News from July 2019
By EPA Newswire | Jul 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released a joint statement today following full Committee passage of H.R. 3630, the No Surprises Act...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 17, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) announced today that the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee will hold a hearing on legislation to reduce vehicle-related deaths and injuries on Wednesday, July 24, at 10:30 am in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing will be entitled, “Legislation to Make Cars in America Safer."
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, released the following statement after the House of Representatives voted to hold Attorney General William Barr and Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt of Congress...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 17, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) announced today that the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, July 24, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building on shifting the U.S. economy away from carbon pollution. The hearing is entitled, “Building America’s Clean Future: Pathways to Decarbonize the Economy."
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on July 16, 2019, United States District Judge Malachy E. Mannion sentenced Mark Tullock, age 37, of New Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to 70 months’ imprisonment and a two-year term of supervised release, for orchestrating the unlawful purchase of several firearms.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) held the hearing, “Electric Battery Production and Waste: Opportunities and Challenges." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 17, 2019
News Release: EASTHAM, Mass. - Summer is in full swing, and Cape Cod National Seashore is again hosting free evening events at the Salt Pond Visitor Center in August. Join music ensembles, performing artists, scientists, and historians to learn about the seashore’s resources and fascinating stories. Programs are held...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement on the passage of bills to combat illegal robocalls, protect consumers, improve energy systems and delivery, strengthen America’s public health programs, and shield Americans from surprise medical bills through the Energy and Commerce Committee.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement on the passage of bills to combat illegal robocalls, protect consumers, improve energy systems and delivery, strengthen America’s public health programs, and shield Americans from surprise medical bills through the Energy and Commerce Committee.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 17, 2019
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 at a hearing titled “Electric Battery Production and Waste: Opportunities and Challenges."
By EPA Newswire | Jul 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement on the passage of six consumer safety bills through the Energy and Commerce Committee.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released a joint statement today following full Committee passage of H.R. 3630, the No Surprises Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday has sentenced Antonio Morrow (42, St. Petersburg) to eight years and five months in federal prison, for possessing with the intent to distribute cocaine, cocaine base, and hydromorphone, and for possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Morrow had pleaded guilty on May 1, 2019.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 17, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) announced today that the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee will hold a hearing on legislation to reduce vehicle-related deaths and injuries on Wednesday, July 24, at 10:30 am in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing will be entitled, “Legislation to Make Cars in America Safer."
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 17, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR) released a joint statement today following full Committee passage of H.R. 3630, the No Surprises Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Gerald Pambianco, age 30, of Plains Township, was sentenced on July 16, 2019, by United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion to 161 months’ imprisonment for his role in an armed robbery of a bank in Luzerne County.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2019
News Release: DAYTON - One year ago, the Justice Department announced the formation of Operation Synthetic Opioid Surge (S.O.S.), a program designed to reduce the supply of deadly synthetic opioids in high impact areas as well as identifying wholesale distribution networks and international and domestic suppliers.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 17, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) announced today that the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, July 24, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building on shifting the U.S. economy away from carbon pollution. The hearing is entitled, “Building America’s Clean Future: Pathways to Decarbonize the Economy."
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement on the passage of six consumer safety bills through the Energy and Commerce Committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A New England Compounding Center (NECC) employee was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with working as an unlicensed pharmacy technician at the compounding pharmacy in Framingham.
