News published on Federal Newswire in March 2022

News from March 2022


Crapo: To Hold Putin Accountable, Congress Must Pass PNTR Suspension and Russian Oil Ban

News Release: Washington, D.C.--U.S. Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) issued the following statement on the need to suspend Russia’s permanent normal trade relations and impose an energy importation ban...


Saratoga County Man Sentenced to 210 Months for Possession of Child Pornography

News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Daniel Porrazzo, a/k/a “lickndipinu," age 52, of Stillwater, New York, was sentenced today to 210 months in prison for possessing child pornography. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman and Matthew Scarpino, Acting Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Buffalo Field Office.


News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) released the following joint statement today after the House of Representatives passed the omnibus funding package, which includes key health care provisions.


News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A federal grand jury in Portland returned an indictment today charging an Oklahoma City man for sexually abusing a child, capturing the abuse on video, and sharing the video online.


News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) announced today that the Health Subcommittee will hold a legislative hearing on Thursday, March 17, at 10:30 a.m. (EDT) in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “The Future of Medicine: Legislation to Encourage Innovation and Improve Oversight."



News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), ranking member and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement in recognition of the eleventh anniversary of the Syrian uprising:


News Release: Welcome, everyone. The Subcommittee on Oversight meets today to review the 2022 tax return filing season and the overall operations of the Internal Revenue Service. I would now like to welcome our witness, IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig.


Release: Private exporters reported sales of 136,000 metric tons of corn for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2021/2022 marketing year.


News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) announced today that the Communications and Technology Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Thursday, March 31, on oversight of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).


Essex County Man Admits Obstructing Justice while on Pre-Trial Release

News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man today admitted obstructing justice while on pre-trial release, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.



News Release: WASHINGTON - Top Senate and House Republicans today urged Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken to make quick and decisive use of emergency funds provided by Congress to support the Ukrainian Armed Forces against the unwarranted and unprovoked Russian invasion.


News Release: ATLANTA - FEMA has authorized federal funds to reimburse costs to Florida to fight the Bertha Swamp Road Wildfire burning in Calhoun County.


Alcova Reservoir water levels rising for annual filling

News Release: MILLS, Wyoming - The Bureau of Reclamation will begin the annual filling of Alcova Reservoir on Friday, April 1 to an operating elevation of 5,498 feet. Recreationists and reservoir users are advised to take proper precautions associated with the rising reservoir level.


News Release: HARRISBURG -The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that five previously deported aliens were indicted separately yesterday by a federal grand jury for illegal reentry into the United States. These matters arose in counties throughout the district including Dauphin, York, Huntingdon, and Northumberland Counties.


News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today hailing inclusion of a provision in the omnibus he has long championed that clarifies the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) authority to regulate synthetic nicotine products...


News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Michelle M. Baeppler announced that Holden Gallagher, 29, of Sylvania, Ohio, was sentenced on Wednesday, March 16, 2022, by U.S. District Judge James G. Carr to 30 years in prison and lifetime supervised release following prison, after Gallagher pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation of a child, receipt and distribution of child pornography, and possession of child pornography.


Pallone Opening Remarks at Hearing on Deploying Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Nationwide

News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Energy Subcommittee hearing titled, “Charging Forward: Securing American Manufacturing and Our EV Future:"