domestic energy production using the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the Chips and Science Act.


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News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) today announced a Full Committee markup on 20 pieces of legislation.


In the Heartland, Ways and Means Committee Listens to Working Americans’ Struggles in Biden Economy
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News Release: YUKON, OK - Two days before President Biden releases his budget to the American people, the Ways and Means Committee held its second field hearing in Yukon, Oklahoma to hear directly from working Americans about the state of the American economy in the heartland. Working Oklahomans told the committee...


McCaul Delivers Opening Remarks at Full Committee Hearing Examining Admin’s Disastrous Evacuation From Afghanistan
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News Release: Washington, DC- Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul gave the following remarks at a full committee hearing examining the administration’s disastrous emergency evacuation from Afghanistan.


McCaul Demands Clarification on Huawei Licensing Policy, Biden Admin Still Allowing CCP Access to U.S. Tech
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News Release: Dear Under Secretary Estevez: We are writing to request clarification of the Biden Administration’s licensing policy regarding Huawei, as you potentially consider halting the issuance of new export control licenses to the company. Your comment at the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on February...


Subcommittee Chairs Duncan and Johnson Opening Statements at Full Committee Markup
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - Subcommittee on Energy, Climate, and Grid Security Chairman Jeff Duncan (R-SC) and Subcommittee on Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials Chair Bill Johnson (R-OH) delivered the following opening remarks at today’s Full Committee markup of 20 bills.


Wyden and Crapo Call on Biden Administration to Fight EU Digital Trade Policies that Discriminate against U.S. Workers and Employers
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News Release: Dear President Biden: We write to raise our continuing concern with the European Union’s (EU) digital agenda, which discriminates against U.S. companies and U.S. workers. It is imperative that you press the EU to ensure the discriminatory aspects of these digital proposals are removed as the United...


E&C Republicans Demand Answers from Biden Administration on Migrant Children Exploitation
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chair Morgan Griffith (R-VA), and Subcommittee on Health Chair Brett Guthrie (R-KY) wrote to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra to demand accountability for the safety of migrant children who are coming to our country at an alarmingly high rate.


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News Release: Washington, D.C. - In anticipation of President Biden’s forthcoming plan to expand government price controls that kill cures, increase taxes, and relies on gimmicks for funding, Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) issued the following statements...


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News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered the following opening remarks at today’s Communications and Technology Subcommittee markup of 13 bills.


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News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow today released the following statement on the nutrition, agriculture, and rural provisions in President Biden’s Fiscal Year 2024 budget request.


EPA Announces Nearly $180 Million for Clean Water Infrastructure Upgrades for the States of Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas
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News Release: DALLAS, TEXAS (March 9th, 2023) –The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $176,868,000 from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for the states; Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas for this year’s Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF). The funding will support ...


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News Release: President Biden’s $4.7 Trillion Tax Hike Proposal: Small Businesses Must Send a Bigger Check to Washington.


Subcommittee Markup Recap: E&C Advance Bipartisan Solutions to Strengthen American Leadership in Next-gen Communications Technologies
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee members today advanced 13 bipartisan solutions during a Communications and Technology Subcommittee markup.


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News Release: President Biden and the Left’s rush-to-green agenda is making American dangerously reliant on China’s supply chains that use slave and child labor.


Subcommittee Markup Recap: E&C Advances Bills to Halt Fentanyl, Secure the Border, Stop QALYs, and More
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans today advanced five solutions during a Subcommittee on Health markup...


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News Release: Washington, D.C.-Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement after meeting with Robert Benmosche, the CEO of American International Group (AIG), who traveled to Washington, D.C. to apologize in person for equating congressional and public criticism of AIG’s excessive bonuses during the financial crisis with lynchings in the Deep South...


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News Release: WILMINGTON, DEL. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper, Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (both D-Del.), today reintroduced bicameral legislation to reauthorize the Delaware River Basin Conservation Act (DRBCA).


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News Release: WASHINGTON - Tomorrow at 10:15 a.m., the Education and the Workforce Committee will hold a markup to consider two bills: H.R. 734, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2023 and H.R. 5, the Parents Bill of Rights Act.


E&C Republicans Demand Answers from Biden Administration on Migrant Children Exploitation
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chair Morgan Griffith (R-VA), and Subcommittee on Health Chair Brett Guthrie (R-KY) wrote to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra to demand accountability for the safety of migrant children who are coming to our country at an alarmingly high rate.