Friday, May 25, 2012

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce announced its schedule for the week of May 28. Committee members will explore governance at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as part of continued oversight by the committee. The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology will explore Internet governance in advance of the December 2012 World Conference on International Telecommunications. And the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade will hold a legislative hearing to review two bipartisan pieces of legislation.   Read More >

Friday, May 25, 2012

In preparation for a vote in the House of Representative next week, the committee released a bipartisan substitute for the FDA Reform Act, H.R. 5651.   Read More >

Thursday, May 24, 2012

WASHINGTON, DC – House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY), and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) made the following statement in response to today’s announcement by the White House that President Obama will nominate Allison Macfarlane to replace Gregory Jaczko as Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission:   Read More >

Thursday, May 24, 2012

WASHINGTON, DC – The Energy and Commerce Committee is continuing its investigation into the Environmental Protection Agency’s administration of the Renewable Fuel Standards Program. Under the program, EPA has discovered an increasing number of transactions made with fraudulent Renewable Identification Numbers. This problem has yet to be resolved and has actually grown worse. Full Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL), Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY), and Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) wrote to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson today requesting an update on the agency’s efforts to combat RIN fraud.   Read More >

Thursday, May 24, 2012

New information released this month provides us with a glimpse of what the future of electricity in America will look like as a result of President Obama’s regulatory reign: higher prices and threatened reliability.   Read More >

Thursday, May 24, 2012

In 2008, then-Candidate Barack Obama promised to usher in an era of transparency, “put an end to the game playing” in Washington, and broadcast health care negotiations on C-SPAN. The Energy and Commerce Committee launched an investigation more than a year ago to allow Congress and the American public to understand whether he upheld his promises when writing legislation that fundamentally transformed the nation’s health care system. A new video from the committee examines those promises and the confusion and conflicting information surrounding the closed-door negotiations that led to enactment of the law.   Read More >

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

WASHINGTON, DC – House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) expressed concern today with a government watchdog’s latest report to committee leadership on Department of Energy safety reforms at the nation’s most sensitive nuclear storage sites and laboratories. The Government Accountability Office report, “Nuclear Safety: DOE Needs to Determine the Costs and Benefits of Its Safety Reform Effort,” finds that while DOE significantly cut its safety directives to combat duplication, the agency did not first determine whether the directives it planned to revise were indeed burdensome or costly and would impact security procedures.   Read More >

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

The Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy and the Subcommittee on Energy and Power have scheduled a joint hearing on Thursday, May 31, 2012, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The title of the hearing is “NRC Policy and Governance Oversight.” All five commissioners of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission are expected to testify.   Read More >