Today Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman and Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Ed Markey released a new report that provides an updated analysis of the anti-environment record of the House of Representatives in the 112th Congress. In 2011 and in the first half of 2012, the Republican-controlled House voted 247 times to dismantle environmental and public health protections.
The GOP's instance upon coal ash legislation will harm prospects for transportation bill.
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Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Ranking Member Anna G. Eshoo sent a letter to Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden regarding a letter sent on April 26, 2012 requesting a hearing on spectrum transactions.
The full text of the letter is below and also available online here.
The April 26, 2012 letter is available online here.
Today Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman, Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Edward J. Markey, and Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Howard L. Berman praised Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for her work on calling international attention to addressing short-lived climate pollutants and urged her to focus on the issue at the G20 Summit in Mexico and to make progress at the Montreal Protocol’s Meeting of the Parties in November.
Today Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman released the following statement on President Obama’s Executive Order on the expansion of broadband:
Today, Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings and Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman sent a letter to Wal-Mart CEO Michael Duke regarding the company’s failure to provide Congress with information relating to the Wal-Mart bribery allegations.
Today Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Diana DeGette released a memo regarding information received from organizations that advocated for the passage of health care reform. The Ranking Members also released the following statement commenting on the Republican investigation of the landmark Affordable Care Act, which ends the worst abuses of the insurance industry, strengthens Medicare, and provides coverage for over 30 million Americans that would otherwise be uninsured:
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 Chairman Ed Whitfield requesting a hearing on new information on the potential role of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) to control carbon pollution and to provide for the clean use of coal in the future.