The vice chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Burr is also a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
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.
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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However, Chinese journalists who hoped to cover the launching of Endeavor were denied entry to the site by a ban initiated by Frank Wolf, chairman of the Committee of Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies in the House of Representatives.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
After holding hearings on U.S. licensed sales to Iraq in September 1990, the House Government Operations Committee sought from the Commerce Department's Bureau of Export Administration, managed by then-Under Secretary of Commerce Dennis Kloske, a list of all U.S. dual-use exports licensed for sale to Iraq between 1985 and 1990.
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In 2005, Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, called for a hearing on the BCS before a subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
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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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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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.
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.
"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.
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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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.
That could complicate an ongoing investigation by the House of Representatives' Committee on Energy and Commerce.
"This is a gross and deliberate misrepresentation of the fact, " said Dingell, the ranking Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
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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