News from May 2023


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.”


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.”


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 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.”


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)


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.”


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.”


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 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.”


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)


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.”


Chairs Rodgers & Johnson to EPA: “Stop Forcing Your Rush-to-Green Mandates on our School Districts”

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Environment, Manufacturing, & Critical Materials Subcommittee Chair Bill Johnson (R-OH)


“RECOGNIZING DR. DOON GIBBS, BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LAB” published by the Congressional Record in the Extensions of Remarks section on April 26

“RECOGNIZING DR. DOON GIBBS, BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LAB” was published on page E363 of the Congressional Record on April 26.


E&C GOP Launches Investigation into Critical Leadership Vacancies at NIH

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


Chair Rodgers Statement on SCOTUS Preliminary Ruling in Abortion Pill Case

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) issued the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court issued its preliminary ruling in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA:


E&C GOP Launches Investigation into Critical Leadership Vacancies at NIH

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


E&C GOP Probe Energy Secretary on Frequent International Travel

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chair Morgan Griffith (R-VA) sent a letter to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm regarding her use of taxpayer funded travel after she made four trips to Puerto Rico in the past five months, in addition to international travel.


E&C Republicans Warn EPA That its eRINs Proposal Risks Harming The American Fuels Market & Increasing Costs for Americans

House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans, led by Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA)


E&C Republicans Launch Probe in NIH’s Billion-Dollar Public Relations Spending Spree

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chair Morgan Griffith (R-VA)


Chair Rodgers on Lowering Health Care Costs: This Bipartisan Work is the Right Thing for Patients

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered opening remarks at today’s Health Subcommittee hearing titled “Lowering Unaffordable Costs: Legislative Solutions to Increase Transparency and Competition in Health Care.”