News from July 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A federal jury Thursday found an Ellis County man guilty on drug and gun charges, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today approved H.R. 1599, the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act, by a vote of 275-150. The bipartisan legislation, authored by Committee members Reps. Mike Pompeo (R-KS) and G. K. Butterfield (D-NC), creates a voluntary, national standard for the labeling...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture Nutrition and Forestry today spoke on the Senate floor about his amendment to repeal mandatory country of origin labeling (COOL) requirements for beef, pork and chicken - required by Canada and Mexico to prevent billions of dollars in retaliatory tariffs on the U.S. economy.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: Shanksville, Pa. -The new Flight 93 National Memorial Visitor Center will open to the public at 2 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015. The permanent exhibits use photographs, artifacts, tactile models, audio, and video pieces to convey the Flight 93 story in the context of the other terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
By State Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the top Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following statement at a Committee hearing addressing the implications of the nuclear agreement with Iran. This hearing is part of the 60-day review period allowing Members of Congress to assess the deal and its implications for U.S. national security and American interests abroad...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management announced new appointments or reappointments of members to its citizen-based Wyoming Resource Advisory Council, which advises the Bureau of Land Management on public land issues. The RACs are composed of members with diverse interests and backgrounds."By working with federal...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Department of Defense today released an internal report regarding its investigation of the shipments of live anthrax from the Department’s laboratory at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah to labs across the country and around the world. The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney Kenyen Brown announces that Jeremy Whitted Mosley, a 33 year old, resident of Butler, Alabama was sentenced today to 30 months incarceration followed by three years of supervised release for possession of a North American Arms pistol and a Savage rifle after being convicted of a felony, namely, Conspiracy to Possess With Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health and Subcommittee on Commerce Manufacturing, and Trade today each held markups to consider a number of bipartisan bills to strengthen public health and promote American manufacturing.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today approved H.R. 1599, the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act, by a vote of 275-150. The bipartisan legislation, authored by Committee members Reps. Mike Pompeo (R-KS) and G. K. Butterfield (D-NC), creates a voluntary, national standard for the labeling...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Department of Defense today released an internal report regarding its investigation of the shipments of live anthrax from the Department’s laboratory at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah to labs across the country and around the world. The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that a federal jury in New Haven today found PAUL PERROTTI, 47, of Middlebury, guilty of embezzling funds while serving as the Fire Chief of the Town of Middlebury. The trial before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer began on July 9, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan today sentenced Asahn Brightman (24, Jacksonville) to seven years in federal prison for distribution of cocaine, being a felon in possession of a firearm, and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. He pleaded guilty on April 21, 2015.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Department of Defense today released an internal report regarding its investigation of the shipments of live anthrax from the Department’s laboratory at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah to labs across the country and around the world. The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: A Riviera Beach resident was convicted by a jury for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health and Subcommittee on Commerce Manufacturing, and Trade today each held markups to consider a number of bipartisan bills to strengthen public health and promote American manufacturing.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators John Hoeven (R-N.D.) and Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), members of the Senate Agriculture Committee, today introduced the Voluntary Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) and Trade Enhancement Act of 2015.The measure is designed to prevent retaliatory trade sanctions by Canada and Mexico, yet still allow voluntary labeling of beef, pork and chicken that is produced in the United States.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today filed an amendment to repeal mandatory country of origin labeling (COOL) requirements for beef, pork and chicken - required by Canada and Mexico to prevent billions of dollars in retaliatory tariffs on the U.S. economy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: Jason Crabtree, 40, of Centralia, Illinois, was sentenced on July 22, 2015 to a total of 60 months in prison on a four-count indictment charging him with Conspiracy to Distribute and Possess with the Intent to Distribute Cocaine and Unlawful Distribution of Cocaine, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today approved H.R. 1599, the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act, by a vote of 275-150. The bipartisan legislation, authored by Committee members Reps. Mike Pompeo (R-KS) and G. K. Butterfield (D-NC), creates a voluntary, national standard for the labeling...
