Combating Zika
On March 2, my colleagues and I on the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations convened a hearing examining the public health crisis involving the Zika virus, which has affected Africa and Asia for decades but last year reached the Americas. This virus is spread primarily through the bite of an infected Aedes aegypti mosquito. These… Read more »
Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) issued the following statement after U.S. District Court Judge Rosemary M. Collyer ruled in the case of United States House of Representatives v. Burwell that the Obama Administration is improperly funding a portion of Obamacare without a separate Congressional appropriation:
“This court and I believe the Obama Administration unlawfully bypassed… Read more »
EPA: “Okay to kill thousands of eagles”
According to a recent Associated Press (AP) story picked up by the Roanoke Times, “The Obama administration is revising a federal rule that allows wind-energy companies to operate high-speed turbines for up to 30 years, even if it means killing or injuring thousands of federally protected bald and golden eagles.”
The story continues, “Under the… Read more »
Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) and Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA) today introduced the Curb Opioid Misuse by Advancing Technology (COMBAT) Act (H.R. 5127), which would encourage drug manufacturers to engage in studies demonstrating abuse-deterrent effectiveness and to increase diversity in abuse-deterrent technology, technologies that make opioids harder to abuse. The bill… Read more »
Griffith said, “...While I am encouraged by the bipartisan bills that today passed the Health Subcommittee and am pleased by my colleagues’ support of my amendment, we must diligently continue our important work on combating this growing epidemic.” Read more »
Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) today joined 26 bipartisan Senators and Representatives in sending a letter to President Obama urging him to remove barriers to research on medical marijuana and facilitate new medical research on cannabis and its derivatives.
Griffith said, “While I do not support marijuana for recreational use, countless reports tell of marijuana’s medicinal benefits… Read more »
Bureaucratic Accountability
When will Washington bureaucrats who do wrong be held accountable? We all know of the investigation into Lois Lerner, the former Director of the Internal Revenue Services’ (IRS) Exempt Organizations Division who was at the center of the IRS targeting scandal where she appeared to have been involved in targeting political groups for ideological reasons,… Read more »
Making Our Voices Heard
I often hear in the district that we get outvoted by those living in Northern Virginia. While the Fifth, Sixth, and Ninth Districts comprising Western and Southside Virginia cover more land, these districts have approximately the same number of people as Northern Virginia’s Eighth, Tenth, and Eleventh Districts. However, the Eighth, Tenth, and Eleventh… Read more »
Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) today joined Congressmen Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), Congressman John Kline (R-MN), Collin Peterson (D-MN), Steve Chabot (R-OH), and Robert Hurt (R-VA) in introducing the Safe Harbor for Reporting Violent Behavior Act (H.R. 4532), legislation to provide a “safe harbor” for reports to potential employers by current or former employers of an employee’s violent… Read more »
Fighting for Coal Regions
Whether you live in a coal-producing community, in a part of the district more directly reliant upon rail or manufacturing jobs, etc., recent years in Southwest Virginia and throughout Appalachia have been difficult. Unfortunately, life above ground is impacted when work stops underground as the result of the war on coal, the low cost of competitive fuel,… Read more »
