WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 -- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has released the following public communication dated Oct. 28, 2024, from Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund and 70 collaborators: * * * To: The Honorable Rohit Chopra, Director Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 1700 G Street NW Washington, DC 20552 Re: Support for petition to address hidden and unnecessary fees in International Remittance Transactions, Docket No. CFPB-2024-0040-0001 * * * Dear Director Chopra:   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 -- Rep. Carol Miller, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Today, Congresswoman Carol Miller (R-WV) gave remarks at the 38th Annual Jose I. Ricard Family Medicine & Sports Medicine Conference on the work she is doing in Congress to address rural healthcare issues and highlighted the importance of family medicine. "Rural healthcare has been a priority of mine over the last several years. It is a heartbreaking reality that many patients in West Virginia don't h  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following news release: Charleston, WV- Yesterday, Senator Joe Manchin (I-WV), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, announced more than $140 million from the Department of Interior's (DOI) Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) to reclaim abandoned mine lands. The funding is part of a larger $11.3 billion investment  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued the following news release: BALTIMORE Verizon Maryland, LLC, will pay $115,000 and furnish significant remedial relief to settle a federal disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. According to the EEOC's lawsuit, a management employee who suffered from hypertension asked his manager for a change to a field position or to an alternate ma  more