WASHINGTON, May 11 -- The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations issued the following statement by Shell President Gretchen H. Watkins involving a hybrid hearing on April 6, 2022, entitled "Gouged at the Gas Station: Big Oil and America's Pain at the Pump": * * * Thank you for the opportunity to be here today to discuss Shell's response to the invasion of Ukraine, the global energy disruption caused by the invasion, and our efforts to address rising energy costs  more

WASHINGTON, May 11 -- The House Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee on Environment issued the following testimony by Sherry Hunt, supervisory civil engineer for the Hydraulic Engineering Research Unit of the Agricultural Research Service in the Agriculture Department, involving a video conference hearing on March 2, 2022, entitled "Time Change: From Gray to Green - Advancing the Science of Nature-Based Infrastructure": * * * I am Dr. Sherry Hunt, Supervisory Civil Engineer of the U.S. D  more

WASHINGTON, May 11 -- Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Delaware, issued the following news release: Over 130 industry leaders authored a letter to House & Senate leadership praising the supply chain provisions in the America COMPETES Act of 2022. The America COMPETES Act of 2022 includes proposals authored by Representatives Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), Tom Malinowski (D-N.J.), Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), Susan Wild (D-Pa.), Carolyn Bourdeaux (D-Ga.), Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.), and Robin Kelly (D-Ill  more

WASHINGTON, May 11 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release on May 10, 2022: On National Fentanyl Awareness Day, U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. announced support for the HALT Fentanyl Act. The legislation would permanently give law enforcement the tools to help combat the fentanyl crisis currently wreaking havoc in Kansas. The legislation permanently places fentanyl-related substances as a class into Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. A Schedule I control  more

WASHINGTON, May 11 -- Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, issued the following news release on May 10, 2022: U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, Finance Committee Member John Thune (R-South Dakota) and Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry John Boozman (R-Arkansas) led a group of Republicans in a letter urging U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to prioritiz  more