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Fallon, McClain to Hold Joint Hearing to Examine Damaging Effects of ESG Practices on American Businesses and Retirees

WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs Chairman Pat Fallon (R-Texas) and Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services Chairwoman Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) today announced a joint hearing titled “ESG Part II: The Cascading Impacts of ESG Compliance” to examine how environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives impact businesses, ...
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CDC Director Rochelle Walensky Agrees to Testify Before Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic

WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) received confirmation today that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has finally agreed to allow Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky to publicly testify on June 13, 2023. Chairman Wenstrup first requested Director Walensky’s testimony on April 5, 2023, and formally invited her to testify on May 22, 2023. As a leading public health official ...
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Grothman, National Security Subcommittee Members Investigate Human Trafficking Risks as Biden Administration Moves to End DNA Testing at the Border

WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs Chairman Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) and members of the subcommittee are launching an investigation after reports indicated that the Biden Administration will end familial DNA testing used by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to confirm claimed family unit relationships. In a letter to Acting Commissioner of CBP, the lawmakers are calling on CBP to provide documents, communications, and a staff level briefing ...
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Hearing Wrap Up: Silicon Valley Bank Collapse is a ‘Case of Failed Supervision’

WASHINGTON—Today, the House Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services Chairwoman Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) held a hearing titled “A Failure of Supervision: Bank Failures and the San Francisco Federal Reserve.” At the hearing, members asked questions about the San Francisco Federal Reserve’s failed supervision and misplaced priorities that enabled the ...
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Comer & Foxx: Biden Administration Hijacking the Court System to Enact a Radical Student Loan Cancellation Agenda

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) today are raising concerns about the Biden administration’s ongoing efforts to hijack the court system to enact a radical student loan cancellation agenda. In a letter to Secretary Cardona, Chairs Comer and Foxx request documents and information about how the Biden administration is using the federal courts to ...
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Fallon: Biden Administration Looking to Regulate Gas Stoves Out of Existence

WASHINGTON — Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs Subcommittee Chairman Pat Fallon (R-Texas) opened today’s subcommittee hearing on “Consumer Choice on the Backburner: Examining the Biden Administration’s Regulatory Assault on Americans’ Gas Stoves ” by outlining how the Department of Energy’s ...
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Wenstrup Reveals NIH “Bio-Safety Concern” at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Requests Further Explanation

WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) is calling on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to explain its letter to the University of California, Irvine (Irvine) in which the NIH suspended all subgrant funds previously allocated to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) under claims that the WIV “has been conducting research at its facilities in China that pose serious bio-safety concerns.” The May 2020 letter is another ...
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McClain: SF Fed Failed to Oversee Silicon Valley Bank Despite Clear Warning Signs

WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services Chairwoman Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) today opened a hearing titled “A Failure of Supervision: Bank Failures and the San Francisco Federal Reserve” by emphasizing that the San Francisco Federal Reserve failed to provide regulatory supervision and ignored obvious warning signs of a bank run at the ...
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Hearing Wrap Up: Department of Energy’s Proposed Rule Regulates Gas Stoves Out of Existence, Further Strangles U.S. Consumer Choice

WASHINGTON—The Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs held a hearing titled, “Consumer Choice on the Backburner: Examining the Biden Administration’s Regulatory Assault on Americans’ Gas Stoves.” Subcommittee members discussed with witnesses how the Department of Energy’s (DOE) proposed ...
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Comer & Grassley Blast FBI for Refusing to Provide Subpoenaed Record Alleging Then-VP Biden Engaged in a Bribery Scheme

Comer threatens to initiate contempt of Congress proceedings if Director Wray continues to defy subpoena WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today are blasting FBI Director Christopher Wray for defying a congressional subpoena for an unclassified record alleging a criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Joe Biden and a foreign national. The document, an FBI-generated FD-1023 ...