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The House passed the Senate version of health care legislation by a vote of 219 to 212. The House passed both the Senate health care legislation and the reconciliation bill. The reconciliati…

Secretary Chu testified on the Energy Department’s fiscal year 2013 budget request. Questions focused on the high price of gasoline, the potential of tapping into the Strategic Petroleum Res…

Administrator Lisa Jackson testified on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) fiscal year 2013 budget request. She defended her agency’s study of the effects on hydraulic fracking, a n…

A vote on a Continuing Resolution to keep the federal government funded failed by a vote of 195 to 230.

Witnesses testified on the federal management of civilian nuclear waste and the Energy Department’s decision to end the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste respiratory program. Among the issues the…

Energy Secretary Steven Chu testified on his department’s 2012 budget request. Much of the hearing focused on several nuclear accidents at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power station in the afte…

Members of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) testified on the commission’s national broadband plan and net neutrality, a policy that requires Internet providers to allow content pr…

The House debated amendments to a fiscal year 2011 spending bill.

The House voted on legislation titled “Repealing The Job-Killing Health Care Law Act” that would repeal the 2010 health care reform law.

The House Rules Committee met to set guidelines for the January 12, 2011, floor debate to repeal the health care law enacted in March 2010. The legislation under consideration was titled “R…

The House approved a food safety bill that gives the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) increased authority over food produced in both the U.S. and abroad. It also gives immediate protection…

Government and energy industry officials testified about pipeline safety and improvements to safety regulations. The hearing was held in response to a recent pipeline explosion in San Bruno,…

Past and present Department of the Interior secretaries testified on the department’s role in BP’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. They also addressed past government regulation and oversig…

Oil company executives spoke about the safety and security of offshore drilling operations, as well as the causes of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the ability of the energy indu…

Executives from BP, Halliburton, Cameron, and Transocean testified on their roles in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Questions and testimony focused on equipment failures, regulatory oversight…

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Julius Genachowski and other FCC members testified an an oversight hearing of the commission. The focused on proposals to expand broadband acces…

Witnesses testified about the potential impact on the media marketplace of the proposed joint venture agreement between Comcast and NBC Universal. Among the issues they addressed were compet…