Upton Outlines Committee's Jobs-Focused Agenda in the First Nine Months of the 112th Congress

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U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today released a progress report on the panel's key activities in the first nine months of 2011. The third quarter report was provided to committee members and the House Republican leadership yesterday, exactly nine months after Speaker John Boehner gaveled the 112th Congress into session. The report outlines the committee's jobs-focused accomplishments with nearly 100 hearings and 24 bills that preserve American jobs, bolster the economy, and protect individual freedoms.

"We began this year with a clear recognition that jobs are job one. I'm pleased to report that in the last nine months, our team has risen to the challenge," said Upton. "Time and again, we advanced bills through this committee and the full House that will protect jobs needlessly put at risk and help to create new ones. We exercised rigorous oversight to root out waste, fraud, and abuse and ensure government is held accountable. And we have taken meaningful steps to restore fiscal discipline, proposing significant deficit reduction and working to reduce the size and scope of the federal bureaucracy."

The third quarter report includes summaries of the key issues being addressed by each of the Energy and Commerce Committee's six subcommittees.

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