Speaking for Republicans on the subcommittee, Representative Craig Miner, co-chairman of the guns subcommittee, said: "We believe it's not the gun that kills the person.
He joined the ranking Republican on the subcommittee, Representative Fred Upton of Michigan, to introduce a bill to authorize $163 million over five years to assure new production.
The chairman of the House immigration subcommittee, Representative George W. Gekas, Republican of Pennsylvania, and his Senate counterpart, Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, support an extension.
The chairman of the panel's investigative subcommittee, Representative James C. Greenwood, Republican of Pennsylvania, said on Sunday that Ms. Stewart would probably be subpoenaed.
Mr. Magliocchetti got his start on the staff of the late chairman of the House defense appropriations subcommittee, Representative John P. Murtha, Democrat of Pennsylvania, before becoming one of the most powerful lobbyists in Washington.
At a hearing of a house subcommittee, Representative Edward J. Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts, asked BP America's chairman, Lamar McKay, if the company had a financial interest in maintaining the impression of a smaller leak.
"Other private individuals reading your Facebook status updates is different than the Department of Homeland Security reading them, analyzing them and possibly disseminating and collecting them for future purposes," said the chairman of the subcommittee, Representative Patrick Meehan of Pennsylvania.
The head of the subcommittee, Representative Jim Jordan, a Republican from Ohio, called for the hearing after the agency disclosed that the first postcrash battery fire occurred in June — five months before the agency opened a formal investigation.
The chairman of the House Ways and Means trade subcommittee, Representative Sander Levin of Michigan, said after the report was issued that he felt some countries were manipulators and had caused imbalances.
Another member of the subcommittee, Representative Rob Portman, Republican of Ohio, said: "It finally drives a stake in the heart of the temporary tax that was imposed for the Spanish-American War.
The chairman of the subcommittee, Representative Bart Stupak, Democrat of Michigan, said Americans had "dodged a bullet" because no one died from using Chinese toothpaste containing diethylene glycol, a poison used in antifreeze.
