News from July 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - Two men were charged today with conspiring to use inside information about business activities of American Superconductor Corporation (AMSC) to profit from trading AMSC stock.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing and vote schedule for the week of July 14. The committee will investigate the anthrax lab incident and the CDC’s adherence to safety protocol measures. The committee will also vote on a series of bipartisan public health and job creating bills and examine innovative technology for 21st Century Cures.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Steven Mazer, 27, of Philadelphia, was sentenced today to 60 years in prison, the statutory maximum, for production of child pornography. Mazer pleaded guilty on June 24, 2013 to two counts of production of child pornography.
By State Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: Newark, NJ - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the below statement regarding President Putin’s visit to Cuba:
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: Bipartisan legislation to uphold the federal-state partnership to regulate the Nation’s waters and prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers from implementing a rule that broadens the scope of the Clean Water Act and expands the federal government’s regulatory power was introduced in the House today by Transportation and Infrastructure Committee leaders.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Alysa D. Erichs, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI), announce that Natalie Ladin, 62, and Jed Ladin, 66, both of Lauderdale by the Sea, and their...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Leverne Alexander Patterson, age 62, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to 115 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for possession of a stolen firearm.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: A few key facts about today’s House Republican vote to make bonus depreciation permanent at a cost of $287 billion...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing in the 21st Century Cures initiative to incorporate the patient perspective in the #Path2Cures process. Witnesses shared their suggestions and recommendations to bring more cures and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: Defendant Used Information Froms Friends And Family To Defraud IRS.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a hearing on “Constitutional Considerations: States vs. Federal Environmental Policy Implementation." The hearing focused on the authority the Constitution grants Congress to set uniform, national standards in certain aspects of environmental policy and the role of the states in taking the lead in crafting state-specific environment solutions.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: A bipartisan group of House members today introduced legislation that would strengthen support for youth who are victims of sex trafficking. The proposed bills would improve identification and assessment of child sex trafficking victims and enhance existing support for runaway and homeless youth.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Gerald Canty, 21, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 21 years in prison for sexually assaulting an 18-year-old woman and attempting to kidnap three additional young women in a series of incidents that took place earlier this year in Northeast Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and senior Finance Committee member Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, today requested detailed pricing information on a costly new Hepatitis C virus (HCV) drug.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney James L. Santelle, of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on July 9, 2014, Dustin J. Burdick (age: 24) of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison by Chief United States District Judge William C. Griesbach. Burdick had previously entered a guilty plea to a single count of conspiracy to distribute heroin.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a hearing on “Constitutional Considerations: States vs. Federal Environmental Policy Implementation." The hearing focused on the authority the Constitution grants Congress to set uniform, national standards in certain aspects of environmental policy and the role of the states in taking the lead in crafting state-specific environment solutions.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: Prehistoric Architecture of the Ohio River Valley.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing in the 21st Century Cures initiative to incorporate the patient perspective in the #Path2Cures process. Witnesses shared their suggestions and recommendations to bring more cures and...
By State Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By State Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD); Representative Joe Crowley (NY), Vice Chair of the Democratic Caucus and co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on India and Indian-Americans; and Representative Eliot L. Engel (NY), the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs...
