News from March 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: Richland, Washington Man Sentenced in Federal Court.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and committee Republicans today issued letters to Facebook, Google, and Twitter insisting on transparency and accountability from Big Tech.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Gus Bilirakis delivered remarks at a subcommittee hearing on child safety online and reopening schools.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee hearing titled, “Kids Online During COVID: Child Safety in an Increasingly Digital Age:"
By DOE Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
Release: Four Teams Funded to Work on Advancements in Vehicle Automation and Connectivity That Will Reduce Emissions and Create Jobs
By EPA Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) announced today that the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee will hold a fully remote legislative hearing on Thursday, March 18, at 11 a.m. (EDT) on the Climate Leadership...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - With new revelations that political aides to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo deliberately interfered with state public health officials in order to mask the true magnitude of COVID-19 nursing home deaths in the state, Republican Congressional leaders urged their House Democrat counterparts to hold a joint hearing regarding the undercounting of COVID-19 deaths in New York nursing homes.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: All 32 Democratic members of the Energy and Commerce Committee today introduced the Leading Infrastructure For Tomorrow’s America Act, or LIFT America Act. The sweeping legislation will modernize the nation’s infrastructure, rebuild the economy, combat climate change, and protect public health and the environment. The legislation invests more than $312 billion in clean energy, energy efficiency, drinking water, broadband, and health care infrastructure.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee hearing titled, “Kids Online During COVID: Child Safety in an Increasingly Digital Age:"
By EPA Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee hearing titled, “Kids Online During COVID: Child Safety in an Increasingly Digital Age:"
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
Release: Congressman Tim Ryan (D-OH), Chair of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on the FY 2022 Budget Hearing for Architect of the Capitol.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Republican Leader of the House Energy and Commerce Committee Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement on the anniversary of the COVID-19 shutdowns. Rodgers called for forward-thinking and bipartisan leadership to restore, renew, and rebuild the American Dream.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Gus Bilirakis delivered remarks at a subcommittee hearing on child safety online and reopening schools.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today against Leobardo Gerardo Anaya, 28, of Richmond, charging him with distributing and possessing with intent to distribute fentanyl, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: Fairbanks, Alaska - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) extended the deadline today for public comments on the proposed Central Yukon Draft Resource Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement (RMP/EIS) from 90 to 180 days, moving the deadline from March 11 to June 9, 2021.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $662,922 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the city of Salem, Massachusetts, to implement a recovery strategy to plan for long-term recovery and ensure the region’s tourist economy remains competitive in the future. This EDA grant, to be matched with $165,730 in local investment, is expected to create nearly 400 jobs.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal criminal complaint has been filed charging Clayton Alexander McCoy, age 30, of Chesterland, Ohio, with transporting explosives with intent to injure and with with using, carrying, or possessing a destructive device during and in relation to a crime of violence, in connection ...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: Guest column submitted by U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
By USDA Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON- House Agriculture Committee Chairman David Scott delivered the following statement at today's hearing entitled: "A Look at Food Insecurity in America"...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: Gulfport, Mississippi - Joseph Benjamin Posey, Jr., 19, of Biloxi, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to 33 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for being an unlawful user of a controlled substance in possession of multiple firearms, announced Acting ...
