News from October 2020
By DOE Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered remarks at an Energy Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Generating Equity: Improving Clean Energy Access and Affordability."
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Salvatore Lippa II, 57, of Greece, NY, who was convicted of two counts of threatening a United States official, was sentenced to serve six months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today released the following statement regarding the congressional passage of the Extension of the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act, an extension of the Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act, also known as “CBTPA," and the status of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: UHP Traffic Stop in Iron County Leads to 86 Pounds of Methamphetamine, Firearm.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Environment and Climate Change Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL) released the following statement.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement tonight praising passage of the updated Heroes Act, which passed on the House Floor by a vote of 214 - 207...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Environment and Climate Change Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL) released the following statement.
By State Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today joined Senators Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), co-chairs of the Senate Taiwan Caucus, and 47 other Senate colleagues in sending a letter encouraging U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to begin the formal process of negotiating a comprehensive trade agreement with Taiwan.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 120,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to Egypt during the 2020/2021 marketing year.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) wrote to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Acting Secretary Chad Wolf today following alarming allegations of widespread...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) and Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) released the following joint statement today condemning House Republicans for blocking the long-awaited, previously bipartisan Alan Reinstein Ban Asbestos Now Act from being passed this week...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Wolf Point woman who admitted selling large quantities of the pain medication, oxycodone, on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation was sentenced today to 15 months in prison and two years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A naturalized U.S. citizen living in Lexington, his wife, and a company they established were charged today in a 24-count superseding indictment in connection with the theft of hundreds of files containing proprietary information from Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI), a worldwide semiconductor company headquartered in Norwood.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis has sentenced Arafat Aljubeh (55, Tampa) to 12 years and 7 months in federal prison for conspiring to launder the proceeds of a conspiracy to distribute AB-FUBINACA, a type of synthetic marijuana. The court also ordered Aljubeh to forfeit his interest in five parcels of real property in the Tampa Bay area, which are traceable to proceeds of the offense.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX) released the following statement after the House passed 16 bipartisan health bills from the Energy and Commerce Committee. Last week, the House passed ten bipartisan bills from the Health Subcommittee.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
Release: Joint Statement on Establishing a Strategic Vision for Energy Partnership among the Ministry of Energy of the State of Israel, the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure of the United Arab Emirates, and the Department of Energy of the United States of America
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $15 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the State of Washington, Olympia, Washington, to develop a technical assistance program and prepare a comprehensive plan to aid the reopening of the statewide economy in response to adverse economic impacts caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced that GREGG BRIE, a White Plains financial adviser, was arrested...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person was sentenced on Sept. 29, 2020, by U.S. District Judge Lawrence L. Piersol.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement tonight praising passage of the updated Heroes Act, which passed on the House Floor by a vote of 214 - 207...
