Key Quotes from Today’s Hearing on Investing in Federal R&D to Spur American Job Growth and Innovation
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation held a Science and Space Subcommittee hearing today on investing in federal R&D.
Chairman Rockefeller Remarks on Investing in Federal R&D
WASHINGTON, D.C. — America’s expertise in science, technology and innovation has made us a leader in the global economy. But our role as a global leader is being challenged, and we need to be smart about how to maintain our competitive edge.
Key Quotes from Today’s Hearing on the State of Online Consumer Privacy
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation held a full committee hearing today on the state of online consumer privacy.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT – Hutchison Op-Ed on Bus Safety Legislation
The Hill — Bus-safety legislation needed now in wake of recent crash fatalities By Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) Beginning on Jan. 1, 1968, a revolutionary new safety device designed to protect passengers in high-speed collisions was required in every automobile sold in America. The device was a seatbelt. But the groundbreaking law requiring seatbelts […]
Chairman Rockefeller Remarks on the State of Consumer Online Privacy
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Welcome to all of our witnesses. Today’s hearing is the first in a series of hearings this Committee will hold on consumer privacy in the 112th Congress.
Hutchison Pushes NASA Leadership on Implementation of Law
WASHINGTON, D.C. – At a hearing on the implementation of the recently passed NASA Reauthorization Act of 2010, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas), Ranking Member on the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, pushed NASA leadership on its efforts to implement the Authorization Law passed last year. “While there are still major concerns about NASA’s […]
Key Quotes from Today’s Hearing on Realizing NASA’s Potential: Programmatic Challenges in the 21st Century
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation held a full committee hearing today titled Realizing NASA’s Potential: Programmatic Challenges in the 21st Century.
Chairman Rockefeller Remarks on Realizing NASA’s Potential: Programmatic Challenges in the 21st Century
WASHINGTON, D.C.—I would like to welcome all of our witnesses here this afternoon to discuss NASA’s progress and challenges in implementing the NASA Authorization Act of 2010. No conversation on implementation, however, would be complete without also discussing the destructive impact that sporadic funding is having on NASA’s mission and priorities.
Rockefeller Urges Insurance Commissioners to Preserve the Strong Consumer Protections in the Health Care Reform Law
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Senator John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, sent a letter today to the President of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) urging state insurance regulators to oppose giving health insurance agents and brokers a special exemption from an important pro-consumer provision of the health care reform law. The letter provides a detailed analysis of why exempting agent and broker commissions from the law’s “minimum medical loss ratio” requirements could cost individuals and businesses more than a billion dollars in lost rebates and premiums reductions. The National Association of Health Underwriters (NAHU) and Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty are lobbying NAIC members to endorse this special agent and broker exemption at the NAIC’s upcoming meeting in Austin, Texas.
Rockefeller Disappointed By Breakdown of NFL Negotiations
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Chairman John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV released the following statement after the National Football League’s Players Association filed to decertify: