That could complicate an ongoing investigation by the House of Representatives' Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Dingell and Bart Stupak, of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, have been investigating several clinical trials of Vytorin and its sister drug Zetia.
She was first elected to Congress in 2000 and is the first Hispanic woman to serve on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
The vice chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Burr is also a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Already, following coverage by Forbes and other media organizations, the Committee on Energy and Commerce was investigating the companies for not analyzing the results sooner.
The BP testimony to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on May 25 says it all, but perhaps that material needs to be explained.
The bill now sits in the House Committee on Energy and Commerce where it was referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology last year.
One of these proposals was the topic of a House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing today, where I testified on behalf of the companies who innovate.
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As a new telecommunications bill was being hammered out in the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, the debate picked up when Democratic Congressman Ed Markey proposed an amendment.
Committees from both houses of Congress are investigating the delay, and the companies gave a similar version of the same timeline to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Thursday.
Henry Waxman ( CA) and Bobby Rush (IL) wrote a letter to Chair of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Fred Upton (R-MI) calling for hearings on an asserted link between Hurricane Sandy and global warming.
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Forbes.com had previously reported that the study, Enhance, had been delayed for eighteen months, raising expectations among some cardiologists of a negative result. (See "The Vytorin Question") The House Committee on Energy and Commerce has started an investigation into the delay.
In their letter to the Republican chairs of the Committee on Energy and Commerce (Fred Upton) and the Subcommittee on Energy and Power (Ed Whitfield), the two Dems want the committees to request documents from Koch Industries that would answer this question.
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So on Wednesday, executives from six of the biggest U.S. telcos appeared before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce to argue that no less than the future of American innovation, economic health and public safety depend on their mergers going through.
These problems will directly affect the ability of researchers to fight bioterrorism, and they were outlined clearly by Gail Cassell , a noted microbiologist and vice president of scientific affairs for Eli Lilly (nyse: LLY - news - people ), when she testified before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce last July.
House Republicans on the Energy and Commerce Committee have questioned Google and Apple on consumer privacy issues.
Democrats outnumber Republicans 36-23 on the Energy and Commerce committee, which contains eight Blue Dogs, including Ross.
Despite increasing criticism from Republicans and a recent poll that shows public dissatisfaction with his handling of the issue, "we are closer than ever before to the reform that the American people need, " Obama said, before going into a health care meeting with House Democrats on the Energy and Commerce Committee.
Until now, seven conservative "Blue Dog" Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee had prevented the House bill from moving forward.
"This is a gross and deliberate misrepresentation of the fact, " said Dingell, the ranking Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Just last month, Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee charged that Martin "manipulated, withheld or suppressed data, reports and information" related to 2007 conference on video competition.
In the House, two of three committees have signed off on a health care bill, but some Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee have raised objections that money in the bill would fund abortions.
Dingell, ranking Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, blasted Bush for ignoring Federal Trade Commission data accumulated in the last days of the Clinton administration that indicated some oil companies "held oil off the market to benefit themselves, " ostensibly causing prices hikes.
Last week the Energy and Commerce Committee held a hearing titled: Health Information Technologies: Administration Perspectives on Innovation and Regulation ( video here).
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Agency officials began working with House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman on a draft bill codifying network management rules.
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The House Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations is investigating what went wrong at the company and why it was able to continue to function despite a history of problems.
In my breakout room, Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus and his colleague, ranking Republican member Senator Chuck Grassley, flanked one end of the table while House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman and his Republican counterpart Ranking Member Joe Barton were on the other.
Upton is the incoming chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, which began hearings on the issue yesterday.
Sharp of Indiana had significant subcommittee gavels on the Energy and Commerce (now Commerce) Committee.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee just scheduled hearings for next month on one of the most controversial components of ObamaCare the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB).
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