News from January 2020
By State Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Democrats have an opportunity to return to efforts to reform Medicare Part D to lower drug costs for seniors, say Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Ways and Means Committee Republican Leader Kevin Brady (R-TX). Productive discussions were abandoned by the Majority to pursue Speaker Pelosi’s partisan plan for fewer cures last year.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee hearing on “Legislation to Promote the Health and Safety of Racehorses:"
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - A 45-year-old Southwest Houston man has been convicted of sexual exploitation of a child aka production of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: In 2017, almost 50,000 Americans died from opioid overdoses. To put that number into perspective, the amount of American lives lost due to opioid overdoses is nearly three times the population of the city of Martinsburg. It is apparent that West Virginia has been particularly hard hit by opioids. In...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Glassport, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at a joint Energy and Environment and Climate Change hearing titled, “Out of Control: The Impact of Wildfires on our Power Sector and the Environment."
By Interior Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation announces a 60-day public comment period for the Shasta Community Services District draft repayment contract. This draft contract provides project water service and facilities repayment pursuant to the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act (WIIN Act).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Wintersville, Ohio, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of armed bank robbery, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: Had Previous State Drug Trafficking Conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: The emergency prohibition of fentanyl analogues expires on February 6. Without action by Congress, law enforcement will not have the tools needed to protect Missouri families from the onslaught of these extraordinarily dangerous substances.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: Dear Acting Secretary Wolf: We write today to inquire about your Department’s strategy to contain the spread of the emerging 2019 Novel Coronavirus (Coronavirus). On Jan. 21, 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed the first case of Coronavirus in the U.S. The CDC now...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Angel Christine Labauve, 40, of Picayune, Mississippi, pled guilty today before Senior U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Kurt Thielhorn with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: A Sioux City man was sentenced Jan. 23, 2020, to more than three years in federal prison.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement slamming Democrats for putting politics over progress on climate policy, rather than working with Republicans on bipartisan solutions for the environment and the economy...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced that Anthony Bueno, age 45, of Brighton, Colorado, was sentenced to serve 63 months in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release for conspiring with this girlfriend to launder over $1,000,000 taken from friends and family through...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Burlington County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 126 months in prison for impersonating a federal agent while selling counterfeit coins and unlawfully importing counterfeit coins and bars into the United States, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL) today released legislative text of the draft Climate Leadership and Environmental Action for our Nation’s (CLEAN) Future Act - an ambitious new climate plan to ensure the United States achieves net-zero greenhouse gas pollution no later than 2050.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement slamming Democrats for putting politics over progress on climate policy, rather than working with Republicans on bipartisan solutions for the environment and the economy...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL) today released legislative text of the draft Climate Leadership and Environmental Action for our Nation’s (CLEAN) Future Act - an ambitious new climate plan to ensure the United States achieves net-zero greenhouse gas pollution no later than 2050.
