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Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) released the following statement regarding today’s vote in the House of Representatives on measures targeting a potential strike by freight railroad workers and a shutdown of the economy:


EPA Lauds Recycling and Zero Waste Efforts by Pacific Islands Partners
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News Release: SAN FRANCISCO – As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) celebrated America Recycles Day and marked the anniversary of the agency’s national recycling strategy recently, EPA’s territorial partners in the Pacific Islands are making significant progress to improve waste reduction and recycling. ...


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News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) released the following statements after House passage of H.R. 8876, the Jackie Walorski Maternal and Child Home Visiting Reauthorization Act of 2022...


Settlement with Republic Steel Requires Reduction of Lead Emissions at Canton, Ohio Facility
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News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced a proposed Clear Air Act settlement with Republic Steel, a steel manufacturer in Canton, Ohio, which will require the company to reduce its facility’s lead emissions that have caused airborne lead levels ...


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News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra announced the Biden administration’s notice to unwind the Monkeypox Public Health Emergency in 60 days...


Leaders Rodgers and Guthrie Applaud Passage of the Jackie Walorski Maternal and Child Home Visiting Reauthorization Act of 2022
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) released the following statements after House passage of H.R. 8876, the Jackie Walorski Maternal and Child Home Visiting Reauthorization Act of 2022...


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News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Samantha Power on the agencies’ ongoing refusal to comply with requests...


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News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Katie Porter (D-Calif.) today sent a letter to U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary Deb Haaland requesting documents regarding a second incident of potential...


Ways and Means Leaders Applaud House Passage of the Jackie Walorski Maternal and Child Home Visiting Reauthorization Act of 2022
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News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX), Worker and Family Support Subcommittee Chairman Danny K. Davis (D-IL), and Worker and Family Support Subcommittee Acting Ranking Member Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) applauded the House of Representatives passing the Jackie Walorski Maternal and Child Home Visiting Reauthorization Act of 2022...


Murray Continuing Push to Strengthen Pandemic Response in End-of-Year Package
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News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Yesterday, at a meeting of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Commission on Strengthening America's Health Security, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), spoke about her continued efforts to get her PREVENT Pandemics Act, as well as additional COVID and public health funding, into the end-of-the-year funding bill.


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News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra announced the Biden administration’s notice to unwind the Monkeypox Public Health Emergency in 60 days...


ICYMI: Comer Joins “Hannity,” Vows to Have Twitter Employees Responsible for Censorship of Laptop Story Before Oversight Committee
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News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) joined “Hannity" on Fox News to discuss Twitter’s censorship of the New York Post’s reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop and the Biden family’s business schemes. During the interview, Ranking Member Comer announced that every employee at Twitter that was involved in censoring the New York Post’s article will have the opportunity to come before the House Oversight Committee next Congress.


Peters & Stabenow Bill to Name Baraga County Post Office After First Woman Elected to the Michigan House of Representatives Signed into Law
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News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Legislation authored by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Debbie Stabenow (MI) to designate the post office located at 404 US-41 North in Baraga County, Michigan as the “Cora Reynolds Anderson Post Office," has...


Leaders Rodgers and Guthrie Applaud Passage of the Jackie Walorski Maternal and Child Home Visiting Reauthorization Act of 2022
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) released the following statements after House passage of H.R. 8876, the Jackie Walorski Maternal and Child Home Visiting Reauthorization Act of 2022...


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News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement on the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) November 2022 jobs report...


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News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra announced the Biden administration’s notice to unwind the Monkeypox Public Health Emergency in 60 days...


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Today, the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee held a hearing titled, “Putting the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to Work: The Private Sector Perspective.”


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Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee held a business meeting to consider multiple nominations, including Shailen Bhatt to serve as administrator of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).


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Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee held a business meeting to consider multiple nominations, including Joseph Goffman to be an assistant administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Air and Radiation.


Main Street Biz Struggle to Pay Rent and Find Workers As Economy Slows
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News Release: Main Street Biz Struggle to Pay Rent and Find Workers As Economy Slows.