News from March 2020

By EPA Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -E&C GOP Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) along with House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA), and House Republican Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) held a press conference to provide updates on coronavirus.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Reynaldo Millan, of Morgantown, West Virginia, was indicted today on firearms charges, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.

By Commerce Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement following news that there have been several deaths linked to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) among seniors, and that the virus has spread within a nursing facility in Washington state. Four residents at the Kirkland, Washington nursing facility have died and four other residents and one employee have been diagnosed with COVID-19.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Energy Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Building a 100 Percent Clean Economy: Advanced Nuclear Technology and Its Role in a Decarbonized Future:"

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: Attorney General William P. Barr, FBI Director Christopher A. Wray, and Chief Postal Inspector Gary R. Barksdale today announced the largest coordinated sweep of elder fraud cases in history. This year, prosecutors charged more than 400 defendants, far surpassing the 260 defendants charged in cases as...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) encouraging it to adopt the most stringent testing methods to detect carcinogenic asbestos in consumer talc-based products.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks on his appreciation for a substance use disorder hearing but expresses disappointment in the “check the box" nature of the hearing titled, “Combating an Epidemic: Legislation to Help Patients with Substance Use Disorders."

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: DAYTON - Marek K. Grigsby, 35, was sentenced this morning in U.S. District Court to 330 months in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for producing child pornography and producing obscene images of the sexual abuse of children.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - A Commerce man pleaded guilty Monday in federal court to distribution of methamphetamine, possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, and possession of cocaine with intent to distribute.

By DOE Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement after President Trump announced last night that he intends to nominate Dr. Nancy Beck as Chair of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC):

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives National Center for Explosives Training and Research, in partnership with the U.S. Army Headquarters, Department of the Army G-38 - Explosive Ordnance Disposal, announces the 2020 Raven's Challenge Interoperability Exercise, a national ...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Energy Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Building a 100 Percent Clean Economy: Advanced Nuclear Technology and Its Role in a Decarbonized Future:"
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Stephen C. Crawford, a former inmate at U.S. Penitentiary Hazelton, was indicted today on charges of manslaughter and assault regarding the death of another inmate, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Kelly D. Brady, Special Agent in Charge, ATF Boston Field Division, today announced that DANIEL SCOTT, 31, of Norwich, has been charged in a federal criminal complaint with making threatening communications.

By EPA Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement after President Trump announced last night that he intends to nominate Dr. Nancy Beck as Chair of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC):
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Health Subcommittee hearing on ““Combatting an Epidemic: Legislation to Help Patients with Substance Use Disorders:"
By DOE Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -E&C GOP Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) along with House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA), and House Republican Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) held a press conference to provide updates on coronavirus.

By EPA Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered the following opening remarks at a Subcommittee on Energy hearing titled, “Building a 100 Percent Clean Economy: Advanced Nuclear Technology’s Role in a Decarbonized Future."

By DOE Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks on his appreciation for a substance use disorder hearing but expresses disappointment in the “check the box" nature of the hearing titled, “Combating an Epidemic: Legislation to Help Patients with Substance Use Disorders."

By EPA Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Health Subcommittee hearing on ““Combatting an Epidemic: Legislation to Help Patients with Substance Use Disorders:"