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By Commerce Newswire | Sep 30, 2022
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) released the following joint statement today after the House of Representatives passed two bills that advance access to health care...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 30, 2022
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 House of Representatives passed H.R. 8163, the Improving Trauma Systems and Emergency Care Act, and S. 958, the Maximizing Outcomes through Better Investments in Lifesaving Equipment for (MOBILE) Health Care Act.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 30, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, released the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Chai Suthammanont Healthy Federal Workplaces Act of 2022 and the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Authorization Act of 2022 with bipartisan support.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 30, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Committee on Foreign Affairs Ranking Member Michael McCaul (R-Texas) today are pressing Secretary of State Antony Blinken for information about the State Department’s efforts to end the detainment of U.S.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 30, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, released a Committee staff analysis detailing efforts by Republicans at all levels of government to ban abortion or impose restrictions that would erect barriers to care, including congressional Republicans’ efforts to impose a national abortion ban.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 30, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it would nearly double the funding awarded for clean school buses this year following increased demand, with school districts from all 50 states applying for the 2022 Clean School Bus Rebates. This is the first round of funding ...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 30, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO (Sept. 29, 2022) – Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a determination under the National Historic Preservation Act that the proposed interim measure for the Tower Standard site, located at Haskell Lake at County Road D and State Highway 70 on the Lac du Flambeau Reservation, will not impact any historic properties or cultural resources.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 30, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) voted by voice to advance the nominations of Michelle Moore, Robert Klein, William Renick, Adam Wade White, and Joe Ritch to be members of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Board of Directors.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 30, 2022
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a settlement with NRT West Inc. dba Coldwell Banker to resolve claims of ten violations of the Toxic Substances Control Act at seven residential properties in and around the cities of San Jose, Sunnyvale, and Vallejo, California. ...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 30, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON – Packaging Corporation of America (PCA), headquartered in Illinois, has agreed to pay $2.5 million in civil penalties to resolve allegations that it violated the Clean Air Act’s General Duty Clause and Risk Management Program Regulations at its containerboard production mill in DeRidder, Louisiana.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 30, 2022
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) spoke on the House floor in opposition to H.R. 7780, the Mental Health Matters Act, due to its attack on job creators and its failure to address the nation's mental health situation...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 30, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), welcomed Mr. Pat O’Toole, president of Family Farm Alliance, to the committee. O’Toole testified before the committee at a legislative hearing to examine and receive testimony on a number of forestry related bills.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 30, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), delivered the following remarks at a legislative hearing to examine and receive testimony on a number of forestry related bills. Barrasso’s bill, the Promoting Effective Forest Management Act of 2022 , was discussed at the hearing.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 30, 2022
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement in response to the White House Conference on Nutrition, Hunger, and Health, which failed to engage a range of stakeholders in favor of liberal activist groups...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 30, 2022
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office requesting it examine how taxpayer dollars are being used to subsidize Obamacare and how those costs compare to the costs of employer-sponsored plans.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 30, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Senate has passed bipartisan legislation authored by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Rob Portman (R-OH), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, to make permanent the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) National Risk...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 30, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - As Republicans continue to push forward their proposal to ban abortion nationwide and attack the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs’ (VA) historic action to provide abortion care for veterans in certain circumstances, U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 30, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) sent a letter to Chair Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), inquiring into the indefinite postponement of Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary Deb Haaland's testimony before the committee. In part, Westerman wrote.
By State Newswire | Sep 30, 2022
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul gave the following remarks at a full committee hearing on Haiti at the Crossroads: Civil Society Responses for a Haitian-led Solution.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 30, 2022
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on the Senate’s 72-25 vote to pass the continuing resolution.
