House Committee Chairs Request Extension of Public Comment Periods During Coronavirus National Emergency

Fourteen House Committee Chairs sent a letter to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Acting Director Russell Vought requesting an immediate extension of public comment periods, hearings and meetings due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The House Committee leaders asked that OMB direct agencies to extend public comment periods by at least 45 days beyond the end of the declared national emergency.

The letter was signed by Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Oversight and Reform Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), Science, Space, and Technology Chairwoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX), Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Natural Resources Chairman Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ), Homeland Security Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Financial Services Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), Education and Labor Chairman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (D-VA), Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Small Business Chairwoman Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY), Veterans Affairs Chairman Mark Takano (D-CA) and Armed Services Chairman Adam Smith (D-WA).