Democrats:
Brad Miller (North Carolina),
Chair
Kathy A. Dahlkemper (Pennsylvania)
Steven R. Rothman (New Jersey)
Lincoln Davis (Tennessee)
Charles A. Wilson (Ohio)
Alan Grayson (Florida)
Bart Gordon (Tennessee),
ex officio
Republicans:
Paul Broun (Georgia),
Ranking Member
Brian P. Bilbray (California)
Vacancy
Ralph M. Hall (Texas),
ex officio
Subcommittee Investigates CDC's Environmental Health Policies and PracticesChairman Brad Miller |
On May 20, the Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee examined the policies and procedures used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Environmental Health Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (NCEH/ATSDR). NCEH/ATSDR serves as the CDC’s expert in performing environmental health risk assessments. At this hearing, Subcommittee Members questioned CDC officials for relying upon flawed science and incomplete data to make critical public health decisions, such as the DC lead-in-the-water crisis and public health investigations of toxic exposure on the island of Vieques in Puerto Rico. As part of its examination of the DC lead-in-the-water crisis, the Subcommittee released a staff report, A Public Heath Tragedy: How Flawed CDC Data and Faulty Assumptions Endangered Children’s Health in the Nation’s Capitol, which detailed CDC’s response to the crisis. In addition, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry: Policies and Procedures for Preparing Public Health Products Should Be Strengthened , which found the policies and procedures used to prepare and release its public health documents at ATSDR to lack the “critical controls to provide reasonable assurance of product quality.”
Read more about the Subcommittee’s work on ATSDR >>
General and special investigative authority on all matters within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Science and Technology.
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Letters From:
(May 23, 2007) Department of Energy Officials Respond to Chairmen's Request Regarding SREL
(March 30, 2007) PCIE Releases Investigative Report on NASA Inspector General to Committee
Letters From the Committee:
(March 18, 2010) Miller letter to EPA regarding assessing the areas of contamination at Camp LeJeune
(March 9, 2010) Miller letter to Bradley Mallory of Michael Baker Corporation regarding risk assessment and cleanup of contamination at Camp LeJeune
(June 24, 2009) Legislative Reports - 111th Congress
(September 20, 2007) Watching Over Spending Is Our Job [Miller, Lampson]
(July 2, 2007) Oversight of the NASA Inspector General
(April 27, 2010) [GAO] ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITES: Strategy Needed to Sustain Critical Climate and Space Weather Measurements
(June 25, 2009) [NAS] Evaluating Testing, Costs, and Benefits of Advanced Spectroscopic Portals for Screening Cargo at Ports of Entry