News from March 2019
By EPA Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening statement at a Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee hearing on “Inclusion in Tech: How Diversity Benefits All Americans:"
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: Justice Department Obtains $80,000 Settlement Against Subprime Auto Lender in Orange County, California, for Illegally Repossessing Servicemembers’ Cars.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement regarding the release of the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) 2019 High Risk Report, compiled at the start of each new Congress identifying areas in government vulnerable to fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: Orlando, FL - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton has sentenced Geo Geovanni (50, Moultrie, GA) to 37 months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit bank fraud and bank fraud. As part of his sentence, the court also entered a money judgment of $56,984.34, the proceeds of the fraud scheme. A federal jury found Geovanni guilty on Nov. 29, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - James Timothy Cobb, of Fairmont, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 110 months incarceration for a child pornography charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: FBI San Francisco Warns the Public of the Dangers of SIM Swapping.
By State Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- U.S. Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today convened a hearing on two nominations. The nominees are General John Abizaid to be Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, and Ambassador Matthew Tueller to be Ambassador to Iraq.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 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, March 13, at 10:30 am in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: New Haven - U.S. Attorney John H. Durham today announced that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut collected $49,188,380.37 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2018. Of this amount, $7,111,152.86 was collected in criminal actions and $42,077,227.51 was collected in civil actions.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today announced the Committee will hold a hearing on the nomination of Heath Tarbert to be Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
By EPA Newswire | Mar 6, 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, March 13, at 10:30 am in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: Good morning, and welcome to our witnesses and audience members. Thank you everyone for being here today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - An inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Loretto, Pa., was indicted by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on a charge of possession of a prohibited object in prison, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Democratic leaders of the House and Senate today unveiled the Save the Internet Act that will keep the internet open and free. The legislation will reverse the disastrous repeal by Trump’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in late 2017 of critical net neutrality protections.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening statement at a Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee hearing on “Inclusion in Tech: How Diversity Benefits All Americans:"
By DOE Newswire | Mar 6, 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, March 13, at 10:30 am in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: Vicksburg, MS: Restoration and preservation treatments to the Mississippi Monument within Vicksburg National Military Park will begin later this month, made possible in part to the monetary support from the State of Mississippi through the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 6, 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 on the on the Senate floor regarding the Democrats' “Green New Deal" resolution.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Health Subcommittee hearing on “Strengthening Our Health Care System: Legislation to Lower Consumer Costs and Expand Access:"
By EPA Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH), and Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement after Democrats introduced their net neutrality legislation...
