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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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
By Memorial Day, the White House would like the House Energy and Commerce Committee to approve a sweeping energy plan that caps total carbon emissions, sets up a program to sell permits for future emissions, then cycles billions of dollars to renewable and other low-carbon energy sources.
"As soon as one or more of these major corporate figures is indicted and convicted for the thievery that occurred at the expense of the American investor, I think confidence will gradually come back, " said U.S. Rep. Billy Tauzin, R-Louisiana, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
The vice chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Burr is also a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
House Republicans on the Energy and Commerce Committee have questioned Google and Apple on consumer privacy issues.
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.
She was first elected to Congress in 2000 and is the first Hispanic woman to serve on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
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.
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