News from July 2015
By USDA Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today held a hearing on Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza: the impact on the U.S. poultry sector and protecting U.S. poultry flocks.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: “This represents one of the largest fraud schemes in recent years," said U.S. Attorney Hochul. “A multi-million dollar fraud scheme such as this has the potential to harm more than just the immediate victim of the crime. It also affects the greater community. In this case, thanks to the actions of both the bank and law enforcement, this defendant will not be in a position to commit further crimes in the foreseeable future.".
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: COLUMBIA, S.C. - Joel Perrin Robinson has been sentenced to eight years in prison for shooting a DEA special agent serving a search warrant at Robinson's house. Agents had obtained the warrant to search his home for chemicals used to manufacture PCP.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today sent a letter to Food and Drug Administration Acting Commissioner Dr. Stephen Ostroff regarding the labeling of certain opioids, particularly the discrepancy between Extended Release and Long-Acting (ER/LA) opioid analgesics...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, July 14, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Oversight of Pipeline Safety, Regulatory Certainty, and Job Creation Act of 2011 and Related Issues."
By USDA Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., today sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and to U.S. Secretary of Health & Human Services Sylvia Burwell, urging them to base the final 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans on “sound scientific evidence and medical knowledge" and limit “agenda-driven" recommendations to nutrition and diet.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today issued the following statement following a luncheon hosted by Vice President Biden in honor of Nguyen Phu Trong, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today sent a letter to Food and Drug Administration Acting Commissioner Dr. Stephen Ostroff regarding the labeling of certain opioids, particularly the discrepancy between Extended Release and Long-Acting (ER/LA) opioid analgesics...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, released the following opening statement - as prepared for delivery - at today’s hearing on avian influenza.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: MILLS, Wyo. -- At the request of Goshen, Gering-Fort Laramie, and Pathfinder Irrigation Districts, the Guernsey Reservoir Silt Run is being delayed six days from the previous schedule. The delay is in response to some areas receiving up to 3" of rainfall on July 6, requiring the districts to reduce diversion...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today announced the subcommittee’s July hearing schedule. In addition to tomorrow’s hearing on Internet governance, the subcommittee will meet on Tuesday, July 14, to discuss ways to improve...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Alexander Page, 27, of Tucumcari, N.M., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to a methamphetamine trafficking charge. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Page will be sentenced to federal prison not to exceed 30 months followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the owner of a Joplin, Mo., business was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a mail fraud conspiracy and to money laundering related to the sale of more than $1.1 million of synthetic marijuana, also known as K2.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: Co-Defendants were Members of Oxycodone Trafficking Ring Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today announced the subcommittee’s July hearing schedule. In addition to tomorrow’s hearing on Internet governance, the subcommittee will meet on Tuesday, July 14, to discuss ways to improve...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Two Allegheny County residents pleaded guilty to a variety of offenses in federal court before Chief U.S. District Judge Joy Flowers Conti in Pittsburgh yesterday, U.S. Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today announced the subcommittee’s July hearing schedule. In addition to tomorrow’s hearing on Internet governance, the subcommittee will meet on Tuesday, July 14, to discuss ways to improve...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Arnold and Lower Burrell, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 180 months (15 years) imprisonment followed by five years supervised release on his conviction of violating federal narcotics, firearms and money laundering laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: The Nenana Native Dancers will perform at the fourth annual Denali Music Festival on Saturday, July 18 in Denali National Park and Preserve.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today sent a letter to Food and Drug Administration Acting Commissioner Dr. Stephen Ostroff regarding the labeling of certain opioids, particularly the discrepancy between Extended Release and Long-Acting (ER/LA) opioid analgesics...
