News from January 2017
By EPA Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today upon news that President Donald Trump signed an executive order that cleared the way for the government to reconsider the Keystone XL pipeline...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, hosted a panel discussion on the nomination of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to serve as Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Below is Senator Carper's opening statement, as prepared for delivery...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TIMOTHY W. BURKE, also known as “Bill Burke," “William Burke," “Kerry Saunders," “Pat Riley," “Jim Caldwell," “Jim Saunders," “Tom Morrisey," “Jimmy," “Phil Burke," “Phil," “Burt," “James Burke," and “M. Soler," 65...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), released the following statement on President Trump's executive order advancing the Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) welcomed four new Democratic Members to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee and announced the new subcommittee structure for the 115th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Barry R. Bekkedam, 49, of Hobe Sound, FL, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge C. Darnell Jones, II, to 11 months in prison and was ordered to pay a $100,000 fine for his role in a fraud conspiracy to obtain $13.5 million in public funds for NOVA Bank. On April 27, 2016, Bekkedam...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today upon news that President Donald Trump signed an executive order that cleared the way for the government to reconsider the Keystone XL pipeline...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) today issued the following statement after House passage of H.R. 7, the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2017.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, had this to say following the introduction of the Trickett Wendler Right to Try Act of 2017 on Tuesday...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned two separate indictments charging Richard Leon Wilbern, 56, of Rochester, NY, with several felony crimes. In a two-count indictment, Wilbern is charged with the Aug. 12, 2003, armed robbery...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), announced a hearing for Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Medicaid Oversight: Existing Problems and Ways to Strengthen the Program."
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Congressman Paul Tonko (D-NY), Congressman Dan Kildee (D-MI), and Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (D-MI) issued the following statement today in response to the Trump Administration’s directive to temporarily freeze all grant funding issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA):
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill issued the following statement after a report released today by the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General indicated that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is planning to continue using a computer program before resolving a number of outstanding performance problems that allowed 175 individuals to receive U.S. citizenship without going through the proper background checks...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Two men convicted for illegally possessing firearms, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor regarding the need for change at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Barrasso's speech focused on the need for the Senate to confirm Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, President Trump's nominee for administrator of the EPA.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Subcommittee on Energy Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and Subcommittee on Environment Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL), today issued the following statement after President Trump signed executive actions regarding the Keystone and Dakota Access pipelines.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats plan to offer several dozen amendments today to the Committee’s 115th Congress Rules Package and to the Authorization and Oversight Plan during the Committee’s official organizational meeting at 1 p.m. in Rayburn 2167.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: All House Judiciary Democrats, led by Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), today renewed their request to have House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) hold hearings to examine the federal conflicts-of-interest and ethics laws that may apply to President Donald Trump.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement in reaction to President Trump’s actions related to the Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) today issued the following statement after House passage of H.R. 7, the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2017.
