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By State Newswire | Feb 27, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul released the following statement in response to the Department of Energy (DOE) assessment that concludes the COVID-19 pandemic was most likely caused by a lab leak in China. Their report reiterates the same finding in Chairman McCaul’s report from August 2021, which found a preponderance of the evidence proved the virus was leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 27, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chair Morgan Griffith (R-VA), and Subcommittee on Health Chair Brett Guthrie (R-KY) released the following statement regarding a U.S. Department of Energy report that the most likely cause of COVID-19 is a lab leak incident...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-IA), and Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Lindsey Graham (R-SC) sent letters to former co-Chairs of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States seeking information on the Commission’s work, deliberations, and true purpose.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chair Morgan Griffith (R-VA), and Subcommittee on Health Chair Brett Guthrie (R-KY) released the following statement regarding a U.S. Department of Energy report that the most likely cause of COVID-19 is a lab leak incident...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2023
News Release: What’s happening: House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and former Senate Judiciary chairs Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) sent letters on Friday to Robert Bauer and Cristina Rodríguez - the two former co-chairs of the Supreme Court reform commission that released its final report in December 2021 - requesting documents and communications.
By Press release submission | Feb 26, 2023
Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), Rep. Michelle Steel (R-CA), and Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to conduct oversight of the agency’s failure to investigate the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) for holding classified documents on a Biden-affiliated campus building. Specifically, the lawmakers raised concerns about UPenn’s involvement and whether its mishandling of such sensitive documents poses a national security threat.
By Press release submission | Feb 26, 2023
Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Marty Walsh to request that his office retain records to ensure DOL staff have the necessary materials to respond to the Committee’s oversight inquiries.
By Press release submission | Feb 26, 2023
Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture expressing concerns with the agency’s proposed changes to the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program packages that limit families from accessing flexible and nutritious food options.
By Press release submission | Feb 26, 2023
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) is planning on releasing job creators’ confidential employee data to accommodate a FOIA request from a left-leaning organization. Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to OFCCP Director Yang to lambast the agency’s imminent release of sensitive employee data that is normally protected.
By Press release submission | Feb 26, 2023
U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, released the below statement on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announcing the reinstatement of the “appropriate and necessary” finding for the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) regulation that covers generation from coal- and oil-fired power plants.
By Press release submission | Feb 26, 2023
U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, questioned witnesses at a full committee hearing about increased costs caused by Low-Carbon Fuel Standard programs currently in place in certain states, the emissions impacts of electric vehicles (EVs), and the Appalachian Hydrogen Hub.
By Press release submission | Feb 26, 2023
Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee held a hearing titled, “The Future of Low-Carbon Transportation Fuels and Considerations for a National Clean Fuels Program.”
By Press release submission | Feb 26, 2023
U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and U.S. Rep. Sam Graves (R-Mo.-06), Chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee, released the below joint statement after the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) released a substantially revised replacement of its December 2021 policy memorandum which attempted to enact a wish list of policies intentionally negotiated out of the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
By Press release submission | Feb 26, 2023
U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement on an updated internal memorandum from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) reaffirming the Biden administration’s policy priorities and the rights of states to select the projects they pursue with highway formula funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
By Press release submission | Feb 26, 2023
U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, issued the following statement on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reinstating the finding that it is “appropriate and necessary” to regulate mercury and toxic air pollution from power plants under the Mercury Air Toxics Standards (MATS).
By Press release submission | Feb 26, 2023
U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Chair and Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statemen
By Press release submission | Feb 26, 2023
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation today released the following statement on the National Transportation Safety Board’s preliminary report on the February 3, 2023, Norfolk Southern freight train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio:
By Press release submission | Feb 26, 2023
Cantwell: “It is imperative for both public safety and the continuity of the national rail network that we work to prevent derailments like this.”
By Press release submission | Feb 26, 2023
Cantwell-Grassley bill would prohibit unfair PBM tactics that drive up costs for consumers Pharmacist: “There’s obviously no way that a business could operate with these predatory and unpredictable fees.”
By Press release submission | Feb 26, 2023
ORBITS Act would support technologies to clear dangerous orbital debris that threatens astronauts and satellites
