President Recognizes Commerce Committee Whistleblower Hearing in Joint Address to Congress
WASHINGTON, D.C.—In President Obama’s Joint Address to Congress this week, he spoke of the need for health care reform, citing a former insurance executive who testified to the tactics used by insurance companies to cut off consumers and increase profits. This reference was to Wendell Potter, a former insurance executive from CIGNA, who testified before […]
Rockefeller’s Statement for 9/11 Remembrance
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, submitted the following statement into the Congressional Record as America observes the eighth anniversary of 9/11: Eight years since one of the most devastating attacks in our nation’s history, we still feel the pain […]
Governors Declare Support for Hutchison Bill to Jam Illegal Prison Cell Phones
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Twenty of the nation’s governors released a letter declaring support for bipartisan legislation sponsored by Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas), Ranking Member on the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, to allow prisons to block calls from contraband cellular phones. The twenty governors urged Congress to swiftly pass Senator Hutchison’s legislation, the […]
Chairman Rockefeller Statement on Senate Passage of the Travel Promotion Act
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Senator John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, made the following statement today regarding the Senate’s passage (79-19) of the Travel Promotion Act: “The Travel Promotion Act is important economic development legislation and I am extremely pleased to see it pass the Senate. The […]
Hutchison: America on the Verge of Losing Advantage in Space
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas), Ranking Republican on the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, today voiced her strong concerns that the United States was on the verge of losing its advantage in space after the initial summary of the Human Space Flight Review panel was released. “For the past forty years, […]
Chairman Rockefeller Statement on the Child Safe Viewing Act Report
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Senator John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, made the following statement regarding the FCC’s report on the Child Safe Viewing Act released today: “Television is a powerful force. It can educate and entertain, but it also can expose children to troubling content, like […]
Commerce Republicans Press DOT on “Cash for Clunkers” Payments to Car Dealers
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Republican members of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, led by Ranking Member Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas), today voiced strong concerns to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on delays in payment to car dealers as part of the Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS) program. Joining Senator Hutchison were Senators Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), […]
Rockefeller Continues Pressing Health Insurance Industry for Answers
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 top 15 health insurance companies requesting information on what insurance companies do with the money they get from consumers as premium payments and whether this data is shared with policy holders […]
Chairman Rockefeller Statement on NTSB Investigation of NY Midair Collision
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV (D-WV) released the following statement today on the National Transportation Safety Board’s (NTSB) investigation of the midair collision of an air tour helicopter and a small plane over the Hudson River on Saturday, August 8, 2009: […]
Hutchison Op-Ed: Cell Phones in Prisons Mean Business as Usual for Convicted Criminals
Cell Phones in Prisons Mean Business as Usual for Convicted Criminals U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison Our nation faces a growing threat from crime syndicates and other dangerous felons that operate inside the very facilities meant to keep them and their illicit activities off our streets and out of our communities. Imprisoned convicts coordinate murders, […]