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Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Griffith: We Must Pass the HALT Fentanyl Act
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chair Morgan Griffith (R-VA) delivered the following opening remarks during today’s joint Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee and Health Subcommittee field hearing titled “President Biden's Border Crisis Is a Public Health Crisis."


Chair Rodgers: Biden's Border Crisis is a Public Health Crisis
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy Rodgers (R-WA) delivered opening remarks at today’s joint Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee and Health Subcommittee field hearing: “President Biden's Border Crisis Is A Public Health Crisis."


Jordan demands answers from Wray after leaked FBI memo suggests agency may be targeting Catholics
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News Release: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan is demanding answers from FBI Director Christopher Wray as part of the panel’s investigation into the bureau’s alleged misuse of domestic violent extremism resources for "political purposes," after a leaked internal memo revealed the FBI had efforts underway to identify and treat some Catholics as violent extremists.


Ranking Member Risch Opening Statement at Hearing on Countering Illicit Fentanyl Trafficking
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News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today gave the following opening remarks at a full committee hearing on countering illicit fentanyl trafficking. The witnesses included The Honorable Todd Robinson, assistant secretary of State for ...


EPA Regional Administrator and USDA Leadership Co-Host Roundtable Discussion with Underserved and Underrepresented Producers
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News Release: FORT VALLEY (Feb. 15, 2023) – Today, in recognition of Black History Month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 4 Administrator Daniel Blackman and USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) Georgia State Executive Director Arthur Tripp co-hosted a roundtable discussion at Fort Valley State ...


Biden-Harris Administration Announces $19.4 Million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding to Address Emerging Contaminants like PFAS in Drinking Water in Delaware
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News Release: PHILADELPHIA (Feb. 14, 2023) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced today $19,407,000 from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will go to Delaware to address emerging contaminants, like Per-and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in drinking water. A total investment of $2 ...


El Programa Frontera 2025 México-Estados Unidos selecciona proyectos ambientales para su ejecución en la región fronteriza de Texas, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Tamaulipas y Nuevo León
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News Release: Dallas - El día de hoy, la Agencia de Protección Ambiental de los Estados Unidos (EPA, por sus siglas en inglés), en coordinación con el Banco de Desarrollo de América del Norte (NADBank), anunció el financiamiento de 11 proyectos por un total de USD$791,225 que se llevarán a cabo a lo largo de los estados ...


Chairman McCaul Statement on Twelve-Year Anniversary of Agent Zapata Murder
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News Release: Austin, TX - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul released the below statement in observance of the twelve-year anniversary of the murder of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent Jaime Zapata. In 2011, members of the Mexican cartel, Los Zetas, ambushed Agent Zapata and...


Crapo Statement at IRS Commissioner Nomination Hearing
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News Release: Washington, D.C.--U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, delivered the following remarks at hearing to consider the nomination of Daniel Werfel to be Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner.


Biden-Harris Administration Announces $26,676,000 in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding to Address Emerging Contaminants like PFAS in Drinking Water in Tennessee
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News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Feb. 15, 2023) – On Monday Feb. 13, 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $26,676,000 from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to address emerging contaminants, like Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in drinking water in Tennessee. This ...


Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Griffith: We Must Pass the HALT Fentanyl Act
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chair Morgan Griffith (R-VA) delivered the following opening remarks during today’s joint Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee and Health Subcommittee field hearing titled “President Biden's Border Crisis Is a Public Health Crisis."


Manchin, Barrasso and Risch Introduce Bipartisan Nuclear Fuel Security Act
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, John Barrasso (R-WY), Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Jim Risch (R-ID) introduced the Nuclear Fuel Security Act (NFSA). The bipartisan legislation ...


Chair Rodgers: Biden's Border Crisis is a Public Health Crisis
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy Rodgers (R-WA) delivered opening remarks at today’s joint Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee and Health Subcommittee field hearing: “President Biden's Border Crisis Is A Public Health Crisis."


Rep. Burgess Opening Statement at a Field Hearing Examining Biden’s Border Crisis
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - Rep. Michael Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) delivered the following opening remarks at today’s joint Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee and Health Subcommittee field hearing titled “President Biden's Border Crisis Is A Public Health Crisis."


Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Griffith: We Must Pass the HALT Fentanyl Act
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chair Morgan Griffith (R-VA) delivered the following opening remarks during today’s joint Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee and Health Subcommittee field hearing titled “President Biden's Border Crisis Is a Public Health Crisis."


Statement from Regional Administrator Debra Shore on the East Palestine Train Derailment
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News Release: “EPA Region 5’s number one priority is – and will always be – the health and safety of communities across the region. That’s why as soon as EPA was notified of the Norfolk Southern train derailment on Friday, Feb. 3, EPA personnel were on-site by 2 a.m. Saturday morning to assist with air monitoring. ...


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News Release: PHILADELPHIA (Feb. 14, 2023) – Capital Region Water will make substantial upgrades to the sewer and stormwater systems that serves the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania area under a proposed modified consent decree announced today with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.


Biden-Harris Administration Announces $18.9 Million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding to Address Emerging Contaminants like PFAS in Drinking Water in West Virginia
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News Release: PHILADELPHIA (Feb. 14, 2023) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that $18,914,000 from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will go to West Virginia to address emerging contaminants, like Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in drinking water.


Biden-Harris Administration Announces Nearly $19M in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding to Nebraska to Address Emerging Contaminants Like PFAS in Drinking Water
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News Release: LENEXA, KAN. (FEB. 14, 2023) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of $18,914,000 from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to address emerging contaminants like per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in drinking water across Nebraska.


Crapo: Finance Committee Republicans are Committed to Protecting Hardworking Taxpayers from Heavy-Handed IRS
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News Release: Washington, D.C.--U.S. Senate Finance Committee Republicans, led by Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), reintroduced a bill to prevent the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from using its $80 billion infusion of taxpayer dollars included in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) to squeeze more revenue out of hardworking taxpayers who earn less than $400,000 per year.