News from October 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today called the White House’s efforts to address prescription drug abuse and heroin use a “welcome step." The committee has held a number of hearings in the last year on the growing opioid epidemic and steps that should...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: Last summer, we witnessed a humanitarian crisis, as more than 51,000 unaccompanied minors from Central America, and almost as many family units, came across the U.S.-Mexico border. Earlier this year, the Committee examined the government’s response to this crisis, recognizing that even though the 2015 numbers were lower than 2014, the crisis was far from over as we had not addressed the root cause incentives for unlawful UAC migration.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ANDREALIE LEWIS, age 36, a resident of New Orleans, was sentenced today after having previously pled guilty to federal drug violations.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) released the following statement in response to the news that negotiators in the Trans-Pacific Partnership have reached agreement.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia-This weekend is the last chance to visit the Thurmond Depot Visitor Center in Thurmond for the 2015 season. This National Park Service depot facility will be open10:00 am to 5:00 pmonOctober 24 and 25. Though this visitor center will be closing for the winter, the Thurmond Historic District is there to explore year-round.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: Continuing the examination of nuclear material management from last month’s hearing on the transportation of nuclear materials, the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Update on Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Issues."
By State Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today at 10 a.m., the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific will convene a hearing entitled, “Burma’s Challenge: Democracy, Human Rights, Peace, and the Plight of the Rohingya." Live webcast and witness testimony will be available HERE.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - Jorge Delgado, a/k/a Antonio Martinez, a/k/a Elisaul Martinez Santana, 28, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute heroin and fentanyl and three counts of distribution of heroin. U.S. District Court Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV scheduled sentencing for Jan. 13, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: PLATTSBURGH, NEW YORK - Three Keeseville residents have been indicted on charges related to the manufacture and distribution of methamphetamine and the possession of pseudoephedrine for use in the manufacture of methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian, Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, New York Division,.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today issued a statement following the House passage of H.R. 692 - the “Pay China First" Act - which would prioritize payments of our nation’s debt to foreign bondholders in the case of default ahead of U.S. veterans, active duty troops, doctors, and millions more Americans...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that federal grand jury in Harrisburg has indicted three men on multiple charges involving the unlawful distribution of heroin and marijuana, and criminal conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - Two Dallas men have been sentenced to lengthy federal prison sentences following their guilty pleas to drug distribution and firearms offenses, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that an Anchorage man was indicted by a federal grand jury on four charges of bank robbery.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today held a hearing on agriculture biotechnology with federal regulators and perspectives from producers and consumers.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 21, 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 agriculture biotechnology.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: Theodore Roosevelt Island, VA. - Sunday Nov. 1, 2015, visit Theodore Roosevelt Island and celebrate President Theodore Roosevelt's 157th Birthday between 11:00 am and 2:00 pm. Activities include: birdhouse-making; Junior Ranger Program; games; displays; nature hikes; island scavenger hunt, special exhibits...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, October 28 at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Breaking Down Barriers to Broadband Infrastructure Deployment."
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: SCRANTON--The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Criminal Information was filed Oct. 19, 2015 in U.S. District Court in Scranton charging Jacob Davis, a 30-year-old Hazleton resident with distribution and possession with intent to distribute heroin during a three-month period in the Hazleton area between June and August of this year.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, October 28 at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Breaking Down Barriers to Broadband Infrastructure Deployment."
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2015
News Release: A grand jury returned a two-count indictment charging Devin Cooper, 26, of Cleveland, with one count of bank fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
