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By EPA Newswire | Feb 4, 2023
News Release: LENEXA, KAN. (FEB. 3, 2023) – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 7 and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) presented ceremonial checks worth $34.3 million to the City of Omaha, Nebraska, to protect children from lead at homes in the city.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 4, 2023
News Release: Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Representative Jeff Duncan (R-SC) led 126 House Republicans in filing an amicus brief to the Supreme Court of the United States in the upcoming case considering the Biden administration’s student loan bailout, which exploits legislation drafted in the wake of Sept. 11, 2001, meant to assist service members and veterans.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 4, 2023
News Release: Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Republican Leader Bill Cassidy (R-LA) rebuked the administration’s reckless Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) rule proposal and called on Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to extend the rushed public comment period.
By State Newswire | Feb 4, 2023
News Release: Washington D.C. -Today, Chairman Michael McCaul announced his leadership team on the House Foreign Affairs Committee for the 118th Congress.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 4, 2023
News Release: CHICAGO (Feb. 3, 2023) – Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency began a 31-day public comment period on a determination that the Detroit metropolitan area has attained the health-based air quality standard for ground level ozone, or smog. This determination is based on an analysis from the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) that high ozone values in June 2022 were caused by wildfires. EPA is also taking comment on the state’s analysis.
By State Newswire | Feb 4, 2023
News Release: Washington D.C. -Today, Chairman Michael McCaul announced his leadership team on the House Foreign Affairs Committee for the 118th Congress.
By State Newswire | Feb 4, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. officials yesterday acknowledged a Chinese spy balloon was spotted flying over Montana near a nuclear reactor site. Chairman McCaul has requested a briefing from the Biden administration on the balloon and specifics behind why it has not been removed from U.S. airspace.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 4, 2023
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Angus King (I-ME), Jim Risch (R-ID), Shelley Capito (R-WV), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) sent a letter to Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm calling on the Biden Administration to follow guidelines in the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) to invest in a broad variety of energy storage technologies.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 4, 2023
News Release: Today, House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Republican Leader John Boozman (R-AR) released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced unworkable nutrition standards that will hamstring schools...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chair Bob Latta (R-OH) delivered opening remarks at today’s subcommittee hearing titled “Launching Into the State of the Satellite Marketplace."
By DOL Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to National Labor Relations Board (the Board) Chairman Lauren McFerran in opposition to the Board’s proposed rule which weakens employees’ rights under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), makes the interests of unions a priority, and strips employees of vital protections.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: Yesterday, on National Girls and Women in Sports Day, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) joined House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and a panel of House Republicans to highlight the importance of protecting Title IX against the Left’s attacks on the landmark legislation.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chair Bob Latta (R-OH) delivered opening remarks at today’s subcommittee hearing titled “Launching Into the State of the Satellite Marketplace."
By State Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: Dear Secretary Blinken: In August 2022, I wrote to you to underscore concern over ongoing disputes between the Government of Iraq (GOI) and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and the negative implications for Iraq’s stability and economic development. In the face of persistent threats posed by...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing to examine the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) implementation of the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), also known as the bipartisan infrastructure law (BIF). U.S. Senator Joe Manchin ...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chair Morgan Griffith (R-VA), and Subcommittee on Health Chair Brett Guthrie (R-KY) today launched the committee’s investigation into the origins of COVID-19 for the 118th Congress.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
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 opening remarks at a full committee hearing to examine the Department of Energy’s implementation of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: SEATTLE (Feb. 2, 2023) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that 1023 Diesel and Fleet, Inc., of Wasilla, Alaska paid a $65,000 penalty for the illegal sale and installation of aftermarket products that disable vehicle emission control systems, known as defeat devices.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chair Morgan Griffith (R-VA), and Subcommittee on Health Chair Brett Guthrie (R-KY) today launched the committee’s investigation into the origins of COVID-19 for the 118th Congress.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: Dear Mr. Secretary: Thank you for your response to my letter of Feb. 3, 2014, and for having Department officials meet with my staff on February 12 regarding my investigation of 111 higher education institutions that may have been contravening the requirements of the Higher Education Act by explicitly...
