News from July 2020

By USDA Newswire | Jul 1, 2020
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Commodity Credit Corporation today announced interest rates for July 2020, which are effective July 1-July 31, 2020.

By Commerce Newswire | Jul 1, 2020
News Release: “Thank you, Madame Speaker. “We’re in the middle of an unprecedented national pandemic. Americans are worried about their health and their jobs. “Yet here we go again in the Democratic House: Another partisan bill with no input from Republicans, but lots of input from campaign operatives and special...

By DOE Newswire | Jul 1, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) today released the second pillar of the Second Wave Preparedness Project with recommendations officials should consider in order to better prepare to produce and distribute a vaccine and new therapies for COVID-19.

By Commerce Newswire | Jul 1, 2020
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement on the new NAFTA agreement entering into force today...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 1, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after H.R. 2, the Moving Forward Act, passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 233-188...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man was sentenced today for tax evasion and failing to file tax returns, thereby defrauding the IRS of $400,000.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 1, 2020
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 regarding the enforcement of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) taking effect today.

By EPA Newswire | Jul 1, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) announced that the Full Committee will hold a fully remote hearing on Wednesday, July 8, at 11 a.m. (EDT) on the growing health, environmental and accessibility needs of tribal communities across the country. The hearing is entitled, “Addressing the Urgent Needs of Our Tribal Communities."
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 1, 2020
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 committee business meeting.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2020
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Tuesday, June 30, 2020, Levi Calhoun, III, a 28-year-old man from Georgetown, Georgia, pleaded guilty to making threats against schools and conveying false information, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. and FBI Special Agent in Charge James Jewell.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 1, 2020
News Release: - Group Quarters Enumeration is the U.S. Census Bureau's special set of operations for counting people who live or stay in the estimated 250,000 group quarters facilities, such as correctional facilities for adults, college/university student housing, nursing/skilled nursing facilities, group homes...

By Commerce Newswire | Jul 1, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) today released the second pillar of the Second Wave Preparedness Project with recommendations officials should consider in order to better prepare to produce and distribute a vaccine and new therapies for COVID-19.