Congressman Ed Markey

On July 31, Congressman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, along with several other majority members of committee, sent a letter to Kip Hawley, head of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), expressing discontent over the agency's...  

New government accountability report says undercover TSA investigators snuck weapons through security in tests, but then failed to follow up on how they got through.  

A program designed to find weapons in U.S. airport screening is a waste of money, a U.S. House of Representatives committee chairman says.The problem is a lack of follow up on why screeners fail to spot guns, knives and bombs on undercover agents, says Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., head of the...  

A government program to find gaps in airport screening is "a waste of money" because it doesn't follow up on why screeners failed to spot guns, knives and bombs on undercover agents, the head of the House Homeland Security Committee says.  

The National Association of Chain Drug Stores has begun lobbying House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders' staff in opposition to stricter track-and-trace rules in the wake of the recent salmonella outbreak, CongressDaily reports. Committee Chair John Dingell (D-Mich.  

The House Energy and Commerce Committee has initiated an inquiry into Internet network operators’ Web data collection practices.  

The House Energy and Commerce committee wants the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to turn over the results of an analysis about the potential links between cancer and cholesterol drug Vytorin, the Wall Street Journal reported.  

House Energy and Commerce Committee subpoenas Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, ATT, AOL, Comcast, Verizon, among others.