News from April 2020
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 29, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) released the following statement...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. (Apr. 29 2020)-Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued this statement following a report that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is planning to deactivate the National Response Coordination Center...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2020
News Release: Kemmerer, WY - Gathering shed antlers is a popular and lucrative activity, as antlers are used for a wide variety of purposes. Monument staff would like to remind shed hunters that all objects, including deer, elk, and moose antlers within Fossil Butte National Monument are protected by law and may not...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - The Attorney General has directed U.S. Attorney’s Offices across the country to investigate reports of housing-related sexual harassment resulting from the current COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2020
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - On April 28, 2020, United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) agents arrested Wilfredo Fontanez-Reyes for assaulting a federal employee working in the United States Postal Service (USPS) in Comerio, announced United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, W. Stephen Muldrow.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 29, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated Prowers County, Colorado, as a primary natural disaster area. Producers who suffered losses due to a recent drought be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 29, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Brett Guthrie (R-KY) released the following statement on a report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) detailing recommendations to the federal government for better determining the magnitude and reducing the impact of antibiotic resistance...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2020
News Release: MACON, Ga. - A Valdosta, Georgia resident is facing a maximum 20 years in prison for possessing methamphetamine with the intention to sell the deadly drug, announced Charlie Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. Joseph Fairley, 47, of Valdosta, entered a guilty plea to one count...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2020
News Release: Michael H. Schneider Named Special Agent in Charge of the Denver Field Office.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 29, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - As ongoing press reports indicate the Trump Administration is considering exploiting the federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic to make permanent deregulatory measures, today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, asked ...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 29, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Brett Guthrie (R-KY) released the following statement on a report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) detailing recommendations to the federal government for better determining the magnitude and reducing the impact of antibiotic resistance...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2020
News Release: A criminal complaint was filed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Feng Chen with theft of mail, including credit cards, multiple checks and nine Economic Impact Payments (“EIP") from the United States Treasury Department, otherwise known as “stimulus payments." Chen was arrested yesterday and will make his initial appearance via videoconference this afternoon before United States Chief Magistrate Judge Cheryl L. Pollak.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 29, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson of Minnesota and Ranking Member K. Michael Conaway of Texas, issued a statement Wednesday commemorating the 200th anniversary of the establishment of the House Committee on Agriculture.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2020
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn has announced that the District of Colorado, in conjunction with the Department of Justice, will take legal action against anyone trying to capitalize on the current COVID-19 crisis by sexually harassing those in need of housing or struggling financially...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 29, 2020
News Release: Washington - As part of its efforts to enforce the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) and ensure fair trading practices within the U.S. produce industry, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative complaint against Hunter Bros. Inc. The company, operating from Pennsylvania, allegedly failed to make payment promptly to 26 produce sellers in the amount of $1,260,161 from May 2017 through September 2019.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) released the following statement...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 29, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) released the following statement...
By State Newswire | Apr 29, 2020
News Release: Dear President Bukele: As you know, we are longtime supporters of a strong U.S. - El Salvador relationship and believe much can be gained from our continued partnership. As the world confronts COVID-19, it is essential that leaders protect public health while also upholding human rights and respecting...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 29, 2020
News Release: America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2020 and the Drinking Water Infrastructure Act will build on bipartisan success of America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2020
News Release: St. Louis - Nicholas J. Proffitt, 42, of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, was charged by a federal complaint with maliciously damaging a building by means of a fire. Proffitt will appear in court on April 30, 2020, for his initial appearance in front of U.S. Magistrate Judge Abbie Crites-Leoni.
