Culminating the Energy and Commerce Committee’s extensive investigation into the Obama administration’s failed loan guarantee program, full committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) authored the “No More Solyndras Act” to ensure taxpayers are never again stuck paying hundreds of millions of dollars because of the Obama admin
Chairman:
Tim Murphy (PA-18)
Jurisdiction:
Responsibility for oversight of agencies, departments, and programs related to the jurisdiction of the full committee, and for conducting investigations.
Members
Republicans
Chairman: Tim Murphy (PA)
Vice Chairman: Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (TX)
Marsha Blackburn (TN)
Phil Gingrey (GA)
Steve Scalise (LA)
Gregg Harper (MS)
Pete Olson (TX)
Cory Gardner (CO)
Morgan Griffith (VA)
Bill Johnson (OH)
Billy Long (MO)
Renee Ellmers (NC)
Joe Barton (TX)
Fred Upton (MI)
Democrats
Ranking Member: Diana DeGette (CO)
Bruce Braley (IA)
Ben Ray Lujan (NM)
Edward J. Markey (MA)
Jan Schakowsky (IL)
G.K. Butterfield (NC)
Kathy Castor (FL)
Peter Welch (VT)
Paul Tonko (NY)
Gene Green (TX)
John D. Dingell (MI) (non-voting)
Henry A. Waxman (CA)
September 8, 2012 |
Press Release
On September 8, 2011, just two days after Solyndra filed for bankruptcy, the FBI raided the solar manufacturer’s Fremont, California facility.
September 6, 2012 |
ICYMI
In Solyndra Bankruptcy, Obama Administration’s Picking of Winners and Losers Reaches Shameful New Lows
President’s Backers, Including Billionaire George Kaiser, Could Get Hundreds of Millions in Tax Breaks While Taxpayers Lose Over Half a Billion Dollars
September 6, 2012 |
Press Release
WASHINGTON, DC – Today marks one year since Solyndra, once the Obama administration’s highly touted stimulus “success story,” filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
September 4, 2012 |
Press Release
WASHINGTON, DC – Exactly three years ago today, Vice President Joe Biden famously participated in Solyndra’s groundbreaking following the Obama administration’s rushed approval of the $535 million loan guarantee to the now-bankrupt solar company.
August 10, 2012 |
Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C.— House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) today wrote to U.S.