The 1994 grant is being reviewed by the House Commerce Committee and the Commerce Department.
Hollings is less enamored of the four remaining Baby Bell telephone companies (BellSouth, Qwest, SBC and Verizon) than are McCain or House Commerce Committee Chairman Billy Tauzin, R-La.
Meanwhile, House Commerce Committee chairman Thomas Bliley said Wednesday he has asked five top tobacco executives to testify before his committee Jan. 29 about the proposed tobacco legislation.
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The House Commerce Committee has been investigating reports that counterfeit ingredients may have injured or killed U.S. patients and questioning what officials have been doing to stop it.
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Prosecuting makers and traffickers of fake ingredients often is difficult because evidence is located overseas, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Patricia Maher said in testimony provided to a House Commerce Committee panel.
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Earlier in his career he served in the general counsel's Office of the SEC and as counsel to the House Commerce Committee, where he worked on legislation involving the financial services industry.
They sent a letter to House Commerce Committee Chairman Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), who is in charge of drafting the legislation that will set the "date certain" when broadcasters have to stop sending analog transmissions.
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Bliley chairs the House Commerce Committee.
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House Commerce Committee Chairman Tom Bliley (R-Va.), after consulting with the ranking Democrat on the committee, Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), served subpoenas to Geoffrey Bible of Philip Morris, Steven Goldstone of RJR Nabisco, Nicholas Brookes of Brown and Williamson, Laurence Tisch of the Loews Corp.
Until now, seven conservative "Blue Dog" Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee had prevented the House bill from moving forward.
The pharmaceutical industry itself nearly got double-crossed during the health debate when it looked like Rep. Henry Waxman, then chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, would ignore the deal cut with the White House by adding a reimportation provision to the legislation anyway.
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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"This is a gross and deliberate misrepresentation of the fact, " said Dingell, the ranking Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
In 2005, Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, called for a hearing on the BCS before a subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Data brokers questioned by the House Energy and Commerce Committee this summer said their clients include Chase Bank, Wells Fargo, and Progressive Insurance.
Rep. Upton, now Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, has since offered to hold a new hearing to consider removing the ban.
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An ALA billboard ad in Michigan targeted House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton, featuring a child with an oxygen mask over her face.
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The House Energy and Commerce Committee is advancing the president's cap-and-trade carbon initiative with a series of hearings and legislative sessions that have already begun.
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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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.
Stewart's attorneys have provided e-mail, telephone and other records to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which Tauzin chairs, but she has refused to meet with it to answer questions.
As for his own role, Frank says his committee did not have oversight of Wall Street until 2006 when the responsibility was shifted over from the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
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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.
The current chairman of the House Energy and Commerce committee, Barton joined the race just this week, arguing that he combines Pence's conservative fervor and Boehner's pragmatic experience and can get the job done.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee sent letters today to 34 iPhone app developers including Apple, Path, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Foursquare and Instagram asking how their social apps collect user information.
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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.
As I testified last February before a subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, this view was confirmed by my own experience in negotiating an agreement with the Japanese concerning Japan's participation in the Strategic Defense Initiative.
The emails that follow are from the negotiations that began in December 2010 and are either exhibits in the IRS objection or come from the 300, 000 pages of documents the House Energy and Commerce Committee uncovered in its investigation.
Administration officials point to a report by the Democratic staff of the House Energy and Commerce Committee last week that determined that in Oregon and Washington the competition is lowering premium rates even before income-based tax credits are taken into account.
Republican lawmakers have held hearings on the issue, and six GOP members of the House Energy and Commerce committee wrote last week to more than a dozen insurers asking them to turn over internal analyses on the law's impact on premiums and costs.
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