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Washington, D.C. — House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Morgan Griffith (R-VA) sent a letter to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky on Tuesday, regarding the CDC’s decision not to collect data on breakthrough cases of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) among Americans unless the breakthrough cases result in hospitalization or death.

WHY IT MATTERS: Ensuring the CDC and other decision-makers have the best information to combat...

A gateway to the $4.3 trillion tax and spending spree

Washington, D.C. — House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) spoke on the House floor in opposition to H.R. 3684, the Senate Infrastructure Bill.

Excerpts and highlights from her prepared remarks:

LIFTING THE REGULATORY AND PERMITTING BURDENS

“I rise in opposition to this bill.

“We all agree on the need to modernize and invest in our nation’s hard infrastructure.

“In fact, Energy and Commerce Republicans have led on dozens of bills to close the digital divide, increase our energy...

Washington, D.C — Republican Leader of the Energy and Commerce Committee Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement after House Democrats passed H.R. 5305, Biden’s Inflation Boosting Blank Check.

“From the grocery store to the gas pump, out of control spending has already harshly raised the cost of living on American families. Now Democrats just voted to give President Joe Biden a blank check to fund their grand socialist agenda and print a reckless amount of money, which will worsen their inflation crisis and make the world less safe....

Washington, D.C. — Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) spoke today before the House Committee on Rules in opposition to H.R. 3755, the Abortion on Demand Until Birth Act.

Excerpts and highlights from her prepared remarks:

My hope is that we learn, that we open our hearts to the science, to the research, and technology and come to reject abortion because it is inhuman.

Stop the Abortion on Demand until Birth Act. pic.twitter.com/opNHN5afyg

— CathyMcMorrisRodgers (@cathymcmorris) September 20, 2021

“‘We hold these...