News from March 2020
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee advanced 14 bills during a committee business meeting Wednesday. The bills, amendments, and postal-naming bills were passed by voice vote unless otherwise noted.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) praises the confirmation of James Danly, to serve as a commissioner with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
By Interior Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: On March 23, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) will begin the process of preserving the pavement at the Oregon Inlet boat ramp parking lot as part of its pavement preservation project at Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore). During this phase of the project, the parking lot and public boat ramps will be closed for three-to-five days.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: Federal, state, and local authorities have arrested more than 20 individuals-over the past two days-charged in narcotics trafficking schemes with ties to the Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG). These arrests are a result of a Drug Enforcement Administration operation, Project Python, intent upon targeting CJNG.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) prepared remarks at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee markup of two bills on Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) Program and Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).
By USDA Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry, today released the following opening statement at the hearing titled “Agriculture Innovation and the Federal Biotechnology Regulatory Framework."
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that CRISTIAN FERNANDEZ was sentenced to 204 months in prison for conspiring to distribute heroin and possessing firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking between 2017 and 2018. Fernandez pled guilty on December 5, 2019, before U.S. District Court Judge Vincent L. Briccetti, who imposed today’s sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Marine veteran was indicted Wednesday on charges she committed fraud to obtain government contracts for a business in Overland Park that sold commercial flooring and furniture, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Following President Trump signing the bipartisan Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act (H.R. 4998 ) into law to help secure America’s telecommunications supply chain, Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Chairman Frank Pallone (D-NJ), Reps. Doris Matsui (D-CA), and Brett Guthrie (R-KY) released the following statement...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau will release Quarterly Services Survey (QSS) data for the fourth quarter of 2019 on March 12, 2020. As part of the release, the Census Bureau will more than double the number of industries that are seasonally adjusted in the QSS. This is important because seasonal patterns can mask underlying economic conditions. Seasonal adjustment produces data in which the values of neighboring quarters are usually easier to compare.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee markup of H.R. 6160, a bill to extend the authorization for the Chemical Facility Antiterrorism Standards (CFATS) program, and H.R. 5544, the American Innovation and Manufacturing Leadership Act...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: THOUSAND OAKS, Calif.-- The final result of a multi-year National Park Service and California State University Northridge (CSUN) research project that studied coyote diets show that these urban canines are not as discriminating in regard to their culinary tastes as their suburban counterparts, according to a new study.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: In an effort to increase accountability and transparency, last week, the Department of Labor (DOL) finalized a rule requiring additional financial reporting for labor union-controlled trusts funded by union worker dues. DOL’s final rule will allow workers and the public to see with greater detail how ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that CRISTIAN FERNANDEZ was sentenced to 204 months in prison for conspiring to distribute heroin and possessing firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking between 2017 and 2018. Fernandez pled guilty on December 5, 2019, before U.S. District Court Judge Vincent L. Briccetti, who imposed today’s sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: Miami, Florida -- U.S. District Judge Marcia G. Cooke sentenced six defendants, all from South Florida, to prison terms for their roles in an extensive drug trafficking operation located in Perrine, Florida. Their prison sentences are as follows.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today held a hearing titled, “Agriculture Innovation and the Federal Biotechnology Regulatory Framework."
By DOE Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) praises the confirmation of James Danly, to serve as a commissioner with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: Fort Lauderdale, Florida -- Today, the federal government charged Fabio Lopez, 61, of Weston, Florida, with enticing a 16-year-old girl into engaging in sexual activity and with attempting to produce child pornography by trying to convince the underage girl to pose for sexually suggestive pictures.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: John Shear, age 38 of Cleveland, pled guilty to two separate federal indictments charging him with possessing ammunition and/or firearms as a felon. Shear faces a maximum of 10 years in prison on each indictment, and is scheduled to be sentenced before Judge Donald C. Nugent on June 29, 2020, at 9:30am.
By State Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement in response to the administration’s announcement of a suspension of travel between the United States and Europe during the coronavirus pandemic:
