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Murray Slams GOP Bill to Undo Drug Price Negotiation, Let Costs Continue to Skyrocket, and Protect Pharmaceutical Company Profits


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Burr Questions Labor Department for Abandoning Industry-Recognized Apprenticeship Programs



Crapo: High Wholesale Price Inflation Means More Pain for Consumers
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News Release: Washington, D.C.--After the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its September Producer Price Index (PPI) showing that wholesale prices rose by 8.5 percent from the previous year, higher than expected and remaining well above the long-run average of 2.6 percent, U.S. Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) issued the following statement...


ICYMI School Board Reports Mom to Feds
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News Release: Parents are fed up: fed up with bullying from school district officials, fed up with teachers unions being put ahead of their children, and fed up with a lack of transparency regarding their child’s education. Instead of staying fed up, parents are standing up.


Chairs Meeks, Cicilline Issue Statement on Israel-Lebanon Maritime Agreement
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News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Representatives Gregory W. Meeks, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and David Cicilline, Chairman of the Middle East, North Africa, and Global Counterterrorism Subcommittee, issued the following statement regarding the historic agreement resolving the Israel-Lebanon maritime border dispute...


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News Release: Today, representatives from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S Navy, California Department of Toxic Substances Control, and the City of Irvine recognized the former Marine Corps Air Station El Toro as a winner in the EPA’s fifth annual National Federal Facility Excellence in Site Reuse Awards.


EPA Awards Three Environmental Merit Awards to Vermont Recipients
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News Release: BOSTON (Oct. 12, 2022) – Today, the U.S. EPA recognized two individuals and one organization in Vermont at the virtual 2022 Environmental Merit Awards ceremony. The awardees were among 20 recipients across New England honored for contributing to improving New England's environment.


Finance Committee Republicans: IRS Funding Boost Lacks Emphasis on Oversight
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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 Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) Russell George requesting information on how TIGTA will provide American taxpayers with needed visibility into what the IRS...


DOL’s Power Grab Throws Workers and Retirees Out in the Cold
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News Release: Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Republican Leader Rick Allen (R-GA) submitted a comment letter yesterday to Labor Department Secretary Marty Walsh regarding a proposed rule which would make the prohibited transaction exemption for qualified professional asset managers (QPAMs) virtually unusable and, in turn, harm workers, retirees, and plan sponsors.


Chair Grijalva Celebrates Designation of Camp Hale as First New National Monument of Biden Presidency
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today issued the following statement on President Joseph R. Biden’s designation of Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument in Colorado.


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News Release: Sandy, Utah -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will host a virtual community meeting on Thursday, Oct. 20, at 6:30 p.m. to share information about health risks from the chemical ethylene oxide, or EtO, near the BD Medical sterilization facility at 9450 South State Street in Sandy, Utah. ...


EPA Awards Three Environmental Merit Awards to Massachusetts Recipients
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News Release: BOSTON (Oct. 12, 2022) – Today, the U.S. EPA recognized one individual and two organizations in Massachusetts at the virtual 2022 Environmental Merit Awards ceremony. The awardees were among 20 recipients across New England honored for contributing to improving New England's environment.


EPA Awards Three Environmental Merit Awards to Maine Recipients
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News Release: BOSTON (Oct. 12, 2022) – Today, the U.S. EPA recognized two individuals and one organization in Maine at the virtual 2022 Environmental Merit Awards ceremony. The awardees were among 20 recipients across New England honored for contributing to improving New England's environment.


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News Release: Washington, D.C. - Over the past week, House Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) led two letters requesting critical resources to assist recovery and resiliency efforts in Puerto Rico and Florida after Hurricanes Fiona and Ian. The first letter, sent yesterday and cosigned by...


Rogers: Biden's national security strategy is not based in reality
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U.S. Representative Mike Rogers (R-AL), Lead Republican of the House Armed Services Committee, released the following statement on the Biden administration’s National Security Strategy on Oct. 13.


EPA awards Food Lifeline $200,000 for project to reduce methane, food waste in South Seattle
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News Release: SEATTLE (Oct. 12, 2022) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded Food Lifeline of Seattle approximately $200,000 to assist in the development of a community-owned anaerobic digester in the South Park neighborhood of Seattle. Anaerobic digestion is a process in which microorganisms break ...


Oversight Republicans Press Garland on Collective Failures Leading to Fat Leonard’s Escape from U.S. Custody
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News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and several Oversight Committee Republicans are pressing U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland about the collective failures by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and U.S. Probation and Pretrial Services leading...


Chairman Thompson Statement on President Biden’s New National Security Strategy
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News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, issued the below statement on the Biden Administration’s release of its new National Security Strategy...