News from July 2021
By Interior Newswire | Jul 20, 2021
News Release: GRAND CANYON, Ariz. - On July 19 at approximately 9:47 a.m., the Grand Canyon Communications Center received a report of a hiker with a medical emergency in progress on the Bright Angel Trail. The caller determined that the hiker did not have a pulse while on the phone with dispatchers.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 20, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Republican Leader of the Energy and Commerce Committee Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH) released the following statement on bills that passed the House this week with bipartisan support.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 20, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) released the following joint statement today after the House of Representatives passed H.R. 2668, the Consumer Protection and Recovery Act, to restore the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) section 13(b) consumer protection powers...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 20, 2021
News Release: Today, Rep. Tim Walberg (MI-07), joined by Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (NC-05), Rep. Rick Allen (GA-12), and Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (TX-26), introduced the Association Health Plans Act of 2021 (H.R. 4547). The legislation expands health care options and lowers costs for small businesses through association health plans (AHPs).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2021
News Release: Orlando, FL - U.S. District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza has sentenced Jeffery Stephen Heck, Jr. (28, Titusville) to 20 years in federal prison for distributing child sexual abuse material. Heck was also ordered to serve a 10-year term of supervised release, register as a sex offender, and forfeit his smartphone.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Ramsey E. Covington, Acting Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, announced that GEORGE LEE, 50, of Glastonbury, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today to a federal tax offense.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 20, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing titled, “Stopping Digital Thieves: The Growing Threat of Ransomware:"
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 20, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-At today’s House Committee on Oversight and Reform markup of the Comprehensive Paid Leave for Federal Employees Act (H.R. 564), Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) blasted Democrats for seeking to dramatically expand paid leave for federal employees at the taxpayer’s expense. He emphasized...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 20, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) today delivered remarks on the uptick in recent cyber and ransomware attacks and the need for thoughtful, decisive action.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2021
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis sentenced Kevin Alexis Rodriguez-Flores, age 20, of Annandale, Virginia to 30 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise and conspiracy to destroy and conceal evidence related to the murder of a MS-13 gang member.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 20, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor today during consideration of H.R. 2668, the Consumer Protection and Recovery Act...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 20, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Republican Leader of the Energy and Commerce Committee Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH) released the following statement on bills that passed the House this week with bipartisan support.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 20, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform held a markup on the Guidance Clarity Act of 2021, (H.R. 1508) which was introduced by House Small Business Committee Ranking Member Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-Mo.) and Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine). This legislation provides more clarity to small...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 20, 2021
Release: MILWAUKEE -Transportation Security Administration officers at Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport (MKE) stopped two handguns from being brought onboard airplanes in recent days.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - An illegal alien from Guatemala has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of attempted coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity and illegal reentry of a removed alien, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 20, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing titled, “Stopping Digital Thieves: The Growing Threat of Ransomware:"
By State Newswire | Jul 20, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price:.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 20, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Republican Leader for Consumer Protection and Commerce stood together with their Republican colleagues in strong opposition to H.R. 2668-the “Consumer Protection and Recovery Act"-for irresponsibly expanding the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) authority and not taking the opportunity to establish a national privacy framework.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 20, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) released the following joint statement today after the House of Representatives passed H.R. 2668, the Consumer Protection and Recovery Act, to restore the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) section 13(b) consumer protection powers...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 20, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - A coalition of congressional leaders from the Senate Committee on Finance and the House Committee on Oversight and Reform today commended the Biden Administration for finalizing a rule to reform the organ procurement system in the United States, and encouraged the administration to explore additional ways to accelerate the accountability of organ procurement organizations (OPOs).
