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May 25, 2022
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Washington, D.C. (May 25, 2022) – Today, Rep. James E. Clyburn, Chairman of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, sent letters to the Chief Executive Officers of the three largest Nationwide Consumer Reporting Agencies (NCRAs)—Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion—requesting information on their decreased responsiveness to consumer complaints about credit reporting errors during the pandemic.
At Hearing, Experts and Affected Worker Highlight Need to Provide Crucial Benefits for Working Women
Washington, D.C. (May 17, 2022) – Today, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, chaired by Rep. James E. Clyburn, held a hearing with experts on women’s labor issues and an affected worker to address the disproportionate burdens that low-wage women in the workforce have shouldered during the pandemic and how the federal government could better support those workers to ensure a more equitable post-pandemic recovery.
May 17, 2022
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Washington, D.C. (May 17, 2022) – Below is Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Chairman James E. Clyburn’s opening statement, as delivered, for today’s hearing with experts and an impacted worker on “Underpaid, Overworked, and Underappreciated: How the Pandemic Economy Disproportionately Harmed Low-Wage Women Workers.”
May 17, 2022
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Washington, D.C. (May 17, 2022) – Today, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, chaired by Rep. James E. Clyburn, released a memorandum with new evidence of disproportionate harm women working for hourly wages faced during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic. The memorandum precedes today’s scheduled 11:45 a.m. ET hearing entitled “Underpaid, Overworked, and Underappreciated: How the Pandemic Economy Disproportionately Harmed Low-Wage Women Workers.”
May 16, 2022
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Washington, D.C. (May 16, 2022) – TOMORROW, May 17, 2022, at 11:45 a.m. ET, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, chaired by Rep. James E. Clyburn, will hold a hybrid hearing entitled “Underpaid, Overworked, and Underappreciated: How the Pandemic Economy Disproportionately Harmed Low-Wage Women Workers” to examine how gender inequities in the workforce have been exacerbated by the pandemic, particularly for low-wage, hourly workers, who are disproportionately women and women of color.
May 12, 2022
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Washington, D.C. (May 12, 2022) – Today, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, chaired by Rep. James E. Clyburn, released a new staff report detailing how meatpacking companies engaged Trump Administration political appointees in an aggressive campaign to force workers to remain in dangerous plants with high risk of coronavirus transmission. The report reveals how industry representatives successfully enlisted USDA’s assistance in weakening federal worker protections and insulating facilities from state and local health department regulations.
May 10, 2022
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Washington, D.C. (May 10, 2022)—Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. James E. Clyburn, Chairman of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, released a staff report on their joint investigation into coronavirus vaccine manufacturing failures of Emergent BioSolutions, Inc. (Emergent) under a contract awarded by the Trump Administration despite the company’s history of serious deficiencies.
May 9, 2022
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Washington, D.C. (May 9, 2022) – Today, Rep. James E. Clyburn, Chairman of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, issued the following statement after a staff briefing by Dr. Peter Marks, Director for the Center of Biologics Evaluation and Research at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), on the status of coronavirus vaccine candidates for young children that took place on the afternoon of May 6.
May 3, 2022
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Washington, D.C. (May 3, 2022) – Today, Rep. James E. Clyburn, Chairman of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, issued the following statement praising President Biden’s nomination of Carlos Felipe Uriarte to be Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs at the U.S. Department of Justice:
Apr 29, 2022
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Washington, D.C. (April 29, 2022) – Today, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, chaired by Rep. James E. Clyburn, held a hearing with Government Accountability Office (GAO) officials and scientific experts to discuss a new GAO report on scientific integrity at public health agencies, and the Select Subcommittee’s findings of extensive political interference by the Trump Administration in the nation’s coronavirus response. The hearing detailed the harm caused when political officials interfere with scientific work and how implementing the recommendations proposed in GAO’s report and other steps taken by the Biden Administration are helping to prevent the type of political interference the Select Subcommittee continues to unearth and document.