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04/16/2013
Markup
The Subcommittee on Energy and Power held a markup on Tuesday, April 16, at 2:00 p.m. in 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. The Subcommittee considered H.R. 3, the "Northern Route Approval Act."
04/16/2013
Press Release
Today Reps. Henry A. Waxman, Sander M. Levin, George Miller, Jim McDermott, and Robert E. Andrews introduced the Medicare Drug Savings Act. The legislation reduces Medicare Part D drug costs to taxpayers by requiring drug manufacturers to provide rebates for drugs dispensed to low-income individuals under the Medicare prescription drug benefit program. The nonpartisan Congressional...
04/15/2013
Press Release
Today the Democratic Staff of the Energy and Commerce Committee released a supplemental memo in advance of Tuesday’s Oversight and Investigations hearing titled, “A Continuing Investigation into the Fungal Meningitis Outbreak and Whether It Could Have Been Prevented.” In preparation for this hearing, the Committee received over 27,000 pages of documents from the FDA dating...
04/12/2013
Hearing
The Subcommittee on Energy and Power held a hearing on Friday, April 12, 2013, at 9:30 a.m. in 2123 Rayburn House Office Building on a discussion draft of H.R. ___, the "Energy Consumers Relief Act of 2013."
04/11/2013
Hearing
The Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy held a hearing on Thursday, April 11, 2013, at 10:30 a.m. in 2123 Rayburn House Office Building on a discussion draft of H.R. ___, the "Coal Ash Recycling and Oversight Act of 2013."
04/11/2013
Hearing
The Subcommittee on Health held a hearing on Thursday, April 11, 2013, at 10:00 a.m. in 2322 Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing was titled, “Strengthening Medicare for Seniors: Understanding the Challenges of Traditional Medicare’s Benefit Design.”
04/11/2013
Press Release
Today Reps. Henry A. Waxman, Diana DeGette, John D. Dingell, and Edward J. Markey sent a letter to Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy urging him to invite the head of the International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists (IACP) to testify at the Committee’s April 16 hearing on the recent meningitis outbreak.
04/10/2013
Hearing
The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade hearing postponed from Wednesday, March 6, 2013, took place on Wednesday, April 10, 2013, at 10:15 a.m. in 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing was titled, “Our Nation of Builders: Powering U.S. Automobile Manufacturing Forward.”