Press Releases

Chairman Neal Demands Answers About HHS’s Change to COVID-19 Data Reporting Process

Jul 27, 2020 Press Release
The abrupt change moves data away from the CDC to a private contractor

Neal and Wyden Raise Concerns Over Treasury & IRS’s Incomplete and Insufficient Disbursement of Economic Impact Payments

Jul 27, 2020 Press Release
Only five percent of callers could reach IRS staff on the EIP help line, and the IRS’s designated mailbox for congressional offices has answered just 62 percent of incoming emails, leaving more than 13,000 emails unread

New Ways and Means Report Finds Nursing Homes Abuse Antipsychotics at Alarmingly High Rates While Trump Administration Conducts Little to No Oversight

Jul 27, 2020 Press Release
Committee Democrats released “Under-Enforced and Over-Prescribed: The Antipsychotic Drug Epidemic Ravaging America’s Nursing Homes” today

Chairman Neal Statement on the 30th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act

Jul 26, 2020 Press Release

Chairman Neal Statement on the Trump Administration’s Drug Pricing Executive Orders

Jul 24, 2020 Press Release

Working Moms Urge Congress to Act Swiftly to Address the Growing Child Care Crisis

Jul 24, 2020 Press Release
During a discussion with Chairman Neal, mothers from across the nation emphasized the vital need for federal investment in safe, affordable, quality child care

Neal Statement on Reports that Republicans May Attempt to Pass the TRUST Act with COVID Response Legislation

Jul 23, 2020 Press Release
The bill would cut Social Security and Medicare in the middle of a pandemic and recession

Blumenauer Opening Statement at Trade Subcommittee Hearing on Trade, Manufacturing, and Critical Supply Chains: Lessons from COVID-19

Jul 23, 2020 Press Release

Neal, Blumenauer, Along with Ways and Means Democrats and USMCA Working Group Members, Urge Scalia, Lighthizer to Implement USMCA-Labor Provisions as Congress Intended

Jul 23, 2020 Press Release

Chairman Neal Reiterates Urgent Need to Extend Full $600 Emergency Unemployment Compensation

Jul 22, 2020 Press Release
Slams GOP calls for a payroll tax cut and proposed adjustments to the benefit amount that would further overwhelm state unemployment offices and delay the administration of payments

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