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12/11/2012
Press Release
Today Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman and Energy and Power Subcommittee Ranking Member Bobby L. Rush sent a letter to Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton and Energy and Power Subcommittee Ranking Member Ed Whitfield to request a hearing on the PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Low Carbon Economy Index report on the necessary rate of decarbonization to limit...
12/07/2012
Press Release
Reps. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) today sought information from the U.S. Coast Guard regarding BP and Transocean’s plan to re-inspect the underwater wreckage and the well head from the Deepwater Horizon disaster using subsea remotely operated vehicles (ROVs). The need to re-inspect the area stems from the detection of an oil sheen on November 2, 2012, the...
12/07/2012
Press Release
House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders sent a letter today to the International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists seeking information on the role of this industry association in assisting compounding pharmacies in their interactions with Federal and state authorities. A bipartisan group of Committee leaders wrote, “Allegations that your association may have encouraged...
12/06/2012
Press Release
House Ways and Means Ranking Member Sander Levin, Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Pete Stark, House Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman, Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr., and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus and Health Subcommittee Chairman Jay Rockefeller yesterday unveiled a GAO report titled Medicare and Medicaid: Consumer Protection...
12/05/2012
Bill
S. Con. Res 50 is a resolution expressing the sense of Congress supporting the multi-stakeholder governance model under which the Internet has thrived. S. Con. Res 50 is similar to H.Con.Res. 127, which passed the House of Representatives on August 2, 2012, by a roll call vote of 414-0.
S. Con. Res 50 passed the House by a roll call vote of 397 yeas and 0 nays on December 5, 2012.
12/04/2012
Bill
This law amends the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) gives the Secretary of Health and Human Services flexibility with regard to the imposition of penalties for clinical laboratories that improperly refer proficiency testing (PT) samples to another laboratory. Proficiency testing is required under the law for laboratories to maintain their certificate to operate.
PT...
12/04/2012
Bill
H.R. 6131 extends the Undertaking Spam, Spyware, and Fraud Enforcement with Enforcers Beyond Borders (US SAFE WEB) Act of 2006 (Pub. L. No. 109-455) until September 30, 2020. The US SAFE WEB Act – which had been scheduled to expire on December 22, 2013 – enhances the ability of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to protect American consumers from schemes that cross the borders...
12/04/2012
Press Release
Today Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman released the following statement on the D.C. Circuit ruling on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) data roaming rules:
12/04/2012
Press Release
Today Rep. Henry A. Waxman, Ranking Member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Senator Dianne Feinstein, and Senator Barbara Boxer, Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, sent letters to the leaders of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, urging them to reject a proposed legislative rider for a pilot program that would allow averaging of emissions over a...
12/03/2012
Press Release
Today Reps. Henry A. Waxman, Ed Markey, Bobby L. Rush, Diana DeGette, and Rush D. Holt, the leading Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the House Natural Resources Committee, sent a letter to Grand Isle Shipyard Owner Mark Tregeant to request a briefing regarding Grand Isle Shipyard’s involvement in the recent deadly explosion on a Black Elk Energy oil production...