News from July 2014
By EPA Newswire | Jul 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent letters to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services regarding the recent anthrax exposure at the CDC in Atlanta. The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold a hearing to review the incident next Wednesday, July 16, at 10 a.m.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 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 discuss opportunities to modernize clinical trials in the effort to accelerate the discovery, development, and delivery cycle of new cures and...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today wrote to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy to follow up on the committee’s request for documents and information relating to the agency’s consideration of carbon capture technologies in developing its greenhouse...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter formally objecting to Committee Chairman Darrell Issa’s proposed unilateral subpoena to compel hearing testimony next Wednesday regarding the federal Hatch Act from...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2014
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that Chief U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson sentenced DEVONTAE LEE, age 21, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to 54 months imprisonment and 3 years of supervised release. The sentence results from LEE’s federal conviction for possessing a firearm while a felon on Oct. 17, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today the filing of a criminal information charging Robert F. Evans, Jr., age 38, Moosic, Pennsylvania, with distributing oxycodone on numerous occasions between August 2012 to July 29, 2013. At the time of the offense, Evans was employed as a police officer with the Hughestown Borough Police Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2014
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A 52-year-old Logan County man faces up to three years in prison after admitting today to filing false tax returns, United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced. Gary Roeher, of Holden, West Virginia, entered a guilty plea before United States District Judge Thomas E. Johnston.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Gregory Pendziwiatr, 45, of Buffalo, N.Y., pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute fentanyl, before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a fine of $5,000,000 or both.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, July 16, 2014, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “Failure to Verify: Concerns Regarding PPACA’s Eligibility System." Representatives from the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (HHS OIG) will testify.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 9, 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 discuss opportunities to modernize clinical trials in the effort to accelerate the discovery, development, and delivery cycle of new cures and...
By State Newswire | Jul 9, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a hearing tomorrow to examine the future of international civilian nuclear cooperation. The hearing, entitled The Future of International Civilian Nuclear Cooperation, will begin at 9:45 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that David B. Romanski, 40, of Lincoln, Nebraska, was sentenced on July 9, 2014, in Lincoln, Nebraska, to nine years in prison by Senior United States District Judge Lyle E. Strom, for receipt of child pornography. After his release from prison, Romanski will be required to serve a 5 year term of supervised release and be registered as a sex offender.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 9, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, July 16, 2014, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “Failure to Verify: Concerns Regarding PPACA’s Eligibility System." Representatives from the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (HHS OIG) will testify.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released a report urging the Commerce Department to allow for greater condensate exports, aligning itself with the practices of other federal agencies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Hugo Barrera, Special Agent in Charge, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), announce that Sergio Carvalho, 50, formerly of Boca Raton and Brazil, pled guilty today to charges of making false statements in a firearm sales record, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 924(a).
By Interior Newswire | Jul 9, 2014
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC-Remote and isolated - the islands of Cape Lookout National Seashore have many stories that are rarely heard. Come explore the hidden beauty and history of your local National Park during a Ranger-led interpretive program.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 9, 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 discuss opportunities to modernize clinical trials in the effort to accelerate the discovery, development, and delivery cycle of new cures and...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent letters to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services regarding the recent anthrax exposure at the CDC in Atlanta. The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold a hearing to review the incident next Wednesday, July 16, at 10 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2014
News Release: A federal grand jury in Detroit indicted a Detroit man on charges of robbing two Radio Shack stores at gun point, announced United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2014
News Release: Pill Dealer Gets 12 Years in Federal Prison.
