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Bittersweet: Idaho Employee Supervises Closure of Building Where His Career Began


Leader Rodgers: “CHIPS-plus Unlocks Massive Subsidies and Spending that will Make Inflation Worse”
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) urged members to vote no today on H.R. 4346, CHIPS-plus, which prioritizes massive government spending and corporate welfare over hardworking American families suffering under President Biden’s inflation crisis. Further, H.R. 4346 fails to remove the damaging regulatory and permitting barriers hampering innovation and American economic competitiveness.


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News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, will convene a field hearing titled “Improving Interagency and Intergovernmental Coordination on PFAS for Michigan Communities" on MONDAY, Aug. 1, 2022 at 10:00 AM at Michigan State...


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News Release: M. Speaker, I rise today in support of the CHIPS and Science Act. We are here to put the people over politics - by lowering costs, creating jobs, and supercharging our domestic manufacturing.


Crapo: Democrats Want to Raise Taxes, Kill Jobs Amid Shrinking Economy
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News Release: Washington, D.C.-- U.S. Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) issued the following statement after the gross domestic product (GDP) fell 0.9 percent for the period, following a 1.6 percent decline in the first quarter.


Widespread Coverage Highlights Portman Report Detailing China’s Efforts to Target, Influence, and Undermine U.S. Federal Reserve
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News Release: A number of the nation’s media outlets are highlighting Senator Portman’s new report from the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee where he serves as Ranking Member. The report, titled China’s Threat to the Fed: Chinese Influence and Information Theft at U.S. Federal Reserve Banks,...


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News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) urged members to vote no today on H.R. 4346, CHIPS-plus, which prioritizes massive government spending and corporate welfare over hardworking American families suffering under President Biden’s inflation crisis. Further, H.R. 4346 fails to remove the damaging regulatory and permitting barriers hampering innovation and American economic competitiveness.


Tiffany: 'The Countering Communist China Act is an important step'
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In a statement issued recently by US Rep. Tom Tiffany from Wisconsin, he stated that the Countering Communist China Act treats China for the threat that it is to US interests, instead of shying away from this truth as past legislation has done. Rep. Tiffany is a cosponsor of the act.



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News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement regarding the passage of the CHIPS and Science Act...


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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 energy related bills. Barrasso introduced three of the bills discussed at the hearing.


Leader Rodgers Responds to Biden Administration’s Blatant Efforts to Censor Americans
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement in response to reports that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been coordinating with Big Tech to censor Americans.



Chair Stacey Plaskett Opening Statement at Hearing “An Examination of the USDA Hemp Production Program”
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News Release: WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Subcommittee Chair Stacey Plaskett delivered the following statement at today's hearing titled “An Examination of the USDA Hemp Production Program."


Pallone Floor Statement on the CHIPS and Science Act
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News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following statement on the House floor today during consideration of H.R. 4346, the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022...


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News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) urged members to vote no today on H.R. 4346, CHIPS-plus, which prioritizes massive government spending and corporate welfare over hardworking American families suffering under President Biden’s inflation crisis. Further, H.R. 4346 fails to remove the damaging regulatory and permitting barriers hampering innovation and American economic competitiveness.


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News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX), and U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today sent a letter to Secretary Blinken expressing support for oversight and accountability of U.S. military, economic, and political support to Ukraine in the face of Russia’s unprovoked invasion.


JCT Confirms: U.S. Manufacturers Would be Hardest Hit by Democrats' Book Minimum Tax
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News Release: Washington, D.C.--A new analysis by the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) of the book minimum tax proposal in the latest version of the Democrats’ reckless tax-and-spend bill (the 15 percent minimum tax on corporations) would overwhelmingly hit U.S. manufacturers at a time when they can least afford it.


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News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after the House of Representatives passed H.R. 4346, CHIPS and Science Act...


Crapo Statement at USTR 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 Douglas J. McKalip, for U.S. Trade Representative Chief Agricultural Negotiator.