News from January 2021
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) today issued the following statement after announcing the Republican subcommittee leaders and subcommittee rosters for the 117th Congress.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (MI) released the following statement praising President Biden’s decision to reverse the Muslim travel ban put into place by former President Trump’s Administration...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Providence, R.I. man was indicted by a federal grand jury today on a firearms trafficking charge.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON- U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), incoming Chair of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry, today issued the following statement after the Commission unanimously elected Rostin Behnam to serve as acting Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: Man Convicted of Multiple Obscenity Crimes Involving Children.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Dvonte Amir King, 23, of Vicksburg, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Tom S. Lee to 12 months in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for making false statements to a licensed firearms dealer and putting false information on an official form, announced Acting United States Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Kurt Thielhorn, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is announcing a two-stage enforcement of the APHIS Core message set to allow trade to adjust to the data requirements. The first stage of enforcement will commence on Jan. 25, 2021, requiring filers to submit ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: Mohammad Ezazul Hoque, 57, the owner of several Washington, D.C. restaurants, pled guilty today to one count of bribery for paying bribes to the former Chief of Collections of the D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue (“OTR") in exchange for the OTR official taking actions favorable to Hoque’s businesses. Hoque...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau is implementing the President’s Executive Order “Ensuring a Lawful and Accurate Enumeration and Apportionment Pursuant to the Decennial Census," released Jan. 20, 2021. The 2020 Census data products including the P.L. 94-171 Redistricting Summary Data File will not include information...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: Chinn falsely underreported his income to receive COVID-19 unemployment funds.
By State Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: Erik Woodhouse is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Division for Counter Threat Finance and Sanctions in the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs. In that position, he oversees the Office of Sanctions Policy and Implementation and the Office of Threat Finance Countermeasures.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: House Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Senator Tom Carper (D-DE), filed an amicus brief today in the case of Competitive Enterprise Institute, et al. v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), et al., which is currently pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) today issued the following statement after announcing the Republican subcommittee leaders and subcommittee rosters for the 117th Congress.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, filed an amicus brief today in the case of Competitive Enterprise Institute, et al. v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), et al., which is currently pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.) today responded to comments made by Jeff Zients, the coordinator of President Biden’s COVID-19 task force, claiming the vaccine supply is “so much worse" than expected.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Texas man was convicted by a federal jury today for operating a website dedicated to publishing writings that detailed the sexual abuse of children.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Dvonte Amir King, 23, of Vicksburg, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Tom S. Lee to 12 months in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for making false statements to a licensed firearms dealer and putting false information on an official form, announced Acting United States Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Kurt Thielhorn, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after President Biden signed ten executive orders to contain the COVID-19 crisis...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has announced $28.35 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development projects under the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) DE-FOA-0002404, Advanced Processing of Rare Earth Elements and Critical Minerals for Industrial and Manufacturing Applications.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after President Biden signed ten executive orders to contain the COVID-19 crisis...
