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Senator Investigates Health Insurers’ Out-of-Network Rate Practices
- Senator John D. Rockefeller IV, the West Virginia Democrat who is chairman of the committee on commerce, is holding hearings on whether health insurers have systematically short-changed patients when they use doctors outside of their health plan’s network. As a result of understating the fees charged by out-of-network doctors, the companies are accused of underpaying consumers by hundreds of...
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Hearing Announcement- Part II: Deceptive Health Insurance Industry Practices
- WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation announces the second installment of two full committee hearings on Deceptive Health Insurance Industry Practices – Are Consumers Getting What They Paid For? These hearings focus on the way that the healthcare industry calculates “usual and customary” reimbursement rates for consumers who choos...
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Deceptive Health Insurance Industry Practices – Are Consumers Getting What They Paid For?
- WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation announces two full committee hearings on “Deceptive Health Insurance Industry Practices – Are Consumers Getting What They Paid For?”
The Committee will be holding two back-to-back hearings examining how the health insurance industry reimburses consumers for health care services. These heari...
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Rockefeller Statement on NOAA And OSTP Nominees Confirmed
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator John D (Jay) Rockefeller IV (D-WV), Chairman of the U.S. Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, issued the following statement regarding the U.S. Senate’s vote tonight to confirm Dr. Jane Lubchenco, nominated to be Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere at the U.S. Department of Commerce - also known as the Administrator of the National...
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Rockefeller Statement on Governor Gary Locke to be The Next U.S Secretary of Commerce
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator John D (Jay) Rockefeller IV (D-WV), Chairman of the U.S. Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, issued the following statement regarding the Commerce Committee vote to unanimously confirm Governor Gary Locke for the job of U.S. Commerce Secretary.
“I am pleased to see Governor Gary Locke’s confirmation move forward to be our nation’...
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Hearing on the Nomination of Governor Gary Locke to be U.S. Secretary of Commerce
- WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation will hold a full committee hearing Wednesday, March 18, 2009 on the nomination of Governor Gary Locke to be the nation’s 36th Secretary of Commerce .
*Witness List
The Honorable Patty Murray, United States Senator, Washington
The Honorable Maria Cantwell, United States Senator, Washington
Panel I...
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Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Rockefeller and Ranking Member Hutchison Announce New Subcommittee Members
- WASHINGTON, D.C. – John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation and Ranking Member Kay Bailey Hutchison announced today the new Commerce Subcommittee Members for the 111th Congress:
AVIATION OPERATIONS, SAFETY, AND SECURITY
Byron Dorgan, ND, Chair Jim DeMint, SC, Ranking Member
Daniel Inouye, HI ...
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Rockefeller Launches NASA Investigation-- Demands Answers For Taxpayers
- WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, sent a letter to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) requesting documents related to a Florida company that allegedly used NASA research grant money to buy expensive cars and real estate.
Rockefeller issued the attached lett...
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