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News Release: LENEXA, KAN. (OCT. 13, 2022) – Auto dealership and repair shop Midwest Motors of Eureka, Missouri, will pay a $15,000 civil penalty for allegedly tampering with car engines to render emissions controls inoperative in violation of the federal Clean Air Act.


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There were 36 press releases published by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce in September.


New GAO Report Finds Inconsistencies and Data Gaps in Federal Efforts to Prevent Overfishing
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a new report today examining the National Marine Fisheries Service’s (NMFS) and Regional Fisheries Management Councils’ efforts to prevent overfishing and assess fishing stocks across the agency’s six regional fisheries science centers. The report was requested by House Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva in November 2019.


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News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) released the following statement after the Biden administration renewed the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) declaration.


Rodgers and Guthrie: Biden Says the “Pandemic is Over” but has NO Plan to Unwind Emergency Powers
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) released the following statement after the Biden administration renewed the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) declaration.


Public press releases: House Committee on Natural Resources publishes 29 in September
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There were 29 press releases published by the House Committee on Natural Resources in September.


Foxx Welcomes NLRB IG Audit
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News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement in response to a memorandum from Dave Berry, the Inspector General for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), announcing the start of an audit of mail ballot elections and representation decisions within the agency...


House Committee on Agriculture publishes 16 press releases or notices in September
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There were 16 press releases or notices published by the House Committee on Agriculture in September.


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Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) issued the following statement after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced its final rule on flight attendant duty and rest time.


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U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, continued their efforts to increase transparency in the prescription drug pricing market, leading a bipartisan letter to Chairwoman Lina Khan to underscore the urgency for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to complete its Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBM) investigation and report its findings to Congress.



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Cantwell promised change and fought for new regulation in previous FAA Reauthorization



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Today, Education and Labor Committee Chairman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (D-VA), Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) wrote to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra in support of the Biden Administration’s proposed health care nondiscrimination rule.


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Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement in response to a memorandum from Dave Berry, the Inspector General for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), announcing the start of an audit of mail ballot elections and representation decisions within the agency





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Foxx & Comer Reveal New Evidence of COVID Relief Dollars Funding Woke Initiatives