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Guthrie Leads Letter Criticizing President Biden’s Misguided Approach to Addressing Deadly Fentanyl

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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Brett Guthrie (KY-02), who serves as the Republican Leader of the Energy and Commerce Committee’s Health Subcommittee, led a letter with House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05) and 16 other Republican colleagues on the Energy and Commerce Committee to President Joe Biden. In the letter, Members share serious…

Guthrie Votes to Ban Russian Energy

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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Brett Guthrie (KY-02), who is a senior member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, released the following statement after voting for the Suspending Energy Imports from Russia Act, a bill to ban imports of oil and gas from Russia. “While this bill to end Russian energy imports is not perfect, the United States absolutely must not fuel Russia’s war machine…

Guthrie Introduces Bill to Help Get Treatments to Patients More Quickly

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Brett Guthrie, who is the Republican Leader of the Energy and Commerce Committee’s Health Subcommittee, introduced the Pre-approval Information Exchange Act, a bill to help patients gain access to treatments and medical devices more quickly. “We should be doing all we can to get treatments to patients as quickly and as safely as possible. That’s why I’m…

Guthrie Cosponsors Bills to Thwart Russia’s Energy Leverage

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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Brett Guthrie (KY-02), who is a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, has cosponsored several bills to strengthen America’s energy security, thwart Russia’s energy leverage, and prevent the United States from supporting Russia’s war machine against Ukraine through the importation of Russian energy. “Since day one of taking office,…

Guthrie Statement on Passing of Former State Senator Joe Bowen

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Brett Guthrie (KY-02) released the following statement after learning of the passing of former Kentucky State Senator Joe Bowen. “I was sad to learn today of the passing of my longtime friend, former State Senator Joe Bowen. We became fast friends while serving together in the Kentucky General Assembly, when he was in the Kentucky House of Representatives…

Guthrie’s Response to President Biden’s SOTU Address

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Brett Guthrie released the following statement after President Joe Biden delivered the State of the Union address. “Rising prices on everyday goods, growing drug overdose epidemic, worsening crisis at our Southern Border, and a challenging supply chain crisis are several of the reasons that Kentuckians I serve tell me they are unhappy with the direction…

Guthrie, E&C Republican Leaders Launch Probe into Attempts by NIH’s Fauci and Collins to Suppress Debate and Information on COVID-19’s Origins

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Morgan Griffith (R-VA) sent letters to National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Dr. Anthony Fauci and former National…

Guthrie Calls for Democrats to Work with Republicans on Combating Deadly Fentanyl Analogues

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Brett Guthrie (KY-02), who serves at the top Republican of the Energy and Commerce Committee’s Health Subcommittee, called for Democrats to work with Republicans on addressing illicit fentanyl-related substances, also known as fentanyl analogues, at a House Republican Leadership Stakeout press conference yesterday with House Republican Chairwoman Elise…

Guthrie Votes Against Democrats’ “America Concedes Act”

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Brett Guthrie (KY-02) released the following statement after voting against Democrats’ America COMPETES Act. “If Congressional Democrats were serious about increasing America’s global competitiveness against China, then they would have not written ‘coral reef’ and ‘climate change’ more times than ‘China’ in their America COMPETES Act, or better known as…

Guthrie Pushes to Keep Ban on Fentanyl-Related Substances

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Brett Guthrie (KY-02) spoke on the House floor yesterday in support of the HALT Fentanyl Act. Guthrie is an original cosponsor of the HALT Fentanyl Act, which would permanently extend the class-wide scheduling of illicit fentanyl-related substances, also known as fentanyl analogues, and provide a streamlined process for researching possible clinical uses…