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Chair Rodgers Opening Statement on Building a Stronger Health Workforce and Improving Primary Care

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered opening remarks at today’s Health Subcommittee hearing titled “Examining Existing Federal Programs to Build a Stronger Health Workforce and Improve Primary Care.”


Chair Rodgers: “Data Brokers’ Days of Surveilling in the Dark Should be Over”

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered opening remarks at today’s Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing titled “Who is Selling Your Data: A Critical Examination of the Role of Data Brokers in the Digital Economy.”


Health Subcommittee Chair Guthrie Opening Statement on Building a Stronger Health Workforce and Improving Primary Care

Subcommittee on Health Chair Brett Guthrie (R-KY) delivered the following opening statement at today’s Health Subcommittee hearing titled “Examining Existing Federal Programs to Build a Stronger Health Workforce and Improve Primary Care.”


E&C Seeks Answer about the Grid Reliability Impacts of EPA’s Burdensome Regulations

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Energy, Climate, and Grid Security Subcommittee Chair Jeff Duncan (R-SC), Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials Subcommittee Chair Bill Johnson (R-OH)


Chair Rodgers on Solutions to Lift Permitting Burdens to Deploy Broadband

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered opening remarks at today’s Communication and Technology Subcommittee hearing titled “Breaking Barriers: Streamlining Permitting to Expedite Broadband Deployment.”


Chair Rodgers Demands Answers on How Biden Admin Ignored Unaccompanied Children at the Border

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered opening remarks at today’s Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing titled “Insights from the HHS Inspector General on Oversight of Unaccompanied Minors, Grant Management, and CMS.”


Chair Rodgers on FTC Chair Khan’s Abuses of Power “Leadership Matters”

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered opening remarks at today’s Innovation, Data, and Commerce Subcommittee hearing titled “Fiscal Year 2024 Federal Trade Commission Budget.”


O&I Subcommittee Chair Griffith Calls HHS’ Handling of Unaccompanied Minors an “Abject Failure”

Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chair Morgan Griffith (R-VA) delivered the following opening remarks during today’s Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing titled “Insights from the HHS Inspector General on Oversight of Unaccompanied Minors, Grant Management, and CMS.”


Energy Subcommittee Chair Duncan: “Nuclear Energy Must be Part of our Energy Matrix”

Subcommittee on Energy, Climate, and Grid Security Chair Jeff Duncan (R-SC) delivered the following opening remarks at today’s Energy, Climate, & Grid Security Subcommittee hearing titled “American Nuclear Energy Expansion: Powering a Clean and Secure Future.”


IDC Subcommittee Chair Bilirakis to FTC: Stop Carrying Out “President Biden’s Leftist Crusade”

Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce Chair Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) delivered opening remarks at today’s Innovation, Data, and Commerce subcommittee hearing titled “Fiscal Year 2024 Federal Trade Commission Budget.”


O&I Subcommittee Chair Griffith Calls HHS’ Handling of Unaccompanied Minors an “Abject Failure”

Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chair Morgan Griffith (R-VA) delivered the following opening remarks during today’s Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing titled “Insights from the HHS Inspector General on Oversight of Unaccompanied Minors, Grant Management, and CMS.”



E&C GOP Implore Biden Commerce Official to Speak Out Against TikTok at Ethics Summit

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Innovation, Data and Commerce Chair Gus Bilirakis (R-FL)



Chairs Rodgers, Guthrie Announce Health Subcommittee Hearing on Existing Healthcare Workforce and Primary Care Programs

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Health Subcommittee Chair Brett Guthrie (R-KY)


Congressional Republicans Call for Reconsideration of Administration’s Anti-Innovation Drug-Price Policy

Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith (R-MO), and Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee Mike Crapo (R-ID), raised concerns with the Biden administration’s initial drug price-setting program implementation guidance document.


Chairs Rodgers, Latta Announce Legislative Hearing on Unleashing U.S. Communications Innovation

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chair Bob Latta (R-OH) today announced a hearing titled “Breaking Barriers: Streamlining Permitting to Expedite Broadband Deployment.”


Chair Rodgers on Biden’s New EPA Tailpipe Proposals: It Will Make New Vehicles Unaffordable

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement on the Biden administration’s announcement of two new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules to make vehicles even more expensive for Americans.


Manchin Co-Sponsors Resolution to End Solar Tariff Waivers, Onshore Energy Supply Chains

Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, co-sponsored Senator Rick Scott’s (R-FL) S.J.Res.15, a joint resolution disapproving of the Administration’s attempts to pause tariffs on solar imports from four Southeast Asian countries.


ICYMI: Outdoor Industry Association Awards Manchin Friend of the Industry Award

U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, was recently awarded the Outdoor Industry Association’s (OIA) Friend of the Industry Award.