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Rubio, Smith, colleagues demand information from McKinsey regarding work with China
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In April, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it would not issue new contracts with McKinsey & Company pending ongoing investigations into whether McKinsey failed to divulge potential conflicts of interest over its work with both the FDA and opioid manufacturers.


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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. 3771, the South Asian Heart Health Awareness and Research Act of 2022...


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News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after the Committee passed legislation that would mandate an overly prescriptive heat standard and add layers of burdensome regulations to our school nutrition programs...


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News Release: Today is all about the thousands of women retirees who stand to have their earned pensions restored under H.R. 6929, the Susan Muffley Act of 2022. More than 20,000 Delphi salaried retirees, nearly half of whom are women, had their pensions slashed after the subsidiary of GM filed for bankruptcy in 2005.


McCaul, House Foreign Affairs Members Send Letter to USAID Administrator Power Over Global Food Crisis
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News Release: Dear Administrator Power: We write to express our concern over the global food crisis caused by Russia’s full scale and unprovoked continued invasion of Ukraine and the Administration’s slow response to utilize emergency supplemental funds and prioritize this unprecedented humanitarian emergency. Before...


Pallone Floor Statement on the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID–19 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. 4040, the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID-19 Act of 2022...


Peters and Hawley Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Bolster DHS Efforts to Detect and Seize Illicit Drugs
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News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Josh Hawley (R-MO) introduced bipartisan legislation to ensure that the Department of the Homeland Security (DHS) is efficiently using existing resources and expanding available...


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News Release: Today, we will consider a proposal that will ensure our Medicare beneficiaries are receiving the care they need in a timely manner. Championed by Congresswoman DelBene and Congressman Kelly, H.R. 8487, the Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act of 2022, has been years in the making and has overwhelming bipartisan support.


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News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Republicans are demanding President Biden abandon his anti-American energy agenda, including any plans to cut off America’s access to global energy markets by imposing a ban on oil exports. In a new letter, Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers...


Pallone & Doyle Praise House Passage of Communications and Technology Bills
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News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) released the following joint statement today after the House of Representatives passed three communications and technology bills today...


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News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) released the following joint statement today after the House of Representatives passed three consumer protection and commerce bills...


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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. 4040, the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID-19 Act of 2022...


Gibbs Statement from Hearing on Coast Guard Personnel Issues
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News Release: Opening remarks, as prepared, of Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Ranking Member Bob Gibbs (R-OH) from today’s hearing entitled, “Enhancing Personnel Resources to Support a Stronger, More Resilient Coast Guard":


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Durbin Delivers Opening Statement at Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing on Decriminalizing Cannabis at the Federal Level


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Durbin, Leahy call on Administration to take an Unequivocal Position Against the use of Torture-Derived Evidence


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Durbin Questions Witnesses in Judiciary Committee Hearing on the Threat America's Gun Violence Epidemic Poses to Law Enforcement



House Republicans to Biden: Put American Energy Workers First, Don’t Reward Foreign Oil Producers
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Republicans are demanding President Biden abandon his anti-American energy agenda, including any plans to cut off America’s access to global energy markets by imposing a ban on oil exports. In a new letter, Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers...


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News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) released the following statement commending the passing of bipartisan legislation that protects Americans’ consumer safety and strengthens online security.


At Committee Hearing, Gun Manufacturers Refuse to Take Responsibility for Fueling America’s Gun Violence Epidemic
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, held a hearing to examine the role of the firearms industry in America’s gun violence epidemic. Ahead of the hearing, the Committee released new findings from the Committee’s investigation into five...