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By Commerce Newswire | Nov 22, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today sent a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) emphasizing previously stated concerns about including permitting related provisions in must-pass legislation...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 22, 2022
News Release: PHILADELPHIA (Nov. 21, 2022) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today after concluding its final evaluation of Pennsylvania’s final Phase III Watershed Implementation Plan (WIP) that the state has not fully demonstrated how it will meet the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) Partnership’s ...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 22, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and John Boozman (R-Ark.), Ranking Member, today announced that the Committee will hold a hearing titled “Why Congress Needs to Act: Lessons Learned from the FTX Collapse".
By USDA Newswire | Nov 22, 2022
News Release: In the wake of the FTX collapse, the consumer protections in the bipartisan Digital Commodities Consumer Protection Act (DCCPA) are needed now more than ever. The DCCPA would have prohibited the misconduct and risky behavior undertaken by FTX. It is clear that Congress needs to act.
By Press release submission | Nov 21, 2022
Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Dina Titus (D-NV) applauded House passage of the Disaster Survivors Fairness Act, legislation approved by the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to ease survivor’s access to federal relief in the wake of disasters.
By Press release submission | Nov 21, 2022
The following are opening remarks, as prepared for delivery, from Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Aviation Rick Larsen (D-WA) during today’s hearing titled, “Accessible Air Travel: Addressing Challenges for Passengers with Disabilities.”
By Press release submission | Nov 21, 2022
Opening remarks of Subcommittee on Aviation Ranking Member Garret Graves (R-LA) from today’s hearing entitled, “Accessible Air Travel: Addressing Challenges for Passengers with Disabilities”:
By Press release submission | Nov 21, 2022
Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Chair of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, and Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, introduced the Informing Consumers about Smart Devices Act.
By Press release submission | Nov 21, 2022
Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, honored Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX-30), Chair of the House Space, Science and Technology Committee, at a ceremony unveiling Chair Johnson’s official portrait.
By Press release submission | Nov 21, 2022
U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, today released the following statement regarding the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) draft broadband availability maps.
By Press release submission | Nov 21, 2022
Today, the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) Subcommittee on Chemical Safety, Waste Management, Environmental Justice, and Regulatory Oversight held a hearing on the nominations of Stephen A. Owens to be chairperson of the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigations Board (CSB) and Catherine J.K Sandoval to be member of the CSB.
By Press release submission | Nov 21, 2022
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler today delivered the following remarks, as prepared, on the House floor in support of the Speak Out Act (S. 4524):
By Press release submission | Nov 21, 2022
House Judiciary Committee Republicans sent letters to White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona naming potential witnesses to take part in transcribed interviews and hearings early in the 118th Congress.
By Press release submission | Nov 21, 2022
Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio revealed the first targets of his investigation into Biden’s Education Department in a document obtained by the Daily Caller.
By Press release submission | Nov 21, 2022
The top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Jim Jordan is seeking voluntary testimony and compliance from Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher Wray and more than a dozen other officials and employees as the soon-to-be GOP-led panel ramps up its investigation into allegations of politicization and bias at the bureau and the Justice Department.
By Press release submission | Nov 21, 2022
With the House Judiciary Committee’s gavel and subpoena power close at hand, Rep. Jim Jordan, Republican of Ohio, is getting ready to launch his first investigations of the Biden administration, starting Friday with what he has recently referred to as the administration’s “anti-parent directives
By Press release submission | Nov 21, 2022
Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee have begun rolling out their investigative plans for next year in the wake of securing the House majority, and their plans include questioning nearly a dozen individuals within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
By Press release submission | Nov 21, 2022
Jim Jordan Slams Democrats for Labeling the Hunter Biden Story As Russian “Disinformation”
By Press release submission | Nov 21, 2022
U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, spoke on the Senate floor today about our broken immigration system and what Congress must do to fix it after more than 30 years of inaction.
By Press release submission | Nov 21, 2022
U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today released the following statement after the Department of Justice (DOJ) issued new guidance to Assistant U.S. Attorneys on the handling of undue hardship claims by student borrowers in bankruptcy proceedings:
