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By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Ro Khanna, Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Environment, and Subcommittee Vice Chair Rep. Rashida Tlaib, sent letters to U.S. Ecology Detroit South and Stellantis, requesting information regarding health concerns stemming from toxic emissions at their facilities. The...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 9, 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), and Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, introduced legislation to clarify that victims of discrimination can seek damages for emotional harm under federal law after the Supreme Court curtailed their ability to do so in its April ruling in Cummings v. Premier Rehab Keller.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: LENEXA, KAN. (DEC. 8, 2022) – Early on the morning of Dec. 8, TC Energy reported a discharge of crude oil from a TC Energy pipeline near Washington, Kansas. The TC Energy pipeline is part of the Keystone Pipeline system.
By State Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul released the following statement on the House National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for the 2023 fiscal year. The legislation passed the House with broad bipartisan support.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Fiscal Year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which included legislative efforts championed by Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, as well as other matters under the Oversight Committee’s jurisdiction.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources held a markup on a slate of legislation, including three Republican bills, which all passed with unanimous support. Committee Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) issued the following statement in response.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Senate has passed U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and James Lankford’s (R-OK) bipartisan Clear and Concise Content Act. The bill ensures that guidance, instructions, and other public information published by the federal government is written in plain language.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 8, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH) issued the following statement on the passage of the bipartisan Data Mapping to Save Moms’ Lives Act.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 8, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and House Oversight Committee Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney, D-N.Y., requested documents from the State and Defense Departments related to former Senior White House Advisor Jared Kushner’s role in U.S. foreign policy while his family business sought a bailout from foreign governments seeking to influence the Trump administration.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 8, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today was selected to serve as the next chairman of the House Oversight Committee and issued the following statement...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 8, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The House has passed bipartisan legislation authored by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Rob Portman (R-OH), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, to make permanent the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) National Risk...
By State Newswire | Dec 8, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today praised the inclusion of several of his Senate Foreign Relations Committee-related priorities in the FY2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA):
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 8, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH) issued the following statement on the passage of the bipartisan Data Mapping to Save Moms’ Lives Act.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 8, 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, sent a letter to Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Jennifer Granholm demanding answers on DOE’s $200 million grant to Microvast, a lithium battery company that operates primarily out of the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
By DOE Newswire | Dec 8, 2022
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, released the full text of the Building American Energy Security Act of 2022. He also urged his colleagues on both sides of the aisle to support amending the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to include this comprehensive, bipartisan permitting reform and complete the critical Mountain Valley Pipeline.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 8, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) and U.S. Reps. Tom Tiffany (R-Wis.) and Pete Stauber (R-Minn.) led a letter to congressional appropriators, requesting that any year-end funding package prohibit federal funding for the listing of the northern long-eared bat (NLEB) as endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). In part, the members wrote.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 8, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, announced that 16 of his key priorities have been included in the FY 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
By DOE Newswire | Dec 8, 2022
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Jim Risch (R-ID) today applauded the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s passage of their bipartisan International Nuclear Energy Act, legislation to promote engagement with ally and partner nations to develop a civil nuclear export strategy and offset China and Russia’s growing influence on international nuclear energy development.
By State Newswire | Dec 8, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Ben Cardin (D-Md.), chair of the U.S. Helsinki Commission and author of the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act, today applauded the committee’s passage of their resolution recognizing ...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 8, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and House Oversight Committee Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney, D-N.Y., requested documents from the State and Defense Departments related to former Senior White House Advisor Jared Kushner’s role in U.S. foreign policy while his family business sought a bailout from foreign governments seeking to influence the Trump administration.
