News from November 2019
By DOE Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the Committee voted to favorably report two bills to the House of Representatives that will improve quality and access to maternal health care...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX) released the following statement on bipartisan bills to improve maternal health that advanced during the full committee markup.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced the unsealing of five Indictments charging 30 defendants with committing various narcotics and firearms offenses in Manhattan and the Bronx.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement after the PFAS Action Act (H.R. 535 ) was favorably reported, as amended, to the full House of Representatives by a vote of 31-19...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: Two Cleveland men were each sentenced this week to more than 33 years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for multiple armed robberies of MetroPCS stores in the Cleveland area.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks today at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Building a 100 Percent Clean Economy: The Challenges Facing Frontline Communities." This is the sixth hearing in the Committee’s climate change series aimed at developing comprehensive legislation to achieve a 100 percent clean economy by 2050...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Mallory Nooks, 31, of Fitchburg, pleaded guilty in federal court to possession and distribution of cocaine, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man was indicted today on a charge of distributing and possessing images of child sexual abuse, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement after the PFAS Action Act (H.R. 535 ) was favorably reported, as amended, to the full House of Representatives by a vote of 31-19...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: Cape Hatteras National Seashore has reopened Frisco and Cape Point Campgrounds following the recent coastal storm. The Ocracoke Campground remains closed post-Hurricane Dorian.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - The principal and co-founder of a North Andover mortgage short sale assistance company pleaded guilty today in connection with defrauding mortgage lenders and investors out of nearly $500,000 in proceeds from about 90 short sale transactions.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement after the Full Committee voted favorably to advance eight communications bills to the full House of Representatives...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee was sentenced today for embezzling over $20,000 in payments from customers.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: DAYTON - Ethan Kollie, 24, of Kettering, a friend of the Dayton mass shooter Connor Betts, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to illegally possessing firearms and lying on federal firearms form 4473.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Ron Wyden (D-OR), Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), and Chris Coons (D-DE) questioned the data security practices of Ring, the home security company, after media reports suggesting its lack of regard for customers’ privacy and U.S national security.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX) released the following statement on bipartisan bills to improve maternal health that advanced during the full committee markup.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the Committee voted to favorably report two bills to the House of Representatives that will improve quality and access to maternal health care...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge G. Kendall Sharp today sentenced Benjamin Green Robinson (32, Daytona Beach) to nine years and two months in federal prison for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute more than 500 grams of cocaine. A federal jury found Robinson guilty on August 9, 2019.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement on passage of bipartisan bills to reauthorize Brand USA and the SAFE WEB Act during today’s full committee markup.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, joined U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) today to introduce new legislation to help states create pollinator-friendly habitats along roads and highways. This legislation would help address the steep decline of pollinator populations, which poses a serious threat to Delaware farmers and the American food supply.
