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Murray, Hirono, Shaheen, Warren Applaud DOD Action to Ensure Access to Reproductive Care
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News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, applauded the Department of Defense’s (DOD) memorandum on ensuring access to reproductive health care...


Senator Murray Helps 6K+ Child Care Programs in Washington State Keep Doors Open to Serve Families
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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), issued the following statement on new data released by the White House showing that the child care stabilization funding she secured in the American Rescue Plan...


Comer & Grothman Press DoD and FCC on Failure to Remove Huawei Infrastructure
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Comer & Grothman Press DoD and FCC on Failure to Remove Huawei Infrastructure


Top Oversight & House Administration Republicans Blast D.C. Bills Allowing Illegal Immigrants to Vote and Expanding Automatic Mail-In Ballots
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Top Oversight & House Administration Republicans Blast D.C. Bills Allowing Illegal Immigrants to Vote and Expanding Automatic Mail-In Ballots



Scalise Blasts Democrats’ Failures; Releases Key Findings from Select Subcommittee Republicans’ Investigation
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Scalise Blasts Democrats’ Failures; Releases Key Findings from Select Subcommittee Republicans’ Investigation


Oversight Republicans Raise Concerns Over Coast Guard Denying Members’ Religious Exemptions to the COVID Vaccine
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Oversight Republicans Raise Concerns Over Coast Guard Denying Members’ Religious Exemptions to the COVID Vaccine


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News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) is calling on America’s governors, like Governor Jay Inslee, to not mandate the COVID-19 vaccine for children following the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) vote to add COVID-19 vaccinations to the recommended schedule of vaccines for both adults and children.


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News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) is calling on America’s governors, like Governor Jay Inslee, to not mandate the COVID-19 vaccine for children following the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) vote to add COVID-19 vaccinations to the recommended schedule of vaccines for both adults and children.


Leader Rodgers: The Decision for COVID-19 Vaccines is For Parents to Make
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) is calling on America’s governors, like Governor Jay Inslee, to not mandate the COVID-19 vaccine for children following the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) vote to add COVID-19 vaccinations to the recommended schedule of vaccines for both adults and children.



Finance Committee Republicans: IRS Requires Unbiased Oversight of Unprecedented Funding Boost
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News Release: Washington D.C.--U.S. Senate Finance Committee Republicans, led by Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), sent a letter to Government Accountability Office (GAO) Comptroller General Gene Dodaro requesting an update on outstanding issues that GAO has previously advised the IRS to remedy. The senators note...



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Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Republican Leader Rick Allen (R-GA) sent a letter to National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) Chairman Lauren M. McFerran requesting the agency return to manual, onsite, secret-ballot elections.


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Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Republican Leader Rick Allen (R-GA) sent a letter yesterday to Department of Labor (DOL) Secretary Marty Walsh to oppose DOL’s new rule which could severely restrict the free speech of federal contractors.



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Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), Senator Mazie K.


Biden Administration Continues Phasedown of Super-Pollutants to Combat Climate Change and Boost U.S. Manufacturing
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News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced additional actions to phase down climate-damaging hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), a crucial component of President Biden’s ambitious agenda to combat the climate crisis while advancing American manufacturing and innovation. EPA today ...


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News Release: Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy announced that a new phase of the cleanup will soon begin at the Velsicol Chemical Corp. Superfund site, in St. Louis, Michigan. Later this month, the agencies will start preparing to excavate approximately 100,000 tons of contaminated soil from the southern portion of the former Velsicol Chemical property.


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News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and several Oversight Committee Republican lawmakers are launching an investigation into the Biden Administration purchasing $1.3 billion worth of COVID-19 testing kits manufactured in China. Republicans are also conducting...