News from November 2020
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 23, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA - As the December 31 cutoff date for a number of COVID-related unemployment supports approaches, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) today emphasized the importance of Congress extending the assistance beyond the end of the year.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 23, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH), and Republican subcommittee members continued their efforts to expand access to broadband services for American communities by penning...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 23, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Chair Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) wrote to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai today urging him to assist companies as they prepare and plan to replace suspect network equipment, including companies...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 23, 2020
News Release: FILLMORE, Utah - On Nov. 29, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Fillmore Field Office will begin gather operations on the Confusion Herd Management Area (HMA) in western Utah. The gather is expected to last approximately 14 days.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 23, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement after President-elect Biden appointed former Secretary of State John Kerry to serve as a Special Presidential Envoy for Climate and to serve as part of the National Security Council (NSC).
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 23, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR) wrote to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai today urging him to assist companies as they prepare and plan to replace suspect network equipment, including companies eligible for...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 23, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, issued the following statement regarding President-elect Joe Biden’s appointment of former Secretary of State John Kerry to serve as the first Special Presidential Envoy for Climate.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 23, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Chair Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) wrote to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai today urging him to assist companies as they prepare and plan to replace suspect network equipment, including companies...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 23, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR) wrote to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai today urging him to assist companies as they prepare and plan to replace suspect network equipment, including companies eligible for...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 23, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today demanded that Administrator Emily Murphy of the General Services Administration immediately ascertain President-elect Joe Biden’s victory and begin the formal transition process.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 23, 2020
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on news President-elect Biden plans to nominate Alejandro Mayorkas to be Homeland Security Secretary...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 23, 2020
News Release: GLENNALLEN, Alaska -The Bureau of Land Management will publish a Notice of Intent in the Federal Register tomorrow to prepare an Environmental Assessment to amend the East Alaska Resource Management Plan (RMP) of 2007. The amendment will provide economically viable land through an exchange with Chugach...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2020
News Release: Kansas Man Indicted with Hate Crime for Racially-Motivated Threat of a Minor and for Unlawfully Possessing a Firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Two Mississippi women pleaded guilty today to their involvement in distributing wholesale quantities of synthetic cannabinoids-commonly known as “spice" or “K2"-and laundering millions of dollars in proceeds of the sale of that spice.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 23, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 334,000 metric tons of corn for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2020/2021 marketing year.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 23, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM) Defense-Related Uranium Mines (DRUM) Program is joining a multiagency planning team to address uranium contamination on the Navajo Nation. The new 10-Year Plan is scheduled for completion by the end of 2020, and it identifies the next steps in addressing health and environmental risks associated with the legacy of uranium mining and milling on the Navajo Nation.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 23, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Chair Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) wrote to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai today urging him to assist companies as they prepare and plan to replace suspect network equipment, including companies...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 23, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH), and Republican subcommittee members continued their efforts to expand access to broadband services for American communities by penning...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Medford man was indicted by a federal grand jury on a charge of being a felon in possession of ammunition.
By State Newswire | Nov 23, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representatives Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and William R. Keating, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, Energy, and the Environment, today released the following statement on the Trump Administration’s withdrawal of the United States from the Open Skies Treaty...
