The Subcommittee on Health will hold a field hearing entitled “Protecting School-age Athletes from Sports-related Concussion Injury” on Wednesday, September 8, 2010, in Newark, New Jersey. The legislative hearing will include testimony on H.R. 1347, the “Concussion Treatment and Care Tools Act of 2009”, which was introduced by Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ) on March 3, 2009.

Representatives Henry A. Waxman, Bart Stupak, and Edward J. Markey today sent a letter to Mariner Energy, Inc. regarding an explosion on its oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. The Committee is requesting a briefing on the incident and its possible causes.

Chairman Henry A. Waxman and Subcommittee Chairman Bart Stupak today released information from BP regarding its spending on corporate advertising and marketing following the April 20, 2010, explosion at the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.

Chairman Henry A. Waxman and Subcommittee Chairman Bart Stupak today announced that the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold a hearing on September 14, 2010, at 11:00 a.m. on the safety of the nation’s food supply in light of the recent outbreak of Salmonella associated with eggs from Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms of Iowa.

Today Rep. Edward J. Markey, Rep. Rick Boucher, and Rep. Henry A. Waxman released a report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), which examines changes in the wireless industry over the past decade, consumer and stakeholder perspectives of regulatory policies and industry practices, and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) strategies to monitor industry competition.  GAO recommends that the FCC expand its data collection on such metrics as special access rates, prices, and capital expenditures in order to improve its monitoring and annual reporting on competition in the wireless market.

Chairmen Henry A. Waxman and Bart Stupak sent letters to FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack requesting documents related to the recent outbreak of Salmonella associated with eggs from Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms of Iowa.