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Sep 9, 2014
Floor Action
The House considered H.R. 4290 on September 9, 2014, and passed the legislation, as amended, by voice vote.
Sep 9, 2014
Floor Action
The House considered H.R. 4701 on September 9, 2014, and passed the legislation, as amended, by voice vote.
Sep 9, 2014
Hearing
The Subcommittee on Health held a hearing on Tuesday, September 9, 2014, at 9:30 a.m. in 2322 Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing was titled “21st Century Cures: Examining the Regulation of Laboratory Developed Tests.”
Sep 4, 2014
Press Release
Today Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman, Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr., and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Diana DeGette sent a letter to Chairmen Fred Upton, Joe Pitts, and Tim Murphy requesting a hearing on the rapidly growing Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The letter was sent in the wake of an urgent warning by...
Aug 27, 2014
Press Release
Today Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman sent a letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy raising questions about EPA’s decision not to use the safety factor ordinarily required by the Food Quality Protection Act in its human health risk assessment for herbicide 2,4-D. The tenfold safety factor was established in the law to protect infants and children from potentially dangerous exposure...
Aug 13, 2014
Press Release
Today, a bipartisan group of 12 lawmakers from the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives highlighted a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report entitled, “Medicare Program Integrity: Increased Oversight and Guidance Could Improve Effectiveness and Efficiency of Postpayment Claims Reviews.” The report, which was undertaken following a bipartisan and bicameral...
Aug 8, 2014
Bill
H.R. 3548, introduced by Rep. Bill Johnson (R-OH), amends the definition of the term “trauma” for the purposes of trauma care grants authorized in title XII of the Public Health Service Act to include burns or injuries resulting from extrinsic agents (such as chemical or radioactive exposure) in addition to those caused by mechanical force.
The bill passed the House on June 24, 2014....
Aug 8, 2014
Bill
H.R. 4631, introduced by Reps. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Michael Doyle (D-PA) on May 9, 2014, reauthorizes the Combating Autism Reauthorization Act to continue autism and other developmental disability research and surveillance activities; education, early detection and intervention programs; and the activities of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC). The bill also requires the...
Aug 8, 2014
Press Release
U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal and Dick Durbin, U.S. Representative Henry A. Waxman and 20 other Members of Congress today sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration and the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) expressing concern about FDA calculations regarding the proposed “deeming rule,” which would extend the FDA’s regulatory authority to electronic...
Aug 8, 2014
Press Release
Today Ranking Members Henry A. Waxman, Frank Pallone, Jr., and Diana DeGette called on the FDA to use its enforcement authority to take immediate action to protect children from the harms of tobacco. Once FDA finalizes its proposed regulation to assert jurisdiction over various types of tobacco products, like e-cigarettes and cigars, the agency could do this by bringing enforcement...
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