News published on Federal Newswire in January 2023

News from January 2023


News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement after President Biden signed H.R. 4346, the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, into law, which passed the House last month...


News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) issued the following statement today on forward-looking, bipartisan legislation to promote competition, innovation, and American leadership in the thriving commercial satellite communications industry...


Chair Rodgers: GAO Gain-of-Function Research Report Affirms Our Concerns with HHS P3CO Framework

News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act, which includes key health care provisions that will lower the cost of health care and lifesaving prescription drugs for Americans...


Chair Rodgers Applauds Passage of H.R. 21 to Protect the SPR

News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) sat down for an interview with ABC News to discuss the importance of passing the American Data Privacy and Protection Act.


News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) announced today that the full Committee will hold a markup on Wednesday, Dec. 14, at 10:35 a.m. (EST) in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.


News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today on the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) advanced notice of proposed rulemaking on online consumer privacy...


Chairs Rodgers and Guthrie Announce First Health Subcommittee Legislative Hearing

News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today applauding the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for proposing a new rule which would designate the two most common per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) - perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) ...


Chair Rodgers: HHS’s OIG Report Confirms  our Concerns with NIH’s Funding  of EcoHealth Alliance

News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) issued the following statement today on forward-looking, bipartisan legislation to promote competition, innovation, and American leadership in the thriving commercial satellite communications industry...


DOI-BLM grant application closes on March 31

IIJA Bureau of Land Management Wyoming Plant Conservation and Restoration Management Program grant opened on Jan. 30.


Granholm: Biofuel investment 'increases America’s energy independence, creates jobs, and accelerates the adoption of cleaner fuels'

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is investing $118 million in 17 projects to boost domestic production of sustainable biofuels.


Chairs Rodgers and Latta Announce First Communications and Technology Subcommittee Hearing of the 118th Congress

News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) released the following joint statement today after the House of Representatives passed S. 198, the “Data Mapping to Save Moms’ Lives Act:"


Chair Rodgers Responds to Granholm’s Baseless Claims About H.R. 21

News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today on the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) advanced notice of proposed rulemaking on online consumer privacy...


News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that KODY SEVERIN, age 25, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, was charged on Jan. 26, 2023 in a seven-count indictment by a federal grand jury for violations of the Federal Gun Control Act and the Federal Controlled Substances Act, and for attempted obstruction of justice.


Chair Rodgers Announces First Energy and Commerce Hearing

News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today praising House passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, which includes key climate and health care provisions he originally authored or advanced through the Committee over the last couple of years...


DOI-BLM grant application closes on March 31

FY23 IIJA Bureau of Land Management Nevada (NV) Invasive and Noxious Plant Management grant opened on Jan. 30.


News Release: SAN DIEGO - William Estuardo Lemus-Lara, aka “Humilde," a high-level cartel boss from Guatemala, was sentenced in federal court today to 210 months in federal prison.


News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby Rush (D-IL), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO), and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) wrote to four cryptomining companies today...


U.S. Footwear Manufacturers Association: 'We strongly support maintaining the current 301 tariffs on China'

Representatives from the U.S. Footwear Manufacturers Association have asked the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative USTR to maintain tariffs imposed on China for engaging in unfair business practices.


Bellevue Man Sentenced for Firearm and Drug Trafficking Crimes

News Release: United States Attorney Steven Russell announced that Carlos O. Lopez, 29, of Bellevue, Nebraska, was sentenced today in federal court in Omaha for distributing Alprazolam pills and possessing a firearm during a drug trafficking crime. United States District Judge Brian C. Buescher sentenced Lopez to ...


DOI-BLM grant application closes on March 31

FY23 IIJA Bureau of Land Management Nevada (NV) Fuels Management and Community Fire Assistance Program grant opened on Jan. 30.