News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS, MO - United States District Judge Audrey G. Fleissig sentenced Juan LaSalle Chase to more than nine years in federal prison. The 49 year old, a resident of St. Louis, previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute cocaine and marijuana and possession with intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, House Democrats introduced the Protecting Our Democracy Act - a landmark reforms package that will prevent future presidential abuses, restore our system of checks and balances, strengthen accountability and transparency, and protect our elections.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor today in support of H.R. 4447, the Clean Economy Jobs and Innovation Act...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Science, Space, and Technology Committee Republican Leader Frank Lucas (R-OK) and Natural Resources Committee Republican Leader Rob Bishop (R-UT) released the following statement on H.R. 4447, the Clean Economy and Jobs Innovation Act.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) spoke on the House Floor today to share his opposition to the Clean Economy Jobs and Innovation Act, H.R. 4447.
By State Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Representatives Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Michael T. McCaul, Ranking Member of committee, today released the following statement on Alexander Lukashenko’s attempt to solidify his grip on power by holding an abrupt, illegitimate inauguration...
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 23, 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 hearing titled “Modernizing the Endangered Species Act: Legislative Hearing on S. 4589, Endangered Species Act Amendments Act of 2020."
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: Washington - U.S. Senators Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, released a report that revealed millions of dollars in questionable financial transactions between Hunter Biden and his associates and foreign individuals, including the wife of the former mayor of Moscow and individuals with ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: International Falls, MN - Voyageurs National Park staff will be conducting hazard marker and regulatory buoy removal within the park during the month of October. The tentative start date for this season’s buoy removal is Oct. 1, although weather and other variables play a critical role in determining specific dates for this work.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - The Bureau of Reclamation has selected Nick Williams to serve as the new manager for the Power Office in Interior Region 7 - Upper Colorado Basin, headquartered in Salt Lake City. Williams will oversee the operation and maintenance of hydropower facilities in four states.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: DAYTON - A husband and wife and their Findlay Market vendor, Busch’s Country Corner, Inc., were all sentenced in U.S. District Court today for food stamp fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Following a two-day trial, a federal jury in Albuquerque returned a guilty verdict on Sept. 22 against Quentin Veneno, Jr., 34, of Dulce, New Mexico, an enrolled member of the Jicarilla Apache Nation, on two counts of Domestic Assault by a Habitual Offender and one count of Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury. United States District Judge Kea W. Riggs presided.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) draft proposal amending Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr.'s (D-NJ) remarks as prepared for delivery for today's Health Subcommittee hearing titled, "Health Care Lifeline: The Affordable Care Act and the COVID-19 Pandemic," are enclosed below...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) released the following joint statement after the House of Representatives passed four communications and technology bills this week...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr.'s (D-NJ) remarks as prepared for delivery for today's Health Subcommittee hearing titled, "Health Care Lifeline: The Affordable Care Act and the COVID-19 Pandemic," are enclosed below...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: A former Illinois elementary school principal who embezzled over $100,000 from his own school has.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH) released the following statement following the House passage of four bipartisan communications and technology bills.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today took to the Senate floor to speak on the bipartisan House continuing resolution (CR) that passed yesterday.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) sent letters to National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis...
