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Witnesses testified on the the potential impact of repealing the Conservation Act of 1975 in light of increased domestic energy production in the U.S. during the Obama administration. The ac…

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official Michael Landa testified at a hearing on the regulation of genetically modified food ingredients. In the second panel, advocates and opponents of g…

Dr. Tom Frieden and other public health officials testified on the federal response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. Dr. Frieden urged lawmakers to approve President Obama’s emergency f…

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Tom Frieden and other federal health officials testified on government agency efforts to combat Ebola. They addressed issues such as…

Three members of Congress talked about telecommunications issues and technology legislation, including net neutrality, spectrum auctions, kill switches on cell phones, and Internet and phone…

Representatives from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) testified on the implementation of the Affordable Care Act within their respective a…

Witnesses testified on federal subsidies to insurance providers under the Affordable Care Act. The subsidies, also referred to as “risk corridors,” limit health care providers' losses and ga…

The House convened for a legislative session.

The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health held a hearing on ways to expedite the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) drug development and approval process. Dr. Janet Woodcock, th…

Janet McCabe testified on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed carbon emissions regulations for existing power plants. The regulations would cut carbon pollution through a st…

Mary Barra and Anton Valukas testified on General Motor' internal report on why the automaker waited so long to issue a recall on a defective ignition switch found in certain vehicles. Mr. V…

General Motors CEO Mary Barra and David Friedman, acting administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, testified at a hearing on the automaker’s ignition switch recall…

The House debated a rule governing two bills: H.R. 3189, the Water Rights Protection Act; and H.R. 4015, the SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act. The House also voted …

Officials from the Food and Drug Administration and the Government Accountability Office testified on the findings of an report on the FDA’s efforts to address drug shortages. Douglas Throck…

Gary Cohen, a senior Obama administration official involved with implementing the Affordable Care Act, testified on the problems related to the implementation of the Healthcare.gov Web site.…

Members heard from expert witnesses about legislative efforts to fix the sustainable growth rate (SGR), a formula used to determine Medicare payments to doctors.