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ICYMI: Walden Talks Health Care Legacy with Roll Call

11.30.2020

Last week, Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) discussed his legacy on health care issues, advice...

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More Good News on Operation Warp Speed

11.16.2020

Thanks to scientists, public health officials, and the power of innovation combined with the extraordinary public-private partnership of Operation Warp Speed (OWS), we started this week with more promising news of a COVID-19 vaccine. According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), “The DSMB reported that the was safe and well-tolerated and noted a vaccine efficacy rate of 94.5%.” Last week, it was announced that Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine is over 90% effective.

This is great news and a testament...

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60 Minutes: Inside the Operation Warp Speed effort to get Americans a COVID-19 vaccine

11.09.2020

Operation Warp Speed (OWS) is harnessing the power of public and private partnerships to efficiently develop and manufacture vaccines,...

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E&C Republicans on The Commitment to Defeat the Virus and Keep America Healthy Act

11.02.2020

Washington, D.C. – Strengthening the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) and domestic health care supply chains, advancing telehealth...

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Walden on Spicer & Co: Social Media in Many Cases Have Facilitated a Cancer on Civility

10.28.2020

Washington, D.C. – Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) joined Spicer & Co. to discuss online censorship by big tech companies and the need to change Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a 25-year-old law that provides these giants tremendous liability protections.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai are testifying before the Senate Commerce Committee today and before the Senate Judiciary Committee in November. Despite numerous calls by E&C Republicans to hold these big tech companies accountable, E&C...

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Walden: Local broadcast media ownership should reflect diversity of U.S. communities

10.22.2020

Washington, DC – Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), a former radio station owner in rural Oregon, penned an op-ed for The Hill outlining the importance of promoting diversity and new voices into local broadcast media ownership and his bill, the Broadcast Diversity in Leadership Act, to create a broadcast incubator program to encourage continued diversity and growth of local broadcast media ownership.

You can read the full piece in The Hill here and catch a few highlights below.

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Local broadcast media ownership should reflect...

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WSJ: The Captain of Operation Warp Speed

10.13.2020

Operation Warp Speed chief advisor, Dr. Moncef Slaoui, spoke with The Wall Street Journal about COVID-19 vaccine candidates, clinical...

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Helping Seniors Afford Their Insulin

10.06.2020

Washington, D.C. - More than 26 million of America’s seniors could potentially benefit from the Trump administration’s recent...

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