News from November 2015
By EPA Newswire | Nov 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Energy and Commerce Democrats attempted to improve a controversial mental health bill, the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act, introduced by Congressman Tim Murphy (R-PA) that further stigmatizes mental illness and threatens the rights and protections guaranteed to patients.
By State Newswire | Nov 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks at an event sponsored by the One Campaign on energy poverty in Africa and his bipartisan efforts with Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Ed Royce (R-CA) to combat this issue through the Electrify Africa Act of 2015 (H.R. 2847 )...
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 4, 2015
News Release: 69 WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), chairman of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, today praised the 53 Senators who voted to pass S.J.Res. 22, the WOTUS Rule Resolution of Disapproval introduced by Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), and highlighted that after this week's floor ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Residents of Ohio and New York, along with two tobacco wholesale businesses in Sharon, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of mail fraud and failure to file required reports with state revenue authorities, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2015
News Release: HONOLULU - A federal grand jury today indicted Michael Walker, age 36, of Honolulu for murder in the first degree for the killing of his wife and a second charge of conspiring to do so. This superseding indictment joined Walker with Ailsa Jackson, age 25, who had previously been indicted for the same...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that William McNeill, 23, of Cumberland, Rhode Island, was arrested yesterday in Massachusetts following his indictment in Maine on Oct. 21, 2015 for travelling interstate on Oct. 18, 2014 to have sex with a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2015
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Jefferson City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for distributing heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2015
News Release: WILMINGTON - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced today in federal court, Senior United States District Judge James C. Fox sentenced PARIS CORDAVA WILLIAMS, 42, from the District of Columbia, to 108 months imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release. Additionally, he was fined...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2015
News Release: According to court records, from April 2011 until November 2012, the defendant was designated as the representative payee for her boyfriend’s SSDI benefits. During this period of time, her boyfriend received over $10,000 in SSDI benefits. In November 2011, the defendant's boyfriend was required to undergo...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2015
News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Michael Troyan, a physician assistant who operated two urgent care clinics on the East End of Long Island was arrested this morning pursuant to a grand jury indictment with conspiring to illegally distribute oxycodone, a highly addictive prescription pain medication. Also this morning, ...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 4, 2015
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced four appointments to the 2016 Lamb Promotion, Research, and Information Board. Each appointee will serve 3-year terms.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), today advanced seven bills to be next considered by full committee. Six of the bills were approved by voice vote. H.R. 2646, the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act passed by a vote of 18 to 12.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - Following a three-day trial before U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle, a federal jury has convicted an Irving, Texas, man for his role in a conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of a female child. His co-defendant in the case pleaded guilty to his role in the conspiracy. U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas made the announcement this afternoon.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Democrats on the Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, led by full Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Gene Green (D-TX), offered legislation that would address mental health reform in a comprehensive and meaningful way.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Energy and Commerce Democrats attempted to improve a controversial mental health bill, the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act, introduced by Congressman Tim Murphy (R-PA) that further stigmatizes mental illness and threatens the rights and protections guaranteed to patients.
By State Newswire | Nov 4, 2015
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 DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that DERRICK HOLLOWAY, age 32, of Marrero, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to two-count Bill of Information charging him with unauthorized recording of a motion picture and criminal infringement of a copyright.
By State Newswire | Nov 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks at an event sponsored by the One Campaign on energy poverty in Africa and his bipartisan efforts with Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Ed Royce (R-CA) to combat this issue through the Electrify Africa Act of 2015 (H.R. 2847 )...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 4, 2015
News Release: Public Scoping for the Statue of Liberty National Monument New Museum Construction Environmental Assessment and National Historic Preservation Act Section 106.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 4, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the statement below after the Senate passed S.J. Res. 22, a Congressional Review Act resolution introduced by Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA), which would block the Obama administration's ...
